[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I would usually expect something like that to be mounted on the outside of a vehicle in a tube or something (like a TOW launcher would be on the side of a Bradley turret in an external box). I wonder if the charges are particularly volatile or susceptible to incidental detonation or something

these are a lot bigger than TOWs, they're very simple compared to actual weapons but 100+ meters of sack filled with explosives is heavy and takes up a lot of space. there's versions that mount it all to a trailer and pull them behind utility vehicles. but having a bespoke armored plow that can fire the clearing lines while getting shot at seems quite useful to attacking prepared defenses

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

"when fascism comes to america it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross" is a distorted antifascist slogan from the 40s, i was riffing on that

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 79 points 2 days ago

under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan

can you feeeeeeeeel the harm being reduced

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 46 points 3 days ago

people literally think hitler is the single end-all-be-all of fascism. bitch didn't even invent it scared-fash did

if fascism comes to the united states it will be cloaked in a flag of course, but more importantly 80% of this idiot country will confidently declare it isn't because it doesn't come from a bavarian beerhall or some shit. the american people are unintellectual

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 32 points 3 days ago

mexico not being a proletarian dictatorship? US infiltration and destabilization efforts? mexico plays different when the spectre of direct US intervention looms over every political project

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

if you want collaboratuers for your occupation government you actually have to demonstrate some capacity to win. the opportunists won't stick their necks out in Beirut if IDF backup can't make it past the fucking border lmao. critical support for US ambassadors trying to get traitorous elements of lebanon to destroy themselves ig

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

prisoner-treatment and taking is for the safety of your own troops, not a judgement of how you feel about the enemy's cause or country. chechen units going haywire and executing everyone they come across will lead to the same happening to russian prisoners

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

its the terminus of the trans siberian railway, it's precisely where any group of people larger than you'd put on a plane would start travel across russia. this detail does not tell us whether the story is true or not

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

that's blatantly criminal, but I assume he's not actually in charge of any troops

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

maybe they export some kind of components that might be used in arms production, not arms themselves? have to look into this

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

is there a standing US threat about this or something? no way israel buys brazilian arms, but if washington has threatened sanctions against any actions like that...

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago

The people native to the mountain regions of the world are well-known for their joyous homosexuality while the despicable people of the flatlands' heterosexuality is as boring and monotonous as their physical landscape

lea-manic YES HAHAHA YES

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submitted 11 months 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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