Another reminder that attacking medical personnel is considered an international WAR CRIME, Spread the video please
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China said Sunday that relations with the United States were "on the brink of a new Cold War", fueled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive downturn
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TIL a poor 19th century Chinese man failed the civil service exam, fell ill, reread a Christian pamphlet he had earlier ignored, & hallucinated that he was Jesus' brother. He led a cult/rebellion that conquered much of southern China, crowning himself as king. This civil war killed over 10 million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiβ¦
U.S. Soldiers In The Vietnam War After Knowing That They Are Going Home
Boris declares war on fat: PM ditches his 'nanny state' worries and demands action plan to tackle Britain's obesity crisis after blaming his severe bout of coronavirus on being overweight
dailymail.co.uk/news/artiβ¦
Human Race Political Compass: 3021 Pre Hivemind war Edition
TIL of 'Project 100,000.' 25% of US Army soldiers in the Vietnam were intentionally-recruited "misfits" who couldn't read and write, had an IQ of below 75, and/or dropped out of high school. Some didn't even know the US was at war. They had 3x the casualty rate of regular soldiers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proβ¦
Reddit is a planet, its subreddits are countries, the size of the country is based on how many subscribers it has. World War 3 has just broken out and the entire world's at war. What event started the entire conflict? How does it all unfold?
TIL professors of universities during the Vietnam War inflated students' grades in order to help them avoid the draft.
straighterline.com/blog/gβ¦
Survivor: Winners at War | Finale | Eastern Time Discussion
Season 40, Episode 14 (Finale): It All Boils Down to This
Aired: May 13, 2020
Synopsis: Winners battle it out, but only one will be crowned Sole Survivor and take home the $2 million prize. Also, after living on the Edge of Extinction for a long time, castaways dig deep for a shot to get back in the game.
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West Coasters, chat about the episode as it airs live on the West Coast! There will be a separate thread at 7:45 PM Pacific Time.
A Total War Saga: TROY will be released on the Epic Games Store on 13 August 2020 - and will be free to keep if claimed within the first 24 hours of release
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In 1979's Alien, the alien only had 4 minutes of total screentime. Vader had 8 min 6 sec in 1977's Star Wars. Jaws only had 4 minutes screen time. Less can be more.
It's pretty nuts to think about how much a character can impact a movie while being almost entirely off screen.
Kill Bill - Bill - 10 minutes
Alien - Alien - 4 minutes
Vader - Star Wars - 8 minutes
Jaws - Jaws - 4 minutes
Aliens - Signs - 90 seconds
Hannibal Lecter* - Silence of Lambs - 16 minutes
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables - 15 minutes
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight - 33 minutes
Viola Davis* - Doubt - 8 minutes
Lochness Monster - South Park - 0 minutes
I couldn't find information for screentime for the monsters in A Quiet Place, Tremors, or the Descent. If anyone knows these, I'd love to know.
Another reminder that attacking medical personnel is considered an international WAR CRIME, Spread the video please
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Taika Waititi to Direct and Co-Write new Star Wars Feature Film for Theatrical Release; Oscar Nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns to Co-Write Screenplay with Waititi | StarWars.com
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Republican Senator Called for βNo Quarterβ Military Response to βLooters.β Lawyers Note Thatβs a War Crime.
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Star Wars themed build with dueling light sabers
Germans in Berlin celebrating public holiday to mark end of Second World War for very first time. Normally 8 May passes without any significant attention, but for 2020 and the 75th anniversary, Berlin decided to declare it new public holiday for not only defeat of Nazism but rebirth of democracy.
independent.co.uk/news/woβ¦
As of Feb 17, 2020 Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker became the first movie in history to be fully released while still being written.
Twitter just declared war on the donald
Star Wars on Game Boy doesn't let Anakin play on Master
Polls are starting to look really bad for Obama. Looks like he'll have to start a war or major conflict to win. Don't put it past him! Β· Oct 17, 2012
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TIL that Archibald Roosevelt,son of President Teddy Roosevelt,was wounded during WW1. He rejoined the army during WW2 and was wounded in the same knee as he had been during WW1,making him only American to ever be classified as 100% disabled twice for the same wound incurred in two different wars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcβ¦
World War III on the political compass
15 Year Old me, Patiently Waiting in Line to see The Empire Strikes Back 1980, Today Me at my Home Theater Preparing to Watch my Favorite Star Wars movie again on it's 40th Anniversary. Happy release Day #ESB
"Unsinkable Sam" is the nickname of a ship's cat who served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships
In Avengers: Endgame (2019), Scott has some orange slices ready for Clint right after Clint has gone through time travel. In Captain America: Civil War (2016), Scott asks the team for orange slices after he has become giANT-Man.
TIL about Hans Huber, a paper mill owner who refused to destroy the member records of the Nazi Party, hiding them instead to hand them over to the US after the war
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John Boyega, Finn's actor in Star Wars sequels, says that racists are bad. /r/equelMemes does not like that.
TIL that in 1932, a group of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC to demand early payment of their service bonuses. President Hoover called in the Army to disperse the protestors. With a force of 500 infantrymen, 500 cavalry, and 6 tanks, the Army succeeded, and two veterans were killed.
britannica.com/event/Bonuβ¦
"No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nig..." Anti-Vietnam War protest in Harlem, USA - New York City, borough of Manhattan, 1967 [1200x806]
Suga Sean looking ready for war before UFC 250
The force will be with him, and all other Star Wars cast
TIL that Belgrade, capital of Serbia, is in such a strategic position that it has been destroyed in wars 44 times, and battled over in 115 different wars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belβ¦
Holland winning the war against water
The voice actor for Obi-wan in The Clone Wars wants a part in the upcoming Kenobi series. R/prequelmemes, I think we all know what we need to do.
ELI5: What determines if a queen bee produces another queen bee or just drone/worker bees? When a queen produces a queen, is there some kind of turf war until one of them leaves?
Vader. An old military Star Wars portrait I made.
Heavy swells have uncovered world war 2 tank traps on beaches near Newcastle, Australia
Culture War Roundup for the Week of June 01, 2020
To maintain consistency with the old subreddit, we are trying to corral all heavily culture war posts into one weekly roundup post. 'Culture war' is vaguely defined, but it basically means controversial issues that fall along set tribal lines. Arguments over culture war issues generate a lot of heat and little light, and few deeply entrenched people change their minds regardless of the quality of opposing arguments.
A number of widely read community readings deal with Culture War, either by voicing opinions directly or by analysing the state of the discussion more broadly. Optimistically, we might agree that being nice really is worth your time, and so is engaging with people you disagree with.
More pessimistically, however, there are a number of dynamics that can lead discussions on Culture War topics to contain more he
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Afro-Americans Protest Against The Vietnam War, 1967
Discussion Thread - The Clone Wars - S7E12 - Victory and Death - Series Finale
Welcome to our Clone Wars Season 7 finale discussion thread!
- Spoilers for the season are acceptable in these threads
- Spoilers for the season are not allowed outside of these threads, without spoiler code, until June 4th
- Previously released unfinished episodes being released in S7 are now spoiler protected as well for all the new folks
- We are posting this early because of the overseas release and earlier release time
Enjoy the episode!
After World War Two, how did various European countries deal with Nazi sympathizers in their population?
As countries tried to rebuild and come back to normal, how did their general population treat or deal with them. Not necessarily collaborators, who you could point at and convict of a war crime, but people known to be friendly with them or openly expressing admiration for their actions?
Was there reconciliation, ostracization, or simply ignore and sweep under the rug?
EDIT: Thank you everyone for your responses. I didn't realize how much discussion this question would generate. As with most things in life, the answers were "it depends", and while I didn't expect the actions in different countries to be similar, neither did I expect them to be so varied.
Suitcases of people sent to concentration camps. Poland, GdaΕsk, World War II Museum. Each suitcase is a family, a life. It looks like a monument to the crime of humanity.
Clone wars appreciation post
Fewer than 3,000 people died on 9/11 and we went to war, spent trillions, and surrendered freedom and privacy forever. Over 40,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 already, and you can't handle staying indoors for a while?
No one's in the streets protesting the still-ongoing wars, the still-ongoing costs of those wars, or the TSA molesting them at airports and the NSA listening to their phone calls. All that for 3,000 dead, and these protestors aren't screaming in the streets and blocking hospital entrances.
Now imagine the Pentagon, two skyscrapers, and four jets were instead ten Pentagons, twenty skyscrapers, and forty jets...and you still will not have come close to the number of people this virus has already killed in the US alone. As of this writing, the CDC has confirmed over 41,000 deaths directly from COVID, and that's not even close to the real toll. It doesn't include all the false negatives from unreliable tests, all the people who couldn't get tests, all the people who died of COVID at home trying to stay out of the ER, and all the people having heart attacks and strokes and perforated ulcers who died at home trying to tough it out because they figured their chances were better with their
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STAY STRONG FELLOW CHRISTIANS πͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺ WE ARE WINNING THE WAR AGAINST BIG G#MING πππππππ
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Everybody hates Olly, not realizing he was actually the last well written character. How war brings only pain and death, and will even brutally kill who should be the most innocent. In retrospective, his relationship with and betrayal to Jon might've been the last thing I was actually invested in.
Border changes of Poland after World War II. (GIF)
GOD OF WAR?!! MORE LIKE GOD OF SJWS!!!!!!!!
Star Wars: Viewing Order - I made this for anyone who wants to share their favourite franchise :)
In Ironman 1(2008) Obadiah struggles to make a arc reactor small enough to fit his armor. In Civil War(2016) we can see a small arc reactor in tony wrist watch showing how far Tony developed his technology
Our heroes in the star wars universe
Yes, I enjoy all 9 Star Wars films. Hard to believe, I know.
In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), much of the movie takes place in locations that are blue or otherwise contain a prominent blue filter. This is a subtle metaphor for how the filmmakers blue it.
Live together as Star Wars fans, not separate, despite what Star Wars series you like and dislike
Visualizations of each episode of the Star Wars movies in one figure
Vietnam War: A 6ft 5in machine gunner with the US 9th Infantry Division is submerged except for his rifle as he crosses a muddy stream in the Mekong delta south of Saigon on 10 September 1968. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP [1920 x 1330]
How the original Star Wars series fooled everyone with matte paintings
First Image of Robert Pattinson in War-Drama 'Waiting for the Barbarians' - Also Starring Johnny Depp & Mark Rylance - A magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire.
In Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (2019), a blast from the Millenium Falcon knocks all of the First Order soldiers to the ground except for Kylo Ren. This is because this movie kinda blows.
TIL that the inhabitants of islands that were temporarily occupied during the Pacific War thought they were being visited by gods, and when the soldiers eventually left, they formed rituals that imitate planes, runways, and marches to try to bring them back. Many still do this to this day.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention (1993) has prohibited the use of tear gas in warfare, but explicitly allows its use in riot control. What is the logic behind it being too bad for war, but perfectly acceptable for use against civilians?
CMV: Nothing short of war will stop China doing whatever they want in Hong Kong
Basically, I donβt believe sanctions would work in the near or medium term. They might work long term (over 20/30 years) but by then Hong Kong will have been fully assimilated.
My reasoning is based mainly on how China perceive Hong Kong. To China, it is 100% theirs. Itβs on the Chinese mainland and it was returned to them after lease from Britain.
Because of that, there is no way to back down without losing an immense amount of face. You cannot be a superpower and allow the world to dictate how a territory of your country is governed.
Therefore, there would have to be a war that is either victorious or has a negotiated outcome that ensures certain freedoms in HK. That war could easily become a major war (and even a world war) as again HK is on the Chinese mainland and a war over HK would be an existential threat to Chinese sovereignty.
But that is what it would take.
TIL that McDonalds founder Ray Kroc and Walt Disney both served as ambulance drivers in the same unit in World War I, and both had lied about their age to enlist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayβ¦
Total War Saga: TROY will be released on the Epic Games Store on 13 August 2020 - and will be free to keep if claimed within the first 24 hours of release
twitter.com/totalwar/statβ¦
The new Indiana Jones will be released 41 years after the original. The original takes place in 1936. Thus, the new one will take place in 1977, meaning Indy could go watch Star Wars within the movie.
Star Wars: Revenge of the pool noodles
The Second American Civil War: Opening Shots
Our freedom is under threat from an American-exported culture war: The US template being imposed on British race relations ignores our own history and culture
telegraph.co.uk/politics/β¦
Star Wars / Moonlight Mashup
All went downhill since the civil war, hasn't it?
In honor of the clone wars ending I made a tribute video for the show. I spent 6+ hours on this and this show was amazing and I'm sad to see it go. I hope you enjoy
v.redd.it/b2nhdj39erw41
Discussion Thread - The Clone Wars - S7E11 - Shattered
Welcome to our Clone Wars Season 7 discussion threads!
- Spoilers for the season are acceptable in these threads, just not future episode spoilers.
- Spoilers for the season are not allowed outside of these threads, without spoiler code, until June 4th
- Previously released unfinished episodes being released in S7 are now spoiler protected as well for all the new folks
Enjoy the episode!
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