Perkin Warbeck truther

@PunterNavarre @Mord_Fustang199 @ComradeSnake 76 British generals were killed in the war

@Mord_Fustang199 @ComradeSnake Part of it was that the Generals were never near the front lines. They did not understand the suffering that the regular soldiers went through.

The most horrifying passage I’ve read about WW1 was a German soldier describing resting inside a lower floor of a captured French fort during Verdun. Part of the floor was a makeshift hospital and everyone was crowded there during an artillery barrage when poison gas started flooding into the chamber. The mad scramble for the few gas masks around (the soldier had his own him still) followers helpless wounded soldiers screaming, then choking, then dying in droves is the most viscerally awful scenario possible. Just a pit in the stomach the whole time reading.

@bigriggerjim @gamu0514 Yeah that's because they were French. French Jewish POWs weren't separated from other soldiers (at first) because they were French and Vichy France existed. I know it's difficult but try to understand the real world being a bit less 2D

@rat_thrower @gamu0514 Lots of places had lots of Jews. France had lots of Jews and Nazis took it soon enough but 98% of French Jews survived for some reason? Huh

It was a movie that really shocked me 30 years ago, but watching it now, the direction is so over-the-top that it just looks stupid as hell... If they killed people like that, there’s no way a full-on, life-or-death riot wouldn’t break out... Ignorance is terrifying, but without it, you can’t enjoy entertainment......😑

@bigriggerjim @gamu0514 Because Poland had lots of Jews and they took Poland first. Easy to work out if you have an IQ above 5

@gamu0514 Wonder why stuff like that only happened in the camps that were later under Soviet control, how did they know to put all their death camps strictly on future soviet land

@posta_octavian @Jokie9210685021 @ChromeBarracuda nuclear really is that simple

@Jokie9210685021 @ChromeBarracuda Civilisation is when you pretend climate change isn't real and assume we can endlessly produce energy

We've moved past this bro

@RepealTCPA1947 @InbetweenrsFans I really trusted "The Inbetweeners Fans" for it's accurate political commentary but no more

@InbetweenrsFans Anthony Eden did not hate Arabs, he studied Arabic and Persian at university lol

Every British PM as told by The Inbetweeners

@AnimarchyYT @AndreNikolai92 grain

@AndreNikolai92 Soviet reliance on Lend Lease is polarising because both sides exaggerate their opposing viewpoints for obvious propaganda reasons. The way I would explain it. Is would the Soviets have lost without lend lease? No. However could they WIN without it? Also no.

This book is an acid trip. It starts off great, there is excellent archival research being done and a well argued thesis about Soviet foreign policy pre-war Only for the author to accuse FDR of treason & propose the allies join forces with Italy & Romania to depose Hitler and restore the clean Wehrmacht in order to wage a Pan European Anti-Soviet Jihad.

@TheRestHistory About the EEC referendum, presumably

This Friday, we have an exclusive interview with a very special guest. Introducing... Tom Holland talks to Paul McCartney

@Gaismair What's this from please?

David Lloyd George going “what the fuck is a Slovak”

@JohnSalmonX @Bluey320 @KidmanChris @Lord_Sugar violet?

@Bluey320 @KidmanChris @Lord_Sugar Second letter is E so no

Yellow

@AntoineBajolet @Clint_Davey1 Reading this and realising that Beevor has certain opinions which appeal to an American market

@Clint_Davey1 Reading “D-Day, the battle for Normandy” of Anthony Beevor, realized that Monty was a very poor commander and it was his pusillanimous attitude that leaded to Caen’s catastrophe He lost days to decide to attack, letting German reinforcements bunch of time to arrive

One of the largest concentrations of SS Panzer Divisions in the entire war was in Caen in 1944. The British faced this, while the Americans were battling through the bocage to the west. Caen was the key to the whole Normandy campaign and the Germans were willing to throw in a lot of men and tanks to defend it. The battles around Caen became known as "Monty's Meatgrinder". A charnel house littered with the wrecks of Cromwells, Shermans, Panzer IV's, Panthers and tons of other equipment. Have to hand it to the Brits for slogging it out in this battle.

@melchieser Aside from the bad Photoshop, it's always when they all look 50 years old or, like with those US infantry... well they're not short on rations

my favorite style of model kit box art is “poorly photoshopped reenactors from the internet” (strelets please put me in one im begging on my hands and knees)

@MythoYookay ginger 🫵

@ToolmakerJr @jamesd_graham Had a few pints

@jamesd_graham Tell me James, would you rather the doctor who has to care for you through the night has either: A) Done the cha cha B) Had a few pints

Ah yes, plumbers and electricians will find the idea of a pint outrageous but will think it’s perfectly normal to do the cha-cha in the working day.

@Melankomas What's going on with your account?

First they came for people who like a drink at work...

Me when Wile E. Coyote is blown up by his own dynamite trap:

@jm0ses @stuartpengs @echetus I know lots of people seem happier once they stop replying to people on twitter. maybe I should try it

@rat_thrower @stuartpengs @echetus Correct.

Well, you can’t accuse him of not taking the Right to Roam (straight through a dry stone wall) seriously

@jm0ses @stuartpengs @echetus I thought you were no longer active on here

@stuartpengs @echetus It's not the far right who most worry me, it's the people who give them cover, legitimise them, and promote them. I presume we're agreed that rhetoric like this, just to take the most recent example, can accurately be described as far-right. x.com/RupertLowe10/s…

@steelx_dr @UnderSneege @NewStatesman @emilylawford @Scarlett__Mag They should be like younger men and get it from twitter

@UnderSneege @NewStatesman @emilylawford @Scarlett__Mag The number of younger women that get their worldview from tic tok and instragram is shocking.

ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN by @emilylawford and @Scarlett__Mag It was a Wednesday night and seven members of the University of Leeds’ feminist society had invited me to join their book swap. I asked how they felt about the young men they knew. “I don’t care for them,” said a girl called Ruby imperiously. “They’re not bad people, but they refuse to call out their friends who make other girls uncomfortable. They’ll laugh at jokes that are sexist, racist, homophobic, they don’t care about political issues… I don’t think they like women a lot.” If a man is attracted to you, she said, he might talk about things like toxic misogyny. If he doesn’t fancy you, he won’t bother. “I feel like a lot of it is quite sexually motivated with men.” I asked if they’d consider dating a man with different political views. They all immediately said no. “I don’t think I’d even be friends with one,” said one girl. “They don’t see you as human.” Only one woman, Evelyn, admitted to having male friends (though she was worried this made her a “pick me”, trying too hard for male attention). Evelyn was concerned about what the men she knew were watching online. “The stuff that’s being said about women is crazy,” she said. “They’re getting all these reels, talking about, like, bad stuff about women. And I get reels of women saying bad stuff about men. I try to think, not all men are like this, but…” On the internet, women and men have never been more alienated from each other. While the toxic, often hard-right politics of the manosphere have been exhaustively documented, the new generation of female influencers are nearly as extreme – just on the other side of the political spectrum. The “femosphere” spans a range of tones: there are misandrist dating coaches who urge women to reject men altogether, and more explicitly progressive content creators who cover global and domestic politics. Exclusive polling by Merlin Strategy for the New Statesman reveals that young women, aged between 18 and 30, are by far the most progressive demographic in the UK. Young women are 26 percentage points less likely to feel positively about capitalism than young men, and much less likely to feel the economy works in their favour. Gen Z women are more likely to support causes such as feminism, environmentalism and anti-racism than young men. They also feel much more negatively towards young men than young men feel about them. I spent the last few months in search of the new left-wing young women. It wasn’t difficult – they were everywhere. But it all felt impossibly bleak. They weren’t excited about their futures. They didn’t like the men they knew, or the idea of those they didn’t. Men were just a threat who had the potential to harm or trap them. This will almost certainly make relationships harder: fewer than half of young women feel men understand them. Young women are much less likely than men to date people who disagree with their politics. People will get lonelier, and angrier. Young women are twice as likely to not want children as young men. And it’s getting worse. Women under 25 are most likely to believe things are “stacked against me, no matter how hard I try”. A significant majority of young women feel isolated from the rest of the country. The two main political parties aren’t reaching out to them specifically. Many women told me they feared a Reform government pressuring them to have babies. Many say they will vote for the Greens in the upcoming local elections, but few seem to believe that will make a difference. They don’t feel represented by mainstream politics, and they don’t think anyone cares. Cover art by Carl Godfrey