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EDIT: Friday Frontpage once more! Thanks a lot, Imgurians! I do reviews as a hobby, and this week, Norman Reedus and his funky Not-Feetus returned, for I reviewed Death Stranding 2! You can check it here: https://youtu.be/P25TkUqzqwc
ralphie84
#14 https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MzZla3d0Y2dlN2IwZTBmZTZlcWd4dTFrejFweDNuNGFxbzdjNHM1biZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/pqoATqwYfqlxsBvjQq/200w.webp
Axelxdisepic
#3 I remember getting a comment decently down voted when I pointed this out
gman003
#1 France's surrender was as much a coup by pro-fascist elements of the military as it was an actual defeat. The army probably could not have *defeated* the German invasion at that point, but they were certainly still able to fight. The French Navy was effectively untouched. Colonial forces could have helped defend North Africa. The (liberal!) civilian government was in favor of continuing, it was Petain and his clique that insisted on surrender - and guess who ended up in charge of Vichy?
gman003
The fact that French soldiers continued fighting on the fascist side, some even until the Battle of Berlin, or that in the aftermath of French surrender much of their navy had to be destroyed by the Allies in order to keep it out of German hands, shows how much ability to fight France had left when they surrendered. The extent to which France's fall was orchestrated by French fascists is not sufficiently appreciated, even within France.
Frencheeseater
Thank you ! I'm glad we're friends with Germany AND Britain at the same time now (+ Spain + Italy...), after centuries of wars. This is the core of the European Project.
Nie wieder krieg ! At least as long as Russia doesn't invade EU countries. Get ready, friends, it's on schedule for the coming years !
Meltemi
#4 A Clement Vallandigham reference, at this site, at this time of day, localized entirely to this post?
For reference, this defense lawyer in a murder case was attempting to prove the victim could have fatally shot himself by accident with his own gun by reenacting the events around the alleged murder using the same pistol. While doing so, he accidentally and fatally shot himself with the exact same gun in the exact same way the victim was shot. He did get the acquittal, albeit posthumously.
MikuJess
#7 Well, I have good news for you!
nothingunused
You have died of cyber-dysentery.
cousteau
#3 The French with the word "billion" meaning thousand million instead of million million.
TheMilliner
#1 French resistance only actually happened towards the end of the war, shortly before and after allies landed on Normandy. The coward De Gaulle spent a large portion of his career post-war propagandising French resistance to hide the fact that the majority of French people were, in fact, willing collaborators only upset with the annexation part of the Nazi government put in place after the invasion. Less than 10% of the population actually resisted, and only ~2% did so actively.
TheMilliner
If you want to actually glorify a REAL resistance, then the Yugoslavian, Filipino and Polish resistances were FAR superior to the largely falsified and romanticised French. Hell, the Filipino Resistance literally reconquered 75% of their own country after the shitass coward MacArthur abandoned them, and only aren’t talked about because Dugout Doug stole all the credit for their actions.
UNHchabo
#3 Not only that, the word "soccer" is derived from the abbreviation "Assoc." for "Association Football".
Every country that still uses the word "soccer", their local form of "football" is a sport derived from rugby.
Quessir
First time I've ever heard of Gaelic Football being a derivative of rugby.
UNHchabo
If that's inaccurate I apologize, but between seeing some game highlights and skimming the history section of the wikipedia page, it gave me that impression.
Anfalicious
Its a bit circular - it goes via australia and becomes australian rules first.
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Damn, I could ogle medieval bartizans all night
DatDarthCaedus
#8 Incorrect.
He was never Emperor.
trigaranus
#13 Okay nerds, let's identify each specific castle for the bartizans in the picture! I'll start with Chillon castle on the bottom right.
VodkaReindeer
#7 they did have a tea party in 2018 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7363336/?ref_=fn_t_1
Psychonoticon
Prime and prejudice is a rewrite I can get behind.
Musamura0987
Can someone please explain #5 :)
penelopepissstop
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R100GSPD
Human sacrifices were frequently done on POWs
IUpvoteFuturama
#8 https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dWF5OXQ5MmhiaWRxMWU4cGQ2aGgxcWNrdDMxZnkyeHNwNW9tYW9paSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K/200w.webp
Christhewise42
Julius wasn't an emperor though.
JesaraB
According to Romans of his time, you are correct. And according to the majority of historians who defer to them, also correct.
But Rome was in fact an Empire already, as much as it was in denial about that fact. And the sole ruler of an Empire is...
Christhewise42
At that point, Dictator was the official term.
JesaraB
yes, and dictator of a kingdom is a king/queen, dictator of an empire is an emperor
Christhewise42
He was literally declaired Dictator for Life. Imagine it like the Kim family in NK.
theyallwenttoMexico
#8 As did almost anyone who've ever lived. ;)
philogogus
theyallwenttoMexico
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Problemwoodchuck
#1 Wehrmacht: hey, Yugoslavia surrendered stop fighting
Yugoslavians: Yeah whatever, see you in the mountains
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Don’t read up on what the Croatians were up to at the time, though
causality
Yeah the French Underground was pretty pathetic and ineffective compared to almost every other underground resistance in Europe despite operating under conditions that were wildly more lenient than their neighbors. Like 90% of their reputation is PR bullshit.
Nuttsy
Ah, yes, mass grave dick measuring. My favourite sport.
RoamingEast
its just a matter of record. Resistance activities in France were so minor, the entire country was seen as an RnR location and a rest and refit zone for units coming from the East. They sent their least trained and reliable units (osttruppen) to garrison the country. Meanwhile Yugoslavia for example was considered an unsafe hellscape of partisan and resistance activity. and Poland? wow, lets not get started about them. Mayhem from day 1.
Frencheeseater
Visit my city, i'll take you to Boulevard du Massacre, or Place des 50 otages. The occupiers had several french assholes to collaborate with them and give information about Resistance fighters that got arrested, tortured and deported or executed, Jean Moulin for example. Because French politics before the war were very divisive and Marechal Pétain agreed to "end the war" by accepting 50% of the territory occupied, and many french followed the senile leader, hero of WW1. Others did not.
causality
Adjusting for population, thirteen times as many Poles died fighting the Nazis as French. The French Underground killed approx 2,000 Nazis during the occupation of France. The Polish Underground killed 20,000.
keebs63
Pretty much all of that was during the Warsaw Uprising, which only happened because of the Soviet advance into Poland and also turned into the massive bloodbath that it was because the Soviets halted their advance on purpose to allow the Germans to slaughter them. Had the Polish been liberated by the Western Allies, it never would have even happened.
Frencheeseater
Please read the comment of Gman003 below, i'm not competing dead heroes. I don't know what you want to prove, but i'm not in the mood to get in an argument with you. If you are Polish, please drink Zubrowka with apple juice for me, unless it's you stealing my computer in my car in Wroclaw in 2005.
DatDarthCaedus
#8 Incorrect.
He was never Emperor.
trigaranus
Oho! Was he not, and I quote, "imperator" in 60 BC and in 46 BC, huh? You mean to say he was never "princeps" or "augustus". [mike drop, boinking against door frame on way out]
DatDarthCaedus
The early meaning of Imperator is not the same as Emperor. No one would ever argue that people like Sulla and Pompey were Emperors, and they were Imperatores before Caesar.
Augustus was the first to use the title in a way that meant something more than before, and it wasn't truly adopted as a ruling title until Vespasian, around a hundred years after Caesar.
trigaranus
I know, I was just messing with you by being an unbearable edgelord.
DatDarthCaedus
I assumed, but that also calls for an annoying response... in the grand tradition of ancient Roman politics.
trigaranus
Nice. We read Cicero at school. The bugger could not get over the sound of his own voice.