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Lydia Sigismondi, Ph.D.

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Historian of the 18th Century Atlantic World. PhD from USC. Angelino by way of Baltimore. TCM nerd. Mother of cats. C-PTSD. Eternal Orioles optimist & pragmatic progressive.

  1. tbh i'm deeply amused how we went from accusations of welfare queen stuff in the 70s/80s to this

    
Have four or more babies in Hungary and you'll pay no income tax for life

When are we going to do this in America?
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  2. Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.

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