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Thu Oct 24 23:06:47 +0000 2019

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Plagues & Peoples blew my mind when I read it as a kid. Then Guns, Germs, and Steel came out and I was like “the germs are doing all the work here and I already read this!” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 24, 2019 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Should at least cite Plagues & Peoples as the early infection-centric big picture pop history book. — PolitiTweet.org

Simon Whitten @Simon_Whitten

Historians believed that history was "just one damn thing after another" until Guns, Germs and Steel came along. Ac… https://t.co/c9wZEOBpfZ

Posted Oct. 24, 2019 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Obviously you should try to win all kinds of voters, but sealing the deal with Johnson/Stein voters who say they don’t like Trump is probably Democrats’ proximate task. https://t.co/GaHymJPcPF https://t.co/ePBSMGS0N5 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 24, 2019 Hibernated

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