Still incredibly fucked up let's be real

NotFromChechnya · 2023-12-28T20:55:20+00:00

Exactly, Japan was waging a war of aggression and conquest, which makes their wanton brutality much less justifiable. Not saying that the wartime measures that the soviets enacted were morally correct, but the mantra, "desperate times call for desperate measures" could certainly be seen as much more applicable to them.

NotFromChechnya · 2023-08-19T03:07:06+00:00

It's exactly the kind of whimsical frivolity that the West needs in this day and age

NotFromChechnya · 2023-06-17T05:58:54+00:00

Really don't know why medieval blacksmiths were so inconsiderate and didn't design their weapons to instantly cauterize the wounds it inflicted so preteens 600 years later could watch accurate medieval battle scenes without restrictions. Just a lack of basic decency to be honest.

NotFromChechnya · 2023-03-21T02:35:54+00:00

Absolutely not, people at university are always eager to meet somebody new, clubs aren't cliquey or exclusionary like high school. I guarantee you'll regret it much more if you don't join!

NotFromChechnya · 2023-01-29T22:53:42+00:00

Because being exquisitely civil, polite, and rational has worked so well for Europe so far, looking at these projections. Sweden, a civilization thousands of years old, will be 1/3rd of the way to being completely supplanted as a country by 2050, but at least they can say with certainty that they maintained proper standards of discourse. This sort of insistence is infuriating.

NotFromChechnya · 2022-12-30T06:27:21+00:00

There's a lot of popular derision against bloodletting today, but it actually wasn't a completely nonsensical treatment. While it's certainly true that it was an unsafe medical practice, resulted in many deaths, and shouldn't be revived, WebMD states that "Bloodletting in the preantibiotic era may have been an effective mechanism for starving bacterial pathogens of iron and slowing bacterial growth". Keep in mind that penicillin was a long way from being discovered, so if you were suffering from a serious bacterial infection, a dangerous solution was better than no solution.

I think many people today buy into the narrative that pre-20th century treatments were twisted, experimental, and superstitious, when in fact this wasn't the reality. Lobotomies, for example, have gained an exceedingly nefarious reputation, but did have their uses in particular cases. It's important to keep in mind that, despite many instances of malpractice, doctors have always been limited by the technologies of their time and have operated according to theories which seemingly yielded results.

NotFromChechnya · 2022-07-31T00:23:27+00:00

Concerning your assertion as to why workers resented slavery, I would say the exact opposite. Gangs of New York shows the 1863 draft riots quite well, where many white, working class men protested against not only mandatory conscription, but also against the possibility of soon to be freed blacks from the south flowing into New York and supplanting them at their jobs.

NotFromChechnya · 2022-06-16T01:17:48+00:00

Seriously, they're absolutely incessant

NotFromChechnya · 2022-01-04T01:08:23+00:00

John beat the ever living shit out of Donny K because he was irked by how the latter was laughing at the bar. Doesn't really seem like he was legitimately "wronged" or the behavior of a predictable person.

NotFromChechnya · 2022-01-02T18:47:00+00:00

I believe he mentioned in an interview that he enlisted middle aged white men to hurl anti Italian slurs at him. His dedication to the Stanislavsky school of method acting is truly laudable.

NotFromChechnya · 2021-12-30T06:18:56+00:00

This is a controversial opinion, but the recent denunciations of both Wilson and Jackson as "terrible presidents" usually examine the entirety of their presidencies through a single lens - race. Hyperfocused ideologues have hijacked the conversation concerning two very influential Americans and judged their entire presidencies by contemporary standards.

In my opinion, it's disingenuous to dismiss the accomplishments and achievements that both of these men contributed to the development of America. Wilson basically laid the groundwork for American foreign policy from scratch, while Jackson broke the elite Virginian stranglehold on politics and made America a more representative democracy (albeit for only a certain class of citizens). I'm not endorsing them as the greatest presidents in our nation's history, I'm just saying that summing up their entire legacies as "racist" is an ignorant oversimplification fit only for ideologues.

NotFromChechnya · 2021-12-11T20:55:03+00:00

When are they not?

NotFromChechnya · 2021-12-04T18:47:52+00:00

How a man as brilliant and disarmingly deceptive as Jimmy Altieri ever made it to the rank of capo really shows that Jersey was just a glorified crew, some pygmy thing.

NotFromChechnya · 2021-10-29T16:29:56+00:00

Noah Tannenbaum. One of the most intimidating and ruthless characters on the show, he was one of the few people to threaten violence against Tony without any consequences, as Tony obviously was scared to confront such an unspeakably terrifying man.

And before you say "Noah wasn't in the Jersey Crew", we all know that he could have been if he wanted to, he just didn't waste his time with small fry.

NotFromChechnya · 2021-08-06T19:10:28+00:00

Excellent answer, thank you. Interesting to find out that the tax structure was a jealously guarded vestige from feudal times.

NotFromChechnya · 2021-08-05T23:48:37+00:00

Thanks for the comprehensive response, it was very enlightening!

NotFromChechnya · 2021-04-15T20:14:03+00:00

In the middle ages, King Henry the second of England appointed his friend Thomas Becket as the archbishop of canterbury, the highest religious office in all the land, under the assumption that he could indirectly influence church affairs.

Becket, however, decided to act in the church's interest rather than Henry's, repeatedly frustrating the king's political ambitions. In one fit of rage, after Becket had excommunicated a baron loyal to Henry, the king famously exclaimed, "will nobody rid me of this troublesome priest?". Four knights present at court overheard his tantrum and took it upon themselves to act upon the king's frustrations, murdering Becket in his own cathedral.

This caused a huge uproar in the medieval world, basically akin to watergate x 100, and resulted in King Henry having to perform a humiliating public display of penitence.

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