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		staticautomatic on Aug 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Navy Sex-Trafficing Scandal in Bahrain I don’t like it either but history is all horrible in that way and the school of thinking that we’re on some teleological path to kindness is wishful thinking. Also, Hillary was a hawk too, albeit a different kind.

monadic2 on Aug 9, 2020 [–]

IDK, it's hard to point to a country in the world that has made domination so central to their identity. Rome, maybe? England for sure.

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