Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

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…you get the idea. Many more in thread.

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Historical trivia:

TLDW: apparently the market for selling replicas of WWII military rifles to civilians in the US was kickstarted by the “need” to arm the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Fascism is imperialism turned inwards.

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Zionism is a feminist issue.

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TLDW: contrary to Jared Diamond et al, the people of Rapa Nui were not suicidal idiots who drove themselves into near-extinction by chopping down trees to transport Moai. There were other, more familiar causes for what happened there.

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Just change the accent and it’s indistinguishable from a Trump quote that would have been enthusiastically mocked by every liberal online for weeks.

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(actually freezing my arse off down here at the moment, but you get the point)

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Meanwhile…

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