#Wwii

The other night, in the middle of a long thread about John Wayne and the #AtomicAgeArmy, I mentioned that the US developed thermonuclear weapons. @CONELRAD6401240 Conelrad posted this morning that
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There's a history to Russophobia. Most Americans have imbibed it unconsciously, it saturated virtually all of postwar western media, subsided only slightly in the 90s and early 2000s. But it
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August heat & smoke, manifest no fire. Another lynch pin dead; move on! MAGA hope & change 2.0. a farce.The tumult of unhinged detractors continues as @POTUS Twaddles. Is he
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:¨·.·¨: `·.. ➸ angst ˎˊ 1) Choking On Fantasies https://archiveofourown.org/works/9434969/chapters/21348818• angstiest fic i've ever read • hanahaki disease • 24k words• jm centric• this is so tragic yet so beautiful•
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So I promised everyone a thread about Marx's central thesis of "the tendency of the profit rate to fall". It's been a couple months since I read that portion of
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1/ The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Niall Ferguson)"The ‘masters of the universe’ paid far too little heed to lessons of the past, preferring to pin
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THREAD. With the 100th anniversary or the Treaty of Trianon upon us, here's my ten forints on the subject, if you have nothing better to read, about whether Hungary was
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THREAD: Last week right-wing @chicagotribune columnist @John_Kass ran a column blaming rising crime and civil unrest in big cities like Chicago on "left-wing billionaire George Soros [spending] millions of dollars
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Out of boredom and a need for positivity/education. I’m gonna start a thread of “Today in History” March 21, 1965 - MLK Jr began his march from Selma to Montgomery.
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I have a story about Pearl Harbor—it starts in 1997 when I was discharged from the Marines [the first time] and ends in 2013 on the deck of an Arleigh
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I really wish people could see more good films that are not blockbuster/cinema movies. There is a whole world of films beyond the big budget ones. I guess a lot
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One reason a day until election on why you should vote for Biden, a thread: 100 days till election (reason 1): Donald Trump is the first President to not have
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“America has no culture”No, you’re a retardA thread What is American culture? Glad you asked American culture is so big and complicated that it will make the average person’s head
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Okay, people, let’s do this.I’m at my post and ready to watch the second night of the RNC so others might be spared.As a precaution, I’ve strapped on this WWII
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Today I'm kicking off #31DaysofTeleterror, and will showcase 31 made for TV genre films as we count down to Halloween! I'll post everything in a thread for easy (and maybe
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Delighted to be at this festival. Currently hearing from New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager, who has made a vital distinction btw justified & unjustified leaking, & is stressing the
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