Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: [Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0y7NxvJE5M) Couldn't find the full thing in my cursory search. It's Idi Amin, former Ugandan dictator and insane person. Known for his penchant for public executions, disappearing his enemies, and encouraging a bi ....
Comment preview: I'd say Idi Amin, some of his exploits: * Was a known cannibal, and probably ate one of his own wife * Used to freeze his enemies' heads, only to bring them out for "talks" * Used to feed his crocodiles with human bodies * Killed upto 500,000 people * His ....
Comment preview: Pol Pot, Stalin, Idi Amin, and Mao died comfortably in their beds. I'm sure their next iterations will have deep moments of reflection upon how some peon deep in the bowels of their organization faced prosecution 70 years after the fact. PS I'm in favor o ....
Comment preview: Just like Muslims need to take responsibility for the actions of the 911 hijackers, like Americans in general have to take responsibility for the actions of Charles Manson, like black people have to take responsibility for the actions of Idi Amin, like Geo ....
Comment preview: Reading their posts, one would think that the world consists of a Pangea-like continent dominated by the United States (which is the only remaining dictatorship), with the other 5% of the world's population confined to a few tiny islands and peninsulas aro ....
Comment preview: **Operation Entebbe** was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked b ....
Comment preview: > Slavery calls from "slav". Slavic people were Europe's fucktoy for generations upon generations. After that, Russia is still in shambles because of how hard it was ravaged by Mongol hordes while the rest of Europe got to do cute Reinassance things. Ye ....
Comment preview: Here's the thing--either we are human (homo sapien sapiens) or we are NOT. I've had SJW'S stress the homogeneity found in the human genome. We're 99.99999 (whatever---the number is really only comprehendible/relevant to a geneticist) the same--skin color i ....
Comment preview: Lets take a look at his competition for each year these movies made it to the Academy Awards. Titanic - 1998 Academy Awards. Have you seen the line up there? It is ridiculous, and personally I think Matt Damon should have won that year. Gangs of New York, ....
Comment preview: Libertarians believe in liberty. Some libertarians are emotionally damaged, but then one can say the same about any other large group, political or otherwise. Libertarianism is essentially classical liberalism -- certainly moreso than modern-day liberalism ....
Comment preview: PLEASE UPVOTE: The main contrasting point to be made here is that the actual "lions" of history (The Khan, Attila, Alexander, Caesar) INDISCRIMINATELY did their business of killing. Hitler was QUITE the opposite. The German Army, by in large, observed th ....
Comment preview: Why PoC Scare me - y'all be encouraging mass murdering psychopaths and putting them in charge of your countries. - y'all fuck animals DISGUSTING - y'all keep talking about that white girl thirst or that pilgrim fever - Pol Pot - That's all I gotta say - Yo ....
Comment preview: This is same question the Kurds asked after the Gulf war and probably will again soon, after the U.S. and Israel has gotten what it wants (oil). It's what the Shias in Basra asked after the Gulf war, the Hmong and Moe tribesmen after Vietnam, the Shah afte ....
Comment preview: Its real it is from a UK billboard found an interview where a former Westwood developer talk about it in an interview[ here](http://funambulism.com/2014/08/15/a-metric-ton-of-my-old-command-conquer-interviews/) > DG: Well it is the strategy game countr ....
Comment preview: * stuck on mobile because hard drive made ominous ticking noise and gave up the ghost * clever poster is clever, causing snort of laughter and coffee to evacuate body via nasal cavities * "By God, that deserves an upvote." Go to press two micron wide arrow ....
Comment preview: I'm not sure if Operation Entebbe fits into this discussion as a secret military campaign, because it was a special forces rescue mission, but it did take place in a foreign nation and there were contacts with enemy forces, so I'm going to talk about it he ....
Comment preview: I was reading the Wikipedia article about him. He was the first to photograph the execution of someone by "necklacing". I looked at some photos of necklacing, and that shit is fucked up, I'm not even going to post links to them here, if you want to find th ....
Comment preview: Come kiddies its time to listen to some hits from the recent past! First up! The Khemer rouge those irascible trogs that brought us such classics as 'killing fields'. Considered by many to be the hit that we did nazi coming hahahah! And since you will prob ....
Comment preview: Yes and no. On the one hand, the concept of the Great Man Theory of History, as put forth by Thomas Carlyle in his [*On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History*](http://www.questia.com/read/1444983/on-heroes-hero-worship-and-the-heroic-in-history#) ....
Comment preview: > I guess there's no avoiding them Proceeds to use every tag on the sidebar in their post. It's almost like they *want* someone to take their bait and argue with them. I'm assuming if they know what's on the sidebar and this post gets popular enough, th ....
Comment preview: This really isn't true at all. Look at Africa: countries like Zambia are mired in poverty, South Africa went through apartheid, Zimbabwe is a clusterfuck under Mugabe, Nigeria has the whole oil thing that's driving the country more and more into the ground ....
Comment preview: King Ibn Saud first developed a relationship with the US, along with the discovery of oil, in the 1930s but the real development came following 1973 and the Yom Kippur War. Arab states had locked down oil supply enforcing an embargo, obviously harming the ....
Comment preview: >Let s go back to Sociology 101 here for a second. White people, you have this thing called white privilege. You re born with it. You live with it. It benefits you every single day. When your car is broken into and you feel comfortable enough to call th ....
Comment preview: However, as the gunfire subsided, a 19 year old jumped up in the dark-ish area, thinking it was over, and was cut down by fire. The commandos, assuming he had been a terrorist, reacted quickly and killed him as a result. When he was shot, a survivor of the ....
Comment preview: Obviously this is a big question but perhaps I can make a few points and provide some insight. My focus is on Africa so I cannot speak to colonial troops elsewhere in the world. I also focus primarily on Anglo- and Luso-Africa so forgive the narrowness of ....
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