Nick

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Author, Student, Union Barista Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Sports History nerd and unnecessarily well versed in pop culture history

Screenshot of recently added music. New Chappell Roan single “The Giver” and the new Coheed and Cambria album “The Father of Make Believe”
Further investigation into this period reveals an era full of historical echoes that will sound eerily familiar to the modern reader. The final victory over Carthage in the Punic Wars led to rising economic in-equality, dislocation of traditional ways of life, increasing political polarization, the breakdown of unspoken rules of political conduct, the privatization of the military, rampant corruption, endemic social and ethnic prejudice, battles over access to citizenship and voting rights, ongoing military quagmires, the introduction of violence as a political tool, and a set of elites so obsessed with their own privileges that they refused to reform the system in time to save it.
You in the palm of God? No man will ever catch you flinchin' They can never burn the olive tree that lives within 'em The next four years, it's time to ride Fuck ICE, free Congo, Sudan, and Palestine If you still haven't said shit about the genocide Know your grandkids one day are gonna ask you, "Why?"
Lyrics from the pre-chorus of Macklemore’s song White Privilege. “But I'm gonna be me, so please be who you are. This is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard. I said I'm gonna be me, so please be who you are. But we still owe 'em 40 acres now we've stolen their 16 bars.”
Physical copy of the book Murtagh by Christopher Paolini next to a full coffee mug with “Coheed and Cambria Coffee Roasters” and “The Knowledge” printed in the side.
Image of poster’s copy of War is a Racket by Smedley Butler
Trevor Moore of WKUK doing a slow jerk motion