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Armyman25: Sep 6, 2005

# ? Sep 30, 2012 00:02

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kierrie: Jun 7, 2010

South African Special Forces.

kierrie fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Sep 30, 2012

# ? Sep 30, 2012 00:13

Mc Do Well: Aug 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

A new low for :foxnews:

The lack of trust has nothing to do with Fox presenting opinion as fact, no siree. Because Fox isn't the mainstream media :rolleyes:

gently caress off and die, Ailes.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 01:52

Mc Do Well: Aug 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Swore I attached it.

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# ? Sep 30, 2012 01:53

Enjoy: Apr 18, 2009

Armyman25 posted:

Some of those seem like good arguments for intervention in the sex market so idgi?

It occurs to me that Stockholm syndrome is basically a mirror/subset of cognitive dissonance: it happened to me so I must want it vs it didn't happen to me so I didn't want it

Enjoy fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Sep 30, 2012

# ? Sep 30, 2012 02:06

dev null: Sep 3, 2003; ctOS actual

Never change North Carolina, never change. That's right, it says it's a white thang.

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# ? Sep 30, 2012 02:32

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004

A student manages to evade seven riot cops chasing him in a short but exciting video :sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qun3YePYKk

# ? Sep 30, 2012 02:58

Saint Sputnik: Apr 1, 2007; Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

# ? Sep 30, 2012 03:07

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004

This post is about the Paris Commune, which I find pretty interesting because it's an important moment in socialist history and it was in 1871 and there are actually photographs of it :aaa:

quote:

The Paris Commune or Fourth French Revolution was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class during the Industrial Revolution. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune contributed to the break between those two political groups.

Afterwards a lot of the communards were executed:

Here's some La Commune inspired art:

"Long live the Paris Commune"

# ? Sep 30, 2012 04:00

shortprsn: Apr 21, 2008

# ? Sep 30, 2012 04:51

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

# ? Sep 30, 2012 07:10

Armyman25: Sep 6, 2005

Watched Spike Lee's documentary about the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. Good stuff, but like anything, never accept one source at face value.

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

# ? Sep 30, 2012 07:16

the2ndgenesis: Mar 18, 2009; You, McNulty, are a gaping asshole. We both know this.

Armyman25 posted:

Good stuff, but like anything, never accept one source at face value.

Fair, but I don't think there was really much in the documentary that was particularly biased or exaggerated (despite how polemical Spike Lee can be). It's well known that New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area in general were suffering pretty badly from urban decay before Katrina, and the damage caused by the hurricane accelerated those processes exponentially. Many of those who evacuated didn't even bother to come back afterwards.

the2ndgenesis fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Sep 30, 2012

# ? Sep 30, 2012 07:31

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

# ? Sep 30, 2012 08:40

TheIllestVillain: Dec 27, 2011; Sal, Wyoming's not a country

front wing flexing posted:

Never change North Carolina, never change. That's right, it says it's a white thang.

Steve McCurry posted:

Kunduz, Afghanistan, 2002

# ? Sep 30, 2012 08:42

Pacra: Aug 5, 2004; dom dom dom

P.S. Bingo images are the dumbest images to post.

LP97S posted:

Remember that meth was only synthesized relatively recently and it was still plenty legal and popular. Everbody during the war, Axis or Allied, did speed.

"Tanker's Chocolate", a nice candy bar with meth in it.

The smaller text on this says "With bay leaf and Pervitin (german brand name for methamphetamine.) Hand(ladled? probably wrapped) in the Hermann Goering chocolate factory." Zotter to this day keeps that same name-on-the-top design for its chocolate bars.

More chocolate stuff!

Nazi party chocolate molds.

WWII-era german grenade, covered by a thin layer of chocolate, in wrapper. Pull the end, 7-second timer.

This bar was made by Halloren, Germany's oldest chocolate factory. Bittersweet dark chocolate, probably around 70%.

Krupskaya Chocolate bars. The factory/company was named after Lenin's widow, post-WWII. The chocolate is still wildly popular in northwestern Russia; the new design incorporates the griffin symbol of St. Petersburg, while the old design shows off soviet scientific/technological achievement.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 12:44

anonumos: Jul 14, 2005; Fuck it.

Armyman25 posted:

Did the Russians have any plans for Mussolini?

http://www.wsmv.com/story/19420051/confederate-flag-being-removed-from

Am I the only person in the world who thinks it looks better with a plain red roof?

This has been floating around Facebook. Even people who have not been political before love the hell out of it. It's a great message.

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# ? Sep 30, 2012 14:58

TinTower: Apr 21, 2010; You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Enjoy posted:

Some of those seem like good arguments for intervention in the sex market so idgi?

Anti-sex-worker laws are problematic in the same way that abortion bans, or, arguably, drug or gun bans are: if people require to engage in sex work to live, then they'll do that regardless of what laws surround the actual profession. And a non-negligible proportion of sex workers do engage in survival sex.

Not only that, but once you're "rescued" from sex work, the State won't do anything to help you. For example, trans women are one of the highest-incidence groups for sex work and survival sex but the legal system is so anti-trans it's really loving depressing (recent equality legislation in the UK made it legal again to refuse anyone who looks transy, even people with GRCs, access to shelters and single-sex hospital wards).

The best way to reduce sex work levels is a strong welfare net so those people who turn to sex work out of poverty don't need to any more. All banning sex work does is make sex work unsafe. It doesn't prevent sex work at all. It's just a way of slut-shaming wrapped up in paternalistic language.

This is why intersectionality is a vital concept to any contemporary feminism. White middle-class lesbians are not the most oppressed against people in existence. Women, people of colour, sex workers, trans people, LGB people, religious minorities, the working class, the disabled, etc... are all oppressed by those inherent power structures (aka: the Patriarchy), and very often on very similar grounds.

And very too often, a large amount of feminists join sides with the Patriarchy against other women � very often trans women, sex workers, or both � without thinking it through. Luckily, some of them realise how their activism can be used against women - Andrea Dworkin, a fervent anti-pornography advocate, was also very much opposed to criminalising pornography under obscenity laws because of the damage it could do to women in poverty.

But even worse, some people do think it through and still push for these kinds of laws; see Janice Raymond's unholy alliance with the Reagan-era Republicans to get transition-related medical procedures delisted as Medicaid-eligible, which meant insurance providers could remove those procedures from cover, which directly led to with horrific rates of sex work, poverty, mental illness, suicide, and even hate crimes upon trans people, especially trans women. :smith:

(I could blog on this... would take me some time to write, though.)

On a feminism-related note, here's someone I know at the SlutWalk in London last Saturday, before it went on an Assange-defending spree:

# ? Sep 30, 2012 15:04

midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

Tardi did an interesting graphic novel on the Paris commune, called "Le cri du peuple". I'm saying "interesting" because it's not as good as his stuff about the war of the trenches. Well worth a look if you find it in your local library or something.

Also pretty sure that Zotter chocolate is fake.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 16:24

Rude Dude With Tude: Apr 19, 2007; Your President approves this text.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 17:03

az: Dec 2, 2005

midnightclimax posted:

Also pretty sure that Zotter chocolate is fake.

Why'd you think it was fake? The German military issued ever growing numbers of drugs to their troops during the war. The officers used it knowingly but most of the enlisted men got it covered in chocolate or candy treats because using drugs was technically against the Reichs purity ideals.
My grandfather, then a navy officer, told me they started dropping speed the second the war broke out, as early as the siege of the Danzig plataeu. Allied troops from the time told stories of how crazy the German chocolate was, that it'd keep you up for a day or two, but most attributed it to it being full of caffeine.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 19:04

Mans: Sep 14, 2011; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

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The best protest is happening this very minute, in front of Lisbon's parliament. Dozens of miniature toy soldiers are being left on the ground, and from small radios, children's voices talking of their dreams can be heard....

# ? Sep 30, 2012 19:23

redmercer: Sep 15, 2011; by Fistgrrl

az posted:

Why'd you think it was fake? The German military issued ever growing numbers of drugs to their troops during the war. The officers used it knowingly but most of the enlisted men got it covered in chocolate or candy treats because using drugs was technically against the Reichs purity ideals.
My grandfather, then a navy officer, told me they started dropping speed the second the war broke out, as early as the siege of the Danzig plataeu. Allied troops from the time told stories of how crazy the German chocolate was, that it'd keep you up for a day or two, but most attributed it to it being full of caffeine.

Hitler was getting a shot of methamphetamine every day from his doctor from 1942 on. To this day, white supremacists can't see the connection between doing tweak and losing like hell

# ? Sep 30, 2012 19:33

hexa: Dec 10, 2004; And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom

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By borrowing the language and format of classic tabletop board games (the game Life was also clearly a reference point), The Game of Urban Renewal examines more insipid urban phenomena: decline, blight, and gentrification. �Board games are all about exploring a system, and telling a story,� he explains. �The language of the board game: the board, playing pieces, spinner, etc., along with the act of playing, allows the enactment of process that actually takes decades.�

Trevisan, who lives in Toronto, based the game on Regent Park, one of Canada�s first public housing projects. Right now, Regent Park is being demolished to make way for new developments--like so many other social housing projects from the 1950s and '60s. After the 10-year redevelopment plan is complete, Regent Park will look much like the neighborhoods around it: the prewar street plan will be reinstated, and a series of glassy condo buildings will replace the Corbusian grid of tower blocks.

Full story

# ? Sep 30, 2012 20:41

Dilkington: Aug 6, 2010; "Al mio amore Dilkington, Gennaro"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H66W9p5m7c8

Ukrainians marching to commemorate the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

# ? Sep 30, 2012 20:46

the2ndgenesis: Mar 18, 2009; You, McNulty, are a gaping asshole. We both know this.

Dilkington posted:

Ukrainians marching to commemorate the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

This has to be a neo-Nazi thing, right? Those people aren't actually flying sig rune flags because of civic patriotism, right?

# ? Sep 30, 2012 20:56

midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

az posted:

Why'd you think it was fake? The German military issued ever growing numbers of drugs to their troops during the war. The officers used it knowingly but most of the enlisted men got it covered in chocolate or candy treats because using drugs was technically against the Reichs purity ideals.
My grandfather, then a navy officer, told me they started dropping speed the second the war broke out, as early as the siege of the Danzig plataeu. Allied troops from the time told stories of how crazy the German chocolate was, that it'd keep you up for a day or two, but most attributed it to it being full of caffeine.

It's fake - and that's also the joke - because not only was the company founded in 1999, it's also the go-to brand for fair-trade and organic chocolate. So some german/austrian dude probably tought it would be funny to associate them with nazism.

Here's Mr Zotter himself, probably thinking about making M&M's filled with crack rocks.

OTOH I'm not disputing that chocolate with speed might've been manufactured back then.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:00

Dilkington: Aug 6, 2010; "Al mio amore Dilkington, Gennaro"

the2ndgenesis posted:

This has to be a neo-Nazi thing, right? Those people aren't actually flying sig rune flags because of civic patriotism, right?

You can call it nostalgia, or ultra-nationalism if you like- 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was made up of ethnic Ukrainians. Sig runes and other symbols used by the SS transcend national boundaries and are very popular with groups who are anti-immigrant, anti-semitic, anti-modernism, etc.

The runes Leben and Tod

Sieg

The totenkopf is also very popular.

This is in Spain. Note the odal rune.

Dilkington fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Sep 30, 2012

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:01

Lassitude: Oct 21, 2003

My father's Estonian, and the impression I get is that it's all about anti-Soviet sentiment rather than Nazi glorification. There's a degree of appreciation for the 20th Waffen SS Division, in the case of Estonia, because they fought against the Soviet Union. War crimes and stuff I guess are ignored or at least don't eclipse the good of fighting the Soviets.

Monument of Lihula, in Estonia.

Lassitude fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Sep 30, 2012

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:05

az: Dec 2, 2005

midnightclimax posted:

It's fake

Oh ok, thanks for pointing that out.

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# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:13

Armyman25: Sep 6, 2005

Lassitude posted:

My father's Estonian, and the impression I get is that it's all about anti-Soviet sentiment rather than Nazi glorification. There's a degree of appreciation for the 20th Waffen SS Division, in the case of Estonia, because they fought against the Soviet Union. War crimes and stuff I guess are ignored or at least don't eclipse the good of fighting the Soviets.

Monument of Lihula, in Estonia.

What's funny is that Estonia tore down this monument to the Russian forces before building that monument.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:17

Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

Kim Il Sung breaking ground for the district where the Ryugyong Hotel now stands, 1946.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:19

R. Mute: Jul 27, 2011

Lassitude posted:

My father's Estonian, and the impression I get is that it's all about anti-Soviet sentiment rather than Nazi glorification. There's a degree of appreciation for the 20th Waffen SS Division, in the case of Estonia, because they fought against the Soviet Union. War crimes and stuff I guess are ignored or at least don't eclipse the good of fighting the Soviets.

That's the excuse that's often given, yeah. It was used here in Belgium as well. In Flanders, there was the added dimension of Flemish Nationalism, which the Germans were going to support once the war was over (like hell they would) This Flamenpolitik was used during the first and second world war and was part of a larger strategy by the Reich to stir up nationalist sentiment in Allied and Comintern countries. Despite two waves of repression after the war, the Flemish collaborators got off relatively easy because 'they were only fighting for a Flemish state.' Because this makes collaborating with nazi's less disgusting somehow. (side-note: things also quieted down because the two rounds of repression - one unorganised and one organised - didn't yet touch the higher levels of society. The Belgian economic elite collaborated pretty heavily, but surely we can't put them on trial)

Anyway, both reasons are disgusting and ultimately don't justify poo poo. Try getting a Flemish homeland, oppose the Soviet Union, but don't loving be a fascist about it and don't help the nazis. Decorate every lamppost with a collaborator - or at least put them on trial and don't glorify them I guess.

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:27

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

Jeff Boss, who is running for president in the 2012 elections. He claims that the NSA did 9/11 and that he has a list of 400 people that were paid $20,000 to deny knowledge of this information or help thwart his efforts to make it known.

http://www.jeffbossforpresident.org/

His website.

:911:

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:31

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004

R. Mute posted:

Anyway, both reasons are disgusting and ultimately don't justify poo poo. Try getting a Flemish homeland, oppose the Soviet Union, but don't loving be a fascist about it and don't help the nazis. Decorate every lamppost with a collaborator - or at least put them on trial and don't glorify them I guess.

More Flemish collaborationist propaganda!

Civilization or Barbarism. Do you still not understand?