Veteran of what we're talking about. Ph.D in the subject matter at hand. Expert on the intricacies of niche. Knows people. Banged your mom. Heart of gold.
Hitler’s rise in Germany was not unopposed. It involved purges, conspiracies, protests, and even aborted coups from the military. The historical narrative of a nation and military enthralled with Hitler’s mystique is false.
Part III of “anti-Hitlerian Generals”.
Once again, the old joke.
Soviet and American professors find themselves sitting next to each other on a flight.
American: "Why are you coming to the US?"
Soviet: "To study American propaganda techniques."
A: "What propaganda?"
S: "Exactly."
Ai Wei Wei famous here partly cuz his was a good anti-China story.
But now that he has been here he says that censorship in the US is "even worse" than China.
He says that's due to how it “operates in a more concealed, solid and enduring manner.”
Apparently, this aircraft came off the line two months ago. It's brand new.
The failure is in the fuselage, not a door. This is something not seen on the aviation industry in decades. Not since the Brits were making flying trashcans post-war. It's a scandal.
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A Forced emergency landing was made of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at Portland International Airport on Friday night. The flight, traveling
@loganclarkhall
Spot on.
Trying to get my hands on important historical works, like memoirs from Germans in WW2 or other "bad guys", is expensive and time consuming. Amazon scrubs a few more every year, despite there being available third party sellers. $300+ is not uncommon.
@anarchyinblack
I know because I used to live in Africa and am really interested in 19th century colonialism and military history and read Adichie in college.
Which is not to say that I also couldn't be the most racist person you ever met.
@ylecun
And I'm old enough to remember when neighborhoods in Paris didn't look like Mogadishu. So, congratulations, your beloved "hate speech" laws worked.
The precipitous collapse of the FBI's public image would have been unbelievable even 10 years ago. It was the iconic federal agency, the one people pointed to in order to defend the federal behemoth. It really started with Comey.
FBI has probably had the biggest institutional decline of anything during my lifetime. Went from incorruptible, elite law enforcement taking down the worst criminals imaginable to Regime schlubs coming to lecture you about no no words on behalf of DEI appointees.
This hurts because I grew up in Seattle. It's all true.
Seattle was once a working class city of high culture, where a normal family could afford buy a home and raise kids. A city with both union metal workers and a world-class symphony. Safe, clean, interesting, beautiful.
Revisiting old places can bring up all kinds of feelings and memories - provided there is some continuity in the place. If many of the buildings are gone, the entire character of the place is changed - the experience is entirely negative. How I felt seeing Seattle after some
Looking at it more, it seems like the part of the fuselage that failed was an unused emergency door. In other words, the framing of the section had the potential for a door, but was a window in this configuration.
@mikestabile
Truly sickening, gaslighting stuff.
Go on any board devoted to pornography and read the comments. Tell me that it's populated with psychologically and sexually healthy people.
@Aristos_Revenge
This is true and they know it. I had a friend who participated in a VA funded study in grad school, after he got out. Suicide prevention. Part of the study was reaching out to "at risk" vets via phone on a regular basis, to ask about suicidal ideation and offer support. This
Hitler was not the unimpeachable, slavishly followed man of magic often portrayed in contemporary historiography. In fact, the most powerful institution in Germany, the Army , was cautious, concerned, and eventually alarmed by Hitler’s rise.
Part I of “anti-Hitlerian Generals”.
"Food was NOT cheap 4 years ago! Nobody has EVER ordered from a Dollar menu! Nobody EVER fed a family of 4 for under $20! Nothing was EVER affordable! The Economy has NEVER been better!"
@VictorCahat
@TheSpaceshipper
@rolfmohr
These midwit 40k takes are just appalling.
The Imperium is not satire based around your preferred politics. Like everything in 40k, it's about entropy, duality, the struggle of agency, and the self-destructive nature of man. And chainswords.
@Gerashchenko_en
Sometimes I get mad at propagandists. Then I see how enthusiastically people lap it up and remember they're simply giving people what they already want.
@ZitoSalena
Sometimes, when you live in a state of constant gaslighting by the Rachel Vindmans of the world, offensive and vile things like this should be preserved, as a reminder. She should be forced to wear this post on a tshirt for the rest of her miserable life.
@Aristos_Revenge
"School officials later held a “restorative circle,”"
"...featured the words “Sorry Jew,” in what the student said was an apology letter."
"Robblee...stuck his tongue out at the student in a moment of frustration after the boy swore at him."
"working with the ADL"
Oh my god.
@ylecun
You're, what, in your 60's? I know you're an expat who lives well, but it's impossible that you haven't noticed your country is drowning in a flood of incongruous third world mass migration. Paris has become an embarrassment. My family there don't even want to discuss it anymore.
Many Anglophone histories covering the 1930’s portray Hitler as being on a rocket ship to total domination, but this is a misreading of the times. The Nazi’s hold on power was perilous and Hitler had enemies everywhere.
Part II of “anti-Hitlerian Generals”.
@relevantmena
Andrew Breitbart used to do this.
Releasing things one layer at a time, forcing a defensive opponent to slowly dig their own grave as they responded to each layer of disclosure, not realizing they were being played by an opponent who knew their playbook ahead of time.
@revenant_MMXX
I know she's play-acting a teacher, but what immediately strikes me is how child-like these videos are. This is exactly how my daughter would play teacher when she was little. The tone, the body language, the hectoring demeanor, the smugness, everything. Arrested development.
Red Cross in 1944: “We found no trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners in Auschwitz” 👇
Red Cross in 2023: “We found no evidence of weapons or hostages being kept in hospitals in Gaza”
@Tom4OKstate
@ChristopherJM
Not trying to be a dick, but you're following the wrong people. There are a lot of people here who have been screaming about the realities on the ground not matching the narrative since the invasion began.
2014 shows up over and over again as a "tipping point" year across so many metrics. We had a big culture shift around that time (call it "woke", whatever, doesn't matter) and it's obvious that the change was really destructive.
As far as I can remember, the first contemporary example of this phenomenon in film was Gordon Gekko. Oliver Stone talked at length about how Wall St guys would come up to him and thank him, saying that his character inspired them to get into finance. He was shocked.
David Fincher hates that he made Tyler Durden look cool. Alan Moore hates that he made Rorschach look cool. It's funny how many based characters are born because their creators failed to "subvert" them. Archetypes are more powerful than their modern deconstructions
@Aristos_Revenge
There are a lot of irritating things about people like this guy, but perhaps the most irritating is that they labor under the assumption they're clever.
@Valen10Francois
Unambiguously true.
I know a guy who got his ass chewed on the phone by his wife on the way back from seeing his student/fling. Not because of the woman, but because he forgot to run an errand for her while he was ducking out and then was late coming home.
@backtolife_2023
Went to my family doctor about a year ago.
He was shocked that I didn't get vaccinated.
He paused...eyed me...and then said, "Good for you."
Then we had a 20 minute conversation of the collapse of trust in public health officials.
Love that guy.
@ElementaryWats
I remember that.
Aloha 243 was an old airplane that failed as a result of insufficient maintenance. Explosive depressurization is not unheard of, but almost always the result of the failure of the ground crew to secure something or maintenance neglect.
@BobRobe41976784
@ArmchairW
There's a bizarre science in picking the most survivable seat on a plane. The best spot is usually over the wing, on the aisle. Exceptions for rear most seats in some unusual circumstances.
@ByYourLogic
My wife described this show as "This guy who does puppet's kid ran away, then he was really sad, then he made the puppet his kid wanted and asked him to come back, and he did."
Her look of disgust and disappointment was priceless.
@SeanMcCarthyCom
Once upon a time, the internet was a very decentralized and crazy place. Everyone had their own website and you could find almost anything. It was genuine and organic and interesting, even when it was weird. But, then they sterilized and centralized and commoditized the whole
@SwordMercury
It's unrestrained ethnic hatred combined with a force that's largely composed of reservists. They feel simultaneously entitled and aggrieved. They have all the technical posturing of a real military but lack the professionalism of a historical Western style military force.
@Aristos_Revenge
It's woman with an ADHD/obsessive husband thing. They know that once you've sat down and plugged into something, you're a monster to pull away and redirect later. So they sharpen it into a super power.
Followers of the war in Ukraine may recognize this emblem, often seen on Ukrainian soldiers' uniforms. It comes from the SS Division Totenkopf.
A (long, two part) thread on one of the most fascinating, and misunderstood, formations of the Waffen-SS, from their origin to 1942.
I live in a bedroom community that's basically in a time warp from 1998. Kids ride their bikes, the parks are beautiful, most driveways have working class cars, the public schools are uneventfully mediocre, it's ~90% white, and there's zero crime/litter. Everyone's a Republican.
I want to live in a nice neighborhood, like the one I grew up in. No "Multifamily housing" no "Section 8 housing." I don't want my children to grow up near criminal gangs. I want them to have what I had. And that's why I am voting for Donald Trump in November.
@emre_mayo
French restaurants are less common because the food prep is much more labor intensive than other common cuisines. It's structured around certain time consuming techniques which, frankly, mostly involve an enormous amount of cream, butter, animal fats, and eggs.
@Aristos_Revenge
Two things happened in tandem.
Malls started to become "low status" as physical shifts in demography left them in less prestigious parts of town.
Online retail began to replace the main draw of malls, which is window shopping/browsing.
One of the first things that happened to me when I landed in the Horn was some Colonel showing me videos of Al Qaeda & Co. cutting kidnapped Westerners' heads off with long knives. It was supposed to orient those of us who would be working outside the wire in small teams, or
A few hours ago, Ukrainian soldiers drone-dropped grenades on children playing outside in a village in Belgorod oblast, on purpose, wounding five, two of them in critical condition, and I'm supposed to worry about collateral damage from missile strikes?
@ArmchairW
I don't know what's changed in the military, but 20 years ago we had the lethality and broad capability of Russian ground based air defenses and E/W pounded into our heads.
"There's us, the Russians, and everyone else."
@MrAnotherNPC
@SwannMarcus89
Rationing of scare resources is inevitable, by definition. I'm saying that there are a variety of mechanisms to ration a scarce resource. This is well understood in commodity pricing and economics.
This, on the other hand, is predatory pricing in an emergency, which is illegal.
"Sir, the airboss says that-"
"Hey Senior Chief. I need you to get a photoshop of a retarded dog head in a Captain's uniform and put it on the flight deck."
"Uh, yes sir, but the Wildcats CO is concerned-"
"And put a cookie in his hand. I need this by 0830."
"Aye, aye...sir."
This is not a partisan gotcha moment. The people running Washington are mentally incapable. They're warmed over geriatrics incapable of governing. They exist because the puppeteers know how to pull their strings.
JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi says she's "not gonna spend too much time on Donald Trump's cognitive disorders," and instantly confuses Trump with Joe Biden. WATCH
@omnialnchristo
You can tie, almost directly, the correlation between religiosity and anti-Nazism. Unsurprisingly, one of the most under examined facets of that era was that it was the most conservative elements of German society which dominated the various anti-Hitler conspiracies.
@ArmchairW
@OnlyRealJohanna
I used to work GBAD/C3.
These launches aren't even spaced far enough apart to assess effect. Normally a total expenditure of munitions correlates to a huge number of targets. This looks like some dude just hammering on the go button. Basically bad trap shooting. RIP.
@ArmchairW
He was an early "pro-Ukraine" follow of mine, but he lost a ton of credibility with me when he mocked care packages to Russian troops as a signal of their weakness. He's a Marine, but he's either super dishonest or never deployed, because I remember a whole lot of care packages.
@lndian_Bronson
"Omigod, like, hi! I'm Amber and this is my partner, Kelsie. We're from the Stasi. Weird, I know, right? We were just sort of wondering...can we, like, come in? Just, you know, to, like, talk? If that's cool? I mean, no biggie, just about some, like, TikTok videooooos..."
@BigFatSmugCat
@Aristos_Revenge
I know a white professional who got to the final interview after a very lengthy process at three different companies. Told their resume and experience was "stand-out" or "the most impressive" each time. Lost out to the exact candidate you'd expect, each time.
Part 2 of the history of the SS Division Totenkopf (TKD) through 1942 thread.
Many thanks to
@ArmchairW
, who generously gave Part 1 a huge boost in visibility.
This was mostly written from memory. Errors are all mine.
Followers of the war in Ukraine may recognize this emblem, often seen on Ukrainian soldiers' uniforms. It comes from the SS Division Totenkopf.
A (long, two part) thread on one of the most fascinating, and misunderstood, formations of the Waffen-SS, from their origin to 1942.
Just the Ukraine MoD posting photos with slightly modified Dirlewanger Brigade watermarks, you know, whatevs.
A quick word on the Dirlewanger Brigade: 🧵
It's the strangest of things that the longest lasting burden of the George W Bush Administration may be the "gimmie" acceptance of the Baltic states into NATO in exchange for their worthless contribution to the war in Iraq.
@baronitaigas
Like I said, the Baltics are basically a liability for NATO today. The only reason they were accepted into it is to be an irritant to Russia. Now they've irritated it (fucked around), and are afraid they can find out.
@jlippincott_
All the moralizing and phony historical narratives aside, the German conquest of France made peace with Germany impossible. The US was not going to let Hitler rule the Continent and, don't forget, it was Germany who declared war on the US, in December of 1941.
@captivedreamer7
Some slimy political operative told Walz he needed to be "high energy" because something, something Biden focus group testing. He seems to have really ran with it.
@sentientist
You could cut each one a check for $100k as Wakanda seed money and it would still pay for itself in short order. The social and financial returns only compound from there. As a simple transactional question, it's a no-brainer. I don't make the rules and I didn't invent the math.
Inside baseball stuff, but the move to DHS from Treasury has been not good for the Secret Service.
The SS was always this very small, exclusive org that could avoid the bureaucracy of the LE/NatSec establishment by the virtue of being housed far away from all that noise.
BREAKING: A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells
@FDRLST
that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.
DHS, which oversees Secret Service
There were a ton of popular Youtubers who made hour long videos every few months of them just going shopping in Russia to talk about prices and availability post-sanctions. For like a year. Even the mildly curious should have no illusions about the "normality" of Russian retail.
The fact that discourse still revolves around availability of food in the Russian stores and American boomers are shouting "useful idiot" at each other is embarrassing in the age of broadband internet
But it does reveal that there's an artificial time lag of about 50 years
The Il-76 is an interesting airplane. It's close to the austere operating profile of the C-130, but also close to the performance profile of the C-17. The Russians can land it on a dirt road, but it still carries serious loads.
🇷🇺🇵🇸Two Il-76 aircrafts of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver 28 tons of humanitarian cargo for the population of the Gaza Strip.
The assistance was organized at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
@0xAlaric
One of the little known facts about the Legion is that there's a huge number of Frenchmen in it. They join under declared identities, usually Eastern European, and then get a new French name and passport. Usually petty criminals or guys who got the boot from the regular Army.
@ArmchairW
Once upon a time (during the Obama years) I laughed at lefties who insisted that the auto bailouts were important for preserving that wing of American industry on national security grounds. They were right and I was wrong.
@UncleFoxtrot
Just walked over to my actual scout sniper buddy to show him this. He almost pissed his pants he laughed so hard. People came down the hall to find out what was going on. Thank you for this.
@MrPerkwile
@AuronMacintyre
First, because proximity to whites means better run/staffed/funded/maintained public resources. Better schools, hospitals, parks, shopping, public safety, etc.
Secondly, and very much related, cities simply don't function without the white tax base. White people pay the bills.
@Aristos_Revenge
A lot more people on the right need to come to the realization that consensus politics is dead. This is a fight over our nation, not a policy debate. The younger crowd seems to have a better handle on this reality than their elders, which is somewhat hopeful.
Matt Gaetz is often portrayed as a mad man in the media.
Maybe he is. He does, after all, do some seemingly insane things.
But, when you listen to him talk at length, it's hard to come away with the impression that he doesn't have a reasonable guiding philosophy.
1\ 8 months ago
@mattgaetz
appeared on
@Timcast
just after the vote for Speaker. He gave a very insightful 20 minutes in the opener that I’m going to thread and bring context. This is very important IMO to dust off the shelf
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Much of what the west imagines about Japan is fiction. But, what is true, and always impressed me when I lived or visited there, was how cleanly it is. Even the poor, run-down parts of Japan are orderly and hygienic. Everything has its place and people care for their spaces.
@ArmchairW
The numbers suggest it's a two pronged problem. Leftwing white men are not enlisting anymore, at all. That's the hole. The secondary problem is that there are no longer enough "patriotic" right of center men to fill the void. It's collapsing on two fronts.
@ArmchairW
This is going to be a brutal winter for the Ukrainians.
We're about to find out how much Russia is willing to spend to advance, what the actual parameters of their territorial goals are. We're also about to find out what Washington does when the full-on freak out begins.
@martyrmade
Most people don't realize the organized resistance to Hitler came mostly from the farthest right wing of the German officer corps. Almost all either militant, nationalist aristocrats or former Freikorps members.
@revenant_MMXX
Absolutely true.
The police know exactly how to crush violent street gangs. They have files on all the players, know where they live, who they hang out with. These gangs' continued existence is a policy choice.
Facts.
I was in Anbar, so most of the dudes we were killing when I was there were foreigners coming over the border. But, they were all facilitated and integrated into a network of former Ba'athists.
In a one party state, everyone with power is a party member. The general at
Those who crafted the De-Ba'athification program for Iraq post invasion singlehandedly caused the size & scope of the insurgency that to this day wreaks havoc on the overall stability of the Middle East.
@9mm_smg
I worked at one as a kid (horror stories for days).
We'd get slammed every lunch for the $5 footlongs and then it was a ghost town. With the price increases I don't understand how they keep the doors open.