FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
Поехали!
Israel says it plans to direct Palestinians out of Rafah ahead of anticipated offensive
So “humanitarian islands” are just the next level of concentration camps right?
Zelenskyy confident us will not betray Ukraine
I’m sure the Kurds, Saddam, Gaddafi, the Mujahideen, South Vietnam, etc etc felt the same way
The massacre of October 7 was more like a Comanche raid than like the Holocaust or a pogrom, despite the relevance of the latter comparison to the Jewish people.
The Comanches, like the Gazans, were more savage and sadistic than the Nazis and Europeans.
So far I’ve managed to get by with Firefox and an ad blocker, but the second I start seeing ads I’m dropping YouTube (which I should anyway) and putting in the effort to pirate music/movies/shows/etc.
A map of the countries that recognize a Palestinian state from Al Jazeera. As always its the Same Map
If only there was a way to get home from the bar without having to drive
I can’t stop thinking about Zelensky’s claim that 31k Ukrainian troops have died and the comparison to how many people have been murdered in Gaza by Israel in a fraction of the same time.
All this coverage of the ukrainian counter offensive made me curious how previous failed offensives have been covered, specifically the Battle of the Somme in 1916, so I took a trip down to my local public library (we love our librarians!) to poke through their newspaper archives since the br*tish papers all want me to pay for access (bastards!).
Turns out nothing ever changes. Allied (british, french, etc) casualties are downplayed if ever mentioned at all, German casualties are described as “fields full of dead germans”, “tremendous losses for the Boche”, capturing a thin strip of land or a single village was lauded as the next step to winning the war, and you even had “feel good” stories about blinded soldiers beating a college team in a rowing race. I also came across an article that claimed german gunners were chained to their guns to prevent them from running away, which actually comes from reports of allied soldiers finding dead germans with a sling system that made moving machine guns easier that they misinterpreted/twisted to serve as propaganda for the homefront. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Also beside the point, but the humour section was either indecipherable without researching what the joke was supposed to be or just a joke about drunk irishmen. Oh, and there was one anti-car joke which I found interesting, I’ll post it here
Mendicant(Beggar,someone down on their luck)- Sir, I have paralysis, six children to support, my wife is sick, and we are about to be dispossessed!
Stalled motorist- Piffle! Did you ever try to run a second-hand automobile?
Edit: Effortpost here
Ah ha! The ai has depicted you as the blue-haired crying feminist and me as the republican chad!