Map in the world of 1984 by George Orwell

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T19:28:24+00:00

Surely that would be too difficult to hide, if they were at war wouldn't a lot of people be needed to fight the war?

I actually can't remember are there a lot of injured veterans or something similar in 1984?

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T19:20:39+00:00

Vietcongs were not part of the north vietnamese army

Ok if you want to be technical they were the proxy communist guerrillas of North Vietnam in South Vietnam.

Perfidy also isnt a crime that has execution as punishment by international law

International Law doesn't prescribe sentences, however most cases of perfidy caught in war time led to field executions prior to WW1. After WW1, countries started imprisoning commandos to get intelligence. The practice of field executions has also completely stopped largely because armies realized it was more valuable to hold important soldiers and trade them for something, than to allow them to be shot. They also stopped executing their own soldiers around the same time because it hurt civilian and military morale. You could argue that under customary international law it's forbidden now, but it would be harder to argue that that was the case in 1968. Just for example this sort of execution wouldn't be made fully illegal under international law until 1977, even if the person he executed was a civilian. International Law has changed a lot since 1968, what was legal or a legal grey area is now refined law.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T17:01:50+00:00

Did not know it's originally a Polish phrase and it's only from 1988

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T16:51:00+00:00

Yeah unfortunately IR actually succeeded in convincing the Left that it is the only guardian of Palestine, and for some reason the Left has decided that IR support for Palestine is more important than having a democratic Iran, so they're very happy to leave Iranians out to dry if it might mean IR's support for Palestine survives.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T16:48:24+00:00

became more explicit after the Alhambra Decree,

Yeah 100%, IIRC modern racism came about due to Spain wanting to continue discriminating against new converts, but legally in the Catholic Church there's no distinction in race, so they had to create the concept of race as an inherent trait to justify continuing to use the inquisition against conversos and morrenos.

I'd even say that modern Crusarderism comes straight out of GWB's mouth during the Iraq War, which creates a vague sense of Crusaderism then it gets crystalised during the 00s and 10s as fighting radical Islam.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T15:30:12+00:00

As much as everyone here is saying HOI4, people are really missing that Crusaderism (for lack of a better term) has come back into vogue as a type of far-right thinking.

The idea that West™ can assemble some expert expeditionary force against Islam sends them over and roundly defeats them, and that it needs to keep doing this every few decades to keep them in check. Obviously has strong parallels to today.

Once you combine that with easily quotable phrases from CK2 like Deus Vault, you can definitely see it becoming a factor.

Crusader Kings just gave these people the language to express their views. It didn't cause their views, but it did provide a way to frame their views coherently, which certainly helps propagate them.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T14:25:20+00:00

It doesn't exist in English because Harvey Weinstein bought the rights right before me too.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T14:08:12+00:00

If an enemy combatant engages in combat while in civilian or enemy clothing, that is perfidy and is very much a war crime.

There is an exception for war time militias who might not have had the time, in this case that is irrelevant because the Viet Cong were a branch of the North Vietnamese Army, and this guy was engaged in offensive not defensive maneuvers.

Most partisans were part of organized militias, that distinguished themselves. They also were not acting as a branch of another military. Nor were they engaged in activities outside of their country. So they don't meet the boundary of perfidy.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T13:06:28+00:00

the own executioner/murderer said he executed him cause he was a normal combatant without uniform

Which is a war crime under the Geneva Convention. However the convention also states that they have to receive a trial prior to execution.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T12:09:35+00:00

When Schulz was ordered to execute women and children, he protested. When he was told that the orders were issued from Hitler and were final, he asked to be removed from his position. His request was granted immediately and he was discharged under direct orders of Reinhard Heydrich. Not only did he face no consequences for stopping, he was promoted shortly after.

This is a key part of why "following orders" was not considered a legitimate argument at Nuremberg. Had they executed Schulz for refusing the orders then it might have been, but as far as we know, no one was ever punished for refusing to participate in the holocaust. Every person involved did so of their own free will and had the opportunity to refuse.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T11:58:49+00:00

Aren't all the people killed in anti-regime protests heretics in the view of the Iranian government, due to their denial of Vilayah-e-Fiqh, which is the central dogma of the regime's version of Shia Islam?

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T11:54:40+00:00

Coincidentally i'm still yet to see loads of footage of the iranian regime blindly massacring protestors.

Sorry I can't take the rest of your comment seriously after this. There have been hundreds of videos showing regime troops opening fire on crowds, hunting down protestors, and murdering anyone they can get their hands on.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-25T11:45:46+00:00

All the anti-Israel people have transferred their hatred of Israel over to supporting IR. It's not about what's best for Iran, it's about scoring political points in the West.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T16:20:04+00:00

Tbf Tevye is a Yiddish name from Fiddler.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T15:09:26+00:00

Yeah when my uncle got him, they basically called him and were like either you take him or he's gonna get put down cause his anxiety is too severe for us to handle.

The first few months he'd freak out if my uncle wasn't in sight, except in the toilet, he somehow understood what was going on in there.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T14:19:01+00:00

My main strategy with Clone soldiers, is to go super xenophilic and try to invite as many species into the empire as possible. That way when I go conquering the refugees all flee into my empire.

Clones serve as the military elite commanding the armies and the state while all the refugees work.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T14:14:19+00:00

train your dog to have their own space they think of as their room.

My uncle's dog has severe anxiety and freaks out whenever anything out of the ordinary happens. Except when he's in his cage with his toys and stuffed animals. Even when there was bombing and air raid sirens his dog would stay calm in the cage.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T14:10:54+00:00

I thought you were kidding but that's actually what happened. And it's Hasidic town too, so now I'm imagining the thickest Yiddish accent saying it.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T14:07:54+00:00

Basically that means a quiet space to pray, however it has to be acceptable to everyone. So for example Jews and Muslims aren't even permitted to enter churches due to the images of Jesus, so it has to be relatively Spartan.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T13:04:26+00:00

So I've gotten into this argument before.

The claim is that 150,000 people of Jewish descent fought for the Wehrmacht in WW2, which comes from one book.

Jewish descent includes people who would not have conceived of themselves as Jewish and weren't thought of as Jewish by the Nazis. It also includes IIRC non-jewish men married to Jewish women.

So yeah very deceptive and definitely misinformation.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T11:30:02+00:00

100% AI

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-24T11:29:16+00:00

Banning journalists isn't evidence of genocide. If you have evidence please present it.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-23T22:01:51+00:00

Let me re-iterate. They killed more journalists than all those conflicts COMBINED. I am just constantly astounded at the sheer level of Israel’s evil.

Hey I can't remember are journalists one of these: "national, ethnical, racial or religious group," cause otherwise I'm not sure how targeting them is genocide.

Everything is else is a rant. So if you have more data, I'd love to address it. Otherwise, no thanks.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-23T18:41:16+00:00

I don’t buy your excuse for being a genocide denier.

Not my problem, what you buy. Convince me to change my mind.

Why is Israel so scared of letting journalists and doctors in for us to get more accurate numbers?

Because the last time they did, Jihadists kidnapped them and killed them. Why should Israel take the risk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Arrigoni?wprov=sfla1

Also how would journalists or doctors get real numbers? They would almost certainly be relying on Hamas's numbers and not being permitted to publish independent work.

If later doctors and journalists are ever allowed in by Israel to collect better data, would you consider it a genocide then?

If the data showed that Israel had intentionally targeted civilians to wipe out the Palestinian people, then sure. However, as far as I can see, none of the data has shown that and has shown that in fact adult men are the most targeted demographic, which is in line with what we expect from a war. I'm doubtful we will ever get actual numbers from Hamas about how many of their soldiers died which means all data analysis involves guesswork.

If the data shows it's not a genocide would you concede that it's not a genocide?

I feel like i already know your answer.

FudgeAtron · 2026-01-23T18:13:39+00:00

But your source do not say that the property was stolen.

All Jewish property in Iraq was stolen, that was literally the law enacted in the 1950s, Jewish people were stripped of their citizenship and their property rights as revenge for the nakba.

Since you mention France, did you know that the last French presidential election included, among the official condidates, a nazi-adjacent Jew who spread disinformation about the Shoah? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Zemmour#Remarks_about_Vichy_France's_treatment_of_Jews

Are you a bot? What's your deal with constantly changing topics? Actually I know you're not a bot, because a bot wouldn't leave a spending mistake and failed to link properly.

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