Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

  • TikTok's "You may like" is pretty much an assortment of old Google and YouTube search results, back when those were really obvious and unprompted.

    My recent searches:

    • Dusty Rhodes American Dream

    • 3rd Amendment (for those videos where people close the door on a loved one in the military).

    • Southern Accent Standup

    • Animation Tutorial

    • Run Ice (for those videos of "Running like this when I see ICE when I'm a citizen")

    • Winkbed (I got one and wanted to see reviews, so far so good)

    • Dusty Rhodes (I wanted a video of him dancing and strutting)

    • My nephew's channel

    • Puyallup Tribe (wanted to see if there were any powwow videos)

    • Samurai Jack

    My "You may like" suggestions:

    • NASA Confirms Comet ATLAS Changed Course

    • secret flasher

    • bush in low rise jeans

    • Scandinavian Girls

    • full body paint no patch

    • giants kicker hits ground

    • millie bobby brown buns

    • The Bearded Yeti

    • signs you're a targeted individual.

    Refreshing this gets:

    • puffies oops

    • arch mirror pics for him

    • jewish girls like black guys

    • how girls tap out

    • signs you're handsome to girls

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  • It's annoying how I'm so into tabletop wargames mechanically but I just cannot do any of the tasks involved with miniatures. I've tried a couple times over the years but alas I have exceedingly stupid hands, and even with like basic painting I end up not enjoying it or getting a good result.

    Related, I sometimes get to a frustrating point where I feel sure there must be local options for things I'm interested in, but I can't find them. A lot of that comes down to not knowing anyone, I suppose. Which naturally is not any fun either

    If I can get accepted to the grad school I'm most pinning my hopes on, I'll be moving to a significantly larger city where one of my closest friends lives. I don't really have a plan for what to do if I don't, or frankly much of a plan for what to do if I do. I'm probably a pretty mediocre applicant, but that's mostly for reasons that it's too late to fix, so a lot of my life right now is stressing out and staring at my letter of intent hoping for some hitherto unknown stroke of objective brilliance to guarantee my spot.

    Also, anyone have any recommendations for any kind of game based on the Thirty Years' War? I feel like it's an interesting and pretty distinctive period in warfare but I've never really found much outside of like, the middle years of a Europa Universalis campaign.

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    There are two games published by Slitherine about the Thirty years War or that period. One is called Thirty Years' War and it's a typical AGEOD game. If you are not familiar with their games, they are very complex game with interesting concept but horrible execution. I've actually played this one but it was quite prone to crashing.

    The other one is Pike and Shot: Campaign. I've not played it so I don't know how it is, but it has much better reviews the the first game.

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    I think there's a Pike & Shotte game by Slitherine games that's about the 30YW. I also remember having fun playing the 1648 mod for Medieval 2 Total War back in the day.

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    I'm the opposite. I like mini painting and I'm great at it, but to no end. I don't particularly like the games and they're too expensive to build a whole army anyway.

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    I am honestly morbidly curious: What was your thought process? Was there a thought process at all? Did you wake up and think "damn I should post bi Tumblr Netanyahu" on badhistory? Was this a devine intervention? A spark of genius? Maybe you have multiple personalities? This week you posted a picture of my head (as a G*rman) on a sword and that' was not even close ti this. 

    I will hate any answer, but I must have one. 

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    Also that wasn’t your decapitated head. I made that drawing several years ago, and it was actually a remake of a separate drawing that I originally did on a notebook in 2018.

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    I was hanging out with my friend today and she brought up the Hamilton musical, and soon after the conversation turned to the “Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson art” and how weird those headcanons were in general. I went on the Knowyourmeme page to show her the George W Bush one, and while scrolling I found that Net & Yahoo variant.

    At that point I immediately thought “man the people on badhistory are gonna fucking lovehate this” so I posted it.

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    The recent self portrait as a bloody corpse...was a sign of something.

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    It was fucking cool was what it was. The reception to that drawing irl was positive overall.

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    The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

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    You belong with Netanyahu at The Hague for this

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  • Apparently the American negotiator at the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Nicolas Trist, did so despite having been official recalled by Polk because he was afraid another negotiator would try to take even more of Mexico's territory. Because of that he was dismissed from office and spent the rest of his life as a clerk for a railroad. He remained haunted by guilt at having participated in such a blatant land grab and war of aggression.

    He was also involved in the illegal slave trade when he served in Cuba. He also supported Lincoln. Land of contrasts.

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  • Something just occurred to me, the Carthaginians used the phalanx, but Hannibal's campaign against Rome is never framed as the phalanx vs legion. Is it because his army was too diverse to be considered a phalanx army?

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    most of their allies would fight as tulophoroi

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    I reckon that's the case of the ancients calling any semi-disciplined mob with shields "a phalanx".

    In wargaming you sometimes see the Carthaginian Sacred band have optional rules for sarissas, but that's something the designers leave as a legacy option for people who still have the outdated miniatures.

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    I reckon that's the case of the ancients calling any semi-disciplined mob with shields "a phalanx".

    See also "shieldwall".

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    Bret Deveraux said the carthaginians didn't use the phalanx (and said he'd get back to the carthaginian army at some point) and apparently it's just a misunderstanding. I don't know either way myself.

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  • medieval 3 starting date should be moved imo, 1066 is already overused, any year under 1000 are too early, i think the start of the hundred years war in 1337 could work, the mongols are still a threat, the reconquista was still ongoing, the ottomans were still a new but growing state. maybe future dlc expansion will be set during the timurid conquest, war of the roses, and the first crusade

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    Fuck it, go full Atilla and have things start at the beginning of the Viking Age.

    What you thought starting as big ol' Frankia would be easy? Guess again fucko, have fun levying troops and chasing limitless sea kings whilst your nobles get pissed off at you for being too slow. Eat shit as Salic succession divides your kingdom into pieces and fiefdoms like Aquitaine becomes a de facto princedoms. Oh, got a handle on those Vikings? Fuck you, here's some Magyars to kick down your piddling peace.

    Total War Viking Age: Prepare to get pillaged.

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    I fucking loved me TW Atilla.

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    Medieval warfare game focused on knights, lords, and feudalism

    Early modern colonization simulator focused on exploration, trade, centralization, and globalism

    Both start in 1337

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    Such a ridiculous choice for EU5, I can’t get over it

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    What's even funnier is that there's more content (and more interesting content) in the early modern part of EU5 than the Medieval part, which means for most countries, 1337-1450 is a slog you are obligated to get through in order to reach the actual fun stuff

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    They've said they wanted to focus on the "high and late" middle ages. So I think 1066 or thereabout seems likely.

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    Maybe 1096 to start with the First Crusade?

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  • So, you know the whole discussion about a 40k Total War? Yeah, I don't think it would work, but, who says that a 40k Total War has to work like other Total Wars? Creative Assembly has developed other games than just Total Wars, if they keep the strategic/tactical seperation but move towards squad or even individual unit combat; think Star Wars: Empire at War but 40k and turn based on the campaign map, then I'd say a 40k Total War could actually work.

    Credit to Loremaster of Sotek for pointing out that just because no Total War has done that doesn't mean it's impossible for a Total War to do. It wouldn't be a normal Total War, but, well, does that actually matter? LMoS has convinced me, I was hard against it at first, because I was thinking like formation combat Total War, but maybe frontline combat Total War could actually work pretty well. Who knows!

    I still don't think WW1 would work, trench warfare is just ill suited for tactical battles, but Warhamster has always been about set piece battles, even 40k.

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    We have 40k Total War.

    It's called Dawn of War: Winter Assault. 

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    What if they did 40k Total War... but ported over the rules from regular 40k? It isn't like someone hasn't already done the work of figuring out how to make 40k a fun game

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    I'd expect the game to essentially be that, but the unit sizes are much bigger.

    figuring out how to make 40k a fun game

    Many would argue they haven't :^)

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    I guess if Creative Assembly does that, is that game still Total War? Is Total War just a game with a strategy layer and a tactical battle layer? I definitely don't doubt that it could be good and the business relationship between CA and James Workshop makes it make sense.

    I think it's the same logic that fans of Starcraft use to dismiss any real time strategy game that doesn't work like Blizzard rts as NOT RTS. Which is a mindset that I really dislike.

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    I’m against it purely because I want to see the 40k fans in the sub seethe.

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    If they can execute warhammer, they can execute warhammer 40k as far as i'm concerned.

    They could rip off Dawn of War for battle mechanics and I wouldn't even care.

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    I don't even think it would be a particularly strange Total War. Not after fantasy already figured a lot of this stuff out.

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  • Youtube has decided that I shouldn't be allowed to watch age restricted videos, must be what I'm watching, the kids are all about Tom Waits these days right? Whatever, they have age verification tied to your gmail account, mine's about 15 years old now, should be fine. As it turns out, it still thinks I'm under 18. Apparently I made this account at 2 years old, and have managed to fly under the radar until now.

    I can't prove this is the doing of the general AI craze, but it certainly makes me feel like someone who isn't me should burn down a Google data center in minecraft.

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  • I hadn’t taken the time to listen to Glenn Gould’s Well-Tempered Clavier on my good stereo, but by God can you hear the humming, and by God do I love it.

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  • Kegbreath Hesgeth and the administration seem to be trying to distance themselves from the whole "bombing boats without first confirming them as a target and then bombing again to finish off the survivors" thing and may try to throw an admiral under the bus for it. But at the same time they still insist it was the right call.

    "It was the right thing to do, but if it wasn't, we didn't do it"

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  • Trump wants Kei cars the be made and sold in US.

    Did a New Urbanist start whispering to him in his sleep?

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    Not wildly oversized and wasteful enough for the average American consumer. 

    If they can make a Kei that is tiny but can also roll coal, however…

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    Hasn't Japan been making some sort of legal changes that make kei cars much larger than they used to be? It feels like we're 20-30 years too late for that.

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    I honestly don't know where that idea came from, and I genuinely think there's no way an automaker will make an "American kei car". They'd sell almost none of them.

    Instead, they might as well selectively loosen the 25 year import laws (I figure there's no way they'd actually abolish it). Make it so that you can import and register cars not sold in America at your own risk.

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    I don’t think kei cars make economic sense in Japan without kei car regulations. Even if the US implemented similar regulations I doubt they’d be able to outdo the Smartfortwo or the Nissan Leaf, and those are low bars.

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  • dark academia is when you can’t see because the school doesn’t want to pay to fix the lights in the library despite the 50,000 dollar tuition fee

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  • What were the best historical discoveries or historiographical progress of the first half of the 2020s? Finding the Endurance definitely ranks up there

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    Archaeology Magazine does a fun little Top Ten feature every year, you can go through that to get some good ideas. All the stuff coming from the new Pompeii excavations is really cool, that is like a reliable annual feast.

    While it is hard to speak to the last five years, improvements in ancient DNA analysis and dental analysis has made huge advancements in discussing ancient population and individual movement.

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  • One of the things that grinds my gears the most is when I look around on other subreddits about issues of urban planning such as street design, treating homelessness, etc... and see a bunch of comments that ultimately boil down to "why doesn't the US do what X European country does?" this will then be endlessly upvoted and praised as a common sense approach that the US is too backwards to ever consider. Upon further research it becomes clear that the US is doing just exactly that, but it turns out that different countries have different issues and what works in one place might not bear the same fruit elsewhere.

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    I wonder if he uses the same spray tan as Trump?

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    The only fog I see is Hegseths drink-induced brain fog

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  • We are at the end of the year now, it sure was a year to say the least. Also what you think of this decade right now?

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    Dumpster fire. Makes the 00s and 10s seem calm and peaceful.

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    The best thing I can say about this decade is that future history students might have fun reading about it, just like how the Civil War and the Great Depression are fun to read about. 

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    Eh. This feels less like the Civil War or Great Depression and more like 80s stuff like Stagflation and the Iran-Contra crisis. At least for American history, there isn’t much which stands out as a clear knee point in the country’s trajectory, just a lot of stupid bullshit that I think future history students will read and think “THIS is what Americans were worried about”?

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    Also what do you think of this decade right now?

    Started with a global pandemic, then two globally covered wars one of which is still ongoing, then Trump gets into power again in US while Modi is now the second longest serving prime minister of India and BJP is set to complete a decade and a half of being in power in India by the end of this decade (if Modi competes for and gets reelected in 2029, he might go to be the longest serving prime minister of India) . This decade sure feels like the decade of the right wing right now. Wonder if any 20th century decade can be compared to this.

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    Yeah, i don't think this decade isn't going to be remember fondly at all.

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    I mean, the 1920s had the rise of fascism with Italy, the start of the Chinese Civil War, the end of the Russian Civil War, the tail end of the Spanish flu, multiple horrific famines, and so on, but people remember it for the culture and art. In the short term, it wouldn't probably be liked, but in the long term?

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    people remember it for the culture and art.

    And what culture and art will people remember from this decade?

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    Yeah, I do think that is likely too.

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  • The French use “mongol” to mean “idiot”. What is the origin of that and is it as racist as it seems?

    It is in fact more racist.

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    Doesn't it come from Down syndrome?

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    insert a handshake meme for French and German and over the hands it says "being incredibly racist and ableist"

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    Lol you saw that r|askhistorian post too?

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    Racist and ableist and just generally unpleasant.

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    Meh, the middle ages are so overdone.

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    Never really cared for the Medieval series, but God will I take it over Warhammer or the bronze age. If it's using the same engine as Shogun 2, might actually get some smooth guns vs knights battles.

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    Apparently it's going to be on the new engine.

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    Hype as fuck.

    I’ve probably played more Medieval 2 than any other entry in the game, way back when I was tiny baby ChewiestBroom Jr., so I eagerly await the next one in like 12 years, assuming we aren’t all just dead by the time it comes out.

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    "Early pre-production" is basically corpo-speak for "concepts of a plan." I can't wait to play whatever AI-ridden tripe they put out in 2035.

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    Medieval 2 helped me get interested in medieval and Byzantine history. So I'm pretty excited to play as them again and I really hope they have unique settlements for cities like Constantinople 

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    Wow. I can't believe it. It's already here.

    It's no 40k TW, but I'll take it.

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    TW with 40k won't work. Eugen's WarNo would work though. God it is a shame they don't have good mod support. Imagine Wargame: RD or WarNo with Arma level of modding.

    Also heavily-modden ARMA videos call to me like sirens.

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    TW with 40k won't work

    It definitely would. And it would make bank.

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    WarNo

    mfw when N3 issues the « WarNing order »

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    We've had this conversation a few times now. I still think it would.

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    40k would be a poor fit for TW and the only reasons to do it would be greed and creativity bankruptcy.

    But this is CA we're talking about, so I put the odds of it happening at about 80%.

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    You avoided a fate worse than death this time. 

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    Medieval 3 is a way out still, they're in pre-production.

    Nagash is summer next year though!

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    That's fine. The last one just came out in 2006, after all.

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  • Just saw a post on history memes talking about the crusades, and the comments were arguing about whether the crusades were decolonisation efforts or not, and I was cringing on the inside

    I lowkey hate going through that sub, but honestly, its like an addiction that draws me back every time

    https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/1pd7ipn/truth_nuke/

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    One colonial power conquering the colonies of another doesn't sound decolonial to me.

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    When you think about it all wars were decolonization because the side that lost wasn't there originally

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  • Recently travelled back to India for a funeral; My great-grandmother passed away at 100. I'd only met her a few times in my life and language barrier kept us from talking in great-depth(to my eternal shame and regret) about any events, but I still haven't been able to grasp just how long she lived. She would have been about my age when india was proclaimed independent, in her 40s when Singapore was proclaimed independent, 77 when 9/11 fell and lived through this whole weight of history.

    All of these events that I think remote and distant, those periods whol's first glimpse in my imagination are black and white photographs, all of that within a single human life.

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    My GGG grandma was already an old lady with an 18 year old grandson when the first World War started, and still had 8 years in her when the second one ended. Also had 120 grandkids according to her obituary in the local Catholic newspaper.

    Anyways, please accept my condolences.

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    Yeah, I feel you. My grandma died three years ago at the age of 98. For her things like the holodomor, Berlin '45, the gulags etc. weren't history but real events that she somehow survived. At some point she clearly ran out of fucks to give and lived on through sheer stubbornness. And let me tell you, she never said even once in her life that things used to be better back in the day.

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    I never had the chance to properly talk to my grandmas (both in the 90s) because both had Alzheimer's when I was born. I lowkey wonder what our convos would have been like

    Because of them, I assumed for a very long time that what we call Alzheimer's was a natural state of life that accompanies aging, and was surprised to learn that alzheimers was a disease that 55-60% of 90-year-olds weren't affected by

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  • So I'm tinkering with a Stone Age fantasy project I've been working on off and on for a while now. There's one character who's chosen to be part of the main "quest" because she's very talented at "reading" the stars for both spiritual and practical (e.g. navigational) purposes.

    Thing is, we would call this "reading" the stars, but how would a nonliterate hunter-gatherer culture phrase this skill? I've taken to calling her a "Star-Finder" for lack of better options, but it doesn't seem quite right. "Star-Seer" is another option but "seer" has an entirety separate meaning so that's not accurate either.

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    Pathfinder? Since the stars would show the way both physically and spiritually.

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    Interpreter.

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    I see that but it just seems...modern? Idk I'm not sure it fits with the setting

    EDIT: Star-Speaker might work though

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    Star-tracker? Some sort of hunting metaphor?

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    Like Picard?

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    I didn't really get into TNG.

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    Well, first of all you should think of it as Star Trek:TNG.

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    Oh, I meant Degrassi: The Next Generation.

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    There's also a Picard? In that case my joke was a bit less universal than initially hoped.

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  • Yasser abu Shabab killed in internal fighting

    https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/artc-yasser-abu-shabaab-killed-in-internal-clans-conflict-in-gaza-report

    causes of the fight are not clear between Palestinians and Israeli sources

    No reaction yet from other militia leaders or his deputy (pro-Hamas sources say he was killed too but he commented on a Facebook post 1h ago). He led the biggest militia in Gaza so that death would destabilize the strip and set back Israel's relocation project unless someone manage to replace him. Something that would interest me is the reaction from his wife since he put her in charge of the humanitarian/education stuff in his area.

    btw I learned of that from a parody account of his wife's

    “I can’t believe my husband is gone 😭😭😭😭😭😭💔.”

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    It's almost like collaborationist gangsters are not a viable government.

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  • With the re-makes of Resident Evil being popular, I am suprise Ubisoft hasn't attempted remakes of original AC and the Ezio trilogy.

    EDIT: Actually a remake AC3 could be cool

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    Does AC 3 need a remake? The game both looks and plays fine by modern standards imo.

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  • NGL but I think King Arthur should have avoided that entire thing and stuck with the cute squirrel from the Disney Film.

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    If we are talking about the squirrel from the sword in the stone, wasnt Arthur still a kid transformed into an adult squirrel by Merlin for whatever reason for that bit while that other squirrel was a grown adult?

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    Maybe that version of Arthur did.

    Though she was probably still named Guinevere.

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    There was Disney in Anglo-Saxon England? 

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    Obviously there was Disney in mythical greece after all.

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  • This is a down bad post.

    I don't get the obsession with Sydney Sweeney. Like, to me she appeared almost no where in my media bubble. I have not seen her in any movie. 

    So why be down bad for Sydney Sweeney when there's Margaret Qualley? A person with an actual acting career and range? 

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    Is it something I said?

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    No just reminding you 

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    So with the disclaimer that I don't really follow pop culture and so am mainly hearing this second-hand, it's because she's coded conservative. I don't know what her actual political positions are, but she/her management seem fine with people thinking she's conservative (maybe this is conservative-baiting?). The first I heard of this was when she was on SNL in revealing outfits and online conservatives were celebrating their "victory" against "woke," and her management was silent on it (unlike other popstars who might issue a "stop being weird about me" statement).

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    Everybody is too obsessed with politics to objectify properly these days. The people who like SS like her because they think she has the same politics as them, that the way she looks means their aesthetic is on the rise. Nobody is actually being a real horndog anymore.

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    Nobody is actually being a real horndog anymore.

    Eh, there are definitely people who like Sydney Sweeney purely for her looks and don't care about her politics.

    I might be one of them.

    I do agree Margaret Qualley is cool in her own right though.

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    purely for her looks and don't care about her politics.

    Fine, I went too far. There are obviously some neanderthals still devoted to the old ways. Some people still buy porno magazines. Still, compare it to a good looking person from a previous era - say Kiera Knightley. Did she have politics? Does anybody know or care?

    This all said, as far as I'm interested in Sweeney's politics, it's like Taylor Swift's politics. You have to stretch out a tiny gollop of matter into a whole position. I don't think SS is political, rather politics believes in SS. It's all inference, conjecture -- and yet, I suspect it's a key differentiator from other pretty people -- either through negative polarization, or parasocial fantasy.

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    I'm not sure I would compare it to buying porn. Some people like hot actors and actresses, I don't think we necessarily have to read into it.

    I don't think SS is political, rather politics believes in SS

    Agreed. Everything I've read indicates that she is a devoted actress (regardless of how skilled you think she is), who has to grind to compete with all the nepo babies in Hollywood. She probably does not have much time to care about politics.

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    I'm not so much reading into it as saying I feel it's become an archaic form of sexuality - not like, bad or anything.

    I find it not great that every actor has to have some kind of bullshit resistance lib political analysis applied to everything they say. Even if the politics or ethics were good (they are not) the strategy is horrible. The kind of people who are rise to the top in a world of purity tests, blacklisting and censorship are rarely left, rarely liberal, and almost always terrible for everyone around them.

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    I don't think SS is political

    what a phrase out of context

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    Truly one for the ages.

    Can I make it my flair here?

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    Himmler was a moderate amongst his fellow chicken farmers.

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    It was an open secret Kiera Knightley's middle initial was K.

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    My horniness needs to be morally superior 

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  • Please also don't use any of these emoticons since they have other insulting meanings:

    🤌 Your scrotum hangs too low

    🫶 This represents the actual size of your vagina

    ✌️Lesbian licking good

    🤘The shocker

    🤜Impromptu fisting

    🖕This is safe to use

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  • Marginal reddit theory:

    For the last few days I was somewhat baffled by the existence of just outright contradiction in a reddit thread. Thing is, there are comments that you already agree with, then there are comments you ignore because there is obviously no shared reality, and there are comments on the margin, which can actually persuade you. So the shape of reddit threads is defined by people ignoring different things when looking into the thread. (Usually the top comment is a stupid joke and the second thread resolves around why the stupid joke is in fact stupid.)

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    One of the more interesting comment sections imo is YouTube, namely that YouTube comments are generally completely devoid of criticism to the video.

    Of course this is mainly due to the fact that a person will rarely watch a 1,5 h long breadtube video and criticize it in a leftist meme in the comment section below. But it still leads to a congregation of alike minded individuals. 

    For an example, I must sadly return to Atun Shei's Frankenstein video. I have not seen a single comment on that video going "ayo what the fuck". 

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    As far as I know the owners of YouTube channels can delete any comments they like. That might be one reason you don't see that much criticism.

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    For an example, I must sadly return to Atun Shei's Frankenstein video. I have not seen a single comment on that video going "ayo what the fuck". 

    There were quite a few people on the r/AtunShei reddit saying pretty much that, which was "refreshing" to see.

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    Are Tedbears Christians, or is celebrating Christmas more of a thing they picked up off the humans?

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    Most teds professing Christianity are at least nominally Methodists, as a result of vigorous missionary work in the mid 19th century. There’s a significant minority of Catholic teds who claim a much older tradition, and they’ve been historically the subject of some discrimination in theodore society on account of being “fuckin weird”.

    The only place where Catholic teds are a majority is the expat community in Bismarck, ND; the first theodore to be ordained a bishop, Hewlett Packard Lovecraft, was born there.

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    There are a significant number of Christians in Tedbearia, but most of them syncretize their belief in Jesus (who they see as a bloobear) with the polytheistic Ted folk religion.

    Christmas traditions in the Tederation are a thing they picked up off of humans 100%.

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    Do any of the ted bears play cricket outside the Yorkshirebears? 

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    Many of them do. They number in the low millions. It’s as popular a pastime as basketball, spigball, and armed robbery.

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    There are humans in the Tederation?

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    Alot of them are paedos

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    Here we go again with this fucking story

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  • I look like a damn church lady with my small purple flower hat I've been wearing lately.

    Well, church lady by way of the Temperance Union.

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    Well, church lady by way of the Temperance Union.

    Boooooo!

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    Mantilla

    Breviary and missal

    Small purple flower hat

    Highchurchmaxxing 💅🏼

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    Are you brandishing a hatchet like Carrie Nation?

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    No but I live not far from a bar she blew up.

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    Like with explosives

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    Dynamite.

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    Was it occupied at the time?

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    Upon reflection i mixed up two incidents.

    In 1910, an 18-year-old named Carl Etherington was involved in a violent confrontation with a bar owner after attempting to bomb a speakeasy. Etherington shot the bar owner, who later died, and Etherington was then lynched by a mob.

    In 1935, the "Westerville Whiskey War" involved bombings of taverns that carried Marinoff beer. The brewery owner was in a labor dispute with the Teamsters Union, and the union retaliated by bombing saloons that sold his products.

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    >Ohio

    >Unions

    >Bombings

    I really should start writing "Cleveland by Carbomb: A traveler's guide to Northeast Ohio"

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    Cleveland did have a bombing war in the 1970s. It was something like 30 or so in one summer in 1974. Mafia spat.

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    Makes sense since John Scalish died during heart surgery in 76, I can't imagine he was doing well in the years before that.

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    I feel like this is a reference to something that I'm just not getting.

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    Not really a reference to any one thing.

    I just got a purple flower hat recently (basically this) 👒 and it looks similar to what women in the early 1900s wore when protesting for the Temperance Union aka Prohibition.

    Basically the women from the beginning of the movie The Wild Bunch.

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    Not that fancy but in the general direction.

    Also damn what a hat.

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    Flapper hats are the worst iteration of headwear in Western fashion 1500-present, imho.

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    Some people can pull off a cloche hat.

    Boy am I not that person I look hideous in one.

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    Same for me and baseball caps (known as dadhats since ~2014 for some reason.)

    I can only wear 5 panels or flat brimmed snapbacks.

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    Ah. I've not seen that movie.
    On that note, the Temperance Movement is something that people always talk about weird. Sure, was a total ban was too much. But people in 19th century America drank way more than even the drunkest countries today do; something had to be done.

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    back before wokeness when you would drink a bottle of applejack at work and then go home and beat your family

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    What did My Little Pony do to make grown men so aggressive and violent?

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    I concur.

    Sure it was in some ways misguided, but it wasn't frivolous. Alcohol consumption rates were far higher in the turn of the century era.

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  • Not to defend America (I'm American), but I have to say I get annoyed when I see a European politician using transphobic culture war rhetoric or something along those lines, and all the comments are "oh, I hate the intrusion of this American nonsense on our politics." Like, dude, if this was just an American thing the politicians repeating it in your country would be irrelevant! Have you ever considered that we might BOTH have a problem instead of pretending race-baiting is just an irritating effect of American cultural influence?

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    The only real instance of that is the fact that “woke” as a term has escaped containment. The existence of le wokisme is proof that cultural hegemony is kind of shit.

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    le wokisme

    Where is the Académie Française when you need them to take a word out back and shoot it

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    me looking at a tweet skeet entirely in French and then BAM right in the middle "woke".

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    do you know what their definition woke is

    “Said of a school of thought or ideology that emerged in the United States in the 2000s, which advocates awakening awareness of the inequalities structuring Western societies, and prioritizes the fight against discrimination, particularly those of a racist, sexist, or homophobic nature. Woke culture.
    By extension: a woke activist.”

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    True about the WORD "woke," but I feel like a lot of the reddit eurosuperiors seem to think the fact that their nation cares about the concept at all is just American brainrot and not even possibly tied to anything homegrown.

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    Not to be the contrarian European, but many time it is just American brainrot. You see very often that local activist copy wholesale some message from the US and ignore local conditions. That's how you get "Black Lives Matter" protests in countries with 3 black people but you don't get any "Roma Lives Matter". Too many politically active people from all the political spectrum in many countries in Europe live in an US bubble.

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    Yeah, like, the basic fascist impulse is clearly homegrown but sometimes they just do import american talking points even if they have no actual relevance.

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    Always funny to see references to "liberals" in far-right talking points in countries where liberals means something else. The far right however is not so American centric, they also get talking points from Russia. At least in my part of Europe, the "don't' call me Eastern, we are Central" part, it's far mor common to see US talking points used by the mainstream right and less by the far-right.

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    I hate the term so much that it immediately causes a visceral response but it is just a generic reactionary adjective as of now, to be fair.

    Speaking of that I associated transphobia specifically with the Brits for a while (Rowling and the guy with the weird head) so it does bother me a bit when they act like it’s an American import.

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    American media is practically an ally compared to some of the British tabloids.

    Transphobia isn't specifically British, but at least at the level of national media, there is some real toxic shit there.

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    The idea of using a zipper for a US judges' robe is appalling

    How can you LARP as a timeless, cough cough, I mean 18–19th century judge while wearing a polyester robe with a zipper??

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    Worse than their garm is the court building. It looks like a bunker. THE KARLSRUHE PALACE WAS RIGHT THERE. 

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    Half of them don’t even have their hats on straight …

    There’s no way to wear that at a raffish angle.

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    Second on the left has the hat at an angle and smiles, probably about how he totally could steal Helmut Kohl's identity, if he only could convince people that Kohl lost some weight.

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    The world would be a better place if more positions of power would come with funny hats. 

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    Judges should wear clown outfits

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    Risk of confusion with reddit mods

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