Open Thread – Tues 13 June 2023
2,232 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 13 June 2023”
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Watching that French “ the shame and the pity” it’s interesting to see a lot of angles covered.
From a chap who was a communist firebrand, to a Catholic head of a resistance group, a Germanoccupation officer, Lavals son in law trying to defend him, ex Chalemaine SS volunteer, Antony Eden and An ex-transvestite radio operator who hated guns but wanted to prove he was brave.A few takeaways.
1: people most likely to join the resistance were generally those with the least stake in society.
2: pretty well all of Europe was happy to palm off its Jewish segment for the boxheads to deal with. Sometimes for reasons as simple as getting rid of a business competitor.
3: The line between outright murder or assassination and resistance was an extremely blurry.
4: most of the people in it give rational reasons for their actions, even some bad ones
5: France was massively divided pre WW2, particularly by the Spanish war.I have about an hour to go, I’m sure the rest will be just as interesting/ awful
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1: people most likely to join the resistance were generally those with the least stake in society.
Mme Zulu’s father was with the Dutch Resistance – he maintained that no – one knew how they would react, until their country was actually occupied. (Her mother survived the “hunger winter” – the one thing you never ever did when Mme Zulu was growing up was to waste food..)
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“And it all comes to you.”
Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac ~ by Rumours of Fleetwood Mac ~ Extended edition video
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Finally…at Narita. Sat on the tarmac in Cairns for an hour while they kick started the plane. Not a bad flight once airborne.
Forgot how cute everything is here, even immigration signage. The lifts have squished, tearful cartoon characters warning of closing doors. And, of course, it says thank you as you leave. 🙂
Absolutely wrecked… “dinner” is a green tea and a Kirin lager from the lobby vending machine. Forgot about those wonders.
Very few masks, much to my surprise. Looks like the Japanese are over it too.
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duncanm says: June 16, 2023 at 3:42 pm
Wow. What a tour de farce.
Third world kleptocracy stuff.
Labore, da unionionions and da ALPBC.
Z-grade corruptocrats selling this country down the toilet as quickly as possible, while attempting to enrich themselves in the most expedient and inevitably shameless ways* imaginable (and unimaginable).
Incestuous does not even come close to describing such an expansive toxic slime coated web.
Incidentally – the entire piece (and yes, I only got about three quarters of the way through it, before having to get off the train home) sounds as though it was “narrated” by one Kathy Jackson, an ALP “convenience root”, union moll and later woife of FWC Kommissar Michael ($500,000pa for doing nothing) Lawler, both of whom were caught up up in a particularly unedifying imbroglio involving the attempted “misappropriation” of the estate of a stubborn (“he’s still not dead, the stupid ol’ filthbag**”) irreparably brain damaged barrasite. This all took place while the (alleged) former j’ismist Michael Smith existed in a caravan*** in the backyard of the Wombatra coveted estate of the aforementioned barrasite.
To describe these monstrous creatures as Bourbonesque is an insult to those long dead frog royalty.
“Let them eat merde”, indeed.
*Dastardlyary being bought and subsequently wholly owned by the CCP for a hot Chinese Sussex St meal and $1,000 stood out as a spectacular subterranean low in shameless treasonous prostitution.
**Kathy Jackson to Kommissar Lawler circa 2015 (?) being very annoyed about the delay in obtaining their latest massive meal ticket
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End of thread. In lieu of current events.
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Bruce in WAsays:
June 16, 2023 at 11:26 pm
WTF is an “old growth” forest? Wouldn’t you want to be cutting old trees down rather than younger ones?God, no! “Old growth” is sacred to the tree huggers and greenies!
Quite reasonable, after all, a lot of the “tree huggers and greenies” are pretty “old growth” Boomers themselves!
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