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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 11h

There was a time when a reasonable person could believe the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth, but that ended decades ago. Far from being immune to it, the Army was actually the source of the antisemitism that spread through Germany in the 1920s.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 11h

Yes, that's exactly the 'lesser evil' strategy that got us here. Voting for the lessor evil gets you more lessers and more evil.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 04/10/2026

sort of egalitarian structure. They're top down. The whole point of the system is to make sure that only abusers and sociopaths make it through. Anyone with empathy will probably be filtered out. It's all the Epstein Class, and fraternities are one of the ways in.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 04/10/2026

are all part of the filtering process, to make sure that only the 'right' sort of people bubble up to the top. It's not, as some have said, a matter of participating in criminal activity together so everyone 'has something' on everyone else and can trust each other. US elites don't work on that /

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 04/10/2026

I'm sure I'm not the first person to come to this conclusion about fraternities, but I haven't seen anyone yet make the point so I'll do it. Fraternities are one of the gateways to elite status in the US, and they're the way they are for a reason. The sadomasochistic initiations and gang rapes /

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 03/10/2026

Living life on the edge this past week. Been using my phone without a case.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 03/10/2026

It was a thing back in the day, like fondue.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 26/09/2026

As I find myself saying a lot lately, Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time. He just made people afraid to say they were late

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 26/09/2026

I can guarantee you that there are people who don't consider her a 'real' science fiction writer.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 21/09/2026

I remember seeing a thread somewhere from a public defender who had noticed that almost all of the total BS arrests she had to deal with came at the end of the cop's shift. Grab someone at the end of your shift, get 2-3 hours of easy overtime filling out paperwork.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 21/09/2026

I'm curious about the organically part. I thought it was from the book.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 18/09/2026

Constantly voting for 'the lesser evil' just gets you more lessers and more evil.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 18/09/2026

No, what got us here is fascist collaborators pushing the lessor evil. "Come on, it's just a little evil. It's only going to hurt people I don't care about and it'll attract some conservative voters. It never has before, but it might this time." Fucking fascist.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 17/09/2026

It's easy to forget how astonishingly little the average American knows about history. About 5 out of 6 teenagers I've asked, "When did Columbus discover America?" Answered, "Uh...177...6?" One girl tried using being British as an excuse, but she couldn't place the Battle of Hastings either.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 17/09/2026

You might be surprised how many people think the national anthem refers to the Revolution. It's surprisingly free of context.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 17/09/2026

Hmm. I think we covered it when I was in high school, but that was a long time ago. It was fairly recent history back then.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 17/09/2026

I don't know how many kids today have heard the song, but I would bet that to the extent the war remains in the public consciousness at all, it's because of the song. Which says '1814' right in the first line. If Marvel dropped it onto a movie soundtrack suddenly everyone would know about it....

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 17/09/2026

If the average American knows anything at all about the War of 1812, it's the Battle of New Orleans, because of the song.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 15/09/2026

Human rights are not negotiable, and anyone who thinks they are is a god-damned fascist. Fight me. None of us are free until all of us are free.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 09/09/2026

Makes me wonder how many bodies are buried on that big plot of land....

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 30/08/2026

The fatal error for American democracy was not doing anything after January 6th.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 16/08/2026

It's not easy having a good time.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 15/08/2026

I thought this usage was interesting, back when I found it in my great aunt's house back in '77. It was published in 1918, before the end of the war. I've since come to believe that there's only been 1 world war. WWI was just the last in a long series of wars between European colonial empires.

Cover of a battered old book, titled, "Collier's New Photographic History of the Word's War.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 14/08/2026

That 'r' bears no resemblance to any letter I'm familiar with, but other than that it's legible.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 14/08/2026

As in old Gen X, I say that human rights are not negotiable.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 08/08/2026

But who puts that much of their self-worth into a hobby or fandom. Especially a MUSICIAN. What logic brings someone to think that the manliness of Tom Petty fandom is threatened by women? I certainly believe Nicole, this shit happens. But I'm damned if I can understand it.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 08/08/2026

to go astray when you get into fandoms and hobbies. There's no money on the line. The logic gets more twisted and the assumptions required to get there get weirder. There's obviously some kind of self-worth thing involved, which is threatened by the intrusion of 'inferiors.' /

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 08/08/2026

to defend slavery. To maintain their status and avoid competition in the labor market. This is especially true for men who believe that women are inherently inferior, so if they lose out to a woman it must be because they're being treated unfairly. But even the wrong-headed logic starts... /

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 08/08/2026

I understand, if not agree with, men who gatekeep professions, things were money is on the line. That's all about reducing competition. That's how men took over the computer field, when it starting growing and becoming more lucrative. That's why men who didn't own slaves still fought... /

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 08/08/2026

There are weird conclusions and decisions people make that I can kind of understand, if not agree with. I can see a thought process, even if it's based on bad assumptions. Then there are the weird conclusions and decisions people make that leave me wondering, wtf? This is one of those. /

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 07/08/2026

For the benefit of anyone whose Italian is even worse than mine, that's something like: The city of Firenze (Florence) Does not forget its citizens Victims of the Covid-19 Pandemic And dedicates to them And those who love them An everlasting memory

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 23/07/2026

I remember a story a few years back about one school district that found it costs more to do the means-checking than just feeding all the kids.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 18/07/2026

I find that hard to believe. I think he'd _stab_ the offender in the throat.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 13/07/2026

You've seen Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, right?

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 04/07/2026

Ben Franklin totally would have been into that.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 30/06/2026

Not long ago I was called racist for saying that the Supreme Court is important and Democrats should have been doing more to defend it. The Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says it means. The Court has the power to overturn EVERYTHING.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 18/06/2026

And a few years later American businessmen would help Franco win the Spanish Civil War.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 18/06/2026

Wizards and Warriors, 1983. I doubt it would hold up well, but I enjoyed it at the time.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 18/06/2026

Versailles? What a terrible time to know history.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 16/06/2026

Technically, the loser usually pays the winner, regardless of who was the actual aggressor. See WWI. Sometimes the winner pays, to 'purchase' land that was beaten out of the loser, to avoid the appearance of aggressive conquest. See the Mexican-American War. That's not what's happening here, though.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 14/06/2026

Thousands? I remember when char-gen in GURPS was considered really complicated....

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 10/06/2026

I mean, they can sew up stab wounds too, but I'd rather not have one....

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 06/06/2026

Ah, there are no non-fascist Republicans.

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 06/06/2026

Are there still people who won't see a fascist regime?

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Robert M Brown @rmbrown.mrbadexample.com · 05/06/2026

My problem with Platner was never so much whether or not he was a Nazi (never seriously thought he was) as that he's obviously an idiot. And idiots are going to idiot. But of course, I don't get a vote.

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