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Fascist takeover of Germany has got to be one of the most overrated tropes ever on TV and the Internet. The worst happened in the past few years where film of an obscure German politician ranting and raving on the podium was turned into an Internet meme overnight, with ridiculous voiceovers for...

I think it's a bad plan. There's confusion of two ideas in this thread. First that Omaha was a failure and too high casualties. But the invasion took place at low tide precisely to avoid the hedgehogs from tearing up the ship bottoms. Also to be ruthless, your capital ships are worth a lot of...

Then you have to consider the relative difficulty of the professions themselves, eg how "hard" it is to be a doctor or lawyer. Over time there will be more case law and history, and medicine and law grows more and more sophisticated, to the point that "multi-path" isn't a realistic option. The...

Rather than say one is more important than another, you can view it purely from an ethical viewpoint RE whether you can try again with minimal consequences. For medicine and law, "trying again" is either impossible or obscene (double jeopardy, human experimentation, etc.). By the way, this is...

This has been enjoyable so far, please continue When the eventual push happens, I would like to see what life is like for ordinary North Koreans... there's a lot of material out there and it would be interesting to see it processed into a non-biased realistic narrative... for example, the...

I don't think it's possible, because both fields deal with people's lives in a direct and life threatening way. If we take programming (my profession) it's largely unregulated and "unprofessional" (of course there are software engineers, certifications, designations and so on but anyone can...

Don't want to really talk politics, but based on what? Ukraine is a no-go zone and 100% in Russia's sphere of influence... you would have to change Putin the man... do you honestly think a former KGB agent who rides naked on a horse, does martial arts and whose entire image and personality is...

Pirates https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jwidx05ZdbU Iran

To keep wages going up after the 70's you need more than "fuck China" (which isn't the cause of problems anyway) and more than UBI or GI or EIC. If you even accept that premise. First, this line looks pretty flat to me. I think that is pretty good for the amount of social upheaval that's...

Sorry, I have to respond to this to call a spade a spade. It is clearly religious persecution, though justified. Being hypocrites doesn't make it any less genuine. More importantly other states like Israel manage to do it without jailing for so long or so many, and arguably under just as much if...

I don't buy that either for your reason and more... Israel won three wars, went from basically pariah status and surrounded and outnumbered to a tech and economic powerhouse (now with nukes). Whatever you might say about victor's justice, it is what it is and it is over. I am not a fan of blood...

This is so easy it is not even funny... Reagan was in the White House with mujihadeen and called them "freedom fighters" all you have to do is still born Bin Laden or have him fall off in Afghanistan and so much would be butterflied away... ...I think often of how much immense suffering and...

I'm going against the grain and saying that appeasement is the most overrated "failure" ever. Besides the fact that it's revisionist history (people use appeasement for their own modern political ends) non-appeasement could not have survived in the long term. Are you willing to commit troops to...

It's not even that it's bad strategy. Very bad strategy. The same people who say this, probably have the opinion that Hitler could have won in the East if only he had recruited the Slavs to fight against the Bolsheviks, or had held off on the extermination until after the war. A double...

Only if you accept the premise that maximum GDP growth is the most important factor. People "blame Thatcher" because under her reign, poverty skyrocketed and 20-30% of the British lived under the poverty line. This isn't skewing statistics or anything, just the reality. It also requires to...

And afterwards fiat rises again either through the Euro or the Yen or the Yuan, simply because in any growing economy you need more money in circulation (otherwise the people hoarding money get increased real purchasing power simply by doing nothing -- you aren't one of those free loaders who...

I would say jobs is much more important than money or profits. Lack of jobs, less manpower for the military (which is facing recruitment shortages in Western countries) and more jobs for the manufacturers. For example, Congress insisting on making more M1 tanks even though the Army says there's...

Sometimes the simplest explanation is the easiest one. It is possible that the narrative written by Romney's enemies is accurate -- that Bain Capital will make money at any cost, and outsource or offshore even if the company is profitable, because American wages are too high. Any industry...

I would like citations for terrorists "respecting strength" particularly backing down or issuing face-losing statements after a threat. Why would they choose to back down? Call the bluff, let the nukes come down and watch recruitment soar overnight. Earlier in the thread someone mentioned...

There is a third option: complete collapse of small business, responsible for almost all economic growth in first-world nations (think multinational corporations have your back? They are interested in offshoring for the cheapest buck). AIG does provide a service -- commercial underwriting...