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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:32am PT
trump brick laying

That'll be the f'n day!💰💰💰
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:33am PT

Anecdotal, Reilly, anecdotal...
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:37am PT
I’ve an endless supply. At some point anecdotes do become evidence, especially when they start out with dirt poor in Nigeria, Egypt, Cameroun, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Mexico, China, Phillipines, India, Ukraine, Alabama. Need I go on? No, I’ll just get ridiculed.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:41am PT

Tell us more about anecdotes becoming evidence...

I can see anecdotes being taken for evidence, but I cannot see anecdotes becoming evidence in any acceptable way scientifically. Kahneman is telling us a thing or two about that.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:45am PT
we need hooblie, talk about anecdotes...
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Feb 20, 2019 - 08:57am PT

The Philosophy of Bullsh#t

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It's impossible to always stay out of bullsh#t, but I often try... not always... I'm too lazy... my brain starts hurting...
couchmaster

climber
Feb 20, 2019 - 12:22pm PT
Stewart asked, quote:
"Hey couchmaster: Are you referring to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team? If so, the bad news is that, as you say, they were shot to pieces. The good news, if it can be called that under the circumstances, was that they indeed made contact with the "Lost Battalion" and led the survivors to safety. Hope that I'm correct about this, as I'm not especially familiar with the details.

The 442nd RCT was one hell of an outfit, and they should be remembered with honour, as should all of our veterans who put their lives on the line to rid the world of fascism.

History has been brutally indifferent to the Allied forces who fought in the Italian Campaign. Their massive contribution to victory in Europe has been pretty well ignored by later generations - as a matter of fact, an inbred English aristocrat at the time unspeakably insulted these brave servicemen by labelling them the "D-Day Dodgers", as if it was a crime to make the first permanent Allied foothold in Europe nearly a year before the Normandy landings."

Yup, father in law was in Company I, which took the worst of the worst. Except he missed it having been shot in the chest earlier by a German near Piza Italy. Said he and some of the "boyz" were patrolling a field when a bunch of Germans raised up and started shooting. He thought he snapped off a shot from the waist that killed the guy who got him but he got knocked over backwards and didn't get a clear view. Medic comes running over and flops right over onto him dead from a head shot. He works to get the medic off and as the firing is dropping off he and another injured buddy stagger off the 10 miles to a field aid station. Says they were leaving the ambulances for the boys who were really injured. He was still out of action when the Lost Battalion thing occurred that killed about everyone else he knew.

Being shot in the chest saved his life. But the war was a long one, D-Day hadn't occurred yet and so his war wasn't over, just on temporary pause until he healed up and went back at it with his unit...or what was the rest of his unit.
Bad Climber

Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
Feb 20, 2019 - 06:02pm PT
Whoa, Couch, that's wild. Some brave-ass bro's, that's for sure. I read an awesome book about the battle for Monte Casino--truly staggering heroism and sacrifice--and waste, of course, the consequence of all wars. Fortunately for all of us, the Italians didn't have the resolve and skills of the Germans. Still, lots of really tough fighting.

Eff the commies! We need lots of better education on the horrors of the various communist regimes.

BAd
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
May 1, 2019 - 10:42pm PT
Happy May Day, Fellow Workers and greetings on International Worker's Day!

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
-- Durruti
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
May 1, 2019 - 10:47pm PT
So why do the workers in the Workers’ Paradise of France spend so much time rioting?
Free healthcare, 10 weeks of vacay, and retiring at 50 don’t cut it?
formerclimber

Boulder climber
CA
May 2, 2019 - 08:15am PT
^ since when France's retirement age 62-67 became "50"?
And 5 weeks became 10 somehow?
If you give free medical care it doesn't negate the fact of people no longer being afford the housing, wages being low, etc. These are their demands, all the right things:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/demands-of-frances-yellow-vests-as-uploaded-by-france-bleu-november-29/

But the rich don't and don't want to understand or notice any of that. "Let them eat cake" Well, this is the last generation to defend this ugly status quo - the last one - big changes ahead!
Won't reply here more, it's a political thread, I guess/not the one who revived it.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
May 2, 2019 - 08:19am PT
A lot of gubmint workers retire in their early 50’s in France and here!
That’s not economically sustainable especially in France where almost one out three work for the gubmint.

And you didn’t answer how burning some other worker’s vehicle or workplace helps anyone. And breaking into a hospital and almost an ICU? They’re anarchist thugs, not people out to make life better for anybody.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
May 2, 2019 - 09:52am PT
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Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
May 2, 2019 - 11:20am PT

"The Internationale" conducted by Arturo Toscanini--Banned by U.S. censors!

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In 1944, to honor the Allied victory in Italy, legendary counductor Arturo Toscanini--a refugee from Fascisim in his home country--decided to conduct a performance of Verdi's "Hymn of the Nations". "Hymn" is a composition that Verdi orginally built around the national anthems of Britain, France, and Italy. In order to honor all four of the major Allies, Toscanini decided to add "The Star Spangled Banner" for the U.S. and "The Internationale" for the Soviet Union. The music was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with the Westminister Choir and the great tenor Jan Peerce as soloist; conducted by Toscanini. It was filmed as a featurette to be shown in movie theaters, and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.

In the early 50's, at the height of the Red Scare and McCarthyism, U.S. censors excised the portion of this performance that featured the "Internationale".

For years the sequence containing The Internationale was considered forever lost. But recently a copy of this missing piece of film was rediscovered in Alaska. So now this rousing rendition of the Internationale--together with chorale and orchestra under the direction of a great conductor--can be enjoyed again.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
May 2, 2019 - 12:10pm PT

Léo Ferré: ni dieu ni maitre

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Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
May 2, 2019 - 03:55pm PT
Marlow, TFPU
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
May 3, 2019 - 08:32am PT
^^ "Socialism" by Michael Harrington
"Socialism Re-examined" and "Socialism on the Defensive" by Norman Thomas
Norton

climber
The Wastelands
May 3, 2019 - 08:53am PT
anothernickname, I see from your profile you live in Tristan, the most remote inhabited place on earth?

wow ! I would be very interested in hearing of your life there
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
May 3, 2019 - 10:10am PT
Countdown to the Lock...

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FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
May 3, 2019 - 10:58am PT
I have read Das Kapital.

I don't think I have posted on this thread before. So you are probably right.

It's a study of how Capitalism works.
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