Spiderfist Island posted:

Also, does this mean that we can have our own separate yet incredibly terrible Flag/Heraldry/Map thread?

Highspeeddub posted:

If there is one thing I do appreciate about the Brits, it's their ability to hold a grudge.



Don't worry, all the thinking people left in the states hate him too and wish his wife's dressage horse would trample him to death in a freak accident.

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The 65th Infantry Regiment distinguished itself when the United States conducted a military exercise code named "Operation PORTEX", meaning Puerto Rico Exercise, on the island of Vieques on the eve of the Korean War. The objective was to see how the combined forces of the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force would do as liberators of an enemy captured territory (Vieques) against the aggressors. The core of the aggressor ground forces were made up of Hispanic soldiers, most of which belonged to the 65th Infantry Regiment.

The liberators consisted of 32,600 combat troops from the 82nd Airborne Division's 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment and the Marine Corps, who received support from the Navy and Air Force. Despite the large number of troops deployed, the 65th Infantry (the aggressor) was able to halt the offensive forces on the beaches of the island. Colonel William W. Harris, the commanding officer of the 65th, stated: "Stopping the assault forces at the water’s edge proved that the Puerto Ricans could hold their own against the best-trained soldiers that the United States Army could put into the field".

The successful military maneuvers during PORTREX prompted the Army's leadership to deploy the 65th Infantry to Korea.

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Mass court martial

Col. Cordero Dávila was relieved of his command by Col. Chester B. DeGavre, a West Point graduate and a "continental", an officer from the mainland United States, and the officer staff of the 65th was replaced with non-Hispanic officers. DeGavre, upset over the fact that "G" company did not hold on to Hill 391, ordered that the unit stop calling itself the "Borinqueneers," cut their special rations of rice and beans, ordered the men to shave off their mustaches and had one of them wear signs that read "I am a coward." The language barrier, an NCO shortage, and poor leadership were factors that influenced some of the men of Company L in their refusal to continue to fight.

In December 1954, one hundred and sixty-two Puerto Ricans of the 65th Infantry were arrested. Ninety-five soldiers were court martialed and ninety-one were found guilty and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 18 years of hard labor. It was the largest mass court-martial of the Korean War. According to cultural historian Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, the government of Puerto Rico, caught in the middle of a potentially damaging affair that could jeopardize its political agenda, kept silent for nearly two months. Finally, the incidents were made known by a local newspaper alerted by several letters written by the imprisoned soldiers to their families. Secret negotiations between the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments, were made and the Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens moved quickly to remit the sentences and granted clemency and pardons to all those involved.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

I have no idea what you posted, because that video is private, but I'm going to guess it's the classic Island of Flowers, one of my favourite short films about human-beings, which are biped mammals and are distinguised from other mammals and bipeds by two things.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Works now, sad no-one talked about Island of Flowers. Always found it a strong film personally.
Also, I wondered about buying that game for my right-leaning autistic friend. He's mostly right-wing just because he parrots the poo poo his other friend tells him but I wonder if he'd get it. (He picked the right-wing ending in Deus Ex: HR because, and I quote; "Cybernetics are awesome".)

front wing flexing posted:

That's affectionately known to US Sailors as the four floors of whores. Seriously though, Singapore is wonderful place and I was always happy to be there. I hope to go back for the F1 GP.

Noreaus posted:

But that first one was a poll result, the second one is a polling card. That's not the same thing at all



The state of the british left.

cheerfullydrab posted:

The year 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3BNgdfEkI

Suleman posted:

There's a whole series of these. ...why do I know that?

It features just about everyone from Tito to Pol Pot to Pinochet to Mugabe.

EDIT:
Found a more SFW link to these. http://ostoon.blogspot.fi/2012/12/nyotaika-sekai-no-dokusaisha-retsuden.html

Pitch posted:

Do you have some issues you'd like to talk through with someone?

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

I stopped playing CoD a while ago, please tell me they don't portray Noriega as a hero.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

I wish I still had PMs so whoever got me this could have sent me some self-righteous PMs too. Congratulations on getting my ethnicity mostly right though. Remind me, Arab-looking dudes do count as white in the US, right?

NEED TOILET PAPER posted:

Cuss them out in Spanish, make their heads explode. Bonus points if you use a Puerto Rican colloquialism that doesn't exist in any other Spanish dialect.

Also, to be perfectly honest, there are just under 4 million Puerto Ricans in PR according to the last census (I think the real number is at something like 3.95 mil but I'm too lazy to look it up).

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Well, coming from white-as-snow Iceland, me being slightly tan meant I got such encouraging remarks as: "Go back to your home" or "So which country are you from?", so I can sorta empathize, but yanks and race is a hell of a thing all in a league of its own. And isn't there something like "White Hispanic" or something like that? Remember there being something about that on a, census?

And drat man. I know a half-Purto Rican girl and she got all kinds of poo poo when she was younger. Like, beat up by dudes 3 years older than her and worse kinda poo poo. She was in one of the most backwards loving places in the country though.

Incidently, why are there so relatively many Puerto Ricans in that middle square state? What is over there?

Gio posted:

what is this like "the d&d'est show ever" or what, because i could swear that is anime

Protagorean posted:

Chill the gently caress out hoss. I'm guessing you're too young to remember where the DnD Pictures Thread originated from.



post LFest pics u got

Joementum posted:

White House photographer Pete Souza's year in photos.

Paper With Lines posted:

How is Russia not a third world country?

steinrokkan posted:

I like how in the end the fascist forum is just another group of dudes getting mad about video games.

Fidel Castronaut posted:

1. Glad to see that Call of Duty style masks are marketable.

2. Is that a flag that the US has ever had? Seems, if you're a hypernationalist, you wouldn't modify the flag for your dumb militia.



(The US flag if Puerto Rico was admitted as the 51st state.)

Volcott posted:

The loading screens in Spec Ops: The Line are kind of grim.

Volcott posted:

Moe anthropomorphism thing. Guess what it's supposed to be.

Arglebargle III posted:

http://goo.gl/ACPdNP

Am I doing this right?

Hubis posted:

This is literally the position of The Escapist.

https://storify.com/alexlifschitz/escapist-drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amB2Ieuee9o

homerlaw posted:

Games.AVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrX7G-1xPLs

Hasters posted:

I don't recall you concern trolls getting so upset when these two went on their cop killing spree



Wonder why not?

boom boom boom posted:

I think the Syrian government is way more responsible than the US, what are they doing to help Syrian refugees?

Panzeh posted:

While enlisted soldiers probably shouldn't unionize, they should have a method of dealing with incompetent officers and poor tactics through fragging and mutinying, though.

The French Army in ww1 mutinied and I think they were entirely justified.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Yeah next time I get pulled for DUI on Lake Powell I'll be sure to let the officers know I'm operating under a Swiss flag.



The Rhine is apparently navigable for large shipping between Basel and Rotterdam. Didn't know that.

Slavvy posted:

Meat is murder!*

*: only adorable animals matter



They should genetically engineer cattle/pigs with an extremely repulsive appearance for every stage of their life cycle so people shut up.

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[Ford] sat down.

The waiter approached.

"Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"

"Huh?" said Ford.

"Huh?" said Arthur.

"Huh?" said Trillian.

"That's cool," said Zaphod, "we'll meet the meat."

...

A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating smile on its lips.

"Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts of my body?"

It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters in to a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them.

Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox.

"Something off the shoulder perhaps?" suggested the animal, "braised in a white wine sauce?"

"Er, your shoulder?" said Arthur in a horrified whisper.

"But naturally my shoulder, sir," mooed the animal contentedly, "nobody else's is mine to offer."

Zaphod leapt to his feet and started prodding and feeling the animal's shoulder appreciatively.

"Or the rump is very good," murmured the animal. "I've been exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot of good meat there."

It gave a mellow grunt, gurgled again and started to chew the cud. It swallowed the cud again.

"Or a casserole of me perhaps?" it added.

"You mean this animal actually wants us to eat it?" whispered Trillian to Ford.

"Me?" said Ford, with a glazed look in his eyes, "I don't mean anything."

"That's absolutely horrible," exclaimed Arthur, "the most revolting thing I've ever heard."

"What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump.

"I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to," said Arthur, "It's heartless."

"Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten," said Zaphod.

"That's not the point," Arthur protested. Then he thought about it for a moment. "Alright," he said, "maybe it is the point. I don't care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just... er [...] I think I'll just have a green salad," he muttered.

"May I urge you to consider my liver?" asked the animal, "it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding myself for months."

"A green salad," said Arthur emphatically.

"A green salad?" said the animal, rolling his eyes disapprovingly at Arthur.

"Are you going to tell me," said Arthur, "that I shouldn't have green salad?"

"Well," said the animal, "I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point. Which is why it was eventually decided to cut through the whole tangled problem and breed an animal that actually wanted to be eaten and was capable of saying so clearly and distinctly. And here I am."

It managed a very slight bow.

"Glass of water please," said Arthur.

"Look," said Zaphod, "we want to eat, we don't want to make a meal of the issues. Four rare stakes please, and hurry. We haven't eaten in five hundred and seventy-six thousand million years."

The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle. "A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good," it said, "I'll just nip off and shoot myself."

He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur. "Don't worry, sir," he said, "I'll be very humane."

It waddled unhurriedly off to the kitchen.

KazigluBey posted: