- Dołączono
- 14 Cze 2018
Sir, that is a contradiction in terms.
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- Dołączono
- 16 Gru 2019
A perfect term for the DNC right now
- Dołączono
- 16 Maj 2019
You know that saying, "by definition half the population is below average intelligence"? The implied conceit is that the people who understand this are above average intelligence.
Now imagine the people telling that joke to each other feel really smug about their own intelligence. You get widespread snobbery; the belief in one's own superiority without proper elitism. It becomes a populist conceit, even if it's not a technical majority's view.
Now imagine that kind of people all agree Trump and his supporters are in the below average half.
- Dołączono
- 4 Cze 2018
Ran across this on Ace of Spades. I SO want to believe he does this just to be a goof.
- Dołączono
- 12 Sty 2019
Nobody tell them the average IQ of black and mestizo people.
- Dołączono
- 26 Lis 2018
Now this is a leak I can believe.
- Dołączono
- 17 Sie 2018
Yes, and thanks for reminding me. I would think after the last couple, I would be immune to the flu. But I guess the vaccine would give you a little bit of the flu so your body would develop antibiotics to fight off the worse of the flu. Like renewing your anti virus software on your computer.
- Dołączono
- 6 Maj 2019
As can I, because that would be subtly -effective-. It keeps the people in there on their toes, unsure of what exactly is going on. If timed right, and a businessman like Trump probably can time it right, it puts them off their stride at just the right moment. Negotiations are something that require concentration, confidence, and composure. Even a slight crack in those can mean your opponent can gain a massive advantage.
- Dołączono
- 7 Sie 2018
The issue with WW1 is that we didn't get involved until the very end and as such didn't have a lot of skin in the game.
Granted, this was the from the 90s, but the general arc for teaching WW1 when I grew up was
- While America is busting big business up, kicking Spain's ass in the Spanish American War, and slowing becoming a colonial powerhouse as a result, Europe is a powderkeg of nationalism
- The European powerhouses (France, Germany, Britain, Russia) have a convoluted alliance system among themselves and the lesser European nations which in hindsight a nightmare waiting to happen, since one incident will trigger war with everyone having to get involve
- Austria-Hungary won't let the Serbs have their own country
- A cell of Serbian separatists decide to kill the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary
- Austria declares war on Serbia
- Alliance system goes into effect; insert comment that if the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand didn't cause the war, something else would have
- Germany is A-H's chief ally and France is gung ho for war because Germany kicked their asses earlier and stole valuable resource filled territory
- Britain gets involved when Germany invades Belgium to get to France to crush them fast so they can focus on clobbering Russia
- War goes bad FAST in spite of the "Before the end of summer" pledge on how long the war will last; for added irony, Austria-Hungary falls fast and Germany is left holding the proverbial bag as everyone wants to destroy Germany
- Europe becomes a killing floor as modern tech revolutionizes war and the European nations don't realize how bad shit is going to get until it's too late
- Trench warfare/gas warfare
- America is divided as German-Americans supports Germany but the elites are supporting Britain and France and loaning them money and resources
- Russia crashes economically under the strain of the war, Russian Revolution, the Tsar and his family overthrown and killed and communists take over/take a humiliating peace settlement to end war with Germanny
- Lusitania sinks at Germany's hand
- Wilson runs on a 100% isolationist platform as part of his 1916 re-election campaign
- Germany makes the re-tar-dead move, asking Mexico to invade the US so that they can cut off the financial aid they are giving France/Britain so that they can force them to sue for peace on Germany's term
- Britain intercepts the offer and holds onto it as Mexico tells Germany to fuck off
- Britain gives the documents of the offer Germany made to Mexico to Wilson after he's been re-elected and can break said anti-war pledge
- US declares war on Germany
- US troops flood into Europe and turn the tide against Germany
- Germany is losing HARD and ends up having an internal coup deposing the Kaiser, who wants to fight to the death
- Germany offers a cease fire which is accepted
- France and Britain and US enter peace talks with Germany
- Wilson pushes the League of Nation idea to prevent another alliance clusterfuck triggering another apocalypse war
- Britain and France, but especially France, want vengeance against Germany and demand that they take full blame for "causing the war" and basically pay war reparations that will destroy their economy and utterly begger them down to third world status
- Threaten to resume the war if they don't accept this merciless peace
- Germany signs the disastrous Treaty of Versailles, which leads to the discussion of the infamous remark by someone (forget who) that correctly predicted that the ToV wouldn't solve anything and that Britain/France just bought themselves a 20 year (roughly one generation time-wise) cease fire before war with Germany resumes due to how the ToV's raping of Germany will only embitter the nation and breed resentment and revenge in the next generation of Germans
- The epilogue is that Wilson was told to fuck off as Congress refused to allow the US to become members of the League of Nations and that Wilson suffered a near fatal heart attack traveling the countryside in the wake of the war's end trying to get people to elect Congressmen who would vote to get America to join the LoN. Also, that Congress would wait until the early 1920s before they realized they never formally end the war with Germany and sign a peace deal with Weimer.
Ironically, while Johnny Got His Gun had a renewed level of interest in it after Metallica released "One" (a song about the novel which was released as the band's first music video complete with footage from the rarely seen theatrical movie version which starred "That's My Bush" lead Timothy Bottoms) in the late 80s, it never was used in my high school or college's curriculum. I asked one of my college history professors about it's omission once when he gave us a required reading list when we were covering World War 1 and he told me point blank, "You have read the book right?"; which made me realize that he didn't want to deal with having everyone read the nightmare fuel story of a disfigured limbless blind/deaf/mute soldier wanting to be put out of his misery and blame him for scaring the shit out of them. Which said something to me, as the professor in question was as big horror fan and his office had a rather extensive collection of horror swag/DVDs and rare bootleg films of foreign horror films. So him thinking "Johnny Got His Gun" was a bit too much, for even a gorehound like him, made me never bring it up again with him.
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- Dołączono
- 9 Maj 2017
Nobody could be retarded enough to think that nukes are launched by a literal big red button sitting on in the open on the President's desk, completely without protection or confirmation.
... right?
- Dołączono
- 6 Maj 2019
Its not about thinking its nukes per se, though that little culture-oid is in the back of the mind. Its more about not knowing WHAT it does, and him playing cagey with it.
- Dołączono
- 9 Maj 2017
Fair enough. I jumped the gun on that one.
- Dołączono
- 12 Lis 2015
Right? I mean, you think as a rational adult "It couldn't possibly be an actual big red button sitting on his desk" and then you walk in and there's a big red button sitting on his desk and your hindbrain goes "Holy shit."
- Dołączono
- 6 Maj 2019
Just bumps you right off your game. You intellectually know its not it, but decades of cultural relevance keep it right there, in the back of your brain.
Pressing it probably wouldn't work more than once, but that one time you do it can be supremely effective.
Even if Trump doesn't actually have the button, whoever came up with the idea is a mad genius.
- Dołączono
- 6 Sty 2019
Some of us have waited many cock-sucking seconds.
- Dołączono
- 11 Sie 2020
Have some peak MSNBC insanity. On the house, of course.
Peak rage quote:
"The only differences between Cuba, Venezuela, and the US is that only the US has interment camps for toddlers."
"Osama bin Laden = Trump"
Peak rage quote:
"The only differences between Cuba, Venezuela, and the US is that only the US has interment camps for toddlers."
"Osama bin Laden = Trump"
- Dołączono
- 12 Lis 2015
"Calling him a communist didn't work, let's try calling him a filthy mudslime moozlim. Surely that will catch on and those stupid moron conservatards will fall for it, even if they haven't fallen for any of our other equally brilliant schemes."
- Dołączono
- 12 Lis 2015
My public school education taught me about Japanese internment camps, slaveholding founding fathers, and lynching, and I live in the much-disdained "flyover country". I'm pretty sure most of these people were just too busy huffing glue to notice their teachers droning on about that shit year after year.