Miles Smith IV
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Historian of the South and the Atlantic World; college prof; lover of sports-ball; Carolinian always, Michigander by choice.
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Remember when we were trying to cancel Joe Rogan for no real reason whatsoever? That was 87 years ago.
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The sitting president said Mitt Romney was going to re-enslave Black people.
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If people are tired of the Roe celebrations I’m happy to move on to civic penalties for biological fathers who abandon pregnant women.
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I grew up in a conservative Protestant household in small town North Carolina and have healthy relationships with my parents whose views on religion I largely agree with. Please join me for a podcast that no one will listen to called "Im from the Bible Belt and Im fine."
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The reason slavery ended in 1865 and not in say 1900 or 1950 was because the Electoral College allowed a guy who won 37.5 percent of the popular vote to become president.
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Incredible to me that there exist a R governor in his 40s who got Saddam Hussein numbers in his last election, turned a purple state red, implements policy after policy that conservatives want, and a plurality of R primary voters are desperate for a guy who hawks steaks.
Florida’s Board of Education announces rule that bars public colleges from using state and federal funds for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, activities and policies.
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Me: I’m a pretty convinced Anglophile.
[sees British police tweets]
Also me: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...
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Texas is the size of France. Montana is the size of Germany. Hungary is the size of Tennessee. The entire land mast of Great Britain is about the same area as Colorado. The 11 states of the old Confederacy are roughly the same size as Western Europe. You get the picture.
The average person in the United Kingdom has visited 10 countries. On average, Germans have been to eight, and the average French person has traveled to five. Only 29% of Americans have even been abroad.
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The increasingly common tendency of the civilian government creating crisis after crisis only to use the military to bail itself out is probably not healthy for republican governance.
U.S. troops in Ramstein, Germany are preparing 78k pounds of specialty infant formula for shipment to the United States tomorrow through Operation Fly Formula.
POTUS prioritized this formula because it's in high need in the U.S.
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It is my non-expert opinion that many countries around the world should be terrified of the United States and its military, that many countries currently are not, and that that is a problem.
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There are about a dozen or more towns in Michigan that are absolutely stunning and have a higher standard of living than 80% of Western Europe but American faux sophisticates basically respond to anything in the Midwest with "ew flyover country" no matter how great it is.
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This isn't true. Statistically they're the least sexually active generation maybe ever, and the idea that they're particularly entitled materially seems cartoonish, given they routinely live with fewer possessions in smaller homes than preceding generations.
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Waiting for the official word on whether a majority-Muslim community pushing social conservatism in public schools is Christian nationalism or not…
On Monday, a Dearborn Public Schools board meeting in Michigan was shut down as hundreds of Muslims protested the use of LGBTQ books. They held up signs in Arabic & English referencing they are in the majority & that homosexuality is sin.
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I dont have a ton of strong feelings about Columbus Day but I've read enough history of Pre-Columbian Meso-America and the Caribbean to know that if you're **REALLY** bothered by Columbus' legacy you should also probably be **REALLY** bothered that the Aztecs ever existed.
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My mother insisted I not attend an Evangelical college. "You'll hate me, yourself, or Christianity by the time you're done."
I think about that a lot these days.
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I cant imagine a more convincing way to alienate the normal citizenry from the armed forces than to hire a PR firm to cook up a replacement for "Duty Honor Country" with "army values."
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How on earth Westerners seem completely uninterested in Mao is beyond me. He’s as great a monster as Hitler and we can’t summon up 1/100th the disdain for him that we have for the Nazis. Just weird to me.
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On his 72nd birthday, its important to remember that--not joking--Phil Collins is the most important collector of Alamo and Texas Revolution artifacts who has ever lived.
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John Quincy Adams was Secretary of State for eight years and also US minister to Great Britain, the Netherlands, Prussia, and Russia in a diplomatic career that over three decades...but sure.
PBS reporter to Joe Biden: "You have more foreign policy experience than any president who has ever held this office."
#Journalism
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The Constitution works fine. The bad news—and no one wants to hear this— is that large swaths of the electorate have abandoned the civil, social, and religious commitments needed to maintain republican self-government.
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Some personal news: I’ve worked as a permanent lecturer for the last couple years. The College has been gracious enough to move me in to a tenure line. I’m grateful to the College, to the Provost, to my dept chair, and to Dr Arnn more than I express in words.
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It is an unironic good for US society that someone who drives a minivan will be in the Upper echelons of the US govt.
NEW: Judge Amy Coney Barrett and her large family left their Indiana home this afternoon dressed up for a special occasion. Our
@GaryGrumbach
on the scene for us. Announcement at 5pm at WH for Supreme Court nomination.
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That wild Bison were extant in modern West Virginia, western Virginia, and NC until ca 1830 will never cease to amaze me.
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Hello Im a conservative Protestant voter worried about border security, the economy, and education.
MAGA:
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Why on earth would the CDC add a vaccine of debatable efficacy to a schedule of shots given to the demographic least likely to have serious infection?
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Funny story: if you make the liberal arts about the beautiful things humans do and have done, instead of making them about why people everyone before you sucks and why human society needs to be burned down, people will take the classes.
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I aM ConCErNeD aBOuT ChRiStIAn naTiONaLiSM”
President Biden quotes from the Book of Isaiah before a moment of silence for service members:
“When the Lord says, ‘Who shall I send?’ … The American military has been answering for a long time, ‘Here I am, Lord. Send me.’”
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Reminder that if Scotland were a US state, it would be the poorest US state and have a lower standing of living per capita than Mississippi.
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The Archbishop should clean the altar off and celebrate this Sunday. Not kidding. Would be a better statement about how Notre Dame is about more than the finery of “western” “civilization.”
Crazy photo of the altar inside Notre Dame, by Reuters' Philippe Wojazer
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When you hear sensational statements made about how weak the American military has become it’s worth remembering that the rest of the world combined has about 20 or so ships the size of the one on the left. We have ten of those…and twelve of the ones on the right.
I flew from the one on the left. It seemed small even then!
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It’s only Christian nationalism if it’s from the conservative evangelical region of Christianity. Otherwise it’s just sparkling politically engaged liberal Protestantism.
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One thing Queen Elizabeth II and I shared was a real affection for the preaching of Sinclair Ferguson, which will never not be cool to me.
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Why should be schools be teaching ANY views on sexuality to seven year olds? And why is this partisan?
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It would be good if scholars of religion and history considered that views they assume are “white” “evangelical” are actually shared—enthusiastically—by the 8+ million plus member majority black Church of God in Christ.
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Emmett Till’s lynching and torture is one of the best documented cases of overt racialized violence against African Americans in US history. It’s shut and dry. Real southerners, real conservatives, and real southern conservatives have no compunctions stating these obvious facts.
@KarolusWangus
@WASPmexicano
I’m not doubting that he was lynched.
I’m skeptical of the assertion that it was wholly unprovoked, or as thoroughly driven by racism as is claimed.
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This is a euphemism for "asking the military to ignore civilian control."
A network of public interest groups and lawmakers, nervous about former President Trump’s potential return to power, is quietly devising plans to foil any effort on his part to pressure the U.S. military to carry out his political agenda.
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Destroying the images of two of the greatest women in the modern era; nice job everyone.
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[sniffs glue]
Oh yah. The mood of the country is def going in the direction of the pedantic cowards who get a dopamine rush from forcibly masking 8 year olds.
So much for the silly narrative that Youngkin was some normal R. As
@TerryMcAuliffe
predicted, he's brought DeSantis anti-mask nuttery to VA. Now at war with several school districts. He's only been in office a few days. Hey, VA this is what you voted for. Best of luck.
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say the four year period where 800,000 men died horrible deaths in a fratricidal war was the most fraught time in the history of the republic.
Ken Burns: This Is The Most Fraught Time In The History Of Our Republic
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Right now there is an unruly house. And there is a King Charles. Maybe we need to think outside the box. Just saying…
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“Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives…”
Sola Deo Gloria
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Sometimes I wonder if people just stopped and appreciated what a wonderful place the US of A is to live and be a citizen of, we'd all be a lot happier.
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If Britain were a US state its per capita wealth would put it at 49, between Alabama and Mississippi.
West Virginia has a per capita income higher than Shanghai, the richest Chinese city.
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Russell Moore and the socially climbing Nashville set is awfully quiet this morning...
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"The only way to be consistent about legally forcing a woman to carry a child to term is to force legally the father to carry out paternal duties..."
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The anti-urbanism on the right has quite frankly gotten ridiculous. Plenty of Christian people lead healthy lives in cities. Not everywhere is NYC or San Fran.
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BTW for those who are interested in things like this: today is chronologically farther away from the Pearl Harbor attack than 7 Dec 1941 was from the surrender at Appomattox.
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I can’t imagine a more uncontroversial opinion among pro-lifers than “force some trash dude who abandoned a pregnant woman to take financial care of her and the baby.” So I’m not sure why people think it’s a a gotcha policy.
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There’s a sort of socio-intellectual pleading among Christian academics that can only conceive of supporting pro-life causes if they’re accompanied by the implementation of a progressive welfare state.
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Update: your anecdotal experience with whatever redneck fundyism you grew up in doesn’t give you license to make wholesale judgements about Christianity in the United States.
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Impossible to not be impressed by this.
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Just a hunch but I dont think anyone--left or right--is ready for just how fast politics will change **back** to a less weird equilibrium once Trump is gone. If you're building institutions--left or right--based on the Trump disruption, you're not playing a smart long game.
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Really could use prayers as I deal with the political disagreements that inevitably come with our family Thanksgiving. My uncle is a pretty convinced non-juror who remains loyal to James II/VII and I’m reconciled to the Orangist settlement so it’s just going to be rough.
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It’s still a good thing when millions of people hear the Gospel even if the messenger isn’t your favorite guy.
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Why don’t you just say “I hate where I grew up, who I grew up with, and I wish they didn’t exist because they don’t conform to the neoliberal utopia that centrist Evangelicalism offers.”
Where are America’s most dangerous political radicals? Rallying in churches, by the thousands, in city after city. In church after church. The seeds for the next insurrection are being sown by the MAGA Christian nationalists. Right before our eyes:
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Its like all the “capitalism set the ocean on fire“ people don’t know that between 1960 and 2000 the Soviets literally disappeared a lake larger than West Virginia and forget that people wear breathing mask daily in the PRC because the air is toxic.
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This is, in fact, what the founding fathers intended.
Mike Johnson says he believes the founding fathers intended to keep government out of religion, not the other way around.
"The separation of church and state is a misnomer, people misunderstand it."
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Early eugenists were scholarly men from Ivy League institutions and the most prestigious universities in Europe. They were careful, and reflective. And monstrously wrong.
No one who holds a scholarly opinion, hard won from years of careful research and reflection, is a “wolf.”
Just, stop it.
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Boomer dispensationalists trying to find where Iran figures in to the Book of Revelations
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Again, every time you hear this, its an allusion to mid 20th Century Southern Baptists. Presbyterians like William Childs Robinson, L Nelson Bell, Andrew Jumper were screaming about abortion in the 60s, and as far back as the 1830s "Evangelicals" lined up against it.
Evangelicals until the late 1970s didn't oppose abortion.
In a 1968 statement, they all agreed it was permissible in some contexts, including "social responsibility" and "to maintain full and secure family life."
Some of them even supported Roe and applauded the Supreme Court
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I’m sure there is going to a be a centrist. “It’s inappropriate to celebrate” take lol get outta here I’m dancing on Roe’s grave.
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Now do Philando Castile.
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Reading about how much young men had to be educated in 1805 for merely their *college entrance exams* and feel like a complete fraud having a PhD.
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As Berlin prepares the host the 1936 Olympics, it has changed a lot since it was awarded the 1916 Olympics. Instead of mollifying its critics, Germany defies them. But Germany has also expanded its economy and dealt with urban poverty…
As Beijing prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, it has changed a lot since it held the 2008 Summer Games. Instead of mollifying its critics, China defies them. But China has also expanded its economy and cleaned up air pollution.
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Modern historians: spend an entire chapter obfuscating their actual intention to assign historical blame and causation for a given event.
Herodotus, first page: It’s definitely the Phoenicians’ fault.
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The best indictment of democracy I can think of is that millions of men actually stay faithful to their wives over a lifetime and yet somehow we have over representation of adulterous narcissists in government.
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If you are upset about the Queen’s piano you should be able to complain about it only if you fill all three of the following criteria:
1) Nazis put nine bombs into your house
2) You served as a mechanic in World War II
3) you’re still alive
Queen's speech in front of lavish gold piano blasted for being 'out of touch'
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30 year old who grew up in the safety of modern American society lecturing:
1) a guy who has for all his imperfections maintains his faith while battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer, or
2) a giant of 20th Cent apologetics wounded at the Somme while the two men next to him died.
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"The trans announcement isnt tied to Easter" says the White House trans announcement with an Easter Bunny in the logo.
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Might I suggest that a guy who is best known for making Bible characters in to anthropomorphic vegetables and a dude who thinks George W Bush was the best president of his lifetime aren’t the most helpful guides on the relationship between religion and the civil order.
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Fun fact: Gerald Ford has not been president since 1977, and he's still younger than Biden or Trump.
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Josh Harris apostatizing got more goodwill from evangelicals than Kanye did by declaring that Jesus was his Lord and Savior and King.
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States should absolutely mandate male partners of unwed pregnant women pay child support during pregnancy.
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I just bought a mid century ranch lake house in Michigan this is a huge life W.
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I’ve decided to be an Evangelical thought leader. I’m moving to NYC, attending a mainline church, and throwing my hometown in NC under the bus in print. I’ll also be regularly bemoaning the state of the US which was in perfect shape until spring of 2017. Please buy my book.
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Did you know that the Calvinist doctrine of God's sovereignty is actually a very near and present comfort and hope?
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Jefferson writes a single letter and everyone from then on forgets that some of the Founders happily attended actual state churches in New England.
SOTOMAYOR: "This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build."
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I have yet to have it meaningfully explained to me why 1) its wrong for Evangelical Christians to act politically or 2) why when they do act politically, its only for the sake of power, while any other group acting politically is not doing so for the sake of power.
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Went over and opened up the parish this morning. Snapped a pic before I turned most of the lights on.
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Here’s the thing: if American leadership of the West (and Ukraine?) are worth fighting for you’ll have to tell people a story that sounds something like the 1776 Report and not say the 1619 Project.
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Resignation of the Dutch foreign minister and defence minister. To my knowledge no Dutch soldiers and Marines were killed, nor were the Dutch responsible for killing civilians. So why havent there haven’t been any resignations from US Cabinet secretaries?
Breaking - Dutch defence minister
@MinBijleveld
resigns over handling of Afghanistan evacuation debacle, a day after foreign minister Sigrid Kaag quit -
@AFP
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I’m old enough to remember when trampling civilians w horses was bad optics.
TRUDEAU'S MOUNTED STORMTROOPERS TRAMPLE ELDERLY LADY.
Trudeau must be stopped. This is not Canada.
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The answer to "how far would a Nazi invasion of Virginia Beach get before it was stopped" was always "Virginia Beach."
Phillip K. Dick is a great author. But this alternative reality was always ridiculous from a geopolitical standpoint.
Very. Ridiculous.
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Haiti is pretty obviously a failed state, and instead of denying that, regional powers might consider that admitting that is a first step towards addressing whatever natural duty they might have to keep order in the region.
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They’re putting up barricades outside of the Supreme Court rn. Funny how when Roe went against pro lifers in 73 they didn’t have to do that…
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Reminded that because antisemitism is one of the oldest and most enduring Christian heresies, it still needs to be indicted even among your own tribe.
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In Britain you’re arrested for praying silently at an abortion clinic, but not arrested for cheering on the decapitation of Jewish infants.
"Are your people dead?"- "yes" - "aww, good. Are they dead?, aww, good"
London, last night.
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Is the idea that if they attach the moniker "Christian nationalism" to the basic foundations of constitutional governance they'll be able to say "that has no place in secular society"? Because that seems like a very dangerous game to play.
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Temperance crusaders in the US eventually went too far with prohibition but also worth noting the statistics on alcoholism in the 19th century US are ***nuts*** especially compared to other Protestant countries.
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My study isn’t big but it’s basically a little room I think is perfect.
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