wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]

I like this, but I’d like it even more if it used the word “blockade” or “seige” instead.

Embarrassing admission: I listened to the Mike Duncan series on the Mexican revolution, and heard Diaz’s name as “Perfidio” the whole time. I knew that “perfidy” was an adjective used to describe a person’s character in English, so assumed it was one of those names like “Constance” or “Grace”. A year later I heard the word “perfidy” again in a context that indicated that it was actually a negative thing, so I looked up both that word and Diaz’s name. I then felt very silly. All learning is language learning, and there is no such thing as fluency.

All the Soviets really achieved was Chernobyl and the destruction of the Aral Sea, and a parody of western capitalism in which Communist party officials enjoyed a good standard of living and everyone else did not.

Not so skookum, tyee.

Lol Mike Duncan spending hours describing Romanov wedding planning