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I find this sort of view odd. "Person born in the 1800s has bad 1800s views that were typical of the time period, oh god!!!" It's not a surprise, and also not particularly relevant to what a military history journal would be interested in publishing about.

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Way back in I think 2011-2012, I made a remark on my long-since-deleted Twitter account that there was a reliable phenomenon where every six months or so you'd get a "we should bring back the draft" take from some pundit at The Atlantic or The Washington Post or whatever. On the surface, these takes were never about military capability, they were always about the author's personal social engineering project to fix the issue du jour— it'll bring rich and poor into contact and promote cross-class understanding, it'll reduce alienation from the military, and so on.

I find it interesting what a hardy weed this is. Today the posts are still there, except now they're on Substack, and now they're about fixing today's social ills— it'll make low-quality men more marriageable and cure inceldom, it'll provide purpose and address existential ennui, it'll bring progressives and conservatives into contact reduce political polarization, etc.

Whatever the problem, mandatory military service is apparently the cure. I actually disagree with the takes that America is a highly-militarist society, but this seems like a surviving example of a phenomenon that has probably stretched all the way back to Rome or beyond.

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Short hair Wei-li era

Boris and Wei-li meeting up.

Wei-li suffering the heat

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Funniest part is Mao saying "we're going to do it just like Stalin did it!" and the USSR saying "yeah man uh we're not sure that's a good idea," which would eventually lead to the Sino-Soviet split,

Ever since I started taking a class largely about recent east asian history and mao and the ussr and all I can't take anyone talking about their five year plan seriously

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Tumblr should have a global tab

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My back just started hurting all of a sudden this afternoon. Weird

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Real experts learn to qualify these statements as averages

Stupid, chauvinist misogyny: Men are X, which is good, while Women are Y, which is bad

Woke, Feminist Take: Men are X, which is reactionary, while women are Y, which is enlightened

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a succulent chinese room

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1. Unconstitutional coup: True

I used to eat lunch in a room the student council met in and they'd always kick me out, and we'd argue. They bought me off with a position on the council. In twelfth grade the other two presidents spent the whole year distracted by theatre club leaving me in charge.

2. Vomit during race: False

I have never vomited during a race, though I have been extremely nauseous but still finished a half marathon.

3. Calling the firefighters: True

When I was three I was obsessed with firefighters. When my mom dropped my sister off at school I'd slip away, climb up on a table, and call the firefighters from a payphone so I could see the firetruck. Even back then I knew you could just do things. I got caught on the third time or so by the principal but my mom didn't believe him at the time.

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Mutuals should do two truths and a lie!

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they need to invent the opposite of an nda called an fda where u have to tell everyone everything

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what is the point of scuds. why did god decide the seas needed a shrimp that was 1. sideways and 2. extremely industrious

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Found family: me, my magical warrior-slave, my classmate who manipulates us into having threeways with her, and lastly, the psychopathic child we kidnapped.

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Gundam fans are in denial of this but you can and absolutely should skip ZZ Gundam and just go straight from Zeta to CCA.

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Motorcyclist tweet: "This fucking insane driver almost killed me" (video of motorcyclist going 50 miles per hour over the speed limit or doing something technically legal but insanely reckless or both)

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The instagram ad algorithm has shifted me from the "young men with erectile dysfunction" ad demographic to the "potential real estate buyer" cluster.

I'm getting it up in the world.