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To the extent my country is exceptional it is because we are a country of all people and none. The world made manifest. A nation of nations. A people united in truly radical ideas of freedom, equality, and justice for all. Any attempt to undo this is treason and also seeks to make us ordinary.
*tired, sick, cold, on the edge of sleep, coughing my lungs up; revelation hits me*
Rorschach and John Brown are the same Type of Guy!
*logs off, turns off phone, goes to sleep.*
Rorschach and John Brown are the same Type of Guy!
*logs off, turns off phone, goes to sleep.*
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 AM
*tired, sick, cold, on the edge of sleep, coughing my lungs up; revelation hits me*
Rorschach and John Brown are the same Type of Guy!
*logs off, turns off phone, goes to sleep.*
Rorschach and John Brown are the same Type of Guy!
*logs off, turns off phone, goes to sleep.*
In his Haiti series, @mikeduncan.bsky.social mentions that the average lifespan for a slave in what is today Haiti was 7 years. It was cheaper to just work people to death and buy new people. Knowing that alone makes the Haitian Revolution all too logical. & that's before the specific punishments.
King Cotton gets a lot of focus in the US, understandably so. It's what most of the South was growing after all.
But Sugar Plantations devoured human lives as a scale that boggles the mind, even if said mind is well acquainted with the horrors of a Cotton Plantation.
But Sugar Plantations devoured human lives as a scale that boggles the mind, even if said mind is well acquainted with the horrors of a Cotton Plantation.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 AM
In his Haiti series, @mikeduncan.bsky.social mentions that the average lifespan for a slave in what is today Haiti was 7 years. It was cheaper to just work people to death and buy new people. Knowing that alone makes the Haitian Revolution all too logical. & that's before the specific punishments.
These 3 panels are what's really sticking with me after finishing WATCHMEN. Adrian, the world's smartest man, has finally achieved his plan. Yet he has doubts, he asks Jon for reassurance and Jon just laughs. The man who can see atoms move and galaxies die tells him nothing ever ends.
February 9, 2026 at 7:13 AM
These 3 panels are what's really sticking with me after finishing WATCHMEN. Adrian, the world's smartest man, has finally achieved his plan. Yet he has doubts, he asks Jon for reassurance and Jon just laughs. The man who can see atoms move and galaxies die tells him nothing ever ends.
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like 35 percent of the population gaining suffrage seems as good a point as any
February 9, 2026 at 1:07 AM
like 35 percent of the population gaining suffrage seems as good a point as any
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It's hard to pin down the exact moment of shift but there is a very different understanding of how the government functions by the 1920s then there was in the 1880s.
February 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
It's hard to pin down the exact moment of shift but there is a very different understanding of how the government functions by the 1920s then there was in the 1880s.
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ooh yeah the 17th/19th amendments really do deserve an epoch changer designation
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
ooh yeah the 17th/19th amendments really do deserve an epoch changer designation
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I think you can argue for five: First Republic (before the 12th Amendment), Second Republic (up until the Civil War), Third Republic (Reconstruction Amendments), Fourth Republic (direct election of senators, women's suffrage, etc), Fifth Republic (post WWII).
February 9, 2026 at 12:44 AM
I think you can argue for five: First Republic (before the 12th Amendment), Second Republic (up until the Civil War), Third Republic (Reconstruction Amendments), Fourth Republic (direct election of senators, women's suffrage, etc), Fifth Republic (post WWII).
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I've certainly heard about the Civil War and Reconstruction Amendments as a 'second founding' but for whatever reason, maybe because he only served one term and left with Vietnam raging, LBJ's presidency is given the same treatment
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I've certainly heard about the Civil War and Reconstruction Amendments as a 'second founding' but for whatever reason, maybe because he only served one term and left with Vietnam raging, LBJ's presidency is given the same treatment
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I don't know if anyone has ever written a book arguing for the seperation of the United States into three or four sequential Republics, but you absolutely can -- and arguably should -- think of the country that way
I feel like the illusion of continuity through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, and the civil rights struggle is a weird kind of American exceptionalism. we are *not* in many deep and fundamental ways, the nation of the founders bsky.app/profile/amun...
We’re overdue for another Republic
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I don't know if anyone has ever written a book arguing for the seperation of the United States into three or four sequential Republics, but you absolutely can -- and arguably should -- think of the country that way
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realistically this is probably the end of our third republic, the first one worthy of being called a democracy. the question of whether we move into a fourth or not will define our lifetimes
February 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
realistically this is probably the end of our third republic, the first one worthy of being called a democracy. the question of whether we move into a fourth or not will define our lifetimes
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I feel like the illusion of continuity through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, and the civil rights struggle is a weird kind of American exceptionalism. we are *not* in many deep and fundamental ways, the nation of the founders bsky.app/profile/amun...
We’re overdue for another Republic
February 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I feel like the illusion of continuity through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, and the civil rights struggle is a weird kind of American exceptionalism. we are *not* in many deep and fundamental ways, the nation of the founders bsky.app/profile/amun...
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Tack on the Articles for Six.
I think you can argue for five: First Republic (before the 12th Amendment), Second Republic (up until the Civil War), Third Republic (Reconstruction Amendments), Fourth Republic (direct election of senators, women's suffrage, etc), Fifth Republic (post WWII).
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Tack on the Articles for Six.
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at the moment that frankly includes our hybrid regime
If you were to run down a list of all the things distinctive about the United States in contrast to Old World Europe, most of it is stuff we instead have in common with Latin America. That's not some woke novelty, it's a deeply embedded centuries-old aspect of our culture and national identity.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
at the moment that frankly includes our hybrid regime
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I am very curious how much it maps onto the decline of residuals
February 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I am very curious how much it maps onto the decline of residuals
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We gotta figure out how to make the celebs feel embarrassed about doing commercials again, man
February 9, 2026 at 12:40 AM
We gotta figure out how to make the celebs feel embarrassed about doing commercials again, man
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Unlimited Jihad on all gambling.
Unlimited Jihad on all gambling apps.
Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Unlimited Jihad on all gambling.
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Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.
Good god what a child
Good god what a child
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.
Good god what a child
Good god what a child
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Hmm wonder why this took so long for party/instotutional leadership to realize
Broadly, this admin is staffed with either total lickspittles or reactionary racists — they can’t actually fight on all fronts, they’re relying on capitulation. Its easy points to show you can and will fight, and the voting public wants conviction, not poll-tested triangulation on issues
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Hmm wonder why this took so long for party/instotutional leadership to realize
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Vote for me, and it will be.
“It’s not against the law to be male, and it shouldn’t be disqualifying to be Christian.”
This is 90% of the GOP platform: pretending that white Christian* men are society’s greatest victims.
*Evangelicals or weirdo converts to sects that don’t want them.
This is 90% of the GOP platform: pretending that white Christian* men are society’s greatest victims.
*Evangelicals or weirdo converts to sects that don’t want them.
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Vote for me, and it will be.
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man, that shit was just beautiful
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 AM
man, that shit was just beautiful
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All of Chris Hemsworths concerns struck me as well founded and his objections to the Alexa were cogent
so alexa will kill you horrifically? was that the gist?
February 9, 2026 at 2:31 AM
All of Chris Hemsworths concerns struck me as well founded and his objections to the Alexa were cogent
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I was so prepared to be insanely angry when the ad that licensed Won't You Be My Neighbor (which should be a federal crime) was nextdoor that I breathed an actual sigh of relief when it was just for mortgages
Welcome to You Will Never Guess Which Company's Logo Will Appear At The End Of This Short Film commercial day, even after you've seen it
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I was so prepared to be insanely angry when the ad that licensed Won't You Be My Neighbor (which should be a federal crime) was nextdoor that I breathed an actual sigh of relief when it was just for mortgages
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both the president and literally everyone else understand any statement of a moral principle -- any moral principal -- as a denunciation
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 AM
both the president and literally everyone else understand any statement of a moral principle -- any moral principal -- as a denunciation