July 12, 20214 yr How many olds remember Yeltsin and the others climbing on top of the tank? Will we get that moment or a Romanian-style overthrow and execution, or will we get some shaky video taken by some fucknut who doesn't understand why you should always shoot video in landscape mode? Edit: I know it's not quite comparable, since it was a coup d'etat attempt against Gorbachev, but for anybody curious, here's the timeline - shit escaped quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attempt Edited July 12, 20214 yr by atomheartbevo
July 12, 20214 yr I'm not betting money, but my gut says we won't be getting a Tiananmen Square scenario where the government crushes it and things go back to the way they were. 50 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: I would watch the young officers and the non-secret police. If they stay in the barracks the regime is fucked. 1234. And if the non-secret police are standing by while their vehicles are flipped/destroyed, I feel like it's creeping along in that direction. Edited July 12, 20214 yr by atomheartbevo
July 12, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, hayden_horn said: seriously, i don't get it. i love talking about political stuff on the cloak room board. i don't try to bring baseball into the football forum. it's the strangest fucking thing. Some people have nothing else they can discuss but politics . Seems to be from the angry type crowd.
July 12, 20214 yr 8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: How many olds remember Yeltsin and the others climbing on top of the tank? Will we get that moment or a Romanian-style overthrow and execution, or will we get some shaky video taken by some fucknut who doesn't understand why you should always shoot video in landscape mode? Edit: I know it's not quite comparable, since it was a coup d'etat attempt against Gorbachev, but for anybody curious, here's the timeline - shit escaped quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attempt Hopefully some good music as well.
July 12, 20214 yr 21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: They are definitely fucking with cops and getting ballsy Also, saw some pretty good throws. Hopefully David Pierce has some folks looking at tape and can get some scouts down there. That is a lot different than the usual throw with your shoulder and arm while the rock takes a slow high arch to the target you usually see from protestors. Some of these guys looked like they were trying to throw someone out and that is awesome.
July 12, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, F250 said: That is a lot different than the usual throw with your shoulder and arm while the rock takes a slow high arch to the target you usually see from protestors. Some of these guys looked like they were trying to throw someone out and that is awesome. Like I said, UT Baseball needs to be down there making offers. There were at least 3-4 that were definitely getting close to putting rocks through the side windows, if they weren't in fact doing so. And hey, put a MLB team in Havana while we are at it. The local talent alone would be awesome to see. Edited July 12, 20214 yr by atomheartbevo
July 12, 20214 yr Author Did someone put music to that video or is that just what’s playing in the background.
July 12, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said: If the protests are in 5 known cities and counting, we very well could get the Romanian scenario. Some analyst (wrote a book on the fall the Soviets/Eastern Europe, forgot the name), said today was crucial - if the government couldn't snuff out the protests today, and it expanded, then we are getting into the territory BabaYaga is talking about. He said it could accelerate much faster simply because of social media - the old guard in Europe was actually able to keep a lot more people in other cities in the dark (Ceaușescu fucked up with one of his speeches being broadcast nationwide, allowing other cities to realize what was going on). I remember having to watch the Soviet Union/Berlin Wall on cable news, with no way to get anything past what they had on TV. This is kind of wild. Those were heady days. I spent the 1989-1990 school year in France and the coverage of the various Soviet satellites falling one-by-one that fall into winter was nonstop. The town where I was going to school had a sister-city relationship with one in West Germany near Cologne/Bonn called Waldbrol. During the break between Christmas and New Years, the school sent about 40-50 of us on a pre-planned trip to stay with some German families there. By that time, the Berlin Wall had fallen and all the German teenagers we were hanging out with were ready to party, so we set up on top of a retention wall at the top of a ridge (originally built by the Nazis to form the foundation for a planned Hitler Youth school) overlooking the town and got fucking wasted on champagne and beer. Me, an 18-year-old from a small West Texas town hanging out with a bunch of French and German kids, and being feted by a bunch of appreciative Europeans merely for the fact that I was an American, whose only contribution to winning the Cold War was watching Red Dawn about a half-dozen times. I think the first German phrase I learned (and actually used countless times probably to an annoying degree) was Gutes Neues Jahr! And, yes, I got laid that night by a cute, little brunette Fraulein and learned that German can actually sound a little sexy when whispered in your ear...but I digress.
July 12, 20214 yr 33 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: Okay, bad analogy, but they aren't even hiding the fact that they are trying to get it moved to CR, as if they are the arbiter of what threads are allowed in the current event forum. Who is they?
July 12, 20214 yr What is the end game for these regimes? For the few in power to live in luxury while the country crumbles around you?
July 12, 20214 yr 16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: How many olds remember Yeltsin and the others climbing on top of the tank? Will we get that moment or a Romanian-style overthrow and execution, or will we get some shaky video taken by some fucknut who doesn't understand why you should always shoot video in landscape mode? Edit: I know it's not quite comparable, since it was a coup d'etat attempt against Gorbachev, but for anybody curious, here's the timeline - shit escaped quickly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attempt This photo would be so much cooler w/this guy in it...
July 12, 20214 yr Here's a description of that wall from Wiki: Quote "The Wall: (aka "the Hitler Wall"), a remnant of Robert Ley's megalomaniacal projects during the Nazi era, offering an panoramic view of Waldbröl and a magnificent distant view over the landscape of upper Berg county. It was a part of the projected Adolf Hitler School. In the early 1980s, unknowns painted the slogan "No more war!" in huge letters upon the wall. Recently the wall got a complete overhaul and the slogan was re-painted. The wall is now officially approved as a "Monument To Peace". Reads: "No More War!" I somehow remember a lot more graffiti on back then though.
July 13, 20214 yr 10 minutes ago, washparkhorn said: Who is they? I don't save posts, and can't view deleted posts, but you know, the people who were getting their posts deleted.
July 13, 20214 yr 22 minutes ago, workswithseed said: Hopefully some good music as well. Fuck the Serbs. I have been to Gorazde, Srebrenica and across Bosnia.
July 13, 20214 yr 16 minutes ago, Cajun said: This photo would be so much cooler w/this guy in it... What an awesome movie. I wish I could have seen the deleted scenes that Eastwood raved about. Edited July 13, 20214 yr by atomheartbevo
July 13, 20214 yr This photo would be so much cooler w/this guy in it...Don't hit me with them negative waves
July 13, 20214 yr I asked a Cuban at the office for his thoughts and he said what's surprising to him is that protests also happening in small towns where everyone knows each other so everyone knows who is out protesting (including the secret police). No anonymity that you might get in the larger cities...
July 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Grimas said: I asked a Cuban at the office for his thoughts and he said what's surprising to him is that protests also happening in small towns where everyone knows each other so everyone knows who is out protesting (including the secret police). No anonymity that you might get in the larger cities... God damn. Those magnificent tits.
July 13, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, workswithseed said: God damn. Those magnificent tits. Wait.......... what tits dammit ??!!!
July 13, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, Nicole44 said: Wow. Protests growing. I’m both scared for and proud of the protestors Are we sure that's not for Catalonia and somebody is fucking around? My Spanish is rusty, but I see stuff mentioning Barcelona in there, and the flag matches that.
July 13, 20214 yr Just now, atomheartbevo said: Are we sure that's not for Catalonia and somebody is fucking around? My Spanish is rusty, but I see stuff mentioning Barcelona in there, and the flag matches that. Gott damned Basques !!!!
July 13, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, bad_teammate said: Oh this thread only welcomes economic imperialism and Nation Building warmongering? Oh, this post/poster only welcomes localized or nationalized fiefdoms/authoritarian regimes?
July 13, 20214 yr Hope the people don't give up!! The members of my gf family who are stuck in and participated in the Venezuela protests have not done well after. 1 left to Bolivia and 1 is in Peru after they got threats that they were being looked for. Takes a big ol pair of nuts to do this shit in these countries
July 13, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: Are we sure that's not for Catalonia and somebody is fucking around? My Spanish is rusty, but I see stuff mentioning Barcelona in there, and the flag matches that. Yeah, that is not Cuba. Hope it becomes like that though.
July 13, 20214 yr 6 hours ago, David Dennison said: Not to nit pick, but Cuba was never a third world country. It was aligned with the Soviet Union. Oh so second world......
July 13, 20214 yr 3 hours ago, bad_teammate said: Oh this thread only welcomes economic imperialism and Nation Building warmongering? You are a sad little man.....
July 13, 20214 yr How many olds remember Yeltsin and the others climbing on top of the tank? If I remember that It makes me an old? I’m only 53. How about the time old Boris took a tour of the Clear Lake Randall’s. That was good theatre.
July 13, 20214 yr 29 minutes ago, Nicole44 said: Wow. Protests growing. I’m both scared for and proud of the protestors. Fake news, banner in the middle says "Barcelona": Edited July 13, 20214 yr by elfenix
July 13, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, bad_teammate said: If you could explain the difference between "politics" and "not politics" that would be great. It's a thread advocating meddling and regime change for the purpose enriching US corporation. Can you tell me how that is not "political" when my first post here is? How do I block your posts?
July 13, 20214 yr Author 3 minutes ago, twosheds said: If I remember that It makes me an old? I’m only 53. How about the time old Boris took a tour of the Clear Lake Randall’s. That was good theatre. Wait wut?
July 13, 20214 yr 11 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: Yeah, that is not Cuba. Hope it becomes like that though. This looks like the Cuban Capitol. If that was taken this evening, that's a fuckload of people and nobody trying to drive them away. Edited July 13, 20214 yr by atomheartbevo
July 13, 20214 yr Just now, atomheartbevo said: This looks like the Cuban Capitol. If that was taken this evening, that's a fuckload of people and nobody trying to drive them away. That one is. I am sitting with a buddy right now who verifies the building.
July 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Rip76 said: Wait wut? gorby visited a randall's in clear lake and realized how badly soviet government had failed.
July 13, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, bad_teammate said: It's so sad that you guys consider this a right-wing safe space. It’s sad that you can’t talk about anything without dumping your shit politics into it.
July 13, 20214 yr And they are claiming this as well - some are asking if it was yesterday, but he claims today, and even if they were yesterday, that's far more people than I've seen in the other ones, and they are definitely fucking with cops in the video below.
July 13, 20214 yr Author 1 minute ago, elfenix said: gorby visited a randall's in clear lake and realized how badly soviet government had failed. Holy shit. Why Clear lake? NASA?
July 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Rip76 said: Holy shit. Why Clear lake? NASA? oops was boris not gorby, and yeah, visited nasa: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/02/21/361467/boris-yelstins-1989-visit-to-a-houston-grocery-store-is-now-an-opera/
July 13, 20214 yr Same with this one - looks like a complete loss of control if they are openly looting these stores.
July 13, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, Parliament said: How do I block your posts? Hover your cursor over the avatar, wait for the pop-up, click ignore user. You're welcome. 4 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said: That's awesome and all, but does the Cuban military let them enter their waters, land on shore, and distribute the aid? I fucking hope so but have my doubts.
July 13, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, bolverk said: Hover your cursor over the avatar, wait for the pop-up, click ignore user. You're welcome. That's awesome and all, but does the Cuban military let them enter their waters, land on shore, and distribute the aid? I fucking hope so but have my doubts. As long as they don't use the Bay of Pigs it should be cool.
July 13, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, bolverk said: Hover your cursor over the avatar, wait for the pop-up, click ignore user. You're welcome. That's awesome and all, but does the Cuban military let them enter their waters, land on shore, and distribute the aid? I fucking hope so but have my doubts. Hurricane gonna come up and push them to the Bahamas.
July 13, 20214 yr That's awesome and all, but does the Cuban military let them enter their waters, land on shore, and distribute the aid? I fucking hope so but have my doubts.Yeah, not sure what the end game is hear. Maybe get close and let current float it over to Cuban fishermen?? No idea.
July 13, 20214 yr 25 minutes ago, Trey3216 said: Oh, this post/poster only welcomes localized or nationalized fiefdoms/authoritarian regimes? I welcome conversation without people crying to the moderators to silence dissenting opinions about politics.
July 13, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, Nicole44 said: Rain pouring down and all…crowd keeps growing. Fucking awesome. that's miami. you're really bad at this.
July 13, 20214 yr Just now, bad_teammate said: I welcome conversation without people crying to the moderators to silence dissenting opinions about politics. IT'S NOT A THREAD IN CR SO PLEASE STFU. If that's a problem just stop posting in this thread unless you can discuss the situation without making it a political rant.
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