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the hagiographies of Carter run a little hollow but he's really fascinating as a tragic figure

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Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

If not for the American invasion Saddam would have probably endured

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Jimmy Carter was a war criminal. Wait no! He was nice he built houses! Wait no! he was still bad because he was a conservative Democrat! Ok guys I finished the discourse you can move on

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Joe @joeposting.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RIP Jimmy Carter, you were a bad President who wasted FDR sized majorities in Congress, but you did eradicate Guinea Worms

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Should've added without nukes as a caveat

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Or maybe having oil is just such an advantage that the nascent Ba'athist Saudi Arabia that happened in an alternate universe cold war would be a global power today idk

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Kind of crazy that Venezuela is ending the year as the anti-Americanist regime most likely to survive indefinitely Not a Chavista whatsoever but from a sheer amoral tactical level you kind of have to have it to them

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i knew ozempic was legit when a bunch of disparate global dictators showed up in 2023 having lost 100 lbs

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Sorry for the excessive politics posting, when school starts up again this will basically just be a books account

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I think even the hardcore heretofore Assadist mouthbreathers are attempting to retreat from that position now that it's obvious that he had a quiet relationship with Israeli intelligence

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Just a little beyond credulity to feign surprise everytime Israel acts like how its always acted

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is this a rhetorical question? It's p. obvious

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yeah he's not a socialist but Warnock or someone akin to him is probably the left's best bet for 2028

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leftwick @lefttwick.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

matt yglesias, noah smith, and that armand guy truly believe that they can convince republicans to moderate on immigration by extolling the virtues of low wage asian tech workers. this is foundational to their worldview

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if anything normie casually racist people have more sympathy for their gardener from guatemala than the Vivek's of the world

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leftwick @lefttwick.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

the Vivek-Elon tech bro wing is very obviously going to lose this mock gop civil war and it's pretty funny no one except for silicon valley and neolib pundits actually believes that illegal immigration is the problem but legal high skilled immigration is good. elite politics with no constituency

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Sami Gold @souljagoyshmulik.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

What these people want isn’t an education, it’s societal prestige. You can get just as fine an undergraduate education at University of Vermont as you can at USC or Yale, especially in liberal arts, but people don’t market themselves as getting a degree from UVM Fund👏the👏colleges👏

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Being a nerdy kid who was obsessed with Pokémon design/lore is surprisingly pretty handy..."did you know Infernape is just Sun Wukong" is a good conversation starter for a certain kind of person in my age cohort lol

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Half the pokemon starters are directly just characters from it this isn't some obscure text

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yes? if you're an educated adult who has never heard of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms i reserve the right to look down on you

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