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The happy side of this is that Seuss recanted his racism and by way of apology wrote Horton Hears a Who
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Victor Hutchinson's POW Diary Monday 22nd January, 1945 At 0730 a heavy explosion shook the room, and incidentally cleared our chimney of soot. The cook house sergeants claim that it was a FW 190 which pranged on the nearby –aerodrome. Several lorry loads of refugees drifted through looking very pinched and depressed. This coupled with increasing air activity on the drome makes us feel that we stand a good chance of being in a ring side seat for the scrap. Joe does not seem to be slackening he is thrusting still deeper into East Prussia & Upper Silesia. Fighting reported to be between Alleinstien & Insterburg; around Opelm on the Oder and at Thorn. Life these days is full of interest and we eagerly await the dawn of a new day, any one of which may bring our liberty.
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Tomn posted:Also lol at the Japanese print of the Japanese soldier literally just buttfucking the Russian. That's a pretty direct cartoon. The balls on that. Woe betide the goon thinking their workplace is cool with over the top propaganda. But yeah good read and a refresher from what I knew. One of these days I'll read that book I got I swear.
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SeanBeansShako posted:God the Boer War is hosed up. Anybody got any recommendations for books on the Second Boer War? My GG-Uncle was in the thick of it, it seems. Oddly, he was in the army from 95-07, then reserve until 1911, but there is no record of him in the army in WW1.
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Epicurius posted:So why don't you like Mario Sznajder? ... Also, no one found any flaws worth fixing?
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following your link led me to my main main Gideon Johnson Pillow
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Xander77 posted:Do you know him from somewhere, or just asking at random? I don't think it's reasonable to call the God Worshipping Society Communists or even pseudo-communists. I find the cartoons and illustrations to be excellent and the narrative that accompanies them an awkward mixture of trite, flippant, and overly detailed. edit: at the risk of having sounded overly harsh, it gets better later and seems like you aren't trying as hard to be Funny KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jan 22, 2018 |
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Jan 22, 2018 19:06
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Clarence posted:Anybody got any recommendations for books on the Second Boer War? Pakenham's book is good.
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Xander77 posted:Do you know him from somewhere, or just asking at random? KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I don't think it's reasonable to call the God Worshipping Society Communists or even pseudo-communists. I just got around to looking at it and yeah, the first third or so is basically the subtitles to a click bait article about top 10 wacky whatevers. After that you get away from trying to be funny and start getting into more informative stuff and it really evens out in a big way. The other thing is that you need to be more consistent with how you use the pictures. You make a whole series of decisions when you choose illustrations - they don't exist in a vacuum. Why are you picking that particular image? What are you trying to say with it? What point are you trying to convey to the reader? Why are you putting them in a particular order? Obviously some of these are going to be obvious considerations for you (the order is due to the chronology you are describing) but you're more or less even with how you relate the text to the images in others. In some places the text and the images exist parallel to each other and don't really interact. You are describing events, and the picture accompanies the event, but the text never really interrogates what is going on in the image. Is this a wikipedia-style summary of events with pictures to keep us entertained (picturebook model) or are you trying to make a point about the use of propaganda and engage with the images? The bit with the Japanese soldier butt loving the Russian one is illustrative of this. From a purely comedic standpoint it's a well enough constructed joke - "I wonder how the war pans out?" *image of anal rape* "looks like Japan won" - but if you're trying to make some point about the war or about how victory was received etc. you need a bit more. As my adviser would say "there just isn't enough there, there." Ultimately the core weakness is that you need to figure out what you're doing. Is this pure meme comedy stuff kind of like those comics that depict WW1 as a bar fight, or are you trying to make a point about how the story of the war was told at that time through political cartoons and other propaganda? If you figure that out and hone in on that and focus on what your over-all goal is you can probably tighten it up significantly. Also imgur is a trash place to display stuff like this. Stitch it into a .pdf or something.
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Clarence posted:Anybody got any recommendations for books on the Second Boer War? I am currently reading The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham, It is a bit of a tome (500 pages plus) and slightly an oldie having been published in 1979 but it is quite solid and covers the conflict from start to finish and follows the antics of the British government, Army, Boers, DeBeers and the long suffering Africans of South Africa. I'm not sure about anything more recent though.
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Cyrano4747 posted:
I'm assuming he's putting it on imgur so he can share it to reddit and try and educate some people through humor.
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I would agree with what has already been said and say leave the comedy for captions for the more absurd moments of Imperialism and the pictures slotted into a vague order that makes sense with the history too and keep the facts more or less straight. It did get a little bit like a Cracked article at times.
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Xander77 posted:Do you know him from somewhere, or just asking at random? Never heard of him. Just seemed weird that, in the middle of a history of the Russo-Japanese war, you took the time to call out your old college professor. So I just wondered what he had done to get the random callout.
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GotLag posted:
This cartoon takes on a whoooooole 'nother meaning in the 21st century.
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Dumped "communist" from "Chinese-Christian-Communist", because - yeah, that's just wrong. Toned down some of the out of the more place humor. But this is absolutely meant to be humorously educational, so I'm not going to dump all of the jokes. And getting into the contrast between propaganda and reality would require a whole separate post, focusing on that specific aspect. I did try to occasionally combine particularly optimistic propaganda with those bits of text describing the most bitter defeats, just to suggest said contrast. The "pro and anti-immigrant cartoons in the 19th century" post linked above is specifically about the use and history of propaganda. Here, the cartoons are really more of an illustration to the text. Epicurius posted:Never heard of him. Just seemed weird that, in the middle of a history of the Russo-Japanese war, you took the time to call out your old college professor. So I just wondered what he had done to get the random callout. Edit - and I suppose the imgur post was constructed to emulate those history lectures I do enjoy. Tomn posted:This cartoon takes on a whoooooole 'nother meaning in the 21st century. Xander77 fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jan 22, 2018 |
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Tomn posted:This cartoon takes on a whoooooole 'nother meaning in the 21st century. 
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So far from what I read anyway, Buller seems to have hosed up the least. I mean yeah he was over promoted but the stuff he got blamed for sort of was out of his control one way or another. His peers and bosses did much much worse.
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HEY GUNS posted:Ironically I'm glad to live in this time. I'm learning a lot of things about Fascism and heck, I'm never bored any more. Hey, how often do you get a chance to LARP 1933?
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Cessna posted:Hey, how often do you get a chance to LARP 1933?
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Xander77 posted:I have a few political cartoons collections up on imgur. This one might be relevant: I see one of the cartoons excerpts Bret Harte's "Plain Language from Truthful James," better known as "The Heathen Chinee." The poem became a sort of rallying cry for the anti-Chinese immigration movement, which is ironic since its text satirizes the hypocrisy and racism of the narrator and his companion. 
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HEY GUNS posted:i put on my robe and grand wizard hat 
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On a different subject, I'm going to Chicago at the end of February. Besides the museum with U-505 in it, are there any military-related exhibits I should check out?
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Gnoman posted:On a different subject, I'm going to Chicago at the end of February. Besides the museum with U-505 in it, are there any military-related exhibits I should check out? http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/
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WW2 Data We continue with more Navy Rockets, this time covering the 4.5-inch and 5-inch rockets. Why did some rockets use 4 nozzles for the propelling gases over 8? What modifications were made to the venturi nozzles on slower rockets? How many inches could a 5-inch AR rocket penetrate, under normal circumstances? All that and more at the blog!
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Mercenaries and their Masters posted:But beside the practical tradition of the tournament had grown up the more courtly tradition of the joust and the chivalric spectacle like the battles of the castelli d'armore. Not that the joust fought with blunted weapons did not continue to serve a practical purpose, and the best jousters in the fifteenth century were all drawn from the ranks of the professional soldiers. But it was in the joust that the formalised skills of the knight could be displayed by men who were knights only in name, and merchants, lawyers, and courtiers in practice. What I'm getting from this is that ren faire tournaments are 100% accurate, right down to the overweight middle-aged white-collar dude in a gigantic shell of armor who doesn't know poo poo mopping his brow and talking about how hardcore he is and how real knights acted (like he does).
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Tomn posted:What I'm getting from this is that ren faire tournaments are 100% accurate, right down to the overweight middle-aged white-collar dude in a gigantic shell of armor who doesn't know poo poo mopping his brow and talking about how hardcore he is and how real knights acted (like he does). they'd set up day-long scenarios it ruled
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SeanBeansShako posted:So far from what I read anyway, Buller seems to have hosed up the least. I mean yeah he was over promoted but the stuff he got blamed for sort of was out of his control one way or another. His peers and bosses did much much worse. Did you ever find that picture of the pre-motor motorized attack pew
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HEY GUNS posted:the late medieval court of Burgundy LARPed LARP rules in general, my last character was just me trying to emulate Pappenheim I got myself and everyone I was leading killed in an ill-advised charge against a bunch of orcs. poo poo owns
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HEY GUNS posted:the late medieval court of Burgundy LARPed Tell me more. I must know more.
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So hey, here's a question: Was pre-battle champion dueling ever a common thing in Europe? If so, around when did it stop?
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Single combat between champions comes up in tons of stories in Europe from antiquity through the early Middle ages in works like The Illiad and The Song of Roland. The Romans in particular have tons of stories about generals who distinguished themselves by killing the enemy commander in single combat, and stripping the armor off a defeated enemy champion and was basically the most prestigious honor a commander could get aside from a Triumph. Even though many of these stories are semi-legendary/mythic, it pops up so much that I tend to believe it's based in some nugget of truth.
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Xander77 posted:Dumped "communist" from "Chinese-Christian-Communist", because - yeah, that's just wrong. Toned down some of the out of the more place humor. The humor's fine if that's what you are going for, I'd just focus on actually making some good jokes rather than trying to epitomize Reddit's sense of humor. I think you could cut a bunch of images to fit your narrative as well. I actually don't think that you need to describe the China situation with as much background as you do. Spend an image or two describing Japan's rise, an image or two talking about the Great Game and balancing between the English and Russia, and the Japanese desire to exert influence over colonies as part of the program of Westernization/Imperialization. There you've provided enough context without having to talk about the Taiping or the structural causes of Chinese weakness. None of that actually matters for what you are trying to accomplish.
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I wouldn't call the Taiping capital-C Marxist Communists, but they did live communally for the early phase of the movement and western visitors reported an economy operating without private property. By the time Hong Rengan is in charge the platform becomes much more like western liberalism but there's still the land reform proposals which are extremely small c communist in that they want to set up a system of twenty five family communes working land collectively and handing excess production to the state. In my opinion downplaying their communism is like the CCP downplaying their Christianity, you can make the argument in both cases that it wasn't the "real thing", but it was still an important part of the ideology.
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Need some warm takes assessed: When it comes to early modern history, how's Paul Krugman doing?
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Nebakenezzer posted:Need some warm takes assessed: First year undergraduate tbh. 'Not incidentally, France repeatedly defaulted on its debt, while post-1688 England, its king effectively constrained by Parliament, never did.' Why would Parliament not quite happily default on debt if need be? Argentina was a democracy in 2001 and it was quite happy to do this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%932002_Argentine_great_depression#Debt_default It's pretty sophomoric to be 'democracy therefore no defaults therefore France loses and has a revolution and Britain wins All The Things'. Pre-1689 Britain wasn't in the habit of defaulting on bankers' loans either, to be honest, there was one such event in 1672 and it was pretty scandalous. The invention of the National Debt, yes, probably a good and important financial innovation - but I don't see why it needs Parliament to work.
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Victor Hutchinson's POW Diary Tuesday 23rd, January 1945 Constant stream of refugees passing the camp the whole day utilising every possible four wheel conveyance, sledges also. A very depressing sight. Turned over to full parcels for two weeks . Bread and spud supplies temporarily suspended. Bread sit due to bakery being evacuated in Breslau. Sat for Inter RSA French today. Quite satisfactory. Received a letter from Pat today, dated Oct 6th. Hooray. Russians moving towards Posen - no lack of drive. Lots of talk of ‘Victory’ cake and the like. This period of waiting is tantalising. God it will be depressing if it peters out like the west. It doesn’t bear thinking about. Ed (Canadian) just recovering from his bout of flue - he must be well he is talking about food.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Need some warm takes assessed: The usual reading is pretty much the other way round: France had a smaller deficit to gdp ratio than Britain, but it had very limited taxation ability, because of the power of the nobility. This meant that government finances were shakier, which was why interest rates were higher. Obviously British governments also have access to more developed financial institutions post 1688, but it's hard to argue that William III made the Parliament more powerful.
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Paul Krugman the economist is a very sharp guy who justly deserved his Nobel. Paul Krugman the opinion columnist is someone so dumb and wrong about virtually everything he makes Thomas Friedman look like a Nobel prize winner. It's also awesome when the latter Paul Krugman disagrees with the former Paul Krugman.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Did you ever find that picture of the pre-motor motorized attack pew It's not in my IMGUR account so I guess I used some other image service and we've lost it forever. Sorry.
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If I recall correctly, the nominally democratic French Directory tried defaulting on the national debt, but then the more dictatorial Napoleon came around and honored the debt. France's money troubles compared to Britain had way more to do with the fact that Britain was rolling in prosperity while France kept having expensive troubles and losses than their respective government types, although France's archaic tax system and a certain crooked accountant certainly helped things along. Trump's habit of lying and likeliness to lead the US into a default has less to do with him attempting to be a dictator than it does with the fact that he's based literally his whole career on this kind of poo poo (literally, the lying, changing the deal at the last second, defaulting, racism). It does make me wonder if there's any good stories of totalitarian strongman dictators going through the stages of dementia though.
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