Omi-Polari posted:

It's 20 days until the first day of spring.

But this year it appears to be springtime ... for Hitler.

And by Hitler I mean Russian and Ukrainian fascists:



Anti-Ukrainian rally in Moscow on Feb. 28.

Zohar posted:

It's the flag of the influential neo-Eurasianist movement, which we've been discussing a bit in the Eastern Europe thread -- basically quasi-fascists who want to establish Russian leadership over Eurasia. Several important people in the Putin administration are part of the movement, and they influence its policy more broadly.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

That "rant" seems like a reaction to an old person making GBS threads on the younger generation, not some unprovoked complaining. Also, as has been pointed out, young people have legitimate grievances with the older generation, grievances which that generation didn't have with their elders. The parents of the Baby Boomers left them a much better society than they had been given, but the Baby Boomers have basically been dismantling that poo poo as soon as it wasn't useful to them personally anymore.

Obviously, the real issue is rich people using their wealth to erode democracy and justice and whatnot, but pointing out to entitled fuckers who happily went along with it that they're the ones who went along with it, not the generation which only became old enough to vote in the last decade, is totally fair. Sure, don't simply blame that generation as if they weren't influenced by big business, but don't hold back if a member of the same generation continues to be a lackey of the forces which brought us to this point. Just like you shouldn't tell someone off from the younger generation for buying into the same bullshit. The "generational bullshit" is basically just like telling someone from a wealthy family they have no sense of how things work for the majority of people, since things have changed tremendously since their views on the world were calibrated.


A poll here in Denmark, contrasted against the last election 2.5 years ago. Can anyone guess who the far-right, far-left, and social-democrats are?

Zeroisanumber posted:

It's the annual Christmas dinner for the Nazi reenactors.

You know, I can see why people are pissed off. This is a classic case of a bunch of people being completely clueless as to the message they are sending, however unintentional that might be. In the context of being on a mock battlefield or formal re-enactment, donning the uniforms and hanging the flags would not be an issue as those events are clearly designed to educate and value the history. In this case, however, they are throwing up symbols of genocide and racial superiority for the sake of stuffing some beef and beer down their gullet while they shoot the poo poo and "have a good time" sans even the remotest hint of a redeeming history lesson or public outreach endeavor, and that is a problem.

But I will tell you that they really aren't Neo-Nazis. I know some of these guys fairly well and they're just middle-aged nerds with money and time to burn.

Earth posted:

Reuters posted:

Reuters) - Two CNN journalists were arrested for trying to sneak past security at the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday in an attempt to report on recent security lapses at the site, police said.

Yon Pomrenze, 35, and Connor Fieldman Boals, 26, first tried to talk their way in through the main gate to the center in lower Manhattan, much of which is still a construction site, according to the police account. One was holding a video camera, the other had a video camera strapped to his head.

Foiled, Boals then twice tried to climb over the perimeter fence. That did not work either.

A few minutes later, the men were attempting to force their way through an electronic gate about a block away when police arrested them.

The two men, identified as CNN producers, were filming a report on recent security breaches at the World Trade Center, a spokeswoman for the news network said.

The Port Authority has spent millions of dollars on security measures for the World Trade Center, which is due to open later this year on the site of the Twin Towers that were destroyed by Al Qaeda hijackers on September 11, 2001.

Four men were arrested on Monday for organizing a late-night parachute jump from the top of One World Trade Center, the tallest structure in the United States, after sneaking through a hole in a fence in September.

And a 16-year-boy with a camera was arrested a few days earlier after evading capture by security staff at night and getting to the skyscraper's 104th floor.

On Tuesday afternoon, the two CNN producers had said to the officer at the main gate that if a 16-year-old was able to get in, then so should they, said Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department.

"He had enough sense to try it at 4 o'clock in the morning," he said of the 16-year-old. The CNN producers commenced their less successful attempt shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday.

"This is very wasteful of valuable law-enforcement time and energy," Pentagelo said.

The men were arrested on charges of criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct, police said.

Barbara Levin, a CNN spokeswoman, said in an email the two producers were on assignment but "were not asked to sneak onto the WTC site."

"They were in the surrounding area to do a story about the recent incidents at the WTC and other sites," she wrote, "and the notion that daredevils are being drawn to them."

It was not immediately clear if the men had lawyers on Tuesday.

(Reporting By Jonathan Allen; editing by Andrew Hay)

Exclamation Marx posted:

Omi-Polari posted:

I'm still stunned the German restaurant allowed that.

That's excellent.

I think you can divide the reenactors into three categories. There's people who are just in it for the history, there's the people who kinda sorta need to get a life, and there are the people who are in it for some really sketchy reasons.

Pope Guilty posted:

Plutonis posted:

menino posted:

Somebody who views misery as a competition to be adjudicated on Tumblr

gadgethugs posted:

gigglin' at their choice of image

JoelJoel posted:

A politician whose policies harmed countless people died. Totally inappropriate to be happy about it in an Internet forum.

Uberskooper posted:

Good God. They're butchering all of the words. A bunch of anime women disjointedly singing a Russian folk song is a really weird thing to see. Who is this anime made for? Who would watch it?

Here's what this video would look like if it weren't made for weirdos to masturbate to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cydzolb0eIs

Exclamation Marx posted:

Stultus Maximus posted:

May Day was an ancient pagan traditional holiday before you socialists co-opted it.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Get stuffed, clerics.

SedanChair posted:

Nckdictator posted:

bagual posted:

Oh, not saying it isn't, it really helps breathing a little clean air in a debate between characters designed by marketing agencies like the major players. I think this weird multi-partisan byzantine political system we have still has some niceties. It's just that whoever wins the presidential race has to conform to the agenda of a large "centrist" majority that is ever-present, always very strong and can adapt to just about anything, so candidate diversity is mostly symbolic and the debates or the airtime matter very little, as this block never launches a candidate of it's own :v



Now have some ridiculous dbz-inspired political propaganda.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOD5mcyruB0


PRIVATIZING RAY!

Guavanaut posted:

The launch was conducted by Orbital Sciences. They use remanufactured NK-33 or NK-43 engines built in the Soviet Union in the late 60s or early 70s for the N-1 moon rocket, but never used.

Volcott posted:

The answer to shirt thing is to wear speedsuits instead.



And a little something for the ladies.

Rand alPaul posted:

To be fair, being a kid during deregulated TV was loving awesome. God I loved these toys:

Dog Jones posted:

See what I mean I never said any of this bullcrap hehe you're all just super defensive. See ya.


Soviet Air Force tactical bomber pilots

BBJoey posted:

It's nice that conservatives aren't even hiding their fervent desire to be ruled over by a military dictatorship installed by a foreign nation supported by extra-judicial killings and torture.


preach it, man... respect

Trench_Rat posted:

Wolfsbane posted:

quote:

MariusLecter posted:

They need to be executed. Same with that fucker that drew lovely art all over a national park.

MariusLecter posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuFn0RPgaE

boom boom boom posted:

except in this case it's the other guy saying "gee I dunno I just feel like murdering thousands of people"

and post a picture

nutranurse posted:

Jews during Antiquity are so much loving fun to study. It's hard to picture it, what with judiasm being so cemented in certain cultural ways as it is now. Back then poo poo was all up for grabs and you had city-jews fighting off rural-jews over the city-jews being too hellenized and falling away from judiasm's tenets (and man I'd love to have seen what hellenic jewish culture was like). poo poo, anything on the maccabees is worth a read.



Pictured is Eleazar Maccabee, one of the crazy Maccabee sons and inarguably the hardest, craziest motherfucker out of all of them. The dude was so roided up on yahweh that when he and his father's army were about to fight some Seleucids (who vastly outnumbered the jewish army) he spotted a huge elephant in the battle-lines, erroneously thought it belonged to the Seleucid king (haha, loving yeah right--why would someone that important be fighting a bunch of uppity jews when he had a bunch of uppity greeks and persians and egyptians to fight?), then went ape-poo poo and charged underneath it, killed it, then died as the elephant collapsed underneath him.

All this happened while the jewish army was retreating and ultimately the war ended not too much later after some peace-talks (again, the seleucids had more important people to fight than those in Judea--for such a contentious region it really was not that wealthy in comparison to the rest of the near and middle-east).

I love how much we revere pointless acts of bravery that result in the brave person's meaningless death.

IslamoNazi posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwrg0db_zY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2gNjZxXsug

boom boom boom posted:

Or if 12 people including dudes who had nothing to do with it get loving shot in the loving face. Don't make cartoons you don't like, don't get shot in the face. That's fair and normal

Sakarja posted:

Draw a picture of a guy who's been dead for centuries and you are likely to get murdered, along with people who had nothing to do with it. Talk poo poo about the Generalissimo and you are likely to get your fingernails ripped out before you're tossed out of a helicopter. Dress like a whore and you are likely to get raped etc. etc. It's really simple, people. Know your place, never do anything to provoke the scum of the earth and they'll leave you alone.

It's really great that we have Pope Francis to tell us that there might be a violent reaction if you mock religion. I think there was a lot of uncertainty about it, the week after people were murdered for doing precisely that, and it's good that he cleared it up. It had to be said.

boom boom boom posted:

So you agree that the shooters were justified because Charlie Hebdo provoked them? Was it just the cartoonists who deserved to die? Will you at least say the cops didn't deserve to get shot in the loving face, or is it just bad luck for them they got in the way of a completely reasonable mass shooting?

Sakarja posted:

No, I think people should be able to make jokes about anything. The fact that anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue in this regard is perfectly understandable, but that doesn't justify censorship or other attempts to stifle and punish free speech.



Also, anti-Semites seem to use "anti-Zionism" the same way pedophiles use "ephebophilia." That wasn't directed at you, I'd just prefer if they were honest about what they're doing.

Sakarja posted:

That's some Advanced Relativism! Does that apply to fascists and the like? Would you mind at all if your so called "liberty" was taken from you? If so, why? Are there any universal rights at all? If not, where did the "societies" you speak of get their rights?


As others have already suggested, I think it's actually about demographics. That doesn't make it any less offensive or tasteless, of course. But what's your point? That it should be banned and the person responsible punished? Does that also apply to "anti-Zionists"?

Sakarja posted:

The way you present it, the rights of societies (however they might be defined) seem pretty universal. And yes, my point is that liberty is worth defending. You agree for yourself, but have no problem seeing them denied to or taken from others. At least you're honest. To take the most extreme (and obvious) example possible: would that apply to Nazi Germany? Would you look at the extermination camps in action and say "it's a society enforcing their values"?