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Pentagon Alarmed by Taylor Swift Tweets (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

During the Civil War, Lincoln had every telegraph line in the country routed though the White House. Wild Wild West the movie didn't do the ops history justice, but was close, and it was fiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

SMH my head, if not even Wild Wild West is historically accurate, then who can we even trust anymore?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I truly LOL'd at that hah! It was actually a deep ref to the beginning the movie in DC where they did have telegraph stations all over the place in the white house. But the movie not explaining that they also were listening because it was completely irrelevant to the plot hahaha.