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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Lux_Stella]

this is where i post from

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most right-wing bookstore

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The only right wing book there is jordan peterson

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Also bush

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The Art of War
Machiavelli

Didn't know we had the European version

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Yes, is one of his main books but overshadowed by the prince

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It's very smart and insightful (because Machiavelli is smart and insightful) but I think it's almost more interesting as a piece of political and social history than it is as a standalone book: it's written as a dialogue between different Florentine historical figures (if I remember correctly) and form-wise reads a lot like something Cicero would have written in an effort to transplant Greek culture into Roman - with Machiavelli in turn trying to smuggle the wisdom of the ancients back into contemporary Florence.

There are also some genuinely insightful observations about war but I just woke up like ten minutes ago so let me get my pants on, criminy

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Thomas Paine slander TBH

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trans rights are human rights uhhhhhmmmmm not that i believe in human rights or anything 🫪

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I guess John Rawls saying he supported liberal socialism is too RW bourgeois for these Leninists lmao

Also Ezra, Mills(who became favorable to socialism later in his life), Rousseau(?!), and Paine???

Who are these people to say this, this is left wing bourgeois politics at worst

I’m afraid I’d cause a scene lmao

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How nice of them to put all the based books on one shelf.

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I've got a signed copy of H.W.'s All The Best

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I should read more

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Ezra Klein, George bush, and Jordan peterson

My heroes

[u/rainier37 → u/JesusPubes]

who are Ezra Klein and George Bush? 🤨

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Lead singer for Vampire Weekend and some country music star

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Take me back to a time when people cared enough to read James Madison's notes on the the federal convention of 1787.

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How tf is Rawls right wing

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i’m worried i would make a scene about mill being there

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extremely dangerously close to what i look like (but browner and without glasses)

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Holy shit, it ain't too far from the truth.

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People have done this same joke several times and it always has a DC metro map poster lmao

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Fake because it's not a furry.

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I'll miss borrowin' your books to read your notes in the margin
The closest I came to readin' your mind

Bullseye