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A Knight of Fortune's Wheel. He/him.

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Zwingli from Zurich!

06.03.2026 15:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Best wishes it goes well.

06.03.2026 15:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are a committee for managing the affairs of the entire bourgeoisie, they're just really, really bad at it.

06.03.2026 15:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wonder where the Green vote increase is coming from, if Labour, PC and the LD's aren't losing votes.

06.03.2026 15:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One must imagine so.

06.03.2026 14:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What makes Latin America not western? "Latin" is about as western as it gets.

06.03.2026 14:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I always introduce Zwingli by saying he's the last article in every encyclopedia, but that may be out of date as well.

06.03.2026 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wicked? Let's not be too quick to judge here.

06.03.2026 03:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1. World 1500-Present
2. Renaissance Europe
3. Enlightenment Europe
4. Tudor England
5. Stuart England
6. Hanoverian Britain
7. The Reformation
8. The Scientific Revolution
9. Intellectual History of Europe, 17th-18th centuries

06.03.2026 02:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pete Hegseth cheering on a movie about heroic western men defeating the evil Persians, until someone explains the whole "gay" thing.

06.03.2026 00:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Maybe call an exorcist first?"

06.03.2026 00:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here we go again. Been hearing this "surely now Jews will vote Republican!" thing since the 70s.

05.03.2026 23:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TBF, a lot of that was stuff he just took over from the French Republic.

05.03.2026 23:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In evaluating any non-Christian religion, the first question is "who are the Catholics and who are the Protestants"?

05.03.2026 23:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think there are going to be long term problems with the daily sacrifice of thousands of young activists just to keep her barely functional, but waddaya gonna do?

05.03.2026 23:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Beat me to it.

05.03.2026 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The "all queer, woman, POC owned" and then you find out its one person is kind of funny.

05.03.2026 17:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Written approval! Written!

05.03.2026 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Need to ask him what he thinks of double predestination.

05.03.2026 14:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We'll probably end up adopting the Israeli theory of victory, just because they have one.

05.03.2026 14:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not exactly Martin Luther's guiding principle.

05.03.2026 11:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow.

05.03.2026 03:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mahayana or Theravada?

05.03.2026 01:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One was a worker in a rubber factory, the other was a civilian bureaucrat in the Pentagon.

04.03.2026 23:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's depressing.

04.03.2026 23:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Showing my class Sorkin clips while shaking my head vigorously so they know I disagree.

04.03.2026 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So you were the logical pick for Thor: Season One!

04.03.2026 18:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sounds like you get no respect.

04.03.2026 18:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The second is at least an academic.

04.03.2026 14:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Which one am I?

04.03.2026 14:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0