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Attempts to strip nationalized citizens of their citizenship went on during the John Adams administration, pushed hard by an out-of-office Hamilton, and went hand in hand with suppressing the speech of the native-born citizenry.
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TIL that the WW2 Greek communist resistance ELAS acquired an effective cavalry regiment of defecting Italian lancers, to the joy of American liaison officers and obstructionism of their British equivalents
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can you imagine the kind of games the DDR would have created if it had survived. we’re talking trolley ticket office simulator. we’re talking a mid 90’s sim city-alike just called “urban planning” probably some sort of bird watching game with an associated physical booklet.
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wendy's cashier: will that be all?
me: i think so. we just close our eyes for the last time and we're gone. but it doesn't have to be sad. it's like before you were born. we don't miss those who haven't happened yet. we don't feel their absence
wendy's cashier: mothers do. i do
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I love posters who sometimes put totally out of pocket NSFW shit onto the TL because its the online equivalent of feeling like I live in gritty 70's new york okay that's some hentai, logging on with my coffee whoops there's oomfies penis, hey I'm walkin here anything can happen.
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i would like to go to the George Washington freemasonry museum in DC because it looks like an establishing shot in Star Wars
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About two weeks ago a Florida pelican walked a quarter mile to a NOAA lab wrapped in fishing line and carrying a barbed hook in its wing, politely tapped on the door until it was discovered by scientists, patiently stood still while they operated on it, and then flew away.
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Local business improvement district is doing small business education about AI design lol they said "use gimp you bums"
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It is our god, or spirit of the age. ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/…
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whatever u think about marx, it rly is true that people have spiritual beliefs about wealth and commodities. many people will earnestly tell you that wealth comes from working hard, as if the people building bridges, houses, and cars are millionaires.
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Chinese villagers overthrowing a god during land reform, from william Hinton's "fanshen"
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A few years ago I was reading a lost 1988 dissertation on the immigrant women who actually made the chips in Silicon Valley, when I saw one organizer, David Bacon, described by a manager as "a one-man son-of-a-bitch trouble maker."
I knew then that I had to interview this guy.🧵
