French indemnity Puns

Hello fellow comrades and colleagues,

I had an interesting thought lately. A friend of mine recommended to me to more often read or even subscribe to The Economist. I bought a few issues of it and its articles on political matters were interesting (usually I read left-liberal papers like the New York Times). As you might already know it is a wide ranging weekly newspaper with a focus on the political and financial world. While thinking about subscribing I read the Wikipedia entry on it and found something strange - their editorial line. Generally speaking they see themselves as radically centrist as well as liberal in their stance - a bit to the left in social matters, but in economic matters a bit more to the right (depending on who writes an article and the time).

This line "radically centrist" made me think ... and reflect. After some hours of forming a question I found one: what is the connection of (predominantely) Classic European Liberalism with Social Democracy/Democratic Socialism?

To answer this question, I'll explain the origins and connections of said ideologies. While knowing that I'll probably walk on thin ice here, I'd like for you to read it in its entirety and bring up criticism in an ordinary and respectable manner.

Back to the roots

Usually, one of the classic punch lines against Social Democrats or Democratic Socialists is that they would not be liberal because of [insert random policy] or [insert random quote]. A thing that is happening more and more often in Europe and the Americas but nothing that would be new. Such "assaults" are as old as the workers movement itself.

It started with the liberal chain of revolutions in 1848. In said year, almost every country in Europe faced a revolution of at least moderate size. In some countries more successful (France), in others it failed or only achieved partial successes (Austria, Prussia). Their demands of more liberties and participation wasn't necessarily new, but in most of these countries it was despised - as it reminded too much of the French Revolution of 1789 which threw Europe into chaos.

The (classic) liberals of that time weren't new either - but were more popular than before. They were the opposition to the aristocratic or elitist conservatism/monarchism, with some monarchs siding with liberals in part. The introduction of parliaments gave said liberal groups more voice - and faced them with a dilemma. Most liberals were some lower, but mostly midd

Hello, r/ badhistory,

Recently a well-known YouTube channel, Extra Credits, made a series of videos, presenting a narrative of the British conquest and rule of the Indian subcontinent as part of it's Extra History series. The first video of the series attempted to provide a general observation and introduction of the subject, giving a brief overview of the geography, the existing consensus and the major fields of research and trends in historiography. I made a post about this video only recently . Today, we set sail to the mid to late 17th century, the English, known in this video as the "British" have set foot on the subcontinent. The video seeks to present the conditions of the Company and it's factors and traders, in these turbulent early decades of their existence and attempts to chart the course to their eventual rise. I shall link the second video here :

Kindly take your time watching this while you read through each section of this post

I would also like to say, that while I criticise their videos, I do not intend for this post to be perceived or interpreted as a disapproval of the channel or it's existing library of videos and work in general. All this being said, I shall now begin, and once again, I shall try and quote the video accurately, as well as provide time stamps for all the quotes I use.

00:00 TO 00:46

>Bombay, April, 1619, the British, the future leaders of a global empire, the one day masters of a domain upon which the sun never set, the soon-to-be rulers of millions of subjects were cowering in a tiny fortified city on the coast of India. What remained of the East India Company in the subcontinent had been under siege in Bombay for almost a year and a half. Most of the Company's garrison along with a good number of civilians were dead from enemy attacks, starvation or bubonic plague. And who were the architects of this British embarrassment? Another great European power? Perhaps maybe a resurgent Mongol Empire? Nope. It was the Mughal empire using a collection of freelance Afro-Indian former slaves to absolutely wreck the British empire in India

So, we begin this video with wrong dates. Promising. The unfortunate fate, which the English garrison was subjected to, had befallen them in the year 1689-90. This was the outcome of the policies and mea

The First Weltkrieg:

As Europe burned in the fire of the Great War, the United States of America prospered. President Wilson’s vow to remain neutral is what got him elected and he is sticking to it… mostly. The President is partial to the Entente and Kaiser Wilhelm II knows this. In a rare moment of intelligence, the Kaiser listened to his advisors and made the decision to not resume unrestricted submarine warfare and to begin massive propaganda operations inside the US, providing stark evidence of the hunger and hardship that the Entente blockade is inflicting on Central Europe to newspapers. Moved to action, wealthy German-Americans start a charity for German children, gathering clothes, toys and treats to be distributed as Christmas gifts. Tragedy struck when a Royal Navy submarine mistook their vessel, the SS George Washington, for a German ship and torpedoed it, taking it down with all hands.

The SS George Washington Before Being Sunk by a British Submarine

Confused initial reports implied that the sub had full knowledge that they were sinking an American vessel and even left drowning passengers to die in the North Atlantic. German spies and prominent yellow journalists such as William Randolph Hearst seized on the opportunity, and by the time the full story was revealed, public outrage had already reached a fever pitch. President Wilson implored the British to compromise and let non-war supplies through before Congress votes for sanctions or other punitive measures. With little choice, the blockade ceases counting farm products, foodstuffs, and other critical goods as war material, delivering the Central Powers from looming famine.

The mass media struck another killing blow to the interventionist cause in the Fall of 1917, when leaks from the FBI surrounding the investigation into the Black Tom Explosion implied that there was a belief the explosion had been orchestrated by foreign operatives. After the George Washington incident, hints of foreign action pointed squarely to the Entente and by the time official statements were put out, most of America believed the Entente was trying to spur the US into action by blaming sabotage on Imperial Germany.

The End of the War:

With the US firmly out of the war, famine and economic collapse staved off, and the Russian Revolution effectively ending the Eastern Fr

All Airtimes E.S.T.

SAT 01

(1:45AM) Shadow of the Thin Man (1941/1h 37m/Suspense/Mystery/Major W. S. Van Dyke II)

(3:30AM) The Thin Man Goes Home (1945/1h 40m/Mystery/Richard Thorpe)

(5:15AM) Song of the Thin Man (1947/1h 26m/Mystery/Edward Buzzell)

(7:00AM) The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950/56m/Short/Herman Hoffman)

(8:00AM) Poultry Pirates (1938/9m/Animation/I. Freleng)

(8:10AM) Goofy Movies Number One (1933/8m/Short/Jules White)

(8:19AM) Victoria and Vancouver: Gateways to Canada (1936/8m/Short/Benjamin D. Sharpe)

(8:28AM) Rustlers (1949/1h 1m/Western/Lesley Selander)

(9:30AM) BATMAN: Robin's Ruse (1949/16m/Serial/Spencer Gordon Bennet.

(10:00AM) POPEYE: The Fly's Last Flight (1949/6m/Animation/Seymour Kneitel)

(10:08AM) Bowery Buckaroos (1947/1h 6m/Comedy/William Beaudine)

(11:30AM) Seeing Red (1939/18m/Short/Roy Mack)

(12:00PM) Fiddler on the Roof (1971/3h/Musical/Norman Jewison)

(3:15PM) A Face in the Crowd (1957/2h 6m/Drama/Elia Kazan)

(5:30PM) Twelve O'Clock High (1949/2h 12m/War/Henry King)

(8:00PM) Penny Serenade (1941/2h 5m/Romance/George Stevens)

(10:00PM) Children of a Lesser God (1986/1 hr 59m/Drama/Randa Haines)

SUN 02

(12:30AM) Repeat Performance (1947/1h 33m/Film-Noir/Alfred Werker)

(2:30AM) It Should Happen to You (1953/1h 26m/Comedy/George Cukor)

(4:15AM) Born Yesterday (1950/1h 43m/Comedy/George Cukor)

(6:00AM) Old Acquaintance (1943/1h 50m/Drama/Vincent Sherman)

(8:00AM) Adam's Rib (1949/1h 41m/Comedy/George Cukor)

(10:00AM) Repeat Performance (1947/1h 33m/Film-Noir/Alfred Werker)

(12:00PM) Romeo and Juliet (1937/2h 7m/Romance/George Cukor)

(2:15PM) The More the Merrier (1943/1h 44m/Comedy/George Stevens)

(4:15PM) Light in the Piazza (1962/1h 41m/Romance/Guy Green)

(6:15PM) My Favorite Year (1982/1h 32m/Comedy/Richard Benjamin)

(8:00PM) How Green Was My Valley (1941/1h 58m/Drama/John Ford)

(10:15PM) The Corn Is Green (1945/1h 54m/Drama/Irving Rapper)

Mon 03

(12:30AM) The Three Musketeers (1921/1h 50m/Adventure/Fred Niblo)

(2:45AM) My Journey Through French Cinema (2016/3h 15m/Documentary/Bertrand Tavernier)

(6:30AM) Letter from Siberia (

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

HONG KONG – Earlier this week, much excitement surrounded the so-called “Pearl of the Orient” as months-long negotiations concluded on the peace treaty between Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China and the Mongolian People’s Republic; the final nail in the coffin of the Second World War.

In addition to the Treaty of San Francisco formally ending the state of war between Japan and the Allies in 1951, Japan had also signed the separate Treaty of Taipei with the Republic of China in 1952, ending hostilities with the Chinese government that had formally been at war with Japan. Since then, two main contentions have emerged. First and foremost was the emergence of a second Chinese government–the Beijing-based People’s Republic–which now de facto controls the vast majority of the Chinese region. While the two Chinas might not agree on every issue, it is clear that the Beijing government has control over most of the land and people who were affected by the Japanese occupation, and are thus entitled to compensation.

The second contention is a legal one, coming from fringe right-wing legal commentators who have supposedly found evidence in the Treaty of Taipei that China had “abandoned” Chinese nationals’ right to claim personal compensation. This is due to specific wording in that treaty stating that "Japan has renounced all special rights and interests in China" and that "the Republic of China voluntarily waives the benefit of the services to be made available by Japan pursuant to Article 14(a)(I) [the article concerning Japan’s reparations to the Allies] of the San Francisco Treaty." While no court in Japan has or is likely to push such an issue, there was a need to address this shortcoming in the original treaty.

The full text of this most recent treaty, known as the Treaty of Hong Kong (1967), has been made available by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as United Nations archives. The document, as well as the exchanges of notes between the parties, is available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese, English, and French. It is noted that in the event of a conflict of interpretation due to language, the parties will defer to the English version of the text. The treaty opens with the following:

The Republic of China, People’s Republic of China, Mongolian People’s Republic, and Japan,

*Considering their mutual desire for good neighbourliness in view of their historical and cultural ties and geographic

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Under permission from General Lemarc, I gonna continue this series.

Plínio Salgado was born in 1895 in São Bento do Sapucaí, in São Paulo, and he's the integralist candidate for presidency in 1970 in TNO for the PRP.

Salgado father was the city mayor, known for having refused the central government request to send recruits to fight the Canudos insurgency since he considered that any casualties of that campaign would cause more damage to the city than the indemnization he would pay for not sending the men to the frontline.

Salgado was given access to high education in a time where most of the brazilian population lived in destitute poverty during the old republic, but had to stop his studies after he got infected with the Spanish flu, recovering and finishing his course in the early 1920s. At that time integralism was booming between far right intellectuals as a christian traditionalist alternative to liberal democracy and so he created the "Brazilian Municipalist Party", with the concept of "municipalism" that basically would make cities very autonomous like in the good old days of the 1200s before the french revolution ruined everything and brought us what he tought it was bad stuff like the modern state.

Turns out that integralism was an old men ideology, it was like being a communist in eastern europe today and there was this hot new fascinating turbo 1080p 4k new ideology called fascism coming from Europe, so Salgado had the idea to mix integralism with fascism to create brazilian integralism, that is basically fascist enought to be fascist but there is enought plausible deniability for it's supporters to say "oh nonono, we totally ain't fascist we are far right authoritarian". During the 1930 revolution Salgado was in São Paulo and hid from the incoming revolutionaries thinking they would kill him since the municipalist party was loyal to the old republic, but nothing happened. He later joined a national liberal party called "partido popular paulista" before leaving to create his own party, the AIB, Brazilian integralist action.

And it exploded, reaching about one million members until 1937. Some cities were completely taken with the entire administration and police being integralist, along with the navy and many in the political class being either integralist or friendly. The integralists learned from the nazis two things, that they needed to make a state within the state and that they needed to provide what the government wouldn't

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

[Removed]

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

You take away their little brooms

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

There hasn't been a post all year!