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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Napoleon invented the card game solitaire when he was exiled.

That’s unlikely, since there are written mentions of ‘solitaire’ twenty years or so before Napoleon was born.

Also, as Zilla says, ‘the game of solitaire’ covers an awful lot of ground.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Somehow, watching Forensic Files can prepare you more for an interrogation than several years in the police academy. Even going through a delusional episode.





And would you believe that I've been watching interrogation footage for years, and this is the first time I've actually seen the cops get this confrontational this quickly.

[Fake Messiah]

So according to Wikipedia, Hitler's favorite book was "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Wtf?

[Anomalocaris]

20th century’s first major policy driven genocide was perpetrated by Imperial Germany upon the Herero and Namaqualand peoples of German East Africa in 1906.   The German colonial government not only carried out to near completion  a policy of extermination against these peoples, but publicly announced their intentions both to the natives and to the world before they started.    This act of genocide is often said to presage Germany’s infamous conduct under the Nazis in wwii. 

Yet immediately afterwards the Germany reversed course and instituted a new colonial policy in africa that was by far the most liberal and enlightened towards the African natives of any European colonial powers.   Physical punishment of Africans different from those that can be applied to Europeans were abolished.   African labors must be paid at the same rate as European labors.   Sufficient schools were to be built in German African colonies to achieve universal literacy, and infrastructure were to be built to enable economic development for which “Africans were the end, not a means”.

The effects of the policy reversal bore fruit less than 10 years later.    The German general Paul Von Lettow-verbeck was able to command such dedication and loyalty from his mainly native african troops, who were trained and equipped like the germans troops, and who were treated equally with small number of german troops who fought along side them, that they fought off British, New Zealand, South African and Portuguese troops who sometimes outnumbered them 20 to 1 for the entire 4 year length of the First World War, and even took the war into British colonies, becoming the only German troops to invade British possession during WWI.

After Germany lost WWI, she was compelled to give up the colonies von Lettow-verbeck’s African troops successfully defended for 4 years.   When forced to dismiss them, von Lettow-verbeck issued them with certificates of service and promised one day Germany will pay them back.    It took 46 years, and the occasion of von Lettow-verbeck’s own death at age 92, for Germany to remember that promise.   In 1964 Germany offered all surviving African soldiers all their back pay from the start of their service to then.

[Anomalocaris]

So according to Wikipedia, Hitler's favorite book was "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Wtf?

Hitler also claimed to consider the American plains Indians the people he admired the most.      He claimed that in his childhood he withstood the beatings from his abusive father by remembering and emulating the stoicism of the plains Indians.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So according to Wikipedia, Hitler's favorite book was "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Wtf?

Hitler also claimed to consider the American plains Indians the people he admired the most.      He claimed that in his childhood that he withstood the beatings from his abusive father by remembering and emulating the stoicism of the plains Indians.

It’s also known that he viewed Charlie Chaplin’s satirical film ‘The Great Dictator’ not once but twice. Sadly, history doesn’t record his reaction (but I like to imagine that a certain amount of carpet-biting was involved).

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

It is also known that Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels was particularly racist towards the Czechs, always using a particularly derogatory term for them in his private diary.    Yet he apparently fell hard for a pretty Czech actress, had an intense extramarital affair with her, and was only prevented from creating a scandal by divorcing his German wife to marry the Czech actress by Hitler, who had the Czech actress expelled and forbad Goebbels from ever seeing her again.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It is also known that Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels was particularly racist towards the Czechs, always using a particularly derogatory term for them in his private diary.    Yet he apparently fell hard for a pretty Czech actress, had an intense extramarital affair with her, and was only prevented from creating a scandal by divorcing his German wife to marry the Czech actress by Hitler, who had the Czech actress expelled and forbad Goebbels from ever seeing her again.

‘Horny’ trumps ‘racist’ with astonishing regularity.

Boru

[Deesse23]

It is also known that Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels was particularly racist towards the Czechs, always using a particularly derogatory term for them in his private diary.    Yet he apparently fell hard for a pretty Czech actress, had an intense extramarital affair with her, and was only prevented from creating a scandal by divorcing his German wife to marry the Czech actress by Hitler, who had the Czech actress expelled and forbad Goebbels from ever seeing her again.

Göbbels´ wife was the ex-wife of Günter Quandt, a big german industry captain and owner of Varta. After WWII, his son, Herbert effectively took over control of BMW. The Quandt family owns a majority of BMW stocks today. Herberts Children, Susanne Klatten (nee Quandt) and her brother Stefan are ranking 4th and 5th of most wealthy Germans, and would be #1 if their wealth would be combined (again).

[Rev. Rye]

It is also known that Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels was particularly racist towards the Czechs, always using a particularly derogatory term for them in his private diary.    Yet he apparently fell hard for a pretty Czech actress, had an intense extramarital affair with her, and was only prevented from creating a scandal by divorcing his German wife to marry the Czech actress by Hitler, who had the Czech actress expelled and forbad Goebbels from ever seeing her again.

‘Horny’ trumps ‘racist’ with astonishing regularity.

Boru

I can remember stumbling on a chan board archive (it might have even been an 8chan archive) while looking for some porn (specifically, higher-quality versions of images I already have). The image in question involved a girl in a hijab showing off her feet. The response on the board was equal parts horniness ... and racists talking about how much of a race traitor they were because they were still turned on by her despite hating Muslims with a passion.