What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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🦋 | 15 | 3.71% | |
🦇 | 115 | 28.47% | |
🪰 | 12 | 2.97% | |
🐦 | 67 | 16.58% | |
dragonfly | 94 | 23.27% | |
🦟 | 14 | 3.47% | |
🐝 | 87 | 21.53% | |
Total: | 404 votes |
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Slavvy posted:You have just pushed me over the edge into just watching the mosfilm war and peace instead of trying to finish the book itself those movies kick tremendous rear end.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:08 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 05:05 |
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNUZS7rdco No one in their foreign unit even died. One Russian tank shoots at them and it was too scary. That's it. Call it quits.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:10 |
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HiroProtagonist posted:did you encounter an immigrant on the street suddenly and get startled? most of the 'immigrants' around here are english retirees so what do you think
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:10 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:No one in their foreign unit even died. One Russian tank shoots at them and it was too scary. That's it. Call it quits. After getting that giant Ukrainian tattoo on his upper arm too. Shame.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:18 |
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HiroProtagonist posted:oh wow horrible stuff happens in the horrible stuff zone? i'm out same
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:21 |
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It also seems like random foreigners are not in their own units anymore and just embedded into random Ukrainian units with NATO equipment. The communication isn't great looking at the gopro footage I have seen.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:21 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:No one in their foreign unit even died. One Russian tank shoots at them and it was too scary. That's it. Call it quits. i cant believe libs will something kitchen something heat
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:21 |
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Marenghi posted:The war will continue until the economy improves. Lol US Treasury Chief: Ukraine Aid Is the Best Boost for Global Economy www.voanews.com posted:
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:24 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:31 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:most of the 'immigrants' around here are english retirees so what do you think so that's a yes?
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:35 |
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This looks like a Monty Python sketch
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:44 |
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What's the chevron ? https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1680508476282339329 Lol https://twitter.com/juliasaquilter/status/1680552415798370304
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:47 |
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mawarannahr posted:What's the chevron ? https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1680508476282339329 i never noticed the nutsack before
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:48 |
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Nonsense posted:Saakashvili is a hero and will crush Putin's armies the saak zone
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:48 |
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Endman posted:This looks like a Monty Python sketch It's a comedy film with a historic character, so yeah it's similar to their style. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 01:51 on Jul 17, 2023 |
# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:49 |
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Lostconfused posted:It's a comedy film with a historic character, so yeah it's similar to their style. Oh cool! What's it called?
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:50 |
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Endman posted:Oh cool! What's it called? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vasilievich%3A_Back_to_the_Future The subtitles on youtube are so so, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3xVdxDWFWU not sure if anyone made a better version.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:52 |
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https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1680683987478487041 guess we're going to see a lot more lancet killfeeds because a bunch of officers are convincing themselves that the orcs have ran out of drones
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:52 |
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNUZS7rdco Frosted Flake posted:Is that true? America needs more stuff like that. All other institutions and symbols have collapsing legitimacy. A relic... that could be something people could believe in.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:53 |
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Lostconfused posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vasilievich%3A_Back_to_the_Future this is a funny film , pro watch
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:53 |
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No ring - 1/10.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:55 |
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:No one in their foreign unit even died. One Russian tank shoots at them and it was too scary. That's it. Call it quits. trust a tankie to take the side of the tank smdh -_-
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:13 |
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Frosted Flake posted:restoring the Stuarts is part of the overall project, I support this but only because they were so bad at running things, maybe they could sink Britain. However if it's ancient legitimacy you crave, Charles claims to be descended from Cerdic, king of Wessex. Raskolnikov38 posted:parliamentarianism, monarchy, all aspects of government in the commonwealth are awful My local government is not too poo poo from what I can tell. You can call the mayor at 2am if there is a tree on the road and he will sort it out. Ardennes posted:It doesn't apply to the British crown, but there is an argument to be made historically, that strong central monarchy (i.e a strong central government) was in fact better for people than a weak one governed by the nobility, i.e Poland-Lithuania. Britain itself obviously saw continual constitutional changes over time but never experienced the degree of deadlock that Poland did since the minor nobility and gentry had more of a say in affairs. I'm not sure if it's what you're getting at but the British crown has never really been a strong central monarchy afaik.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:17 |
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sum posted:At least some scholars of classical Greece consider the advent of tyrants as a progressive political reform. Traditionally Greek city-states were dominated by aristocrats, whose rule was of course totally arbitrary and legitimized by the mere fact that they already had power. Meanwhile a tyrant had an actual responsibility to govern for the polis as a whole, at least theoretically. There's some parallels here with the "democratic" West, where the politicians for some reason seem unable to actually change anything, and "undemocratic" China, which has a massively popular government that is manifestly more interested in the welfare of its citizens. there was a super interesting interview with hudson where he talks about tyrants with the power to override the wealthy and to forgive debt. this was a big part of why they were demonized. i think this is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqe3IQQo_t4
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:22 |
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KomradeX posted:Funny enough he just put one out 2 hours ago it was 2 of them and they both ruled
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:22 |
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crepeface posted:there was a super interesting interview with hudson where he talks about tyrants with the power to override the wealthy and to forgive debt. this was a big part of why they were demonized. i think this is it: It's always funny to me that the biggest criticism of populism is that some guy comes along and gains power by giving the people what they want rather than following the imaginary rules and that's the worst thing ever.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:24 |
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Frosted Flake posted:The Land and the King are one. So, every person is the body and blood of the King, the Crown Jewels are our treasures, the country's money has his likeness on it because it belong to all of us. Historical materialism has wormed into you already. It Is Known that an artilleryman under that force becomes a vanguardist, sooner or later. After all, Engels himself was a Prussian artillery officer (lol)
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:26 |
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https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1679951902543613956?s=20 lol
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:27 |
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Endman posted:This looks like a Monty Python sketch watching the movie, it feels like a charming comedy.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:28 |
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Hammerstein posted:Those old Mosfilm movies really are something. They depicted the Germans as quite competent and not as cartoonishly evil villains mowed down by the hundreds at the hands of unshakeable heroes, like in western war movies. And the battle scenes often are really massive, like in the Liberation series. Mosfilm also has a great 4 part War and Peace series. Mowing down Nazis by the score was also a convention of Yugoslav partisan movies.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:37 |
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dead gay comedy forums posted:Historical materialism has wormed into you already. It Is Known that an artilleryman under that force becomes a vanguardist, sooner or later. After all, Engels himself was a Prussian artillery officer (lol) TBF the counterpoint is that armchair warlord guy who's pretty chud if you browse his twitter feed long enough. I guess it's because artillery officers work on using literal industrial death machines to their full potential while tankers/infantry/pilots can think that they're main characters of war. Meanwhile intelligence is probably neolib central there because they're staring at spreadsheets and media all day or something. In other words it's how artillery jobs work that ends up with a monarcho-socialist and republican troop on the anti-slava social media discourse.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:40 |
mawarannahr posted:this is a funny film , pro watch quote:The story begins in 1973 Moscow, where engineer Aleksandr "Shurik" Timofeyev (Aleksandr Demyanenko) is working on a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha (Yury Yakovlev), superintendent of his apartment building, and George Miloslavsky (Leonid Kuravlyov), a burglar, back into the time of Ivan IV "The Terrible". The pair is forced to disguise themselves, with Bunsha dressing up as Ivan IV (Tsar) and Miloslavsky as a Knyaz (Duke) of the same name. At the same time, the real Ivan IV (also played by Yury Yakovlev) is sent by the same machine into Shurik's apartment, and he has to deal with modern-day life while Shurik tries to fix the machine so that everyone can be brought back to their proper place in time. This sounds loving amazing and I'm going to watch it.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:41 |
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dead gay comedy forums posted:Historical materialism has wormed into you already. It Is Known that an artilleryman under that force becomes a vanguardist, sooner or later. After all, Engels himself was a Prussian artillery officer (lol) In the artillery with the Royal Guards too, right? I knew I had some books about this kicking around, Ancient Tyranny Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures. This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world. The volume is divided into four parts. It looks at the ways in which the term ‘tyranny’ was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. The book then focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in the final part of the book examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world. Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, this book offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman, and Persian society. Echoes the views ITT Chapter 10: Pindar and Kingship Theory posted:The structure of this chapter is simple. Part 1 looks at kingship in Pindar and glances at his models or predecessors. Part 2 asks how, if at all, he influenced kingship theory in the fourth century bc and the post-classical period. I anticipate an obvious objection at the outset and say that I use the term ‘theory’ loosely. Pindar is not Aristotle, and we cannot expect systematic tabulated exposition of doctrine. Aristotle himself says it is the mark of a cultivated person to expect the amount of precision that the subject allows (Nic. Eth. 1095b25). Nor do I confine myself to hereditary one-man rule, basileia as at Cyrene or Macedon. Pindar’s vocabulary is fluid, and he can talk approvingly, as we shall see, of a ‘people-guiding tyrannos’, said of Hieron of Syracuse. I would even be happy to allow in the collective rule of the Aleuads of Thessaly, who ‘uphold and exalt the state of the Thessalians’, in the closing words of Pythian 10. The poem ends: ‘with good men rests the governance of cities as a cherished inheri- tance’. So ‘Pindar and the good ruler’ might be a better title for my chapter. There are, however, some distinctions to be made. Where the upstart Sicilian tyrants are concerned he naturally stresses inherited excellence less on the whole. But even this has to be qualified in view of Pythian 6 for Xenocrates of Acragas, brother of the tyrant Theron. The poem has much in praise of Xenocrates’ son Thrasybulus and here the hereditary element does feature (lines 15–16). But what the thread would really dig is the first openly Marxist book on Greek politics since 1991, which rules pretty hard and devotes the first chapter for critiquing the entire field of classics for driving Marx out of the academy, surveying the literature and pointing out where a materialist approach would improve, it's very cool The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory Where did “democracy” come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this “power of the people” crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history. When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that have placed the concept of rights at the center of modern political thought. Thus the play of power that constituted life in democratic Athens is revealed as at once strangely familiar and desperately foreign, and the values sustaining the Athenian political community as simultaneously admirable and terrifying.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:42 |
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Frosted Flake posted:The only problem I can see on the horizon is that I've put myself in a position where, because Trump is the only politician making claims of personifying the polity, "I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. People who work hard but no longer have a voice. I am your voice!", and now claiming 2024 will be a final battle, Camlann, where the nation either survives or disappears into the mists of Avalon, if he marches down to the Magic Kingdom, and finds there the relic Magnus Maximus left to one day unify the land and people under one High King. hell, same
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:43 |
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Frosted Flake posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNUZS7rdco It's crazy how if you look around online you find nothing but praise for the Ukrainians and how they are re-writing the book on modern warfare against a hopelessly outmatched (and already confirmed loser for all time) Russian prisoner army, but every interview or video released which profiles the situation at the front makes it seem like a complete shitshow for Ukraine..
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:44 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:46 |
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Starsfan posted:It's crazy how if you look around online you find nothing but praise for the Ukrainians and how they are re-writing the book on modern warfare against a hopelessly outmatched (and already confirmed loser for all time) Russian prisoner army, but every interview or video released which profiles the situation at the front makes it seem like a complete shitshow for Ukraine.. at some point the whole "the west doesn't do propaganda" thing went from just being generous with the truth to just full on lying all the time without relent i guess because they officially don't use propaganda they have the opportunity for big lies so they're going for it
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:51 |
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I'll see if we have it in the work library or can get it on loan. Regarde Aduck posted:at some point the whole "the west doesn't do propaganda" thing went from just being generous with the truth to just full on lying all the time without relent This is a huge part of this.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:51 |
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AHA Member Spotlight: Michael Boden www.historians.org posted:Michael Boden is an associate professor of history at Dutchess Community College. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and has been a member since 2010.
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 02:51 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 05:05 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I'll see if we have it in the work library or can get it on loan. got you fam https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA395290.pdf
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