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This is really helpful and I'm glad you're doing it. Thanks. But your images got all out of order.
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 It's a billboard in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:As you may remember from other posters, the Republican rallying cry in Madrid was "No pasarán" ("They will not pass"). When Franco's forces finally captured Madrid, Franco supposedly sent his military a dispatch saying "We have passed".
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:I haven't had the chance to translate Spanish posters for a couple days now so let's get on this! Soviet commissars were morale and political officers. Shooting people tends to be detrimental to the proper maintenance of overall morale. We had a post in the milhist thread about the actual function and duties of commissars and we were assured they didn't shoot people.
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Ann Telnaes posted some of her Hurricane Katrina cartoons from 10 years ago to mark the anniversary. Some of these are savage.    e: imgur not generating thumbnails properly for a couple of these... colonel_korn fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 23:27
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Klaus88 posted:Soviet commissars were morale and political officers. Shooting people tends to be detrimental to the proper maintenance of overall morale. We had a post in the milhist thread about the actual function and duties of commissars and we were assured they didn't shoot people. 
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Klaus88 posted:Soviet commissars were morale and political officers. Shooting people tends to be detrimental to the proper maintenance of overall morale. We had a post in the milhist thread about the actual function and duties of commissars and we were assured they didn't shoot people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w4Xulsjo5I 
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Aug 28, 2015 23:51
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:
 I'm glad somebody spent money on this.Haha holy poo poo the Wix website.
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Aug 28, 2015 23:55
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:
Beautiful.
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Aug 28, 2015 23:57
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ought ten posted:This is really helpful and I'm glad you're doing it. Thanks. But your images got all out of order. Don't worry, I noticed it as soon as I posted it and it's been fixed  Klaus88 posted:Soviet commissars were morale and political officers. Shooting people tends to be detrimental to the proper maintenance of overall morale. We had a post in the milhist thread about the actual function and duties of commissars and we were assured they didn't shoot people. Good to know! I know stuff like "Not on step backwards" is way overstated in the general perception of commissars, but I'm not too clear on how brutal (or not) Soviet commissars really were.
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Please let Trump and Sanders be the nominations.
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Klaus88 posted:Soviet commissars were morale and political officers. Shooting people tends to be detrimental to the proper maintenance of overall morale. We had a post in the milhist thread about the actual function and duties of commissars and we were assured they didn't shoot people. Or at least one to the military history thread since I have no idea what subforum it's under. InequalityGodzilla fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Klaus88 posted:Soviet commissars were morale and political officers. Shooting people tends to be detrimental to the proper maintenance of overall morale. We had a post in the milhist thread about the actual function and duties of commissars and we were assured they didn't shoot people. Nope. They just told the NKVD who to shoot.
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Somfin posted:Drawing a character whose primary hair colour shifts from black to green(ish yellow)? That's a specific character? The guy opposite him is the same except that he's bald. In this case, The LA Times did it's job worse than ... Rall.
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Met posted:Please let Trump and Sanders be the nominations. I would rather not have president trump.
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Grapplejack posted:I would rather not have president trump. There's no independents that voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 that will switch to Trump for 2016.
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Next 10 posters: 100  "Let us rise up against the Italian invasion of Spain!" As I'm sure everyone itt already knows, Italy and Germany both intervened pretty directly in the Spanish Civil War. Apart from material aid, both countries also sent military forces to aid the Nationalist cause. The Germans famously sent the Condor Legion, but also provided Franco with the aircraft he needed to get his forces off the Canary Islands and into Spain. The Italians, as you can see, played a similar role. Private enterprises also backed the Nationalists. Texaco, for example, had made a deal to send the Republic some shipments before the war started. That oil was en route when Franco's rebellion kicked off, though, and Texaco redirected it to be sent to Nationalist-held ports. The Republicans also had their own international backers. The USSR, for example, sent tanks, aircraft, and some military forces. They also stored the Spanish national bank's gold reserves when the latter were threatened by the Nationalist advance. Mexico sent guns and ammunition. And of course, there were movements such as the International Brigade. 101  "The Internationals, united with the Spanish, are fighting against the invader" Speak of the devil! Nothing to add to this. 102  "The anarchist books are weapons against fascism" Books/knowledge as weapons is a recurring theme in Republican propaganda. I think I already mentioned Spain's dismal literacy rate for the time, so it should come as no surprise that the Republic placed a lot of emphasis on educating the poor. 103  "The Nationals Ministry of Propaganda" [on the mast/gallows]"Up with/Arise Spain" The military, clergy, and rich guide the boat of the Nationalist junta. Note that it says "Lisbon" (Lisboa) on the boat--a reference to Portugal's own fascist movement under Salazar, which was very friendly towards Franco. You may also be wondering who the swarthy-looking gentlemen in the back and in the portholes are. Those are soldiers from the Army of Africa, which as I already said were generally a mix of regular Spanish and Moroccan troops. 104  "More men! More arms! More munitions!" The armbands refer to the UGT, one of the larger labor unions in Spain at the time. 105  "Ministry of Public Instruction The cultural militias fight against fascism [by] combatting ignorance." Again, knowledge and weapons. 106  "Children: respect animals and plants" It's not all guns and misery! The Republic can be adorable too! 107  "They will not pass! -July 1936 We will pass! -July 1937" So far we've mostly been dealing with political stuff, let's shift gears to the military situation so we can understand this. By July 1937, the Nationalists were putting a lot of pressure on the Republican strongholds in northern Spain. In an attempt to relieve the pressure, the Republicans launched an offensive that ended up in the battles of Albarracín and Brunete. On balance, the offensives didn't work out very well; the Republic only ever managed stalemates at best, and the Nationalists took control of the north sooner or later anyways. 108  "Our coasts shall be defended by our brave sailors" Apart from the Condor Legion and air assets, the Germans also sent naval forces, although these were ostensibly acting as a sort of peacekeeping role. In May 1937, Russian bomber pilots working for the Republic mistook the German cruiser Deutschland for a Nationalist ship and bombed it. In response, the German navy shelled the coastal town of Almería. I'm guessing that's what this poster is referencing. 109  "Worker! Joining the Iron Column strengthens the revolution CNT-FAI" The CNT-FAI was yet another labor union. If it seems like there's a lot of those, that's because they represented different schools of political thought. The CNT-FAI was an anarchist union, while the UGT tended towards communism iirc. This was an extension of the differing political views of the Spanish Left.
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Aug 29, 2015 00:34
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 Great cartoon about the GOP's hostility towards America by noted left-wing cartoonist Richeal Mamirez.
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colonel_korn posted:
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colonel_korn posted:
Easiest AGC in a while.
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colonel_korn posted:
You gotta give me the yellow beady eyes!
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colonel_korn posted:
 An incredibly accurate and insightful cartoon.
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I guess he did get the privilege of being called a lone crazy even though he wasn't white, didn't he?
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Remember, guys: it's the liberals who politicize tragedies by bringing up gun control in the wake of a mass shooting.
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Gen. Ripper posted:Remember, guys: it's the liberals who politicize tragedies by bringing up gun control in the wake of a mass shooting. Talking about gun control causes shootings just like talking about racial inequality causes racism. Don't you know anything about this country?
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The cop reaching for his gun or the guy holding a go-pro? drat
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I have a high school friend who keeps posting lovely racist macros from some Donald Trump group on facebook, so thanks for this.
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Reposting from the '16 Primary thread in EE: Alfred P. Pseudonym totally beat me to the joke
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They must REALLY want this email thing to stick. I can't wait to see more impotent rage when Hillary skates through this one, too.
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OK, time for the next batch: 90  "Out with the invader!" Funny that the Republicans chose to use a bullfighter here, I've always heard that the sport was more popular among the fascists. According to Orwell, the bullfighting stadiums in Republican towns were always closed because all the really good matadors were fascists. 91  "S.E. the Generalissimo" Not sure what the SE is supposed to mean. Cat Mattress posted:"Su Excelencia" ("His Excellency") perhaps? 92  "The Fifth Column is a danger, destroy it!" In case you didn't know, the use of the phrase "fifth column" to denote a secret rebellious force originated in the Spanish Civil War. Madrid was being sieged by four Nationalist columns, and Franco bragged that there was a fifth column of Nationalist forces secreted inside the city and waiting for orders to rise up and throw out the Republicans. No such force ever materialized, I think, but the word stuck. 93  "Culture is a weapon for fighting fascism" 94  "The FAI, in the bloody front, in the labor front, fights for humanity" The FAI was an anarchist union. During the war it joined forces with the CNT labor union to form the CNT-FAI. 95  "War and revolution are indivisible The line of fire and socialized production, key to the final victory over fascism Social forge Daily of the revolution" A little something for the ladies  I'm guessing "Social forge" was the name of a newsletter or such that appealed to labor-class tastes. 96  "The Economic-Social Transformation of the World A Call to the Youth Conference organized by the Institute of Economic Sciences of Catalonia by Pres. Joan P Fabregas The 19th at 7:30 in the Sala Mozart" Catalonia was one of the last regions to fall to the Nationalists. It's historically been an economic and cultural engine for Spain, particularly in the decades leading up to the Civil War. 97  "The union of the army and the people will be the weapon for victory" 98  "Read [By] combating ignorance you will destroy fascism The Ministry of Public Instruction opens the libraries to the people If you cannot read in the library, ask for books to read at home" 99  "The militias need you!" Woman played a pretty famous role in the militias, as I'm sure everyone here can tell by now. They gained a lot in the Republican years: abortion, civil marriages in lieu of religious ones, eased divorce. Of course, once Franco came into power women lost a lot of those rights and were relegated to the kitchen and the bedroom. NEED TOILET PAPER fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Boy, that mrs. Cunton sure seems like an awful person.
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Uh... You might want to get a new font there Tinsley
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Aug 29, 2015 05:23
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Oh man wouldn't it be horrible if Clinton said this thing I just made up!
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First of all, terrible Hilary Clinton. Second of all, I love when font choice just shits the bed like this, it's magical. The exact same demographic of people who read this crap in the newspapers are the ones who will complain about it and get it pulled.
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Aug 29, 2015 05:26
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The people reading the newspaper and looking for drunk duck have zero issue with how that looks
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