Oh yeah, back in the ’90s hundreds of Soviets queued up because they were excited to try some Yankee fast‐food for the first time. It made sense if you saw it from their perspective, but as somebody stuck in Imperial America I don’t see the appeal. It’s just some mediocre, overpriced fast‐food that keeps you full for maybe about an hour or two if it doesn’t act like a laxative before then.

For some reason, I dreamt about the fact that the descendants of the Nakba’s perpetrators are now fighting with the descendants of the Nakba’s victims. There is something tragically poetic about that.

I still can’t believe that they’re on the market. They look like rejected concept cars.

Source?

Greg Doucette is the only conservative whom I respect, and even he agrees that the conservative media in general are worthless.

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Oh boy, just wait until Zionists find out that Irish Jews exist!

I had to read the article to make sure that you weren’t joking when you said ‘£800 billion’. How can any adult look at that number and find it reasonable? That should be a cue that the war needs to stop.

To turn the tide of the war, Ukraine will need to spend the equivalent of China’s $200 billion defence budget “three or four times” over, he says. This aligns with the assessment of senior British military figures, with one saying they think Ukraine needs another $300 billion to match Russia’s output.

Ugh.

No, it’s socialism. Everything bad under capitalism is actually socialism.

In spite of the decision taken on December 19, 1934 prohibiting members of Jewish youth movements from wearing their traditional uniforms, on April 13, 1935 the Bavarian police, Himmler and Heydrich’s true domain, permitted an exception for one these movements’ adherents to continue wearing theirs: ‘There’s no reason to inhibit by decree Zionist activity in Germany, since Zionism doesn’t contradict the [Fascist] programme,’ wrote leading Zionists to the Minister of the Interior.

#TheOnlyDemocracyInTheMiddleEast

The screenshots don’t make any difference. I tested this out on the create post page without inserting any images or URLs in it and I still got the glitch.

Is it just me, or does the page now repeatedly scroll up while creating a thread?

ETA: Seriously, half of the time when I click on the preview button or on markdown it immediately sends me back up the page. Is anybody else getting this? It’s fucking annoying.

I have to be honest: I had always been quietly under the impression that the Palestinians were in some sense ‘foreign’ to their homeland. I never said it out loud, but I thought that they were just remnants from some ancient Arab empire that seized the land after the Roman Empire exiled ‘all’ of the Jews thence.

But I can honestly say that even before I learned the truth, I still knew that the violence against the Palestinians was unjustifiable. After all, I was never in the habit of demonizing the Mexicans or other indigenes who moved to Texas, where I used to live. What was the point in me demonizing Palestinians, who were supposedly all descended from ‘foreigners’? Almost all of them are lower‐class people like me.

In which region do you live? Northern Europe?

If my foot is a house and birds can swim in lava, why does uranium taste like potato sauce?

I feel like the Soviets would’ve probably done really bad things if they had millions of more soldiers the cold war would’ve probably been a lot worse.

Casually defending Operation Barbarossa. Typical anticommunist.

the Soviets were determined to kill off the Germans by throwing themselves at them

Oh look, it’s the ‘Mongol hordes’ meme again. Let’s read some actual history:

The idea of the “human wave” tactic is extremely complicated, and it is not fully understood by the average layperson. Like the German Blitzkrieg, the Soviets had their own battle doctrine called “Deep Battle,” which emphasized a combination and coordination of strategic, operational, and tactical levels. The basic idea was to use frontal assaults to penetrate the enemy line and destroy the enemy’s logistical capabilities. It is noteworthy that frontal assaults were not a unique feature of the Red Army. Virtually all participants in the war employed them.

However, at the time, the Soviets lacked the technical superiority of the [Axis]. In many cases, they were dogged by poor training amongst the infantry and an acute shortage of a competent pool of officers. This meant that the Red Army was unable to coordinate at a tactical level. This led to poor decisions and a high loss of life in ordering badly planned and poorly-timed assaults. From [an Axis] soldier’s perspective, this would have simply looked like unsophisticated “human wave” assaults, with soldiers throwing themselves into a meat-grinder.

As for the belief in unlimited manpower, by 1943, the Red Army was suffering from acute manpower shortages. This was due to strategic blunders early in the war, especially in 1941 when [the Western Axis] launched Operation Barbarossa, by far the biggest operation of World War II. The [Axis] actually outnumbered the Red Army on the front line, and within a few short months, the [Axis] had captured over 2.5 million Soviet soldiers and killed half a million. Meanwhile, over a million Soviet soldiers were sick or wounded. This was just between 22 June and 5 December 1941. This factor led to a desperate need to train soldiers as quickly as possible and therefore led to the failure of the Soviet Union’s Deep Battle doctrine.

While the Soviets managed to refine the implementation of their strategy to the point where it was effective, the lack of manpower did continue to be an issue.

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They might invade 3rd world countries or anything not allied with the 1st world countries

“Y’KNOW, JUST ’CAUSE!”

it is statins [sic] fault that 27 million Russians [sic] died because he sent them out there without training

By this logic, the European colonists were completely innocent of massacring millions of Native Americans because Moctezuma should have trained them all better.

And Stalin Tripled that number in just 10 years.

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Only in a very loose sense: that is to say, this is but one attempt of many by various empires to control Palestine. However, the present iteration goes back no earlier than 1882, so when people say that the conflict is ‘ancient’, they’re implying that Jews and Palestinians have been fighting each other for millennia, which is utterly laughworthy.

Judas Priest, that thread’s title is horrendous.

Also, I had no idea that that bloke was wearing an apartheid flag until I consulted a news source. Only after that did I notice it in the clip.