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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 7h

I frankly don’t know what history is taught in us schools because I was a bad student and I don’t really remember much

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 7h

You’re posting about this instead of the tragedy of the penn state football team?

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 7h

The rock is the important part and they’re everywhere

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 7h

Boof

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 8h

Arthur Morgan was just casing the place!

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 8h

Third of all he bought an indulgence

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 8h

Second of all walaguigi only watched from the closest

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 8h

First of all how dare you

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 9h

Yah hence why I said extermination camp not concentration camp

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 9h

I think a notarized set of skull measurements should suffice

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 9h

The post you are responding to specifically mentions the extermination camps

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think it was 200 I think it was 12

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 9h

I’m an fdr guy

the maelstrom. At dinner on the twenty-ninth Stalin proposed that fifty thousand German officers be
"physically liquidated." The statement brought Churchill indignantly to his feet, saying: "I will not be a party to any butchery in cold blood.... I would rather be taken out now and shot than so disgrace my country." Roosevelt, ever eager to play the conciliator, interjected:
"I have a compromise to propose.
Not fifty thousand, but only forty-nine thousand should be shot."20

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 9h

the maelstrom. At dinner on the twenty-ninth Stalin proposed that fifty thousand German officers be
"physically liquidated." The statement brought Churchill indignantly to his feet, saying: "I will not be a party to any butchery in cold blood.... I would rather be taken out now and shot than so disgrace my country." Roosevelt, ever eager to play the conciliator, interjected:
"I have a compromise to propose.
Not fifty thousand, but only forty-nine thousand should be shot."20

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 10h

Tough read

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 10h

Incidentally I just read the account of a holocaust survivor of the camps (man’s search for meaning) and what most sticks with me is that they only executed 12 people at Nuremberg

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 10h

I would like there to be a hell

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 11h

More relevant than ever

The Most Irresponsible Officials In Washington DC
Are The 'Moderate' Republicans
By Josh Barro | Business Insider - 15 hours ago
Our government is a disaster because of a small group of Republicans who could break extremists' grip on their caucus' agenda, but choose not to.
Ken M
4 hours ago
I was just telling my students that today's Republicans can be likened to that perennial pest, the male wasp: haughty, yet servile.
Angry, yet asexual.
h 4 hours ago
#S%S you you dog liberal poisioning our young minds,..,its liberal pigs who hate America and want it to become another commy nation you jackass pig, #S%$ and I hope u see your maker soon,, pig #S%S you libsucks are
Ken M 4 hours ago
Vulgarity is the fool's fig leaf.
Comrade 4 hours ago
You're allowed to teach?
Ken M 3 hours ago
I teach a course called "Entomology & Ideology," two unrelated topics that were combined due to austerity measures

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 11h

The way Wall Street calculates risk is literally just historical variance isn’t it

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 12h

As is the faith and credit of the United States being backed by a crayon scrawled iou and still being investment grade

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 12h

The original big short guys almost lost their shirts despite being completely right

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 12h

No way Indianas coach stays there another year right

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 12h

The American peasantry cries out for napoleon iii

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 12h

It’s an old industry

tanks again this year." That in part reflected an enduring loyalty to the horse. "The idea of huge armies rolling along roads at a fast pace is a dream," Cavalry Journal warned in 1940, even after the German blitzkrieg signaled the arrival of mechanized warfare. "Oil and tires cannot like forage be obtained locally." The Army's cavalry chief assured Congress in 1941 that four well-spaced horsemen could charge half a mile across an open field to destroy an enemy machine-gun nest without sustaining a scratch.
"The motor-mad advocates are obsessed with a mania for excluding the horse from war," he told the Horse and Mule Association of Ameri-ca, four days before Pearl Harbor. The last Regular Army cavalry regiment would slaughter its mounts to feed the starving garrison on Bataan in the Philippines, ending the cavalry era not with a bang but with a dinner bell.

Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 13h

Hook them