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I dunno why, but this seems like the sort of thing Sombra would say in a speech to his troops.
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Go for it! You won’t be disappointed.
After looking up the show’s premise, as well as seeing its scores on major reviewing sites, i’m very eager to give to give this show a watch.
I’d argue Archer is one of the best shows on TV right now.
Heh, thanks :).
On another topic I’ve noticed that several of your captions reference a show called Archer, is it any good?
In that case, I’d try getting a used MacBook and upgrading it. It’d be cheaper than and just as good as a new one.
I’m currently split between that or saving up for a Macbook. On one hand I like the Ipad for it being great to use on the go as well as it costing hundreds of dollars less. On the other hand I’m unsure if it would be worth it in the long run since not only is my printer likely not compatible with one, but I someday want to learn to create digital art which would likely be difficult to do on a mobile device.
Oh?
Actually you were, I’ve just been considering getting an Ipad instead.
Sorry I couldn’t be of help.
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind.
I’ve had it for around three years or so. As for the price, I wouldn’t be able to tell you, since I got it as a birthday present.
Hmm, and how long have you had it and what was the price if you don’t mind me asking?
I use an iPad.
Aiming for the highest one possible I see, and how many years does it usually take to get one?
That was actually the brand of laptop I had before that went out after only three years of usage, plus from an article that I read Toshiba had been performing dead last in a rating list of the top laptop brands. I’m hoping to get one that lasts at least five years. What brand do you use? Or do you use something else like a tablet?
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I’m aiming for a doctorate in 20th century history, as well as a degree in education.
Hmmm - why not go with a Toshiba?
Nice. And what type of degree are you aiming for at this point?
Also I’m planning to finally get a new Laptop soon, nothing too fancy or expensive, just one for the average internet user. Got any suggestions?
I usually get recommendations from my academic advisor or my professors.
Of course, racism was a factor. Why am I not surprised. Although that also explains why Leopold II didn’t become an infamous household name after the hell he was putting the Congolese through became known to the public.
Although that doesn’t explain why you hardly hear about any those atrocities in the media today. Given that they are all dead and almost universally despised, one would think that at least some notable films would be made about Mussolini, Leopold II, and Franco.
I see, and how do you decide on what books and articles to read for your research?
Well, most of Mussolini’s crimes happened in Africa: people back then didn’t care as much about the lives of Africans and Arabs under the Italian boot (pun intended) as they did about western Europeans who’d suffered under Nazi occupation. There’s also the fact that after WWII, people were too pre-occupied with the threat posed by Stalin to focus on the crimes of Mussolini, Franco and other Axis satellites.
I tend to use books and scholarly articles for my research. I got most of that info on Mussolini from biographies about him written by Denis Mack Smith and R.J.B. Bosworth, respectively.
So as a result of massive unnecessary historic villain downgrades by media portrayals of him, what was essentially the secondary big bad of WWII’s European theater is now mostly thought of as an incompetent moron? Unbelievable. I can understand it happening in propaganda and other comedic works that poked fun at him before those atrocities were widely known such as The Great Dictator, but one would think that once the war ended his infamy would have been close to, if not on-par with Hideki Tojo’s.
The obscurity of his atrocities must be quite severe since the Interwar and WWII sections of my American history and world history classes didn’t mention any of the ones you just listed, either that of the public education in this country is worse than I thought.
The media’s treatment of Mussolini reminds me of how they typically portrayed Hermann Göring as being such a dunce that he couldn’t even tie his own shoes despite him apparently having an I.Q level of around 138.
So what websites do you get most of this knowledge from? I know you go to a wide variety of them, but I’m just asking for the ones you use most often.
Thanks.
A lot of people don’t know just how bad Mussolini was. Granted, his crimes pale in comparison to Hitler’s, but he wasn’t the harmless buffoon he’s often portrayed as. Off the top of my head, I can think of the following crimes committed by Il Dux:
*Established concentration camps in Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia and occupied Yugoslavia. The camps in Libya were probably the worst, with nearly 55% of those imprisoned dying due to starvation or disease.
*Mussolini killed around one-third of the population of Cyrenaica to make room for Italian settlers.
*Used chemical weapons on Ethiopian troops during the Italo-Abyssinian war. Mussolini also explicitly ordered his generals to attack Red Cross hospitals and refugee camps in Ethiopia.
*Provided military and material support to Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Mussolini’s Blackshirts played an important part in Franco’s terror campaign against the Spanish Republic, while Italian planes bombed civilian targets in Republican cities.
*Supported the Ustase regime in Croatia. The Ustase was a fascist puppet regime so violent and destructive that even the Nazis were taken aback by how cruel they were.
Mussolini was certainly a vain man prone to bluster who made some monumentally stupid decisions during the Second World War, but he was not a harmless buffoon by any stretch of the imagination.
@Crystal Neighybánya
Does your knowledge of history have any limits? From what I’ve learned from you so far, I could tell you are going to be an excellent history professor.
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Crispin Freeman, Steve Blum, Fred Tatasciore and David Hayter (especially Hayter if you want to go for that Nominal Hero angle) are all perfectly fitting VA’s for Sombra
Well, Musso was athiest, Italy was majority Catholic and most of its victims were either black or Muslim (or both). Make of that what you will.