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Post by Redd on Apr 9, 2010 20:30:10 GMT -5
Yeah, and for centuries women were oppressed, so the important female figures were still essentially household slaves.
Columbus was a piece of shit. He reduced the population of Hispaniola to a few million and he eventually wiped out all of the full-blooded natives. I don't understand why we treat him with such respect. And he didn't discover anything, unless you don't count Native North Americans as people.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Apr 10, 2010 14:07:19 GMT -5
Yeah, and for centuries women were oppressed, so the important female figures were still essentially household slaves. Columbus was a piece of shit. He reduced the population of Hispaniola to a few million and he eventually wiped out all of the full-blooded natives. I don't understand why we treat him with such respect. And he didn't discover anything, unless you don't count Native North Americans as people. More or less so yes, unless they happened to be Queen rulers over a country. (Like Katarina the great or Queen Victoria).
It is always the "winners" that writes the history.. I just wonder how we would think of the Nazis and Hitler if they had won the war..
there are still a lot of Italians that are fans of Mussolini. I tried to find a youtube clip where you can see this important Italian guy showing clips from his iphone with Italian march music accompanied by fascist symbols and even some swastikas thrown in.. (he shows this openly and proudly for the camera).
those clips are from the documentary Videocracy . (about how Silvio Berlusconi got the power in Italy), It is really interesting, you should see it if you get a chance.
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Post by Redd on Apr 11, 2010 17:21:34 GMT -5
Nah, the winners don't write history. They take what was already written by people during that time period then decide what gets put in the history textbooks. They decide what should be left out, who should be left out, they decide what information gets disorted or just plain made-up.
It doesn't surprise me that people still like Mussolini. Stalin is still very popular in Russia today.
I'm going to check out that movie.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Apr 11, 2010 19:50:54 GMT -5
Nah, the winners don't write history. They take what was already written by people during that time period then decide what gets put in the history textbooks. They decide what should be left out, who should be left out, they decide what information gets disorted or just plain made-up. It doesn't surprise me that people still like Mussolini. Stalin is still very popular in Russia today. I'm going to check out that movie. Yeah, that was basically what I meant..
It is interesting how popular he still is considering how many people he actually killed.
It was a good film. I watched it on the flight on the way over here.
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Post by Redd on May 28, 2010 16:07:46 GMT -5
So I finished that Howard Zinn book, A People's History of the United States. Yeah. Took me forever. Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who wants a critical view of United States government policy and wants to learn more about minority and labor movements. It's pretty left-leaning, so if you're a conservative... probably not for you.
Now I'm reading a book on the Winter War.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on May 30, 2010 3:34:34 GMT -5
So I finished that Howard Zinn book, A People's History of the United States. Yeah. Took me forever. Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who wants a critical view of United States government policy and wants to learn more about minority and labor movements. It's pretty left-leaning, so if you're a conservative... probably not for you. Now I'm reading a book on the Winter War. I am pretty left so I assume it is a book for me. I'm not so good at American history though, maybe one needs that background to get the "full picture" of the book.
.. how is the book?
I watched a documentary of the Nuremberg Trials the other day, it was interesting.
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Post by Redd on May 31, 2010 16:06:32 GMT -5
Nah, you don't really need a full background. He does a pretty good job explaining stuff.
I haven't gotten too far in the book. Only like a chapter or two in. Not bad so far.
What was that documentary?
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jun 1, 2010 12:04:12 GMT -5
Nah, you don't really need a full background. He does a pretty good job explaining stuff. I haven't gotten too far in the book. Only like a chapter or two in. Not bad so far. What was that documentary? Oh... then I might get 2 in one. If I find it I might read it during my summer vacation.
It was based on how the prisoners behaved during the time before the trial and how they behaved in court etc. It was interesting.
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Post by Redd on Jun 1, 2010 17:02:30 GMT -5
Ooh, interesting. What was the title?
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jun 2, 2010 15:22:41 GMT -5
Ooh, interesting. What was the title? Aww I don't remember, it was on one of the Swedish versions of the "Discovery channel".
If I see it somewhere else I will pay attention.
Have you finished the winter war book?
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Post by Redd on Jun 3, 2010 18:34:17 GMT -5
Not yet, been kind of busy. I should finish it by next week though.
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Post by Redd on Jul 28, 2010 14:41:47 GMT -5
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. Yeah, the dude from The Pacific and also the only characted I liked.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 29, 2010 7:01:54 GMT -5
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Post by Redd on Jul 31, 2010 15:53:58 GMT -5
Hey there Sanna. How're things going? I love reading war memoirs and whatnot. This one should at the very least prove interesting because it's set in the Pacific theater of WWII, which I don't know much about.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 3, 2010 4:34:50 GMT -5
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