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Posts by Really Sean Smith

No matter how much a non-military normie hates Hegseth, I believe it's impossible for them to grasp the absolute magnitude of loser shit this guy embodies.

(Also telling Ranger School survivors that their tabs are revoked might literally get him murdered lol)

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2024 cases: 285
2025 cases: 2,284

2024 cases: 285 2025 cases: 2,284

Book came out in 2024 lolsob

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Nevertheless, thanks to these vaccinations, along with advances in 
water purification, waste disposal and mosquito eradication efforts, 
World War I would go on to be the first major war where more 
soldiers were killed by enemy action than disease.37 However, if 
it wasn’t the main killer of soldiers anymore, sickness in general 
was still a recurring issue in the stateside training camps, and later 
the troop ships and the trenches. There was no getting around the 
fact that the Army was taking great numbers of men from all over 
the country, having them work outside all day regardless of the 
weather, and then having them sleep packed together in barracks or 
tents, with predictable results. This was especially true for recruits 
from more rural areas, who were particularly prone to contracting 
measles. Measles is widely thought of as a childhood disease (if it’s 
even thought about at all, thanks to the MMR vaccine), but it led to 
48,000 Army hospital admissions in 1917 alone.38 Even those who 
didn’t get sick were affected, as the Army would quarantine units for 
2-3 weeks if anyone came down with a contagious disease, with the 
clock resetting if anyone else got sick as well, sometimes resulting 
in massive disruptions of training plans.39

Nevertheless, thanks to these vaccinations, along with advances in water purification, waste disposal and mosquito eradication efforts, World War I would go on to be the first major war where more soldiers were killed by enemy action than disease.37 However, if it wasn’t the main killer of soldiers anymore, sickness in general was still a recurring issue in the stateside training camps, and later the troop ships and the trenches. There was no getting around the fact that the Army was taking great numbers of men from all over the country, having them work outside all day regardless of the weather, and then having them sleep packed together in barracks or tents, with predictable results. This was especially true for recruits from more rural areas, who were particularly prone to contracting measles. Measles is widely thought of as a childhood disease (if it’s even thought about at all, thanks to the MMR vaccine), but it led to 48,000 Army hospital admissions in 1917 alone.38 Even those who didn’t get sick were affected, as the Army would quarantine units for 2-3 weeks if anyone came down with a contagious disease, with the clock resetting if anyone else got sick as well, sometimes resulting in massive disruptions of training plans.39

*Measles enters the 1917-1918 chat*

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History Buy The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History: Read Books Reviews - Amazon.com

READ (GERM) THEORY

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"Maybe if you could explain how that history is still topical today?"

*deep sigh*

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They're a bottom tier clam delivery system, below clam chowder, fried clams, stuffies...

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Controversial take, maybe: Rhode Island clam cakes are just bad.

Pizza strips get hated out of ignorance, it's not what we have instead of real pizza, it's a side thing bakeries make that's it's own separate deal.

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Hit dog hollers behavior.

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I don't think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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Seriously.

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a man is standing in a kitchen with his hands on his hips and says aww shucks . Alt: a man is standing in a kitchen with his hands on his hips and says aww shucks .

Get complimented on my blood pressure at my physical:

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The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

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The Faulkner Sequel. "Faulkner Stole My Father's War Wound," Part 2: Centennial Reflections - World War I Centennial site Site of the United States WWI Centennial Commission, and the Doughboy Foundation, building the National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Part two:

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Faulkner Stole My Father's War Wound: Centennial Reflections on William Faulkner and John Reid, Part I - World War I Centennial site Site of the United States WWI Centennial Commission, and the Doughboy Foundation, building the National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C.

🗃️Friendly reminder that the US post-WWI "Lost Generation" literary canon was largely the product of frauds who never even made it to France.

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The Faulkner Sequel. "Faulkner Stole My Father's War Wound," Part 2: Centennial Reflections - World War I Centennial site Site of the United States WWI Centennial Commission, and the Doughboy Foundation, building the National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C.

I've fallen behind on my William Faulkner and Mike Pompeo hating so I decided to do a twofer.

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When your literary antecedent is Mike fucking Pompeo lmao

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Bluesky acting a little weird again.

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In hellworld not even your typos can save you.

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You can kill me, but you can't reproduce the sensation of a major who grew up to be a gym teacher telling me I must not be trying because the shape of my body says I should be a better swimmer while I'm gagging on chlorine fumes, asbestos dust and residual Victorian fromunda stank.

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Something reminded me of branch selection at West Point and I almost had a panic attack, I'm going to have nightmares about that place when I'm in an assisted living pod getting my bourbon out of a baby bottle lmao

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Left-antisemites who harass non-Israeli Jewish folks because of Israel are literally perfectly calibrated useful idiots for... Netanyahu. You're proving the propaganda line the guy you say you hate is constantly pushing.

Just the thickest bastards alive.

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This is just facts though.

I've seen individual minimalist mods that were nice, but 99 out of 100 are either lateral moves or just tacky.

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More than the sadism or incompetence, which always flourish under fascism, what stands out about this American swing at it is its laziness and ineptitude at propaganda. It mostly just *does things* and the chuds clap and 60%+ of the country is baffled and/or dusgusted.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II is right there.

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Anybody crying for Molly Shah's account deactivation is either in on the scams themselves or an absolute rube.

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Woke up to people crying about mommunism getting their account deactivated and lmao

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Nothing that fuckheads who know they (or their shitass kids) won't get drafted love more than a draft.

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a cartoon of snoopy sitting on a bean bag chair eating a sandwich Alt: a cartoon of snoopy sitting on a bean bag chair eating a sandwich

When someone you follow angry quotes someone you have already blocked:

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Take the wrong lesson from a movie:

Raiders of the Lost Ark:

Stay home, the Ark melts the Nazis at the end anyway.

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