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@johnlk_80 on twitter. Comics, history, politics and such.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · Jan 15
Okay, starting my thread of comics threads. You can find the older threads (for now) on X/Twitter.

First thread: 5501-5594 is here, with Scott Summers fighting a giant octopus. bsky.app/profile/john...
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · Dec 13
I'm moving my comics tweeting (skeeting?) over here to Bsky, with Cyclops and a giant octopus, I guess. This thread will be #5501-5600 of the Complete Marvel Reading Order (cmro.travis-starnes.com). I did the first 5500 (!) comics over on Twitter.

Anyway, Cyclops! Giant Octopus! Let's begin.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 1h
Do these people think the violent Weather Underground style radicals in One Battle After Another are depicted positively?
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 1h
Need a "You know nothing of my work" from Alan Moore here.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 1h
Well, yes.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 10h
and obviously this still exists in Black churches in the US.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 12h
Bismarck is in the Russ Vought role here.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 14h
Father...Dowling?
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 14h
Like mother like son, I guess
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 14h
I am not sure what the exact messaging should be, but they shouldn't just say unlawful spending without congressional appropriations is fine.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 17h
She'll never get it now after stealing his Nobel Prize.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 17h
I'm not sure how I would stop paying taxes.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 18h
The Germans were still deep in Soviet territory after Stalingrad. They hadn't yet reached the pre-war Soviet border at the time of the Normandy invasion.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 18h
Rubio probably right below this, or maybe he should be on there. Oh, and Musk. And Vought.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 18h
This is not a map of the Germans having been pushed out of Central Europe
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 18h
Just to be clear, the frontlines on June 6, 1944, are the frontlines prior to the offensive depicted on this map (i.e., the periwinkle areas were still under German control at that point)
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 18h
My current list of first order offenders is Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Bondi, Kennedy, Noem, Miller, Homan, Lyons.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Suggesting that Dems immediately roll over on this is actually suggesting that they be more spineless than Prussian liberals in the 1860s.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
A rift caused by disputes over money can usually be solved by application of a sufficient amount of money.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Later made explicit, as Felicia is talking about the same girl here:
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah, they'd be terrible together. Why settle for one kind of bland lesbian couple when you can have a toxic one *and* a toxic straight couple?
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Felicia has been canonically bi since the 80s, btw. There's a story where her "best friend" randomly shows up, disguised as an old man, and it is about as clear that this is Felicia's ex-girlfriend as it is that Northstar and Cap's childhood friend Arnie are gay (which is "extremely clear")
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
MJ should get with Felicia. Peter/Spider-Gwen is so deeply fucked up that you could get years of soap opera out of it.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Well, very briefly (1945-1948) it was. But yeah, should have said ex-Communist Europe.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Definitely the most western place in the Soviet Bloc aside from East Germany. But then the former East Germany has terrible politics and so does the next most western place, Czechia.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 20h
Is there any former Soviet bloc country that has normal politics? Slovenia, maybe?
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