Thinking about history

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Today is the 80th anniversary of Nagasaki’s bombing…

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time to promote this film, again.
it’s a gut punch of a movie, with today’s history in mind, yet there are beautiful, long silences, playful children and the family the story centers on.

if you haven’t seen it, i hope you will.

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that scene starts the waterworks in me every time.
now ya done it…

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I agree. There´s something in my eye too.

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Souvenir / Hiroshima : Pica-Don (Renzo Kinoshita, 1978) - Brève | Catsuka (can be NSFW as there is a mother breastfeeding and some people conider it offensive)

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To be honest I didn’t feel the need to watch the documentary. They went through her personal archives and found her to be a lying Nazi sack of shit in plain sight for decades.

Like all people who “aren’t political” she was just a fucking Nazi.

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Middle-Ages-Memes-Humor-6

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I think that depends on the parts you’re learning about the depth you go into, and the closeness to the time period…

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I probably just wasn’t paying attention, but I don’t remember ever hearing before that Sally Hemmings was the half sister of Jefferson’s wife, Martha. Why did I not know this already? Good video.

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Which means he was raping the child of his father-in-law’s raping.

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That is correct. I’ve lost track of how many levels of disgusting that is

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For a highly entertaining depiction of that time in history, see:

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