McNally posted:Other way around. He sent $1400 to bring Trump's $600 up to $2000. It was this
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Exactly one week before the November election everyone who filed Virginia taxes got the following letter with attached check in their mailbox: Lmao they must have lost my return, they still haven't processed my refund and I never saw that check.
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Nov 28, 2023 01:18
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My Spirit Otter posted:you get what you see when it comes to cartoons Cartoons might in some cases bring you joy in life.
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Nov 28, 2023 06:20
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This loving guy. https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1728950835084747159
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Nov 28, 2023 12:41
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The “readers added content” section is lit
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Nov 28, 2023 12:43
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Politicians getting chaos dunked by historians? I'm here for it
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Nov 28, 2023 12:53
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Twice awarded Medal of Honor Marine Smedley Butler posted:I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
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Nov 28, 2023 13:25
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Nov 28, 2023 13:56
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He's right, we'll need all of the territory we took to bury the many, many dead when we inevitably pay for all this
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Nov 28, 2023 13:58
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He's absolutely correct. We never asked for the land we took.
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Nov 28, 2023 14:50
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Paingod556 posted:Twice awarded Medal of Honor Marine Smedley Butler posted: Those who may not know, but Butler is a goddamn hero who exposed the plot by rich fascists, including Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR in the late 30s.
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Nov 28, 2023 15:18
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It was good for Smedley Butler It was good for ol’ Dan Daly And it’s good enough for me
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Nov 28, 2023 15:25
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orange juche posted:Politicians getting chaos dunked by historians? I'm here for it You might need to be an actual historian to know about the backstory American Samoa, but half of Mexico and the Philippines are basically high-school history material.
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MrMojok posted:It was good for Smedley Butler
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Nov 28, 2023 16:03
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Let's not forget that in the Revolutionary and 1812 wars we invaded Canada with an eye to recruit/annex whatever we could. I know the Canadians haven't forgotten.
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Nov 28, 2023 16:25
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A.o.D. posted:Let's not forget that in the Revolutionary and 1812 wars we invaded Canada with an eye to recruit/annex whatever we could. Maybe we'd get a brand new White House out of it again.
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Nov 28, 2023 16:40
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Cugel the Clever posted:Third time's the charm. We should go back and finish the job. They'd greet us as liberators! The next time Canada burns down the White House it'll be the first time.
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Nov 28, 2023 16:46
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But it would be the third? time it's rebuilt, right?
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That Works posted:The “readers added content” section is lit America also likes gold - I don't begrudge it, but the UK finished paying America in 2006 for WW2 loans. 100 x the cost we paid would have been worth it, so it was good value. The 1950s are idolized in America as this golden age of prosperity - Everywhere else it was a grim time of austerity and food rationing that didn't end until 1954.
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Nov 28, 2023 17:17
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A.o.D. posted:Let's not forget that in the Revolutionary and 1812 wars we invaded Canada with an eye to recruit/annex whatever we could. When I was in Ottawa I found it amazing how much of 18th and 19th century Canadian history was centered around concerns about American invasions. The canal next to their Parliament building was built after the war of 1812 to provide water lines of communication from Montreal to Toronto in case during the next war the US forces in New England cut off the St Lawrence River. At their war museum, starting in the French and Indian war exhibit I could faintly hear strains of Yankee Doodle playing somewhere in the distance. It kept getting louder until I finally got to the War of 1812 section where a lovely store quality intercom speaker was blasting low quality Yankee Doodle on repeat. I assume it was part of the exhibit to annoy us into hating America as much as the Canadians of the time did because by the time I left that section I was so irritated by the music I was ready to burn it all down to make it stop.
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ABC has a new report covering Pence on Jan 6. His son, a Marine, had to tell him to do his loving Job. https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1729481038865301963?t=VFX8ADEbqi17PEkRwbWi5g&s=19 bulletsponge13 fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Nov 28, 2023 17:27
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McNally posted:The next time Canada burns down the White House it'll be the first time. 
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Nov 28, 2023 17:38
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bulletsponge13 posted:ABC has a new report covering Pence on Jan 6. Its hosed up that I have to remind my parents that poo poo they see on fox news is generally not representative of reality when I visit, imagine telling your dad "hey dont betray your oath to the US, not cool."
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Nov 28, 2023 17:40
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:But it would be the third? time it's rebuilt, right? Yeah, third. The 1814 fire gutted the building, then the building was basically gutted again for a massive reconstruction in 1948 due to a number of factors (including the removal of a load-bearing wall during a 1902 renovation). The White House was on the verge of collapsing in on itself during the Truman Administration because of some questionable choices made during previous administrations.
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OddObserver posted:You might need to be an actual historian to know about the backstory American Samoa, but half of Mexico and the Philippines are basically high-school history material. dogg I'm from south carolina and high school history ends in 1859
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Nov 28, 2023 17:51
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McNally posted:The White House was on the verge of collapsing in on itself because of some questionable choices made during previous administrations. american_history_since_1776.txt
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shame on an IGA posted:dogg I'm from south carolina and high school history ends in 1859 OK, but that should at least cover the Mexican-American War, and the whole kerfuffle with Texas before that.
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American history according to public education- -Pilgrims -Indians get upset, intense debate over who lives where -Revolution -British come back for Part 2 -The Alamo -Civil War -Reconstruction -WW1 -WW2 - Cold War - Today's headlines
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bulletsponge13 posted:American history according to public education-
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bulletsponge13 posted:American history according to public education- Pretty much anything anywhere in the world post-WW2 is completely ignored or glossed over in American public education unless it makes the USSR look bad/evil Like, the average high school graduate has no idea how much the collapse of the European colonial empires affected huge parts of the world.
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Baconroll posted:The 1950s are idolized in America as this golden age of prosperity - Everywhere else it was a grim time of austerity and food rationing that didn't end until 1954. This part was only true in Britain, and to a lesser extent the british empire. France and (West) Germany were both off food rationing by 1950, in large part thanks to the Marshall Plan. The 50s were the beginning of a long growth period for both Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder) and France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses)
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bulletsponge13 posted:ABC has a new report covering Pence on Jan 6. "I'm so bitchmade to the Dear Leader that I'm gonna throw the rest of the country out the window. Golly gee, I sure hope there's not an angry mob that calls for me to die that day as they try to overthrow the government on my friend's direction."
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hypnophant posted:This part was only true in Britain, and to a lesser extent the british empire. France and (West) Germany were both off food rationing by 1950, in large part thanks to the Marshall Plan. The 50s were the beginning of a long growth period for both Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder) and France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses) Wasn’t the situation in Britain that they were rationing but had enough, it was just boring drab food? I’m trying to recall if they also had the issue of using their Marshall Plan aid to pay down debt instead of retooling factories for the new era, putting them seriously behind continental manufacturing.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wasn’t the situation in Britain that they were rationing but had enough, it was just boring drab food? I’m trying to recall if they also had the issue of using their Marshall Plan aid to pay down debt instead of retooling factories for the new era, putting them seriously behind continental manufacturing. Vinegar isn’t enough flavor for you?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wasn’t the situation in Britain that they were rationing but had enough, it was just boring drab food? I’m trying to recall if they also had the issue of using their Marshall Plan aid to pay down debt instead of retooling factories for the new era, putting them seriously behind continental manufacturing. Wasn’t it more that they continued waging colonial wars, and used a lot of money on that?
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vuk83 posted:Wasn’t it more that they continued waging colonial wars, and used a lot of money on that? not wars, but they were trying to maintain a positive trade balance and large reserve in order to keep the sterlingzone/empire together, so they were restricting imports and trying to compete on exports, despite not being able to match the US on production costs. Not to say there weren't some colonial misadventures in the post-war period, and the suez crisis really marks the end of the british empire as a superpower. But that's not until 1956, and the stuff in the early post-war period was pretty minor in comparison, so I don't think that's a full explanation of why rationing hung around so long. e: to clarify the british post-war ration was a sufficient number of calories but restricted stuff like meat, dairy, sugar, and importantly, petrol. I don't think there was a danger of mass hunger at any point post-war. hypnophant fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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bulletsponge13 posted:American history according to public education- Depends on where you grew up, we got a ton of education on what Europeans did to the native population in the Americas, and how European colonialism effected the rest of the world. That's in one of the most liberal cities in the US though.
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High school US history should be mandated to teach at least one section on Fred Hampton
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CNN is now finally talking about Topics Other Than Israeli Hostages and dropped this: https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1729622567185448974 quote:“Mar-a-Lago? What the hell, Kevin?” Cheney asked. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1729616402875658621 So THAT'S how he got down to 215. Fucker was starving himself. 
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bulletsponge13 posted:American history according to public education- Lmao hell, we only got to WW2 a single time in 13 years of TN public school. Everything I know post Depression came from family that was knowledgeable and would answer my questions and my own reading. I know I've said it before but I really wish they'd start with "a war happened in the 40s and let's talk about everything since" because it would help kids understand today's world. Why is the Middle East all hosed up, why are there two Koreas and one Vietnam, why does the PRC government seem so nuts about Taiwan, etc etc.
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