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@GreeneMan6

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This is RW-bait and I can’t resist. “Capitalism” is a functionally meaningless concept in the 21st century. Our pretend-money-printer economy has almost no resemblance to the hard-money-hard-industry economic system Marx critiqued. Thus, for modern Marxists, the concept is used to complain about e...

@xeroger

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Selected quotes from The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Bailyn) ...

@oldbooksguy

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G.K. Chesterton's best book: Orthodoxy (1908) Here are its 10 best ideas: 1/ Love precedes lovability: "Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her." ...

@81stinfbde

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1/12 WHEN are we going to understand that as long as we keep allowing this tyrant to continue to make a mockery of everything we hold dear...our elections, our rule of law, our decency and how we treat others, our criminal justice system, and our morality, ethics, and integrity ...

@hissgoescobra

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This is the transcript. Steve Witkoff (SW) and Yuri Ushakov (YU) Putin's foreign policy adviser. Witkoff is giving inside information on how to manipulate a U.S. President to our greatest adversary. [phone rings] Steve Witkoff: Hi Yuri. Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you? SW: Good Yuri. H...

@eugyppius1

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@tyleraloevera

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Shut the fuck up Dinesh. Unprovoked, your response to my family and I being doxxed, threatened, and harassed by Indian nationalists infuriated by my documentation of a poop-throwing festival was NOT sympathy as a fellow American. NOPE. You posted a screenshot of median household income of Asian ho...