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Merry Christmas to all you fine people. As a great big thank you to everyone who has, is, and possibly will be so kind as to support History Impossible, I have released the newest (and longest) episode of the "Muslim Nazis" series for paid supporters before the new year. Links👇
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For fuck’s sake. The looters in Paris aren’t starving.
You see, the greatest French writer in history, Victor Hugo wrote an entire novel about how looting to feed yourself and your family is not a crime or personal failing, but a fundamental flaw of a corrupt system that gives you no other choice
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In Les Misérables Jean Valjean stole one loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven children. Recent Paris looting involved crowds taking cigarettes jewelry luxury goods and consumer items from stores.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Valj…
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C…
thelocal.fr/20261018/never
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Guys I know it’s a cliche but we’ve been trying to tell you all for decades: the French are the only people who have rear view mirrors on their tanks so they can see the battlefield.
French left-wing activist Bettina Zourli who describes herself as a journalist, feminist, and pro Palestine activist tells a woman who was threatened with rape while holding her baby during last night’s riots that her experience was “collateral damage” in the revolution.
A "professor" of "Gender Sociology". Throw her to the wolves and she can find out first hand. She's perfectly happy to call others trauma acceptable collateral but I suspect if she lived the experience she would be quiet.
Useful idiots are a real thing. Very on brand behavior for those fucking lunatics. Of course she's pro-all those things, and of course she looks like that.
The woman who complains about lawless violence says she's in favor of the Revolution.
"I never thought the Islamo-Leftist leopards would eat my face!"
Any means is justified for the Revolution that will bring about Paradise.
Except there won't be Paradise.
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Bumping this up my reading list.
No reason in particular.
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People are rushing to the comments to invoke the 12,000 Arabs from the Palestinian Mandate who fought for the British and the faction of anti-Zionist radicals like Hajj Amin al-Husseini alike who supported and aided the Third Reich. This simply reveals the complex nature of the Mandate during this time.
What truly matters is the legacy that was left behind. Pro-Palestinian movements are not the intellectual descendants of those 12,000 soldiers who fought for the Crown against the Axis, who are largely forgotten. All one has to do is look at the rhetoric crafted by Hajj Amin and the Arab section of the Third Reich's Foreign and Propaganda Offices. It laid the template for just about everything we hear today from these movements, particularly with the consistent blurring of "Zionists" and "Jews." This was all essentially lifted by the Soviets some decades later when they decided to be Third Worldists' golden goose, but that's a different story.
The point is, if you study intellectual history, you come to understand that you can't pick and choose which ideas carry more weight today based on what you want to believe about your own cause. Intellectual heritage is mappable, and there is zero doubt for anyone that actually studies history that the Third Reich's Islamophilia, opportunistic propaganda strategies, and allyship with the most genocidal faction of the Palestinian nationalist movement (who continued selling land to Jews and selling out their supposed fellow countrymen, but again, that's a different story) is the historical nexus point for what became Palestinianism.
I’ve just seen the so-called "Palestine Poppy" & it’s one of the most worst things I’ve ever seen.
Attempting to hijack on a well known apolitical symbol which brings people together on Remembrance Day is completely disrespectful.
Only the most insufferable people will wear it.
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Wait till this precious genius learns about the National Socialist German Students’ League.
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
britannica.com/topic/Red-Guar…
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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This managed to make me not think the character development of Anakin in the prequels was utter dogshit by masterfully taking a much-needed dump on Gen Z. This is no small feat 👏👏👏
The prideful, stupid narcissist is easily corrupted, cucked and radicalised by a cynical old politician playing on his ego— the only character who shows an ounce of intelligence.
Like all children, he is told he is special. Like too many children today, he refuses to grow up.
He blames systems he does not understand. He is too self-absorbed to contemplate a single way they might be redeemed.
He is too fragile to sustain loss or misfortune. He believes he alone has a right to not be failed.
He embraces moral relativism because he is selfish. Rather than use his prodigious talents for the good of others, he complains that he is not rewarded simply for being himself.
He loves his wife as his possession, and turns on her the moment he thinks she's anything more.
He murders children. He embodies what he creates: a lost generation.
He overthrows those old systems, and becomes an embittered tool of the new regime he stupidly believed he would rule.
He must eventually be redeemed by his son, who remembers the old virtues of charity, friendship, and self-sacrifice, and who fights - guided by his father's teachers - to rebuild what his father destroyed, as it should have been.
We need much more of Luke, and much less of Anakin.
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You: “Dude I really like this girl & she’s bringing some friends, just don’t be weird okay?”
Your friend after his 4th drink:
Tucker Carlson on watching b*stiality p*rnography:
"If you look at p*rnography enough or b*stiality videos all day: after a while, like, it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it. I'm not into it personally, but it's not crazy."
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The joke wasn’t really funny but the six days of mental anguish from Instagram weirdos with main character syndrome is something else.
Another ‘SNL’ alum trolls Shane Gillis’ controversial monologue as backlash against comedian rages on trib.al/4iCFXRB
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This is subjective but… Name three PERFCT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here goes:
1. Oldboy (Korean version)
2. There Will Be Blood
3. In Bruges
This is subjective but…
Name three PERFCT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. I’ll start:
1) Jaws
2) The Godfather II
3) The Empire Strikes Back
(That was hard. I wanted to put three more. 😂)
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Wow. @BridgetPhetasy is a national treasure 😂😂😂👏👏👏
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the back-up phone for the side angle. Tanner films all my content. He is not allowed to look at me.
The “joke” was about how women dress at the gym. I know it was about me, because everything is. So I did what any survivor would do. I went to my car and filmed myself crying. It took 11 takes, because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving, and grief is no excuse for a bad shot. In the final cut, you can see a single tear land on my sports bra right over the logo, which clicks through to an affiliate link. My caption: “I’m literally shaking.”
Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption, “Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?” I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men. To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him. Then I tagged every man I follow. Some people say my response proved his point. These people are rapists.
✍️ @BridgetPhetasy
Article: spectator.com/article/shane-…
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People going off on Shane Gillis seem to just be focusing on the "dressing like whores" part of the joke and missing the remaining 2/3 of the joke that culminates in Shane essentially calling himself out for being a creep who looks like, well, Shane. The butt of the joke is not women dressing like "whores" but Shane for being a pervert for thinking that way.
Did I really just have to explain a joke that echoes one Louis CK made back in 2009 (the Hilarious special) that feminists applauded for this exact reason of self-deprecation? Are people really thinking that because "campus rape" is trending that their boring 2016-era complaints about "misogyny" are going to resonate in any meaningful way like they used to?
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy rips Shane Gillis "SNL" monologue as misogynistic.
🎥: Instagram/instadanjlevy
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Wow, and someone just came out and admitted it that this whole affair is just an empty social trend while trying to claim it’s about some kind of reckoning.
We are in the middle of one of the largest nationwide reckonings with sexual assault ever and this guy gets on stage and calls women whores for wearing shorts at the gym? You think he doesn’t know what he is saying? It’s not only unoriginal and unfunny, it’s really disgusting.
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Sorry Shane Gillis, women are not dressing like “whores” at the gym and saying such things is deeply offensive.
They are dressing like sex workers.
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Jesus H. This clearly has become my first tweet in a long time (maybe ever) to actually “blow up” and it was probably one of my most throw-away observations ever that I’m not even particularly wedded to.
If I had even a fraction of the attention I normally get on stuff related to what I actually care about—history, the human condition, etc—I’d be happy. But no. Slop rises to the top, and even though I stand by what I said, this is still slop. It doesn’t matter one iota. Shane Gillis will remain popular regardless of what anyone says, and the people getting mad at him will remain insufferably annoying and obtuse regardless of what anyone says, including me.
People going off on Shane Gillis seem to just be focusing on the "dressing like whores" part of the joke and missing the remaining 2/3 of the joke that culminates in Shane essentially calling himself out for being a creep who looks like, well, Shane. The butt of the joke is not women dressing like "whores" but Shane for being a pervert for thinking that way.
Did I really just have to explain a joke that echoes one Louis CK made back in 2009 (the Hilarious special) that feminists applauded for this exact reason of self-deprecation? Are people really thinking that because "campus rape" is trending that their boring 2016-era complaints about "misogyny" are going to resonate in any meaningful way like they used to?
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