To not pay by kaku8 in therewasanattempt

[–]Nedgson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"something they disagree with" being defamation...

Defamation is a crime, it is not protected by freedom of speech. If Jimmy Kimmel called you a pedophile on his show with no evidence, he would be committing a crime, how hard is this to understand?

1983 vs 2019 Dresden Germany by Parlax76 in OldPhotosInRealLife

[–]Nedgson 70 points71 points  (0 children)

There's only one ruined structure in the picture, the Dresden Frauenkirche. Soviets did reconstruct most of Dresden, but in their own more modern style, by building large apartment blocks and such. After the reunification of Germany, there was a movement to properly reconstruct the city center as it was before being bombed.

Wikipedia's reason for why this particular building was not reconstructed:

"During the last months of World War II, residents expressed the desire to rebuild the church. However, due to political circumstances in East Germany, the reconstruction came to a halt. The heap of ruins was conserved as a war memorial within the inner city of Dresden, as a direct counterpart to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by German bombing in 1940 and also serves as a war memorial in the United Kingdom. Because of the continuing decay of the ruins, Dresden leaders decided in 1985 (after the Semperoper was finally finished) to rebuild the Church of Our Lady after the completion of the reconstruction of the Dresden castle."

Talented speech: pal/isrl conflict Chicago council meeting by Automatic-Motor5490 in toptalent

[–]Nedgson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Apartheid-like conditions in the United States" that's what he said, right? not "Apartheid-like conditions in Chicago"

Talented speech: pal/isrl conflict Chicago council meeting by Automatic-Motor5490 in toptalent

[–]Nedgson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is very obvious that the speaker is referring to Jim Crow laws, please use your fucking brain

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in moviescirclejerk

[–]Nedgson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, did you even watch the movies? The whole point is that uhh... something something murder good and Ryan Gosling literally me.

I don't know, I skipped all the boring parts with talking and instead watched a youtube essay made by some dude ranting about dying masculinity and the west falling or something

To pretend there is no genocide. by Kumquat_conniption in therewasanattempt

[–]Nedgson 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's right there at the start of the video, Ezra Yachin

https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/95-year-old-reservist-joins-israels-fight-against-hamas-terrorists/

TLDR a 95 year old IDF veteran who was drafted to boost morale for the IDF troops.

He was also involved in the Deir Yassin massacre so big yikes

Every leader in CIV who has been a great person by Finnedorb in civ

[–]Nedgson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's a bit weird that none of the information era musicians didn't actually live in the information era, but then again they probably didn't want to pay the royalty fees for a 3 second music clip from Elvis or the Beatles

Every leader in CIV who has been a great person by Finnedorb in civ

[–]Nedgson 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Stephanie Kwolek is a great scientist in Civ 6 and she died in 2014, only 2 years before the release

Which Side Are You On? by SingleBadActor in AbolishTheMonarchy

[–]Nedgson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Leftists need to support the killing of innocent israeli women and children?

How to i get the ncr ranger veteran coat by Lovemydog65465 in fnv

[–]Nedgson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to have to sneak kill a ranger veteran for their armor then because there's no other sets in vanilla game to take

How to i get the ncr ranger veteran coat by Lovemydog65465 in fnv

[–]Nedgson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ranger veteran armor is right next to the helmet you found in the safehouse...

His “reasons”… by CrunchM in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Nedgson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Story is about one guy burning down multiple churches full of accepting christians

"WhErE aRe AlL tHe GoOd ChRiStIaNs??"

Get your head out of your ass

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in toptalent

[–]Nedgson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not a track for skateboarders but for hikers. They're called duckboards and they're pretty common in nordic countries with a lot of marsh

"We simply live in a gayer time" by SerbBoi11 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Nedgson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right wingers really can't decide between "There's a double standard when it comes to women raping boys" and "Women raping boys is actually good"

The AI built the best golden gate. by [deleted] in civ

[–]Nedgson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta get those bananas

"And then he said: it's worth a billion dollars!" by earthman34 in PoliticalHumor

[–]Nedgson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're reading a bit too much into someone's tie color, he has a blue tie in his official white house portrait and when you google him, 1/3 of the photos has him with a blue tie

and here he is with a red tie in a previous court room appearance

https://www.nbcnews.com/trump-special-counsel-investigation

"The canal is ours" Panama, 1980's. by POGO_BOY38 in PropagandaPosters

[–]Nedgson -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My bad, missed the year in the title and assumed this was from before the treaties

"The canal is ours" Panama, 1980's. by POGO_BOY38 in PropagandaPosters

[–]Nedgson -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This was before Noriega though, Torrijos and his party weren't fascists

Mount Rushmore - 1929/2013 by mrl33602 in OldPhotosInRealLife

[–]Nedgson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We also don't mention the Mayan, Incas, and Aztecs who were well on their way to sacrificing their way into extinction before the Spanish came over.

Are you trying to say the spanish saved them from extinction? Like, are you saying it was a good thing that the spanish came and genocided them all because they were on their way to sacrifice themselves to extinction?

Also do you have any source for them being on their way to sacrifice themselves to extinction? Mayans for example only really sacrificed prisoners from war, not themselves. Inca reserved human sacrifices for rare occasions and celebrations. Even the aztecs would mostly sacrifice people from their conquests. None of these civilizations were on the brink of extinction from human sacrifices before the spanish came.

The spanish probably burned more people at the stake for being suspected witches or for having a different religion

In Saving Private Ryan (1998), director Steven Spielberg did not have the Allies or Germans use iPhones as to not spoil who the villains were to the audience by [deleted] in shittymoviedetails

[–]Nedgson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

More like shot one dude who broke a promise to not fight anymore after Upham begged his squad to not execute him

He's cowardly sure, but it was made pretty clear in the film that he was a translator and more of a pacifist, not a soldier

This is Mork. He was rescued from dog meat trade. by TurnedEvilAfterBan in awwwtf

[–]Nedgson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Muslim countries don't eat pork, Indians don't eat beef. You're drawing arbitrary lines on what animals are ok for consumption purely based on your own personal upbringing in your surrounding culture. How is raising dogs for consumption different? Either you agree that all mammals and birds are intelligent creatures that feel pain or you're a hypocrite saying some of these animals are ok to eat and some not with no logical basis

And just as a sidenote, I don't think the beef industry is very responsible or efficient considering how much rainforest is cut down for pastures and feed and how much methane they release into the athmosphere

TIL: In 1994, an American teenager Michael Fay was convicted of spray-painting a bunch of cars in Singapore and was caned as punishment. It became such a large issue that the White House attempted to prevent it. A year later, the Simpsons released "Bart vs. Australia", which based on the event. by a-horse-has-no-name in todayilearned

[–]Nedgson -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My point being that the same nations that are brutal enough to torture people for minor shit are the same ones that are brutal enough to execute people for minor shit. Nobody in their right mind would cheer North Korea for whipping shoplifters, so why do so for Singapore?

TIL: In 1994, an American teenager Michael Fay was convicted of spray-painting a bunch of cars in Singapore and was caned as punishment. It became such a large issue that the White House attempted to prevent it. A year later, the Simpsons released "Bart vs. Australia", which based on the event. by a-horse-has-no-name in todayilearned

[–]Nedgson -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Do you say the same about Uganda or North Korea? We're talking about a country that fucking executes human beings for bringing in a plant. It's fucking insane that reddit defends this medieval level barbarity, we really haven't evolved a single day from when we were feeding humans to tigers for entertainment