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Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Oh, damn! Corrected

PugJesus,
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I don't know man, vaccination was still over 100 years old at that point.

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Damn Nordic countries and their high life expectancy

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Hot damn

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Aren't they? The sponson mounted gun is so weird, but I love it.

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Also, if it’s a parallel to Earth, I guess we’re supposed to assume that the Christian underclass eventually takes over and are just as bad as the formerly pagan Romans they added into their fold.

Considerably worse, really.

Hungarian revolutionary holds a captured AK rifle in 1956. (lemmy.world)

The 1956 Hungarian revolution was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK rifle, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows an anti-Soviet Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes with a captured AK....

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Amazing find!

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"No new models, but if you have a lifetime warranty we can help!"

US anti-armor grenade packed inside a foam football, 1973 (lemmy.world)

“Since a regulation-size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....

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https://www.military.com/history/armys-anti-armor-football-grenade-did-not-work-envisioned.html

You might be able to find more about it elsewhere, though, this is just the short article I got it from.

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Unironically, yes. WW2 is probably the best era for finding replicas (or originals) of just about every minute detail of period uniforms.

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It's almost rocket science.

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"Hans, you know how the modern battlefield has machine guns, quick-firing rifles, chemical gas, and long-range artillery? We're going to need you to charge into the guys firing those. On a horse. With a pointy bit of metal. While half-blind from your mask."

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Was it supposed to be a symbol of national unity? It seems more like a humiliation, considering that at the time Geronimo was still quite infamous.

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Extendable arm with a missile launcher!

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Multipurpose vehicle; true German efficiency

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I like this naturalization policy.

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"What's your business, Bob?"

"Car phone salesman."

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A complex question, and one I can only answer with limited knowledge of the subject. As far as I understand, it goes something like this:

In the 1500s in Japan, it became increasingly common for noblewomen to be armed and trained in the use of arms to fight in the constant wars of the period. During the long period of peace in the 1600s and 1700s and 1800s, it became less common, but remained acceptable for women to be trained in the use of arms for ritual/recreational purposes, but no longer for warfare. This picture was taken in the 1870s, the Meiji period, just as/before Japan adopted 19th century European standards, so this was the 'last hurrah' of armed women in Japan.

After this, traditional weaponry declined as a whole, to the point of samurai turning in their swords to the government, and in the 1930s, when Japan decided they wanted to reintroduce traditional swordsmanship to army officers, they had to stamp out cheap swords on an industrial scale because so many had been lost or destroyed since the Meiji-period.

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The site I got this pic from said the subject was a woman

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Cornets, I think, meaning an ice cream cone.

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Dog's cleaning up too, very modern

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Order and money goes in on the conveyor belt, food comes out on the conveyor belt. Truly a vision of the future!

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Israeli civilians are not the same as neonazis. Please avoid conflating the actions of the Israeli government with the actions of civilians, or approving of antisemitic mob violence.

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Many of these atrocities were carried out by their 'fellow' Africans in the employ of the Belgians, though the atrocities were generally ordered (or, gruesomely, regulated) by the Europeans. Sadly, people can seemingly dehumanize anyone, regardless of how they look.

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What do you call someone who's 'brave' enough to fight for genocide, but not brave enough to fight against it?

A fucking Nazi.

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