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Skullmaggot 1/7/2023 11:52 PM
@AvoidOblivion here you go
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AvoidOblivion 1/7/2023 11:55 PM
Thank you.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 1/7/2023 11:57 PM
Boy in the striped pajamas, it may be a generic recomendation to some but it REALLY IS a must read
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AvoidOblivion 1/7/2023 11:57 PM
I am personally a massive nerd in regards to World War One. I currently have a dozen or so books on the conflict. I am reading one right now about the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918. The author, Edward Lengel, goes into great detail and does a good job providing sources and showing where he used sources.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
Boy in the striped pajamas, it may be a generic recomendation to some but it REALLY IS a must read
AIF Cuirassier regiment 1/7/2023 11:57 PM
same goes with the Diary of Anne Frank
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
Boy in the striped pajamas, it may be a generic recomendation to some but it REALLY IS a must read
AvoidOblivion 1/7/2023 11:58 PM
That book is on my To-Read list. Night was very good. I have heard some controversial discussions about BITSP, but I have largely heard that it is good. The Diary of Anne Frank is the type that everyone needs to read. Including me, as I do not have it.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 1/7/2023 11:59 PM
That book was one of the few I have managed to read fully, as I have absolutely horrendous attention span
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mainly because I insisted on reading it when I was very young
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and mom kept me from reading it because, in all fairness, I wasn't even 10
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AvoidOblivion
That book is on my To-Read list. Night was very good. I have heard some controversial discussions about BITSP, but I have largely heard that it is good. The Diary of Anne Frank is the type that everyone needs to read. Including me, as I do not have it.
floppunism [BOI, ID] 1/8/2023 12:02 AM
it’s mostly controversial as a teaching aid because it can be deceptive and even lend sympathy for the germans when given an uncritical eye
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fine as a book itself iirc
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
and mom kept me from reading it because, in all fairness, I wasn't even 10
Ironically I read Brief History of Time before Diary of Anne Frank
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Took me three times to understand what Hawking was talking about... but I got it eventually. I was 9.
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I read Diary at 12 I think.
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floppunism [BOI, ID]
it’s mostly controversial as a teaching aid because it can be deceptive and even lend sympathy for the germans when given an uncritical eye
AIF Cuirassier regiment 1/8/2023 9:18 AM
Never saw it as that since you're reading from a perspective of a kid who doesn't even know what a nazi is, hell before they move the kid meets hitler snd eva braun and doesn't even know who they are, he even says that hitler wasn't gentlemanly as he didn't open the door of the car for eva, hell Bruno DIES in a gas chamber with Shmuel in the end of the book (edited)
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Ironically I read Brief History of Time before Diary of Anne Frank
AIF Cuirassier regiment 1/8/2023 9:21 AM
oh, I haven't read diary yet
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Spinner
Ironically I read Brief History of Time before Diary of Anne Frank
floppunism [BOI, ID] 1/8/2023 12:37 PM
lmao same
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joe hill’s revenge 1/29/2023 4:36 PM
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AvoidOblivion 1/29/2023 6:30 PM
Nice collection you have there.
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AvoidOblivion
Nice collection you have there.
joe hill’s revenge 1/29/2023 7:24 PM
Thx
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DevilTheAutopoet 4/4/2023 2:51 PM
Can we post pdf files here? Or is it recommendations only?
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DevilTheAutopoet
Can we post pdf files here? Or is it recommendations only?
AvoidOblivion 4/4/2023 2:53 PM
I see nothing wrong with doing that.
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AvoidOblivion
I see nothing wrong with doing that.
DevilTheAutopoet 4/4/2023 3:08 PM
Well pdf sharing of copyrighted materials is illegal, so I didn't know if that was something that y'all would seek to avoid here.
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floppunism [BOI, ID] 4/4/2023 3:26 PM
i’m not a cop
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DevilTheAutopoet
Well pdf sharing of copyrighted materials is illegal, so I didn't know if that was something that y'all would seek to avoid here.
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/4/2023 3:33 PM
What are you talking about? I don’t think that’s possible
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RebelKitty 4/4/2023 3:40 PM
For what it's worth here's the book I wrote almost 6 years ago now (pre-transition, excuse the name). It was an attempt to verify, disseminate, and collate some lesser known illegal activities of the US PMC DynCorp: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/720268
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Serves as a pretty conclusive argument why privatizing militaries and police forces leads to bad things.
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floppunism [BOI, ID] 4/4/2023 4:26 PM
huh
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floppunism [BOI, ID]
huh
AIF Cuirassier regiment 4/4/2023 4:29 PM
its bosnia, if it wasn't in there it would be weird
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RebelKitty
For what it's worth here's the book I wrote almost 6 years ago now (pre-transition, excuse the name). It was an attempt to verify, disseminate, and collate some lesser known illegal activities of the US PMC DynCorp: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/720268
Full name revealed in the Discord server moment
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knuckles
Full name revealed in the Discord server moment
floppunism [BOI, ID] 4/4/2023 7:19 PM
it’s their deadname
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so it doesn’t matter as long as it’s been legally changed
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knuckles
Full name revealed in the Discord server moment
RebelKitty 4/5/2023 1:19 AM
Yeah, lol. That's old news everything. Also obviously I've been talking trash for a hot minute 😹 I got a personal email from Michael Aquino one day and decided, well, frankly the people who want to find you will no matter what if they're powerful enough. We were kind of friendly back and forth though, lol, what a tweest.
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My life is... highly atypical, lol. This stuff is relatively minuscule by comparison. There came a point where at least being somewhat public and not anonymous at least ensured if I "disappeared" folks would notice something odd.
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Nowadays I'm just a nice ol' lady that just wants to build up what I can, rather than stare solely into the abyss. "Fighting the good fight" anonymously got me only so far til it became a sort of liability.
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floppunism [BOI, ID]
huh
RebelKitty 4/5/2023 1:32 AM
Yeah and back when I was writing this they were receiving about half of Department of State and Defense's private security contracts. The exact figure is really shadowy but been only got higher over the years. (edited)
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 4/12/2023 1:29 AM
I heard 'A clockwork Orange' is pretty good
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should i give it a read?
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
I heard 'A clockwork Orange' is pretty good
AvoidOblivion 4/12/2023 7:37 AM
I've never read it, but it is a very popular book that has had quite an impact on society for a book. I would recommend it.
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Totally read the classics
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Unu51, Syndicalizer of Anarchy 5/6/2023 3:24 PM
This worth reading? Wanna learn more but I fucking hate Chomsky. (edited)
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floppunism [BOI, ID] 5/6/2023 3:51 PM
I’d say read anything no matter the author and use your own critical judgement to tell if it’s good or wrong
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He’s probably getting minimal royalties off the book
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Tbh the bulk of the money goes to Rudolf Rocker. And Chomsky is a hypocrite but even a Hypocrite can have their point. (edited)
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floppunism [BOI, ID] 5/6/2023 4:16 PM
a broken clock is right twice a day
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exactly
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Unu51, Syndicalizer of Anarchy
This worth reading? Wanna learn more but I fucking hate Chomsky. (edited)
i read it
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Unu51, Syndicalizer of Anarchy 5/28/2023 6:15 PM
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Unu51, Syndicalizer of Anarchy 6/2/2023 3:38 PM
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AvoidOblivion 6/2/2023 3:42 PM
I recognize that book. I have not read it, but have an idea of what it contains; good luck. (edited)
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 6/2/2023 3:47 PM
myhouse.wad reference
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AvoidOblivion 6/9/2023 10:21 PM
That sounds informative. Enjoy it.
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joe hill’s revenge 6/9/2023 10:41 PM
Sounds good
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I’d read it and am recommending this sobering attitude adjustment against the hazardous lone-wolf syndrome in the contemporary prepper culture -from wilderness survival teacher and archeologist Chris Begley. It takes community to help every individual survive.
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Started reading For Whom The Bell Tolls, if anyone else has read it what did you think? (I’m only at chapter three)
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vitaminWee 7/5/2023 3:35 PM
I’d read the interesting long story… fictional spanish civil war moment of partisans camped and waiting for their target. Nervous suspense. The 1984 metallica ode made me seek it more than anything.
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I’d read the interesting long story… fictional spanish civil war moment of partisans camped and waiting for their target. Nervous suspense. The 1984 metallica ode made me seek it more than anything.
AvoidOblivion 7/5/2023 5:11 PM
Sabaton’s cover is what made me aware of the book. I prefer their version over the original, but that is simply because I prefer heavier metal. Metallica has, what I call, “light heavy medal.”
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vitaminWee 7/5/2023 8:31 PM
There’s after 1989 Metallica and there’s before 1989 Metallica
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I’d read the interesting long story… fictional spanish civil war moment of partisans camped and waiting for their target. Nervous suspense. The 1984 metallica ode made me seek it more than anything.
Tbh the Metallica song is what made me interested in the book
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Tbh the Metallica song is what made me interested in the book
vitaminWee 7/7/2023 7:34 PM
It’s a great one from them imo
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Authored by a not all agreeable current lawyer for the nra. “Target Switzerland”. A book outlining horror of rightwing nationalism spinning out of control in the environment of World War One war fatigue. However shortsighted the author is on naming hazardous rightwing nationalism of even the nra… and the democratic socialist current in Switzerland that began a proper winning coalition… here he published a terribly poignant chronicle that sticks w me. Relevant. Throw it in his face that the nra have been of late nationalist civil war bullshit emitters. (edited)
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Authored by a not all agreeable current lawyer for the nra. “Target Switzerland”. A book outlining horror of rightwing nationalism spinning out of control in the environment of World War One war fatigue. However shortsighted the author is on naming hazardous rightwing nationalism of even the nra… and the democratic socialist current in Switzerland that began a proper winning coalition… here he published a terribly poignant chronicle that sticks w me. Relevant. Throw it in his face that the nra have been of late nationalist civil war bullshit emitters. (edited)
joe hill’s revenge 7/25/2023 12:49 PM
Huh?
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Is English yr first language?
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Yeah, what’s unclear
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Authored by a not all agreeable current lawyer for the nra. “Target Switzerland”. A book outlining horror of rightwing nationalism spinning out of control in the environment of World War One war fatigue. However shortsighted the author is on naming hazardous rightwing nationalism of even the nra… and the democratic socialist current in Switzerland that began a proper winning coalition… here he published a terribly poignant chronicle that sticks w me. Relevant. Throw it in his face that the nra have been of late nationalist civil war bullshit emitters. (edited)
joe hill’s revenge 7/25/2023 4:07 PM
Kinda the whole thing I can’t tell what you mean at all; respectfully.
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Kinda the whole thing I can’t tell what you mean at all; respectfully.
Ok the serving of a whole crazy pie lol. Bottom line is I resonate from the book Target Switzerland by Stephen Halbrook. That one book of his is a truth teller. The nazi rise chronicle is a negative feeling of a book, of course. How the german national “socialist” party was dealt with by is an important reality. The picture I shared was an instagram account post by the author who celebrated a historical event of today’s date. (edited)
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Ok the serving of a whole crazy pie lol. Bottom line is I resonate from the book Target Switzerland by Stephen Halbrook. That one book of his is a truth teller. The nazi rise chronicle is a negative feeling of a book, of course. How the german national “socialist” party was dealt with by is an important reality. The picture I shared was an instagram account post by the author who celebrated a historical event of today’s date. (edited)
joe hill’s revenge 7/25/2023 5:06 PM
I see
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Started reading For Whom The Bell Tolls, if anyone else has read it what did you think? (I’m only at chapter three)
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 7/28/2023 5:08 PM
I thought it was great!
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Hemingway is a favorite of both my dad and i
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It’s his Great Great Grandson, but it is true
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I have links if anyone is curious
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Stolas_of_the_Stars 7/30/2023 2:24 PM
Chuck Tingle tho, he's the real OG.
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joe hill’s revenge 7/30/2023 6:40 PM
What’s this a of list
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 7/30/2023 7:29 PM
Idk
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 8/13/2023 4:40 PM
Y’all wanna hear my idea for a satirical historical romance novel?
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 8/13/2023 4:58 PM
Basically, it’s a Viking romance novel, but the cover and the descriptions of all of the clothing are SUPER accurate, like to an insane degree, and that’s like the major part of the joke, combined with the protagonist just not really really knowing what medieval life was like, and the disconnect between her expectation and reality
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Along with like, a bunch of jokes, mostly at the kinda sillier things about the genre, since it’s a time traveling thing, and a lot of them have a “no fucks given” attitude towards the part of it where they yeet the protagonist into the past.
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And I decided to make that a joke
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Because the character gets yeeted back into 10th century Wales is played for laughs
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Basically, a bunch of “Dude-Bro Wanna-Be Neo-Vikings” Heavily implied to be White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis, kill each other in a fight in a ritual to try to get into Valhalla, and a Valkyrie comes down to check out all the noise, and has a reaction I’ll just quote my friend on: (edited)
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“Gross, I don’t even think Loki wants you in his army”
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But she figures she gotta bring SOMEONE back, and shes that the heroine is about to possibly get hit by a bus, so she trips her, and when she wakes up dead, the Valk is just like “Sup, you’re dead now.” And is carrying her off to Folkvangr, but accidentally drops her in 10th century Wales
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She ends up in Viking age wales, and gets taken in by the local Prince’s wife, whose husband is on pilgrimage or engaged in diplomacy or something, so she’s in charge of the area
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A Warband of marauding Vikings show up and attack the local town, and the welsh defeat them, and take the leader and some of his buddies hostage, and the leader and protagonist fall in love, and the whole romance thing happens (whatever, I’m ace), and the prince and his wife grants them land in exchange for an alliance, and at that point, idk I’m not sure
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There’s also gonna be a segment based on a book I read a while ago, where the protagonist got magic visions from time travel, and I was gonna play into that as a joke
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Where the heroine gets really freaked out about being burned as a witch (because “tHe dArK aGeS”), and the rest of the cast has one of two reactions: 1. The Christian characters go “Ah, Jesus is giving you visions. You came from the future, you must have been brought in the past by the lord to tell us things. You must be a Saint!” 2. the Norse Pagans go “huh, she gets magic visions,” gives her a blunt and a fancy metal stick “cool, now tell us what Thor wants” (edited)
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 8/13/2023 5:46 PM
We also came up with the idea that Odin figured out why happened, and had the Valkyrie come down and fix her fuck up, and she basically gives the Heroine the choice between going back the present day, staying in the past, or going to folkvangr, and she chooses to go back to the modern day, but demands her now romantic interest go with her, which the Valkyrie relents to, and from there we may set up a sequel about this guy just being fucking confused and slightly terrified about the modern world
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Basically this
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Frederick Piratin 8/22/2023 9:34 PM
@Eazy8 Antifa Viking I'll be honest, I'm not the most into Vikings, so I can't weigh in quite as much. However, it seems you have things worked out. I find it interesting that the way you intend to show the heroine being special is that because she's from the future, all the various factions assume she's sent by their god to be a prophet. Of course this could be an issue for local powers who may feel that she jeopardizes their positions of power (especially if she starts advocating for radical societal changes), which could create a serious political dynamic that'll play out. However, that depends on how deep into political intrigue and such you intend to get.
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 8/22/2023 9:40 PM
I’m not gonna get deep into political intrigue or political discussions, aside from pissing on Nazi dumbfucks
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I’m not gonna get deep into political intrigue or political discussions, aside from pissing on Nazi dumbfucks
Frederick Piratin 8/22/2023 9:41 PM
Ah, fair enough.
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