#History

Dear Filipinx-Americans, this isn’t how you celebrate pre-Filipino cultures and LGBTQIA+ history — not with anachronisms, not with bad takes, not with bad scholarship passed off as history. Pakiusap.(Images from
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Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even
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1. I would love to read a sympathetic (yet critical) essay that assessed a central claim made by Never Trumpers like @davidfrum--that conservatism today is an embarrassing bastardization of what
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Okay, I'm going to start my new thread now, the one showcasing beautiful cultural heritage sites in countries that our so-called president decided are "shithole" countries. That's the only time
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Engels 'On Authority' https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm"All Socialists are agreed that the political state, & with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revo
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We're currently rereading a lot of Le Guin atm (by pure coincidence) and it really does bear repeating that her most famous works are 50+ years old and it *shows*.
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There's a long history of intertwining Islam and nuclear weapons - luckily, I've written about it in @SHAFRDH https://academic.oup.com/dh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dh/dhaa032/5850078 https://twitter.com/asmiff/status/1274712158841
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Prominent Lesbians of Color throughout time for Pride 2020: a thread! #PRIDE2020 first off, a few things: 1) all of this info i researched myself, if anything is inaccurate/unreliable,
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With respect to the findings, I need to highlight a really important disagreement with this particular point on ideology.Black people are *extremely* sophisticated political thinkers, even when carrying problematic ideological
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Okay so here's a thread with old Tampa kranks If the song was popular in Tampa, it’s in this thread. Idgaf where it originated lmao .. save ya history
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History of Indian Philosophy....A thread Start point : Veda or Sruti (Sru to hear).If we roughly classify this huge literature, we can point out 4 different types:1. Samhita or
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0/ $BTC finished September (-7.8%) its first down month since June. On the year it's +50.3%. October has historically been a strong month with an average / median performance of +20.8%
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A thread about Establishment wealth, reparations, & why the Tories will *always* defend the statues of slavers & Empire racists… #Colston #reparations #ColonialViolence #resist #slavery #BlackLivesMatter This chap
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Spoilers for the whole of the Wheel of TimeApologies to all of #TwitterofTime if this is an idea that's already been expressed, but I just can't stop thinking about Egwene
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The War on HumanityWho is the EnemyPart 1Why do we go to war?Through blood, money and power..Who truly benefits?Civil war;620,000 killed, 476,000 injured and 300,000+ captured and/or missing.What you were
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In Veneto's regional election the current League-sponsored governor Zaia appears to have beaten his centre-left rival by 75% vs. 15.6% His own personal list (linked to his candidature) apparently gains
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