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So he predicted the Netflix series then.
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Apr 24, 2024 15:54
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it's anzac day in australia (pro-war brainwashing day celebrating the troops attempting to invade turkey and getting their asses handed to them) and some brain genius had a great idea Lube Enthusiast posted:https://x.com/lib_crusher/status/1782961303172301309?s=46&t=OS7bd-x1fz8nJt5ndsmeVw mahershalalhashbaz fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Apr 25, 2024 03:55
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Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time.
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Apr 25, 2024 05:38
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Pirate Radar posted:Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time.
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Apr 25, 2024 06:00
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Pirate Radar posted:Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time. it made a pretty good movie
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Apr 25, 2024 06:10
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Pirate Radar posted:Are people more positive about Gallipoli these days then? I thought the take was “Churchill’s bright idea got a bunch of us killed for nothing” but that might have faded with time. It's pretty common for disastrous military failures to get retconned into heroic character-building moments. That way, the people responsible for the failure can draw attention away from their own responsibility, and the victims can avoid directly acknowledging just how much suffering they'd been subjected to for no good reason. Gallipoli was a military failure, but Australia (which had only been recently unified into a single country) played it up as a source of national identity. In the mouths of the propagandists, the horrible failure of the Gallipoli campaign became the tale of the heroic ANZACs charging into a hail of enemy bullets, bravely and selflessly laying down their lives in the face of an insurmountable challenge, their useless deaths demonstrating to the world just how incredible and amazing the Aussie spirit was.
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Apr 25, 2024 06:33
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Main Paineframe posted:It's pretty common for disastrous military failures to get retconned into heroic character-building moments. That way, the people responsible for the failure can draw attention away from their own responsibility, and the victims can avoid directly acknowledging just how much suffering they'd been subjected to for no good reason. As a phenomenon I’m familiar with that yeah, but I wasn’t sure how it was seen in Aus these days.
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Apr 25, 2024 09:15
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The average Australian. The Bruce on the street. The hoi oi oi polloi, you might say
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Apr 25, 2024 09:18
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for what it's worth, the best general of the war was an australian jew, so there's an anzac day bit of trivia for you
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Apr 25, 2024 09:46
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Australia gets cousin brucie on the radio too? where am I going with this see Bruce think of cousin GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Apr 25, 2024 10:09
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:for what it's worth, the best general of the war was an australian jew, so there's an anzac day bit of trivia for you rupert murdoch's dad tried to whip up antisemitism against him
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Apr 25, 2024 10:54
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starting to think that murdoch family might suck poo poo
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Apr 25, 2024 11:02
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:for what it's worth, the best general of the war was an australian jew, so there's an anzac day bit of trivia for you
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Apr 25, 2024 11:40
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i am the only online student in one of my classes and when i zoom in my face gets projected at 10x regular size onto this gigantic screen on the wall like a dictator in a sci-fi dystopia, it's mortifying
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Apr 26, 2024 02:02
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I hope you seize the chance to imperiously shout SILENCE FOOLS every so often
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Apr 26, 2024 03:26
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avs should have their enlarged face on every screen occasionally wildlife can also poke their head in
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Apr 26, 2024 03:30
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it's so terrible, the camera points into the classroom at an oblique angle so as i'm talking i also get a clear view of my terrifying big brother visage addressing the long-suffering subjectsPirate Radar posted:I hope you seize the chance to imperiously shout SILENCE FOOLS every so often
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Apr 26, 2024 03:59
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