VinoVeritas
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VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Austro-Hungarians also did it sometimes, still not great. In a game of 5 better to be on the team of three without the muslims
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
but in the end they played Realpolitik and they did a hell of a lot better a job of not bringing their own countries to bloody ruin.
No! That's the point! England is a rotten mess of God only knows what and they're the one's who won!
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
No, but I love the throwback, you or anyone else want to fire that back up sometime for nostalgias sake?
I think the Bolsheviks very openly and actively wanted to unite the workers of the world which would have certainly included going to the Atlantic if someone hadn't stopped them
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
If there is inevitably going to be a pop culture it would be better if it were cultivated with a purpose by some kind of class with a proper education and righteous intention to direct the people in a particular, intentional way.
The reality that this 'eureka moment' of great truth inevitability leads us all to getting thrown in gulags instead of creating a utopia driving the culture in 'purposeful' directions is why we're all here talking about exactly this.
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
nazi pedophile
That's a whole new kind of "mixed race and belongs in neither camp" lol
Chomos are the lowest of the low and I think the pedos think the same of 'nazis'
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
I can't find the source from that wikipedia article but if you tag it here I will (attempt to) translate for us
Also Germany was the bad guy in WWI because they teamed up with the Ottomans (Turks). After a thousand years of enmity they teamed up with team bad guys. Big no no
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
The "import third worlders en-masse" agenda is from the woke bug that bit all Western societies in the 2010s.
It was the Hart-Celler Act of 1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
I happened to be out to lunch with a client yesterday, as fate would have it, who was a Japanese fella who had just visited his uncle, a hiroshima survivor, who was on his death bed in gratitude the yankees occupied them instead of the soviets
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Apparently inbreeding is not necessarily a problem if the input population is healthy enough, because it just reinforces existing traits. Goats, for an example that's easily accessible to me, will almost inevitably make new goats with their siblings if left to their own devices without much trouble
But if you're starting with unhealthy goats, whew boy
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
It doesn't take a Churchillian titanic view of history to understand the trends and forces of the war were beyond the scope of who happened to hold office at the time. Churchill and his ultra-conservative faction had feared the rise of German naval power for half a century - unabated after the Great War - before their promise to Poland gave them the necessary excuse to smack Germany back down. And what happened to Poland after the war?
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Not OP, but I'll defend 'Nazi Germany' every day and twice on Sunday if you like
Churchill was the one who declared war. It was his choice.
Edit: This wasn't meant to seem curt - sometime though brevity is the soul of wit. Yes, perhaps if the Junkers or some other more traditional conservative faction had risen to power rather than such a reactionary party, Germany may have done X, Y, and Z. But it seems crass to me, almost prideful, to look at the 'unhinged gangsters' who 'volunteered' to beat the Spanish communists and then got the band back together in the Rhineland, Osterreich, the Sudetenland, Danzig, etc to give the Bolsheviks a genuinely good go and say 'if only!'
Yes, they lost, but they fought! By Jesu they fought. And it's just as easy to say 'it would've been better if they hadn't' as 'it would've been worse.' Maybe the Bolsheviks would've won in Spain and then later pushed through all of Europe to the Atlantic.
It's not unlike when Barbarossa drowned on the way to the Third Crusade. Yes, it's a bit pathetic, and we can poke fun at him for drowning (because he is our ancestral hero). But he chose to go! He chose to fight! That he happened to drown when someone else might've not and (swamped the saracens) instead doesn't make him an 'unhinged gangster'
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
I appreciate that you have to feel this way because you are German-German, but because I have the luxury of being German-a-few-generations-removed, allow me to suggest that none of the WWI vets who happened to get control of the government afterward were 'unhinged gangsters'
Was JFK an 'unhinged gangster' because his family were literal mobsters and he was constantly high on painkillers?
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Your "sacred text" includes the phrase "glob of snot" in the first (spoken) paragraph
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
I don't remember where I picked it up and search isn't finding anything, apologies
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
Do you mind rephrasing your comment? I don't know what 'denominate those prices in hours worked' means or what my skills have to do with a $1 bagel now being $5
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
might in the future choose to engage with something more congenial than "what the hell did I just read"
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
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It's cool that you care enough about your buddy to ask, I hope my buddies also care about me this much
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You've gotten 19 responses already and none of them have given you the right advice. My priors are updated (again) against asking about human being stuff here. Inanimate stuff is still the best place around, no doubt
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Presumably your buddy is going to someday have a child, which has a good chance of being a girl. If he does not marry a hooker, his daughter's mother will not be a hooker.
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
How old are you? I paid $5 for a bagel this morning (toasted and buttered) at the same coffee shop where it used to be $1.
It took a comically long time to arrive and was (obviously) cold and tough on arrival.
Our order was taken and delivered by a fat, ugly, comically short woman who did not speak intelligible english.
Things didn't used to be like this. A great crime has been perpetrated against you.
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
The last ~150 years of history make a lot more sense to me when I consider that certain factions never wanted Germany to be a country, period.
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
68% of elite ivy league graduates support banning private air conditioning and non-essential travel to fight climate change? I just do not believe that, there's clearly something wrong with the poll.
I just do not believe that XX% of elite ivy league graduates wanted me to be taken to a gulag, or, preferably, just die, because I didn't get vaccinated. They are my peers. They are my friends. They are my neighbors. And yet....
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
If you were to limit the franchise to the modern equivalent of the Second Estate, a far-left social and economic planning program would be implemented by Thursday.
And if you had limited the franchise to the modern equivalent of what the founders meant by "white men" with the naturalization act of 1792, a far-right social and economic planning program would be implemented by Wednesday.
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
The market is not a perfect or even reliable indicator of anything but the price people are willing to pay for things. Bear Stearns was 100 years old and trading for $100 a share the day before JP Morgan bought it for $2 a share
VinoVeritas
8mo ago
You've gotten a lot of high-light responses so let me tack on this one - I like playing 'map games.' Mostly by paradox interactive. This may or may not ring a bell for you or anyone else reading this.
In map games by paradox interactive, 'people' or 'pops' or whatever they might be are a resource. The more you have the better off you are. I used to be the kind of person who could see 'people' or 'pops' or whatever as interchangeable, and even though I've since grown up, it's still perfectly cromulent to me that my peers still see things the way I used to.
I'm increasingly growing toward the mindset that unless you have (quite literally) one guy in charge able to say "no thanks" that this is just what people do. They abstract.
Yeah okay, I'll buy that, open-faced 'the great replacement is a good thing' was about when you're saying
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