We should probably bring them back with cloning instead, and not just for sideshow attractions: iirc Neanderthals would be able to live in the modern day without much trouble

Damn, the oldest instrument wasn’t even from the standard human you see today

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_ramming

This happened all the time around ww2, on the first day of the invasion of the ussr 7 different pilots crashed their planes into German ones after running out of ammunition, one during the first hour. Most of them survived it because they did like the guy in this post and maneuvered it.

Polish pilots would also do it, and Japan had infamously used the same concept but without the chance of survival in the kamikazee attacks

During the Battle of Britain iirc a British pilot had gotten acclaim for doing the same thing, towards the end of the war the nazis had even organized pilots who were supposed to crash.

I didn’t know before today however that the us had done it. It is pretty intuitive though, they mention a lot of the people that i mentioned had figured this move out on their own

Care to fact check anything I said?

This picture makes me sad because it reminds me of how this guy was emotionally taken advantage of, and ignored by the American president and the leaders of western nations

Jesse owens had became something of a nazi sympathizer because of the big reaction in contemporary Germany to his athleticism: they changed a street name in his honor, and infamously hitler had gave him a wave.

Iirc during ww2 he publicly spoke against intervening against the nazis, and when he was an even older man iirc during an interview with a journalist he produced a picture of hitler that he carried with him in his wallet.

Kind of a sad thing to have happened, it’s not like America offered him any positive reinforcement during the most emotional and influential moments in his life, hitler straight took advantage of him :(

“although the U.S. government used legislation such as the Communist Control Act to harass Communist Party members. More ominously, the government also used such acts to investigate and harass numerous other organizations that were deemed to have communist “leanings.” These included the American Civil Liberties Union, labor unions, and the NAACP. “

Edit: during the red scare a us senator asked without irony if an Ancient Greek playwright was a member of the communist party, you’re assuming the red scare was rational

During the red scare they even banned the naacp on the pretext of anti communism

You’re 100% correct

Edit: also in regards to the indigenous movement, after ww2 (which had changed the economic and political reality for indigenous peoples in America) and at the start of the Cold war and red scare, America would propagandize the idea that indigenous movements were communist, and highlighted their shared policies between indigenous activists and communist ones.

They didn’t understand germ theory, I’ve read about their baths, they’d use one tub of water and they’d all blow their nose in it and spit in there before the next guy used it

I’m talking about the Berlin affair, where research pertaining to the Mayan codices (a good amount under fascist hands at this point) were retained and sent to the ussr by this guy, not that he went to Mexico himself or anything

I remember this anecdote well, because most of the written text in this language had been previously systematically destroyed by European powers

I think knorozov had personally saved the majority of the writing left from the Mayans before deciphering it from (according to some) a library fire

This post started off in what I thought was my wheelhouse and every successive word carried it out to tide

Iirc atleast Orwell claims they also paid the ussr in fake money as well