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An old favorite: And a couple of images made in the wake of the Collateral Murder video:  
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LP97S posted:Tell me, what do you see with your army eyes? The fact that the photographer's security guards were armed with AK's and an RPG is not in dispute.   (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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OH BOY I'M GONNA LOVE THE UPCOMING DERAIL A screenshot from the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Villain trailer. We will be shooting Occupy protesters apparently.
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Saint Sputnik posted:Just saw an ad for a Seal Team Six commemorative coin Speaking of great commemorative currency, here's the 9/11 20$ bill! Of course, it's 20 Liberian dollars, which is 27 cents in USD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF3mzTpFCrU For reference, here's what an actual Liberian 20$ bill looks like. The man on it was the president of Liberia from 1944 to 1971. 
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Armyman25 posted:The fact that the photographer's security guards were armed with AK's and an RPG is not in dispute.  That RPG sure does look and is carried and set down like a camera pod. If you feel an urge to respond go back and check what the guy tagged "RPG Round" is doing in the video before doing so. Deleuzionist fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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ekuNNN posted:I agree that internet atheists are often very annoying, but that's because the annoying ones are the ones that stand out, and are very vocal on reddit and horrible places like that (also because internet atheists are often libertarians There's quite a large difference between being a white western male that has 'chosen' atheism and is using it to offend 'the sky wizard believers' and being a Turkish immigrant whose major tie to the only people that respect him is his religion. One of these two enjoys privilege to the extent that the form and severity of his religiosity, as a product of his 'choice' or of the other deterministic social elements of upbringing, don't matter a single bit to anyone but himself (he could be a rabid SGP-voting reformist or he could solely refuse to eat pork) while the other will protect his religious views as a matter of identity, community and self-respect. I don't think that we can stop being socialists at the first sign of conflicting rights. It's not right to assume the VVD-doctrine of personal responsibility as a counter-argument to the duty this man has not to be a total asswipe. To make a long story short here: I would urge that person to think about whether he wants to use his freedom of expression as the freedom to insult. Whose rights are at stake here? Whose dignity? Is it really choice and will being attacked here or is he making a mockery of something that his victims have terribly little control over?    
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 An art critic tried to sell this painting of unknown provenance, minus the red dot, at auction, but was refused because Sotheby's and Christie's don't sell Hitler or Stalin "memorabilia." So he got Damien Hirst to paint a red dot on it and sign it, and the artwork sold at auction for £140,000.
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QuoProQuid posted:California, as it would have appeared around 1851: It's such a cool idea, Owens Lake actually existing in that picture. 
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 The Tunisian Workers Communist Party, one of the last relevant Marxist parties in the Arab world, just decided that it would drop "communist" from its name as they just came to the realization that Tunisians don't care for the word. I'm guessing the hammer and sickle are going to go, too.
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Visited the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, OR last year. Lots of neat planes, including the Spruce Goose, and a decent on-site winery of all things. Off to the side they has a gun collection which was basically a shrine to the 2nd Amendment. Found a picture of one of the displays: "A Child's Room, Circa 1956."
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Same rally. About 1200-1500 by my estimate at its peak: They had the lawn on the right (from this perspective) fenced off, so there are plenty of people you can't see on the other side.  About halfway through the crowd. All the white on the steps are PhD students and some profs in lab coats.
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JoelJoel posted:Same rally. About 1200-1500 by my estimate at its peak 
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Here are some propaganda posters from fascist Italy and the Nazi puppet state that came after it. Most of these are from the latter I think, actually. Translation: The Black Brigades: Ready yesterday, today and tomorrow to fight for Italy's honor  Translation: Here are the "liberators!"  Translation: The blame falls on them.  Translation: Enlist in the SS Division Italiana: Honor, loyalty, courage  Translation: For honor, for life - SS Legion Italiana
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I'm convinced, those guys had to die! And the van collecting the dead and wounded too!
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this is one of my favourites of all time:
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 quote:A demonstrator bleeds as she is detained by the riot police during a coal miners’s march to the Minister of Industry building in Madrid, on July 11. Coal miners angered by huge cuts in subsidies converged on Madrid for protest rallies after walking nearly three weeks under the blazing sun from the pits where they eke out a living. video from the same demonstration, showing cops doing what they do best, hitting old people and women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ6jLGl5hbs also, there is a short but very good video here about the miners' protests, with some good interviews and some spectacular fights, showing among other things that the rubber bullets shot by the cops are like golf balls and certainly not non-lethal: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jul/11/spanish-coal-miners-video?INTCMP=SRCH ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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Jul 11, 2012 22:31
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ekuNNN posted:
Reminded me of the UK Miner's Strike.      
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Oompa-Loompa Union posted:Extremely socially conservative. During China's Cultural Revolution it got so bad that people were beaten and killed just for having premarital sex, being homosexual, etc. Non-productive sexual relations were claimed to be "bourgeois excess" by the Red Guards, who were a bunch of dumb kids that ruined a heck of a lot of lives because Mao encouraged them to. Has it really changed all that much though? And what was it like before? Always more questions.  That one is hella, ironic I suppose? Considering how stuff like that is why no-one took the early news about German actions in WW2 seriously.  Captain_Maclaine posted:Contrarily, the very early years of the Soviet Union had remarkably lax, one is even tempted to say permissive, attitudes towards gender relations and sex. Hell, for a time couples could divorce via postcard, and birth control was readily available (in the cities, at least). Not that things didn't cool off considerably once things moved into the Stalin era and later, of course, and not to belittle how things went down in China. Rogue0071 posted:Among Stalin's policies were banning abortion and homosexuality within the Soviet Union.  Pornographic Memory posted:Crazy High School Military Thing  What the gently caress. Jesus christ, this reads like something about the Hitler-juegend or something, shiiiit. I have literally never heard of anything close to as crazy as that in school. They don't even teach kids here martial arts in sports, because that poo poo is hell inappropriate, rather less train them or give them fake guns and poo poo. Jesus.  Also, did anyone have a big version of these? 
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My blog search referrals from a two hour period today Probably not going to figure out I'm in British intelligence from my own blog, buddy.
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Brown Moses posted:My blog search referrals from a two hour period today  VVVVV Oh drat, uh sorry about that. Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jul 12, 2012 |
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I am not in the pay of the CIA, MI5, MI6, Obama, Putin, The Bilderburg Group, The Free Syrian Army, Bashar al-Assad, Mossad, or George Soros. Those are all actual accusations made against me. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The LIBOR scandal explained in an infographic
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Brown Moses posted:I am not in the pay of the ... The Bilderburg Group Aha! I see what you did there, so how about the Bilderberg group?  I won't fall for your deceptions!  
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Brown Moses posted:I am not in the pay of the CIA, MI5, MI6, Obama, Putin, The Bilderburg Group, The Free Syrian Army, Bashar al-Assad, Mossad, or George Soros. Those are all actual accusations made against me. You're denying it awful quick, maybe you've got something to hide. Tell me Brown Moses, how do you feel about Reptiles?      http://i.imgur.com/YX2Mw.jpg (  for boobs)
Fluoride Jones fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jul 12, 2012 |
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Jul 12, 2012 01:16
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Deceitful Penguin posted:
JROTC seems pretty standard in rural areas down South (I'm from southern Maryland)--it's like any other club one might join at public school, but better funded thanks to the military. Perhaps in other regions as well but I can't speak to that. 
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Brown Moses posted:I am not in the pay of the CIA, MI5, MI6, Obama, Putin, The Bilderburg Group, The Free Syrian Army, Bashar al-Assad, Mossad, or George Soros. Those are all actual accusations made against me. They're barking up the wrong tree, clearly. MI7 handles press and propaganda, not 5 or 6.   owns (Kehinde Wiley) JROTC talk: I never went to a school district where JROTC was an actual class. I knew a guy in high school who was in a JROTC program, but he had had to seek it out and it was run independently of the school district. This was in, I'll admit, pretty affluent districts in NJ and CA.
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Moving pictures!     Neo-nazi gets covered in yoghurt on live TV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOlRNrVXkWM Also, Pretty fireworks!  
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Brown Moses posted:I am not in the pay of the CIA, MI5, MI6, Obama, Putin, The Bilderburg Group, The Free Syrian Army, Bashar al-Assad, Mossad, or George Soros. Those are all actual accusations made against me.  I'm sorry, I didn't mean for that to happen. Although I notice you are merely denying being in their pay, not that you work for any of them. rockopete posted:JROTC seems pretty standard in rural areas down South (I'm from southern Maryland)--it's like any other club one might join at public school, but better funded thanks to the military. Perhaps in other regions as well but I can't speak to that. What, like an elective or what? Or more like an, I dunno, anime club with money behind it? 
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Deceitful Penguin posted:He was doing it to, combat his waning influence and the rise of actual bourgeois acts, vis a vis increased capitalism though? I can see why he did it, re: being old and it having worked in tha revolution but the result... The Cultural Revolution was a hell of a thing. It's a pretty complicated subject. I took a grad-level seminar on it in college that covered just that 10 year period. Mao was a fantastic guerrilla leader and propagandist, but when it came to state administration he had some difficulties separating himself from his own arrogance. After the establishment of the PRC in 1949, Mao wanted to poise himself as the leader of the worldwide socialist movement, so he and Stalin had a cool relationship. He also had a habit of not listening to Moscow's requests. China and the USSR's relationship improved slightly when Khruschev took power after Stalin's death, but rapidly soured again when De-Stalinization was implemented. Mao felt that his own position was going to be threatened and so he called De-Stalinization a bourgeois counterrevolution and the PRC and Soviets split. Slightly before the split, Mao implemented the 100 Flowers Campaign in which the government lessened restrictions on self-expression in order to, as he claimed, to get some new ideas to improve Chinese society, but his true intentions are up for scholarly debate, because what followed was a massive purge of anyone deemed as "rightists" and "capitalist roaders." ie. Largely intellectuals. After this, he started The Great Leap Forward which was his plan to rapidly industrialize the country. Unlike Stalin's rapid industrialization of the USSR during the 20s and 30s, The Great Leap Forward was a colossal failure. Famine, production failures, poor planning, fraud, etc. The economy of China was actually doing very well prior to the Great Leap Forward, but it wasn't fast enough for Mao and China certainly could not stand on equal footing with the USSR or the Capitalist West yet. Can't really blame them though. After the revolution and establishment of the first Republic of China, the country would be in a near constant state of war and division for 30 years. One tragicomic anecdote I remember reading is that Mao announced a tour of the countryside of China via train and many farmers transplanted their bountiful crops closer to the rail-line so that the Chairman might be impressed by their hard labor, but all of the crops ended up dying because of the transplant. Because of the failure of the Great Leap Forward, the Communist Party of China was moving for Mao's quiet retirement so that they could clean up the mess. After being out of the spotlight for a few years, Mao managed to successfully wrangle up his cult of personality and he started the Cultural Revolution in 1966 in order to purge the "capitalist roaders" from the Party who had taken over after the Great Leap Forward. Basically what happened is that, like in the USSR, there was a managerial bourgeois class emerging that was more privileged than the peasant/worker class. Mao's solution was to shake up the current managerial class (who just happened to be made up of those who opposed him because of his gently caress-ups during the Great Leap Forward) by purging them by sending them to re-educating work camps or to oust them from their jobs and to send their children, mostly the urban youth, out to the countryside to learn "proper" proletarian peasant thought. Schools were shut down in China for a decade. The youth were politicized into Mao Zedong thought, and acted as his own private purging army for a couple of years, until Mao (at the urging of the government) realized that the whole situation had grown out of hand and the Red Guards (as the politicized youth were called) were disbanded because the country was on the verge of civil war. Not all of the Red Guards would disband willingly, and a few groups had to be put down by force by the People's Liberation Army. In 1969 there was a border skirmish at the Ussuri River between the USSR and the PRC, and this is largely credited for inspiring Mao to open up more with the West. His fear of a coming clash with the USSR was greater than that of a conflict with the USA. (After-all, the USA was a paper tiger.) After Mao's death in 1976, several top officials, known as the Gang of Four, were arrested, including Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, and they were blamed for the entirety of the chaos and violence so that the country might move on. Soon after, Deng Xiaoping came to power. He had been arrested during the Cultural Revolution for being one of those rightist capitalist-roaders who wanted to oust Mao after the Great Leap Forward. He'd be the one responsible for the non-proletarian market-socialist export economy that China has today. So maybe Mao was right? China today is still largely socially conservative as far as I am aware.  Here's Mao's grandson, Mao "Dim Sum More" Xinyu.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:
We had the same JROTC in our public high school in California - I thought it was pretty common. We had a competative rifle team, too, though. 
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Mr. Wiggles posted:We had the same JROTC in our public high school in California - I thought it was pretty common. We had a competative rifle team, too, though. We actually had a trap team that practiced on school grounds. We used to run football drills to the sound of constant gunshots. 
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quote:What the gently caress. Jesus christ, this reads like something about the Hitler-juegend or something, shiiiit. So we should avoid mentioning other, private youth organisations like the Young Marines (ages 8 and up)?   
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Glorious Army of youthful revolutionaries That's terrifying  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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