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[Yannanth]

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[Descan]

Unfortunately, that sounds like something that I -could- do. Not something I -do- do, I try and get consent first (or don't do it) but I tend to be touchy-feely rather quickly.

So thanks for the anecdote, so I'm reminded to keep that in check.

[MaximumZero]

Tropico 4, why am I so bad at you?

[Pnx]

So I'm reading about the Spanish Civil War... it's possibly the most tragic war I've ever read about, hundreds of thousands of people slaughtering each other under the banner of a bunch of half-baked ideals.

Turns out George Orwell actually fought on the side of the Republicans. I guess that's where he got his pessimistic world view from.

[jc6036]

So I'm reading about the Spanish Civil War... it's possibly the most tragic war I've ever read about, hundreds of thousands of people slaughtering each other under the banner of a bunch of half-baked ideals.

Turns out George Orwell actually fought on the side of the Republicans. I guess that's where he got his pessimistic world view from.

Being the late time that it is, I skimmed that and read the last part as 'under the banner of a bunch of half-naked rebels'.

Sad because I really need to get to sleep, but can't.

[Descan]

I had no idea George Orwell was Spanish, or at least cared enough about Spain to fight in their civil war.

[Aqizzar]

I had no idea George Orwell was Spanish, or at least cared enough about Spain to fight in their civil war.

There were actually a whole bunch of Bohemian Europeans and American "thinkers" and authors and such who volunteered for both sides of the Spanish Civil War.  Everybody thought it was going to be The Great War their generation, and it all sounded so romantic at a distance.

[Lord Shonus]

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict between the "opposite" political forms of collectivism that were prevalent in the early 20th century, those being Facism and Communism. Orwell was a Communist, or at least a Socialist. Both groups recruited heavily to aid in the rebellion against the Spanish Government. While the most famous example of foreign troops was the Abraham Lincoln brigade, there were combatants from pretty much every Western power.

[Pnx]

I had no idea George Orwell was Spanish, or at least cared enough about Spain to fight in their civil war.

There were actually a whole bunch of Bohemian Europeans and American "thinkers" and authors and such who volunteered for both sides of the Spanish Civil War.  Everybody thought it was going to be The Great War their generation, and it all sounded so romantic at a distance.

Proof, if any were needed, that people can be the most incredible idiots.

[Descan]

Well they were half right. They were just off by a country or two.

[ChairmanPoo]

Or maybe they cared about a democratically elected goverment being overthrown by a fascist coalition while the all-high-and-mighty-and-freedom-loving western nations sat on their thumbs letting them go about their business (or worse, giving them passive support). 

Mark my words, the men and women who fought in the International Brigades were heroes, who cared enough about freedom to put their lives in the line for it. And I find it amusing that the same lot who were advocating a "liberation war" in Lybia in this same forum are badmouthing them. I guess fighting for freedom from the confort of an armchair is much easier, no?


It's particularily rich that this stuff popped up a 14th of April, of all dates. This is what made me sad today.

[Araph]

One of my family's dogs is being put down tonight. Her name is Happy. She's a big, black, lab/mastiff mix. She's the best dog I've ever known.

She's been slowly dieing over the past two weeks from liver failure.

[Pnx]

Or maybe they cared about a democratically elected goverment being overthrown by a fascist coalition while the all-high-and-mighty-and-freedom-loving western nations sat on their thumbs letting them go about their business (or worse, giving them passive support). 

Mark my words, the men and women who fought in the International Brigades were heroes, who cared enough about freedom to put their lives in the line for it. And I find it particularily amusing that the same lot who were advocating a "liberation war" in Lybia in this same forum are badmouthing them. I guess fighting for freedom from the confort of an armchair is much easier, no?

Yes, heroic freedom fighters killing each other on behalf of two different oppressive factions. Isn't the world we live in glorious?

It's nice to have a noble cause to fight for, but these people should really have paid more attention to where that cause was taking them.

One of my family's dogs is being put down tonight. Her name is Happy. She's a big, black, lab/mastiff mix. She's the best dog I've ever known.

She's been slowly dieing over the past two weeks from liver failure.

Sadness... I've had a couple of dogs die myself, I feel for you bro.

[ChairmanPoo]

Different oppressive factions? DEMOCRATICALLY. ELECTED. GOVERMENT.  And this from one of the guys of the hawk lobby about the Lybian war, go figure.  Franco was a far worse butcher than Quaddaffi, and the Republicans had far lesser oppressive elements among them than the Lybian rebels do even now. I guess that when it lacks novelty it's not as cool to support it, right?


Hey, since you brought him up, maybe you should read "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell

[Bauglir]

Man, mine is sad of great inconsequentiality, but even so. I just finished watching Dollhouse, and somewhere a couple of episodes into Season 2, I'm pretty sure M. Night Shyamalan murdered Joss Whedon, began wearing his skin as a suit, and assumed his identity.