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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

wow it's actually not the exact same map international-community-1international-community-2

this seems like a modicum of progress

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"Growing the beard" refers to the opposite of jumping the shark; i.e. when a show dramatically improves in quality. In the series Star Trek: The Next Generation the second season is considered to be better in terms of storytelling over the first season. This shift coincided with character William Riker, who was clean-shaven for the first season, growing a mustache and beard that he retained for the second season and most Star Trek media afterwards.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Muslim Countries About China/Uyghurs: shrug-outta-hecks

Muslim Countries About Israel/Palestinians: angery

USA About China/Uyghurs: liberalism

USA About Israel/Palestinians: us-foreign-policy

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 79 points 1 year ago

Israel: We are building an ethnostate with a right-wing govt.

Ukraine: Can we do that too?

USA: We're here for both of you. How can we help? Billions in military aid? No problem!

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Volunteered in 1943 too.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wonder-who-thats-for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea

During the campaign, conventional weapons such as explosives, incendiary bombs, and napalm destroyed nearly all of the country's cities and towns, including an estimated 85% of its buildings.

A total of 635,000 tons of bombs, including 32,557 tons of napalm, were dropped on Korea. By comparison, the U.S. dropped 1.6 million tons in the European theater and 500,000 tons in the Pacific theater during all of World War II (including 160,000 on Japan). North Korea ranks alongside Cambodia (500,000 tons), Laos (2 million tons), and South Vietnam (4 million tons) as among the most heavily-bombed countries in history.

In an interview with U.S. Air Force historians in 1988, USAF General Curtis LeMay, who was also head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, commented on efforts to win the war as a whole, including the strategic bombing campaign, saying “Right at the start of the war, unofficially, I slipped a message in "under the carpet" in the Pentagon that we ought to turn SAC lose with some incendiaries on some North Korean towns. The answer came back, under the carpet again, that there would be too many civilian casualties; we couldn't do anything like that. We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too......Over a period of three years or so we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population of Korea, as direct casualties of war or from starvation and exposure? Over a period of three years, this seemed to be acceptable to everybody, but to kill a few people at the start right away, no, we can't seem to stomach that.”

Sahr-Conway Lanz, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of American foreign relations, has written extensively about the legacy and impact on American discourse on the international norm of noncombatant immunity. He states:

"During the war, American military and civilian officials stretched the term "military target" to include virtually all human-made structures, capitalizing on the vague distinction between the military and civilian segments of an enemy society. They came to apply the logic of total war to the destruction of the civil infrastructure in North Korea. Because almost any building could serve a military purpose, even if a minor one, nearly the entire physical infrastructure behind enemy lines was deemed a military target and open to attack. This expansive definition, along with the optimism about sparing civilians that is reinforced, worked to obscure in American awareness the suffering of Korean civilians in which U.S. firebombing was contributing."

The song was inspired by Korean war veteran that John McCrea met in a bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Rgsihd6WM

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago

Germany: world renowned for effectively dealing with nazi problems

Russia: evil tankie society

jokerfied nato-cool

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Interesting stuff.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The concept of having 'free speech zones' where political speech is allowed is ... very inherently political though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

Civil liberties advocates argue that free speech zones are used as a form of censorship and public relations management to conceal the existence of popular opposition from the mass public and elected officials.[24] There is much controversy surrounding the creation of these areas – the mere existence of such zones is offensive to some people, who maintain that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution makes the entire country an unrestricted free speech zone.[24] The Department of Homeland Security "has even gone so far as to tell local police departments to regard critics of the War on Terrorism as potential terrorists themselves."

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It starts from the feudal castle mentality. Having a clear field around your castle so no attacking forces can sneak up to the walls was a strategy to retain power. Archers along the top of the walls could defend the castle because there was no cover or concealment available for a vast radius from the walls.

This later becomes the 'estate' of the royals. Eventually they would have manicured 'gardens' as well, but having a vast clear area around the manor or whatever was traditional at that point. Then suburban development uses this 'castle' mindset to create the single family home surrounded by a green lawn with very little landscaping or trees etc. A commodity form that gestures to the castle archetype for the 'middle class'. This is also why the 'white picket fence' was a crucial part of the original suburban ideal. It's a mini stockade.

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capitalist propaganda is so weird, especially when it's targeted at kids

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specter hexbear-specter

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Hexbear is mainly about Left-Unity folks!

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K-A-R-L

"L" because we know Labor creates all value.

M-A-R-X

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

But if these industries were operated like the superior capitalist economies, the entire industry would have needed billions to trillions in bailouts to keep functioning profitably. What the hell is going on in China?!? This makes no sense in my head!

average capitalist economist / industry expert

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hopefully this goes the right instance this time

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Anyone working on that yet? There's so many of these in the finale, but there's also many from the other Gorn episodes. If you see this anywhere please post it here!

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posad posadas possadist-ufo hexbear-posadist

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