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This year in world of wars, we start off with Mark's campaign against a dumbass PE teacher and his defenders in the PTA.
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^^ I got a Stalin keychain at the Stalin Museum when I went there with that image on one side. Always gives me good memories. Came to post that I was glad there’s a new episode to listen to on my bike out to the in-laws for New Years. HNY everyone!
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Dec 29, 2021 23:38
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someone tell John about the Afar militias, so he has a underdog ethnic militia to cheer for in Ethiopia that will result in a less warped analysis.
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Dec 30, 2021 01:31
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lmao yeah the ethiopia stuff is pretty bad, similar to the nigeria episode last year
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Dec 30, 2021 01:39
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The Moonies produced a bizarre Korean war movie called Incheon, and MacArthur plays a central role in it. It's really funny because the script and tone are totally reverent of MacArthur, but the plot makes it look like he didn't really do anything. The Moonie movie IIRC is from like the early 80s and is one of the last Korean War film made in the US. It’s funny how we still churn out WW2 movies all the time, even an occasional Vietnam one still, but Korea is this huge blind spot in American pop culture. It’s obvious why, but it’s still crazy to see
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Dec 31, 2021 17:00
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skooma512 posted:The Moonie movie IIRC is from like the early 80s and is one of the last Korean War film made in the US. That mostly comes down to the fact that the US government exercised press censorship to stop American newspapers from reporting on all the atrocities being committed by the US & its allies. So if they couldn't report bad news there'd be no news at all. When China entered the war and it bogged down into a years long stalemate, practically nothing was happening media wise. You could barely even tell it ended. It ultimately just didn't last long enough to have any real cultural impact. It just ended up being a lens through which the next generation evaluated Vietnam.
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Dec 31, 2021 17:22
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Finally got around to listening to part 2 of the balkans episode. Balkans chat owns.
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Jan 3, 2022 03:26
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Atrocious Joe posted:This year in world of wars, we start off with Mark's campaign against a dumbass PE teacher and his defenders in the PTA. Casualties: several hurt elementary schoolers feelings, carpel tunnel by the PTA moderator
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Jan 3, 2022 03:32
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The korean war memorial in dc is so loving stupid looking lol :quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7NB2GYODENF3HOLU7ZJBG63R74.jpg)
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Jan 3, 2022 05:32
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Algund Eenboom posted:The korean war memorial in dc is so loving stupid looking lol lmao korean war vets stay losing
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Jan 3, 2022 06:00
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Vietnam was the peak of american military aesthetic. Flak Jackets and M1 helmets >>> 3 million operator tacticool gear.
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Jan 3, 2022 07:06
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Atrocious Joe posted:This year in world of wars, we start off with Mark's campaign against a dumbass PE teacher and his defenders in the PTA. RWN's inexplicable rambling about completely irrelevant personal stuff is annoying but also weirdly helpful in setting the tone dolan going on a long tangent about albanian flag etiquette does add a certain texture, but it's not immediately obvious how this relates to cold war nuclear strategy or w/e
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Jan 3, 2022 10:46
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jesus christ, gravity has nearly killed our dude
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Jan 4, 2022 10:29
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He always has such a way with words. I'm glad he can get top notch medical care in a real country.
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Jan 4, 2022 10:34
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:He always has such a way with words. yeah of all his travails this is what i'm usually impressed with don't trip in waco, my dude
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Jan 4, 2022 10:45
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no idea why ames wants to keep staying in the usa instead of moving to europe or something
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mila kunis posted:no idea why ames wants to keep staying in the usa instead of moving to europe or something family
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Jan 4, 2022 18:41
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Also they suck at doing the paperwork for residency and so just move every time their tourist visa expires.
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Jan 4, 2022 19:29
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mila kunis posted:no idea why ames wants to keep staying in the usa instead of moving to europe or something He'd have an even harder time getting a long-term visa than John, and he can't drag his family all over the planet.
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Jan 4, 2022 20:10
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"the ulna went through the elbow like a freight train" jesus christ john, hope it heals alright and the pain/complications have crested
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Jan 4, 2022 21:04
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Dolan is very good at describing his injuries in graphic detail. Occasionally the part of Pleasant Hell where he worked at a glass supplier pops into my head.
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Jan 4, 2022 21:08
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I'm never going to read Pleasant Hell. Certainly not. You can't make me.
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Jan 4, 2022 22:15
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 That injury sounds horrible
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Jan 4, 2022 22:32
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I need to get back around to finishing Pleasant Hell, because the stuff I did read of it was really funny.
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Jan 4, 2022 22:38
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Atrocious Joe posted:Dolan is very good at describing his injuries in graphic detail. Or his unwashed karate gi slowly growing mold continents...
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Jan 4, 2022 22:41
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genericnick posted:I'm never going to read Pleasant Hell. Certainly not. You can't make me. It's not all that gruesome. But it is pure leaded cringe. My boy John was a goon. It could have been my story he was telling. My carpal tunnel cheeto dust hand reaching across time and up Interstate 5 to meet his hand coming out of a rotting karate uniform.
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Jan 4, 2022 22:47
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Hmm. https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1478492620464795649
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Jan 4, 2022 23:38
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Atrocious Joe posted:Occasionally the part of Pleasant Hell where he worked at a glass supplier pops into my head. I read that entire segment as a piece in various speech competitions during college. No one ever really 'got' it, but I had fun.
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Jan 5, 2022 19:44
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Also they suck at doing the paperwork for residency and so just move every time their tourist visa expires. so every 3 months? that seems stressful
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Jan 5, 2022 22:43
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i get the impression that dolan and missus live out of two very dented suitcases
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Jan 5, 2022 23:13
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it would certainly be easier when you’re young but if you aren’t attached to possessions and can swing it economically it would be really rewarding.
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Jan 5, 2022 23:18
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:That’s a guy who is not talked about nearly enough. Weirdly I think the most popular media I’ve ever heard of that actually incorporates about how power hungry he was is a alt history Hearts of Iron 4 mod. Kaiserriech gets him so right and Huey Long so wrong
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Jan 6, 2022 00:49
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i'm reading john dolan's prose translation of the illiad and it is a good and fun read. pleasant hell is very good too--definitely in the failson canon imo, along with poo poo like confederacy of dunces
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Jan 6, 2022 02:33
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Debunk posted:along with poo poo like confederacy of dunces John talking in one show about not having to imagine what it would be like to be Ignatius was a good and illuminating moment.
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Jan 6, 2022 02:45
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:John talking in one show about not having to imagine what it would be like to be Ignatius was a good and illuminating moment. Actually one of the single funniest bits on the show
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Jan 6, 2022 03:28
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I give it even odds that John neglected the language owl, and said owl engaged its local thugs to teach him a lesson about skipping a lesson.
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Jan 6, 2022 05:51
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Atrocious Joe posted:This year in world of wars, we start off with Mark's campaign against a dumbass PE teacher and his defenders in the PTA. Good book btw.
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Jan 7, 2022 04:32
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https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1479184531072733196?t=-DyaaadCGFdkZsBsf4hu4Q&s=19 This is a disappointing take, it feels like Nuclear Power has to have some consideration even if the problem with Nuclear waste still needs solving.
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Jan 7, 2022 09:22
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My faves are allowed all the bad takes they want. 
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Not So Fast posted:This is a disappointing take, it feels like Nuclear Power has to have some consideration even if the problem with Nuclear waste still needs solving. I don't know how you can look at recent world history and conclude that humanity is responsible enough to have nuclear power.
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