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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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indigi posted:why will it take 6 months to get the tanks there the postal service sucks rear end now
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Mar 23, 2023 01:04
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Jazerus posted:putin to institute a battle pass with cosmetic rewards "gently caress, it looks like I have to defeat 20 Ukrainian soldiers with throwing knives this week, this is going to suck"
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Mar 23, 2023 01:04
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tanks in the mail, zel!
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Mar 23, 2023 01:05
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Lord of Pie posted:the postal service sucks rear end now it always has gently caress ben gibbard
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Mar 23, 2023 01:05
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Endman posted:Like, don’t get me wrong, if the results are the same it’s just as bad. I just think the term includes a level of intentionality, that you’re deliberately trying to exterminate an ethnic group. I think the massive outpouring of food aid, far in excess of food exports (which were also drastically cut), as the scope of the famine became clear to central planning should put the genocide claims to rest, not to mention the famine brutalized every ethnic group including Russians. The UK tries to make the same claim about the Bengal famine - that the administration simply wasnt aware of the scope and moved to provide relief as it came into focus - but the difference is the entire Soviet state was barely a decade old and built largely from scratch whereas the Raj was nearly a hundred years old. You could make a shaky claim that it was an intentional attempt to kill off rural populations and force workers into the expanding cities, but the Soviets had no problems with just relocating people through direct action, why take such a massive risk on indirect action?
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Mar 23, 2023 01:07
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euphronius posted:can anyone explain how the nyt does not see these issues to be related lmao, containment is just recycled Cold War doctrine. Everything old is new again.
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Mar 23, 2023 01:08
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https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1638631091924787202?s=20
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Mar 23, 2023 01:09
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indigi posted:why will it take 6 months to get the tanks there they had to find a specialist pinstriper to put the necessary markings on em first its a dying art u know
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Mar 23, 2023 01:11
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I think it may have been a mistake to have so much of this tied to him personally
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Mar 23, 2023 01:11
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Frosted Flake posted:I think it may have been a mistake to have so much of this tied to him personally You say that like it was planned but I think he just decided his time to shine had come and the Americans just leaned into it cause they love them a good personal brand
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Mar 23, 2023 01:16
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Strikes me as more of a Kamala Harris situation where they're just kind of running with what they've got rather than thinking they're working with a winner
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Mar 23, 2023 01:17
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They got an actual actor in the big seat for a war that hinges entirely on looking good for western media. They could not have been more lucky
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Mar 23, 2023 01:19
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Mandoric posted:NHK World is the full pivot to tourism and Cool Japan one, NHK proper still lowkey thinks it's the BBC. Not they're in bad company, the BBC still lowkey thinks it's the BBC for some reason. the few times i stay in hotels i put on NHK because of all the sumo matches, it rules
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Mar 23, 2023 01:23
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 let 100 flowers bloom
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Mar 23, 2023 01:23
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Egg Moron posted:
I wonder if those units might have a different view of the fighting because they are different type of unit. It's just a picture but the equipment seem to be a bit different. Top picture seem to have no armored vest, no helmet and no fancy stuff attached to whatever they are wearing while the bottom has all of that.
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Mar 23, 2023 01:32
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lol every time I see those Canadian Army toques jfc
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Mar 23, 2023 01:33
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waiting for joe biden to visit a gas station
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Mar 23, 2023 01:34
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Nix Panicus posted:I think the massive outpouring of food aid, far in excess of food exports (which were also drastically cut), as the scope of the famine became clear to central planning should put the genocide claims to rest, not to mention the famine brutalized every ethnic group including Russians. The UK tries to make the same claim about the Bengal famine - that the administration simply wasnt aware of the scope and moved to provide relief as it came into focus - but the difference is the entire Soviet state was barely a decade old and built largely from scratch whereas the Raj was nearly a hundred years old. I completely agree that the Holodomor wasn't a genocide. There's no evidence of intent to kill Ukrainians specifically and I doubt there ever will be. The term "genocide" is bandied around a lot as a catch-all term for mass killing when it has a very specific definition that includes the intent to destroy a large (usually ethnic) group of people. I'm actually studying under a Medieval History professor at the moment who is apoplectic that other historians keep calling things that aren't genocides, genocides. He's currently extremely mad that people are calling the Crusades a genocide, which makes next to no sense when you realise how many Arabs, Armenians, etc. were present in the armies of the Crusaders.
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Mar 23, 2023 01:51
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just did a genocide in the bathroom
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Mar 23, 2023 01:52
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The crusades were a giant grift/shakedown weren't they
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Mar 23, 2023 01:52
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holodumpmor
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Mar 23, 2023 01:52
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Slavvy posted:The crusades were a giant grift/shakedown weren't they the history of the commonly used financial instrument "trusts" started during the crusades so checks out
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Mar 23, 2023 01:53
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Endman posted:I completely agree that the Holodomor wasn't a genocide. There's no evidence of intent to kill Ukrainians specifically and I doubt there ever will be. is religicide a real term?
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Mar 23, 2023 01:56
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Slavvy posted:The crusades were a giant grift/shakedown weren't they Parts of it were, especially what the Knights Templar turned into. For a lot of the Crusaders it was literally a "mission from God", and they thought they were doing the right thing. As with most significant historical events, it's really complicated.
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Mar 23, 2023 01:56
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hmmm i see so what this person is saying is that the soviet union did a genocide
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Mar 23, 2023 01:57
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Some Guy TT posted:hmmm i see so what this person is saying is that the soviet union did a genocide certainly at least qualifies as a no growth
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Mar 23, 2023 01:57
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HiroProtagonist posted:waiting for joe biden to visit a gas station he shows up at gas stations all the time
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Mar 23, 2023 01:59
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Vomik posted:is religicide a real term? I guess you could coin it, but the Crusades aren't really that either. I'm sure wiping out Islam was in the minds of some Crusaders, sure, but there wasn't a concerted effort to completely eliminate it by any of the major Crusading armies or the Latin States they created in the Levant after the First Crusade. As I'm sure you'd expect, the majority of the population in these Kingdoms were Arab Muslims, despite their Christian leadership.
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Mar 23, 2023 01:59
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People project 16th centuries ideas of the state and religion back on the past, and so things like Normans ruling Greeks and Muslims in Sicily doesn't really make sense to them except as a simplified conquest, and that's even more true of the crusades which have passed into an everyday figure of speech.
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Mar 23, 2023 02:04
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i somehow got the crazy idea that frosted flake looked like jeremy corbyn wearing military regalia and i dont really want to change that mental image
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Mar 23, 2023 02:07
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Frosted Flake posted:People project 16th centuries ideas of the state and religion back on the past, and so things like Normans ruling Greeks and Muslims in Sicily doesn't really make sense to them except as a simplified conquest, and that's even more true of the crusades which have passed into an everyday figure of speech. Sicily and Southern Italy during the Medieval period is fascinating and I really need to read more about it. The interplay between Normans, Muslims, Italians and the Byzantine Empire makes for some fascinating history.
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Mar 23, 2023 02:08
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Endman posted:Sicily and Southern Italy during the Medieval period is fascinating and I really need to read more about it. The interplay between Normans, Muslims, Italians and the Byzantine Empire makes for some fascinating history. this but i want a youtube video not a book
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Mar 23, 2023 02:10
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Some Guy TT posted:i somehow got the crazy idea that frosted flake looked like jeremy corbyn wearing military regalia and i dont really want to change that mental image
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Mar 23, 2023 02:11
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all of u who called frosted flakes wife racist for disrespecting inuit mathematicians should be ashamed of yourselves now that we know she cant possibly be racist
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Mar 23, 2023 02:24
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Some Guy TT posted:i somehow got the crazy idea that frosted flake looked like jeremy corbyn wearing military regalia and i dont really want to change that mental image It's aspirational. The man has swag. To this whole history thing, I've come around to the idea that any historical concept that's in daily use as a figure of speech can't be easily explained to people who aren't interested in history. The French Revolution, American Revolution, Crusades, you name it, it's a lot of work to dissuade people of their idea, so when you hear them talk about "The Crusades", italicize it in your mind or something. There's another rule in history that's a bit complicated. Everybody who sacks a famous city lies about how many people they kill and how much they actually looted. There's a bunch of reasons why, but the most simple is that it had propaganda value, both at the time and after, to say "this is what happens to traitors/infidels/people who don't submit to our mighty empire". When they say they killed all the men, it means men who could bear weapons within their societies, which usually means elites between 18-40, which is actually a small amount of people (and even then they didn't actually kill all of them but I digress). When they say they stole everything, there was a limit to how much people carry off. Beyond that, Usually soldiers were only allowed to loot for a very limited period of time because obviously the people who just became the new owners of the city would want business as usual to resume quickly. There's more here than I can say particularly about religious tolerance (or not) in the levant after the Arab conquests and everything else, but keep in mind also that many of these areas were not majority Muslim until like the 1500s in some cases. The nobility of both sides knew they had to rule, and therefore extract taxes (and food) from a workforce that was mixed, and killing half of their workers was obviously a non starter. You can't tax people if they're dead. Just to give you an example of what I mean when I said if a historical concept passes into daily use it can take on a meaning that's the near opposite of the thing itself, think of "Gladiator". Right, so, gladiators fought to the death right? That's why sports commentators say it, and it took place at the height of the Roman Empire, because that's why people talk about decadence and watching gladiators. I'm sure you know this already, but after Spartacus, the Romans realized that it was no longer wise to concentrate in schools men who lived in slavery because of the Romans, and to make them experts in killing. From then on, it became obvious that it was necessary to vary the recruitment channels. If gladiatorialism was to last, the system had to change. While it continued to use many prisoners and convicts, gladiatorialism was now also open to volunteers: free men and freed men, but also slaves who wanted a career. It was therefore no longer possible for the vanquished to be put to death, otherwise there would be no more candidates. The authorities then imagined different levels of fighting, more or less dangerous, with rewards for the winners, in order to create emulation. Fighting to the death became the exception at the beginning of the Principate, as gladiatorialism evolved and became a sport. Well that's no good as a figure of speech! So, there are now two things. Gladiatores, the Campanian and Etruscan slaves who fought to the death during funerals as a ritual sacrifice, then the 3rd - 1st century Roman spectacle of prisoners of war fighting with the weapons and techniques of their defeated armies, like Gauls, Galli, then the professional athletes of the principate - and - Gladiators, whatever most people imagine that to be, which is inspired by, but far from, the above description. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 02:48 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 02:26
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there does appear to be some friction building between command and the ukranian soldiers in the field, esp when they do things like demote that guy who gave the interview to wapo zelenskyy going to bakhmut is pretty crazy no?
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Mar 23, 2023 02:36
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What's the reasoning behind why Ukraine hasn't won total victory yet? Every day the news is how they've won victories everywhere and killed every Russian invader. After a year of solidly winning everything you'd think they'd at least be at the at the Russian borders by now?
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Mar 23, 2023 02:45
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we toured the Colosseum in Rome with a guide and what they related to us what that it was actually extremely rare for any gladiator to die in the Colosseum after the first couple months of it's existence.. I guess when it first opened up they would use the existing infrastructure (there was an artificial lake at the site prior to it becoming a public stadium) to flood the combat area and have mock naval battles.. events where highly valuable slaves who had never been on a boat or in water before were suited up with armor and put on boats they didn't really know how to operate and told to jump across to the other boats to fight and make it look exciting. Supposedly hundreds of them fell into the water and drowned during these events and the naval battles were discontinued after it became apparent how dangerous they were. Of course the slave owners didn't actually want these people they had put years and years of time and money into training to die, it was better if they put on an entertaining show that extoled the manly virtues of roman society, got the crowd onboard with the narrative, and then lived to fight again.. Kind of cast things in a different light than the movie for all of us **oh and also the Roman Catholic Church forced the Roman government to install a giant gaudy cross on the floor of the Colosseum to represent the innocent Christian martyrs that were killed or tortured in the Colosseum, but that also probably didn't happen as all references to the act of Christians being executed by the Romans in the Colosseum date hundreds of years after the fact and are probably propaganda. I got a picture of me standing in front of the cross. Starsfan has issued a correction as of 02:53 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 02:47
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Turns out Americans who get huge slava ukraini tattoos as soon as they land in lviv aren't the most trustworthy freedom fighters https://twitter.com/Navsteva/status/1638648181411160064
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Mar 23, 2023 02:50
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No wife, no Valor, very sad
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Mar 23, 2023 02:51
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