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I died in hell – They called it Passchendaele

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"Once trench warfare set in everyone was bound to the wheel; and when the High Command gave it a turn, Army, Corps and divisional commanders turned with it." WW1 History PhD student, Canberra, Australia.
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Heads up chief, state library of Queensland has just released an Anzac AI chatbot. I am waiting for the inevitable backlash for when it says something stupid.

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thank you for letting me know about this. it's pretty horrific and insulting to both the memory of ww1 veterans and the public at large.

so of course i spent a few hours yesterday trying to fuck with it

god it sounded so bitchy. throwing in 'mate' all the time just makes it sound so mad. having it say cunt would have been much more accurate and probably friendlier too

the perfidious turk has taken control of the machine.

aw come on. i've read soldiers diaries and letters home, this is a cop out.

ok, so it wasn't that hard to get it to be an ethno-nationalist

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It’s Friday (time to blast Franz Ferdinand because I’m so so tired but can’t stop now because I have five midterms next week and haven’t studied nearly enough)

Oh... the band

- Gavrilo Princip on the 28th of June 1914

MARLIN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY POOR POST IT’S ESCAPING CONTAINMENT

Assassinating a head of state is a pretty effective way to get out of exams

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But the war disclosed no great generals, for the simple reason that, except for the opening phase of retreat from Mons and the advance back to the Aisne, the move round to cover the Channel Ports, and the final advance of all, there was little scope for generalship. Once trench warfare set in everyone was bound to the wheel; and when the High Command gave it a turn, Army, Corps and Divisional commanders turned with it. Both sides were locked in a stranglehold from which neither could break away; they shifted their grip occasionally, and now and then got in a good body blow, but the end could only come with the physical and moral exhaustion of one or the other.

General John Burnett-Stuart in his private memoir of the war.

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An early example of a reply guy, writing directly to the king to complain about the "disloyalty of many prominent persons within the Commonwealth of Australia, especially in New South Wales."

their speeches argue for a "republican government of Australia and in which the Crown is spoken of with the utmost hatred" sounds pretty fucking cool to me

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