Dolores [love/loves] @ Dolores @hexbear.net

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the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a founding member of NATO

europe is a silly place

Cleveage Land

i can't believe you deleted this, this comment was Gold

something kind of perverse about how the russian army still sings soviet songs and wears soviet dress uniforms while now serving the vulgar nationalists who cannibalized the union

hello 😘

she parlez on my vous till i anglais

new classic hyun jin kim trope: everytime a leader dies in battle, their side lost. this is used to certify Chalons was a hunnic victory (no sources assert this), and now a ostrogothic defeat at the hands of the huns in pannonia several years later. again, the sources explicitly say the opposite, but the goth king (who we spent the last 5 pages assuring ourselves was really a hun) died, so clearly the opposite interpretation of the source must be true

it's kind of mad to me to so boldly assert shit like this entirely from information in a source you are actively revising. "clearly Jordanes was wrong. from what he's asserting, here's what really happened (the opposite)" if the dude was so unreliable as to 180 the truth, how can we possibly reconstruct a factual telling from him? it's one thing if there's conflicting/confused accounts---at Chalons there are discrepancies in the sources---but even then, Kim has to rules-lawyer and lean heavily on implication for the case of the allies losing to Attila. they didn't drive attila from the field. a gothic leader died (we just dismiss the accounts of his son immediately picking up the command, the goths obviously broke up & abandoned the fight, because they're barbarians). the allies don't pursue Attila after the battle, so they must have been the losers. Attila is not subject to the same scrutiny for why he didn't press his advantage after winning the battle. him taking his toys and going home is 'normal steppe empire practice', they go home when they chose and the settled peoples declare victory. Attila's instinct for the annihilation of his enemies shown at the river Utus just mysteriously vanishes in this episode

like all the characters look like toddlers, and this is the content?

oh hey first

it was one thing to post old-timey tornados, new-timey tornados are scary!

at what proportion of speaking to onesself in song is it advisable to seek psychiatric help? asking for a friend. ship has sailed on the regular soliloquy but the buck should probably stop before i become a villain in a disney musical

yknow i'm not a huge fan of it on most dishes but it might actuully shine on popcorn

i have a new height of popcorn achievement: the cumin oregano

hog on hog violence, you love to see it!

it's a 'tower'

i believe the term you're looking for is "vertically oriented dungeon"

you probably know this but for the sake of clarity, the atomic bombs were dropped on August 6th, and a few days later on the 9th. Soviets invaded on the 7th. their plans for Hokkaido were for the 24th, and cancelled by the surrender.

post war assessments make clear that soviets' comprehensive destruction of the Kwantung army was perceived by parts of the japanese and us governments as sufficient on its own to force the surrender, but your comment sort of reads like the americans dropped the bombs after the soviet's success to force the japanese to surrender to them instead, which is chronologically unsound.

anyone who can spell that has to pass the second test to become truly Communist : spelling Buorocrazy

TV’s were already a popular concept before WW2 in the US

"In 1945, there were probably fewer than 10,000 sets in the country. This figure soared to about 6 million in 1950, and to almost 60 million by 1960" -"Television." The World Book Encyclopedia. even that 6 million is hardly a "staple" in a country of 151 million. you gotta remember that for how enormous the amount of film there is pre-war, it was all for movie theaters, not home broadcast