[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

something ive missed is whether this hit something important? it'd be a powerful demonstration either way but was it the middle of nowhere or what

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago

because they won WW2 to be exact, that's what the permanent cast on the Security council are; though PRC replaced the ROC

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

The main theme from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

that entire soundtrack, i was a child so it took unreasonably long to complete the game & they're <2 minute loops on each planet/zone. shit is etched in my brain

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago

how do the workers get around that shit my goodness

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago

just looked this up on another thread, Ukraine has been using them in violation of their signing the 1997 ban treaty . I don't know much about mine dispersal but the US-made ones might not be compatible with Ukraine's soviet minelaying tech, which could make them less efficient to disperse and pollute a bit less land. hopefully

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Ukraine already violated the treaty and have been using antipersonnel mines, they must just be close to out of USSR leftover stock. Russia not being a party to the treaty have also been using them the whole time. This isn't a very substantial change besides getting Biden's fingers directly in another crime against humanity, dude just loves killing people holden-bloodfeast

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

Where do you think Ukraine wants to use its missiles

i mean if the idea is to get Kiev flattened then shooting at a nuclear weapon facility would be a good idea. i'm not sure they're quite that suicidal

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

more red is more better, the original flag of the workers movement is an unadorned red flag

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

at this particular time when Russia is clearly winning, meeting the escalation in a fair way could open up the way for more effectual escalation on NATO's part, making it more difficult to achieve Russia's goals. 'Oh drat the wunderwaffen didn't make Putin surrender' is a less compelling battlecry to deploy NATO troops than 'they shot down our oh-so-innocent and uninvolved AWACS unit'.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

the just-Kursk allowance seems like something Russia could safely ignore, it's pretty laughable that Ukraine still seems to think occupying a couple villages will net them something substantial in the negotiations, if these missiles were capable of stymieing Russia's liberating of the Kursk territory in the first place--which judging by ATACMS not slowing the Donbass front where they are already allowed to use them... seems doubtful

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago

herzegovina tyres built different. built to disintegrate

actually tho belograd also being on there its probably something about the valleys and local weather in the balkans rn?

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 66 points 4 days ago

what the fuck is sarajevo cooking they are not a large city

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submitted 1 year ago by Dolores@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

i really hoped it was exaggerated but damn, comrades. this a british movie with british sympathies and unforgivably british casting

these fuckers didn't even try! yankee accents standing in for the french, i could accept, so long as they were different from the motherfucking english. but HALF of the french characters are fucking british?!?!?!

under spoilers for space, there is not anything to be 'spoiled' from this:

spoilercomically miscast historical personages who we've got dozens of portraits of:

Alexander of Russia, unaccountably not bald

Francis of Austria, unaccountably fat

Robespierre played by a man who was made to look exactly like Danton???

and the salt in the wound is of course, The Duellists. a film of infinitely superior historical calibre and consistency from the SAME fucking director.

character assassination of the Comité de Salut Public (typical of a fucking englishman)

caricature of both Thermidor and Brumaire, which you wouldn't think is possible as they were of utterly separate political persuasions, but of course they did that

a calculated removal of the Revolutionary Calendar

no effort whatsoever, in fact intentional mystification around the nature and sympathies of the imperial nobility, trying to play it like it was a return of the Ancien Regime

i did like that Talleyrand was shown to be a devil on the shoulder, but it was not treated with that he was a traitorous sleaze

finally, things i liked:

1792 issue french uniforms appeared in limited edition at Toulon

1798 issue austrian did as well, though apparently only for voltiguers/jaegers at austerlitz?

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas appeared in multiple scenes, but was not named which is super fucking awful

Josephine had a prominent role. and yes, we could do a whole additional post about how anachronistic the women's costumes were, but she generally looked very cute and i'm grasping at straws for things to appreciate here

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submitted 1 year ago by Dolores@hexbear.net to c/art@hexbear.net

this is compelling in a lot of ways.

this is Childeric III, the last puppet merovingian. the mark of merovingian kingship was--quite uncommonly in history--the longest hair. he is being shorn and involuntarily entered into monastery, a treatment common to defeated claimants to the merovingian kingship. he was the last, though, so there's a finality to it

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submitted 2 years ago by Dolores@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

you got fucking kings, Torygg, Helseth, living gods of the Tribunal.... under an "Emperor"? who puts some garrisons around but does.... what exactly?

theres an "East Empire Trading Company"? whats that do?

it kinda seems like a holy roman empire, kinda seems like a regular roman empire. they've got knights, dukes, but a Legion...

yes i know the answer is technically "these jackoffs just made it up as they went" and don't care a lick about political theory but this is exactly the kind of excercise that makes fun speculative historiography

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