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When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her)

Can get Russian reds to "yes" her

Then I suppose

Anything goes

I think it's fair to call the vortex ring state the riptide of helicoptering

If you swap the lyrics of Running Up That Road and Run to the Hills and keep thenmelodies the same you get one really funny song and one sad one

Imagine Nathan Fielder talking to Mr Rogers. That might split atoms

🎶keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man🎶

🎶in case he comes to town🎶

🎶keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man🎶

🎶so he won't take me down🎶

Made chili today. It was pretty good, but I accidentally left the stove on after scooping out a bowl so when I went to get seconds it was all burned to shit. Feels bad man.

Made a really good vinegarette tonight

Mega mega mega THREAD

Megathread

I stopped running my Age of Rebellion campaign, but I really wanna do a mission where rebels go scouring tech from an abandoned base but it's actually still run by rogue droids that didn't get shut down with the rest and think the Clone Wars are still going on.

the only thing I disliked about the new final destination movie is how the hottest character's death was also the most disturbing but maybe his hotness was a contributing factor 🤔

I came across a documentary on the German spy ring the Red Orchestra with the synopsis being focused on how they are totally not communists

The Gestapo labeled them as communists and traitors for their efforts to put an end to Hitler’s reign -- a theory that was upheld by allied secret services until recently.

Historians now officially recognize the Red Orchestra as one of the largest and most efficient Nazi resistance groups, with members who held a variety of political and religious beliefs. Forty percent of the members were women.

First of all what the fuck do they mean "officially"? And who are said historians? Are all prior historians not official? But the more egregious thing is the implicit framing here of Communist and traitor being equal. Like this is treated as a proud rehabilitation like oh thank god this resistance was not communist so now we can feel bad they got murdered by Hitler, otherwise Hitler was in the right.

But also, the leadership was full of communists, had intense links to other communist parties, was particularly looked into by the Nazis because of their ties to the French Communist Party which the Nazis feared was being directly aided by the USSR

The Gestapo's purpose in running this particular funkspiel was to discover Soviet links to the French Communist Party, the French Resistance and the Red Three.

Yes the group was more informal, was cell based, and did have members of different political beliefs and religious backgrounds, but that was NEVER disputed by the older view. Here is a West German theologian who got a bunch of shit in germany for this statement

And no matter whether it suits us today or not, we shouldn't hide the fact that there was also such a thing as a 'Red Orchestra': communists who were also involved in this struggle and also fell as victims of Nazism. No matter what their ideological background was and what one might think of their particular motivations and actions: these people didn't want to be part of what the Nazis wanted; they wanted to set a limit to their depraved and ruinous regime, to put an end to it. [...] Had they succeeded, it might have rendered a large amount of further human as well as material sacrifices unnecessary. But they didn't succeed. And this was not just their own fault, but was also because so few in Germany were willing to join and help them with determination, before it became safe to do so, and that they received so little understanding or meaningful assistance from outside

A bunch of modern scholarship does "correct" the idea that they are a Soviet spy ring, something the Soviets and DDR never claimed. The reality is that the idea of a self conscious "Red Orchestra" organization that was centrally led was false, and them being a section of soviet intelligence is not true, but like......their network was almost entirely reliant on other communist parties in occupied countries, and cells did operations directly with the NKVD and red army. Like Hans Coppi who fucked up an exhibition mocking the soviets, and later met with NKVD who parachuted into Germany.

A BUNCH of leaders of those various cells were communists, and the infrastructure of the KPD was instrumental. Of the 400 members it is like a full quarter are Communists openly, more than any other group. Shit like this is why I dislike documentaries, they are narrative driven and sorta require a framing of "new evidence" or interpretation. They rarely add nuance

I read a book that someone lazily wrote with AI and it shows. It would constantly repeat the same phrases, would change scenes or alter them mid-sentence, and would frequently change details about the characters. Glad I didn’t pay for it.

This is a post

I feel so goddamn awful I can't even begin to describe it

on a road trip so spent my time in the passenger seat reading all of Sacred and Terrible Air, it's a bit hard to penetrate initially but it's good