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We are thinking of doing a daily subject megathread where someone can post just a subject and give people the freedom to expound on said subject to lead to other discores bouncing off of that. (lemmy.world)
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Would you be interested in something like that?

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Is there any place in the constitution that gives the people the right to over throw a King/Wanna be dictator? (lemmy.world)
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How come in America it is always Red vs Blue? Political Parties? Did some one just say that seems like a neeto speedo idea? Or was there much more to it besides the Flag? (lemmy.world)
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Did the write two letters to the outgoing leader really begin in Russia and why? (lemmy.world)
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What was the big deal about Patton slapping a soldier back then? I though it was pretty much common ocurrence up until Vietnam. What changed? (lemmy.world)
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What were some slurs against other races, sexes etc like we do today in Roman times up until now? Like for ex what would be the equivelant of a Spartan calling a Athenian slur. Why type? (lemmy.world)
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Any other active members of lemmy.world care to help us mod this community? Must be a frequent poster across communities. Or maintain an active role in lemmy.world (lemmy.world)
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We are looking for knowledgable people and get off on providing knowledge to others. And who can ask hard questions where it makes people think.

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Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? (lemmy.world)
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Is the Roman Empire the only known historical example of presumed widespread cognitive decline in a society due to exposure to toxic substances? (lemmy.world)
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I crock pot some stuff an usually takes between 10 to 12 hours. I have seen people smoke a pig which takes about 1 day. What were the rules of sacrifice in the ancient gods or the new one? (lemmy.world)
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I mean it must have take a long while to light a goat or something similar on fire as a sacrifice. Do then the believers just go home come back the next day and keep lighting it till its down to ash? Or when it was burnt to a crisp did they use the meat to feed the villiage city or town?

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Back in the days of old was it common place to make fun of rulers/leaders/presidents? If so was there any that stuck unlike today where it is just a basic insult always channging? (lemmy.world)
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What is your quintessential example of a historical ruling or law of unintended consequences? (lemmy.world)
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I just learned that the egregious US Citizens United (2010) decision is a convoluted result of several altruistic campaign finance reforms beginning with the 1907 Tillman Act to FECA (1971) and Buckley v. Valeo (1976).

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If homosexuality was so rampant in Roman times. And today we like to think of our own countries as roman-esque. Then was is the hate toward LGBTQ today? When did the hate start and Y? (lemmy.world)
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What steps would make the USA turn into a Balkanised set of Nation-states? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Purely asking this for some fiction writing

Balkanised has become slang for "region formerly in a federation or union that has split into many small independent nations after the fall of said Union. Like happened in the Balkan region with the fall of USSR"

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How would you guys and gals feel about a weekly open thread where we can discuss a subject and it be whatever knowledge on that subject we have? (lemmy.world)
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When was the first Revolution where society rose up and said we are tired and overthrew the ruling party? (lemmy.world)
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Was British colonialism, which is evident in the framework of The Balfour Declaration, the genesis of an inevitable war in Gaza? (lemmy.world)
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Not a joke question. Why did the River of Styx need money? Why place two coins on a dead persons eyes to give him? Was it ever explained somewhere? (lemmy.world)
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What affect did the Haudenosaunee Confederacy have on the American Revolution and the US Constitution? (lemmy.world)
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If Hitler was not , a thousand time expletives deleted, and continued his art. Would the world know about Facism or what would be the comparison to most evil today? (lemmy.world)
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Did the founding fathers get high on weed? Or did they actually use it as rope? Abe lincoln talks about smoking sweet hemp, and Jefferson kept journals on growing them? (lemmy.world)
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On the US Constitution, just before Article 1 Section 7, is this a line that was rubbed out? If so, why and what did it originally say? (media.piefed.world)
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In your opinion how reliable is Wikipedia? (lemmy.world)
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I always hear from my family and older folks that the KKK started out by going after deadbeat dads, men who did not take care of their childeren and so on? Before all the racist crap is this true? (lemmy.world)
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What was the economic impact of Segregation? Who thought it was a good idea to spend money on seperate bathrooms drinking fountains? Would it not have been better to let it all be and save money? (lemmy.world)
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