#dresden bombing

[n0isy-gh0st]

“I didn’t know of a sound that could possibly frighten me more until I heard three slow knocks on the door. 

It was such an ordinary, everyday sound that was so viscerally wrong in that moment that we all collectively froze. We looked at each other to make sure we weren’t imagining things, having some shared hallucination. It wasn’t debris, and it certainly wasn’t a bomb—it was a human knock, and a polite one at that, as though someone had come to visit for afternoon tea. 

No, it was impossible that someone was alive out there, exposed to the firestorm… but it was that impossibility that made me rise to my feet and cautiously approach the door. I ignored the cries of protest from the others and, holding the wet towel against my nose and mouth, threw it open.

First, the powerful winds blew toxic, blistering air inside, full of poison and ash and death. As I grasped the door frame and looked out, I didn’t see anyone at first—just the flames of white and yellow licking the nearby buildings that threatened to melt the very skin from my exposed flesh—but then I looked down.

I reckon this is where my memory will be dismissed as the mad, traumatized hallucinations of a man trapped in an inferno, but madness or not, this was what I saw. I would never lie to you, I swear I would never lie. 

Enormous black wings flickered into view. They were set ablaze, burning down to the bones. As they fell limp once more, they disintegrated completely into ash and embers that blew away into the firestorm. I saw, then, what these wings had been attached to: someone in a flight suit was crawling, reaching, into the open door at my feet. There was a great flaming tear in his flight suit that exposed his melting human flesh. He looked up at me, a head completely covered by a helmet, broken goggles, and an oxygen mask, its tube severed and whipping in the wind. Instinctually, I took hold of his flight suit with both hands and hurled him inside, closing us all inside once more.”

-Staying Aloft, “Prologue”

[progamerican]

Candace Owens Abuses the Bombing of Dresden: A Disrespectful Abuse of History

Not satisfied with getting kicked from The Daily Wire, Candace Owens is now abusing the historical memory of the Dresden bombing.

Not satisfied with getting kicked from The Daily Wire, Candace Owens is now abusing the historical memory of the Dresden bombing Conor Kelly By Deutsche Fotothek‎, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7937338 Candace Owens is back, and she is as conspiratorial as ever. Not satisfied with her firing from The Daily Wire, Owens is once again playing to sympathy for…

[mapsontheweb]

The destruction in Dresden in WW2 bombings.

[kinsey3furry300]

I Feel that it's very funny that The Twilight Zone, Star Trek and Dune are such wildly different takes on the universe, and yet are all a product of the same generation of white American sci fi writers. Like, "Hey what flavour do you want your future to be? Spooky, Utopian or Cocaine-knife-fight?"

[autisticdoomslayer]

you know you can hate the palestinian genocide and still be normal about jews and israelis and their values as human beings also right

[thewingedwolf]

a lot of my free time is spent listening to a podcast run and researched by a professor of genocide studies who went into those studies specifically bc in an attempt to escape the violence of his angry, alcoholic father he signed up to go off to war in afghanistan only to realize that the whole war and war in general is a) stupid & boring and b) a series of horrific war crimes that had made the civilian population deeply suspicious of him even tho His Morals Were In The Right Place (tm). when he got home and threw himself into being anti violence, joining anarchist orgs & studying theory & trying to understand why he was sent to the other side of the world to be traumatized for no good reason while traumatizing the local population with his very presence, his shithead father died & he found out that his father was Like That bc their family was chased out of armenia because of genocide and it kicked off a cycle of violence & anger in the men of his family. he absolutely lost his shit, got his degree in genocide studies, and moved to armenia (do not ask me how he convinced his wife to do this with him. he’s really open about every other aspect of his life except his wife and kids which is imo very valid).

all that to say, he has this interesting perspective of war in that he has this cultural trauma of being the victim of a horrific crime while also himself being the perpetrator of imperialism & serving in an area that had recently been the site of several horrific war crimes (really similar to tim o’brien, who served in my lai several months after the massacre but didn’t know the massacre had happened & pieced together what happened from the horrified whispers of the civilians & brags from soldiers). it makes him both hyper critical of soldiers who do terrible things & empathetic to soldiers who are forced from home to do terrible things & angry on behalf of civilians who are victims of war crimes. i have ragged on him for being Very Midwestern about certain things but his research is interesting & sad & well done, & it’s really made me think about my own place in The Greater World & every time the internet loses its mind over some aspect of history i am violently reminded that most people just look at history and go “but MY SIDE was justified actually” when that’s such a BABY IDEA OF HOW HISTORY AND WAR WORKS.

[philsmeatylegss]

POV: I talk to another person online who also likes to study the third reich

[chaiaurchaandni]

this, aftr israeli officials call for gaza to be bombed like dresden

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

watching a ww2 documentary while looking at sheep figurines

[callisteios]

Really struggling to comprehend using the bombing of Dresden as a defence of anything

[progamerican]

Candace Owens Abuses the Bombing of Dresden: A Disrespectful Abuse of History

Not satisfied with getting kicked from The Daily Wire, Candace Owens is now abusing the historical memory of the Dresden bombing.

Not satisfied with getting kicked from The Daily Wire, Candace Owens is now abusing the historical memory of the Dresden bombing By Deutsche Fotothek‎, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7937338 Candace Owens is back, and she is as conspiratorial as ever. Not satisfied with her firing from The Daily Wire, Owens is once again playing to sympathy for Nazis. This…

[anafrndz]

Nächster Tatort aus Dresden ist erst am 5. November, aber immerhin schonmal ein paar Fotos 🫠

[dougielombax]

Shut up about the bombing of Dresden I swear to GOD!!!!!!

[iamthedamndonutdrawcat]

happy pride!! you found out you're not the only gay cousin and your other gay cousin is dragging you to the pride parade in the most homophobic part of the country. love is love ig

[tonya-the-chicken]

A lot of folks' idea of fighting fascism is making sure the silent majority is never held accountable. Is this effective?

[kyliaquilor]

You ever see someone post a really, truly, deeply noxious freezing cold take, and you want to ask them a question about a related topic just to expose their hypocrisy, but you also don't want to actually touch them with a fifteen foot pole to ask?