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Members of the Chinese labour force put on a display in Crecy forest France. At least 19 Sikhs are known to have fought with the Australian Imperial Forces, here is the 21st Indian battery guard.  The well known Harlem hellfighters made better friends with the French than white Americans. 
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Jan 28, 2018 07:53
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This thread is very bad right now so I'm going to punish you all with finnish presidental elections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1fmfA4Fhxs
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Jan 28, 2018 09:40
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Welp, that's two minutes and twenty-eight seconds I'm never going to get back.
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Two stories: https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/957318498102865920
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Area 51 has a bicyclist: 
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Culture in the Soviet Union from the 1930s onwards was just a state-mandated rehash of the same bourgeois "high culture" that the inherently reactionary party leadership considered acceptable, while any truly spontaneous and popular culture was restricted or banned. Anyway, content. A Swedish police with two confiscated neo-nazi banners:  "Molon Labe, they shouted. I took it."
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Jan 28, 2018 21:45
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Mr. Sunshine posted:Culture in the Soviet Union from the 1930s onwards was just a state-mandated rehash of the same bourgeois "high culture" that the inherently reactionary party leadership considered acceptable, while any truly spontaneous and popular culture was restricted or banned. Thank god for Stalin so we can always point to an authoritarian dictatorship when we want to "prove" communism is bad. Also, more US supported defenders of liberty and freedom.   And including a picture of the killing fields is particularly "hilarious":  quote:The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country's legitimate rulers.
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Jan 28, 2018 23:41
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This thread definitely needs more college aged middle class dudes arguing over which type of dictator is good. https://twitter.com/reuterspictures/status/957647959713243136
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ryonguy posted:Thank god for Stalin so we can always point to an authoritarian dictatorship when we want to "prove" communism is bad. Also, more US supported defenders of liberty and freedom. Him and all the other ones. Maybe they'll get it right next time. Or maybe trying to drastically reorder humanity at gunpoint is an inherently flawed idea? I wish you were as good at recognizing bad political systems as you are at recognizing bad politicians. ryonguy posted:The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country's legitimate rulers. don't be shy, quote the whole paragraph: frontline posted:The Khmer Rouge would likely not have survived without the support of its old patron China and a surprising new ally: the United States. Norodom Sihanouk, now in exile after briefly serving as head of state under the Khmer Rouge, formed a loose coalition with the guerillas to expel the Vietnamese from Cambodia. The United States gave the Sihanouk-Khmer Rouge coalition millions of dollars in aid while enforcing an economic embargo against the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government. The Carter administration helped the Khmer Rouge keep its seat at the United Nations, tacitly implying that they were still the country's legitimate rulers. Now this is truly rare. A straw man so versatile that it could be used by both sides of an argument to make the same dumb point. I will cherish this moment forever.  Edit: I'm done Kubrick fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jan 29, 2018 |
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Kubrick posted:Him and all the other ones. Maybe they'll get it right next time. Or maybe trying to drastically reorder humanity at gunpoint is an inherently flawed idea? I wish you were as good at recognizing bad political systems as you are at recognizing bad politicians. Drastically changing things always seems like a bad idea, right up until the point where it doesn't and it becomes the new normal. C.f. The French and American Revolutions.  Also in terms of bad political systems that we should recognise as bad, I'd say "anything authoritarian" alongside "any set up that supports people doing things in other countries that they critique in their enemies". Hypocrisy may be the tribute vice pays to virtue, but it is still shite.
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Jan 29, 2018 01:15
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https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/957318498102865920 Nice view of us bases in Afghanistan.
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ryonguy posted:Thank god for Stalin so we can always point to an authoritarian dictatorship when we want to "prove" communism is bad. Also, more US supported defenders of liberty and freedom. Can't believe this hasn't been (re)posted yet 
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i always hated picture threads as a concept and now i have a good reason to finally end this one, which is trash.
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