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Landless serf toiling on the engagement farms
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Joined February 2020
My favourite thing to do is to go on the Internet Archive and try to find webpages for states and companies that no longer exist. Below I will compile for convenience:.
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The sensitive young man–Chud–prime minister pipeline
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Despite the wages paid by the gentry actually being lower, working in a big house seems to have been much preferred to serving the urban middle classes
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At one point in the the latest Rest Is History episode they Well-Actually 600 unarmed civilians being machine gunned with “it was probably only 400”.
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“We can’t rely on these contemporaneous reports from Belgium in 1914, unlike these eight-hand accounts from the deepest darkest Congo which we can absolutely take at face value”.
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Dominic Sandbrook’s German apologism has reached ridiculous levels. “The Germans shot thousands of Belgium civilians, but they felt quite bad about it”. I am sure that would be a great comfort to the murdered dead.
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It is interesting that the life of servants in the 18th and early 19th century was less bleak than that of their Victorians equivalents
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Are there any topics I’ve posted about that you would be interested in reading a blog length treatment of?.
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RT @Rafa_Mangual: As I’ve said before: Engagement in blatantly antisocial behavior in public spaces—like smoking on the subway—is an expres….
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I became a lot more amenable to “the CCP is a Chinese dynasty” when I learnt the word for “Revolution” is identical to “dynastic change”; or literally “removal of the mandate [of heaven]”.
To me, this is like asking whether a taco is a sandwich. Don't love how I've phrased some of these (and the jump from the middle categories to the bottom/right categories may be too extreme), but here's a rough draft
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Arthur Munby married his servant Hannah Cullwick. The marriage was kept so secret that Cullwick continued to act as his servant whenever they had visitors. She also refers to him as “Massa” in her diary and blacked up for him
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This book is a real infohazard. I am only two chapters in but am already pondering which Communist Party I should join.
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Tried to find a take on Lucy Connolly that everyone could disagree with
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The idea of "the Bullingdon Club smashing up restaurants" is like the Loch Ness Monster: if it was going on in 2025, we'd have the cameraphone evidence.
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As I've said before, Newsom looks like the horrible new boyfriend of the mum in a film about a 9 year old boy trying to reunite his separated parents.
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It allows young people to move to areas with less old biddies and dysfunctional types, and thus avoid paying it.
Over half of council tax goes on social care. What's the principled case for social care being paid from local taxation?
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