They literally had to turn off replies to this because footage of a great American city from 50 years ago is too radicalizing.
This is where we are.
Willfully destroyed, in every sense.
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Enemy: The Germans’ War, pt. 2 - The Work of the Men
As the Allies toast their victory in the Great War, the starving, exhausted German soldier returns to find his home besieged by a new enemy more terrible than any he faced in the trenches.
Enemy: The Germans' War, pt. 2 - The Work of the Men
As the starving, exhausted people of Germany process their defeat in the Great War, they face a new enemy more terrible than any they faced in the trenches. (Link below)
Bobby Fischer was able to defeat the Soviet school of chess by copying it, and then subverting it through a long term plan. He learned from reading their magazines, studying their games. In the 1960s learning certain openings and structures inside and out was the way to victory. This is something Botvinnik was teaching all the Soviet masters. And they passed this training on. Fischer picked it up in their literature. He didn’t have a Soviet teacher - which is another reason to admire his achievement.
Beyond opening analysis - the USSR masters would focus on consistent endgame play. Fischer became proficient in winning endgames where he had a bishop and his opponent had a knight - he studied this endlessly and became unbeatable in such situations. And he mastered rook endings - which every GM must do.
But his masterstroke to the World Championship was hiding his ideas until 1972. Fischer was so good that he beat everyone to become the challenger to Boris Spassky. But in doing so he played the openings everyone expected him to play. What he had been playing for a decade. The Soviets knew what he would do, prepared for it - but Fischer beat them anyway.
Then he shifted course.
When he played Spassky for the actual World Championship in Iceland, he unleashed new ideas in the Benoni, the Alekhine, the Queen’s Gambit. These were openings he mostly avoided his entire career. He had planned this stuff for years. For one moment in 1972. And he delivered.
It’s an extraordinary achievement. It was a feat of great planning. And Fischer was the GOAT because he put far more distance between himself and every other player than anyone else - including Kasparov and Carlsen - has ever achieved.
Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity.
Holy Week and Easter services will be prohibited. Sunday masses and liturgies cancelled. A church that should be packed with hundreds of thousands these coming weeks is being forcibly shut and silenced.
Israel cites it is for ‘security concerns’ while Jewish Israelis are allowed to celebrate in mass gatherings. Alongside the forced closure of Al-Aqsa mosque, reports cite priests aggressively being turned away to perform daily services.
Throughout history, wars, tensions, or even the pandemic limited access to the sanctuary, but they had never prevented liturgical celebrations in this central place of Christian faith indefinitely. Christians must not remain silent.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
They laugh at the stable. And they always miss the birth. The soul is not reborn in golden halls. It is reborn in stables. Among animals. In poverty. In the quiet faith of those who have nothing to prove. I would rather kneel at that poor table than feast in their empty temples
I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.