Sorting out common misconceptions about Soviet strategy in WW2

We need to intervene. I am a good person, this needs to stop. Oh my god, worms!

Clown Fucka Boyz : Applications are now closed for the season.

Stop hiding behind really good and excellent music threads and Some badas but sarcastic flamewars

man of steel: wait, its not about stalin???

Imagine the kind of person who signs up to kill people.

There is a lot more to this struggle than meets the eye.

It’s an emotionally manipulative piece that clearly seeks to obscure the multitude of motivations behind the decision to intervene.

In another two villages in Homs, Al-Shumaryiah and Teldo, the Free Syrian Army committed a massacre against many families. The Al-Qaeda linked terrorist Free Syrian Army kidnaps, tortures, and holds massive rallies declaring their intention to cleanse Syria of Christians and Alawites. One of the most popular protest chants is “Christians to Beirut, Alawites to the grave”.

I went to a speech about the "Arab Spring" at the LSE last year and stood up to ask why Bahrain was never talked about. Why is it that Bahrain is unworthy of mention? I think this is why it's important to accept that on one hand, yes, the Arab Spring is legitimate and comes from people's desires to shrug off the yoke of oppression. On the other hand, it is a media narrative that has been utilized to push neoliberal policies in the region. This media narrative is subject to power interests. This explains very well why Bahrain has been "forgotten".

It took Martin Scorsese almost three decades to make "Gangs of New York" (2002), but that means that it had plenty of time to incubate. And is there any better story to explain America than a story located in the notorious Five Points neighborhood?. While many of early American settlers are as the poor and dejected, they are generally depicted as hard workers, visionaries, and selfless noble whites. But this is not only a gendered and racist depiction, but also dishonest at heart. We are not bright and shining new humans, we are deeply stained in blood and terror.

A worker at a munitions factory, wondering about the morality of creating weapons, inquires about the proportion of civilian and military deaths caused by any particular bomb he has created. His superior reveals that in Iraq, casualties are roughly 44% women and 39% children; at least 85% of those killed are thus highly likely to be civilians. This realization would require at the very least the worker's conscientious objection and immediate refusal to continue work on the bombs. But the bomb-maker is in a unique position to go farther...

I have always been fascinated by games of war. I think its the ease in which my mind is able to sync with the way a war game works; in a war without the mucky mess of Clausewitz's political object, a war without worry of the consquences, the mind is free to zip along unadultered lines of strategy and tactics with a childish joy in its heart. The heart of the mind, I mean; the rest of it might still be freaking the fuck out. Which brings us to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup...