Stefferi
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
Additionally and even more to the point, when we are talking about Britain and France signing the Munich Agreement - the crucial party when analyzing their further actions regarding Poland - would one even remotely assume that the events coming after the signing of Munich Agreement vis-a-vis Czechoslovakia were what they expected and hoped for?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
The Munich Agreement rested on the idea that the cessation of Sudetenland would be followed by no further German aggression against Czechoslovakia. It was then followed by further German aggression against Czechoslovakia.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
Shouldn't this speculation take into account the immediate preceeding events, ie. Germany and Czechoslovakia making precisely such an agreement to avert war with Western backing and Germany then proceeding to violate that agreement in the most flagrant of manners?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
I find all languages that use separate pronouns for men and women weak, personally.
Stefferi
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3mo ago
Whether the shooter conceived of themselves as trans at the moment of shooting seems to be rather complicated.
Stefferi
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3mo ago
The point being moreso the "by an underaged girl" part than "video showing yourself being threatened with an axe and a knife" part.
Stefferi
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3mo ago
Okay, but paying for what purpose? What's the exact business case for a video showing yourself being threatened with an axe and a knife by an underaged girl?
Stefferi
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3mo ago
Hillary's comment was aimed at Bernie, not Trump, though.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
Mentioning Perry reminds me that one of the biggest "missionary" American ideological uplifting projects - the post-war reconstruction of Japan - was overseen by Douglas MacArthur, one of the most red-tribe figures one could imagine from that era.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
If I’m a government official, I would do my best to downplay or dismiss or classify the story. The reason being that the only real data we have on how humans would react to something like this is the War of the Worlds broadcast in the 1930s, which resulted in a fair bit of panic.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
So what's your expectation of this new UAP hearing? Anything different from the previous nothingburgers?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3mo ago
When you have a far right whose most important political principle is "whatever makes the libs cry is good", and also "libs" will always end up meaning whoever is the enemy at the time, it should go without saying that inter-far-right wars will always end up acquiring a specifically ridiculous character.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
During the Furry Wars of the 00s it was a common understanding that people who were really obsessed with hating furries were probably furries themselves, or at least felt the call of the fur in some way.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
I'm not exactly sure how much the OSHA/FLSA graphs are supposed to prove. It's not like occupational safety laws and measures or general labor laws and measures where things that were nonexistent before OSHA/FLSA, right? Aren't these furthermore the points where these things passed from improvements being workplace-based and affected by labor union advocacy to the state taking control, making the anti-union point less clear?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
You still remember the ad and the company, so clearly it worked at some level.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
But it doesn't stop there, what one would call mainstream, respectable, left of center publications went with it. The Times, Post, and ABC all threw their hats in the outrage ring.
The NYT article (found a free link here, not sure how many times it can be shared before the paywall goes back up) is about how the ad is not racist (which you should have already guessed from McWhorter writing it) and ends with "Language changes; culture changes; labels are reassigned. And a blond, blue-eyed actress talking about jeans — or even genes — is just a pun, not a secret salute to white supremacy".
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
Speak out as the tide is changing a couple of years too early? Gulag and execution. Speak out a year or two too late? Irrelevant, timid, late. Timing needs to be perfect.
If we're talking about the period when Gulag camp and execution was an actual threat (meaning the Stalin era - the Gulag system was formally abolished in 1957), the timing was actually very easy - you just did like a loyal communist and condemned Stalin at the very moment when the Party, speaking with the mouth of General Secretary Khruschev, did so.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
Also, it quit Warsaw Pact in 1968 due to its alignment with PRC.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
I can find all of these within a 10km radius (assuming the Finnish state railroad station is valid for Amtrak and the nearest big box store for Walmart). The nearest farm I could find where I could definitely say what they farm produces potatoes.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
The modern-day anarchists and anarchoid types (not formally anarchist but obviously influenced that way) have rather clearly abandoned the goal of overturning the society totally and replaced it with the one of "existing in the cracks", ie. assuming that the regular square society will still exist in some form and they can get on by with various forms of leeching.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
If there was an actual collapse of the society with warlords roaming about, these would be more likely to be independently-operating army officers a la Chinese warlords of the Warlord Era, not... independent entrepreneurs like these people imagine it would go.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
Rhodesia and French Algeria existed longer than Israel and had people who had lived there for generations.
I don't believe either of these is true for Rhodesia, at least, though the latter claim might be technically true extremely tendentiously. Rhodesia existed, either as a colony or a self-declared state, for 56. Since the first settlers moved in at 1890s or so, there might have been some families that would have gone back 3 or even 4 generations, but most white Rhodesians had moved in only after WW2 (the white population was 65 000 in 1940 and peaked at 300 000 in 1975).
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
If there was a politician here who turned out to have acted in hardcore porn, it would probably affect their career negatively, but more due to this being perceived as unserious/frivolous than immoral as such. Whether it would be enough to tank the career would probably depend on the party.
Russia started the war with the invasion of Crimea (an action which, all claims to contrary, involved clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces and thus clearly constitutes an offensive invasion of a sovereign state's territory), and the war was then escalated with the filibuster action in Eastern Ukraine by Strelkov and co, without which the protests in Eastern Ukraine would in all likelihood not have escalated to the status of military action.
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