speaking as someone who works with university repositories, i am desperate for you to name names

nah, it’s a super old hat, don’t feel silly. i only know bc i like baseball and lived in southern California.

like, hakeem sucks with or without the hat, but anyway. that’s what the hat is.

it’s a Dodgers hat! the logo is from when Jackie Robinson was on the Brooklyn Dodgers, before they relocated to LA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_...

are you entirely certain the orchids didn't kick the dirt out of their own pot....??

depends on the friend and the dream. like i told my college roommate (gay man) that i had a dream where we were forced to have sex for the survival of our species and that both our dream selves hated every second of it, which he laughed pretty hard at. if we had enjoyed the sex, i wouldn’ta told

right!! i’m struggling to wrap my head around how Moyn can claim to be a historian specializing in European history and yet seem to be either clueless or willfully ignorant to information covered in 100-level history classes.

if anything, American Empire is the true latecomer to the game, and spent the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries scrambling to prove it was as imperially significant as European powers, while simultaneously attempting to reject the title of empire whole-cloth.

it’s wild because Moyn’s dismissal of Italy/Germany as “latecomers” willfully ignores literal centuries of the power and influence of both states. Italy and the German States were OG powers long before England amassed its empire, and long before America existed at all.

yes exactly, and not just offspring of the HRE, but the direct descendants to the kingdom of Prussia, which had been greatly influential and amassed sizable territory in Europe over multiple centuries.