spacetimecontinuu posted:

a hauntingly unemployed american

Moist von Lipwig posted:

Newest Radiolab has a segment about how Reagan is a dirty loving liar who used terrified peasants as an excuse to resume the manufacture of chemical weapons after two decades.

FEMA summer camp posted:

The full episode also features DnD's favorite cartoonist Tim Kreider.

AP posted:

In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, masked Somali pirate Abdi Ali walks past a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the pirates were paid a ransom and released the crew, in the once-bustling pirate den of Hobyo, Somalia.

algorithmkiller posted:

Saw this other day and did a double take

If you can't read it, it says "Drones: Protection when you least expect it"

Forums Terrorist posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GvDyJobHTM

From a CIA-made series analysing how the Soviet Union fought the propaganda battle.

quote:

PHOENIX -- Phoenix police said they've arrested a man after he reportedly dressed a teenage relative in a sheet and sent him into a street to aim a fake rocket-propelled grenade launcher at passing cars.

Police spokesman officer James Holmes said Michael D. Turley, 39, was arrested Monday on charges of knowingly giving a false impression of a terrorist act, endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

McDowell posted:

Specifically these were made to brief President Reagan because reading is for tools

Crasscrab posted:

Truly our greatest president.

quote:

Description: Paranoid Lollywood fantasy about assassinating Salman Rushdie (circa 1990) complete with disco and batsuits. Salman Rushdie, played by Afzaal Ahmad, is depicted as plotting the downfall of Pakistan, the stronghold of Islam by opening a chain of casinos and discos in the country. The hero of the story, played by Mustafa Qureshi, learns of this plot and quits his day job as a police officer to recruit his brothers and create a mujahid (Gods soldiers) to pursue Rushdie and slay him. Rushdie is protrayed as a smug, bespectacled butcher in a double-breasted suit, living in palatial splendor on his own island, slaughtering his enemies with a huge blood-soaked sword. In the end, as the trio of brothers and their mother are being crucified by Rushdie, Allah frees them with bolts of lightning and attacks Salman Rushdie withy flying holy books (the Koran, Tawrat, Zabur, and Injil) that shoot laser beams into his skull until he bursts into flames, a scene that evoked shouts of approval from Pakistani audiences.

Moist von Lipwig posted:

Aufzug Taube! posted:

The new hate speech thread...

The thread is not great but not terrible either.

quote:

The Dachau massacre occurred in the area of the Dachau concentration camp, near Dachau, Germany, on April 29, 1945, during World War II. During the camp's capture, American soldiers from 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army allegedly wounded and killed German prisoners of war.

The incident occurred after the US division entered the Dachau concentration camp. Before the soldiers entered the camp, they found outside 40 roofless boxcars (or freight-cars) full of emaciated dead bodies in advanced stages of decomposition.

More bodies were found about the camp. Some had been dead for hours and days before the camp's capture and lay where they had died. Soldiers reported seeing a row of cement structures that contained rooms full of hundreds of naked and barely clothed dead bodies piled floor to ceiling, a coal-fired crematorium and a gas chamber.

ekuNNN posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_massacre

quote:

Dr. Howard A. Buechner, M.D., professor of medicine at Tulane University and then Louisiana State University, added a strange chapter to the tale in his two books on the Spear. He claims he was contacted by a former U-boat submariner who in turn claimed to have helped take the Spear of Destiny to Antarctica in 1945 and to have helped to recover it in 1979. Buechner was a retired Colonel with the U.S. Army who served in World War II, and had written a book on the Dachau massacre as a witness to the event. He was presented by the pseudonymous “Capt. Wilhelm Bernhart” with the log of the 1979 Hartmann Expedition and photos of some of the objects recovered.

According to Buechner, the Spear currently on display in the Schatzkammer in Vienna is a fake. He claims that he had evidence that Heinrich Himmler, head of the Occult Bureau of the SS, had formed a circle of Knights dedicated to the Holy Lance and further, had Japan's greatest swordsmaker create an exact duplicate of the lance. Buechner claimed that the duplicate went on display in Nuremberg while the real one was used in arcane black magic ceremonies in a specially appointed castle in Wewelsburg, Germany. Even wilder, he wrote that Hitler personally had selected Col. Maximilian Hartmann to send several of his most prized possessions, including the Spear of Destiny, and Hitler and Eva Braun's ashes to Antarctica. According to him Col. Hartmann recovered the Spear of Destiny from the ice in 1979 and it is now in hiding somewhere in Europe, in the possession of the Knights of the Holy Lance.

After contacting most of the members of the alleged expedition and others involved, including senior Nazi officials and close associates of Adolf Hitler, like Hitler Youth Leader Artur Axmann, Col. Buechner became convinced the claims were true and that he was either the victim of an elaborate hoax, or the Spear of Destiny really did reside for a while in Antarctica and may well be in the hands of one or more individuals who believe, as Col Hartmann may have said “the Holy Lance points ever towards our eternal Deutschland.”

ekuNNN posted:

What?! Not great? But I am sharing my opinions in there!

But yeah, I can see the other side of the hate speech discussion too, but actually illegalising neo-nazism is a pretty big pro for me.

Here's some other anti-fasiscm I am for, but still kind of ambivalent about :



A row of machinegunned Nazi camp guards lie on the ground.

quote:

http://www.george-orwell.org/Revenge_is_Sour/0.html

It is absurd to blame any German or Austrian Jew for getting his own back
on the Nazis. Heaven knows what scores this particular man may have had
to wipe out; very likely his whole family had been murdered; and after
all, even a wanton kick to a prisoner is a very tiny thing compared with
the outrages committed by the Hitler regime. But what this scene, and
much else that I saw in Germany, brought home to me was that the whole
idea of revenge and punishment is a childish daydream. Properly speaking,
there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to
commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as
the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Who would not have jumped for joy, in 1940, at the thought of seeing S.S.
officers kicked and humiliated? But when the thing becomes possible, it
is merely pathetic and disgusting. It is said that when Mussolini's
corpse was exhibited in public, an old woman drew a revolver and fired
five shots into it, exclaiming, 'Those are for my five sons!' It is the
kind of story that the newspapers make up, but it might be true. I wonder
how much satisfaction she got out of those five shots, which, doubtless,
she had dreamed years earlier of firing. The condition of her being able
to get close enough to Mussolini to shoot at him was that he should be a
corpse.

Killin_Like_Bronson posted:

ekuNNN posted:

What?! Not great? But I am sharing my opinions in there!

But yeah, I can see the other side of the hate speech discussion too, but actually illegalising neo-nazism is a pretty big pro for me.

Here's some other anti-fasiscm I am for, but still kind of ambivalent about :

An inmate about to beat a Nazi camp guard to death with a shovel


A row of machinegunned Nazi camp guards lie on the ground.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_massacre

quote:

"Run away from progressivism!"..."sometimes you can't tell the difference between now and 200 years ago."

duTrieux. posted:

If you want to be morally consistent, then there's no justification for retributive murder.

JoelJoel posted:

Runaway Slave Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55aujTwuJY8
Awesome.

TFNC posted:

I've got these urges, doc. Sometimes I just want to boot up photoshop and remove my rear end in a top hat brother from all of our family photos...

Tomahawk posted: