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Lamuella posted:Entertainment for Kim Jong Un features performers dressed up as Disney characters: 
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Jul 8, 2012 21:58
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Jul 8, 2012 22:46
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The more you look at this the worse it gets. Like the dumb injun by the door holding his book upside down and the Chinese kid in the door symbolozing the view many had that the conquest of the Philippines should be a stepping stone to China. Shame that I can't seem to find the huge version where it's easier to read the blackboard and the caption. 
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Jul 8, 2012 22:58
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FreudianSlippers posted:The more you look at this the worse it gets. Like the dumb injun by the door holding his book upside down and the Chinese kid in the door symbolozing the view many had that the conquest of the Philippines should be a stepping stone to China. The magazine that posted that, Puck, was otherwise fairly progressive, at least on immigration.
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Jul 8, 2012 23:03
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Rand alPaul posted:Here's everyone's favorite American puppet: Ngo Dinh Diem, the Vietnamese "JFK" in more ways than one as he was assassinated in the back of a car with his hands tied behind his back. The CIA arranged the coup. Ugh, if anyone wants a good Two Minutes' Hate, read up on the Diem regime. Especially his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu (shot alongside Diem) and Nhu's wife, "Madame Nhu" (escaped to the U.S., unfortunately), unofficial First Lady of South Vietnam as Diem was a bachelor. The whole Ngo family was hardcore Roman Catholic (thanks French colonialism!), to the point that Diem had been studying to become a priest before deciding it was too much work. As President, he dedicated the entire country of South Vietnam to the Virgin Mary in 1959. A country whose inhabitants were, at the very least, 70% Buddhist, never mind the insanity of dedicating a country to any particular faith or deity... Welp, at least he wasn't a Commie! some completely unrelated pics:    
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Jul 8, 2012 23:37
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A former history professor of mine is one of the leading American scholars on the life of Ngo Dinh Diem. He is loving awesome and I feel the need to plug for him here so if any of you are interested in learning more about Diem or South Vietnam in general, here are some excellent books on the subjects. Highly recommended. Anyway, some pics from the Spanish Civil War:     
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Jul 8, 2012 23:58
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Someone posted Immortal Technique, he really deserves more awareness. Seriously, even if you're a neckbearded goony metalhead, this is an extremely potent song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmNV8_VBGX0
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Jul 9, 2012 01:22
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Mans posted:Someone posted Immortal Technique, he really deserves more awareness. I don't have anything against rap but I listened to this for about 3 minutes and it was just some guy reciting a list of grievances over a repetitive beat. Here's a picture of some rappers or something 
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Jul 9, 2012 01:55
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Images from Rio+20, June 20th, a bit late but whatever These are from the "main" demonstration, we had about thirty thousand people marching in the rain. The sign reads "No to green capitalism's false solutions". The ones holding it are from the "landless movement", Movimento Sem Terra, mostly composed of rural workers who demand land reform to end the big farmer's stranglehold on arable land.  Lots of natives turned up as well, demanding that the Belo Monte hydroelectric powerplant construction project is stopped, as it will flood thousands of acres of native reserve land.  "Wanna breathe? Start preserving"  The world baloon, it looks small in this picture but it was kinda big live  Breadtank, from breadtank.org, "Urgent appeal to Rio+20; Bread instead of bombs; Redirect military spending now!  The end of it, by night.  Most of the participant organizations/unions/NGO's were left leaning or far-left, the Brazilian Communist Party and the Communist Party of Brazil (yes, these are two different parties) had massive presences. Pretty cool all and all, but i wish i had taken my camera.
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Jul 9, 2012 02:10
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Mans posted:Someone posted Immortal Technique, he really deserves more awareness. 
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Jul 9, 2012 02:20
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 http://sodisarmingdarling.tumblr.com/post/26700327003/man-disagrees-with-woman-makes-game-about-punching
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Jul 9, 2012 02:21
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the2ndgenesis posted:A former history professor of mine is one of the leading American scholars on the life of Ngo Dinh Diem. He is loving awesome and I feel the need to plug for him here so if any of you are interested in learning more about Diem or South Vietnam in general, here are some excellent books on the subjects. Highly recommended. Is feixisme an outdated way to say facha or does is mean something different? 
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Jul 9, 2012 03:00
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Miltank posted:Is feixisme an outdated way to say facha or does is mean something different? "Feixisme" is the word in Catalán, the language used in eastern Spain rather than the nationally-endorsed Castillian "Spanish". It was actually from Spanish Civil War posters that I first became aware of Catalán, wondering why "Libertad" was ending in a "-t" for some reason:  EDIT: I can't find examples online and unfortunately didn't take pictures on my trip, but back in the early 2000s when I was backpacking in northern Spain I saw a good smattering of linguistic vandalism: Galician speakers would modify Castillian words to be more Galician, like painting out the "L" in "LA CORUÑA" to change it to the Galician name "A CORUÑA". Ditto in Asturias where kids printed out stickers the with the proper font size/type to plaster on street signs to change the Castillian word "CALLE" (street) to the Asturian word "CAÍ". TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jul 9, 2012 |
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Jul 9, 2012 03:09
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Miltank posted:Is feixisme an outdated way to say facha or does is mean something different? "Feixisme" is the Catalan word. efb;  "American style of freedom"
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Jul 9, 2012 03:09
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Kavak posted:The magazine that posted that, Puck, was otherwise fairly progressive, at least on immigration. ...unless they were Irish.   
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Jul 9, 2012 03:11
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QuoProQuid posted:...unless they were Irish. The more I look the more it looks like that cartoon was some weird aberration of decency in the midst of typical turn-of-the-century attitudes. I can't read the rest, but the top says "Pensioner".
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Jul 9, 2012 03:26
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I think I see "Bogus Grandpa" "Lawyer" "Bogus Grandma" and "Bogus Widow" on the left. Barney Frank got married yesterday.
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Jul 9, 2012 03:41
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Anarchism as represented by a nude man throwing a bomb at a Mesopotamian statue: Anarchism as represented by a guerrilla fighter using a corpse to steady his aim while shooting at fascists: 
FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jul 9, 2012 |
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Jul 9, 2012 04:23
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Lamuella posted:Entertainment for Kim Jong Un features performers dressed up as Disney characters:  
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Jul 9, 2012 05:16
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The Moon Monster posted:Was Ho Chi Minh a particularly nasty dictator along the lines of Pol Pot? He was an anti-colonialist and communist so my American history classes basically portrayed him as Hitler in one of those conical asian farmer hats, but I don't remember hearing about massive death camps or anything. Sure the North Vietnamese treated American PoWs pretty brutally, but on the other hand... To set the record straight, that napalm attack wasn't conducted by an American plane, AFAIK. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 9, 2012 05:23
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DoktorLoken posted:To set the record straight, that napalm attack wasn't conducted by an American plane, AFAIK. That's almost a semantic point; South Vietnam's military was an almost entirely US/NATO funded and equipped project. By the end of the war South Vietnam had one of the most elite air forces in the world while simultaneously having one of the most corrupt governments and lowest GDPs. Some murals in Northern Ireland:   
the2ndgenesis fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Jul 9, 2012 |
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Jul 9, 2012 05:32
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Kavak posted:The more I look the more it looks like that cartoon was some weird aberration of decency in the midst of typical turn-of-the-century attitudes. To make this more understandable for non-Americans, after the US Civil War the pension system set up for veterans was the single largest expenditure of the Federal Government for years. Up to 42% in the 1890s. Source: http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p1.html (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 9, 2012 05:45
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Jul 9, 2012 06:04
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Admirable, but I still wouldn't show some of them to kids. Edit: megarule 
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Jul 9, 2012 06:14
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Zeroisanumber posted:Admirable, but I still wouldn't show some of them to kids.  I was thinking about this earlier today and I was trying to explain to myself why "old style" Disney racism is still racism. Kids these days have no idea that the crows in dumbo are supposed to be black and I still don't know if the tom and jerry mother is racist or not. Is she supposed to be a mammy? I don't even no what that is. However I am assuming that this is played before the start of WB's "Censored Eleven" release which is pretty much just for collectors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8D93Awa434 ^^ heads up for racism
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Jul 9, 2012 06:30
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Rand alPaul posted:Ho Chi Minh repeatedly asked for American assistance (as early as the 1920s) in getting rid of the French. In 1945 he appealed to Roosevelt, offering the port of Haiphong along with other economic perks in exchange for removing the French. The constitution Ho Chi Minh wrote included passages from the United States Constitution, and apparently Ho was a great admirer of George Washington. So really, because of France, who pulled out of NATO regardless, we ended up with the Vietnam war, and a hostile Vietnam, and POW John McCain, and a Sarah Palin. When really, given hindsight, we could have just told the French to gently caress right off and possibly avoided that entire loving mess and would now have a Southeast Asian ally and a check against the rise of China. Thanks France. Edit: China would be overjoyed at a US Naval base at Haiphong. Also, Little known fact. Brits sinking a US cruiser! 
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Jul 9, 2012 06:58
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Saint Celestine posted:Also, Little known fact. Brits sinking a US cruiser!  It's very well known in the UK. The torpedoing of the Belgrano was celebrated on the front The Sun newspaper, it was when the Falklands war was going on. That's the Belgrano, it got sank as America sold it to Argentina. It is also the only ship to ever be sunk in anger by nuclear-powered submarine. Fluo fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Jul 9, 2012 |
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Jul 9, 2012 09:36
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:"Feixisme" is the word in Catalán, the language used in eastern Spain rather than the nationally-endorsed Castillian "Spanish". On that note    TapTheForwardAssist posted:EDIT: I can't find examples online and unfortunately didn't take pictures on my trip, but back in the early 2000s when I was backpacking in northern Spain I saw a good smattering of linguistic vandalism: Galician speakers would modify Castillian words to be more Galician, like painting out the "L" in "LA CORUÑA" to change it to the Galician name "A CORUÑA". Ditto in Asturias where kids printed out stickers the with the proper font size/type to plaster on street signs to change the Castillian word "CALLE" (street) to the Asturian word "CAÍ". We do that here in Brittany too although the main group that does it makes fancy stickers now so that they look semi-official.   
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Jul 9, 2012 10:28
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Saint Celestine posted:So really, because of France, who pulled out of NATO regardless, we ended up with the Vietnam war, and a hostile Vietnam, and POW John McCain, and a Sarah Palin. After it became evident that France would lose Vietnam, they approached the United States with Operation Vulture. The plan would have essentially involved the US nuking Vietnam into submission, using at least "3 small tactical nuclear weapons in support of the French". The United Kingdom found out about the Plan and basically told the two powers, "What the gently caress is wrong with you?. Then everyone pretended like it never happened. More Puck Magazine: 
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Jul 9, 2012 11:45
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Saint Celestine posted:So really, because of France, who pulled out of NATO regardless, we ended up with the Vietnam war, and a hostile Vietnam, and POW John McCain, and a Sarah Palin. You staged coups in countries that were your allies that had communists in the parliament, let alone in soul government. There's no way you'd have allied with Vietnam - France wasn't involved in Korea and exactly the same poo poo happened there first. 
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Jul 9, 2012 12:12
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 Taken from here (where there is a larger version): http://mickbuttonminogue.blogspot.ca/2012/07/bodhi-president-reagan-mask.html
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Jul 9, 2012 15:17
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Soviet Commubot posted:On that note They are using the Estelada Blava (the flag with the blue triangle) but other guys are using the estelada roja which is the flag the Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional (Socialist Party for the Liberation of the Paisos Catalans ) came up with in 1968 and almost everybody uses.Now I kinda miss my old catalàn clases. I regret not getting into languages in college instead of engineering. 
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Jul 9, 2012 15:27
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Who is the artist? Are there more pictures? Artist is Michal Dziekan More of his work:  
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Jul 9, 2012 15:30
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MrL_JaKiri posted:You staged coups in countries that were your allies that had communists in the parliament, let alone in soul government. Huh, I did not know that the Dutch tried to re-conquer Indonesia in the late 40's, and tried to drag the US into it. Good thing the US figured the Indonesians could do a perfectly fine job of killing communists on their own. (With a little help from their friends at the CIA, of course) 
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Jul 9, 2012 15:40
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Saint Celestine posted:So really, because of France, who pulled out of NATO regardless, we ended up with the Vietnam war, and a hostile Vietnam, and POW John McCain, and a Sarah Palin. I'm reading this, and from what it says, once France pulled out after Dien Bien Phu, they became increasingly annoyed as US interference in the Geneva agreement - interference that made it impossible for the two sides to exist peacefully and reunite in their own time, which the book also says Ho Chi Mihn was supportive of. From what I'm reading, after defeat, France wanted to leave it all alone, establish peaceful relations, and warned the US that they'd get mired in war if they didn't leave well enough alone, and the US ignored it all. Asylum seekers drowning: 
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Jul 9, 2012 15:40
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I can't wait for the Olympics in London.  
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Jul 9, 2012 17:36
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Lost For Words posted:Artist is Michal Dziekan Thanks! That's hella interesting.  This is the opposite of how I feel.
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And none of that poo poo actually existed. All that's up on Tora Bora are some natural caves that stockpiled weapons and ammo. Engineers were able to destroy most of them on-site with a C-4 charge. Let's have a classic: 
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