Redbulloth

12985 pts ยท January 22, 2017


But it's in response to someone saying they are in high school, which while possible at 18 is starting to limit that.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Zimmerman was WW1, not 2. Hitler was a soldier in the German army at that point.

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The number of people who describe the USSR as "antifa" is wild considering they had no problem helping them with Poland, years of developing weapons alongside them and helping them dodge Versailles restrictions.

2 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They typically are, but don't have to be. They're present in basically all the ore we live anyway, in smaller amounts. They could be processed out before the waste gets tossed profitably. But it would mean an expensive set-up for the new process and probably shutting down the existing system until it's ready, which is a hard sell to the mineral companies.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean...thrived may be a stretch. There are reasons the societies that moved off it outcompeted those that stuck that way.

3 weeks ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

You don't know how my bookshelf is set up

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a fake tweet

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My point was the "we could have just not gone after them" idea doesn't work when the Soviets were actively grabbing them at the same time. If we didn't secure them in some way, we would have been having to deal with whatever they'd make for the Soviets. You can argue we should have been securing them to lock them all up, but at some point you do have to draw a line. Do you lock up a young graduate who got a spot in the rocket labs? Their logistics head? How do you test for who gets locked up?

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I read it more as "there were still pockets of resistance for a while"

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where the Soviets were already grabbing some in the chaos? It's not like people were recording every civilian's movement at the end of the war, and it would be easy enough to make it look like someone had died. Hell, high-ranking monsters like Mendele went under the radar because everyone assumed he must have died. He even got a passport under a fake name from West Germany.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It could grip it by the husk

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or even like it used to be where voting was not 100% (or damn near) yes from party A and 100% (or damn near) no from party B. When you'd have actual factions within each party that would be OK with specific bills.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same as when France was hyped about tooling on the US's fighters in war games. The US typically tries to go in to these with a hand tied behind our backs so we can practice doing without. In the France case, IIRC, we simulated the droppable fuel tanks being locked on, so ours couldn't maneuver right and we're more visible on radar

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's also a difference between "I will go without food" and "I will make my family go without food"

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"OH SHIT"

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I should add, that up to about 1 million estimated dead (from the wars alone) was out of about 30 million. Today the US has a little over 10 times that, so that's be the equivalent of 10 million dead from the US alone, just to...return to where we were before it started

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep. Similarly, a lot of people like to point to the French Revolution as a great example, completely ignoring that it was followed by "The Reign of Terror", Emperor Napoleon, and then, a few hundred thousand to a million French dead later, a return to the same monarchy.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was gonna say, Austria is neither in NATO nor, to my knowledge, actively seeking membership, so there's no such thing as the position attributed to him.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My bad then, that one went right over my head lol

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

? Those are Mardi Gras beads, and are you mixing up the Louisiana Purchase anx the Manhattan Purchase? Louisiana was the US buying it from France (though super cheap because Napoleon desperately needed cash and had no way to get any value anyway while the British were blockading him).

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

"We're critically short on steel. Now let's design tanks that use ludicrous amounts of it, and you know what, let's also design a battleship twice as massive as the Yamato class". Because, yep, the H-44 was 131k tons vs Yamato's 70k.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Different vehicle altogether. For another wild idea they had, though, check out the Ratte

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Don't forget "land paratroopers on the undefended roof and start planting shaped charges until they give up". Eben-Emael was supposed to be an impregnable fortress, housed 700 troops with dozens of cannons and even more machine guns, and was taken by 78 men.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

First, to be clear, I don't necessarily mean that Russian ones normally do, just that for infrastructure that critical, you should. And second, it's also very possible that during the Soviet years, they were holding their own infrastructure to a higher standard than they supported in your country.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They at least should have generators on-site for that

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think the government cares a lot more if you lie directly to them than if you don't live up to a private buyer's expectations of building quality.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So they're adding fraud to their rap sheet?

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Those are the more important things anyway. That was a lot of what store me to be a into history as I am, is getting to a class that was less about "know the exact who/what/where/when" and more of the "why/how", where you can see how all these things relate.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

She wouldn't make that statement, but she sure would pave the way for them to do so. Working to block Ukraine and Georgia from beginning the process of applying to NATO in 2008, right before Russia invaded Georgia, and then supporting cooperation with Putin and Russia for years after that.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

But nope, instead we had a couple generations of politicians bragging about saving money on the military by closing bases and shipyards, and now we spend way more anyway as a result.

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