TransTomboy [she/her, they/them]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • Late update because I was browsing Robert's reddit like a creep and came across this quote which describes his political beliefs quite well outside of 'Anarchist?/Leftist'

    "I don't think hard and fast terms are super useful and I think getting stuck up in ideology is where a lot of people on the left lose their ability to actually convince folks and make things happen. I spent my childhood watching the insane chunks of the right wing co opt mainstream politics and i try to do that with my own loony left views because i view the democratic process as preferable to a revolution that would likely kill us all"


  • He's outspoken about not liking tankies (His words) and that comes across a little in this episode when talking about the Japanese Red Army, to some in the chat that makes him automatically a lib, though in early/mid 2019 he described himself as an Anarchist, and those views came across (To me) in some of 'It could Happen Here'




  • Another even funner story of the Mig 15 in Korea is that of April 12, 1951 or 'Black Thursday' as the Americans called it, where 30 Mig 15s attacked 48 B29 Bombers escorted by around 100 F-80 Shooting Star and F84 Thunderjet fighters and shot down 3 B29s and damaged 7 more with no losses of their own (The USAF however had a habit of claiming that aircraft too severely damaged to fly again or that crashed as a result of battle damage suffered 'Mechanical failures' or 'Landing Accidents'. Soviet sources claimed 12 B29 kills, however both sides had a habit of overclaiming victories.)

    The USAF ceased all B29 raids for 3 months, and even after restarting raids only flew in small numbers at night. The Soviets gave the B29 the nickname 'The Burning Barn' as a result of their operations against them.

    As an actual fun footnote, this may have also reduced the risk of nuclear war, as the US command MUST have realized that there was no way in hell an unescorted B-29 would be able to reach its target in Russia without getting slaughtered.


  • Wonder how LeMay reacted when his SAC started losing many of their precious B-29s to the Soviet's best flying Mig 15s.

    (Fun fact, the first jet on jet kill in history was a pair of USAF F80's shot down by Mig 15s, however the US claimed them as missing (Or shot down by AAA) while the first US claim on a jet came several days later and de-classified Russian reports show the aircraft returned to base with little damage. Source: Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces 'Mig 15 Aces over Korea' which if you have an interest in the Korean Air War is a must.

    Also Footnote 2, At least the top 2 aces (Possibly 3) of the Korean War flew under the Red Star.