Quote from: FunkMonk on September 22, 2023, 03:52:31 PMI wanted that weird kid Greg to win.Quote from: crazy canuck on September 22, 2023, 09:54:40 AMQuote from: Caliga on September 22, 2023, 08:24:17 AMQuote from: FunkMonk on September 21, 2023, 08:46:52 AMYeah I don't really know who maps directly onto the Succession characters, I just kind of wanted Ken to winWhy? He was a fucking whackjob.![]()
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Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on Today at 01:04:53 PMThe time has come for new blood and new talent. Too long have we languished under career-business-as-usual-politics here at Languish. We need a new President elected!I nominate you.
Quote from: viper37 on Today at 03:27:46 PMQuote from: Josephus on Today at 03:08:16 PMJust that, as others have said, honoring him with a standing O at Parliament was extremely poor judgment.We can all agree on that.
Quote from: Josephus on Today at 03:08:16 PMJust that, as others have said, honoring him with a standing O at Parliament was extremely poor judgment.We can all agree on that.
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 02:34:23 PMQuote from: Tamas on Today at 02:23:33 PMQuote from: Josquius on Today at 10:11:33 AMQuote from: Tamas on Today at 09:46:32 AMAs we discussed, I find that a profoundly city-dweller view. For people not huddled up in urban centres, it opened up their wider region to exist in.I'd say that is the city dweller view. Dismissive of how much life could be found in smaller towns before the coming of the car.
I grew up in a village listening to the tales of pre-car village life. There was plenty of life sure, what you did not have plenty of was options.
There's even less post car when you're young, disabled, or poor.
And even for those with a car you have to work far more to get anything.
Quote from: viper37 on Today at 02:33:43 PMYou have to understand the context of this region of Ukraine. They were never part of Russia or the USSR. They were part of Poland. When the USSR invaded Poland, they saw their friends and their family get deported by Staline. Years prior, they heard the stories about the famine in the neighbouring counties of Ukraine, created by the USSR.
The man's blog read like any Ukrainian resistant letters of the time.
He didn't enroll because he hated Jews. He was part of the SS because foreigners weren't allowed to form battalions for the Whermacht. His only other choice was the partisans. Which were cooperating with the SD. Not much better.
You can read his blog here, with Google translate:
https://komb-a-ingwar.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post_4610.html
He did not deserve a standing ovation for sure. But I don't see him as a war criminal simply for joining an army fighting against the USSR on his home soil. It's nothing like the Charlemagne Division, or some of the other SS units.
After seeing his teacher, his friends, some of his family members leaving in trains to the east, I understand how he felt.
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