And here's the Dutch prime minister for comparison:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211377/b11d8129-4588-4831-b513-7c1e1811ce0f/image.png
There's a weird sort of tragedy to it too.
It's simultaneously hilarious to watch them literally go up in smoke and bits of gore, but kind of tragic to know that they were consumed by an ideological cult, and wasted their life, literally and metaphorically in the name of a barbaric set of ideas that can uncontroversially be described as absolute evil. And even within that, watching them flop over and go kablooie, that they must know in that moment that they know that they've failed and it's all come to nothing.
In a better world, they might've been healthy, happy and productive people. But instead they uselessly blow themselves up in a god forsaken dirt field in the middle of nowhere in the name of a great and terrible cult of regressive barbarism. What a fucking waste.
It's just sad all around, and their actions in turn cause others to be possessed with a similar suicidal drive, albeit for a better cause. Like this:
https://youtu.be/3xHSfcziIuo?t=166
You're watching this guy pull up these explosives with virtually no equipment, and you see how utterly committed he is to putting an end to the fanaticism you refer to. At first, I couldn't help but just grin in amazement, like "this guy is an absolute badass." Which, don't get me wrong he is, but then you start to think about it all and it really hits you; this man, just like the suicide bombers you refer to has nothing left to live for. His wife, family, all of these things he holds dear has been stripped from him, and now he is only sustained hatred, by a desire to keep it from happening to someone else.
Apparently he died as well.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3ymzL3W0AUWDZE.jpg:large
The first photograph of a black hole, at the center of galaxy M87
M87* is about 3.5 billion solar masses, or about 1% the mass of the entire Milky Way galaxy.
The event horizon extends farther than the size of the solar system.
Its accretion disk, which is the visible ring in the image, is in orbit at near the speed of light.
The fact that it was able to be imaged at all at over 53 million lightyears away should be a good indicator of just how much of a beast this thing is. It is the biggest rip in space-time that we know of, and is remarkably close in terms of the observable universe.
What's a PMU? (in relation to the IS video)
Various Iraqi militias under one state sponsored group.
I'd say that a desire to keep that happening to someone else is more than simple hatred.
XKCD made an illustration:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/m87_black_hole_size_comparison.png
Looks overblown but people forget we have quite a history with modern assassination attempts on our Presidents.
Kennedy (RIP)
Richard Nixon (2 attempts)
Gerald Ford (2 attempts)
Jimmy Carter (2 attempts)
Ronald Reagan (1 attempt)
George HW Bush (1 attempt)
Bill Clinton (5 attempts, one on both him and Hillary)
George W Bush (2 attempts)
Barack Obama (4 attempts)
Donald Trump (3 attempts)
And those are just the ones the public knows about. Secret Service probably foils dozens each year.
I made a thread on knockout if anyone is interested:
Knockout!
https://youtu.be/KlsNNfzsJDI
Get in loser, it`s the future.
story of a SR-71 crew putting all the planes on the coms in their place, thought it was a funny little story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI
Looks like if Ellen Degeneres joined the military instead of going into show business
What's with the pouty face
Possibly to do with the bad health/dental care of the period and the number of diseases he suffered from.
Apparently he contracted Diptheria at 15, Malaria at 17, Smallpox at 19, as well as
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
Tonsillitis
Carbuncle
Pneumonia
And finally Epiglottitis, for which his doctors drained over half of his blood, resulting in low blood pressure, shock and death.
Would it be alright to post Notre Dame pictures? Some of those shots are absolutely amazing artistically speaking.
It's an unreal scene. Go ahead.
Keep in mind that this man was pretty well off in his youth and became one of the richest men in the nation by the time he died
Imagine living back then when the best treatment you could get for a disease was a handful of leeches or a hole drilled into your skull, and then imagine not having money for any kind of treatment
See now i want a heel of scotch. Thanks for that.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/228931/ae96a5f2-59b4-41fc-94b1-39779962e68b/8426406533_dab70dd65e_o.jpg
Rollin' Coal circa 1946
Frost melting with the rising sun.
https://i.imgur.com/s4xw7Cs.jpg
This photo was taken in Liverpool sometime in March on the first sunny day of Spring, the clock tower in the background belonging to the Liver building, according to legend (And wikipedia) if the two bird statues on top flew away the city would cease to exist. I don't really have much information about it other than it's of Dale Street and I walk down the street every day on my way to work! Really like how it feels like a vintage postcard.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/207865/e6f6ebbd-260e-4899-8883-b785336fcfe7/DaleStreet.png
Original image from this guy
https://www.instagram.com/jayhynd/
But his account is private
Looks like a stylized videogame.
it looks like a really good painting to me
Long post incoming, but here's something I thought might be interesting.
In this post, i'll be discussing a change in rhetoric and style in the USSR: The Great Retreat from Communism. Essentially, the USSR in the 20s and 30s officially pushed forward Internationalist and revolutionary rhetoric. Stuff like free love, an end to borders, racial and social equality, abolishing of religion, all that. The USSR also emphasized the collective hugely: This was the USSR's most totalitarian stage. In the midst of the Five Year Plan, Stalin's regime considered decreasing wages, destroying the concept of the individual and completely transforming the agrarian society of the USSR's mindset into that of a new, radical and revolutionary progressive one. For example, some posters:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225353/ff1d7d08-5c53-4690-ae1b-6acc805ac3f7/leninit.jpg
Raise even higher the banner of Leninism and of International Proletarian Revolution!
(1932)
This poster is striking. The giant, imposing figure of Lenin is the only individual really in the poster. Every worker in the top is uniform, marching in a large, unified line. In the bottom, the workers' movements and the red flags show the socialist movement. The revolution is depicted as worldwide, imminent and stifled only by reactionaries and fascists. You can also see a balance of young, old, female male, black white in the top showing completely revolutionary and progressive ideals.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225353/03299a95-3a4f-4986-9368-cecfcd8f1b8e/internationale.PNG
If we do not create internationalists, we will not come to socialism.
(1930)
This poster shows a balance of white, black, female, Asian and all sorts of ethnic groups. Along with the text on the bottom declaring feuding between nations as one of the pillars of counter revolutionary actions, this poster basically emphasizes the decidedly international element of the worldwide revolution.
https://i.imgur.com/CZA0P.jpg
This poster was provided with English translations by an American Communist back in the 30s. Essentially, the poster seeks to educate the peasantry and the reader on how religion is all just robbery and a capitalist front. The Red Army soldier also herds people into a Communist Party building. The Soviet regime in the early 1930s was rabidly atheist, blowing up churches, persecuting the clergy and seeking to channel peasant superstition into dogmatic love of Communism and the Soviet regime.
A CHANGE IN RHETORIC
At the 1934 17th Congress of the Bolshevik Party, Stalin and the delegates, during the second year plan wanted to raise efficiency of the workers. The problem with all this rhetoric and policy was that due to the naturally conservative and superstitious nature of the Russian peasantry, combined with dissatisfaction with collectivization and massive social and economic damage due to these radical policies, Stalin moved in a different direction. Russian nationalism and the individual was again emphasized.
Effects came in the form of wage hikes, the Stakhanovite movement arising to motivate workers financially and politically and the deification of Stalin himself.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225353/0645d11c-dd99-423b-920c-2eb38d1d34cb/napoleon.png
This poster, made during WW2 hearkens back to Napoleon's invasion, tapping into traditional Russian nationalism to motivate soldiers to beat the Nazis.
Napoleon suffered defeat, and so will you, you blustering Hitler!
https://i.redd.it/f42lilzqyee11.jpg
Making use of Ancient Greek iconography and symbolism, this poster made in 1938.
Health of the masses is the key to a comfortable and good life!
The new Russian nationalism did help the citizens of the USSR a bit. It ended the complete totalitarian restructuring and remoulding of society attempted by the VKP (B) before the war and ushered in a very limited thaw that increased living standards somewhat and managed to conform to traditional peasant values much more. It also culminated in limited religious freedoms and the ebbing away of the Party's most radical echelons, complete in the brutal purges of 1938.
Sources;
Communism, by Richard Pipes (2003)
The Great Retreat: The Growth and Decline of Communism in Russia by Nicholas Timasheff (1946)
Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (2005)
Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy by Dmitri Volkogonov (1991)
Above the streetlights it is a timeless shot, even the 70's building fits into it.
Yeah they were extremely progressive. No matter your race or sex, all get the gulag equally.
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