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That better be 5 oz of pure espresso
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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And has he ever held a baseball bat?
July 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Pro tip: go thru Santa Ana next time
June 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I don’t know if you’ve done these things already, but hopefully helpful to someone?
June 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Big Fish
June 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Why didn’t the liberals and the anti-Nazi conservatives unite to stop Hitler? The answer will not make you feel great about today’s Democratic Party.
Ryback, focussing on the self-entrapped German conservatives, generally avoids the question that seems most obvious to a contemporary reader: Why was a coalition between the moderate-left Social Democrats and the conservative but far from Nazified Catholic Centrists never even seriously attempted? Given that Hitler had repeatedly vowed to use the democratic process in order to destroy democracy, why did the people committed to democracy let him do it? Many historians have jousted with this question, but perhaps the most piercing account remains an early one, written less than a decade after the war by the émigré German scholar Lewis Edinger, who had known the leaders of the Social Democrats well and consulted them directly—the ones who had survived, that is—for his study. His conclusion was that they simply “trusted that constitutional processes and the return of reason and fair play would assure the survival of the Weimar Republic and its chief supporters.” The Social Democratic leadership had become a gerontocracy, out of touch with the generational changes beneath them. The top Social Democratic leaders were, on average, two decades older than their Nazi counterparts.
May 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM