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We Are Makers of History Podcast

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We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 1d

There’s even cool precedent for that, Naval air squadrons calling themselves ‘Sundowners’ as an appropriation of the Japanese Rising Sun - reusing The enemy’s symbol in your own context. Very much not the same as Sieg runes and totenkopfs

Naval aviation badge of ‘Sundowners’ squadron, showing two F4F Wildcats shooting down a setting sun

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We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 6d

Buddy Holly could never have written Temporary Secretary

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 7d

Such an epidemic of unbombed Walmarts these days

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Accurate depiction of a Greek winning WWI

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 9d

The Omen

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 13d

Particularly like the lucky bounce that prevented throwing guy from immolating his comrade

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 17d

Feels like a metaphor there

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 17d

Under credible threat of violent death for failing to provide a public service though!

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 17d

There’s a reason everyone loved The Witcher when we thought it was monster-of-the-week, and hated it when it did ‘aha, tricked you, its actually sub-Game of Thrones’

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 18d

The ’demoralised to death’ theory made me think of the Tainos after the arrival of the Spanish, and how their entire world was swept away on a tide of irresistible violence - the accounts if their end have a lot of that feeling

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 28d

Which is terrible, because the Estonian roundel looks great and needs to be used more

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 19

That would be an ecumenical matter

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 8

‘Does it work for them?’
‘No, the anti-democratic party always uses the delegitimised elections to seize power and kill the opposition. But it might work for us’

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We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 7

That is transparently an image of Zeus

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sticking a pin in this, cause I expect this comment will be useful to pull out in the medium term

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

Unless he’s a Continuity IRA-man, in which case he’s running for the presidency of a republic that he considers illegitimate

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

An MMA fighter triggering a second civil war over who is considered a founding father would be a great bit though

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Northumbrians are nothing but a Trojan horse for Dane extremism, send them all back where they came from

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 1

He’s not even a real hamster

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Sep 1

Assassinating opposing government figures famously de-escalates situations and leads to the opposed government backing down… wait, I’m just getting an update from Sarajevo

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Aug 31

American stumbling stones

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Aug 29

a man in a military uniform with a mustache is wearing a beret and making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a military uniform with a mustache is wearing a beret and making a funny face .

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We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Aug 25

Being anti-British in ways that would unequivocally be called racist in any other context has become weirdly accepted in US online circles - probably some mix of re-examining empire (in a very 2D, over-corrected way) and the reputational damage of being TERF island

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Aug 24

Of the enemies that the Western Allies fought, the one who really got a negotiated peace was Italy, which interestingly probably had the least survival of the wartime regime into the Cold War - the monarchy went, no-one wanted to hear Italy’s expertise on fighting the Soviets

We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Firebrand is almost an attractive aircraft, apart from being terrible

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