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  1. You’re correct. It absolutely matters even if the documentation is not directly for the benefit of any of us living through this. We don’t have a lengthy overall history of humans being able to document things on a grand scale, but in the few hundred years we’ve had societies that can read, write and have access to a printing press, the Nazis have had no peer in the documentation of evil. So much has been lost or destroyed, but even with that they left behind so much evidence of their atrocities in writing that people can still write new books about what they did.
  2. I recall as a kid that my uncle had a chow. I was 8 or 9 and that sucker chased me one day and I had to jump over the fence to get away. Still don’t know why he did that since I had very little in the way of interactions with that dog. I came back with my mom the next day and he finished the job from the day before as we were walking in the gate and it took a chunk out of my backside. When we’re at the hospital getting patched up I remember my mom believing me about the dog chasing me the day before for no reason. Have not liked that breed of dog since that incident. Only dog in my entire life that was like that towards me.
  3. Since rules no longer matter just rewrite them once the US comes out on the other side of this one day. The only thing morons understand is being firm and forceful. Being nice once this is over just invites more of this idiocy. Go through every lower court appointment and nuke anyone that has rulings even resembling anything these six are ruling in favor of. Man what a time to be alive to see the US become 1920’s Italy except with far more money and an actual functioning military.
  4. This is not how the highest court in a functioning democracy works. This is how it works in a fascist nation. Folks if you haven’t made plans to get out of Dodge yet you might want to. At least relocate to a different state than Texas.
  5. Incompetent fascists. These guys are making Mussolini look like Alexander the Great.
  6. Stumbled right into the best movie I have seen this year. I think that even @billfromlaketravis will like this. I love Colorado and this movie is set in the San Luis Valley. One of the harsher yet beautiful areas of Colorado. A massive fire wiped out a bunch of homes and people come together to start over. What a masterpiece of a movie. I think this is one that will resonate with almost everyone who posts here. Josh O’Connor, a Brit, does a great job in this role. I’m more familiar with him from his work in the UK, but he really nailed this role.
  7. Costello’s book was really enjoyable to read. Spector’s book was a good read as well for broad knowledge on what transpired. I will read pretty much anything on The Pacific War since it’s the focus of what I study the most. I try to mix in plenty of reading from authors giving the Japanese perspective as well. It’s interesting and worth it to read about why Japan acted the way they did and how a good deal of their foreign policy came about because of the actions of other countries (Mostly the United States and Britain, but not entirely) towards them both well before and after the First World War.
  8. If you are going to lie on behalf of the fascists currently in charge then yes his career deserves to come to an end and he should at a later point get a court-martial whenever the country comes out of this. You either protect and defend the constitution that you swore an oath to or you get ex-communicated from the military completely due to shameful actions like this. We’re about to find out.
  9. Very determined drug runners. The best drug runners. Many people are saying this.
  10. Yes the rule of law on such things should matter. However, rules stopped mattering a good while ago now and playing by the rules of a system that exists in name only does not much matter. It would be nice if he’d get a subpoena though so he can at least say he is doing it by the book even if the book has been torched.
  11. Great book. Pretty cool that he went onto be a college professor. Peleliu is a place I will go to see since it’s easier to get there from Hawai’i than it was when I lived in New York. I worked with someone out here that grew up there and her uncle owns one of the two hotels they have.
  12. I wanna pull up the Idi Amin gif, but I never enjoyed watching Paul play.
  13. The story about his season in Puerto Rico was pretty cool. Didn’t realize he got the whole thing started when Cousins got in a fight with the fans. Gallinari went out winning their title and finals mvp so good on him.
  14. Someone is going to have to be an adult at some point and say "The Secretary of War made the call on shooting the survivors and he was watching. I know this because he gave the illegal order to murder the survivors." Until we get that this is all just garbage like the rest of everything else these buffoons do.
  15. "Franklin is a bad dude." TFG- probably
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