HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2mo ago
There's an alternate-history novel Gray Tide in the East by Andrew J. Heller that postulates exactly this. The Kaiser reads Sir Edward Grey's 8/1/14 letter to Ambassador Lichnowski and peremptorily orders that the Schlieffen Plan be aborted, and those divisions diverted to stomp Russia - so that unless the French take it upon themselves to violate Belgian neutrality, its armies would have to batter themselves against the stone wall of the Elsass-Lothringen fortresses.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
I was quite surprised recently to learn that Acapulco, which has always connoted "resort getaway for rich Americans", has become a cartel-controlled hellhole.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Last I heard, the air pollution was really bad there though.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
In the 2007/2008 Google street view of Cairo, one of the buildings on the main commercial strip had completely collapsed and was just a pile of rubble spilling out onto the sidewalk.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
There's also Montgomery County, in the '70s and '80s (when I was young) a collection of affluent 95% white DC suburbs, now a declining black/latino/other third world immigrant area (the public school system is just 25% white now, a figure which includes Arabs). It's a "sanctuary county" where the local politicians virtue-signal by denouncing ICE and Republicans and fellating "diversity".
I have a hard time suspending my disbelief.
On the show, every few hundred feet along the sidewalk in built-up areas is stationed a Guardian (ersatz Gestapo goon) armed with a semi-automatic. There would have to be PLA-level manpower available to the regime for this to be possible. And you can't just give this job to any schlub; it has to be a fanatic who wouldn't hesitate to shoot his own mother or sister if she broke the laws (which include that women are no longer allowed to be literate in this society!)
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
I'm kind of curious to know what it's like to live in Grosse Pointe Park, MI, in a wealthy white neighborhood just one block from a typical Detroit hood. Pretty rare nowadays to see this without a miles-long, gradual buffer zone.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Even after 65 years, Edsel still has the connotation of "lemon".
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
IMO, the money spent on highways and other car-related infrastructure since 1920 should have been spent on maintaining and increasing urban public transit and passenger rail service (anyone remember interurbans? Like streetcars, but they traveled between towns rather than within a city).
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Does Hungary count?
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
The DMCA lawyers will always be better-funded and faster.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
The YouTube fight video has been yanked already. That was quick!!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
And George Sand.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Olympic gold medalist Stella Walsh was intersex and lacked female genitalia.
Military surgeon James Barry.
Jazz musician Billy Tipton.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Wonder who got the other seven. I somehow doubt any of them are in a position where the card would make any serious financial advantage.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
The same with /r/whitepeopletwitter which was once light-hearted and funny, but mutated suddenly to 100% tubthumping for lib-left causes.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
There's also /r/libsofreddit, which I'm frankly surprised still exists.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
3mo ago
Just ask Cactus Jack Garner.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
Personally, I find nowadays that anything relating to COVID and/or vaccines for it just makes my eyes glaze over, as a result of hearing about it constantlly for two years.
I'm rather surprised that there still seem to be so many cranks who are obsessed with being anti-vax or anti-lockdown after this much time has passed.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
Next he's going to praise America's best buddy in the Middle East, the Shah of Iran!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
"The revolutionaries are on CBS [Records]" - 1968
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
There are a statistically significant number of rap songs from the eighties and nineties which talk about hooking up with a girl who turns out to be a guy. This phenomenon was mentioned on Cracked back in the day.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
4mo ago
anything that's ever actually kept anyone up at night--Gaza, inflation, illegal migrants, Trump, covid, BLM, metoo, or climate change
Has there ever been a movie about inflation that isn't a documentary?
KiwiFarms.
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