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Historian. Just here for the news.
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Man, you are up for election next year what are you DOING?
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Pathetic
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the big DLCs were focused on introducing new ages. I really like that the Mughals and the Qing and the Prussians are the Civs for the “modern” age, but there’s no way we don’t get contemporary China and India in the future with a post-WWII, post-colonial age.
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“There have been multiple reported dragon sightings across the nation. Here’s why that’s a problem for the GOP in 2026.”
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There’s another layer of meaning in the post.
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Definitely not the only one. People who play Paradox games to “win” are doing it wrong, imo. They are story-generating machines.
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The fun part is how little you actually control when you’re in charge of an entire empire. You equip your soldiers, hire a “good” general, send them to the front and… hope for the best!
RPGs to me are much more about controlling every little thing your party does.
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Marco Rubio, who you all gave unanimous consent to, has just cut off aid to most of our allies. What was the logic of that again?
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Why did you just give Marco Rubio unanimous consent?
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YEEEES! Fingers crossed for a 4 hour+ takedown of John Roberts
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Still the best thing I ever watched, listened to, or read about NFTs
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Killing my father (the lord of the underworld).
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Pathetic
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So glad you’re posting here, and thank you for being on the right side of this!
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It’s one fridge, Michael, how much could it cost? $2400?
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AI slop? Unfollowed
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Listening through Revolutions for the first time at this moment in history is a bummer…
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Jokowi
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So glad you’re posting here!
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Is this the most thin-skinned city council that you have covered?
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Definitely yes! Bring more electeds and journalists over. We have the tools to manage any of the trolls that come over here.
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Angels Point in Elysian Park is great for photos. Chinatown is close by and the Pueblo is severely underrated (América Tropical is the highlight for me).
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Excellent! Bring some of the other local electeds over too if you can!
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I seriously doubt that their subscriptions are going to skyrocket again like they did in 2016, though I bet management is hoping they will
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I’m so happy that Washington included stickers in all their mail-in ballots this year
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Visit Kamakura and get the weird sense that you’ve been plopped into a Zelda game
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In 30 years there’s going to be a great book about the NYT and WaPo from 2016 to 2024. If, you know, we’re still allowed to publish books
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This has been the dynamic for the past four years
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There are a ton of Japanese “anti-war” movies that have nothing to say about the war in Asia. The Human Condition does, and it is uncompromising.
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If you haven’t seen it, you should watch Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition. It’s a masterpiece, but it also puts a lot of other Japanese media that treats the empire with kid gloves to shame.
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The only appropriate response to this sort of Brit
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I know it’s probably not what you’re looking for, but Drea’s is hands down the best English-language history of the IJA
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They changed things, which is usually the most you can say about a mass movement
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Pretty sure it’s from Predator
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Taiping Rebellion
Mongol invasion of Java
Life of Ashoka the Great
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Have you ever considered covering a Godzilla movie on the podcast?
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Fetterman fell in the 2016 primary so that he could soar in 2018 and 2022. But individual candidates building name recognition ≠ coherent party strategy, and even then I bet he would have preferred to just win that first primary.
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The best “Miyazaki just really loves airplanes” movie.
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As a historian, my professional opinion is sometimes you’ve just got to melt down the statue.