- Karl Marx
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i dont care for matthew yglesias
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Guy who is consistently, verifiably wrong about politics and yet is somehow listened to by the Democratic party establishment.
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The other day he said something about how grocery stores always used to play boring old people music in his childhood, but now that heâs middle aged they all play cool songs from his youth. Like my understanding is this was said with full sincerity, and that it was cool that grocery stores played better music rather than grasping that they merely play music that middle aged people enjoy. I really believe itâs sincere too because if itâs not that would make it easily the funniest and most clever post that man has ever made, and I canât think of another instance of him being either funny or clever.
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I wonder whatâs the democratic strat for all this presidency
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delay delay delay is all they can do cause they are shit out of luck in every branch federally
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not to defend the guy but that post in particular parses to me as ~straightforwardly a joke
(post for context (unless heâs done this bit multiple times, which is possible):
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It feels like a faceless congregation as of now
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it is clearly a joke and also i dont think its very funny but im not 90 like nbowie
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in other news i am SO excited for the new dreamworks movie (@ash you like movies what are your thoughts)
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I am tireddddd, I hope todayâs 7 hours breeze by
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Iâll bring the wind machine.
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Please do, but not when Iâm outside
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I donât find it that funny either fwiw, but I was more trying to emphasize my low opinion of him.
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Luv u gray I hope youâre doing amazing the same way you are amazing
And the others too
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Ily2 hope youâre doing well
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unrelatedly, I would like uninformed* guesses on the following topics:
- when were guns invented?
- when did guns, like, start being a major part of military battles?
- when was plate armor invented?
- what years would you describe as âmedievalâ? what are some examples of medieval events or medieval historical figures?
for context, Iâm trying to calibrate the level of historical knowledge for a fictional character who doesnât really know very much beyond, like, âwent to schoolâ
answers in spoilers please so you donât cross-contaminate
* by which I mean âgive me your best guess, but if you have no idea, that is actively a positiveâ
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Summary
I think I heard the first being 13th century, or thereabouts.
16th century.
Letâs go with 6th century
700s to 1300s
Vlad the Impaler, misc. conquests and infighting I know nothing about
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answers
- Ugh. Ok so i know gunpowder was invented pretty early on, if weâre going actual guns⌠were they used in the u.s. revolutionary war? God. I should know this. My inclination is to say they werent around when conquistadors arrived in mexico. Theres the whole âshot heard around the worldâ and also right to bear arms though.
Gonna say like 1700
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Probably shortly thereafter? I guess you have guns for hunting. You definitely need like the infrastructure for it which puts a hard cap of like 1650, but weâll say like 1750
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Lol if i know. 1300? Thats my estimate of the time âguy i imagine wearing plate armorâ is from
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Uhhhhhhhh. Castles, fiefdoms, joan of arc, Astrolabes are renaissance and thus later, generally a good bit of religion? I thiiink medieval means middle ages so also the plague? And arabic scientific advancements
Im guessing like 800-1200??? Really no clue.
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yeah no fair. I do really particularly dislike him. I dont know if you know who Lakshya Jain is but I like him even less
because while Yglesias is an annoying centrist punditry guy who just has bad opinions, Jain is a âactually I just Follow The Data 
and advocate the democratic party do simply whatever the data says is the most popular thing in all casesâ. Which is a terrible idea, even if it were true, and its not true, he ignores the data whenever it supports everying but the most WelcomeFest Centrist ThirdWay slop imaginable.