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Doltos posted:Why does that dude have a pepe on his shirt? Is this some 4chan idiot that got sucker punched or something or is he an actual neo-nazi? It's this guy: 
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Ah yes I see how that has something to do with pepe
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Do we really need the Cradle of Civilization? Much like a fourth quarterback on the roster, it seems somewhat superfluous.
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Imagine being proud to be white lol
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Kalli posted:It's this guy: Haven't most American "whites" been tainted by the blood of savage peoples?  Ehud posted:Imagine being proud to be white lol Pre-1980s: We are proud to be the best examples of the human race! Currently: Our skin color is a result of interspecies breeding with neanderthals! We're still cool somehow.
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sean10mm posted:
Ehud posted:Imagine being proud to be white lol 
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Self-described "Alpha males" who can't get sex... aren't actually alpha males, they're just huge assholes who wish they were what they imagine alpha males to be.
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In all seriousness though, punch Nazis every chance you get. They deserve it, you won't feel bad and no one who matters will care.
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Punching Nazis is as American as apple pie.
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Punching nazis is pretty cool. I went to a punk rock gig once with some mates, isnt really my thing but it was a chance to drink and hit on ladies with funny coloured hair. There were some lame dudes with ss shirts on and the band played nazi punks gently caress off and then a bouncer punched a dude who tried to throw a beer on stage. It was pretty cool. Smashing shop windows and lighting fires is pretty lame though. Its also pretty funny that starbucks contributed a bunch of money to the dnc and protesters smashed up a starbucks. Punching people in the back of the head when they put out fires and start to preach peace is equally lame. Some good comedy though.
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They always smash the windows of Starbucks because they say it represents THE MAN in its most virulent form or something. My suspicion is that they're just angry at the place they work.
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Kalli posted:There's a great book on the siege of Stalingrad that is extremely bleak that just keeps getting bleaker and bleaker. Like the Russians are just totally without food or ammo for wide chunks of it and it's all your standard totally overmatched army surviving by sheer determination stuff, but once the counterattack hits and the Germans get encircled, oh man. They didn't have full winter provisions so guys were just freezing to death at their posts, they eat all the officer's horses and the last few weeks of flights there's soldiers shooting themselves left and right trying to get a med evac on the supply planes and tons of injured soldiers just get trampled to death, and eventually the ones that survive capture just get marched to a prison camp and left to effectively starve to death. During that whole time Hitler kept sending them instructions to hold out because an imaginary relief force was coming to rescue them. As a history
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gently caress the DNC
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got any sevens posted:gently caress the DNC They hosed us first.
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it was christmas dinner and hillary showed up with tuna noodle casserole i mean its decent enough and im glad to eat on christmas but gently caress this only comes every so often
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fartknocker posted:As a history Don't know what book he is referring to but I highly recommend Stalingrad by Anthony beever and also the hardcore history podcast series called ghosts of the ostfront.
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Kalli posted:they eat all the officer's horses This right here was a MAJOR issue with the German Army.
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If Sanders had won the election would he have still had to put his hand on the bible to be sworn in
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fartknocker posted:As a history Enemy at the Gates by William Craig.
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Kalli posted:Enemy at the Gates by William Craig. The pope plays a sniper in that movie.
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Oh are we doing history book chat? I really liked Iron Coffins by Herbert A Werner about serving as an officer and later captain on U Boats during WW2. Like, if you know anything about the Battle of the Atlantic you realize they're total death traps by the end of the war, but just everything about serving on one sounds miserable. There's a story about taking on eggs for a crew of 50 but everyone except the few experienced guys were so seasick they couldn't eat them, so the author and a few other guys were stuck eating nothing but eggs so they wouldn't all go bad. It's also interesting if you're into learning how regular guys viewed how the war was going on at certain points.
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I loved Castles of Steel, but it's been quite a few years since I went back to it.
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Wheez would have been proud of this https://canipunchnazis.com/
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Kalli posted:Enemy at the Gates by William Craig. Ah, that's what I was thinking, some of that sounded pretty familiar. Haven't read it in probably seven or eight years... MalarkeyToboggan posted:Don't know what book he is referring to but I highly recommend Stalingrad by Anthony beever and also the hardcore history podcast series called ghosts of the ostfront. I've had a few people recommend Beever's book, so I'll probably look into that when I have the chance.
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got any sevens posted:gently caress the DNC Everyone, please think long and hard about listening to Mr. "Repealing the ACA is Fine Because Everybody Dies."
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Shangri-Law School posted:Everyone, please think long and hard about listening to Mr. "Repealing the ACA is Fine Because Everybody Dies." Who said that? I read one good ww1 book about some British midlevel officer, it was just his diary someone found later and published, over the course of a year each entry got more depressing as he was losing his mind and becoming a fatalistic coward happy for any time away from the frontline trenches. The Guns of August is great too.
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got any sevens posted:Who said that? You did, you twit! Right after the election.
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There's a book called Fateful Choices, by Ian Kershaw, that's really good.
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:also the hardcore history podcast series called ghosts of the ostfront.  Everyone listen to Hardcore History.
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:Don't know what book he is referring to but I highly recommend Stalingrad by Anthony beever and also the hardcore history podcast series called ghosts of the ostfront. I binged that and I was loving haunted for days
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If you want to get really academic about the Eastern Front read anything by David Glantz. He is absolutely amazing and basically the authority on the Ostfront in WWII. I recommend reading When Titans Clashed for a general 41-45 overview. If you get really into it read his Stalingrad quadrilogy. That being said unless you are really into thisshit you'll find it a slog to read since its very dry and matter of fact. He also has a book on Kursk, Operation Mars, and a brand new book on operations in Belarus. He somehow still hasn't written a book on Operation Bagration so I hope that's coming someday. Also watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Clz27nghIg If you want something a lot lighter read Ivan's War. It'll make you hate humanity pretty good. For a good in-between Antony Beevor and Robert Citino are great. And there's also an awesome 18 hour documentary series on the Ostfront called Soviet Storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6UWkK2U4s Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Flikken posted:This right here was a MAJOR issue with the German Army. Horses are great for getting around in places where the infrastructure is garbage. Like, say, the Eastern Front. That's why the Poles had horse mounted anti tank and scouting units. They could dart around off road faster than any mechanized vehicle available.
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Sash! posted:Horses are great for getting around in places where the infrastructure is garbage. Like, say, the Eastern Front. The German Army did not have anywhere near the mechanization that western armies enjoyed in the war. They didn't choose horses because they were better suited to the terrain, they used them because they had no other choice, infantry pretty much walked everywhere too.
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Read Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze to see just how shoetring literally everything the German Army did was.
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I was thinking "this is a really confusing thread of ww2 analysis and punching nazis" but then remembered they're exactly the same thing
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I am sorely deficient in my WW2 in Europe knowledge. I thought Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose was decent  I'm adding these recommendations to my Amazon wish list. I have a poo poo ton of books about the Korean War (Chosin campaign mostly), US-Vietnam War, Cambodia/Khmer Rouge, and North Korea, if anyone is interested in books about that stuff.
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Y'all know that Dr Seuss did political cartoons during the war?  The UCSD library has more
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I am reading books about the Seleukid Empire because I am so loving bored of WW2.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I am reading books about the Seleukid Empire because I am so loving bored of WW2. I randomly chose an apologistic book about Caligula to report on that attempted to view him in a unbiased light way back when I was in school. It was alright. Might have been this. Pretty much everyone who wrote about the dude who actually knew what went down is on the record as hating him, which is evidence that he was everything people tend to think about him. But it could also be evidence that maybe he wasn't quite all that bad and just pissed off the type of people who wrote about things back then. I'm not actually recommending this book but it's about that other thing that's way over analyzed and not WW2 so...
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