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Lets never forget the allies also commited war crimes during the war. A lot of them. In all theaters of war. They may not have been as widespread and targetted horrific, but they happened.
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Tashilicious posted:Lets never forget the allies also commited war crimes during the war. A lot of them. In all theaters of war. The entire last page is examples of Allied war crimes, what is the point of this post?
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May 22, 2019 09:00
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That some people don't see the A Bomb or the firebombing as warcrimes, despite that they are.
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May 22, 2019 09:03
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The Lone Badger posted:That's not quite true. War used to involve massive amounts of dying from dysentery. Dysentery's still a thing. My step-brother got dysentery in Iraq like 10 years ago and nearly died.
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Tashilicious posted:That some people don't see the A Bomb or the firebombing as warcrimes, despite that they are. Than say that. Your last post sounded like something a wehraboo would say to minimize the axis warcrimes.
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May 22, 2019 09:56
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I remember someone linking an article about the conditions soldiers had to deal with during nightmares like the Battle of the Somme. Distinctly remember a  image of a man who drowned upright in a muddy ditch, the water stopping just before his eyes.
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May 22, 2019 10:48
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empty sea posted:Dysentery's still a thing. My step-brother got dysentery in Iraq like 10 years ago and nearly died. But did the majority of his company die?
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May 22, 2019 11:13
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Pyrotoad posted:I remember someone linking an article about the conditions soldiers had to deal with during nightmares like the Battle of the Somme. Distinctly remember a There was a story from I think? Passchendaele, or possibly the same story as yours from the Somme, where a company goes to the front and they pass a man who's sunk into the mud to almost his waist, and is far off the wooden tracks so no one could really go get him. When they rotated off the front three days later, he was still there, alive, sunk to over his chest, and had gone stark raving mad. I think about that one a lot. Possibly the most out of the stories I've heard about WW1. I forget if someone finally just shot him as a mercy killing after that or not, but I hope they did. I know I'd want to get shot instead of going through that. And I would do it to someone else.
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May 22, 2019 11:17
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Christ. The spectrum of suffering from mass terror to individual hell these last couple pages is very much doing my head in. If this were fiction I'd be done with this thread for my mental health. But it's real, so I feel like I'd be looking away from something I need to acknowledge. In short, Christ.
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May 22, 2019 14:49
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Gaius Marius posted:Than say that. Your last post sounded like something a wehraboo would say to minimize the axis warcrimes. No it didn't? Don't be weird.
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May 22, 2019 14:56
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Brawnfire posted:Christ. While this is not the thread for it, plenty of good and hopeful things have happened and are happening, and you can go acknowledge some of them if you need to.
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May 22, 2019 14:59
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ArcMage posted:While this is not the thread for it, plenty of good and hopeful things have happened and are happening, and you can go acknowledge some of them if you need to. I try to. I try to balance it with good food, fun tech, silly stories, cute cats, and dumb memes. This thread is basically the place where I flip the rock and look at the rot-eating side of humanity.
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May 22, 2019 15:03
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Brawnfire posted:I try to. I try to balance it with good food, fun tech, silly stories, cute cats, and dumb memes. This thread is great for putting everything in perspective and making even an ordinary day the best one ever because it's not being trapped in a trench in WWI and being left to die. I appreciate it.
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Azathoth posted:One thing that really scares me about the future is that we're not far from losing living memory of what the atomic bomb really does. Gaius Marius posted:Than say that. Your last post sounded like something a wehraboo would say to minimize the axis warcrimes.
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I learned about World War 1 by reading Charley's War in the British War comic Battle. It is very much worth reading and I recommend it to anyone with an interest but who doesn't want to go through a weighty tome of facts.
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To take a pause from the awfulness humanity's capable of, I present some unnerving that's outside anyone's control. One of the most horrifying things for a parent or soon-to-be parent is the barrage of information on everything that can potentially go wrong with pregnancy. We're warned about unsafe behaviors like drug use or drinking during pregnancy, warned about the risks of birth defects if you're pregnant over a certain age, and warned about increased risk of inherited genetic ailments. We're able to test for a wide variety of conditions during pregnancy. But despite scientific advances in both detection and treatment, and taking all advised precautions, it's still possible for something to happen. Brooke Greenberg seemed normal at first. She was born c-section and did have to have some hip dislocation surgery. Neither anything to be particularly alarmed about. However, she developed several unexplainable medical illnesses (ulcers, seizure, a stroke) during the first six years of her life and stopped growing. At 8 yrs old she was the size of a 6 mo old. Her parents tried everything, including growth hormone therapy to no effect. Her condition would initially be called Syndrome X, but later named Neotenic Complex Syndrome. Brooke would eventually pass away at 20 yrs old, still the size of a toddler. Geneticists have been able to identify some of the genes responsible, but some of the mutations are still beyond our current scientific understanding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Greenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotenic_complex_syndrome https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-body-died.html https://abcnews.go.com/Health/maryland-20-year-dies-aged/story?id=20712718
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May 23, 2019 04:41
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Random thought: Two or so years ago a goon posted about the body of a dead homeless man found behind a Walmart in Albuquerque, it was found with (I think) the penis cut off and rightfully freaked everyone out. Was there any update on that?
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Nckdictator posted:Random thought: I remember that too. Except the goon in question was speculating it was a serial killer since there had been a string of similar homeless murders in that rough geographic area. For some reason, I want to say there was some mutilation involved? But I likely watch too many movies. All that said, I don't recall anything since the Walmart report.
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Nckdictator posted:Random thought: This is the most recent article I can find.
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Nckdictator posted:Random thought: No update, but for those who haven't read it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3631148&userid=112779#post458899805 EDIT: The post about the Wal-Mart: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3631148&userid=112779&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post467903287 The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 20:23 on May 29, 2019 |
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May 29, 2019 20:09
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I miss Droogie's creepy New Mexico posts.
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pookel posted:No, it didn't. It absolutely is and if you think otherwise you're naive. Milo and POTUS has a new favorite as of 03:59 on May 30, 2019 |
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May 30, 2019 01:36
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Milo and POTUS posted:It absolutely is and if you think otherwise you're naive. This is some dumbass Cold War era thinking. Acknowledging that the US did terrible things in the course of the war is not even remotely excusing what the Nazis did and anyone with two brain cells can easily make that distinction
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There was nothing wrong about that second sentence he said and I shouldn't have quoted it, I apologize. That said, Internet nazis absolutely use whataboutism about allied bombings (both legal and less so) to minimize the extent of actual Axis warcrimes.
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Oh yeah? Well I apologize for insulting your intelligence and calling you a Cold War dumbass.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I miss Droogie's creepy New Mexico posts. Droogie's writing was masterful.
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Well I'm sorry we all had to read that!
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A common reaction to your posts.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I miss Droogie's creepy New Mexico posts. Can we rule out the possibility that Droogie knew so much about some of this stuff because he was responsible for it? 
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Jedit posted:I learned about World War 1 by reading Charley's War in the British War comic Battle. It is very much worth reading and I recommend it to anyone with an interest but who doesn't want to go through a weighty tome of facts. Charley’s war is excellent and I’d recommend not reading it unless you’re having a very good day, because that’ll just about balance out how depressing it is.
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Hexyflexy posted:Charley’s war is excellent and I’d recommend not reading it unless you’re having a very good day, because that’ll just about balance out how depressing it is. Well, a lot of it is funny - the scene with the "Christmas pudding" shell, for example. But you don't want to read "What's in the bag, soldier?" when you're feeling down. The only thing better than Mills's script in that scene is Joe Colquhoun's art.
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M_Sinistrari posted:To take a pause from the awfulness humanity's capable of, I present some unnerving that's outside anyone's control. One of the most horrifying things for a parent or soon-to-be parent is the barrage of information on everything that can potentially go wrong with pregnancy. We're warned about unsafe behaviors like drug use or drinking during pregnancy, warned about the risks of birth defects if you're pregnant over a certain age, and warned about increased risk of inherited genetic ailments. We're able to test for a wide variety of conditions during pregnancy. But despite scientific advances in both detection and treatment, and taking all advised precautions, it's still possible for something to happen. Oh god I can confirm as a soon-to-be-parent that poo poo like this keeps me up at loving night. Christ.
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Hexyflexy posted:Charley’s war is excellent and I’d recommend not reading it unless you’re having a very good day, because that’ll just about balance out how depressing it is. Gotta find this now because it goes against everything I’ve ever read in Battle
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[quote="nutty putty" post=""""] In the pit, eight people worked as one. [/quote] https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/09/nutty-putty-i-really/ tw: claustrophobia
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May 31, 2019 12:50
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Jedit posted:Can we rule out the possibility that Droogie knew so much about some of this stuff because he was responsible for it? This thread will be served as evidence in the forthcoming trial.
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May 31, 2019 13:01
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Cheery little article about the unsolved death of a girl I was friends with back in the pre-Internet online BBS days: http://www.hauntedrockford.com/darkness/
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Jedit posted:Can we rule out the possibility that Droogie knew so much about some of this stuff because he was responsible for it? Have you ever seen Droogie and a serial killer in the same room together? Lock 'em up!
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Droogie's Death House
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