makersofhistory.bsky.social
Two friends navigating history with the aid of a lot of beer
https://rss.com/podcasts/wearemakersofhistory/
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Especially given that they agreed with the Slovaks that neither of them would use the old national symbols after the divorce, then the Czechs were just like “nah, this flag is actually awesome” and helped themselves to it - the blue representing Slovakia now represents Moravia
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Tariffs hidden by bricks and rubble
a.pinatafarm.com/1600x900/42f...
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Czech Republic mentioned!
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Poland-Lithuania? Where internal politics became a target for external interference, while the wider empire was picked apart
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I think it’s extremely clear that ‘troublemakers’ means people who will protest against authoritarian regimes
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Liking the 8th Army badge on the flowerpot
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“Our Italians”
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You mentioned Jews separately below, so it’s now bugging me who you had in mind here - Sorbs?
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Four-bladed Hinds can also do that
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Dunmer you absolute barbarian
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Constitutional monarchy stays winning
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This is from Robert Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism, published in 2004 so not directly influenced by the current moment. I think Trump 2.0 clearly meets that standard
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Did Subhas Chandra Bose write that?
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I meant the apparatchiks rather than Trump, who clearly thinks being president means sitting in a chair and signing things. The only thing I can see him being hands on involved in is the schemes to steal a couple mil.
I am sure Vance has 1000 hours with the most depraved HOI mod-list known to man
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Worse, they got the idea from Hearts of Iron 4 focus trees. Once you complete the ‘establish the regime’ focus, that’s it, your pop support goes 100% fascist, you get a cool new flag and you never look at domestic politics again.
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What strange things to call the archer
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Fun parallel evolution is Czech pub names evolved in the same way - you’ll still see old pubs in central Prague with names like ‘At the Black Star’, ‘At the golden tiger’
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Sad Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y de Zúñiga-Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia noises
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The Avro Vulcan exists and you say something like that, outrageous
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The post-Habsburg urge to stick a car park in the middle of the town square is apparently found everywhere in the old empire
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Nice to see the inventions of Jara Cimrman getting some use
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I assume he’s from Brno
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Bold choice to publish this article the day after he caused a plane crash
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How on Earth could such a small bridge cost so many casualties?
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It was even more straightforward than that from Hitler’s view - the US was already so heavily involved on the Allied side by the end of 1941 that Hitler welcomed their direct involvement as an opportunity to strike back
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I kept watching, hoping I was going to see parachutes
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He’s just resting
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The fetishisation and the ‘GWOT SOF to hard-right stab-in-the-back pundit’ is giving very strong Arditi feelings
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Scott Lynch hits some of the same sort of spots - he doesn’t have the real-world commentary of Pratchett, but the writing is funny and he does the same thing of world-building through describing life, and of having clear but not explicit historical parallels grounding the world
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Do you have five minutes to talk about our lord and saviour, the Royal Navy?
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Gill sans problems
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Giap is disqualified on the basis that he actually won
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Jan Hus was burned for less heresy than that
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Also kolač are sweet pastries with a kind of brioche-esque consistency, filled with plum jam or poppyseed paste, the idea of putting beef in that sounds… not good
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Otherwise it's just sparkling despotism
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They did do some expropriating though - the Ruhr iron and sterol industries got given maps and statements telling them how much of the coalfields and other assets they had decided to donate to Hermann Göring’s own steel factory
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The ending of the words is ALMSIVI
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Vinyl in close-up?
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"The Russians like to label everything Russian as Slavic, so that later they can label everything Slavic as Russian"
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Maybe mention to them that that is 'Russian new year', not Slavic.
"The word “Slavic” is added to the beginning of the phrase to identify countries with Russian-speaking communities and honor their traditions." Ty vole, co to je?
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This just caused an ‘aha’ moment of me realising that Seleucid military frailty isn’t just about it’s ethnic/colonial aspects, but also transplanting a military structure onto a society that can’t support it
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I have something you'll probably like very much then, from historian Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
acoup.blog/2019/05/24/c...
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‘I never sell out my principles’ says man who recorded a pro-IRA message for money
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Demographic changes and social media made explicitly Gaza/Muslim candidates viable - candidates like the utterly loathsome Akhmed Yakoob are basically ‘reactionary but Islam’, which frankly matches the voters better than the Lib Dems (who also lost their ‘Left of Labour’ identity)
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Not just poor people, but codes as ‘culturally unsophisticated’ which is much worse
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The inevitable end point of all European states
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This character is the in-game justification for 60% of the population trying to kill you
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Ah, the Milei special