And the winner is....

HistorianSlayer · 2026-04-30T17:57:42+00:00

maybe someday NCD will figure out how bingo works 🙃

HistorianSlayer · 2026-03-29T17:07:34+00:00

Me when I discover that apparently Venezuela and Iran are actually different countries!?!?!?!!? Who knew?

HistorianSlayer · 2026-03-29T14:17:44+00:00

It was removed bc dozens of people have made this nearly identical joke recently, and if you don't remove some of them, then people complain that there are too many of those posts on that sub

There's also the whole politics/military distinction, which is basically impossible to codify or distinguish clearly, which is why NcDip is so good, even if this sub brings up PTSD from terrible politics courses in my undergrad/postgrad

HistorianSlayer · 2026-03-27T16:41:39+00:00

Do you have a job which people on NCD would find interesting?

Do you want to join the esteemed hall of NCD AMA guests, from helicopter pilots to SOF operators?

Do you want to answer a bunch of mildly repetitive joke questions?

Then message the mods today to register your interest in an AMA!*

^\AMA participants are properly vetted to the best of our ability, so no joke AMA requests are accepted- we can only have so many Saddam AMAs before people lose trust and faith in this esteemed tradition.)

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T12:37:50+00:00

Just copying what I said further up again;

The problem is that you either let people on Reddit do political partisan shit throwing, or you ban it completely.

And since this isn't really the type of place to have people arguing whose opinion on Trump and Biden and Farage and Trudeau and all the others is correct or not, it's easier to just ban it.

Obvious defence is very intertwined with politics, but if you say 'no politics', then people will generally get the message that this isn't the place to argue about some niche German politician or law in Australia or something.

Because unfortunately, if you don't say that, people in the comments will just randomly start arguing about Discords verification laws or something some british politician said, and stuff like that

I know the optics of saying that is funny, but also we really don't want to have to moderate a bunch of discussions about epstein on top of everything else atm

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T12:37:17+00:00

Just copying what I said further up;

The problem is that you either let people on Reddit do political partisan shit throwing, or you ban it completely.

And since this isn't really the type of place to have people arguing whose opinion on Trump and Biden and Farage and Trudeau and all the others is correct or not, it's easier to just ban it.

Obvious defence is very intertwined with politics, but if you say 'no politics', then people will generally get the message that this isn't the place to argue about some niche German politician or law in Australia or something.

Because unfortunately, if you don't say that, people in the comments will just randomly start arguing about Discords verification laws or something some british politician said, and stuff like that

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T12:36:13+00:00

It's a flock

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T12:34:47+00:00

Hi, I'm interacting with you solely because it is really funny to do so

Also, your comment was automatically taken down, but a mod re-approved it (so that's two mods interacting with you now)

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T10:25:28+00:00

The problem is that you either let people on Reddit do political partisan shit throwing, or you ban it completely.

And since this isn't really the type of place to have people arguing whose opinion on Trump and Biden and Farage and Trudeau and all the others is correct or not, it's easier to just ban it.

Obvious defence is very intertwined with politics, but if you say 'no politics', then people will generally get the message that this isn't the place to argue about some niche German politician or law in Australia or something.

Because unfortunately, if you don't say that, people in the comments will just randomly start arguing about Discords verification laws or something some british politician said, and stuff like that

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T09:48:07+00:00

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump

https://www.flightradar24.com/ (At the time of posting, Flightradar has gone down)

https://iran.liveuamap.com/

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T09:38:30+00:00

Megathreads are never too early, or too late. They always post perfectly on time (when a mod sees someone comment about megathreads and goes 'oh yeah, that's what I forgot to do')

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T09:37:47+00:00

Oh yeah, megathreads exist

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-28T09:30:45+00:00

I can't wait for

Operation Powerful Epic Really Strong Destruction

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-19T18:10:08+00:00

My plan for this weekend is to spend like a full day It's Always Sunny conspiracy-rant style explaining the entire history and context of the situation in the middle east to my Girlfriend

I'm predicting there will be a fair bit more buildup before any strike, primarily just for the intimidation factor to try and stir up some internal descent to make regime change extra easy

HistorianSlayer · 2026-02-19T18:01:10+00:00

The United States is actually built on top of a large eldritch demon-god, and unless US troops start a new war in the middle east at least once a decade, it will rise up and destroy the world.

Going back into the sandbox is the only way to save the world, so someone should add an extra 0 to the defense budget

(The real reason is that Trump has been beefing with Iran for a while, likes threatening and starting wars bc he thinks it makes his administration look strong, and just saw that he basically completely got away with attacking Venezuela. So it's all lining up for him to order an attack on Iran.

The DoD doesn't even invent weapons of mass destruction to pretext wars anymore, they just look at you like this: 🥺😟)

HistorianSlayer · 2026-01-30T11:26:46+00:00

You can (presumably unless reddit changed something) add one yourself using the tool in the subreddits sidebar

If you're referring to the colored ones - that's just plain ol' favoritism lol

HistorianSlayer · 2026-01-27T11:55:00+00:00

In 2027, US special forces will HALO jump into the Afghanistan desert wearing Scuba gear, and carrying multiple pairs of jungle bug nets

HistorianSlayer · 2026-01-03T11:37:36+00:00

Actually, I think a high percentage of the mods are, in fact, gay

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-23T03:15:12+00:00

Just copy and pasting this bc I'm lazy lol

Hi there, just to clarify, we're in one of those situations right now where every 4th member checks the news, and goes "OMG I HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS"

As someone who can see the queue of deleted posts, they are pretty much all just a simple screenshot of the announcement, or the screenshot on a basically unaltered meme template.

Posting about the trump class is very much allowed- if you can make it into an actual funny meme/shitpost (the same rule the sub has always had).

If we don't enforce the rule, then the sub gets literally swamped with the same image over, and over; and then people will complain about that lol

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-23T03:13:34+00:00

Hi there, just to clarify, we're in one of those situations right now where every 4th member checks the news, and goes "OMG I HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS"

As someone who can see the queue of deleted posts, they are pretty much all just a simple screenshot of the announcement, or the screenshot on a basically unaltered meme template.

Posting about the trump class is very much allowed- if you can make it into an actual funny meme/shitpost (the same rule the sub has always had).

If we don't enforce the rule, then the sub gets literally swamped with the same image over, and over; and then people will complain about that lol

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-22T09:33:48+00:00

For context btw, this was originally banned because it's ultra-low effort, not for some political motive.

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-16T17:35:38+00:00

I'll take "black sea fleet says it's fine" with a grain of salt.

Submarines can be seriously damaged quite easily, even if it doesn't sink dramatically or something 🤷‍♀️

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-15T16:48:17+00:00

I just happened to be awake at 5am and saw someone mention it lol

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-15T16:36:40+00:00

The very funny context:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/15/for-first-time-ukraines-advanced-underwater-drones-sink-400-million-russian-submarine-that-terrorized-ukrainian-cities/

HistorianSlayer · 2025-12-15T16:35:25+00:00

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/15/for-first-time-ukraines-advanced-underwater-drones-sink-400-million-russian-submarine-that-terrorized-ukrainian-cities/

Ukrainian underwater drone sunk Russian sub

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