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Both had their fights with Wall Street banks, with Jackson famously ending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States and ushering in a period of the US government not issuing any form of centralized paper currency - which lasted until the Civil War in 1863.

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Though Long's program was diametrically opposed to that of Andrew Jackson, there are yet significant similarities between the two.

Both were highly popular, and have been called demagogues. Both fought for expanded suffrage and against monied aristocracy and monopolies.

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If a potential employer attempts to make you take a pop psychology personality quiz it is not only the correct thing to do but also your duty to tell them to get fucked for one thousand years

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Every time you personally allow something like this to happen to you you are letting the needle move further and further towards living in amazonpods

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You must defend yourself from the constant and insidious psychological assault that is modern society no one will do it for you

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remember: who controls the past, now controls the future. save things locally, the archives _will_ be corrupted.

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@freemo @Science Griffiths was the guy who convinced me I could do physics

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You know you are a nerd when you by a textbook for over a hundred dollars and at twice the price just to get it new and then cant sleep the night before because your excited to get it....

@Science

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Person: If I start at 0 and count up in infinitesimal increments to the number one how many numbers must I count?

Wiseman: infinite

Person: and if i start at 0 and count up in infinitesimal increments an infinite number of times what number will I arrive at?

Wiseman: all of them

@math

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