Stefferi
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
Who prevented Russia from gobbling up India in their southward push through Central Asia in the 19th century?
Doesn't seem like a very likely thing to happen tbh. Russia was unable to gobble up Turkey despite a constant desire to do so, operating through Central Asia would have been a logistical nightmare. Sure, the British ruled India with a skeleton crew, but they operated from the sea, not through the land.
Isn't the modern understanding that the whole "Great Game" narrative was mistaken anyway and that the Russian ambitions regarding Afghanistan or lands to the south of it were rather more modest than what was presented by the British propaganda?
Stefferi
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4mo ago
I haven't seen The Patriot, but isn't the way the British are portrayed in that movie similar?
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Oodles and oodles of SMS groups, chats, Discords, Slacks, FB groups etc with partly overlapping membership bases. Information on changing preferences can move very fast with reinforcement from multiple sources at the same time.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
Might have a Muslim father but still have been raised as at least a nominal Christian. It happens in the Balkans, Zlatan Ibrahimovic was raised as a nominal Catholic despite having "Ibrahim" in last name.
Ali is also a name in various non-Islamic cultures, generally short for Alexander.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Most people will probably be indifferent towards most strangers they see at the gym, unless they're hogging the weights they were planning to use or otherwise causing issues.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
So there you have it- no plans, no budget, no orders; instead it was "mind-reading" by lower-level officers. This is the mainstream position which has emerged due to the inabilitiy of mainstream historians to find any documents substantiating their characterization of German policy in this respect.
How does this differ from the mainstream position on how the Great Purge, Holodomor, the Cultural Revolution, Great Leap Forward and similar Communist atrocities happened?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
However one slices the events at Maidan, they represented mostly an internal event (the impetus for change came from forces in Ukraine moreso than the West) until the invasion of Crimea made it fundamentally a war between nations.
The issue is that Russians aren't Hajnali liberals with their cuck fetish of getting shafted due to the fear of being seen as improper.
If we were to assume it was the West that toppled the Yanuk government, this sentence becomes faintly ironic - what, the West should have accepted getting shafted (ie not have the association agreement signed, Ukraine moving closer to the Russian camp etc.) due to the fear of being seen as improper?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo ago
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.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo 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
4mo 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
4mo 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
4mo ago
I find all languages that use separate pronouns for men and women weak, personally.
Stefferi
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4mo ago
Whether the shooter conceived of themselves as trans at the moment of shooting seems to be rather complicated.
Stefferi
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4mo 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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4mo 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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4mo ago
Hillary's comment was aimed at Bernie, not Trump, though.
Stefferi
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4mo 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
4mo 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
4mo ago
So what's your expectation of this new UAP hearing? Anything different from the previous nothingburgers?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4mo 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
5mo 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
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5mo 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
5mo ago
You still remember the ad and the company, so clearly it worked at some level.
Stefferi
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5mo 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".
I'm reminded of the Monkey Dust "Jerry Brickhammer" parody of a fictional Hollywood production of Diary of Anne Frank with all the Nazis as Englishmen and the Jews as literally Irish, but it seems to have disappeared from the Internet along with a lot of other Monkey Dust material.
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