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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

in this temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the union the memory of abraham lincoln is enshrined forever

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h

tfw the universal translator seems to be broken

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

stephen kotkin said that nothing will make you appreciate freedom like studying unfreedom. for myself, these days, i study unfreedom in order to understand freedom. thus, my next readings:

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

what gets me is that it's not even a bad looking symbol. if you think guns look cool and want to put them on your stickers you gotta keep up with the times

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

if you assume the patriarchy is metaphysically correct, then actually it's very easy to prove that patriarchal norms are true

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

[girl who has only read about one war voice] getting a lot of el alamein vibes from this operation vivaldi

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026

"the ivy league faculty will never understand you" the faculty: SEND ME TO FIGHT THE SLAVE POWER

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026

you know just gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that most intro undergrad 20th century history courses do not cover genro-era japan much

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

the spear was a cool idea but it just reflects the extent to which army leadership is in denial about what the job of infantry actually is these days

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

dread it. run from it. where did that bring you? back to me

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

i don't think that's true actually! maybe ten years ago, but much less so today!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

what people outside of demented gun nuts world haven't really caught up to is the extent to which firearms since then have experience "carcination," aka "literally everything is an ar-15 knockoff now" why get an smg when you can just get a really compact ar-15 this thing is legally a "pistol"!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

catwoman's gun here is transparently a version of the p90, which began development in 1986 as a replacement for 9mm submachine guns, which were used as smaller weapons for vehicle crews (etc) but now with the requirement "punch through light body armor"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026

the suits are such an intense vibe that i have been trying to figure out how to incorporate them into a good lovecraftian horror scenario for AGES

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026

having just wrapped this up, my conclusion: dysfunctional institutions make for dysfunctional publics. the structure of the meiji constitution excluded the masses from governance; censorship, misinformation, and state ideology left them riled up but badly informed the result was... not great.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026

lol j/k. we all know the true beer of the working man

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026

we all know there is only one man who can solve crime: crimecop

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