February 2012
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jedgarhooverinararaskirt:
i get really irrationally angry when american far-leftists act as if they own the hatred directed at thatcher
you don’t know what she was like, you don’t know what damaged she caused first-hand, you don’t know fuck all about her or her regime, so stop point-scoring because quite honestly it makes you look ignorant
i’m not saying you have to be british or argentine to...
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Leon, the same people who thought the Franco Prussian war was civilised thought think that the “german war machine was so well organised” in wwii
And these aren’t retards- they’re history students
These are the people you study with- these will teach your children history. In a way, they’re your future.
Just soak that in
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Turkey was losing near 300,000 soldiers per year
It could only conscript 90,000 from her empire, and the richer paid their way out of service.
Turkey would literally run out of soldiers to fight.
That’s how desperate the situation was
jedgarhooverinararaskirt:
as gross as someone like stalin is, you can’t really separate him from the fact that he was the person who transformed russia from being a feudal backwater to being the most powerful industrialised country on earth. the breadth of living standards for russians between 1924 and 1953 are unimaginable for us to think about. if russians praise him, they aren’t just doing it...
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Work for free
I’ve worked for free- chances are that you at some time have too. I’ve worked for free to a friend (writing their essay) and I’ve worked for free for a company. Now putting as to why I did those to one side, ask yourself- what is the difference between me working for free for these two vastly different things and slave labour? Both slave labour and me working for free require me...
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thoughtsfromtheline:
The echo of Cobden: It seems a lot of large companies are now chickening out of the government’s new employment scheme
no-belgium-no-problem:
Which is the far left all the way to the centre right saying:
“We’d rather poor people and unemployed people stay poor and dependent on other’s payments than get employment to gain work experience, put yourself out there, and...
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The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) of former PM Kostunica left yesterday the European People’s Party (EPP) because of its policy of political neutrality and opposition to Serbia’s accession to the EU.
Was any of this reported? Did anyone in the EU or soft left media take notice?
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It seems a lot of large companies are now...
Which is the far left all the way to the centre right saying:
“We’d rather poor people and unemployed people stay poor and dependent on other’s payments than get employment to gain work experience, put yourself out there, and to grow out of a drain on taxpayer’s money”
I mean, I’m usually not pro government policy, but this could’ve worked. Maybe not as...
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jedgarhooverinararaskirt:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4154426/Britains-battle-plan-for-war-with-Iran.html
fuuuuuuck this shit
bro im american how do u think i feel
i might as well buy a plane ticket and fly to wales so we can have lots of sex and snuggles before world war 3 begins
I see the Sun still carries its level of journalism and liberal...
how impressive- r34's homepage is nothing but MLP...
boy they’re really coming out of the woods tonight, huh?
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Kurdish child abuse in Turkey
“Children denounced sexual harassment in prison: Disturbing reports are coming through regarding Kurdish children who were arrested in connection with political actions and placed in ordinary criminals’ ward in Pozantı Prison. The kids are claiming that they have been sexually abused and beaten by ordinary criminals.
H.K. (15) says, “Some of our friends were molested many...
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I see some people are in favour of Syrian military...
These were the same people who were against the Iraq war and Libyan war
By now I am ready to convince myself that top liberal and republican thinkers have dice with “bomb, ‘liberate’ ignore”etc. and a larger die with a list of country names.
“Ok, Bush, your turn- roll.. you got ‘liberate’ Baghdad!”
“Alright Obama, your turn..you got bomb...
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“If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the...”
– Lord Salisbury (via wackybihistorian)
How relevant, my Lord.
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Europeans in the Americas, weren't they genocidal...
stateless-crusader:
But wasn’t Spanish oppression of the Amerindians the main factor reducing their numbers? We think not. Of course, the Spanish did oppress the Amerindians, but they were hoping to become the new lords of those lands, rather than farming the land themselves. Lords need serfs—live serfs. Spanish demands for labor and food must have made the situation worse, but...
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You know...
sijemesouviensbien:
akagoldfish:
I think I’ve very rarely mentioned that I have a fairly severe anxiety disorder. A light scrip could probably help with a lot of it, but I don’t have the insurance for that.
I rarely talk about this. I think I’ve written about it maybe three times in my 14,000+ tumblr posts. I don’t talk about it because it’s not anyone’s fucking business, and the last thing I...
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jedgarhooverinararaskirt:
touhou-fuhai:
It always amazes me how (in the western world at least) that Germany is given a lot more grief over WWII even though they are extremely ashamed of what happened, but what Japan did is more or less glossed over in our history books and they are either unapologetic or just flat deny a lot of the shit went down
that’s because the united states and the...
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War crimes in the Far east in wwii
Japan’s war crimes
Japan by mid 1942 found herself in control of a large amount of American, Commonwealth and Chinese Prisoners of war which her country decided to put to work. Frustrated by the ‘soft’ living of the European settlers in lands Japan wanted for her own, and viewing soldiers who surrendered as essentially having forfeited their claim to be human, Japan’s...
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“‘What comes next? What am I going to do?’ And immediately he knew...”
– Tolstoy’s Pierre Bezukhov
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Anonymous asked: Wow...Either you're a troll, or someone who seriously needs to check his attitude. Women are all philoprogenitive? If we're going by stereotypes, that would make you a sex-obsessed misogynist who has severe mommy issues. I mean, since all women are the same, all men must be too, right? Troll harder.
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If I were an employer and I saw a woman come to...
“How much hours am I going to lose paying her if she gets pregnant?”
“Does she intend to marry?”
“Does she intend to have many children?”
But both legislation and common courtesy prevent that, that business will lose money because women are selfish and philoprogenitive.
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There's a debate on about is working for Tescos...
Themes include:
Thatcher
Tories
Thatcher
NO MUM I WON’T CLEAN MY ROOM
YOU DON’T RULE MY LIFE MUM
Thatcher
1980s
“ur, typical tory guberment”
Maybe I'm not best to judge poverty
I judge “being poor” as being a soviet peasant early 1930s
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Tumblr Bomb Time: "If the presidential election... →
stfuconservatives:
Apparently the Paulbots got to it first, because Ron Paul is winning by about 10,000 votes (LOL IN YOUR DREAMS LIBERTARIANS), so we need to get to it stat!
-Jess
Because it’s not the votes that count it’s the people who count the votes, right?
Send STFUconservatives to the EU where the results of referendums and elections only count if the EU agrees. What a...
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“I believe I am kindly enough in nature, and can be moved to pity and to pardon...”
– Abraham Lincoln, refusing to pardon Nathaniel Gordon, who was executed for slave trading. (via politicalprof)
America’s greatest president showing America’s greatest talent: Serial hypocrisy
Oh, that and over-eating.
Every time a Brit says that they don't want to...
John Locke and Adam Smith start crying and Hobbes screams “Where did you think they got all their ideas?! Idiot!”
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Seems Labour has finally grasped the fact that...
This is their Michael Foot moment all over again
Snarky Ron
good-gollymissmolly:
Santorum: I’m real! Ron Paul: Congratulations.
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“So you’re from the Guardian?” he says, full of bonhomie. “My...”
– God bless this man. God bless him!