MacArthur (and Patton for that matter) clearly showed for all to see what kind of man he was when he enthusiastically routed the “Bonus Army” in Washington DC in 1932.
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The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
By NICK HANAUER
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/
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FTA: “Revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly. One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there’s no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand.”
What I find so quaint about the idea is that 
is mostly a volcanic outcropping over the geological equivalent of two snowplows passing in opposite directions over earth’s tectonic plates. The tsunamis and typhoons are just nature’s way of keeping the beaches and streets tidy after the ash settles.
When I was there last year, we were walking along the cliff-side of one of the North Island’s nicer suburbs and noting all of enormous cracks opening up in the surface.
And, outside of Auckland, there are a lot of farmers. These are the type of no-nonsense, hard working folks who have little time for airs and “tall poppies” and own lots and lots of pitchforks. Many of these farmers are Maori, who are highly respected by the pakeha and just about the only indigenous population to defeat the 
army (in recent memory, @orenwolf will probably remind us of Pontiac).
Good luck getting your Gulfstream V on a runway that’s got tractors parked on it. Good luck getting the tanks topped up mid-revolt as well.
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Within the 101st division there’s record that one suggested response to the German surrender request was to tell them to “go and take a flying shit” but it was feared that the Germans wouldnt understand that, so they settled on “Nuts!”
ETA: I got that backwards.
The Germans were confused by the use of American slang. Ernie Premetz recalls him saying Harper and Premetz discussed how else to convey the message: “You can tell them to take a flying shit,” Harper said to Premetz.
Premetz, knowing he had to convey the intent of the message, translated this as “Du kannst zum Teufel gehen.” (“You can go to the Devil.”)[1]
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Interesting date there, 10 years ago. If only the plutocrats had listened!
(At first, I thought it was satire. Also interesting to me is how long that piece is; surely now it would shorter by at least half that length.)
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Our attention spans have…what was I saying?
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Look, a thread that’s all about squirrels!!
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I should watch that again.
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White Nationalism. What a surprise.
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I still like the theory that it’s a giant musical instrument best.
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Me too. I had to check to make sure it wasn’t from the Onion. I’m still not sure. I can’t imaging a rich person being that self aware.
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Dunno, I guess it depends how quickly people from the Middle East became white?
As an island, Britain’s population has changed multiple times. The region’s early farmers descended from people from the Middle East who arrived on the island about 6,000 years ago, bringing agricultural practices with them. The newcomers replaced hunter-gatherer communities that had inhabited Britain previously and formed the majority of the population from 4000 to 2500 BC, Parker Pearson said.
But around 2500 BC, people began to arrive in Britain from Europe, largely from what’s now known as Germany and the Netherlands, and it’s around this time when Stonehenge was rebuilt, according to the study.
The researchers believe that the rebuilding process was “a response to a legitimation crisis brought on by this influx of new people” and an attempt to unite the Neolithic farmer population.
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Some filmmakers are using AI to resurrect forgotten history:
The video refers to the Thiaroye massacre, described with more context here:
Although there was backlash after the film Tirailleurs was released, there were multiple events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the massacre earlier this month:
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Christmas in the Keys: some history?
archive link for the Keys Weekly, if you get a paywall:
https://archive.ph/TWPjY
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Was just reading about the tsunami, and what has been done to improve warning systems:
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