Randy

Married Christian ✝️ politically incorrect Gardening, Traveling, Nature, Fishing, Orioles/Nationals ⚾️ Capitals 🏒Maryland 🏀🏉 & Redskins 🏈 No Crypto

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@Holy__Bible1 Amen

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Amen

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@OUTDChannel @ethan Haha

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Don't mind me, 😂!!!

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@VoicesofWW2 Heroes 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Marines on Saipan with an M4A2 Sherman - June 1944

Note the trench shotgun and flamethrower

Peter Stackpole Photographer
LIFE Magazine Archives / WWP-PD

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@fasc1nate Evil is evil

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Pol Pot, the former dictator of Cambodia, stands as one of history's most notorious figures, responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million people—approximately a quarter of Cambodia's population during his rule. His regime is often compared to the most devastating events in human history, with a level of destruction that, relative to the size of the population he governed, surpasses even the horrors perpetrated by figures like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and King Leopold. While these leaders presided over much larger nations, Pol Pot's regime is distinguished by the unprecedented proportion of his country’s population that perished under his rule.

What is particularly unsettling about Pol Pot is the apparent ease with which he continued his life, often seen smiling despite the atrocities he committed. His policies led to the mass murder of Cambodian citizens for reasons that defy rational understanding. Intellectuals, the well-educated, and even those with poor eyesight—individuals whom he associated with intellectualism—were systematically targeted and killed, often without regard to their political beliefs.

The scale of the intellectual and cultural destruction under Pol Pot's regime was so vast that it resulted in a measurable decline in the national average IQ, as the country’s most talented and critical thinkers were exterminated.

The depravity of his actions is difficult to fully comprehend, serving as a stark reminder of the perils of absolute power when unchecked by any form of accountability.

The true nature of a leader is often concealed at the onset of their rule, and in the case of Pol Pot, his true nature revealed itself as one of extreme brutality and ideological fanaticism. His leadership can be likened to a real-world manifestation of a character like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, whose actions were driven not by coherent ideology but by an almost incomprehensible desire to inflict harm, leaving an entire nation devastated in his wake.

The most haunting photos ever taken: https://t.co/POrqRRccxc

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@TaraBull Hopefully they get what they deserve

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Horrific Texas Murdɛr: Smiling 19 Year Old "Cookie" Diaz Was the Stabber

Amaya "Cookie" Diaz, 19, was the one who repeatedly stabbɛd 32 year old mother of five Caroline “Caro” Peña in broad daylight during an argument in Del Rio, Texas, on June 25.

Cookie and her sister Kitty Mia Diaz, 21, along with their friend Kyandra Renee Faz, 21, have all been charged with first-degree murder and hit with $5 million bonds each.

Surveillance video reportedly shows Cookie jumping out of a car with a knife, stabbıng Peña in the back, then all three attacking her before fleeing. Peña was rushed to the hospital by her nephew but died hours later in San Antonio.

The three women were reportedly smiling as they were arrested.

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The beheading of sergeant Leonard Siffleet by a japanese officer during WWII.

Sergeant Leonard George Siffleet was an Australian commando serving with the M Special Unit of the Services Reconnaissance Department during World War II. In 1943, he was deployed as part of Operation Whiting, a mission to establish a coastwatching station in Japanese-occupied Dutch New Guinea. Trained as a radio operator, Siffleet worked alongside Dutch Sergeant H.N. Staverman and two Ambonese privates, H. Pattiwal and M. Reharing. Their mission was compromised when they were ambushed by pro-Japanese locals; Staverman was killed, and the others were captured after a brief firefight.

The prisoners were handed over to Japanese forces and endured interrogation and torture for about two weeks. Eventually, they were marched to Aitape Beach, where they were blindfolded and forced to kneel before a crowd of Japanese soldiers and local collaborators. On October 24, 1943, Japanese naval officer Yasuno Chikao executed Siffleet by beheading, while Pattiwal and Reharing were also killed. Chikao ordered another soldier to photograph the execution, creating one of the most infamous images of the Pacific War.

In April 1944, U.S. forces recovered the photograph from the body of a Japanese soldier. The image was later confirmed to depict Siffleet, though it was initially misattributed to other Allied prisoners. While beheadings were not uncommon during the war, this remains the only known surviving photograph of a Japanese execution of a prisoner.

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@NoDMsPerfavore Nice form

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Practice makes perfect! 🇺🇸

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@fasc1nate Cool story

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Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣

My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.

It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣

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@bagshaw2112 Haha

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@TheBestqueenx Haha

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It is a French kiss?