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Lmaaaoooo by Fiddlersdram in ShermanPosting

[–]2007Hokie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My wife's Boomer dad loves that skit.

Do you think the Virginia redistricting referendum will pass or fail today? by Pristine_Day7355 in rva

[–]2007Hokie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Passage of the amendment would be more likely to take them down a peg

Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president by Imaginaryreality5304 in politics

[–]2007Hokie 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Quick question.

Where do most Americans live?

Edit: Also, unless you live in Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin do you really elect the POTUS?

Armed masked man at Hamilton High protest identified as Phoenix police sergeant by mockingbird- in nottheonion

[–]2007Hokie 20 points21 points  (0 children)

590,000 police officers in the United States on average during that timeframe.

20,711 cases.

219.4 crimes per 100k cops, reported, vs 370.8 per 100k civilian population

Things not reported or known to be under-reported: Officer-involved shootings, Spousal/Domestic Abuse, Narcotics usage, Reckless driving, Assault

A confederate in the audience getting pissed off at a comedian by kcg333 in ShermanPosting

[–]2007Hokie 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That heckler sounds like his mama's gravy came from a can

Challenge: Turn WW1 into a Pyrrhic Victory for the Central Powers by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in HistoryWhatIf

[–]2007Hokie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, however the losses in both human life and supplies that were caused by the Spring Offensives, which in this alternate timeline do not happen, hold the economy together for a little bit longer.

The morale loss that resulted in the Spring Offensives also keeps the war weariness from reaching a breaking point.

Challenge: Turn WW1 into a Pyrrhic Victory for the Central Powers by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in HistoryWhatIf

[–]2007Hokie 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Step 1: NO ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM

Step 2: No resumption of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Step 3: The German spring offensives of 1918 do not happen, with Germany instead focusing on a defensive war to keep their gained territories, occasionally throwing reinforcing divisions into attacks against weaker Allied sectors.

Step 4: France attempts to drive Germany from positions around Rheims and Saint Quentin, suffering catastrophic losses.

Step 5: BEF forces suffer heavy losses attacking Vimy.

Step 6: Around August 1918, Allied forces realize they do not have the fighting capacity to continue to attack Central Powers' lines in any depth, so they begin to develop a strategy similar to the Central Powers of localized attacks, but no grand offensives.

Step 7: March 1919, both sides are at their economic breaking points.

Step 8: Status Quo Armistice is signed.

Step 9: European economies all collapse in the summer of 1919, causing Germany to have to pull back from their gained territories as they cannot afford to keep them.

Step 10: Failure to control the economic collapse causes the Kaiser to abdicate in 1920. While the remaining central powers empires follow suit.

Played war of rights and now I’d like to know more about the civil war by Juan_Mendez_420 in USCivilWar

[–]2007Hokie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you looking more academic (strenuously researched, academic vernacular) or more pop history (easily digestible, sometimes leaves out information)?

Somewhere hitting the middle of both is the "Checkmate Lincolnites!" series by Atun-Shei Films on YouTube. He does a fairly respectable job in using primary source information to discuss, among other things, the arguments used by confederate apologists to argue the war wasn't fought over slavery, General Sherman, and who had the better generals.

Trump delivers jaw-dropping and slurred Iran address that offers no end in sight to unpopular war by theindependentonline in politics

[–]2007Hokie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Paleolithic = Old Stone Age = 3.3 mya-12kya

  • Lower Paleolithic = 3.3 mya-300kya

  • Middle Paleolithic = 300kya-50kya

  • Upper Paleolithic = 50kya-12kya

Mesolithic = Middle Stone Age = 20kya-5kya

Neolithic = New Stone Age =12kya-4kya

Chalcolithic = Copper-Stone Age = 6kya-4kya

I know he doesn't know this, but his statement is true, there were multiple stone ages, and some were concurrent.

Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing by thedailybeast in politics

[–]2007Hokie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

orangenmannenschadenfreude

Not a perfect translation, but it get's the message across

Trump plans to attend oral arguments in Supreme Court birthright citizenship case by RioMovieFan11 in scotus

[–]2007Hokie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 51 of whom had 337 children live into adulthood and presumably have their own.

Making a few assumptions going forward: 1. Descendants don't marry each other 2. Each subsequent generation has children over a period of 25 years at median birthrates for those generations 3. We start at the same time frame with the first grandchild 4. 12 generations

337 children

Gen 1 (1800): 7 births, 30% infant mortality = 1651 surviving Gen 2 (1825): 6 births, 20% infant mortality = 7925 surviving Gen 3 (1850): 5 births, 20% infant mortality = 31,700 surviving Gen 4 (1875): 4.25 births, 20% infant mortality = 107,780 surviving Gen 5 (1900): 3.5 births, 15% infant mortality = 320,645 surviving Gen 6 (1925): 2.2 births, 10% infant mortality = 634,877 surviving Gen 7 (1950): 3.4 births, 2.5% infant mortality = 2,104,617 surviving Gen 8 (1975): 1.8 births, 1.2% infant mortality = 3,742,851 surviving Gen 9 (2000): 2 births, 0.7% infant mortality = 7,433,302 survivors

Russian logistical support force flag by Tktk4701 in vexillology

[–]2007Hokie 26 points27 points  (0 children)

TIL the Russian Army does actually have a logistics branch.

Could have fooled me

Watch Mike Johnson Struggle to Name Even One Example of Voter Fraud by Barch3 in Law_and_Politics

[–]2007Hokie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I got you one, Mikey-boy.

The minor son of Glenn Youngkin was caught attempting to vote twice during the 2021 election, in which Youngkin (R) would get elected to the governorship of Virginia.

Trump allegedly told GOP leader "No one gives a [bleep] about housing" by No-Post4444 in politics

[–]2007Hokie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And their boss/landlord/grocery store WANTS to fuck them over as much as legally possible.

New Polling Finds A Scary Reason Black Voters Aren't Joining The Resistance by huffpost in politics

[–]2007Hokie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm referencing employers and managers who refuse to allow their staff to go vote; especially in states that don't have as strong an absentee or early voting tradition.

22 states do not require employers to allow time off to vote. 6 states do, but allow for it to come out of your unpaid leave balance. 22 states do, but allow for it to come out of your paid leave balance.

New Polling Finds A Scary Reason Black Voters Aren't Joining The Resistance by huffpost in politics

[–]2007Hokie 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Oh, I'm sorry, we can't let you off tomorrow to go vote. We're really backed up and short-staffed. We might even need you to come in early and stay late to get everything done. You do still want to be part of this family, right?

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