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News flash: No authoritarian regime, or any regime of whatever stripe, has ever succeeded in all of its maximalist aims! That’s not a thing that happens!

Im so nuclear policy brained that I read AEC as the Atomic Energy Commission

24 hour news cycle wasn’t even a thing during Vietnam

Twentieth century was something else

Would argue we’re pretty removed even from the scale of violence that took place during the Cold War as well.

This is really bad! www.youtube.com/live/cEVRarR...

Vice President JD Vance at the Nixon LibraryYouTube video by Richard Nixon Foundationwww.youtube.com

You’d probably enjoy this book if you haven’t read it already, there’s a chapter about the racial profiling of arabs by Nixon’s FBI after the Munich Olympics Massacre

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Of all the shows of the streaming era to endure, like wtf

I already considered her content slopulist nonsense, but having a conspiracy video justifying the death of USAID with millions of views and getting boosted by one of the most powerful individuals on the planet, moves you solidly into super villain territory for me

This is just the prologue!

Philip short mitterand bio

59, in the midst of the Algerian war

Ralph Bunche served in the State Department before going to work for the UN, where he negotiated the armistice agreements that ended the first arab israeli war.

The US had black diplomats and white house staffers during Jim Crow too bsky.app/profile/vibi...

I vividly remember frequenting places like barnes and noble in the summer of 2020. You just had to wear a mask.

Finding out the fanbase for K-On was full of racists was pretty disheartening. Super wholesome show.

Mhm

Then as now the person saying this thinks they’re an anime villain