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in my room on a saturday evening talking to myself like this

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losing my mind at the information that Taylor Swifts parents bought her bi-weekly flights to Nashville for years as a teen so she could go learn directly from big country musicians. Eventually with them moving their entire family over to Nashville where Taylor failed to get onto a record label so her dad bought a 3% ($300,000) stake in Big Machine Records immediately getting them to bring Taylor onto the label. Queen of failing upwards. Queen of industry plants.

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i remember when social media 1.0 (facebook, twitter, youtube) was touted as revolutionary for the media environment, that it would help hold legacy media accountable, promote genuine narratives of what's happening on the ground, and end propaganda. back in 2010-2012, it seemed like occupy wall street and the arab spring were offshoots of that new, democratic, decentralized means of political organization, a kind of "people's media". both movements failed, and within three years social media helped spawn Brexit, Qanon, and endless other conspiracy theories

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from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

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just remembered the very very liberal (in a russian way), anti-putin anti-ukraine war jewish russian i slept with in st. petersburg who had a massive israel flag in his house and is/(was?) super pro israel and had only 1 pillow that he didn't share with me. wonder how he is. hows he grappling with things.

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gen z is not falling for media propaganda because we have alternate independent sources of information! look at this video:

[2 minute tiktok full of conspiracy theories, racism, and history distorted like a pretzel]

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Changing borders of Israel / Palestine, 1888-2023.

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> be an anticommunist nationalist in early 20th century Ukraine SSR

> sign up with the Waffen SS when they come to liberate glorious Ukrainaj from the degenerates, communists, Russians, Jews, and Poles

> lose badly to the Red Army and move to Canada to escape justice

> live to the ripe old age of 98 in peace and comfort, thinking you've deftly escaped your mega war crimes past

> new proxy war breaks out between NATO and Russia that makes Ukrainian nationalism and WW2 revisionism in vogue

> get trotted out like a show pony by your clueless dipshit MP in a publicity stunt for Zelenskyy when he comes for a visit

> "hmm who is this guy who was fighting the Russians c. 1941"

> Get extradited to Poland for the war crimes

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you're not going to get away from russia's influence in one way or another, you're not going to get away from the shared history, and you're not going to get away from the consequences of 70 years of socialism and its rupture. "post-soviet" applies to countries and to this period in their history, there is nothing demeaning about it

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there is nothing essential about russian culture that puts the country on a warpath against its neighbors; there is nothing inherently cruel, violent, or sadistic to be found in it. there is likewise nothing about azerbaijanis or turks that makes them predisposed to barbarity against armenians, kurds, greeks. we are going to see all this happen again and again and again if we buy into this superficial, reactionary argument

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pulling up to the function scared and puffed up

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i don't understand the recent "how often do men think of the roman empire" trend. one of the most well-known recent academic and popular historians of the roman empire is a woman, mary beard. why do this? it isn't cute or funny if you think about the implications for more than five seconds

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Fireworks. Linocut by Nikolai Sheverdyayev (1940s).

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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

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It's so messed up that Coca Cola is one of the quintessential symbols of the US globally, a drink sold across the world and known for being refreshing and delicious, but if you actually go to the US and drink it, it tastes like ass.