Thordros

joined 4 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Yet another predictable Boeing crash coming up soon.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ever the dedicated Maoist, she made sure to put a couple holes in the sparrow Baby Jeezy is holding, too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

The music industry and failing to understand technology, name a more iconic duo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Broadly, the main issue is the intentional targeting of civilians, specifically to both break the citizens' morale, and for Bomber Command to puff their chests at the advancing Red Army. While the rail yards near the city center were a valid military target, the attack only ended up destroying most of the non-industrial buildings in the core, and killing about a quarter of the city's population (~20,000 to ~25,000 people). Nearly all of those deaths were non-combatants, who were not involved in any wartime industry (i.e. women and children). Less than a fifth of the city's industry was seriously damaged, and over half wasn't even hit at all.

There's a massive amount of study that's gone into breaking down the bombing of Dresden. I can't possibly do it justice in a post, and frankly, my scholarship on the topic is decades out of date now. I wouldn't even know who to ask nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Dresden is one of those topics that I hate talking about, because most of the "issues" folks will bring up about the bombing campaign are just made up Nazi bullshit. It obfuscates the fact that there are very real and legitimate concerns about how the bombing campaign was conducted, and what the actual intentions of the attack were.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

If I deleted my account every time I said something fucking stupid, I'd be on my 30th account by now. Just let it ride. Own your L's and try to improve.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Outdoor cat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

That puppet would party rock so hard on an actual leftist news show.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

the bits about that agressively liberal puppet whose name I can't recall

Cody? «roll on snare drum»

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Minor correction: Brace cannot post on Xwitter because that would be against Xwitter law, their social media guy is named Mehmet. Please ensure you're crediting people appropriately in the future, thanks!

51
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

When I was a child, autism didn't exist. Obviously it did, but it wasn't in the DSM then. It was a fringe diagnosis.

I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I'd known early on that I want to crank out spreadsheets for 8 hours a day—for fun.

Anyway, I hope you folks get dealt a better hand than me, now that our condition is real and acknowledged.

 

israel-cool

 

screm-cool

 
 

Hi Tseiran!

ralsei-wave

 
 
 

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns announcements was a good one

 

He had a thick beard and a sea-deep voice that sounded like the bear howl of metal geared bears scratching against each other's bared bits. His bared jaw was cut in a perfect 90° angle, almost as overbearing as his piercing eyes. His smile, when be bared his teeth—

 
 
view more: next ›