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Quest_techie
06-29-2005, 10:00 AM
mine is alan turing.....

he helped (a lot) to break enigma, further computer science, mathematics, and a whole host of other things

he was arrested after ww2 for homosexuality and died in prison of pneumonia....
Lodog
06-29-2005, 10:18 AM
Giving blankets infested with small pox to indians in revolutionary American times.
TrippinBTM
06-29-2005, 02:41 PM
Treatment of Australian Aboriginees, where the Australian government would kill most of them, then with the remaining ones would steal the children from the parents and raise them in missions or adoptive homes, where they were still generally treated like shit.
AlbanyGoth
06-29-2005, 02:47 PM
Tough to pick one, people have been so warped since the beginning...
Acorn
06-29-2005, 05:25 PM
when the US captured Granamo (indian war hero) and made him preform in a wild west show for the rest of his life.
2cesarewild
06-29-2005, 05:43 PM
The Irish being so fucking poor due to the piece of trash Brits shitting on them that they had to live off of potatoes for years and years.... and when the land became infertile most of them either died off or had to leave their homeland. :mad:
Acorn
06-30-2005, 04:27 PM
oh, and i forgot, the kent state shootings, i know its really recent, but its horrible.
drumminmama
06-30-2005, 08:35 PM
Geranamo volunteered to be on that circuit to get off the fort.
Acorn
07-01-2005, 02:56 PM
Geranamo volunteered to be on that circuit to get off the fort.really? i heard that he had to because he was a pow. either way it sucks.
SunshineTheAngryHipi
07-02-2005, 07:24 PM
my favorite is anybody's story about their ansestors being mistreated that suggests they should get somthing out of it. many african americans want some dough for the whole slave thing. A lot of jews want to get paid now for hitlers bad trip.

I say pay 'em. Why?

cause im Irish and somebody owes me one helluva lot of potatos.
Quest_techie
07-02-2005, 09:51 PM
my favorite is anybody's story about their ansestors being mistreated that suggests they should get somthing out of it. many african americans want some dough for the whole slave thing. A lot of jews want to get paid now for hitlers bad trip.

I say pay 'em. Why?

cause im Irish and somebody owes me one helluva lot of potatos.

so who's going to be footin' the bill for the blacklisted peoples descendants?
SunshineTheAngryHipi
07-04-2005, 02:55 AM
White folks! Yay!
*Ewan*
07-05-2005, 01:08 AM
Mine is the story of lots of the eastern europeans after ww2, who fought for the USSR and what they thought would be freedom for their poeple only to return home and be shot by stalin's men. My grandad narowally avoided this fate.
SilverClover14
07-22-2005, 06:22 AM
The Spanish Civil War, especially the Americans who went voluntarily to help fight on the side of the republic (aka the liberals), many of whom died, only to return to the US and later be blacklisted by McCarthy for supporting a socialist cause.

Also the entire history of South America. They just keep getting screwed over. Even now they're not doing better, with shitty leaders like Chavez in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba and the complete lack of government in Bolivia. It's depressing.
element7
07-24-2005, 01:29 AM
The Spanish Civil War, especially the Americans who went voluntarily to help fight on the side of the republic (aka the liberals), many of whom died, only to return to the US and later be blacklisted by McCarthy for supporting a socialist cause.

Also the entire history of South America. They just keep getting screwed over. Even now they're not doing better, with shitty leaders like Chavez in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba and the complete lack of government in Bolivia. It's depressing.
Sounds like textbook to me, but yeah, bad shit.
*Ewan*
07-25-2005, 01:12 AM
complete lack of government? That's because there's a protaletarian movement in motion. Castro and chavez are the good leaders in latin america. The U$ is the imperialsit influence. And they have been for a long time. Ever ehard of allende? How come you support the socialists in spain but not in latin america?
SilverClover14
07-25-2005, 05:02 AM
Do you know anyone IN Latin America? I have a friend in Caracas who can't get food half of the time due to Chavez's piss poor planning. He's had friends shot in the streets by Colombian guerillas that invaded the Western borders of the country. He can't go back to his hometown because it's overrun by militants and so poverty striken that it's dangerous now.

And the Socialists in Spain was a COMPLETELY different topic. Not to mention that anyone would support the Republicanos (which were not by far all socialist btw) over Franco's Catholic facist rule. The PSOE in Spain now is socialist in the way that France and even Canada are "socialist"- universal healthcare, liberal social views, etc.
samson
07-25-2005, 11:00 AM
Whoever had the brilliant idea to torch the Library at Alexandria, likely the most devastating loss of liftetimes of information ever.... way to set the world back a few centuries there fella!
*Ewan*
07-25-2005, 02:40 PM
Actually i do know people in venezuela who say that chavez has helped them a lot. And is it chavez's fault if imperialsit forces invade his country because they despise socialism. And although the socialist party may have now sold out in spain in the 1930's the spannish people voted for a radical socialist government. Barcelona was full of hammer and sickles, red flags and anachy signs. But of course don't believe that, they were really jsut libreals.
SilverClover14
07-26-2005, 12:01 AM
The most vocal part of Spain at the time was Communists.. however the majority of the opposition to Franco was the moderates who may be a little left leaning, but not all of them were. Barcelona actually supported a completely different cause- a party for the separatist movement in Cataluna- but all the leftist groups joined together against Franco because their freedoms were being threatened. Madrid was the last bastion of Socialism/anarchy/Communism in Spain during the war, not Barcelona.

And it is COMPLETELY Chavez's fault for not protecting his country. I also wouldn't consider Colombian guerrillas to be "imperialist forces".
*Ewan*
07-26-2005, 12:20 AM
double post.
*Ewan*
07-26-2005, 12:23 AM
have you ever ead homage to cataliona? And also your completley discounting the anarchist communes that ran the north of spain at the time. Columbia is a much bigger country thatn venezuela, there's a limited amount someone can do to defend themselves against a bigger and better amred foe. However chavez recently bough 100 000 ak47s and teaching the art of guerilla warfare to the peasants and workers or venezuela is going on as we speak.
taxrefund90
07-29-2005, 08:47 AM
my history sob story would be either the history of the jews or the indians. both of them just caught hell from everyone, where forced to immigrate to different places, and are still being hated.

the whole smallpox blankets story is sad. but for a second, you have to laugh. even when we were trying to help them, we killed them. then stop laughing you inconsiderate bastard.
BlueBong83
07-29-2005, 09:00 AM
Pretty much all of it.
The depredations of the Roman Emperors hold a special place in my heart though.
Zoomie
08-01-2005, 01:47 PM
The fall of Camulodunon, and eventually Albion.
shockseventyfour
08-04-2005, 01:52 AM
the native americans
BraveSirRubin
08-15-2005, 11:21 PM
complete lack of government? That's because there's a protaletarian movement in motion. Castro and chavez are the good leaders in latin america. The U$ is the imperialsit influence. And they have been for a long time. Ever ehard of allende? How come you support the socialists in spain but not in latin america?
You are an idiot.
DharmaBum
08-18-2005, 04:13 PM
You are an idiot.
Nice eh..argument?

He's right ,compared to America's government Castro and chavez are saints, The United State's has toppled democraticly elected governments, installed dictators, and in general helped to create a nightmarish situation for the people of south america.
Soulless||Chaos
08-18-2005, 04:29 PM
Whoever had the brilliant idea to torch the Library at Alexandria, likely the most devastating loss of liftetimes of information ever.... way to set the world back a few centuries there fella!
Definitely agree with you on that one.. There really is no worse one could do than purposely destroy such a wealth of knowledge.
BraveSirRubin
08-18-2005, 06:25 PM
Nice eh..argument?

He's right ,compared to America's government Castro and chavez are saints, The United State's has toppled democraticly elected governments, installed dictators, and in general helped to create a nightmarish situation for the people of south america.
You haven't been to Cuba or Venezuela, have you?
MagicMushrooms
08-19-2005, 06:38 AM
If anybody knows, its monkey boy^ ;)
jay
08-19-2005, 09:57 AM
Whoever had the brilliant idea to torch the Library at Alexandria, likely the most devastating loss of liftetimes of information ever.... way to set the world back a few centuries there fella!
Agree there

and another one people bring up, Tibet and then chinas basicly countrywide social/ethnic gentrification of the nation
flmkpr
08-23-2005, 08:02 PM
my history sob story would be either the history of the jews or the indians. both of them just caught hell from everyone, where forced to immigrate to different places, and are still being hated.

the whole smallpox blankets story is sad. but for a second, you have to laugh. even when we were trying to help them, we killed them. then stop laughing you inconsiderate bastard.what makes you think we were trying to help them??