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Post by bartlesby on Sept 11, 2023 15:13:04 GMT
The British Empire.
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Post by ayatollah on Sept 11, 2023 15:15:49 GMT
I love the Brits.
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Post by bartlesby on Sept 11, 2023 15:17:16 GMT
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Post by Nogbad on Sept 11, 2023 15:19:34 GMT
I've always enjoyed utterly shameless propaganda, The Green Berets being the gold standard of course, and The Patriot was a pretty decent effort.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 11, 2023 15:23:43 GMT
I've always enjoyed utterly shameless propaganda, The Green Berets being the gold standard of course, and The Patriot was a pretty decent effort.
The movie with the pine forests of Vietnam and the Sun setting in the East
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Post by Nogbad on Sept 11, 2023 15:25:19 GMT
I've always enjoyed utterly shameless propaganda, The Green Berets being the gold standard of course, and The Patriot was a pretty decent effort.
The movie with the pine forests of Vietnam and the Sun setting in the East
Musical propaganda fucking rocks too! I love that song. Not only is it hilarious, but so very, very instructive.
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Post by bartlesby on Sept 11, 2023 15:26:36 GMT
I've always enjoyed utterly shameless propaganda, The Green Berets being the gold standard of course, and The Patriot was a pretty decent effort. I don't know if you could call it propaganda so much as fact-based fiction. While there's no record of the Brits burning down a church with people inside during the Revolutionary War, there is evidence of similar activities, such as the Amritsar massacre many years later.
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Post by Nogbad on Sept 11, 2023 15:37:17 GMT
I've always enjoyed utterly shameless propaganda, The Green Berets being the gold standard of course, and The Patriot was a pretty decent effort. I don't know if you could call it propaganda so much as fact-based fiction. While there's no record of the Brits burning down a church with people inside during the Revolutionary War, there is evidence of similar activities, such as the Amritsar massacre many years later. It perhaps depends on who you see as doing the propagandising, and why. As with Braveheart (a far inferior film IMO, so shite it's not even funny), it's rabid anti-English propaganda vomited forth by a Pom-hating Plastic Paddy whose Plastic Paddy-ness adds an extra layer of batshittery to the mundane bogan Pommie-bashing of the Pistachiobrain school. That's my reading of it anyhow.
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Post by hugsfromlv426 on Sept 11, 2023 17:48:46 GMT
Oh yeah, they used to be an empire, didn't they.
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Post by bartlesby on Sept 11, 2023 17:52:50 GMT
Oh yeah, they used to be an empire, didn't they. Do you think I should put it in sarcastic quotation marks?
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Post by Winter_King on Sept 11, 2023 18:03:03 GMT
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Sept 11, 2023 19:50:22 GMT
The British suck ass.
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Post by Lux on Sept 11, 2023 20:01:15 GMT
The irony is appreciated, Bart.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Sept 11, 2023 20:24:05 GMT
There was major cod fishing in the North Atlantic for several decades prior to Columbus. Like all fishermen, these Anglo and Portuguese fishing companies (Portugal had the best boats at the time) didn’t let anyone know where those lucrative fishing grounds were. Based on the volume of dried cod being brought in, it’s theorized they were fishing the Grand Banks. Also, that they were bringing in huge amounts of dried cod means they had to dry it on land somewhere before transporting back to Europe. The coasts of North America is the likely suspect. Old medieval and Roman coins occasionally pop in archaeological finds, usual among Native American digs, with the explanation these were brought to NA by later European settlers and used in trade. Precious metal coins never lost their value and can be in circulation for a long time, so that’s reasonable. However, if the Portuguese/Anglo fishing fleets were just off the coast by the 1300s, they could have used them trade with the natives at that time. I think the Europeans were active in North America between the Vinland era and 1492, but only to dry cod. Temporary settlements on the coasts would mostly be underwater now.
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Post by cts1 on Sept 11, 2023 20:42:32 GMT
I've always enjoyed utterly shameless propaganda, The Green Berets being the gold standard of course, and The Patriot was a pretty decent effort. Don't get me wrong, "The Green Berets" is shameless propaganda, but it is so weird and off-base, it has "The Room" vibes. Almost like a script about kicking the Japanese out of The Philippines in 1944 was recycled with name changes.
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