Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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Nobody ever posts the “Here’s a teenage boy who has been beaten bloody by the Shah’s secret police” photo from the 1970s
Probably because the contrast is what makes it eye-catching, whereas “Secret police are the same in Iran now as they were in Iran in the 1970s” presents very little contrast.
Neither do we get the “Meet the PhD student who graduated without a penny of debt” from the 2020s.
… that’s the norm in most countries that don’t bear the abbreviation “USA”.
20 years ago, my mother bought a house for just under 50k. Houses in my hometown, of the same rough location and type, now go for 4x that.
Insane that housing prices have outpaced inflation by such a ludicrous degree. It’s almost like the system is broken, the ultra-rich and corporations have found all the good tricks and loopholes and are exploiting them to the detriment of both ordinary citizens and the nation as a whole.
I guess it doesn’t matter. What matters is getting giant jets on that dry-dock pronto!
“The rules don’t say a bird can’t be an attendee”
lmao, imagine bothering to ban someone from unrelated communities because you were mad at a comment they made.
“Knights of the air”
It was a great idea - let the troops check how much ammo remained in the mag. Shame about the whole “Real world conditions” thing.
Yeah, 'twas 1949. Contrary to the claims of some, they were very dark times. Still, it’s nice to see that at least some modern values were prominent enough to get this kind of statement of support.
Sorry, what I meant was “COMIC BOOKS GONE WOKE NO TOLERANCE IN MY SUPERMAN COMIX”
I love seeing pictures of WW1 infantry preparing to let loose an anti-aircraft volley from their bolt-action rifles. What a wild time of military developments
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Three.
Not with those lightning fast shrub reflexes!
I swapped from calling for Biden to stay to calling for Biden to go once sitting Congresscritters spoke out in public asking him to step down, since the main advantage of incumbency is supposed to be the ability to preserve party unity, but I was still expecting a lot more “DEMS IN DISARRAY HOW CAN THEY EVER WIN” style narrative to take root. There’s still time for me to be disappointed, but as of right now I’m pleasantly surprised.
SMGs like this were actually highly valued in trench warfare - not for the long periods of sniping across no-man’s land, but in trench raids and infiltration tactics by specialists. Some wild stuff - semiautomatic pistols modified to fire full auto, knives, maces, armor straight out of the medieval period…
This prototype SMG in particular didn’t have much future to it, though. Water-cooling is… not very practical for a mobile weapon, lmao. The French Chauchat LMG saw much more utilization in the same period.
Yes
It was posted only a minute before his comment as I’d gotten distracted for a few minutes after posting the pic; the link probably wasn’t up when he was typing the question.
It’s part of Christian tradition that martyrs were fed en masse to lions in the Colosseum for their faith during the Roman Empire.