Dr S Maitra
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Researcher. Realist. "Reactionary snob". “The Sources Of Russian Aggression” (2024, Lexington - Rowman & Littlefield). Solum Astutus Potest Vivere.
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Structural boundaries are not always good, tough, or unbreakable.
@nayibbukele
is a case study.
@amconmag
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This is an insanely partisan SOTU. It’s insane. Pretty much marking half the country as enemies.
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For this who don’t get the “bloody but unbowed” reference, it is from one of the greatest English, and Protestant, poems in English literature.
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@BlueBoxDave
@anangbhai
The New Right isn’t really noted for supporting the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, my friend.
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Exactly this.
Just watched the Joe Biden interview - he isn’t that much different than 6 months ago.
The all of a sudden media storm is phony. They knew he was like this years ago.
@GStephanopoulos
sat there and failed to fact check Biden (as usual) as he lied about Trump’s record.
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Fix graduate funding and scholarships, on merit, and not on ideology of the supervisors and selection committees.
Abolish compelled speech and DEI in grad school admissions.
How to fix academia:
-Reduce the flow of federal funds to universities
-Privatize the student loan market and make colleges partially responsible for student defaults
-Abolish DEI bureaucracies
-Wind down activist pseudo-disciplines
-Reform faculty hiring to restore ideological
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Remember, this guy took the place of some hardworking, smart Asian, at Harvard.
Letting a state with less than 1 million people have an equal say over who joins the SCOTUS as one with over 30 million doesn’t make sense.
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Most people will mistake this as an attempt to equate.
This is in reality an attempt to minimise the severity of pedophilia and simultaneously damaging parental rights more.
One can guess the logical conclusions.
Parents shouting at children can be as harmful as sexual or physical abuse, study finds
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I was watching the third season of The Wire, filmed during 2004, peak “liberals against Bush” era, and the overarching themes were, if only we stop policing and provide food and needle transfer and legalise drugs, things will be heavenly.
20 years on, guess what happened.
LA County public defender complains that police effort to confront retail theft rings “is going to create more cases for us,” and prefers resources be spent on “providing food, housing, and medical treatment” for the thieves.
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At one point we have to admit this is by design. Malice, not incompetence.
HiveMind in full flow. By the end of this, there will be tens of millions of “highly educated” people who “know” a bunch of things that are completely untrue.
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El Salvador is the 'only' success in Latin America in recent years, where outward migration has turned negative, jobs are stable, and current crime rate is equal to Luxembourg.
So, guess who wants to foment a Color Revolution?
I led Members of Congress in sending a letter to
@SecBlinken
urging action on threats to democracy in El Salvador.
The State Dept must review its relationship with El Salvador and defend democratic values. The Salvadoran people deserve free and fair elections without fear of
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Men would rather sink, burn, pillage, and plunder, and put the fear of all that's holy in the mind of their enemies...than go to therapy.
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Is this an "act of insurrection" against the state? I really want to know.
🚨 BREAKING: Antifa and pro-Palestinian activists are blocking a US military ship from loading weapons and supplies being sent to Israel.
This is at the Port of Tacoma in WA.
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This features, among others, Rory Stewart, Shami Chakrabarti, and that American classicist who said Cleopatra is African because her grandma told her that.
Witness Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
Produced by BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions, and featuring insights from
@holland_tom
&
@RoryStewartUK
, discover how an ambitious power-grab turned to tyranny.
9pm Mon 27 Nov |
@BBCTwo
@BBCiPlayer
|
#MadeByBBCStudios
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He died saving statues from being toppled by barbarians.
A genuine hero of our times.
Remembering Khaled al-Asaad, the heroic Syrian archaeologist who was murdered by ISIS on 18 August 2015 for refusing to give up the hidden treasures of Palmyra. 🙏
#OnThisDay
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It’s insane how the post-1998 muscle memory and institutional bias has made some people completely insane and unprepared for great power relations.
They think Russia is like Serbia, Iraq or Libya.
My god, imagine thinking a No Fly Zone in Ukraine—which would have entailed shooting down Russian aircraft and intercepting Russian missiles—would have been a panacea. This is downright laughable.
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They don’t make glorious things anymore because there’s no chasing glory by great men.
The Painted Hall - Old Royal Naval College, London. 🇬🇧.
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“Public health emergency” is the excuse for practically any form or totalitarianism. That’s the lesson from the last four years.
The right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in our Constitution precisely because this Governor thinks all of your rights are subservient to her lust for control. There is no obligation to comply with her illegal orders.
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The entire post-empire Britain has trained and shaped society to be cogs in the machine where the country looks like a giant floating hospital, with a city finance hub, and a couple of stray aircraft carriers. That's about it.
“There’s thousands of people about to qualify and no jobs for us so I don’t know how you’re invested in the workforce”
This nursing student tells the Conservatives’ Mark Harper that his party has “failed the NHS”
#bbcqt
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So many people were completely wrong about how effective the policy of bussing migrants from Texas and Florida would be.
JUST IN 🚨 After New York, Illinois is now under pressure due to migrant crisis. "The federal government's lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for Illinois," Gov. J. B. Pritzker wrote in a letter to Biden.
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Schrodinger's Great Power:
Russia is too weak to conquer Avdiivka, but too strong and we need to bleed our coffers dry to save Ukraine.
Nearly 2,000 replies saying the war in Ukraine is already over.
As we speak, Russia is struggling to conquer Avdiivka, a town with a population of less than 35,000, even as Ukrainian forces run out of bullets.
Russia has been trying to take Avdiivka since 2014!
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This person had Yazidi slaves and was fine with human beheadings and joined ISIS on her own in an age of Google. It’s abhorrent.
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@BorisNorris47
@holland_tom
She’s not “our” responsibility. The criminal faces justice in the land she commits crime according to the law of the land. She is a modern Irma Grese but only this time with mag cover instead of a noose.
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It’s actually good that these people are showing the world what they really mean by the academic sounding words.
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Huge opportunity for all the Neocons and NAFO freaks on this site. Go wild, lads.
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The entire thread essentially says that
1. US spent billions to eradicate opium thread, and involve women in the process. That failed.
2. Taliban did it by sheer brutality. With zero women. And that succeeded. And that’s apparently bad.
Thread - A BBC investigation in
#Afghanistan
has found a dramatic drop in opium poppy cultivation after the Taliban's ban on it.
@Imo_Anderson
@sanjayganguly
& I went to multiple provinces & remote areas, in some parts farmers complied, where they defied, opium fields destroyed.
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I don’t have to defend
@GoodwinMJ
as a fellow Uni of Nottingham man, but he’s one of the bravest man I know in contemporary British academia, alongside
@jtworr
and
@NigelBiggar
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Profiled Matt Goodwin for
@TheNewEuropean
– how a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”
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If this doesn’t bother you then you really don’t know what’s actually going on.
Disturbing 🚨🔔‼️
Non-binary Jeffrey Marsh, who uses TikTok to try and push Gender Ideology on teens just posted a video saying he coaches Teens to ‘cut off contact with parents’
Why? Because without parental protection Gender Ideology can be pushed on kids!
@againstgrmrs
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"Soviet Man" was apparently "God-fearing", according to the manosphere online right.
🇷🇺 The New Soviet Man was muscular, selfless, God-fearing, learned and enthusiastic in spreading Communism.
🇺🇸 The American liberal man is fat, atheistic, porn-addicted, transgender, and spreading the work mind virus.
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Restoring order by a legitimate leader isn’t “authoritarian” it’s the most basic function of statesmanship that would have been recognised by any one in the preceding 6000 years of human governance and history.
TIME's new cover: How Nayib Bukele's "iron fist" has transformed El Salvador
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Maitra’s Law.
The U.S. May Need to Maneuver Around NATO Article 5
President Trump was right: We should not automatically protect an ally actively courting a nuclear showdown
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@MrMaitra
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Lol this is amazing...
The imagery has... left diplomats, Western journalists & advocacy groups in a difficult position: Calling attention to the iconography risks playing into Russian propaganda.
Saying nothing allows it to spread.
Essential
@Tmgneff
on Nazi-linked imagery
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There will be a concerted effort to portray that this was due to lack of material, weapons and cash. It’s not. It’s manpower.
Ukraine's retreat from Avdiivka, where troops said they were up against 7 Russian brigades, outnumbered 1 to 15. At Munich, Zelensky said troops were hamstrung by lack of weapons: “Our dear friends are ... keeping Ukraine in an artificial deficit"
Wounded now being treated:
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This makes total sense when you realise that a lot of journalists consider newspapers to be propaganda mediums in a state funded soviet model.
And rich patrons are just means to spread the good word of the party or the cause.
"$77 million is a meaningful loss for pretty much any company, let alone a newspaper. It is not, however, a meaningful loss for a newspaper that is owned by Jeff Bezos. $77 million is roughly 0.04 percent of Bezos’ $201.3 billion fortune."
Read this one:
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I would have been fine with a pure imbecilic propaganda. But both Napoleon, and History as a discipline, deserves better than whatever I watched.
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Singlehandedly trying to normalise post dinner Sherry in the US.
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The US Congress will increasingly start looking like the United Nations, with various people shouting about liberation of “their” land, and loyalty.
Ilhan Omar delivers a shrieking address to Congress to defend fellow Squad member and embattled Palestine First activist, Rashida Tlaib:
"Rashida will stand strong, and the Palestinian movement will continue for liberation until every single Palestinian has the right to live in
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Ridley Scott is going full Napoleon by going to war with everybody all at once.
Ridley Scott responds to negative comments from French critics about ‘NAPOLEON’.
“The French don’t even like themselves.”
(Source: )
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Study history, kids. Else you’d end up like this.
Putin is evil. Prigozhin is evil. May they destroy one another. The only future for russia is demilitarization, denuclearization, and decolonization
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Area atheist shocked that post-religious society isn't egalitarian and rational, but increasingly neo-feudal, animist, and pagan in values and aesthetics.
How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?
I was about to start work on this commission, when in came an email from Twitter. They’d received a complaint that the following tweet violated their standards.
“Sex is not the same as gender.” But it’s
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It is pretty blatant just how rapid the media turned against Biden when they knew he wasn’t winning but is back to old habits now.
If people question whether there is bias in media, you should watch this clip. When the answers given by the subject of the interview do not match the narrative which the network would like to advance, the anchor terminates the interview using as an excuse that the subject’s time
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Imagine saying this unironically.
“Poland is going back to democracy, after having an election organised by fascists”.
That's it.
With 70% counted and the outstanding vote likely favoring the opposition, the race is over. The democratic opposition is almost certain to have a majority.
Forming a coalition will not be easy. Serious challenges remain.
But Poland is on the path back to democracy.
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Everyone should read 'The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'.
To see how elite virtue signaling, mindless idealism, forgotten memories of the last total great power war, and hysteria can be an extremely toxic combination.
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@charlescwcooke
I often wonder whether the blatant gaslighting comes from idiocy, or incompetence, or purely a sort of informational hegemonic power play.
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This makes me murderously angry in a way I cannot explain.
#BREAKING
Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.
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The lesson from Thucydides isn't just "great power conflict" but warning against overstretch, stupid wars of choice in faraway regions, hubris, and most importantly, the dangers of mass democracy unleashing uncontrollable public passions aided by smooth-talking idealists.
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Hard to come to any other conclusion than that a significant number of these people genuinely don’t care about the American border and would rather defend someone else’s country far far away.
The implication of that is very dark.
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Absolutely outstanding piece from
@arisroussinos
on what I consider an emerging theme. That mass democracy in general and liberal democracy in particular are fleeting peculiar conditions of the late 19th and early 20th century. And that’s coming to an end.
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Always remember that one weak, failed, envious student radical with a chip on his shoulder, and one small country chain-ganged a continent to war and wrecked one of the most beautiful civilizations from its position of global rule, from which they practically never recovered.
RIGHT NOW in 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie are fatally shot in Sarajevo by a 19-year-old Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. The incident touches off a diplomatic crisis that plunges Europe into war.
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Iran is a malign actor.
But ignoring Qatar has a very “Al Qaeda originated in Saudi Arabia but we should invade Iraq” feel to it.
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Britain should seek reparations from the third world for all the expenditures on roads, railways, schools, architecture, archaeology, investment in sea exploration, discoveries, medicine research and the cumulative life saved over two centuries, and their social effects.
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Unhinged nonsense. Amazing that this idiot keeps spouting such interminable dross without any counter.
A country that cannot take over the whole Donbas isn’t going to have its tanks in Poland or Belgium. Threat is intention plus capability. Russia is incapable of Euro-hegemony.
"We are fighting … a nuclear state that threatens to destroy the world,” says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“If Ukraine falls, what will happen in ten years? ... If [the Russians] reach Poland, what’s next? A third world war?”
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No man has shaped the world as we know as Henry Kissinger: withdrawal from Vietnam, Sino-Soviet Split, Arab Israel detente, and others.
His PhD thesis is one of the best on Concert of Europe and Metternich.
RIP to a true legend. A man of 19th century, who shaped the 20th.
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Someone tell this imbecile that Reagan was called an appeaser by neocons for his Iceland summit with the Soviets, as well as when he moved troops out of Lebanon.
I love that half MAGA Macho Man accounts on here think a good approach to foreign policy is “never contest anything Russia does because they have nuclear weapons.”
Imagine telling Ike or Reagan 🙄
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A sitting US Congressman showing loyalty wearing a foreign military uniform, opposing a sitting US Congresswoman displaying fealty to a foreign flag is the perfect encapsulation of American foreign policy.
As the only member to serve with both the United States Army and the Israel Defense Forces, I will always stand with Israel.
Tlaib’s got her flag. I got my uniform. “Global Day of Rage” my ass.
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This is not historical analysis.
This is slam poetry.
3/11. Fascism is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
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You can be an ambassador and teach at a top Uni without ever truly grasping the idea of “asymmetry of interest”.
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@TimesRadio
@pollymackenzie
@Dannythefink
@MattChorley
Our genius protagonist here suffers from a slight disadvantage. She seems to not understand that intellect and cognition are not the same thing.
Also we have clearly too much democracy. Idiots shouldn’t vote.
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This shouldn't be the job of the US government, nor funded by US taxpayers.
Great to be here in Budapest with
@USAmbHungary
where
@USAID
just relaunched new, locally-driven initiatives to help independent media thrive and reach new audiences, take on corruption and increase civic engagement.
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Federal government letting States decide is authoritarian according to Bill Kristol. Federal government with unlimited war powers is not authoritarian.
Trump's waffling on abortion could help him politically in the short term. But it could hurt him if people understand this is classic authoritarianism. (See Eco on Ur-Fascism.) If Trump were sincerely pro-life, that'd be one thing. It's the authoritarianism that is so dangerous.
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@realchrisrufo
" Promoting something bad, or not doing anything about it: Not stoking the culture war.
Noticing patterns, and doing something about it by legislation: Stoking the culture war. "
Try to catch up, Chris.
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More than unhinged, it’s absurd. Britain cannot face Russia “directly” and all Western Europe means by “We” is the U.S.
"We need to face Russia directly" Tobias Ellwood UK MP. An act that would lead to millions killed. This is unhinged.
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Time to reconquer and liberate Brittany and Normandy, Your Majesty.
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Midwit surprised that "staying out of conflicts that's none of our business" is back in vogue...practiced, among others, by,
Washington:
Grant:
and
TR:
Vance on foreign conflicts: Sometimes, it is just none of our business and we ought to stay out of it.
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The last thing we should therefore do, is what the Soviets did...continue to take the security burden of small "allies", overstretch in theaters that are not core strategic interests, go insolvent, implode and collapse.
And yet, other than FP realists, not many point that out.
A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?
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When I was a TA during my PhD, there was a unwritten rule that you can't fail them...even when they quite literally wrote a paragraph in their entire term paper.
I still have screenshots, I will write about the corruption someday when I have time.
Some universities are so desperate for overseas fees that they are accepting Chinese students without basic English-language skills.
@samdunningo
: 👇
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Why not mention who killed them and the why was that person on the streets of Nottingham?
May we remember and celebrate the lives of Barnaby Webber, Grace Kumar and Ian Coates.
Nottingham lost three wonderful and cherished members of our community.
My heart goes out to all who loved them. May they rest in peace.
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I reviewed her book, one of the most instructive windows to the mind of the type of people who are in charge of FP. A severely damaged and deranged individual with massive, massive emotional issues.
This is why US empire must be disavowed by American patriots and left to be displaced by foreign powers asserting sovereignty over their own lands
Its foreign policy is driven by vicious, arrogant women who have *zero* accountability for their behavior
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When was the last time FP Realists were this hyped about a top ticket?
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How more explicit a data point do we need that one cannot solve mass-migration unless one is willing to go against the entire post-1945 human rights order, that was meant for a different world and is obsolete now.
A foreigner who beat a man to death in the back of an ambulance cannot be deported from the UK because it might affect “his mental health” under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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As Teddy Dalrymple said, some of this is pure powerplay. You know it’s wrong and downright evil but you can’t do anything as it’s rubbed in your face.
Rachel Levine: “Medicine and science are being politically perverted around the country — this destroys human lives
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Every Victorian horror literature had a mad scientist with a chip on his shoulder as a main villain.
Read more, instead of watching movies.
You know it's true…
Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.
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Peter Hitchens was correct and this tells you everything you need to know about NATO. If the Gramscian eurocommunists support something, then it’s not “conservative” by definition.
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Reminder.
That Kamala Harris was the “border czar”.
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