r/behindthebastards Nov 14 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ - The Onion

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r/behindthebastards Nov 14 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff KNOWLEDGE FIGHT IS GETTING THE DESK - We need an update!!

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1.5k Upvotes

This is the one highlight in this shitshow

r/behindthebastards Nov 17 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff One of the Best Things I've Cribbed from this Sub

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1.9k Upvotes

Thanks to this user! I felt like this might bring a lil chuckle to these shittastic times 🤣

r/behindthebastards Oct 04 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Margaret Killjoy is coming to my bookstore!!!

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632 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Jun 18 '23

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff sneaky sneaky

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r/behindthebastards Sep 11 '22

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff The message brought to you by the Concept of Potatoes and the Hungry Hobbit Homefront

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r/behindthebastards May 02 '23

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff And thus, another warrior against authoritarianism is born

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761 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards 17h ago

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Some cool guys who wrote cool things on their cool instruments

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288 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Jun 28 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Margret mentioned the anti-war left in Britain in World War 2 during the Orwell episodes. Unless you're advocating for surrender how do you be anti-war if you live somewhere someone else wants to invade?

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I mean I get being anti-foreign wars, but if someone attacking where you live they're not giving you much choice.

r/behindthebastards Sep 05 '22

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Both Reagans, tho.

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r/behindthebastards 22d ago

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff I was chatting back and forth with my dad about the CEO’s being garbage. And my dad gave me this awesome anecdote about my grandmother. It made me laugh so hard, and this is the only sub I think can appreciate it.

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306 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Sep 30 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Hurricane Helene - the biggest bastard

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I hope the mods won't take this post down. I know it isn't directly about BTB, so I understand if they choose to boot it.

I know a lot of yall fans are in NC or the Southeast. I don't need to tell you what a mess we're in because of Hellish Helene

I just wanted to list this list of actions/resources if you've been thinking of doing something to help:

Donate blood this week if you can

When you can a $$$ donation is going to be very helpful. NC State gov has a disaster relief fund that is directly for Helene relief:
https://www.ncvoad.org/coads-ltrgs/

If you can give your expertise or time here are some places to get ideas:
Alabama - Alabama VOAD (alvoad.org).
Florida - FLVOAD (wpengine.com).
Georgia - Georgia VOAD (gavoad.org). 
Kentucky - Kentucky Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (kentuckyvoad.org). 
North Carolina - North Carolina Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (ncvoad.org).
South Carolina - SCemd.org/recover/volunteer-and-donate/
Tennessee - Tennessee VOAD tnvoad.org

There have been plenty of bastards in the NC mountains...Eric Rudolph, Tom Dooley, Gov Zebulon Vance during the Civil War. But, I hope you'll help out the anit-bastards who were effected by the storm.

r/behindthebastards 15d ago

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff You should try Cool Peoole Who Did Cool Stuff

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I didn't for a long time, because for whatever reason I didn't enjoy the Margaret guest episodes that much. But I ran all the way through my podcast backlog and needed more so I tried it out.

It's all the fun of BtB, with interesting characters and events, but positive. Margaret is actually great. Her voice and the music have a very relaxed, chill vibe that is unique among pods I listen to.

Try it out! If you were hesitant, try the haymarket episodes with Robert as a guest to ease into it. I also love the Surrealists one.

r/behindthebastards Oct 23 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff As far as people who Robert would idolize go, watch this dude vaporize things in a 20000W microwave while laughing like a maniac

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r/behindthebastards Jun 25 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Do you think there will ever be major biopic about George Orwell or do you think socialism being such a big part of his life would prevent Hollywood from ever going for it?

57 Upvotes

Like you know how Openhimer managed to be vague about if he was actually a Marxist or just very pro-labour, you can’t do that with Orwell. Socialism was a giant part of his identity

r/behindthebastards Aug 05 '22

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Excellent news!

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783 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Sep 22 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff It’s here!

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131 Upvotes

I supported Margaret’s Kickstarter and my book got here today. I love her prose writing so I’m looking forward to reading this.

r/behindthebastards Sep 27 '23

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff I'm so sorry Jamie

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r/behindthebastards Oct 03 '23

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff A few years ago I painted this Goatse for a friend. Since we're talking about it. Yes I consider it my masterpiece. NSFW

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175 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Dec 25 '22

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Cause I can never find any Puritans to bludgeon this time of year instead

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239 Upvotes

r/behindthebastards Aug 16 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Sturgill Simpson released his concert on his YT channel.

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r/behindthebastards Oct 27 '22

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Found on r curatedtumblr. Cool people who did cool things. Not you, the English.

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r/behindthebastards 25d ago

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Favorite Movies

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A tribute to a really cool librarian, aspiring film librarian, when asked what his favorite movies were this was always his response. Hug a friend today, theydies and gentlethems

r/behindthebastards Nov 13 '24

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff A Bit of Levity for Y'all

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HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY!!!

"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."

"The infamous exploding whale incident occurred Nov. 12, 1970, in Florence, Oregon. A whale washed ashore on the Oregon beach and with no other means to dispose of it, officials came up with a plan to blow the whale up. The result? Whale carcass all over the local beach." - KATU News, from the video description

🐋 🐋 🐋

r/behindthebastards Sep 13 '23

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Juan Pujol Garcia, the man who dedicated his time during WW2 to fucking with the Nazis

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Due to his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, Juan despised Nazis and Communism. In 1940 Juan decided for the "good of humanity" he would participate in the war on Britain's side as a spy. Britain rejected him.

Undeterred he created an identitiy as a fanatically pro fascist Spanish civil officer and joined the Nazis. He was accepted and ordered to go to Britain and recruits sympathetic for espionage. He did no such thing. He instead moved to Lisbon and using a tourists guide to Britain, magazines from the library, newsreels and public cinema, started writing credible but fake reports for the Nazis coming from "London".

While doing this he was also submitting expense reports to the Nazis for travel and created a network of fake agents from various parts of the country that reported to him. The British had intercepted these communications at this point tore the country asunder looking for him. Keep in mind Juan had never visited the UK.

Eventually he made contact with an American agent who put him in touch with his counterpart in the UK. Initially his code name was Bovril but it later changed to Garbo after Greta Garbo the "greatest actor in the world." Juan and his handler provided so much "information" from his network of spies, that the Nazis never bothered to recruit more spies in the UK.

Sometimes he would miss easily available information and the Nazis would ask why. He told them one of his agents died on a mission and convinced the Nazis to pay his widow a pension.

Initially all the communication was done via air mail. Because Juan's information was so valuable, the Nazis wanted immediacy. So they sent him an Enigma Machine, which was immediately sent to Bletchley Park.

In January 1944, had recieved info about a large scale attack in mainland Europe (operation Overlord) and asked Juan to keep them updated. So Juan gave them accurate information about battle plans and formations on June 6th at 3 am(D day started on june 6). He did not get a response from the Nazis until 8 am. Disgusted that his message was missed, he sent a message to the Nazis saying "I cannot accept excuses or negligence. Were it not for my ideals I would abandon the work."

On June 9th he sent a message to Germany that was passed to Hitler that said there were 75 division stationed in south east Britain commanded by General George Patton. He made the suggestion to Germany that Normandy was the diversion and the actual force was going to come from the south(this is operation Overlord with the inflatable tanks). The Germans trusted this man so completely that there were more soldiers in Pas de Calais 2 months after Normandy than there were during D Day.

After the war, during a review of German intelligence, it was found that no lesser than 62 of Juan's reports were included in the German High Command's Intelligence summaries. The Germans never figured out Juan was a double agent. He is one of a select few people during the war that recieved an Iron Cross from Germany and an MBE fro Britain