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Spime Wrangler posted:Carl owns. *posts 700 words about interesting geopolitical incident that most people have never heard of, includes a bunch of photographs of the hardware and people involved, notes cultural influences and long-term impacts* *caps it off with pre- and post-incident anthropomorphic battleship moe girls*
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Jun 26, 2017 21:20
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Spime Wrangler posted:*posts 700 words about interesting geopolitical incident that most people have never heard of, includes a bunch of photographs of the hardware and people involved, notes cultural influences and long-term impacts* Pobody's nerfect. 
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Jun 26, 2017 22:51
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prefect posted:Pobody's nerfect. buddy that is perfection
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Jun 27, 2017 00:06
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:buddy that is perfection Anime is haram.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:44
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prefect posted:Anime is haram. Anime is the purest expression of Tawhid
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Jun 27, 2017 01:54
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:buddy that is perfection
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Jun 27, 2017 03:18
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more carl zha on the first sino-japanese war. what are carl's qualifications? is he just some big fan of history or what?
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Jun 27, 2017 22:37
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Dreylad posted:more carl zha on the first sino-japanese war. According to his facebook page he's educated as an electrical engineer. I think he's just a Chinese history nerd who naturalized as an American, so he can relate things that even American scholars generally aren't aware of.
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Jun 27, 2017 23:30
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:According to his facebook page he's educated as an electrical engineer. I think he's just a Chinese history nerd who naturalized as an American, so he can relate things that even American scholars generally aren't aware of. Cool! I appreciate his takes on the evolution of Chinese historiography, that's really interesting stuff and I'm glad they get into it because perspectives from within and outside China are, as you say, not exactly widely known.
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Jun 28, 2017 00:03
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I'd love to see Carl get into it on current events in China, idk if he's that up to speed on that though.
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Jun 29, 2017 15:54
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Now that I remember Carl mentioned Cat poo poo One/Apocalypse Meow in the Sino-Japanese War episode. That manga was pretty tight.
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Jun 29, 2017 23:16
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Plutonis posted:Now that I remember Carl mentioned Cat poo poo One/Apocalypse Meow in the Sino-Japanese War episode. That manga was pretty tight. Cat poo poo One
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Jun 29, 2017 23:20
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Really want to read Autumn of the Black Snake after hearing Hogeland talk about Mad Anthony Wayne, the man who was bad at everything in life except war who rode within pistol shooting distance of a British fort to insult everyone inside by 'inspecting' it up close. If it's anything like The Whiskey Rebellion there are probably a bunch of colourful characters like that. That was a joy to read.
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Jun 30, 2017 14:02
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Big news everyone should know  THE SCI-FI AND FASCISM EPISODE IS NOW FREE! https://www.patreon.com/posts/rwn-ep-64-repost-12256665 quote:The War Nerd and David Forbes have an intense inside-sci-fi-nerd discussion about how sci-fi became dominated by far-right politics and narratives, Heinlein, Philip K Dick, and the newer wave of sci-fi writers breaking out of the traditional molds . . . IMO this has been the most interesting Radio War Nerd to date, even if it's not specifically about war. The big takeaway for me is that the reactionary tendencies we see in nerddom on the internet actually has deep roots in scifi & fantasy literature going back half a century.
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Jul 3, 2017 00:17
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That episode is really good, yeah. I don't know some of the authors they mention, but they do a good job of offering context and exploring why some decisions and themes were used the way they did.
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Jul 3, 2017 02:14
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It's a really fun episode, Dolan and their guest are really enjoying themselves throughout.
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Jul 3, 2017 04:31
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Another good one in a similar vein is episode 51 where they respond to the Russia controversy by talking about a rightwing conspiracy novel from the Cold War called "The Spike". It's funny because they're both embarrassed that they were into it, both being pretty rightwing at the time.
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Jul 3, 2017 11:48
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Carl Zha ftw lmao
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Jul 5, 2017 17:49
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Plutonis posted:Carl Zha ftw lmao I loving love Carl Zha now
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Jul 5, 2017 17:53
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Plutonis posted:Carl Zha ftw lmao holy poo poo this rules when is the three kingdoms episode
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Jul 5, 2017 17:56
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Plutonis posted:Carl Zha ftw lmao i love carl
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Jul 5, 2017 20:13
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I can't wait for the episode where Carl explains moe anthropomorphization of boats/planes/etc.
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Jul 5, 2017 22:36
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drat brown moses got sandblasted on the last ep
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Jul 13, 2017 00:10
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new nerd! and it looks sickquote:Guest: Amal Saad, author & professor
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Jul 13, 2017 04:54
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the bitcoin of weed posted:holy poo poo this rules it's happening https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd/status/890201668800962560
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Jul 26, 2017 14:35
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I need to reread Ravages of Time
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Jul 26, 2017 14:46
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Playing the Snes game of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a huge nostalgia trip for me. Used to stay way up late with my friends as a kid, bungling through history, setting battlefields on fire, throwing boulders down onto sieging armies. It was my first contact with non-european history.
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Jul 27, 2017 01:57
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John Dolan on Jeet Heer: "I don't read that trash."
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Jul 27, 2017 04:35
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FREE EPISODE https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-13429180 They've just reposted the interview with Amal Saad, who is one of the few scholars on Hezbollah and the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war. quote:Reposting the War Nerd's interview with Hezbollah scholar Amal Saad, author of "Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion" and professor of political science at the Lebanese University in Beirut — recorded on the 11th anniversary of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah is perhaps the most powerful resistance movement in the world, and it remains a mystery to outsiders in the West. Hezbollah's victory in the 2006 war shocked Israel, the US and the world. We discuss the war, its effect on Lebanon politics, Hezbollah's role in the Syria and how it's helped or hurt them, and the history and politics of Hezbollah...
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Jul 28, 2017 15:58
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
Israel fought a war in 2006? And they lost? Nobody tells me about things.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:00
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prefect posted:Israel fought a war in 2006? And they lost? You had to be paying attention to the news at the time. Israel claims they met their objectives, but the fact of the matter is that they couldn't handle a protracted deployment and withdrew from southern Lebanon asap. Which means Hezbollah won by default.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:03
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prefect posted:Israel fought a war in 2006? And they lost? Israel claims to have won by virtue of having the higher body count (no poo poo, they were basically carpet bombing everything south of Saida and mostly killed civilians) but they got a bloody nose and have been gearing up and training for a rematch ever since because it was an even worse showing than 82 and this time they couldn't exploit sectarian divisions.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:03
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The invasion of Gaza also showed that they're still not prepared for another offensive war against determined defenders.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:06
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Yeah turns out having the best trained and equipped army in the middle east means jack poo poo when you are fighting anything other than civilian hospitals and extremely lovely arab professional armies.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:25
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Israel's conflict with Hezbollah specifically has basically defined their (and by extension US) foreign policy in the region ever since, which is a fun thing to keep in mind when you consider Hezbollah has a lot of material ties to Iran, along with the weird relations between Lebanon and Syria which honestly could probably fill an episode by itself
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Jul 28, 2017 17:16
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Plutonis posted:Yeah turns out having the best trained and equipped army in the middle east means jack poo poo when you are fighting anything other than civilian hospitals and extremely lovely arab professional armies. More specifically, the IDF is trained to be a police force and don't know how to deal with anything where they don't already control the local authorities. Also, by internalizing the logic of ethnic warfare, the Israelis have become far too casualty-averse to the point where they can no longer tolerate any kind of protracted offensive action.
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Jul 28, 2017 18:03
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Listening to the "American Nazis" episode now, and I love it when Dolan gets into the Civil War history. It's so clear he really cares about it, and knows it deeply.
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prefect posted:Listening to the "American Nazis" episode now, and I love it when Dolan gets into the Civil War history. It's so clear he really cares about it, and knows it deeply. Great article specially considering recent events https://pando.com/2015/04/10/war-nerd-the-confederates-who-shouldve-been-hanged/
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