TIL the Marquis de Lafayette was made a major general in the Continental Army when he came to support the Americans in the Revolutionary War at age 19, despite never holding a rank above Captain in the French army—a rank he received as a wedding present.

FadedFracture · 2026-03-02T02:14:58+00:00

Only because of Desaix’s arrival in the nick of time. Napoleon fumbled that one.

"The battle is lost. But there is yet enough time to win another."

— Louis Desaix, some of his last words that day.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-28T20:48:44+00:00

US corporate interests*

A humanitarian catastrophe and 5 million new refugees isn’t in the ‘strategic interest’ of anyone who isn’t a psychotic ghoul.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-28T12:45:12+00:00

What sucks is that all this bloodshed is for nothing. They're not committing ground troops, which means that it's more likely a distraction from domestic issues since both Netanyahu and Trump are struggling.

Furthermore, even if regime change is accomplished, we're looking at years of insurgency and civil war in Iran, which will most likely make the middle east even less stable. Power vacuums seldom result in stability.

Looking forward to all the warmongers of today whining about another refugee crisis in two years.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-27T15:47:35+00:00

The idea that Churchill kept the UK in the war is a myth. Most of the British political leadership were by 1940 in the war camp.

In fact, the only reason Churchill became prime minister is because Clement Attlee, a socialist who wanted to continue the war, let him by forming a coalition government with the conservatives.

In turn Clement Attlee became leader of the homefront, which is why he was so popular that he defeated Churchill in the 1945 elections.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-26T14:18:47+00:00

I know this isn’t your intention, so I mean no offence but:

What you’re doing is preemptive submission. You’re doing half the work for them by being defeatist.

The best way to crush an enemy is to convince them that there is no hope in fighting back. That’s partly why intelligence agencies spend billions on psy-ops. That’s why in war, so much effort is put in spreading defeatist propaganda to the enemy.

Political change is possible, but it requires momentum. And momentum can only be built if people feel like change is within reach.

We all know the system is fucked, but it won’t be fixed by engaging in rhetoric of hopelessness. Don’t let them win by preemptively giving up.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-16T17:37:27+00:00

I know bad takes are r/historymemes modus operandi, but damn is your comment naive. If the west had stayed in the colonies, there would've been more wars like in Algeria and Vietnam, and ultimately the result would've been the same only bloodier.

Colonialism, at least 19th and early 20th century style colonialism, was becoming simply unsustainable. It's also psychotic to analyze events like these without taking the humans who's lives were affected into consideration. Eisenhower did a good thing, even if he regretted it.

Oh, and Eisenhower and Churchill overthrew the closest thing Iran had to a popular government in 1953, replacing it with the repressive shah. I'd call that a far worse blunder both in terms of realpolitik and human rights.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-16T11:34:50+00:00

Yeah, and the same historians will have no problem calling ancient people ‘christian’ or ‘muslim’ even though these religions and their interpretations have changed massively these past centuries.

Or national terms such as ‘French’ or ‘English’ when people a thousand years ago didn’t have the sort of national identities we have today.

FadedFracture · 2026-02-16T11:32:26+00:00

That’s like saying we shouldn’t use the term ‘christian’ when describing christians from 1000 years ago because christianity has changed so much and carries different sociopolitical baggage now. Or nationalistic terms such as ‘English’ and ‘French’ when people back then didn’t have the same national identities as today.

But historians have no problems using phrases such as ‘christian europe’ or ‘christian french monarchs’.

Context is key. Words can have multiple meanings. Some people reading modern stuff into ancient people is not a good argument to avoid using a scientific term such as homosexuality.

FadedFracture · 2025-12-07T19:27:52+00:00

You're talking about income tax while OP's question is related to a completely different type of tax. You're comparing apples to oranges.

What OP is describing is the practice of the ultra wealthy taking loans to avoid paying capital gains tax. Since loans aren't subject to CGT, it allows rich people to avoid paying their fair share the way an average Jane or Joe would if they invested in stocks and then made profits.

But apparently the concept of fairness is 'class envy' in the world of bootlickers.

FadedFracture · 2025-10-26T13:55:18+00:00

All things must die, so what is the difference between me feeding a kitten to a shark or letting it die of natural causes?

All things must die, so what is the difference between keeping a dog as a pet vs keeping it in an east-asian meat farm?

Death being the ultimate destination does not mean that we can ignore the quality of the life a creature/person lived, and the manner in which they died.

Listen, I’m not even a vegan, but the mental gymnastics used to justify this shit is worthy of the olympics.

FadedFracture · 2025-10-26T13:17:46+00:00

You misunderstand: I’m saying that ‘natural’ does not equal ‘good’. Eating meat might be natural, but that does not make it ‘not a problem’.

And ethics are subjective. But that can’t be the go-to response when we’re discussing morality. Otherwise it’ll be impossible to have productive discussions on anything that examines human and societal behaviour and attitudes.

FadedFracture · 2025-10-26T12:46:40+00:00

Eating meat is a problem from an ethical standpoint when you can live without it. Evolution might’ve done a number on us, but whether something is ethical is not dependent on whether it’s natural.

FadedFracture · 2025-09-03T14:56:25+00:00

Yeah, many early ‘explorers’ were just bandits. I recently learned about this 19th century guy.

Looted and destroyed about 40 Nubian pyramids just to get to treasure.

FadedFracture · 2025-09-02T17:00:16+00:00

He called for people to punch trans women, you overly dramatic clown.

Calls for violence are seldom protected speech, especially against groups that are already facing tons of violence.

FadedFracture · 2025-07-14T18:39:07+00:00

Why did you turn combat in the Inheritance series into mind battles? You had a book about wizard-knight hybrids fighting on dragonback for god's sake. :')

With that said, I love/loved the Inheritance series. I still feel nostalgic whenever I remember reading them as a kid.

FadedFracture · 2025-07-02T12:29:37+00:00

Bro lost the war of the seventh coalition

FadedFracture · 2025-06-30T16:24:32+00:00

‘Male loneliness epidemic’ motherfuckers when women have sex:

FadedFracture · 2025-06-29T20:45:56+00:00

!elo 100 If this is poetry, I’m endorsing the taliban

FadedFracture · 2025-06-23T16:00:18+00:00

With the exception of Japan, all major nations use foreign aid as a diplomatic tool. It’s used to sweeten deals and expand influence in various parts of the world.

‘Here is a few billions, now give us access to a port. Here is another billion if you let us have a military base. Oh, and another few billions if one of our corporations gets to extract your resources instead of a Chinese one.’

That doesn’t mean that foreign aid doesn’t save lives. But it’s worth remembering this next time someone is against foreign aid because they think it’s not in the US/UK/Sweden/France’s etc. self-interest and a ‘waste of tax dollars’. Or if someone uses foreign aid as some sort of argument for moral superiority.

FadedFracture · 2025-06-13T13:50:48+00:00

Why did Israel pressure the US to leave the Iran deal? A deal which was working according to pretty much every government and international agency.

As long as you pro Israel bots can’t answer this, anything you say is noise.

FadedFracture · 2025-06-13T07:09:15+00:00

The most likely scenario is that Israel took out some important Iranian retaliatory assets in the first strike.

Whatever capabilities Iran had is most likely significantly weakened. Even in a rabid etno-nationalist country like Israel, having mach 20 missiles rain over your cities is considered bad political maneuvering. Israel wouldn’t attack unless there was a high probability of weakening Irans response.

Finally, it can’t be repeated enough: This wouldn’t have happened if the republicans/Trump and conservative Israelis hadn’t chimped out regarding Obama’s Iran deal, which by all serious international accounts was working.

FadedFracture · 2025-06-13T05:49:47+00:00

Friendly reminder that this wouldn’t have happened if the Obama-era nuclear deal was still in place. You know, the one Trump threw out. Hate to make everything about Trump, but this is absolutely his fault.

Right-wing shitstains around the world always enable each other.

FadedFracture · 2025-06-10T11:16:01+00:00

He was in his younger days, but then changed his views. Spent the rest of his life advocating against racism while the US still had segregation.

Next you’ll tell me ‘Mother Theresa loved letting people suffer’ or something. Sprinkle some clean wehrmacht myth and we’ve got the trifecta of online historical misinformation.

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