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Doc Revan

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Chair of the Malachor V Institute on Posting Madness The Dark Side of the Posts is a pathway to many replies some consider to be unnatural. This medicine can’t fix stab. Not a real doctor or Sith Lord

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Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 32m

The thing about the song that’s hilarious in Internet Discourse is it’s essentially Boomers complaining life isn’t as good as the Greatest Generation folks had it, because generational gripes are perpetual and cyclical

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 28m

People claimed the phenomena documented in 1982’s Allentown and 1984’s My Hometown are the fault of Bill Clinton, NAFTA, and the WTO

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 32m

a cartoon of a man holding a microphone

ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a microphone

media.tenor.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 33m

We do also have to give credit to Billy Joel

“Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line”

Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 36m

The thing to remember about Allentown is Billy Joel released it in the early 2000s after China was admitted to the WTO, several years after he’d allegedly quit making popular music

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 35m

The ghost of Ned Ludd still stalks these hills

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 36m

Yeah what a lot of people want is the 2019 service economy with cheap prices! But also they absolutely will hate you for saying that really is what they want.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 38m

Exposure to a popular Chinese sport

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 40m

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows
And vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody
Wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill
Across the railroad tracks
Foreman says, "These jobs are going, boys
And they ain't coming back
To your hometown”

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 9h

everything is actually shirts and skins, people's positions are dictated entirely by what groups they're members of and what other groups those groups are fighting with, and we just rationalize the results

-- an exaggerated version of a true statement

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 42m

You should have just all listened to Bruce when he told you this 40 years ago

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 43m

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Their top 10 are:

Rory Gallagher
Joe Bonamassa
Gary Moore
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Walter Trout
Clapton
BB King
Hendrix
Peter Green
Joanne Shaw Taylor

Somehow Muddy Waters is only 12th

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HELL-azear @lazear.bsky.social · 1h

Bad bunny has the potential to do the funniest troll ever by performing "proud to be an American".

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 1h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Going to ask for @golikehellmachine.com’s take

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 23h

lmao a list of the top 20 blues artists of all time where the top 5 are all white guys... hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/...

The Top 20 Greatest Blues Artists of All Time

Here at Planet Rock, our resident blues expert Bernard Doherty brings you the...

hellorayo.co.uk

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Say goodbye to your afternoon

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1h

The "Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet" aspect of this REALLY speaks to me. Like, this man just needed to let a map POUR out of him and used whatever piece of paper was closest.

The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 1h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

"pinko" is a slur for a socdem, not a communist. get your own bizarre red scare history right americans

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Ana @nekomimi.pet · 1h

holy shit lmao

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

kjetilkringlebotten.substack.com/p/lutheran-p...

Lutheran priests

Yes, we do have priests, not justs pastors or ministers

kjetilkringlebotten.substack.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

For all their presence in American politics, Baptists are a rounding error in terms of worldwide Christianity

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

It’s really only in the US and a couple of other countries where the dominant sects are not in that list

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Looks like this is an Anglosphere vs European fight (for pastor vs priest in Lutheranism)

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Depends on the individual country apparently

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

It’s really only in the US and a couple of other countries where the dominant sects are not in that list

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 1h

The only chart I want to see you pouring over is a route tree yong man, now give me 8 step dig 2 on 2

Trip S. Dagger @jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 1h

put the charts down, son. pick up the football.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

I mean it’s also the standard term in Orthodoxy, the Churches of the East, Anglicanism, and Lutheranism; and that covers about 1.8 billion of the 2.5 billion Christians

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · 1h

Things that were expensive will suddenly be cheap or free, but all of a sudden any debt you might have will be much more expensive!

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