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Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004



I was thinking this one

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLVAz-Jczg

“You’re not supposed to do that, Daryl!”

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Phi230 posted:

the milhist thread taught me that all leftists support soviet style centrally planned state capitalism and that trotskyism, maoism, titoism, leftcoms, and socialists/demsocs never existed and were all apart of the comintern without dissent and the soviet system is, and always has been, the only form of socialism to ever exist

You're a dumb.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous

Fangz posted:

Edit: this is like someone coming in to dispute that the Nazis did bad things with "omg Hitler wasn't a real Nazi, don't you know about the night of the long knives, how dare you erase strasserites, you darn lefties" or something

Death in June does exist, yes.

Hunt11
Jul 24, 2013

Grimey Drawer

my dad posted:

Death in June does exist, yes.

Please tell me you are joking. There is only so much general faith in humanity that I can lose in one year.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous

Hunt11 posted:

Please tell me you are joking. There is only so much general faith in humanity that I can lose in one year.

quote:

In search of a political view for the future we came across National Bolshevism which is closely connected with the SA hierarchy. People like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm,who were later known as 'second revolutionaries' attracted our attention.
...
Our interest doesn't come from killing all opposition, as it's been interpreted, but from identification with or understanding of the leftist elements of the SA which were purged, or murdered by the SS. That day is extremely important in human history
...
They were planning execution or overthrow of Hitler, so he wouldn't be around. We'd be living in a completely different world, I should imagine... It's fascinating that a few people held the destiny of the world and mankind in their hands for those few hours and let it slip, and it could've gone either way.

quote:

I prefer to suck, white, uncircumsised cocks of a certain age so I suppose that rules out quite a few races and religions in one huge act of sexual discrimination. However, that's natural selection for you. It follows on that, of course race is important to me!

quote:

I don't think women deserve the same rights as men. I don't think women are on an equal footing with men. I think they're totally different creatures. I think the world operated better when they had less say over how the way things went, had less control.

Actual quotes from band members. Some of them fought alongside fascist militias in Croatia back in the early 90s.

my dad fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Nov 18, 2017

Hunt11
Jul 24, 2013

Grimey Drawer

my dad posted:

Actual quotes from band members. Some of them fought alongside fascist militias in Croatia back in the early 90s.

Out of all the horrifying things they said, the quote saying 'of a certain age' adds a whole new level of horror from all this poo poo.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous
A certain segment of the right that got rather popular recently and which that particular quote might remind you of did not just spring out of nowhere, is actually drawing on a well established historical tradition with recognizable traits, and is not something fundamentally new.

edit:

Bonus quotes

quote:

I feel that I'm a fascist, but Nazi is a real specific term. I'm a fascist in the sense of the modern bastardised meaning of the word.

quote:

Whereas modern music propaganda is an instrument of Jewish interest and Black and so forth, we see emerging a new propaganda form for white Aryans.

my dad fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Nov 18, 2017

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
I was gonna say no way gwot re enacting exists but then I remembered there are arma realism clans.

Ey, who said they had the old manuals from Finnish artillery? I wanna read that

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten
What's the oldest war that people reenact? I assume there are Greek warrior fans, but does anyone re-enact ancient Egypt or the Hittites or such?

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Hunt11 posted:

As a general note if you want to view a world that slowly moves towards communism one has to address the fact that the only attempts that seemed to have lasting power all ended up being this horrifyingly oppressive states.
if i keep saying that "every attempt to do X has failed horrifically" that might mean stop trying to do X, it's impossible

Cessna
Feb 20, 2013

KHABAHBLOOOM

wdarkk posted:

What's the oldest war that people reenact? I assume there are Greek warrior fans, but does anyone re-enact ancient Egypt or the Hittites or such?

Oldest I've seen in person are Early Imperial Romans.

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

scissorman posted:

I'm sorry for digging up this post but could you please elaborate on how this worked?
What did a mercenary council do when taking action?
Did they go on strike or maybe find a different company?
they organized themselves (probably) for day-to-day activity and also (this i know definitely) when mutinying / going on strike. they make the decision to go on strike communally. the word for this is "ring," since they form a huge circle when they do this

this is also how you introduce officers to the company, the company forms its ring and the officers walk into the middle of it and they they say "now you know these officers by sight, do you accept them or not" and the soldiers either yell yes or no

edit: geoffrey parker has an article about this, about strikes in the spanish army of flanders: they throw their own officers out, elect their own officers, and then start making demands

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Ainsley McTree posted:

Were there any other guns in history that went ping
a well made cast brass/bronze cannon will go ping

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Rockopolis posted:

You need two sides? Is this reenactment stuff like, boffer LARP with guns or something? You don't just like, set up a camp and steal chickens and poop in a hole in the ground?
you need two sides because it is boffer larp with real weapons

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Phi230 posted:

How do you determine who gets shot in a tactical then if it's like childish like that

Do you use blanks? Is that safe?
it gets really childish and usually it's (if you are a musketeer) if you're out of shots or (if you're a pikemen) did your enemy land a hit that would have killed you if his weapon were real

if one of those happened to someone and they refuse to die anyway? total douche, gently caress him

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

HEY GUNS posted:

if i keep saying that "every attempt to do X has failed horrifically" that might mean stop trying to do X, it's impossible

Yeah let's ignore most attempts at leftist change have been violently suppressed, overthrown, or caused by external agitation

Totally should give up because it's totally the ideology and not making a disingenuous bad faith post that ignores a lot of fact

Do those above examples fit into the data or do you just feel some kind of way about left ideology

Phi230 fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Nov 18, 2017

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
I bet if we went back in time you wouldn't say that about, say, protestants. You could apply that logic to any political or social movement too that challenges established power structures

Phi230 fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Nov 18, 2017

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Phi230 posted:

I bet if we went back in time you wouldn't say that about, say, protestants. You could apply that logic to any political or social movement too

The politics sub-forum is that'a'way!

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

The politics sub-forum is that'a'way!

Heed this man's advice.

Don Gato
Apr 28, 2013

Actually a bipedal cat.
Grimey Drawer
The past 10 pages remind me of a thing I read that said the only thing the left hates more than the right is everyone else on the left.

HEY GUNS posted:

it gets really childish and usually it's (if you are a musketeer) if you're out of shots or (if you're a pikemen) did your enemy land a hit that would have killed you if his weapon were real

if one of those happened to someone and they refuse to die anyway? total douche, gently caress him

A friend of mine does American Revolution reenactment, and what I've seen is it's a whole lot of doing historical drill and firing blanks at each other. Cool to look at but I don't quite see why I'd want to be in the sun for that long wearing those clothes.

Side note that the thread might be interested in. His family originally came to America before and during the Revolution and he takes pride in reenacting family history. But his family is Scottish and except for a small group of them who had already settled in america much earlier, most of them were royalists. He told me one member of his family fought in the battle of long island as part of the Black Watch, not sure how true that is but you can guess what he is always reenacting as (playing as? I have no idea what the proper terminology is). I should ask him about details one of these days, I didnt know there were a lot of Scots in the revolution until he told me he spent every summer pretending to be Scottish and shooting at George Washington.

Hunt11
Jul 24, 2013

Grimey Drawer

Phi230 posted:

I bet if we went back in time you wouldn't say that about, say, protestants. You could apply that logic to any political or social movement too that challenges established power structures

This argument is going nowhere but I feel like if you are going to make examples like that, then using a religious branch that was already having major political victories about twenty years or so after the movement started and in less then one hundred years was already creating a permanent foothold for itself is not the best choice.

Jeb Bush 2012
Apr 4, 2007

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
look I think regardless of one's views on the true nature of communism, we should all be able to agree that in retrospect the reformation was a mistake

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Hunt11 posted:

This argument is going nowhere but I feel like if you are going to make examples like that, then using a religious branch that was already having major political victories about twenty years or so after the movement started and in less then one hundred years was already creating a permanent foothold for itself is not the best choice.

Yeah sure let's ignore the brutal suppression of prots and, if going by Hey guns post, also ignore all existing or successful examples while only including their failures.

By that standard where we only look at examples of protestant failures, and maintain an overbroad definition of failure, then I would say every attempt had failed and they should have given up tbh

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Jeb Bush 2012 posted:

look I think regardless of one's views on the true nature of communism, we should all be able to agree that in retrospect the reformation was a mistake

Despite prots being bad nowadays they were still a progressive force of history in fostering the transition to capitalism and I would prefer a world where I need to visit a reliquary twice a week or else I get burned alive, or like pay for indulgences

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


I actually believe all religion is a mistake. Not a lot of people do

(guys come on stop)

dublish
Oct 31, 2011


Shut the gently caress up Keldoclock.

Comrade Gorbash
Jul 12, 2011

My paper soldiers form a wall, five paces thick and twice as tall.

Phi230 posted:

Yeah sure let's ignore the brutal suppression of prots and, if going by Hey guns post, also ignore all existing or successful examples while only including their failures.

By that standard where we only look at examples of protestant failures, and maintain an overbroad definition of failure, then I would say every attempt had failed and they should have given up tbh
Wow are you capable of just shutting up. It's obvious at this point the only ideology you consider "leftist' is communism, and communism has never done wrong by your assessment, because then it's not communist.

The reason people aren't falling over themselves to agree with you isn't that they aren't leftist or that they don't understand what communism is, it's that you're an rear end in a top hat and you don't know what you're talking about.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys
A question: could there ever have been a Walloon dragoon platoon armed with spadroons? Bonus pts if they became marooned at some point.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Comrade Gorbash posted:

Wow are you capable of just shutting up. It's obvious at this point the only ideology you consider "leftist' is communism, and communism has never done wrong by your assessment, because then it's not communist.


My argument has always been that the Soviet Union was not authoritarian to build socialism but rather to consolidate power in the Soviet state and eliminate opposition against the party, and that we can learn lessons from the blunders of socialism past. And that the Soviet state cannot be described as a communist system because it did not fit the definition of one. The USSR's idea of building socialism, unique to the USSR,was flawed from the start and devolved into authoritarianism. Y'all never heard of pretext? I bet you take the CPRC at face value then when they claim they're using markets to build socialism in the future as well.

You're yelling past my posts

And no you are the one who doesn't seem to understand the existence of a patchwork of left ideology, and most relevant the anti-stalinist left. Or even the existence of anarchist, syndicalist, and socialist states/entities that don't/didnt follow Marxism-Leninism or Maoism. Most of those said entities were crushed militarily or in counter-revolution, like many south American countries, Catalonia, Paris, in Germany. Even left movements crushed by the USSR in Hungary and Kronstatd.

Phi230 fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Nov 18, 2017

Don Gato
Apr 28, 2013

Actually a bipedal cat.
Grimey Drawer

Tree Bucket posted:

A question: could there ever have been a Walloon dragoon platoon armed with spadroons? Bonus pts if they became marooned at some point.

A platoon of Walloon dragoons with spadroons and harpoons marooned on the moon, Dr Seuss's little known last book.

Comrade Gorbash
Jul 12, 2011

My paper soldiers form a wall, five paces thick and twice as tall.

Phi230 posted:

My argument has always been that the Soviet Union was not authoritarian to build socialism but rather to consolidate power in the Soviet state and eliminate opposition against the party, and that we can learn lessons from the blunders of socialism past. And that the Soviet state cannot be described as a communist system because it did not fit the definition of one.

You're yelling past my posts

No I understood your argument I just think it’s a stupid one.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Don Gato posted:

A platoon of Walloon dragoons with spadroons and harpoons marooned on the moon, Dr Seuss's little known last book.

Floating on a pontoon and armed as well with spontoons

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

WoodrowSkillson posted:

Floating on a pontoon and armed as well with spontoons

In a raging monsoon.

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

dublish posted:

Shut the gently caress up Keldoclock.

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

Molentik posted:

Another combat jump was made by the Dutch in Indonesia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Kraai

the rhodesian's used paratroopers in the bush war/2nd chimerenga. i don't know how frequently this occurred but they'd drop a platoon sized element when insurgents were identified. they used helos as well and probably more often. im not sure about the split because it wasn't really relevant to what i was doing in school.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Pillbug
Split trails, not derails.

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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

In 20 years, somebody is fiddling around in the library of congress with the hard drive where all of SA is stored for posterity. The power goes out for just a moment, and it turns out a wee little bit of data was corrupted, and they're all worried at first, but then they do the numbers and figure out that only about 10 pages from a single thread was lost. After looking at the page before the 10 lost pages, and the page after the lost 10 pages, they determine absolutely nothing of any value was lost.

Which is a real shame, because P-Mack had a great line about that infernal bone empire.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
I’m a little salty still over people who made giant requests at once, EE, because the backlog there. But I would like to request the US 105mm howitzer

Squalid
Nov 4, 2008

Ainsley McTree posted:

I actually believe all religion is a mistake. Not a lot of people do

(guys come on stop)

Those airmen who venerated that moldy slice of baloney left on bunkbed had the right idea. Pure faith, unhindered by any holy writ or contorted theological arguments or even any tradition. No need to justify their belief in the unjustifiable, just pure belief in. . . something.

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

dublish posted:

Shut the gently caress up Keldoclock.

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