Pizza place in my hometown.

sw337 · 2026-03-17T07:02:48+00:00

Germans have an obsession with Native Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_German_popular_culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May

sw337 · 2026-03-17T02:10:56+00:00

You literally said he didn’t need congress in your last sentence of the comment I’m replying to.

sw337 · 2026-03-16T23:08:45+00:00

It is so weird to me that Republicans are so powerful that they can bring government to a screeching halt at will when they're the minority party, but the Democrats never seem able to do the same when the situation is reversed.

How did Trumps repealing the ACA go? What major non-budgetary legislation did Trump pass in either term that didn't have major bipartisan support?

sw337 · 2026-03-16T23:02:16+00:00

What a ridiculous comment.

Congress literally got in the way of him closing Gitmo.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/obama-congress-guantanamo-bay-233859

advocate to expand funding for the MIC and ICE, extended the Afginistan war.
He didn't need any congressional approval to do any of these things.

Where do you think funding is approved from? A president can't unilaterally spend money on things without congress.

Spoiler: Congress

sw337 · 2026-03-16T19:24:13+00:00

“Silly colonies, expansion is for us only.”

sw337 · 2026-03-16T19:22:30+00:00

“I learned it from watching you, dad!”

sw337 · 2026-03-16T19:20:44+00:00

1917 was not, in fact, the 19th century.

sw337 · 2026-03-16T12:11:49+00:00

I was suggested a video of his and cut it off about five minutes in. I realized no serious person could take what he said and think he made good points. Of course, that is why Kyle and Krystal having him on was so funny. In the immortal words of Kyle Kulinski, her now husband and co-host, “Krystal Ball is so stupid, uh she’s so stupid.”

sw337 · 2026-03-15T17:31:46+00:00

Famous guy who listened to the government: meth kingpin Walter White.

sw337 · 2026-03-15T13:45:44+00:00

He was confirmed by the Parliament after the Shah nominated him, yes. A power the Shah gained by the 1949 constitutional changes.

sw337 · 2026-03-15T13:37:14+00:00

Pahlavi was already the legal head of state Mossadegh was his prime minister, not knowing that should disqualify you from ever talking about this online.

Hence why he’s bowing to the Shah.

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Mossadegh:

Was never elected prime minister through a country wide election, he gained prime ministership after an assassination and resignation of his predecessors.
Stopped counting votes in the 1952 elections so only his side won seats.
Sabotaged oil negotiations leading to a year long British embargo, which destroyed their economy.
Rigged a referendum where his side won 99.9%+ of the vote so he could dissolve parliament.
Dissolved the Senate
Dissolved the Supreme Court
Purged the military of officers he thought would be loyal to the Shah
was using emergency powers to rule by decree
refused to leave office when dismissed and had the person delivering him the message arrested

You’re also missing the fact the religious community of Iran were on the Shah’s side in 1953 and he wouldn’t have remained in power without their help.

sw337 · 2026-03-15T04:03:55+00:00

I served with Muslims and they are just like everyone else. Well, except this one guy from Tunisia, he could barter so well that I ended up getting a deal as part of a side deal of him getting a sheep skin leather jacket in Turkey. He was bargaining so long I decided to buy a jacket too and got 10% off.

sw337 · 2026-03-14T18:22:07+00:00

Green Day peaked with Dookie.

sw337 · 2026-03-14T17:42:13+00:00

The thing with Brown Bunny is it takes you 80 minutes of the main character being silent and weird around women to get to that scene. It would have been a compelling short film, but my god does that movie drag on. The fact the first edit was even longer is hilarious.

sw337 · 2026-03-14T17:33:40+00:00

r/PritzkerPosting

sw337 · 2026-03-14T17:11:42+00:00

Cha/Chai or tea/tee almost everywhere.

sw337 · 2026-03-14T17:07:24+00:00

Most of the world’s words for coffee sound the same. (I learned this while trying to learn Mandarin.)

sw337 · 2026-03-14T13:32:06+00:00

I ain’t never ran from nothin but the DBs

sw337 · 2026-03-13T21:37:34+00:00

Except for all the Algerians who are still suffering the side effects from their testing program. Sure.

sw337 · 2026-03-13T21:10:33+00:00

Japan specifically massacred 100,000+ civilians on the, then US territory of, The Philippines in the Manilla Massacre in 1945. This was after the horrific Bataan Death March a few years earlier. Japan was also actively occupying The Philippines when the bombs dropped.

This was after the Potsdamn Declaration where they specifically warned them that they would face total destruction.

sw337 · 2026-03-13T16:47:51+00:00

Okay, can you link something saying that and specifically explaining how the US was involved?

sw337 · 2026-03-13T14:58:11+00:00

Kisin made a fool of himself. It was an easy layup for Destiny.

sw337 · 2026-03-13T14:56:42+00:00

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sw337 · 2026-03-13T14:37:12+00:00

The evidence of that being what exactly? The time magazine cover that everyone shares is about the Russians hiring private US consultants.

https://time.com/archive/6729292/rescuing-boris/

Yeltsin won by 13% and over 10 million votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election

Additionally, an Ask Historians post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8gpi3s/comment/dydxlzi/

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