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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 6m

Going to try to synthesize the research I’ve been doing the past few months into a thread, possibly split into multiple parts. Topic is Middle East policy under JFK and LBJ, though this contains many subtopics. Should be fun.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 30m

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15h

Bro

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 23h

The Mamdani's aunt thing is not because people don't understand that use of the word, or find it culturally alien. They know, for example, that Uncle Sam isn't a biological relative. There is an esoteric caucasian politico-cultural practice known as "throwing shit at a wall to see if it sticks" 1/85

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1d

After you’ve read enough about diplomacy and IR you just start to filter every interaction through that lens

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Japan’s having a bit of a moment rn

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if anyone has done this meme with: King Idris being overthrown in Libya->US Democracy on the rocks

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 2d

From a 2002 article entitled “the liberal quandary over Iraq” George Packer traces the rise and fall of what he terms the ‘Bosnia consensus’

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Moving to New York out of spite now

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d

Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely

elly belle @literElly
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hey full offense can people from out of state stop saying they'll move to new york immediately if zohran wins? I know a lot of you are joking but people whose families have been here for generations are already constantly being priced out, we don't need more mass gentrification
11:05 AM • 10/25/25 • 69 Views

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

You’re living in Coolidge’s America

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Reiterating this

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Dems seem to do well in years when Batman movies come out(1992, 2008, 2012)

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Still goated

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

It was the right set of circumstances. Today Congress’ approval is perennially low, and Americans look more to the White House for national problems to be solved.

Kotu @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 4d

The only person in the room who thinks he can win. Calling a Special Session of Congress remains a political masterstroke I'm surprised hasn't been replicated since.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Truman’s 48 convention speech definitely has to be watched. You get this folksy preacher vibe that I suspect was influenced by Truman having witnessed William Jennings Bryan, one of his heroes, deliver his speech at the democratic convention of 1900.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

That being said sometimes politicians have to engage in what can reasonably be called populist demagoguery(think Truman’s 48 campaign, as a historical example) because it plays well.

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

I emphatically agree, but this isn’t a 2025 thing lol

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Like for example you might find reference to the “Lebanese swamp” in discussions of Israel’s military entanglements there

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t think it was meant literally, just the usual American conception of the Korean war as a messy inconvenience to be memory holed

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of fun interactions like this sprinkled throughout daily life. The other day at my job a woman complimented my hair, then insisted “it’s because you’re mixed, right?”

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

The clerk(whose ethnicity I do not know only that the guy evidently believed she was Hispanic) said his name, and he told her to pronounce it differently cause “this is America, not mexico” and he went on about that for a while

The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Was in the DMV and this guy came in who reminded me of this character, with all his cartoonishly xenophobic quirks

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Accurate depiction of the hard hat riot, circa 1970

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Was in the DMV and this guy came in who reminded me of this character, with all his cartoonishly xenophobic quirks

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Super obscure Batman comic from the 90’s, called “The ugly American.” Basically this guy who signed up for a super soldier type program becomes a hyper aggressive ethnonationalist

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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Slopulist is a good one

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 5d

god i hate this type of slopulist ragebait

literally in their own link is the buried lede that only 2% of said homes are owned by Wall Street types, the rest are normal rental properties

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