#Empire

Honestly one of the enormous problems with the stance of pushing the Imperium as the heroes of 40k is the combination of the inherent conservative undercurrent of tabletop hobbies in
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My #StarWarsSunday thread about the Vintage Original Trilogy Collection (VOTC) starts now! Back in 2004, Hasbro focused attention on the OT as Revenge of the Sith was about to hit
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Going to continue down the rabbit hole of the paradoxes, contradictions, and ironies of Spanish rule... Decentering Europe’s role in the age of early modern colonialism. A charming interlude. Want
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Okay, spicy take warning, I will only respond to folks who engage in good faith:I preface this by saying that I've been writing on Syria for awhile; wrote a 200+
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A lot of talk on here about the “end of democracy” in America. I’m confused as to when the beginning of it was. The framers abhorred democracy and saw it
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Yesterday, an Egyptian court upheld the decision of the committee for the reservation, administration and disposal of funds of terrorist groups to seize the funds of 1,589 members of the
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Why I love Reinhardt, this will be a long thread. Starting off I just really like his overall design. The whole cloak and clothes, along with the strapped master sword
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A few stray thoughts from my story in today's paper about The Epoch Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-influence-falun-gong.html On one level, this is a story about a new religious movement building its own
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Most economic discussion today revolves around the question whether governments and central banks should give out generous lines of credits or not. The #seventeenthcentury saw a number of #financialcrisis too.
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As a native Hawaiian, land back is not about changing ownership of land but ending ownership of land ('aina), and people. 'Aina is your mother. You can't own your mother.
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I made this thread yesterday, and I just want to share a bit more about what I believe is a changed trajectory that people don’t account for. [e.g. how “harm
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This is the thread where I’ll livetweet the 8.25 6am press conference from @CALFIRECZU. You can watch the briefing yourself at https://www.pscp.tv/CALFIRECZU/ #CZULightningComplex #CZUFire #SantaCruz #CZULightningComplexFire #CZUAugu
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1. Today is the 424th ArAdhana of Sri Vijayindra Tirtha, the bulwark of Dvaita Vedanta from post-Vyasatirtha period. This thread is a humble contribution about a great yati who foresaw
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Medievalist here. So GOP Senator Loeffler's new ads claim she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun" & joke about killing "liberal scribes." Obv from a historical viewpoint, this is just
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Full-time job and working full-time on my podcast as well. I definitely have the right to tweet like LLC Twitter now I'm not working for the man, its the man
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NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #77 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a
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