#SECOND WAR WORLD

[backofthebookshelf]

I know I'm a week late but I do think people are misunderstanding the point of the Anthony Bourdain quote about Kissinger

The point was never "Anthony Bourdain has good politics and is an unproblematic fave," the point is that even someone with mainstream liberalish politics who goes to Cambodia for a food tour - a, let's be honest, very bougie type of trip to be part of your job - and has a basic understanding of history and a bare minimum of human decency can come away from that bougie food tour wanting to murder Henry Kissinger with their bare hands. The point is that Henry Kissinger fucked up this country so bad the only reason he wasn't lynched decades ago is because it's on the opposite side of the world and the people who were in proximity to him never really saw what it was. The point is that if we could see firsthand what our First World politics do to the Third World we would understand that monsters walk among us and it's a cultural failing that we let them die at home at 100 years old surrounded by their friends and family.

#henry kissinger #the unifying theory of fuck that guy #i use first and third world intentionally here because that is the exact political structure in play #first world didn't mean rich or privileged or important #it meant the us and its allies #the second world was the ussr #and the third world was the countries we were fighting over in the quote-unquote cold war

[ghostwarriorrrr]

#military #aircraft #air force #us air force #usaf #fighter plane #second world war #world war ii #propeller plane #propeller #warbird #aviation history #aviation

[lyss-butterscotch]

Hiiiii @ressioo if you keep using my system failure AU to hurt my babies then I'll use your AU to hurt your babies ^-^

#my turn to speedrun hdjdnndn #the sunstone war continues :))))) #except we drag moon into it #because of course we do #enjoy ^-^ #rain world #looks to the moon #five pebbles #seven red suns #rw sunstone #sunstone #solar flare au #idk sobs #my art #comic #my second indoctrination to the rw community #is that iterators should FIGHT #LET THEM GO HAM #AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH #lyss art

[keepingitneutral]

Transmitter Bunker, Ringstead, Dorset, United Kingdom,

Lipton Plant Architects

#art #design #architecture #minimal #nature #interior design #minimalism #interiors #retreat #bunker #dorset #united kingdom #beach house #transmitter #lipton plants #sustainability #renovation #second world war #concrete

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi

@strawberry-crocodile

tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake

This.  This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors.  There’s a certain danger, here.  A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.

What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises.  “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.”  I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks.  It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.

“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.”  Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.

The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle.  Shake of the head.  What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse.  What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?

Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times.  Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed.  Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks.  So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.

These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level.  Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado.  It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.

And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next.  “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty.  “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.”  Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field.  And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers.  Self-satisfied, smug in superiority.  As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.

#errors #continuity #sci fi #presentism #star wars #titanic #world war i #science marches on #history #started a new post because i got waaaaaay off topic here #if you think the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) should've had feathers #you're a lot more ignorant about paleontology than the people you're trying to criticize #science was not handed down to us in its perfect complete form circa 1943 #stop for a second before you call out someone else's reptilian denonychus #someone else's oxygenated moon #and ask: am i better read #or am i just more recently born?

[humanoidhistory]

Submarine bunker at Charente-Maritime, France.

#france #world war ii #bunker #submarine #navy #war #world war 2 #world war two #second world war #architecture #brutalism

[histcryprincess]

French girls wearing their German boyfriends uniforms during World War 2. The photo on the right was found on a German POW.

#historical photos #history #historical #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #second world war #ww2 photos #wwii #wwii photos #ww2 history #wwii history #1940s #1940s women #1940s photos #ww2 women

[a-4skyhawk]

Nothrop P-61 Black Widow

#military aircraft #wwii era #second world war #wwii aircraft #usaaf

[dronescapesvideos]

German BV 138 flying boat rendezvous with a Kriegsmarine submarine, 1943. ➤➤ UNUSUAL SEAPLANES VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ThFL8GsIKd8

#youtube #aircraft #airplane #aviation #dronescapes #military #ww2 #documentary #wwii #aviation history #bv138 #seaplane #second world war #subm #german submarine #u boat #uboot

[blackswaneuroparedux]

You get your ass on the beach. I'll be there waiting for you and I'll tell you what to do. There ain't anything in this plan that is going to go right.

- Colonel Paul R. Goode, in a pre-attack briefing to the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach, Normandy D-Day June 1944

#goode #colonel paul goode #quote #normandy #normandy landings #D Day #D-Day #US army #soldier #second world war #war #history #liberation of france

[xollii]

"why would you root for Hamas if you prefer the PFLP?" Do I need to fish out the Mao quote about a united front against the empire of Japan?

#ive been asked in person and i like to think the second world war is well enough understood to have been a good parallel for discussion #idk

[stillunusual]

History repeating itself....

#warsaw #warszawa #poland #polska #warsaw uprising #second world war #world war 2 #germany #history #mariupol #russia #ukraine

[lilithism1848]

#hitler #anti capitalism #leftism #communism #socialism #anarchy #vladimir putin #far right #liberalism #nazi #free speech #disinformation #extremism #hypocrisy #second world war #world war 2 #world war ii #world war 1 #world war two #world war one

[lichozestudni]

the fact that Germany attacked Poland in 1939 under the pretext that Poland was persecuting Germans living in Poland and now Russia is attacking Ukraine under the pretext that Ukrainians are persecuting Russians in Ukraine is simply terrifying. The brainwashed Russians keep saying that they are defending themselves against Ukraine. It's really pathetic Nazi propaganda. The Russians have learned nothing from Germany's Nazi history. Every aggressor says it's a defensive war. Finally learn it, citizens of Russia, and leave your neighbor's territory.

but also when you tell the Russians to stop attacking Ukraine, they say, but America causes wars too!!

do you have to copy this thing from America too, you clowns?

#russian clowns #wwii #ww2 #second world war #russian invasion of ukraine #stand with ukraine #poland #ukrainian #ukraine #world war 2 #russia is a terrorist state #russian invasion #help ukraine #russian war crimes #russian terrorism #support ukraine #russian imperialism #russian propaganda #kyiv #stop terrorism

[druidonity2]

What if I were mentally ill and void of the light's presence and hung out with Alleria Windrunner wouldn't that be really cool

#world of warcraft #anduin wrynn #alleria windrunner #The War Within #Im gonna manifest shadowreaper into WoW even if I have to sell my soul to the devil #some form of that voidy ass bitch WILL appear in WoW i swear to god #Hearthstone made the coolest fucking version of Anduin and never touched him again #Okay but seriously Anduin does have some small history with void and it would make me so happy #if we got to see some portion of his story arc revolve around it and using it #and I dont mean in a 'lets have a second villain arc' i mean more like #bro is a priest lets explore how shadow can be harnessed for good #as it clearly can be like using void doesnt automatically make him evil #ive seen some ppl assume i want a second evil arc and thats not really what this is #I will admit...I did make him look kinda evil inthis drawing tho.

[gracexthoughts]

Of Violent Delights

Mattheo Riddle x Potter!OC

“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume.” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

masterlist

playlist | read on ao3 | intro

part 1; “Two households, both alike in dignity…From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

part 2; “I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |

#harry potter #harry potter fandom #harry potter fanfiction #hogwarts #hogwarts oc #hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry #matteo riddle #hp fanfic #wizarding world #hogwarts houses #hp #hp fandom #hermione granger #ron weasley #of violent delights #mattheo riddle imagine #mattheo riddle #slytherin boys #mattheo riddle fanfic #harry potter universe #theodore nott #lorenzo berkshire #fred weasley #george weasley #first wizarding war #second wizarding war