pandapoo

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[–] pandapoo 6 points 2 months ago

Take your badhistory bullshit somewhere else. I just watched Gladiator, and Anthony Hopkins never said that, so...yeah, GTFO.

[–] pandapoo 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This isn't a revelation. There was a consensus understanding that she made it up years ago. I mean, the prosecutor was disbarred....

[–] pandapoo 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Churchill wasn't bad simply because he was a racist... I think retrograde views on race are one of the areas where it's reasonable make allowances when judging historical figures.

Churchill was an aristocrat and an imperialist responsible for numerous atrocities within Britain's colonial holdings, and that's not even going into his anti-labor beliefs and practices.

The reason why I didn't provide you an alternative was because your original comment never required you to mention Churchill. That was an unforced error on your part, as the comment you were responding to wasn't an analogy to begin with.

But if you're deadset on needing an alternative for your unnecessary analogy, FDR is easily the best of a bad bunch.

[–] pandapoo 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Spoken like someone who has no historical understanding of Churchill's pre-WWII legacy. He's not retroactively awful, he was awful by the standards of his own era.

https://jacobin.com/2022/09/winston-churchill-british-empire-racism-wwii

[–] pandapoo 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh fuck...why did the DoD post the name of the street I grew up on, the city my parents met in, and the name of my first pet?

[–] pandapoo 63 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Winston Churchill was a genuinely awful human being and a war criminal prior to WWII.

He lucked out by also being a moderately competent wartime leader, who gets to be juxtaposed against Hitler for eternity.

Also, Brett Stephens is a bed bug and has a terrible track record of properly handling public backlash to his writing. I hope dark days are ahead for him.

[–] pandapoo 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Did you read the article?

The girls mother reported him to the Dubai police.

Hopefully her identity is revealed to the public and she faces some consequences for her actions. Maybe it's already been leaked or released elsewhere, but it wasn't in that article.

[–] pandapoo 8 points 2 months ago

"Google Quantum AI"

No. Just no.

[–] pandapoo 2 points 2 months ago

I really hoped they arrested the wrong guy, but those are some strong eyebrows...

Here's to hoping for jury notification.

[–] pandapoo 20 points 2 months ago

Have you taken a look at Facebook or Twitter....?

This is the single most unifying event in America since the Game of Thrones finale...

MAGA chuds, blue hairs, tankies, and normies, are all pretty united in their collective "lol".

[–] pandapoo 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Money isn't the issue, at least not a real limiting issue. Any major European leader crying about it, should go suck on a tailpipe.

The real limiting factors are existing European stockpiles, and limited industrial capacity for things like high volume munition and artillery shell production.

[–] pandapoo 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On a barely related note, that reminds me of this classic financial media segment.

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