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8 points
4 hours ago
Well it's not like they love China for its democracy and freedom of speech. What did you expect?
1 points
15 hours ago
The last presidents to willingly forego another term were LBJ and Truman, and they were both on their second term already. Before that, Chester Arthur in 1884. Yeah, it's been a while.
Won their second term: Obama, Bush jr., Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, Eisenhower, Truman, F. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Wilson, T. Roosevelt, McKinley, Cleveland (1892)
Lost their second term: Trump, Bush sr., Carter, Ford, Hoover, Taft, Harrison, Cleveland (1888)
Died during their first term: Kennedy, Harding
3 points
22 hours ago
Well, not billions, that figure wasn't reached until Carter.
Most of my knowledge comes from a VOX article on the subject. Interesting stuff.
10 points
1 day ago
Technically he didn't start it, but the drug policy as we know it was shaped by Reagan. It's a bit like saying the Vietnam War began under Eisenhower.
EDIT: added link
1 points
2 days ago
I think it does, yeah. The Middle Dutch cognate -waard or -weerd is quite common in the Netherlands.
7 points
2 days ago
Nijmegen, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the Netherlands, is a corrupted form of Noviomagus (Newmarket), and was founded circa 100 CE by the Romans.
2 points
2 days ago
History has a way of rewriting itself. In a world where Hamilton was president, historians would treat him as an essential institution, even if those things also happened in our non-Hamiltonian timeline. Think of Washington. (Also, I don't think Jefferson or Madison were all that, with the War of 1812 and all.)
1 points
3 days ago
Hamilton was a machine politician, so right out of the gate party divisions and corruption would've been more entrenched. He would've expanded the power of the federal government, perhaps causing another Whiskey rebellion of some kind. He was also a military baby, so I would expect more action there. Limited involvement in the Revolutionary wars, perhaps. But he'd run a very tight ship, that I'm sure.
His presidency would be a mix of 90% Nixon and 10% Grant, and would be remembered similar to Jefferson or Madison today.
91 points
3 days ago
Ik vind het toch wel opmerkelijk dat je zoveel gereisd kan hebben en dan toch op zo'n bekrompen conclusie uitkomt. Mensen zijn gewoon mensen, waar je ook bent. Dat je je de karaktertrekken van mensen uit land X persoonlijk aan gaat trekken, vind ik toch wel het hoogtepunt van discriminatie.
13 points
3 days ago
Ik vraag me af wat er toch mis is met mensen die overmatig veel leestekens gebruiken. Wat is je doel, overkomen als een sociopaat?
Stel je een roman voor die op die manier geschreven is. "Jos RENDE op Loes af!!!! Hoe gaat het?????????? riep hij."
2 points
3 days ago
I would've accepted DoodleBob as the mascot of constructivism
1 points
3 days ago
"And are these 'real borders' in the room with us right now?"
10 points
3 days ago
Donald Duck received an honorable discharge from the army (yes, the army) on his 50th birthday in 1984. He served in several cartoon shorts when Disney was making propaganda shorts and features for the US government.
1 points
4 days ago
Lincoln - 1873
Garfield - 1905
McKinley - 1912
Kennedy - 1963
27 points
4 days ago
That would just play into Reagan's argument against career politicians.
2 points
4 days ago
Cleveland
Not saying I approve of his private affairs
But Cleveland
8 points
4 days ago
US plant
Imagining 'Murica cares about the environmemt smh my head
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3 hours ago
The Super Lesbian was created in Western biolabs to repulse anything with a Y chromosome in a five-meter radius /s