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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also, remember when the US literally did occupy Haiti, or that wacky time France forced them to spend a hundred years paying reparations for the crime of no longer being slaves yea, after fighting off basically every major world power, Haiti wasn't allowed into the international markets. No one wanted to trade with them. So in order to be able to trade they made a deal with France to compensate France for "lost property" which continued, with interest accumulating, into the mid-20th century. So even though they could technically trade (lol), most of the money/resources from production went to France.
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Admiralty Flag posted:My dear goon, I don't think you're applying credits offsetting storage fees for all the cultural artifacts that the Brits nobly and unilaterally kept safe in the British Museum and other such institutions. That's got to take the number down significantly.
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Aug 17, 2021 18:37
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“Loot” is itself a Hindi word
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Aug 17, 2021 18:42
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This lady who wears a hat made of gold, silk and diamonds sure has a lot of treasure in her house 🤔
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Aug 17, 2021 20:25
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Scratch Monkey posted:Can you imagine the hatred he'd be spewing over mask mandates? The thing about dale reed that some people don't get is that he was very much boasting in a performative way for other freepers. I fully believe he said and did some of the awful poo poo he claims, but there were a ton of his posts that were very obviously stdh.txt I'm not going to spend any time or brain power going back through his posts to try to discern which was which but nobody should take anything he posted completely literally. Having said that, I do find it entertaining to imagine him the way a lot of posters itt do: a force of nature manifesting as an elemental of pure spite and hatred edit: I went to the Museum of London 5 or 6 years ago and the overall tone of the place was very much "yeah all this stuff really belongs in its home country and it would be the right thing to do to return it all but those savages can't be trusted to preserve their own history and culture and heritage so we're kepping it lol" but in a very polite British way. Elephant Ambush fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Aug 17, 2021 |
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Aug 17, 2021 20:43
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Elephant Ambush posted:The thing about dale reed that some people don't get is that he was very much boasting in a performative way for other freepers. I fully believe he said and did some of the awful poo poo he claims, but there were a ton of his posts that were very obviously stdh.txt Isn't there a decently supported movement in Britain to begin returning artifacts to their rightful owners? I could have sworn I read that a process to do so had started. I was spending every summer there from 1994 to 2000ish, but I've not been since. Everything I hear is secondhand.
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Aug 17, 2021 21:52
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Elephant Ambush posted:The thing about dale reed that some people don't get is that he was very much boasting in a performative way for other freepers. I fully believe he said and did some of the awful poo poo he claims, but there were a ton of his posts that were very obviously stdh.txt Pretty much all of Freep is that way, the number of these idiots that claim to be high powered executives or ex-navy seals or rangers or 7 feet tall or that they yelled at some BLM protester or whatever, or were threatened by a thug and scared them off with their tall manliness or just.. Freep is probably 90% bullshit performative lies, what's sad and hilarious is the the things they are hilarious liars about
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Aug 18, 2021 04:43
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But that one guy greenlit all the marvel movies!!! And every year he fires a liberal just to watch them cry!!
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Aug 18, 2021 07:01
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Captain Monkey posted:But that one guy greenlit all the marvel movies!!! And every year he fires a liberal just to watch them cry!! I mean it wouldn't be too weird to me if Ike Perlmutter had a freep account 
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Aug 18, 2021 07:04
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pseudanonymous posted:Pretty much all of Freep is that way, the number of these idiots that claim to be high powered executives or ex-navy seals or rangers or 7 feet tall or that they yelled at some BLM protester or whatever, or were threatened by a thug and scared them off with their tall manliness or just.. Freep is probably 90% bullshit performative lies, what's sad and hilarious is the the things they are hilarious liars about I don't doubt a lot of them are veterans, who are bitter that they spent four years as a radio technician in Germany but totally could have taken the fight to Moscow if not for hand-wringing liberals. There's quite a few in that age group.
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Aug 18, 2021 10:19
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I don't doubt a lot of them are veterans, who are bitter that they spent four years as a radio technician in Germany but totally could have taken the fight to Moscow if not for hand-wringing liberals. There's quite a few in that age group. The number of massive chuds who joined up post-Vietnam, got out before the Gulf War, and whose only deployment was either Japan or Germany is through the roof. Just a whole generation of bureaucratic fuckbags whose understanding of Real War is Grenada.
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I can't find it now, but the comic "Private Murphy's Law" had a logo showing their titular character portraying a soldier from the major periods in the army's history from the revolution to the Iraq wars. They were all carrying their weapons except the "Cold War Murphy" who simply had a mop.
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Aug 18, 2021 13:51
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Yeah the vets in the family who fought in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam were either anti-war liberals or at best dovish tax bracket republicans. The turbo chuds in the family were all marines in a non-combat MOS over in Germany for four years in the 80s. I still remember when one of the peacetime marine chuds said my uncle who got a silver star and purple heart in nam wasn't a real man because he was army instead of marine corps.
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Aug 18, 2021 14:04
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It's also pretty well accepted that even without combat-related PTSD, the dehumanization of military training can gently caress you up. Sadly* these guys are the same guys who'd keel over before revealing their chronic chest pain, let alone consider therapy for mental health. "Sounds like that cuck lib poo poo my daughter's husband does. That's why I don't get to see my grandkids at Thanksgiving." *I'm not that sad Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 14:19
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I actually kind of like the idea of a "cold war veteran", seeing as living under the constant threat (or, at least, being led to believe you're under constant threat) of a nuclear war in which everyone you know and love will die, and everything you know and love will die, and you'll probably die, and the world will end, is the sort of poo poo that has definitely hosed up a huge chunk of at least one, but probably two generations. That's something that should be considered as a potential source of stress and anxiety in things like therapy. But of course, yeah, that's not what the hat is about, and Freepers think people with any kind of mental health issue are super wimp libs that should stop whining and lay down in the street and die.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:28
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Thing is, everyone was living the same thing. It's sort of silly to wear a special boy hat for braving the same threat as literally everyone else on the planet.
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kartikeya posted:I actually kind of like the idea of a "cold war veteran", seeing as living under the constant threat (or, at least, being led to believe you're under constant threat) of a nuclear war in which everyone you know and love will die, and everything you know and love will die, and you'll probably die, and the world will end, is the sort of poo poo that has definitely hosed up a huge chunk of at least one, but probably two generations. That's something that should be considered as a potential source of stress and anxiety in things like therapy. Everyone will die and everything will end, that's just the way things work. The ultimate futility of everything is something you either come to terms with or something you blind yourself to, freep mostly does the later of the two, but most people are like that anyway.  So yeah, the hat is sort of silly posturing.
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Aug 19, 2021 01:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's also pretty well accepted that even without combat-related PTSD, the dehumanization of military training can gently caress you up. Vets seem a lot better about it these days than in previous decades. My pop was a vet and said that he used to tell guys who were obviously hosed up, "Even Audie Murphy got help" and that made some difference. Not sure if the current generation of soldiers all know who Murphy was, but I still think it's a good line.
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Aug 19, 2021 03:57
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Everyone will die and everything will end, that's just the way things work. The ultimate futility of everything is something you either come to terms with or something you blind yourself to, freep mostly does the later of the two, but most people are like that anyway. Oh, I wasn't defending the hat. Just that I found the concept something that probably should be taken into account when dealing with mental health. Yes, everyone dies, that's not the same as living under (what everything around you is saying is) constant threat of nuclear war. Long term stressors like that can do a lot of damage. And I'm very sure a bunch of Freepers have had that happen to them, but they've chosen to be hateful assholes, and 'hateful rear end in a top hat' is not a symptom of mental health issues, so this was a pretty random tangent.
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Aug 19, 2021 04:19
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Soylent Pudding posted:Yeah the vets in the family who fought in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam were either anti-war liberals or at best dovish tax bracket republicans. The turbo chuds in the family were all marines in a non-combat MOS over in Germany for four years in the 80s. Honestly every marine i've known post WWII/Korea has been a dickbag that got high on the corps farts over how badass and awesome they were because of what the older generation did in the Pacific.
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SocketWrench posted:Honestly every marine i've known post WWII/Korea has been a dickbag that got high on the corps farts over how badass and awesome they were because of what the older generation did in the Pacific. The 82nd Airborne is still actively blowing itself over their combat drops from the same era. How they do it with a reserve chute in the way I’ll never know, but they make it work somehow.
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Icon Of Sin posted:The 82nd Airborne is still actively blowing itself over their combat drops from the same era. How they do it with a reserve chute in the way I’ll never know, but they make it work somehow. All American baby
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Aug 19, 2021 12:08
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Icon Of Sin posted:The 82nd Airborne is still actively blowing itself over their combat drops from the same era. How they do it with a reserve chute in the way I’ll never know, but they make it work somehow. You ever see the reserve chutes? It's about the size of a bundled up pillow strapped in front of your belly
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And they're all pissy because the 173rd out of Italy got a combat jump during the Iraq invasion and they didn't. You know...back when we were all hoodwinked into thinking that was a good idea.
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Wasn't the Iraq jump entirely done because "yeeeeeehaaaawwwwwww it's D-Day again," despite large-scale parachute drops being utterly obsolete in a military with an enormous helicopter fleet?
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Aug 19, 2021 22:00
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SocketWrench posted:You ever see the reserve chutes? It's about the size of a bundled up pillow strapped in front of your belly I went to airborne school, I’m fully aware. Also, I went to airborne school 
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Aug 19, 2021 22:07
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Wasn't the Iraq jump entirely done because "yeeeeeehaaaawwwwwww it's D-Day again," despite large-scale parachute drops being utterly obsolete in a military with an enormous helicopter fleet? As with everything in life there are strengths and limitations to new technology so it's sometimes useful to keep older stuff around for specific tasks We just haven't found the specific niche that massed para-dropping fulfills in the 21st century
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Phone posting but I didn't see anything on the bomb threat today. This is what I'm seeing them coalesce around quote:To: luvie
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Aug 20, 2021 04:35
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Hmm I wonder what Freep is-quote:To: PghBaldy
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Jagged Jim posted:Hmm I wonder what Freep is-  I feel like that's more mask off than normal for them. Was it in regards to anything specific?
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kik2dagroin posted:Phone posting but I didn't see anything on the bomb threat today. I know it's been discussed before here, but Jesus christ it's amazing how many of these nutters doing exactly what freepers have swooned over doing are false flags once they do happen
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Captain Log posted:
The mask seems increasingly off in general. A lot of them will openly yell about black people now. Previously it was always "urban" or "thugs" or dumb poo poo like "amish  "
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Captain Log posted:
The comment was from their thread on the DC bomber. They took AOC relating her fear on Jan 6 to her fear when she was sexually assaulted and turned it into her saying she was scared of being raped by Capitol rioters. I hate these motherfuckers so much lol
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Wasn't the Iraq jump entirely done because "yeeeeeehaaaawwwwwww it's D-Day again," despite large-scale parachute drops being utterly obsolete in a military with an enormous helicopter fleet? Well, it was called Operation Northern Distraction. It was done to draw 4 Iraq tank divisions north away from U.S. forces moving in from the south so the air force could isolate and bomb them. Would have been more conventional forces but Turkey wouldn't allow a push from their borders. The paratroopers didn't have to do much other than be muddy and cold until they were cleared to push on Erbil and Kirkuk.
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Dirt5o8 posted:Well, it was called Operation Northern Distraction. It was done to draw 4 Iraq tank divisions north away from U.S. forces moving in from the south so the air force could isolate and bomb them. Would have been more conventional forces but Turkey wouldn't allow a push from their borders. This was literally our plan B, for those who don't know about it. Originally we were going to push in from Turkey but the Turkish government wanted a bigger bribe, so they said they wouldn't because they were against the war. But whoops! That tapped into the massive opposition to the war among the Turks in general and eventually we either had to give them some insane guarantees like letting them stomp all over Kurds in Northern Iraq with impunity, or go with Plan B. We went with Plan B.
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Zeroisanumber posted:This was literally our plan B, for those who don't know about it. Originally we were going to push in from Turkey but the Turkish government wanted a bigger bribe, so they said they wouldn't because they were against the war. But whoops! That tapped into the massive opposition to the war among the Turks in general and eventually we either had to give them some insane guarantees like letting them stomp all over Kurds in Northern Iraq with impunity, or go with Plan B. And they still tried slipping teams in to slaughter Kurdish villages. If anyone wants to see the Turkish white washed version of that, look for Valley of the Wolves: Iraq. IRL, U.S. forces caught a Turkish SF team executing Kurdish civilians. They were held and released back to turkey. In the movie, the turks were slaughtered defending Kurds from pillaging Americans. Hilarity and lovely Rambo acting ensue.
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Zeroisanumber posted:We went with Plan B. And then we abandoned the kurds
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Zeroisanumber posted:This was literally our plan B, for those who don't know about it. Originally we were going to push in from Turkey but the Turkish government wanted a bigger bribe, so they said they wouldn't because they were against the war. But whoops! That tapped into the massive opposition to the war among the Turks in general and eventually we either had to give them some insane guarantees like letting them stomp all over Kurds in Northern Iraq with impunity, or go with Plan B. And then Donnie went plan A after it was all over
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Trump got booed at his "America does Nuremberg" rally over his recommendation to attendees to get vaccinated. Though young and healthy, unvaccinated father dies of COVID OP posted:On July 20, Josh came home from work with a slight cough initially thought to be sinus trouble. On Aug. 11, he died of COVID-19 at a north Alabama hospital as Christina Tidmore witnessed a doctor and her team frantically try to resuscitate her husband. quote:To: Berlin_Freeper gas_dr is still futilely waging war against antivaxxers. This is a long exchange so I'll summarize: Roman_War_Criminal offers no tangible rebuttal to otherwise tame but corroborated anecdotes that many medical professionals are observing while literally trying to save the lies of people with COVID , claims they're absolutely not terrified of the disease with which they then assert the totalitarian Biden regime will send Left Wing Vaxx Squads to his house to inject him with unproven science, completely misunderstands what gaslighting means, then they make amends because they're both  brothers in Christ and agree to try to try to not be so mean to opposing viewpoints in the future. The kicker is Roman_War_Criminal having the last word and saying "This crap is dividing everybody and it’s making folks lose their minds" when it's literally the antivaxxers that are doing the dividing because they can't admit that they're wrong.quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr quote:To: Roman_War_Criminal quote:To: gas_dr
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