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argumate:

discoursedrome said: you guys should find some way to get water out into the desert and then build new cities there full of Mysterious Foreigners

there was already a plan for this by the Japanese!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis

It got Australian government support, but freaked everyone the fuck out:

The MFP proposal was attacked in Australia by critics on the Left, who likened it to Japan’s colonial experiment in Manchuria, and critics on the Right, who saw it creating an exclusive Japanese enclave.

Then of course the Japanese economy ground to a halt and everyone forgot about it.

wait what?

argumate:

davidsevera:

argumate:

thathopeyetlives:

lord-kitschener:

Kickstarter to let me run around in a WWI uniform and kinkshame people

Wasn’t there that guy who dressed up as a hussar, charged in on a horse, and cut the ribbon with his saber for some opening ceremony of some kind, totally upstaging the planned events?

opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, dude on a horse charged in and cut the ribbon, after which he was arrested and it was replaced and cut again

Haha, he was a member of a right wing paramilitary group, but he had to borrow his horse from a little girl.

it’s the little details that bring the magic

class-struggle-anarchism:

evil bastards

mapsontheweb:

Australia’s electricity and gas networks.