@SevaUT

oh no, really?

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kind of op-ed that could have only been written in the innocent days of 2014
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Opinion | In the long run, wars make us safer and richer

War may be the worst way imanigible to create peaceful societies but it is pretty much the only way.

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Seva@SevaUT
29 Dec 2018
in a move sure to dispel his country’s image as backward, the President of Belarus gives Putin four sacks of potatoes and some lard for New Years’
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it's brutal. the two great prophets of international politics are now tim snyder and john mearsheimer, two men thoroughly captured by their own theories
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lol, this is like when director mike nichols asked robert redford if he’d ever been rejected by a woman for a date & redford was like, “what do you mean?”😭😭
Cinema Now
@CinemaaNow
Sep 16
Robert Pattinson on how he landed roles in both ‘THE ODYSSEY’ and ‘DUNE: PART THREE’: "It’s just always different. I mean, with Chris [Nolan], he basically said, “I’m doing The Odyssey.” And I’m like, “Okay, cool. I want to do it.” And then Denis [Villeneuve] was like, “Do you want to do Dune?” And I went, “Yeah.”"
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Parger@pargerais
Sep 20
in my opinion, far future historiography will probably lump together the Gulf War, Iraq War, and the present conflict into one big overarching "Gulf Wars" with distinct but connected periods as we do for the Thirty Years War today
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You see this even in Central Asia Kazakhstan: China style dictatorship Uzbekistan: Russia style dictatorship Kyrgyzstan: South America style dictatorship Tajikistan: Africa style dictatorship Turkmenistan: North Korea style dictatorship
Seva@SevaUT
Sep 21
free elections are all alike but each rigged election is rigged in its own special way
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free elections are all alike but each rigged election is rigged in its own special way
Julian Waller 📖
@JulianWaller
Sep 19
A key insight from the comparative authoritarianism research subfield is that authoritarian elections are way, way more variable than assumed in the popular mind.
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Very funny that the routine line about the Treaty of Westphalia being the beginning of a "modern state system based on sovereignty" was apparently just anti-Habsburg propaganda, useful to nationalists across Europe, which 20th century scholars happily endorsed.
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Skyrim: Soviet Edition (A.I. Video)
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I forgot to tweet about how I got a $50 ticket for drinking a tall boy out of a brown bag in Penn station yesterday. After the cop wrote the ticket I asked if I could still have the beer. He said I could chug it if I can do it quickly. He was Russian
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Russian officials have biologically evolved to be harder to push out of windows.
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧
@WarMonitor3
Sep 8
The head of Russias Rossotrudnichestvo in a press conference today talking about Russias deteriorating relationship with Armenia…
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leonid brezhnev the party voted for you and i love you but we are not advanced machine tool independent.We are having a hard time getting computer numerical control equipment for the shipyards in leningrad
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Pete Hegseth: We need our military to be more like the Spartans! *immediately loses fight with Persia over an important chokepoint*
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this is like the old Soviet joke about a man who works at a factory making vacuum cleaners, and whose wife wants a vacuum cleaner, and so he sneaks parts out one at a time, but no matter how he puts the parts together, the only thing he can create from them is a Kalashnikov
Soviet Visuals@sovietvisuals
Aug 31
Dumpling-making gun by the Saransk plant "Electrovypryamitel". Photo by Alexander Ovchinnikov, USSR, 1969.
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You're right. I helped you synthesize dimethyl mercury. And that's on me
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first dolly parton now this
Jasmin Mujanović
@JasminMuj
Aug 27
The convicted Bosnian Serb genocidaire Ratko Mladic has died in a prison cell. He has died in a prison cell, while despite all of his murderous efforts little Bosniak girls and little Bosniak boys are again being born all across Bosnia and Herzegovina. You lost, Ratko.
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NATO condemns nuclear destruction of Berlin as a troubling escalation of Russian hybrid tactics
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a blasphemous comparison to some, but that’s part of Laruelle's point: they are two prophets opposed in substance but united in form. a clever but unsatisfying analogy hegemon.substack.com/p/dugin…
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I would love to see this happen with more films. Studio realizes the marketing isn’t getting enough traction and announces the movie’s protagonist is actually Robin Hood
Culture Crave 🍿
@CultureCrave
Aug 25
'The Uprising' has been revealed to be a Robin Hood movie 🏹 Starring Andrew Garfield Releasing in theaters September 11
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