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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

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Emden
Oct 5, 2012

by angerbeet
Been thinking and reading a lot about the racial divide of IQ and the implications therein. Dig deep enough and you start finding some crazy poo poo.



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NAME REDACTED
Dec 22, 2010
... I ain't even touchin' that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bik9299kA0c

KoldPT
Oct 9, 2012

Mans posted:

What's :stare: about it? And how is Rasputin a part of the revolution?




(color picture from russia, source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html)

He's a part of the entire revolutionary period. The Russian revolution didn't start in 1917!

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Emden posted:

Been thinking and reading a lot about the racial divide of IQ and the implications therein. Dig deep enough and you start finding some crazy poo poo.



I'm not sure what you are getting at with this, but I assume it ends in me saying: gently caress you, Emden.

Amused to Death
Aug 10, 2009

google "The Night Witches", and prepare for :stare:
Oh hey it's the nazi

PBJ
Oct 10, 2012

Grimey Drawer

Emden posted:

Been thinking and reading a lot about the racial divide of IQ and the implications therein. Dig deep enough and you start finding some crazy poo poo.



I like how you can tell how it's from some old, early 20th century textbook.

Just like your lovely political beliefs.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Emden posted:

Been thinking and reading a lot about the racial divide of IQ and the implications therein. Dig deep enough and you start finding some crazy poo poo.





Edgar Quintero
Oct 5, 2004

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
DO NOT GIVE HEROIN
Hah. The "racial implications of IQ tests". You mean the implication that IQ tests are bullshit and largely skewed towards people who already have an established education and cultural background? I remember reading about how people with English as a second language were likely to score lower on an IQ test despite having equal or superior math, critical thinking and reasoning skills to a a 3rd generation American or whatever.

...Aaaand then I notice it's posted by Emden. So actually, go kill yourself you racist gently caress.

full photo gallery here:
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-found-in-turkey-130329.htm



quote:

A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced.

Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin -- the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition.

Historic sources located the site in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and described the opening as filled with lethal mephitic vapors.... (more in the article)

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Eh. I'm like 85 percent convinced that Emdem's just a lame troll. You'd think that someone who actually has these opinions would try to stick around and debate them rather than doing one-off drive-by threadshits.

quiggy
Aug 7, 2010

[in Russian] Oof.


Apotheosis posted:

Eh. I'm like 85 percent convinced that Emdem's just a lame troll. You'd think that someone who actually has these opinions would try to stick around and debate them rather than doing one-off drive-by threadshits.

You'd think so, but Nazis aren't really known for their intelligence.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Emden posted:

Been thinking and reading a lot about the racial divide of IQ and the implications therein. Dig deep enough and you start finding some crazy poo poo.





burnishedfume
Mar 8, 2011

You really are a louse...

Emden posted:

Been thinking and reading a lot about the racial divide of IQ and the implications therein. Dig deep enough and you start finding some crazy poo poo.



Emden, back in January posted:



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Come on dude! Your fascist thing doesn't work if you just keep reposting old poo poo you already got probated for. Show some creativity! :(

Between the World Wars, Józef Piłsudski (Chief of State of Poland from 1918-22) had a plan to weaken the Soviet Union/Russia by breaking it down into its ethnic groups. Then map of Russia's ethnic groups at the time:


Those are some really pretty borders let me tell ya.

E: Wait my mistake, this map is actually from 1974. Same basic idea though; what Russia would look like if you just made everyone independent if they wanted to or not.

burnishedfume fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Mar 30, 2013

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007

Apotheosis posted:

I'm like 85 percent convinced that Emdem's just a lame troll.
I like to think he's just fishing for antifa images, so who am I not to supply them?





Rogue0071
Dec 8, 2009

Grey Hunter's next target.

darthbob88 posted:

Dismissing the death of 2M+ people in the Russian Civil War as "negligible" is kinda troubling. Of course, as you are about to note, nobody died in the actual October Revolution, the Civil War was a different matter entirely, which is less disturbing than disingenuous.


I don't think it is actually disingenuous to point out the distinction between the civil war and the October Revolution. Most peoples' idea of the October Revolution was some sort of military putsch in which the streets of Petrograd ran red with blood. The actual insurrection itself was almost entirely bloodless besides a few shots exchanged outside the Winter Palace. In fact, the Bolsheviks showed far too much leniency in general during the October Revolution, paroling Junkers and leading Kadets on their word of honor to take no more action against the Congress of Soviets. Almost all of those so paroled joined with the Whites and killed thousands of workers in the Civil War.


Lenin, speaking in Sverdlov square in 1920 with Trotsky to the lower right. Under Stalin's regime the image would be edited to exclude Trotsky.

Rogue0071 fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Mar 30, 2013

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

KoldPT posted:

The most interesting figure in the Russian revolution, and one of the most interesting in history.

Saying that about Rasputin means you should really stop watching the History channel and go read some books.

Since we are talking about charlatans in 'influential' positions:

KoldPT
Oct 9, 2012

ughhhh posted:

Saying that about Rasputin means you should really stop watching the History channel and go read some books.

Since we are talking about charlatans in 'influential' positions:



The rise of Rasputin was a fantastic symptom of the problems with the Romanov family, though, that was my point. And yes, I do read books, but cool passive-aggresion!



Russian peasants in 1909.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Crasscrab posted:

drat the Jewish alien/Jewish Bigfoot NWO Illuminati Vampire cabal!



:negative:

I love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Ool1NsKW4

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Experto Crede
Aug 19, 2008

Keep on Truckin'

Sigh, was that last paragraph necessary?

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Experto Crede posted:

Sigh, was that last paragraph necessary?

Haha, I agree, but I thought the rest of the story was good anyway.

"Korea is one!"








"Venezuelan! Sign up for the elections. Don’t sell your vote! He that sells his vote sells his nation"

Pacra
Aug 5, 2004

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a classically handsome man.

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HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

A North Korean Youtube channel with lots of war rhetoric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dIyLUbNQ-0A&list=UUUuFFVgw3WcDIPZeMukjvWg




HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Mar 30, 2013

Armyman25
Sep 6, 2005
Celebrating the "War for Southern Independence."

Amused to Death
Aug 10, 2009

google "The Night Witches", and prepare for :stare:

I wish it happened in 2009 so they could've said "Barack Obama won it that year instead for basically no reason than not being George W Bush. He then went on to bomb the poo poo out of some places"

I was going to post something else, but when I got to imgur's main page, I saw this

quote:

Eyes of Hate: Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels smiled at him until he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish - a moment Eisenstaedt captured in this photo. Suddenly,"he looked at me with hateful eyes and waited for me to wither,"the photographer recalled.

ArchRanger
Mar 19, 2007
I'm tired of following my dreams, I'm just gonna ask where they're goin' and meet up with 'em there.

Ho Chi Mint posted:

Celebrating the "War for Southern Independence."



Still a more accurate name than "The War of Northern Aggression."

Unrelated animated short about Polish history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DrXgj1NwN8

Amused to Death
Aug 10, 2009

google "The Night Witches", and prepare for :stare:

ArchRanger posted:

Still a more accurate name than "The War of Northern Aggression."

Unrelated animated short about Polish history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DrXgj1NwN8

That was pretty awesome, I want one of these for every country.

North Korean "artillery" along the Chinese border. Apparently at the time North Korea didn't know about cameras with zooms, or binoculars

Sir John Falstaff
Apr 13, 2010




Not what I believe.

Amused to Death
Aug 10, 2009

google "The Night Witches", and prepare for :stare:

Sir John Falstaff posted:



Not what I believe.

Ha, I posted this in the crazy email thread. I don't know if its originally from there, but in its current inception it seems to have come from the "Taxation is Theft" facebook page, and these people, all 40,000 of them, are in fact as terrible as you'd imagine. What makes it even more terrible is when they posted it last week, it's right during all the hoopla over Steubenville, as well as another football case in CT, as well as another case of University of North Carolina apparently covering up rape, was all in the news.



Total tax on cigarettes in the US. What's interesting in terms of attitudes changing is if you go back a decade, basically every state is the lightest color, or second lightest.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Amused to Death posted:

North Korean "artillery" along the Chinese border. Apparently at the time North Korea didn't know about cameras with zooms, or binoculars

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

That's totally the skull from the game 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.




South Korea DMZ guards are tough as heck.

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Amused to Death posted:

Total tax on cigarettes in the US. What's interesting in terms of attitudes changing is if you go back a decade, basically every state is the lightest color, or second lightest.

I was surprised that smokes are cheaper in CA than MD/PA when I came out here for work, but counties/cities also have taxes on cigs sometimes. Which leads to the walgreens across the street from the Albertson's being $1.50 less per pack because it's in a different town.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde


Armyman25
Sep 6, 2005

Crasscrab posted:

That's totally the skull from the game 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.




South Korea DMZ guards are tough as heck.

Operation Paul Bunyan.



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

Wiki posted:

In addition, a 64-man South Korean special forces company accompanied them, armed with clubs and trained in Tae Kwon Do, supposedly without firearms. However, once they parked their trucks near the Bridge of No Return, they started throwing out the sandbags that lined the truck bottoms, and handing out M-16 rifles and M-79 grenade launchers that had been concealed below.[2] Several of the special forces men also had Claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanism in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge.[15][16]

:stare:

Amused to Death
Aug 10, 2009

google "The Night Witches", and prepare for :stare:

Crasscrab posted:

That's totally the skull from the game 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.




South Korea DMZ guards are tough as heck.

There's even height requirements. I'm not sure, but I believe the height requirement for both South Korean and American troops(when they were still there) at the Joint Security Area was at least 6ft. The DMZ really speaks for each nation just by how the soldiers stand


South Korean soldiers face into North Korea



North Korean soldiers stand facing each other as well as into North Korea to make sure no one jumps the line(as has happened more than a few times. In fact I think it happened last year again)

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Crasscrab posted:

That's totally the skull from the game 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.

That's literally the main Wiki photo of Damien Hirst's For the Love of God. For shame, I expect more effort from my crazies.



Also "interesting" choice as far as symbolism goes.

Raimundus
Apr 26, 2008

BARF! I THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE SMELLING DOG BUTTS BUT I GUESS I WAS WRONG!

Not familiar with this issue. Can someone provide context?

kaschei
Oct 25, 2005

Raimundus posted:

Not familiar with this issue. Can someone provide context?


HBO has made a documentary about the practice of accusing children of being witches. People are told that their troubles are due to their children being witches or possessed by witches. The children may be tortured or neglected or simply killed. http://www.osundefender.org/?p=95049

From the documentary synopsis:

quote:

"Gavan and van der Valk expose the work of "Bishop" Sunday Ulup-Aya, who
charges families up to a year's salary - in Nigeria, many survive on just a dollar a day - to "exorcise" children suspected of witchcraft, feeding them a toxin he calls a "poison destroyer," which consists of alcohol, African mercury and his own blood. If families cannot pay his fee, he holds their children captive.

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TheMammoth
Dec 3, 2002

Logan 5 posted:

I like NPR...

But this poo poo right here is loving awful, and terrible journalism at that.

I used to commute to work on the train, now I drive and have been listening to NPR a lot more (if only because the Chicago area absolutely loving sucks in terms of radio station selection compared to northern CA or similar), and I have learned to loath the typical purple prose which almost necessarily introduces any NPR member station story.

"More than half of the letters in the adjacent gas station's neon sign are dark now. Beneath them, through the glass of the shop's front window, an elderly man in a blue baseball cap purchases his daily lottery tickets from the young Hispanic girl behind the counter. She smiles and laughs easily. Though it is almost evening here, many of the cars which pass us make their way down this narrow downtown street without the use of their headlights, as though they hesitate to see where they are really going. A small woman of middle-age, her head and body tightly wrapped against the late summer chill, approaches me to ask for the time. Yet, I realize, she isn't asking me for the time so much as she just wants to speak."

This could conceivably serve as the introduction to almost any NPR piece on any subject. To me, it all sounds like a lot of self-impressed former English majors who think everything they write is some incredible portraiture of true America. I also loving hate Terry Gross's interviews; she is the epitome of not knowing how to ask a succinct question or when to end it. You hear her fumble with her rambling questions as much as you hear many of her interviewees answer them.

However, I recently found the following book for .99 at Goodwill, and, without having heard much if any of John Hockenberry's reporting when it originally aired, it was a pretty good read. Certainly not particularly flattering in its descriptions of the NPR offices in those days (while acknowledging some standout editors etc.) or personalities like Nina Totenberg. Also: bonus graphic descriptions of mechanics of "crip sex."

TheMammoth fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Mar 31, 2013

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