Patty
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Man, what was going on in that family?
Pezzullo has the answer. Can you guess it?
Man, what was going on in that family?
Pezzullo has the answer. Can you guess it?
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Man, what was going on in that family?
Pezzullo has the answer. Can you guess it?
Man, what was going on in that family?
Pezzullo has the answer. Can you guess it?
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This one is maybe petty to complain about, given some of the previous wild statements from this book, but Pezzullo's description of the Japanese attitude during the Nanking Massacre struck me as odd.
This one is maybe petty to complain about, given some of the previous wild statements from this book, but Pezzullo's description of the Japanese attitude during the Nanking Massacre struck me as odd.
![Screenshot of text. It reads "Some historians have posited that the Japanese belief in their own racial and cultural superiority allowed the invaders to justify their treatment of Chinese people. Iris Chang has written that, 'Teachers [in the 1930s] instilled in boys hatred and contempt for the Chinese people, preparing them psychologically for a future invasion of the Chinese mainland'."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o67ha6myyqnx4ndwx2yeoe6w/bafkreidtzgux4snxzw4ohff2vgdl73glbfw7dq4t6cyrimsktk2z7t3oky@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This one is maybe petty to complain about, given some of the previous wild statements from this book, but Pezzullo's description of the Japanese attitude during the Nanking Massacre struck me as odd.
This one is maybe petty to complain about, given some of the previous wild statements from this book, but Pezzullo's description of the Japanese attitude during the Nanking Massacre struck me as odd.
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Anyway, you know how the British and other Western trading powers took over Shanghai in the early 1900s? That was also the fault of Freemasonry.
Anyway, you know how the British and other Western trading powers took over Shanghai in the early 1900s? That was also the fault of Freemasonry.
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Anyway, you know how the British and other Western trading powers took over Shanghai in the early 1900s? That was also the fault of Freemasonry.
Anyway, you know how the British and other Western trading powers took over Shanghai in the early 1900s? That was also the fault of Freemasonry.
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And here's the rest of the page.
My thoughts: "Oh ....he's just going for straight-up racism, huh. Let me reread this page to check – nope, that's actually happening. Wow."
And here's the rest of the page.
My thoughts: "Oh ....he's just going for straight-up racism, huh. Let me reread this page to check – nope, that's actually happening. Wow."
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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And here's the rest of the page.
My thoughts: "Oh ....he's just going for straight-up racism, huh. Let me reread this page to check – nope, that's actually happening. Wow."
And here's the rest of the page.
My thoughts: "Oh ....he's just going for straight-up racism, huh. Let me reread this page to check – nope, that's actually happening. Wow."
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This is the next sentence.
My thoughts: "Okay, he's going to talk about how groups pushed out of mainstream society and refused access to legal avenues of success often turn to illegal means, right, right."
This is the next sentence.
My thoughts: "Okay, he's going to talk about how groups pushed out of mainstream society and refused access to legal avenues of success often turn to illegal means, right, right."
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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This is the next sentence.
My thoughts: "Okay, he's going to talk about how groups pushed out of mainstream society and refused access to legal avenues of success often turn to illegal means, right, right."
This is the next sentence.
My thoughts: "Okay, he's going to talk about how groups pushed out of mainstream society and refused access to legal avenues of success often turn to illegal means, right, right."
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A chapter later, when discussing two Irish Travellers who were arrested after stealing Chinese artifacts from a museum in England in 2012, I got to this sentence.
My thoughts: "All right, he's going to talk about the role of racism in Ireland and how it affects the Traveller population."
A chapter later, when discussing two Irish Travellers who were arrested after stealing Chinese artifacts from a museum in England in 2012, I got to this sentence.
My thoughts: "All right, he's going to talk about the role of racism in Ireland and how it affects the Traveller population."
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A chapter later, when discussing two Irish Travellers who were arrested after stealing Chinese artifacts from a museum in England in 2012, I got to this sentence.
My thoughts: "All right, he's going to talk about the role of racism in Ireland and how it affects the Traveller population."
A chapter later, when discussing two Irish Travellers who were arrested after stealing Chinese artifacts from a museum in England in 2012, I got to this sentence.
My thoughts: "All right, he's going to talk about the role of racism in Ireland and how it affects the Traveller population."
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...yup, Freemasonry. Definitely the most likely cause of the Opium Wars.
...yup, Freemasonry. Definitely the most likely cause of the Opium Wars.
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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...yup, Freemasonry. Definitely the most likely cause of the Opium Wars.
...yup, Freemasonry. Definitely the most likely cause of the Opium Wars.
3/ 20 pages (only 20 pages!!) in, I hit this line. An interesting question, to be sure! What DID cause the East India Company to be so indifferent to the moral horror of deliberately addicting millions of Chinese people to opium?
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
3/ 20 pages (only 20 pages!!) in, I hit this line. An interesting question, to be sure! What DID cause the East India Company to be so indifferent to the moral horror of deliberately addicting millions of Chinese people to opium?