thinker403

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by thinker403 5y ago
I've almost finished "The Coming of the Third Reich", by Richard J. Evans, and the one thing that stands out is how much Germany's economic collapse before 1933 laid the seeds for the Nazi's rise. This is why it&#x2
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by thinker403 5y ago
I've always wondered if the big unspoken reason for establishing American bases in Afghanistan and Iraq was to surround Iran. They perfectly sandwich Iran in from the east and west. Maybe with that clash seeming less imminent it was ti
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by thinker403 5y ago
I did not. But I see what you're saying and I edited it to make it more chill.
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by thinker403 5y ago
To anybody with a cynical view of Iran and its people I highly recommend watching this fairly recent documentary about a British guy riding a motorcycle through the country. The people seem like some of the most friendly in the world. htt
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by thinker403 5y ago
This absolutely made my day. I had no idea this existed! Putting it on .25 speed and looping it allows you to really see the warping taking place. I wonder if the four or five similarly sized light orbs moving in and out are really just the
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by thinker403 6y ago
There's an imbalance with information here, just like there was with the USSR back in the day. The U.S. is an open book that anyone can peer into; China is the opposite. Complicating matters is that the main lens into the U.S. is throu
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by thinker403 6y ago
While abhorrent, I have a sneaking suspicion this isn't as simple as the title and affidavit suggests. The FBI doesn't just randomly pick people to be informants. Their process is not the TV montage most people think of but a bure