Slavvy posted:

It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

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Otto Thorbeck (26 August 1912 in Brieg, Silesia – 10 October 1976 in Nuremberg) was a German lawyer and Nazi SS judge in the Hauptamt SS-Gericht.

In 1941, Sturmbannführer (Major) Thorbeck was appointed the chief judge of the SS and police court in Munich for which SS Standartenführer (Colonel) Walter Huppenkothen was the prosecutor. On 8 April 1945, under orders from Ernst Kaltenbrunner he presided over a drumhead court-martial without witnesses, records of proceedings or a defence in Flossenbürg concentration camp, that condemned Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, General Hans Oster, Army chief judge Karl Sack, Captain Ludwig Gehre, and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to death.[1] They were all hanged on 9 April, two weeks before the United States Army liberated the camp.[2]

After the war Thorbeck worked as an attorney in Nuremberg. In 1955, he was convicted by a court of assizes in Augsburg for assisting in murder and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. On 19 June 1956, the Federal Court of Justice of Germany exonerated him on grounds that the killings were legal because the Nazi regime had the right to execute traitors. The decision was rescinded by the Berlin State Court in 1996.[3]

Danann posted:

stalin was lawful good then

Slavvy posted:

Not that it matters much, but Stalin was IMO the worse of the two. Hitler was lawful evil and his evil system had clear enemies and rules an average citizen could play by. Stalin's rule devoured (in addition to regular enemies) his own allies, military commanders, artists, and entirely random people. It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

Slavvy posted:

Not that it matters much, but Stalin was IMO the worse of the two. Hitler was lawful evil and his evil system had clear enemies and rules an average citizen could play by. Stalin's rule devoured (in addition to regular enemies) his own allies, military commanders, artists, and entirely random people. It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

Lyndon LaRouche posted:

The thread snags another Nazi apologist. Amazing.

sexpig by night posted:

DiscountDildos posted:

China's zero-covid policy comes from the central government and it puts a ton of top-down pressure on provinces and municipalities to conform. This results in some individual discomfort among parts of the population and sporadic bureaucratic breakdown.

The USA's "let them all die and let god sort it out" policy is the inevitable result of the poo poo that oozes out of every pore of its society and governance. This will result in over a million painful, lonely deaths.

It can be hard to decide which of these scenarios is worse so I am here to tell you that it's goddamn China goddammit loving COMMIES doing AUTHORITY and OPPRESSIVE

Red and Black posted:

Cool! You should make them IK of the D&D thread too

Nonsense posted:

Americans naming their sons after Chiang!

Lyndon LaRouche posted:

The thread snags another Nazi apologist. Amazing.

Slavvy posted:

Not that it matters much, but Stalin was IMO the worse of the two. Hitler was lawful evil and his evil system had clear enemies and rules an average citizen could play by. Stalin's rule devoured (in addition to regular enemies) his own allies, military commanders, artists, and entirely random people. It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

Slavvy posted:

Not that it matters much, but Stalin was IMO the worse of the two. Hitler was lawful evil and his evil system had clear enemies and rules an average citizen could play by. Stalin's rule devoured (in addition to regular enemies) his own allies, military commanders, artists, and entirely random people. It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

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In the political structure of the erstwhile assembly, the valley had 46 seats and Jammu 37. If the panel’s proposals are accepted by the government, the valley will have 47 assembly seats while Jammu’s tally will go up to 43.

In India, assembly constituencies carved out on the basis of population form the basic unit of electoral representation to form the state government.

According to the 2011 census, Indian-administered Kashmir has a population of 12.5 million people, of which Muslims form a majority with 68.31 percent while Hindus are 28.43 percent. The majority of the Hindu population is concentrated in the Jammu region.

While Indian laws make population the basis of redrawing political boundaries – a criterion that is universally accepted – the delimitation commission has made “geographical area and accessibility” a significant basis for electoral maps in the Himalayan region.

According to calculations based on the panel’s proposals in its December 20 statement, a single assembly seat in Kashmir valley will have an average population of 146,000. However, a constituency in Jammu could be carved out from an area with an average 125,000 residents.

Experts say the proposed redistribution of assembly seats is “highly skewed” in favour of Jammu and could turn Muslims into a political minority in India’s only Muslim-majority region.

In the last assembly elections in Indian-administered Kashmir, held in 2014, the Hindu nationalist BJP won 25 of the 37 seats in the Jammu region and none in the valley.

For the last 70 years, all chief ministers in Indian-administered Kashmir have been Muslims.

Yet, having a Hindu chief minister has been the right-wing BJP’s longstanding promise to its supporters in the Muslim-majority region.

vyelkin posted:

"Hitler was lawful evil"

Slavvy posted:

Not that it matters much, but Stalin was IMO the worse of the two. Hitler was lawful evil and his evil system had clear enemies and rules an average citizen could play by. Stalin's rule devoured (in addition to regular enemies) his own allies, military commanders, artists, and entirely random people. It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/CGTNGlobalBiz/status/1476819918071164930?s=20

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1479406172520460288
https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1479406434811260929
https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1479406731906383872
https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1479406983275233282
https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1479407133825601540

DiscountDildos posted:

China's zero-covid policy comes from the central government and it puts a ton of top-down pressure on provinces and municipalities to conform. This results in some individual discomfort among parts of the population and sporadic bureaucratic breakdown.

The USA's "let them all die and let god sort it out" policy is the inevitable result of the poo poo that oozes out of every pore of its society and governance. This will result in over a million painful, lonely deaths.

It can be hard to decide which of these scenarios is worse so I am here to tell you that it's goddamn China goddammit loving COMMIES doing AUTHORITY and OPPRESSIVE

Kassad posted:

It would be interesting to know what went wrong in Xi'an (as in, an actual analysis, not "China bad!" op-eds). They had a lot of lockdowns all over the country last year without stories like these surfacing (other than in the first one in Wuhan), what's different this time?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Xi'an wasn't as prepared to deal with a lockdown as Wuhan was, seems to be the only thing that sounds plausible.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

I will loving lmao forever and ever in luminous communist glory under the auspicious winds mastered by the Great Helmsman himself if China breaks through and leapfrogs into fusion power

Kassad posted:

It would be interesting to know what went wrong in Xi'an (as in, an actual analysis, not "China bad!" op-eds). They had a lot of lockdowns all over the country last year without stories like these surfacing (other than in the first one in Wuhan), what's different this time?

dead gay comedy forums posted:

by material organization and economic direction capability, ofc china is much nearer than any other country

the thing is that fusion is really loving hard, endgame s+ tier tech pick. absolutely op, ofc

HiroProtagonist posted:

so what's being defined as participatory democracy again?

Danann posted:

don't worry pete buttigieg as president of the united states in 2032 will counter china's fusion power plants by enforcing mass bitcoin usage on the country

Slavvy posted:

Not that it matters much, but Stalin was IMO the worse of the two. Hitler was lawful evil and his evil system had clear enemies and rules an average citizen could play by. Stalin's rule devoured (in addition to regular enemies) his own allies, military commanders, artists, and entirely random people. It was a paranoid hell with no rhyme or reason, from which Russia still carries an unseen burden.

OhFunny posted:

Anxiety in Kashmir as India panel proposes to redraw election map

Gerrymander Indian-style.

sexpig by night posted:

where is that 'hitler was lawful evil' post anyway, I gotta see the context