Upon deliberation, my favorite part:

He led the landing party personally on 29 June 1817 with the words: "I shall sleep either in hell or Amelia tonight!" The Spanish commander at Fort San Carlos, with 51 men and several cannon, vastly overestimated the size of MacGregor's force and surrendered without either side firing a shot.

Spanish forces congregated on the mainland opposite Amelia, and MacGregor and most of his officers decided on 3 September 1817 that the situation was hopeless and that they would abandon the venture. MacGregor announced to the men that he was leaving, explaining vaguely that he had been "deceived by my friends."

He turned over the command to one of his subordinates,** a former Pennsylvania congressman** named Jared Irwin, and he boarded the Morgiana with his wife on 4 September 1817 with an angry crowd looking on and hurling insults at him. He waited offshore for a few days, then left on the schooner Venus on 8 September.

Irwin's troops defeated two Spanish assaults and were then joined by 300 men under Louis-Michel Aury, who held Amelia for three months before surrendering to American forces, who held the island "in trust for Spain" until the Florida Purchase in 1819.

Two weeks later, the MacGregors arrived at Nassau in the Bahamas, where he arranged to have commemorative medallions struck bearing the Green Cross motif and the Latin inscriptions Amalia Veni Vidi Vici ("Amelia, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered") and Duce Mac Gregorio Libertas Floridarium ("Liberty for the Floridas under the leadership of MacGregor").

He made no attempt to repay those who had funded the Amelia expedition.

Press reports of the Amelia Island affair were wildly inaccurate, partly because of misinformation disseminated by MacGregor himself.

Imagine what this man could do social media.

Oh, and he his born shortly thereafter was named ::: spoiler spoiler Gregorio, Gregor MacGregor fathered Gregorio MacGregor :::

There are too many aspects to his life story worthy of mention, torrenting a biography now. Thanks for linking a wild ride of a wikipedia article.

I don’t think he is going to either, pissing off the more liberal parts of audience would cost him money. It would be nice though, even if it did nothing.

He should endorse PSL, maybe a chunk of his audience would listen.

If you want to understand the Israeli mind abandon all humanity first and take a shower after.

If you are a terrorist piece of settler shit like Israel it weakens the infrastructure of a neighbor you need to keep weak. The medical people are crucial resources. It should speak for itself how losing them hurts the capability of Lebanon. The random office workers getting hit sows fear, typical terrorist shit plus pulling away educated potential officers should they become willing to fight in the future (short sighted, this is going to radicalize more than it killed/disabled).

Edit: I also don’t believe that _none _ of those hit weren’t the brave fighters of Hezbollah. It would be an act of complete incompetence to go through the effort of coordinating this and not having any targeting in place. Hezbollah probably chose a previously vetted device (being the sort used by medical workers is strong vetting if nothing else) that was common (don’t want to stand out too much). Again, this was terrorism first in terms of analysis. Second, it was a war crime. I’m sure there are other descriptors that take precedent before describing it as a military action, but it realistically it did damage the fighting capability of Hezbollah and state capabilities of Lebanon as a whole. That is all the zionazis care about (too generous they view dead kids as good for the most part)

Agreed, to try and definitely speculate further is an act of augury. We can only hope the entrails are optimistic.

To clarify: they had two waves. My line of logic is that if a third wave exists the attack comes then. The absence of an attack after the first and second either means a) this is desperation : they had a means to draw blood and took it because in absence of a means to kill causing injury is the next best b) it’s a multi stage softening

My most optimistic take, c) is that they have no follow through. Softening as a delay action. They can’t/ don’t see a path to victory as of now and see hurting the organizational structure as a means of buying time to fix that.

Edit: forgot to tie-in that every comm device is suspect rn. The one-two of making multiple comms potentially lethal harms every device. If your pager lows up, if your walkie blows up, you might not keep the other devices attached to your person. A third attack on the second backup shortly followed by invasion would maximize lack of comms. Nothing would be trusted in that temporary period.

Anti-doomer counterattack on the line of thought: they are super dedicated and I bet a ton of the resistance has a line along “my comms might kill me, their missiles too. Without the comms I am unable to coordinate the fight, so fuck it I keep the radio”.

It’s not a Pearl Harbor level advantage, but they did deal a lot of damage. The best preemptive strike completely removes and the second best disrupts comms, they’ve done that twice. As a non-doomer preface: Pearl Harbor was much larger advantage, but the similarities also include that both attacks didn’t do shit to address the underlying advantage. Pearl Harbor attacked the ships, not the shipyards. Ships can be replaced. Callous as it sounds, there is no shortage of those moral and brave enough to replace those lost in terms of war effort and war effort alone. In no way should this be read as ignoring the irreplaceable nature of those lost within the context of community, family, society, ect. That being said a soldier is a tool and can be replaced. Unless a uniquely talented individual was lost, this a setback not a permanent wound.

we don’t, and are unlikely to (if ever) get a proper breakdown of just effective it was. Israel lies as in the Israeli nature. Hezbollah gains nothing form a press release saying “yeah, our dudes got blown up in x amount”. They also gain nothing from not downplaying it given that lies in the opposite direction are given.

There is also the angle that damaging the organizational structure damages the ability to engage in offensives. Defensive intent realized by offensive terrorism. It fits the zionazi mindset.

Is a lithium capable? I genuinely don’t know.

My personal theory is there was no hacking. They identified a plant that produced the pagers and got explosives in there. How the fuck do you make a pager explode with such force assuming all normal factory parts? They have a history of putting explosives in cell phones and this seems a natural corollary.

It would be fucked up but also interesting to learn if somebody has knowledge on how a pager can just do that, but even the Samsung shit didn’t have this lethal a result

The miso paste is m the only part that wouldn’t be in house, hell yeah. Thanks, I might be able to get this to be a thing. Cheers

Would you be cool with linking or providing search terms? My store is somehow actually serious about incorporating suggestions and the feta is the only aspect I don’t have an in-house answer for in regards to a viable proposal to making an ad around “buy our stuff and make a vegan Greek salad”

As a fellow “I got blackout and injured myself” person, vodka rules and sucks at the same time lol

Is it “center piece of a Greek salad good? One of my untrained veganified recipes is my “Greek salad wrap” and that sounds like a potential answer.

Some lit reply videos in there

Blue oyster cult :solidarity: Yemen

Furthermore, look at what “normal” people have done with the place. NeoliberalS are “normal”, chuds are “normal”. Guess who isn’t “normal”? Comrades. Weird is objectively better. Being a comrade m is “weird”, being a comrade is better. “Normal” people suck.

He lives in a Chinese EV down by the river

Keep in mind that they still haven’t taken the entirety of the areas that want to be a part of Russia. The areas past that which are required for defensible borders are probably going to empty out/ self-select anyways.

It’s not a question of if Russia ends up taking whatever amount of the ukraine they decide is required to have a defensible border, it’s a question of time and cost. If they start getting hit by long range missiles deep within their pre-war territory the gloves might finally come off which would end the war much more quickly since such strikes aren’t something that can be tolerated for long.

If this is what BBS was like, I’m officially a return type for that specific thing. Way better than what is currently the norm.

Furthermore, the willow bends in the storm and and survives whereas the inflexible oak breaks.

Good for ND! Reaffirming my wish to live there one day.

Inventing a larger Time Machine so I can give John brown a Sherman firefly

And famously obeyed.

I bet I know which achievement these people mad about physics got first…

Are any of them complaining about the soundtrack? I played the original (teenager, poor decisions were made) and the soundtrack was actually super lit. No way they shelled out for the rights to all of those songs a second time for the cash grab remake.

I know he would be bad on a lot of stuff in terms of domestic policy because of religion, but he’d definitely be on the ground in Gaza if he were alive today.

Side note: John Brown going communist and being head of state would definitely result in revolution export. He’d do Che style heroics except with the military going with him.

John Brown. Look at what he managed to do with a small militia and imagine him with a proper military.

Looking at the content: Nak explicitly said that content towards BE and you made it clear to support comrades BE would not.

Maybe it genuinely wasn’t directed at you?

I reiterate the link request. Self harm bait is a serious matter.

So I looked into it, wasn’t the comment not even directed at you? It was about the Twitter guy. Please link if I’m wrong.

For what it’s worth, I think that closing the user union comm was a mistake. The way it was had to change, but pure removal wasn’t ideal.

Please report/ link. Harassment can cause harm. If somebody is actively harassing, I want them gone. If this place has any value, most of the rest do as well. That sounds fucked up.

Humanity is going to survive, perhaps in small isolated pockets that never reach the potential capitalism squandered.

That being said, if I were to have a kid I’d be taking on the burden of finding a way to set them up for a good life. I don’t see a good life in near to mid term future for anyone not extremely lucky in birth circumstance.

He accidentally kills a bunch of nepotism beneficiaries.

I get you, I had an 8th the time I felt little (my meds probably contributed to the lack of effect more than anything).

I was not trying to imply any danger or recklessness, merely an appreciation for the way relative measures and vagueness can simultaneously work and be utterly confusing devoid of the context of actually being there.

More of a humanity and language are cool Ina humorous way type vibe.

I love the intersection of “probably” and “whole bag as a unit of measurement”.

I wonder how many actually learned vs how many missed the point and patted each other on the back over “saving a nonexistent dog”

That’s wild, only time I did shrooms I had nothing like that. Just a wavy distortion of vision and loosening of social anxiety.

A cuddle puddle with a litter of puppies sounds like an amazing experience even without shrooms. Stalin and puppies sounds even better. Add the shrooms? That’s a trifecta of top tier experiences.

If you could remember, what would you have talked about with Stalin? One part of me would want to ask for advice and the other wants to get to know the guy, maybe talk about westerns and Kurosawa

Public transport knowledge is good!