[QUOTE=Tangerine;51606482]Isn't "whom" used incorrectly here? Shouldn't the subject pronoun "who" be used instead of the object pronoun?[/QUOTE]
I think you're right. You can hear it when you read it.
[editline]31st December 2016[/editline]
Source: my title.
[QUOTE=Broguts;51606498]But ISIS is Sunni, and they're fighting mostly Sunnis[/QUOTE]
Only in Syria. In Iraq, the ISIS opposition is mostly Shia militias and an army run by a Shia government.
We need some Aerotrain in here.
[video=youtube;p3CI82xVNig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3CI82xVNig[/video]
[QUOTE=Pie_Tony;51610119]We need some Aerotrain in here.
[video=youtube;p3CI82xVNig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3CI82xVNig[/video][/QUOTE]
I had to search that one up. Woah, there's some history in here.
[img]http://aernav.free.fr/Aerotrain/Faq/02_Plaisir.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.boreally.org/photo/friche/aerotrain/gare-ruan-ligne-test-aerotrain-bertin.jpg?5faf2b[/img]
[img]http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzA2YjAyMjY0YWRjZGM5YzMxZV84MDBweC1Bw6lyb3ZpYWQuSlBHIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCJ4MzkwPiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0[/img]
[img]http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Gometz-le-Ch%C3%A2tel-aerotrain.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4510323144_4ac4893b78.jpg[/img]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Viaduc_de_l%27a%C3%A9rotrain_03798.JPG[/t]
No fucking way. This thing is the grandfather of the fucking SkyTrain.
[quote]Soon after, the Rohr engineers were approached by the UTDC out of Ontario, Canada to design for them a rapid transit system. The engineers spent over two years (being on and off of the project during that time) designing what would become this ICTS train for use in Canada. It too used a linear induction motor. But it did not hover on an air cushion like the Aerotrain. It used steel wheels on steel rails.
Unfortunately, Rohr's manager allowed the UTDC to pick his engineers brains for the ICTS designs without ever getting a contract signed. So once Rohr's final design specs were approved by the UTDC, the UTDC said, "Thanks. We'll call you." When Rohr asked when they should start building the ICTS for them, the UTDC said, "Since we now have all the plans we need, we can build the ICTS ourselves. Goodbye." And having no contract meant getting no payment.
The UTDC's working ICTS prototype first appeared in the December 1980 issue of Popular Science. Rohr Industries, Inc. is never mentioned in the article.
[/quote]
Jesus fuck did Mao seriously have that many people killed in ethnic cleansing?
[QUOTE=pentium;51615775]Jesus fuck did Mao seriously have that many people killed in ethnic cleansing?[/QUOTE]
I'd imagine the chart is taking into account starvation of the people during their reign as well.
The chart isn't specific at all on its perimeters. Are indirect deaths counted? Military casualties during war?
I have a feeling that some of those Hitler deaths probably also fall under Stalin.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51616189]The chart isn't specific at all on its perimeters. Are indirect deaths counted? Military casualties during war?[/QUOTE]
Iunno, If it's indirect, Stalin's number would be up around 50-60 million, but if it was direct, hitler's number would be substantially lower, and only include acts of state violence and not just the war.
[QUOTE=pentium;51615775]Jesus fuck did Mao seriously have that many people killed in ethnic cleansing?[/QUOTE]
Not Ethnic, cultural.
Mao's entire legacy is just awful bloody movement after awful bloody movement. A succession of horrors, any one enough to define a generation, but repeated seemingly endlessly until his death. From the civil wars to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, it was just one after another. And it was nothing but his own people. He sought to destroy everything about old china, and he did so after the war by installing a morale imperative in the Chinese people to kill and destroy anything that remained of old pre communist china, including, indeed specifically, "intellectuals".
God only knows how much historical shit was lost forever, but the brutality of the mob violence from the populace was something else entirely. The state was doing enough wet work on its own, but the civilians were drummed up in such a fervor that they outdid anything the state could've hoped to do. People were strung up and gutted for wearing glasses, on account of vaguely representing an intellectual. Anyone who was even vaguely suspected of being anti communism was executed in endless mob justice style killings. All you had to do to kill someone was shout "ANTI REVOLUTIONARY", and everyone around you would tear them to shreds within minutes. Often literally, having no weapons to hand. And this shit lasted for more than a [I]decade[/I] before any kind of stability was established.
And that's not even getting to the work camps, mass starvation of the early communist rule and the time during the great leap forward where Mao put down policy that demanded that everyone in the country try to make steel, literally in their back yard out of home built furnaces. And it was so awfully thought out, they didn't even give out plans for any sort of converter to convert the smelted iron into steel. Just ghetto little blast furnaces that spat out awful pig iron that was then deemed "steel" by the state.
It was such a madhouse, there's a story i have to share to even begin to get the point across at how crazy this all was.
So there was a son of some high up Russian general type. Typical communist political class twat, who went to university at Lenningrad for your typical communist education, which was just a marxist ideological circle jerk, with everyone trying to one up each other on brown nosing stalin/Marx/etc. So this kid writes a paper called something along the lines of "Proletariat Comradeship Among Plant Species" or some such crap. And it was basically about how similar plant species share class values and will cooperate and flourish due to their proletariat kinship when in close quarters. Now anyone sane would think "well wouldn't similar plant species compete for resources?", and they would be right. But it's communistville so everyone goes hurrah, praises his work for proving the Marxist model, and passes it around the communist world in celebration. And on to china it goes.
So i think just after the civil war, China gets ahold of this paper. And obviously since russia knows what they're doing, being the home of glorious revolution, and having killed anyone who knew better, they use this paper as their template for all agriculture in china.
So they then plant competing species all together in distinct partitions and then all the crops failed and everyone fucking died.
Then there's this crowning moment of human civilisation.
[QUOTE]On August 4, 1968, Mao was presented with some mangoes by the Pakistani foreign minister, Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, in an apparent diplomatic gesture. Mao called the mangoes a "spiritual time bomb" and shortly afterwards, Mao had his aide divide them up and send them to Mao Zedong Propaganda Teams across Beijing, starting with one started at Tsinghua University on August 5. On August 7, an article was published in the [I]People's Daily[/I] saying:
In the afternoon of the fifth, when the great happy news of Chairman Mao giving mangoes to the Capital Worker and Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team reached the Tsinghua University campus, people immediately gathered around the gift given by the Great Leader Chairman Mao. They cried out enthusiastically and sang with wild abandonment. Tears swelled up in their eyes, and they again and again sincerely wished that our most beloved Great Leader lived then thousand years without bounds ... They all made phone calls to their own work units to spread this happy news; and they also organised all kinds of celebratory activities all night long, and arrived at [the national leadership compound] Zhongnanhai despite the rain to report the good news, and to express their loyalty to the Great Leader Chairman Mao.
Subsequent articles were also written by government officials propagandizing the reception of the mangoes, and another poem in the [I]People's Daily[/I] said: "Seeing that golden mango/Was as if seeing the great leader Chairman Mao ... Again and again touching that golden mango/the golden mango was so warm". Few people at this time in China had ever seen a mango before, and a mango was seen as "a fruit of extreme rarity, like Mushrooms of Immortality".
One of the mangoes was sent to the Beijing Textile Factory, whose revolutionary committee organised a rally in the mangoes' honour. Workers read out quotations from Mao and celebrated the gift. Altars were erected to prominently display the fruit; when the mango peel began to rot after a few days, the fruit was peeled and boiled in a pot of water. Workers then filed by and each was given a spoonful of mango water. The revolutionary committee also made a wax replica of the mango, and displayed this as a centrepiece in the factory. There followed several months of "mango fever", as the fruit became a focus of a "boundless loyalty" campaign for Chairman Mao. More replica mangoes were created and the replicas were sent on tour around Beijing and elsewhere in China. Many revolutionary committees visited the mangoes in Beijing from outlying provinces; approximately half a million people greeted the replicas when they arrived in Chengdu. Badges and wall posters featuring the mangoes and Mao were produced in the millions. The fruit was shared among all institutions that had been a part of the propaganda team, and large processions were organised in support of the [I]zhengui lipin[/I] ("precious gift"), as the mangoes were known as. One dentist in a small village compared a mango to a sweet potato; he was put on trial for malicious slander and executed.
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Communism!
when are you a dictator? leopold 2 was a king
He ruled the congo.
[QUOTE=-Dutch-;51617234]when are you a dictator? leopold 2 was a king[/QUOTE]
Dictator is one of those words that has lost all of its original meaning like Tyrant or Despot. It's now just used to describe any ruler who has committed atrocities or any ruler you just don't like and want to discredit.
[QUOTE=Bucketboy;51618605]
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I don't care how cruel or useless that is, that's fucking awesome.
Since we're talking about odd couplings for war, having this:
[img]http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/Jack-Churchill-Training-Exercise.jpg[/img]
On the far right is Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Churchill who fought throughout WWII with a long bow, bagpipes, and as seen in the image, a Scottish broadsword.
Quote "Mad Jack": "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed."
IIRC he has the last confirmed kill with a longbow in any war.
Please read his [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill"]wikipedia page[/URL]. It's probably the most entertaining thing I've read all week.
We doing bizzare wartime figures? This guy's from the Russian Revolution:
[IMG]http://warontherocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Baron_ungern.jpg[/IMG]
Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, also known as "The Mad Baron" is maybe my favourite figure I've studied from the Russian Revolution. Ungern was an officer in the Imperial Russian army from 1906 to its collapse and then he was in the white movement until his death in 1921 To me he perfectly encapsulates the biggest problem the White Movement had, namely, they let people like Ungern in it.
Ungern hated Jews, many Russians hated Jews, but Ungern REALLY hated Jews. The Mad Baron hated Jews so much that he thought they were leading a global conspiracy to undermine the western world, and in fact had succeeded in this goal. Because Ungern thought that since Christianity was based on Judaism it was a Jew-tainted religion, and thus he believed that the only part of the world unmolested by Judaism was Asia. Vajrayana Buddhism interested him greatly, (which was half the reason for his nickname) but I cant find anything that states whether or not he actually practiced Buddhism, only that he held Chinese-Mongol beliefs. Although he was part of the White Movement, his true intentions were to create a pan-asian army and cleanse the world of the Jews and their influence in a giant bloodbath. He also thought that monarchies were the only true government type so he wanted to restore all monarchies.
The more astute and well-read person might point out that Ungern is not wearing a Russian uniform in that picture. He is in fact wearing a Deel, traditional Mongol garb and this is where he starts to really come off the fucking rails here. In 1920 he just fucking left the whites unofficially, and made his cavalry division into a guerilla detachment. Im now just going to quote wikipedia for a little bit because this passage is wild:
[QUOTE]However, even Ungern's loyal followers were not safe and at various times, Ungern publicly beat and flogged his most loyal officers like Colonel Rezuhin aka "the Cutter", Colonel Sipailov [B]the sexual sadist who served as his chief executioner[/B] and the sinister Dr. Klingenberg, his [B]chief medical officer and poisoner[/B]. Many of Ungern's more elaborate and gorier executions involved using the branches of trees to slowly pull apart people. Dr. Klingenberg, a fellow Baltic German who was close to Ungern because he was one of the few officers who spoke German as his first language was a Social Darwinist who believed in the "survival of the fittest" suggested to Ungern that he be allowed to poison those wounded and sick soldiers who were "unfit", an idea that Ungern gave his approval to. Dozens upon dozens of Ungern's sick and wounded soldiers were poisoned by Dr. Klingenberg, who was so enthusiastic about killing his patients that many ill soldiers preferred not to visit the hospital, least they fall victim to Klingenberg.[/QUOTE]
The man surrounded himself with cartoon supervillains.
So Ungern for all intents and purposes is supposed to be fighting the Communists in Siberia. But the daft cunt decided to unilaterally invade Outer Mongolia. He kicked the shit out of the chinese forces there, and installed a Khan, and served as the Military Dictator of the Bogd Khan of Mongolia. Then bolsheviks and Mongolian Communists got a hold of him in 1921 and killed him. Bringing an end to one of the most confusing and insane people I've ever read about, seriously look him up on wikipedia, his article is like a million years long and its all gold.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51620903]Since we're talking about odd couplings for war, having this:
[img]http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/Jack-Churchill-Training-Exercise.jpg[/img]
On the far right is Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Churchill who fought throughout WWII with a long bow, bagpipes, and as seen in the image, a Scottish broadsword.
Quote "Mad Jack": "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed."
IIRC he has the last confirmed kill with a longbow in any war.[/QUOTE]
Imagine how confused the guy he shot was as he lay dying with an arrow sticking in him.
[QUOTE=Broguts;51622789]We doing bizzare wartime figures? This guy's from the Russian Revolution:
Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, also known as "The Mad Baron" is maybe my favourite figure I've studied from the Russian Revolution. Ungern was an officer in the Imperial Russian army from 1906 to its collapse and then he was in the white movement until his death in 1921 To me he perfectly encapsulates the biggest problem the White Movement had, namely, they let people like Ungern in it.
Ungern hated Jews, many Russians hated Jews, but Ungern REALLY hated Jews. The Mad Baron hated Jews so much that he thought they were leading a global conspiracy to undermine the western world, and in fact had succeeded in this goal. Because Ungern thought that since Christianity was based on Judaism it was a Jew-tainted religion, and thus he believed that the only part of the world unmolested by Judaism was Asia. Vajrayana Buddhism interested him greatly, (which was half the reason for his nickname) but I cant find anything that states whether or not he actually practiced Buddhism, only that he held Chinese-Mongol beliefs. Although he was part of the White Movement, his true intentions were to create a pan-asian army and cleanse the world of the Jews and their influence in a giant bloodbath. He also thought that monarchies were the only true government type so he wanted to restore all monarchies.
The more astute and well-read person might point out that Ungern is not wearing a Russian uniform in that picture. He is in fact wearing a Deel, traditional Mongol garb and this is where he starts to really come off the fucking rails here. In 1920 he just fucking left the whites unofficially, and made his cavalry division into a guerilla detachment. Im now just going to quote wikipedia for a little bit because this passage is wild:
The man surrounded himself with cartoon supervillains.
So Ungern for all intents and purposes is supposed to be fighting the Communists in Siberia. But the daft cunt decided to unilaterally invade Outer Mongolia. He kicked the shit out of the chinese forces there, and installed a Khan, and served as the Military Dictator of the Bogd Khan of Mongolia. Then bolsheviks and Mongolian Communists got a hold of him in 1921 and killed him. Bringing an end to one of the most confusing and insane people I've ever read about, seriously look him up on wikipedia, his article is like a million years long and its all gold.[/QUOTE]
Isn't he the guy who thought he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan?
If so there's a mod for HoI2 Darkest Hour called Kaiserreich that gives you the option to play as Mongolia with him in charge and rebuild the Mongolia Empire(if you can avoid being smashed by Russia(which can or not be communist depending on the decisions made by the AI or the player controlling it), China, or Japan)
Here's a AAR of a guy's Mongolian Campaign.
[URL]https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-iron-storm-a-mongolian-kr-aar.738197/[/URL]
And FYI, the mod takes place in a AU where the Central Powers won World War I.
So I made a fractal drawing program about a year and a half ago and I've been messing around with it over Christmas break, this is the coolest thing I've made so far
[img]http://i.imgur.com/YCB7Lno.gif[/img]
I don't know why, but looking at fractals is relaxing
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51625554]I don't know why, but looking at fractals is relaxing[/QUOTE]
You might enjoy this then
[vid]https://giant.gfycat.com/CluelessAridGuineafowl.webm[/vid]
Hell if you PM me I'll even give you a link to the program. If you're lucky it will actually work on your computer. No guarantees about that, I'm good at code and algorithms but everything about .net dependencies and other stuff like that confounds me and I haven't been able to fix my program so it works on every computer. I gave it to one guy and had him get the latest version of .net as well as visual studio 2015 redistributables, and it still wouldn't work on his computer, didn't even get an error message.
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0703-507%2C_Berlin%2C_Reichstagssitzung%2C_Rede_Adolf_Hitler.jpg[/T]
I'll never not be mad that the nazis ruined this kind of aesthetic design and imagery forever.
Like let's forget the historical context and mean old mister hitler there, i think we can all agree that on it's own, in a vacuum, this looks fucking amazing. Not even Apple has that kind of aesthetic power.
But no, it's' done now. Hitler broke it and now nobody can have it. It's dead forever.
[QUOTE=Broguts;51622789]What the heck did I just read?[/QUOTE]
Oh man, thanks for sharing this. Gave me a good laugh while also certainly being interesting at the same time.
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Swedens defense was strongest in the mid 60s where we had 77 units ( Red dots) and in 2016 we only have 18 units.
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A comparision between the 80s and 2016. I guess the picture don't need translation.
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Mobilisation amount between Russia and Sweden, i know you can't really compare to Russia but still. Note, they did not count Sweden's Homeguard of 22 thousand manpower because according to IISS it's a paramilitary.
0 Brigades in 2016, whew.
So what you're saying is that we should invade you again then :v:
What's in Sweden that Russia would want, though? Is there a legitimate reason to increase the military to its level in the 60s?
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