Orthodox Jew. Talmud Respecter. Lover of gharqads, wildlife, & Shelby Foote. From Settlement to Superpower Podcast and The American Revolution Podcast.
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The first episode of The American Revolution Podcast is now out! In this episode we give a brief overview of the globe-spanning British Empire of 1763.
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A Roman gravestone for a pet dog:
People forget how truly new the very delicate pet thing is and how little greatest generation and older cared about pets.
Once you get past the boomers, it is a different world with different values. They would be considered very cruel and cold to most people today.
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The inability to even comprehend why they should put together a society that can function in the absence of petrodollars and slavery is precisely why the Gulf States have no future.
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It's astonishing to me how cocky he's being, if he had a shred of historical awareness he would see that he is in an extraordinarily dangerous position. There are so many ways for him to fall into utter ruination, and he's very clearly being used as the "unpopular courtier that the king eventually executes after he's done the dirty work" character
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If Twitter survives after culling 90% of its workforce then I must insist, with great regret of course, that we do the same with the Federal government.
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The Irish decked out in orange to own the British is pretty funny, ngl
Dublin City Centre Grinds To Halt As Irish People Gather To Support Netherlands Against England
Community note
This is footage from 2023 of Dutch fans before a Nations League match against Ireland.
irishcentral.com/culture/craic/
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Reading Ottoman history is very jarring when you're mostly accustomed to European history. The institutional fratricide, the ease with which children were executed - it's just brutal in a way that Europe never was since the Roman Empire
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Johnny Horton singing 'You Fought All the Way, Johnny Reb" to the last living Confederate veteran, aged 116, in 1958.
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The weasel language covers up that the man "disturbed" the calf by rescuing it from drowning in the river, and the way the bison died was because the park people just killed it rather than sending it to a ranch or something.
(News Release) Yellowstone law enforcement officers investigate incident of a man intentionally disturbing a bison calf; incident results in death of calf. Visitors: Respect wildlife by giving them room to roam. More: go.nps.gov/23016
Photo courtesy / Hellen Jack
ALT a middle-aged man wearing dark glasses, blue shirt, and black pants, carrying a bison calf out of a river
Community note
The man was attempting to assist a bison calf who was separated from its herd and struggling to cross a stream.
His scent on the rescued calf later led to its rejection by the herd.
The calf was eventually killed by park staff, because it was approaching cars and people.
nps.gov/yell/learn/new
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Why is everyone suddenly remembering Rotherham again. Are people really just learning about it for the first time or did I miss something?
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Sorry, but Sherman, Grant, Lee, and all the others who buried the hatchet when the bullets stopped will forever be better men than the mediocrities who just want to tear down and destroy.
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Kinda weird that there are so many "survivors" of such a purportedly deadly incident.
Maybe it wasn't as bad as we were taught to believe?
Don't mind me, I'm just Asking Questions
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Eilmer of Malmesbury, best known for (a) prophesizing the Norman Invasion upon beholding Haley's Comet in 1066, and (b) hurling himself from a tower with wings affixed and gliding some 700 feet before breaking both legs.
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Feel free to gift the stolen land your factories are on to the tribe of your choice and then sod off to whichever country will have you.
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Definitely helps you get a better sense of what the Narragansets and the Mohegans were so shocked about during the Pequot War, when they expressed dismay regarding the way the English fought "because it is too furious, and slays too many men."
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Today, in 1793, Maximilien Robespierre was executed on the guillotine - a fate which he had inflicted on thousands of innocent Frenchmen. His last sound was a single protracted wordless scream of agony, although the crowds were cheering so loud that most of them didn't hear it.
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Guy who considers Obama a red-blooded American but refuses to consort with that Trump newcomer.
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The imminent destruction of the Arlington Reconciliation Monument is a disgrace to this nation and another victory for the foul cadre of anti-Americans polluting our civic body.
Don't be fooled by their fake invocations of patriotism. They hate everything about this country.
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Hot take: if the Aztecs were considered indigenous to Mexico at the time of Cortes' conquest, then why should we not consider Anglos indigenous to America in the year 2022?
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You are not allowed to answer Washington, Lincoln, or Lee:
Who are you most excited to see in the American Pantheon or whatever he's calling it?
I have many, but a cool monument of Lewis and Clark being guided by Sacagawea would be great
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One absolutely amazing thing about Trump winning is that the 250th anniversary of America's birth is going to have epic celebrations.
Under Kamala it would have been more like attending a mandatory DEI session by some menopausal harridan
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Today, in 1794, Maximilien Robespierre was executed on the guillotine - a fate which he had inflicted on thousands of innocent Frenchmen. His last sound was a single protracted wordless scream of agony, although the crowds were cheering so loud that most of them didn't hear it.
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Turns out that the natural inclination of humans is to grow extremely affectionate towards their animals, even if scarcity and necessity oftentimes blunted the edge of that affection, who could've guessed
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I should know better to get mixed up in this trash, but the freaking *Normans* were in England longer than the Maori were in New Zealand or the Aztecs were in Mexico, to say nothing of the Anglo-Saxons and the Britons.
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Villain backstory of Jesse James. Missouri was the single most savage theater of the Civil War
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This woman doesn't get that she would've literally made this dude's whole week had she just said that at the beginning and actually conversed with him.
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The Internet Archive is no longer lending books.
It's over.
The harm this does to me, personally, is incalculable. But we soldier on.
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The really controversial take to get everyone on Twitter mad is that the IDF is often quite amateurish and has been so historically (unsurprising for a conscript army), but when they go to war they look like demigods because they're fighting the most r*tarded armies known to man.
People on the left get irrationally mad on here when you say countries in the Middle East are all militarily incompetent. I don't know why they're so invested in pretending the Muslim states are still capable of effective fighting, like it's the days of Umar or some shit
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Imagine not smiling and saying thank you when someone offers you something they value as a gift
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Since everyone on my timeline is squabbling about who will crush who in an American Civil War, let me add my two cents.
You are all going to die. And if you are one of the fortunate ones who doesn't, much of your family will die. Everything you know will be devastated.
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Tearing down monuments is bad enough, but digging up the bones of A. P. Hill is such an absolutely sick thing to do that I'm at a loss for words.
The trouble with reawakening old ghosts is that it all seems like great fun until suddenly it isn't.
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"You should have let it die! Because you didn't we had to KILL it, you MONSTER!"
peak bureaucrat brain
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Then she returns to her time to find that the Wampanoag wiped out every other indigenous tribe on the continent
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Whatever, I get what the park's trying to do with allowing natural selection to do its work, but if you're saying the guy should have let the calf die then you can't just turn around and start yelling at him when the park shoots the animal lol
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The Blackadder version of WWI historiography is so ingrained in the popular consciousness that people are always shocked to learn that the casualty rate among British officers was significantly higher than that of enlisted men during WWI.
They were lions led by lions.
Forty-five heirs to peerages were killed in the first eighteen months of WW1. Perhaps as many as 10% of army officers killed in the first year were Old Etonians. Whatever your view of the war, in those days the ruling class led by example, from the front.
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Genuinely don't understand how some guys don't think they can safely land an aircraft with air control literally telling them what to do
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"The disturbingly named 'Guy Flayer-of-Peasants', for instance, appears in a number of documents from the middle of the eleventh century. Juhel, lord of Mayenne, argued c. 1124 that it was his right to sell or burn his serf, Warin the Honest."
Feudalism was actually a pretty good system.
Hereβs why:
-everyone had a defined role that served society as a whole: peasants, vassals, and lords all had responsibilities to each other
-it was extremely decentralized
-itβs hierarchy ensured long-term stability
-with hereditary monarchy, it was a lot more difficult for influence peddlers to buy off leaders
-hereditary monarchsβ interests were tied to those of the people since they ruled for life
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In memory of the 250 brave men of the 1st Minnesota, who on this day in 1863 charged into the teeth of a Confederate force five times their number, with the prospect of near certain death or maiming, and in so doing stabilized the line and saved the Union.
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Unrelated, but how do you administer this experiment without incurring massive psychic damage?
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The funny thing is that when you read accounts from a hundred years ago, a hundred fifty years ago, they basically say the same things.
That's what peacetime armies are made of.
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Time immemorial = late 18th century
The US has controlled Mt Rushmore for longer than the Lakota
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it is fully within the US government's power to shut him down, and the more enemies he makes the more likely that is to happen
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There's a TV show about Shaka which depicts the same thing. War between the tribes used to be basically this, and then one day the Zulu go to war with a neighboring tribe and wipe them out with their modified assegais and bullhorn formation and everyone watching is just like wth
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Few realize this, but the stereotypical cringe/uncool dad (i.e. dad clothes, dad jokes, etc) is the greatest chad of all. he literally has everything a man could want - a wife, kids, a job - and he can be as much of a goof as he wants. He looks to impress nobody. Now that's a man
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I don't understand how all these supposedly highly educated history people didn't know about a thing which I knew as a child from rather conventional history books
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Today is a wonderful anniversary for this account. 160 years ago today, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain led the 20th Maine on a heroic charge down Little Round Top, thus saving the Battle of Gettysburg and perhaps the Union itself.
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Before Hamas captivity vs after Hamas captivity.
"But Abraham, this woman whose husband is still held at Hamas gunpoint says that they were fine gentlemen! Maybe the child-raping, infant-murdering, bloodthirsty savages are okay after all!"
You idiots. You absolute imbeciles.
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Okay boys and girls, we're gonna do this thing. One like = one historical factoid/hot take.
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Guy lets his kids play unsupervised for 1.5 hrs for 1 week and at the end of the week goes "Boy, this is nuts"
Parental neuroticism kills more kids than excessive freedom. There's a balance to be struck ofc, but we need a strong correction toward freedom
fatherly.com/parenting/1980sβ¦
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It's astonishing to me how breathless the coverage of Helene was before it made landfall and now there are vast swathes of the country completely cut off from help, people dying in their homes, and frankly extremely underwhelming media coverage
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There's something very important that the right needs to learn. The time for poasting and trolling is over; the time for sober governance is here. Anyone who can't understand this should not be anywhere near the levers of power, or for that matter, any sort of of public platform.
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has abruptly canceled his CPAC speech scheduled for this morning over Steve Bannon's salute below, calling it "a provocation, a gesture referring to Nazi ideology." nitter.app/julianfeeld/status/189β¦
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I am on my knees, begging, pleading, that you people stop using "begs the question" when you really mean to say "raises the question".
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The billion dollar industry is an outgrowth of our abundance, not a shift in how we view our animals. To the extent anyone was able to afford it they have loved their animals
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Loving "the people" so much that you end up slaughtering myriads of innocents is an unfortunately common tendency among revolutionaries and idealists.
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Ahh, this reminds me of a funny story. When I was 20 I went to a wedding in NYC with some friends and I went up to the bar to try to get a drink. When they asked me for my license I confidently gave it to them, hoping to bluff them into not checking it.
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One of my least popular opinions is that if a guy makes his living off keeping people riled up about politics and tuned into whatever it is that he's saying, he can't be trusted. Yeah, even that guy who says things you like. They're all just entertainers, not men of principle.
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Man, I love the Puritans.
This is from 1671, from a little screed called "Divine Examples of God's Severe Judgements upon Sabbath-Breakers".
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Surely even southerners can agree that no American military song hits quite as hard as the Battle Hymn of the Republic
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The American Empire is responsible for way more of the average American's prosperity than they are aware, and this empire is held together with less expenditure of blood (and treasure, when viewed in relative terms) than any other empire in history.
There is little downside.
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Fun fact: America First was a northern phenomenon. The south was virulently opposed to the movement and probably the most pro-intervention region in the country before Pearl Harbor.
Good thing they asked a union veteran his opinion of Hitler, a confederate veteran mightβve had a rather different answer
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Despite being born in Corsica, Napoleon did eventually suffer from the affliction of being French
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The historiography of Columbus is a nightmare to wade through.
If there's only one thing that's clear, though, it's that Howard Zinn ought to have been executed.
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Please read the tweet before responding something about WWII lol
This is talking about the institutional and routine kinslaying within the House of Osman, not doing mean things during war.
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Looking at this illustration in a kids book about the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans and I'm about to have an aneurysm
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I want Obama to live as long as Carter, because the more distance we put between us and his presidency the harsher the assessments will become.
I want that guy to live to see his presidency ranked as one of the lowest five in US history.
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I'm not sure if you're aware, but this is a well known Twitter Nazi (as in, literal explicit Third Reich fan) and Holocaust denier.
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My favorite genre of geopolitical tweet is the Arab, "Our troops withdraw in triumph, the Zionist fiends stumble forward in disarray"
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Oooh, the tankies are finding this. May you guys be the first eggs cracked in the omelette of your revolution π
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Worth remembering that these people don't care for the Stars and Stripes, don't care for the US or its history, and are just using these issues as pawns to demolish every single reminder of the US's past.
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"It takes more work nowadays to make it in the world than it did in the 19th century" is such an incredibly mind-boggling take to anyone who has actually read anything on how hard people worked in the 19th century just to eke their subsistence out of the land.
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There is a ray of light here, though. At least those old academic books with no ebook for sale will still be able to be borrowed.
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