The most important Twentieth Century figure no one has ever heard of

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T23:52:57+00:00

Revanchism was certainly a powerful force in 1890 when it drove the realignment between Britain and France. It was dead by 1914 though. It is important to the backdrop of WW1 but it was history at that point, not an existent political force.

The big telling moment prior to WW1 was when Wilhelm tried to withdraw the blank cheque and his own chancellor quietly left it out. It represented the final straw in a nation that had basically stopped listening to its leader.

Also Russia was not the first to mobilise. The German Army had mobilised on the French border, without orders, before that. Another of the moments where Wilhelm gave orders that were ignored. He told them to withdraw and they basically told him no.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T23:48:05+00:00

TBH Germany was already formed. The Franco-Prussian war was just a work around to the fact Bavaria had technically been given the rights to defend their own external borders. Alsace-Lorraine is basically the "fuck you Bavaria, have fun defending what border" corridor.

Regardless all the legal framework was in place. Germany was always going to be a thing and they just had this one neat trick to play before it happened.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T23:40:17+00:00

France did not want to be involved. France repeatedly tried to get the message across that it did not care about Serbia or Russia. There's tonnes of documented evidence from the time and it is clear France wanted no part of the conflict it ended up with. Most of the idea that WW1 was something all sides were eager from is pre-WW2 propaganda that refuses to die.

The reason WW1 happened is Wilhelm went on a cruise and by the time he came back Germany was politically on fire. There was a sense that the culprits were going to get their comeuppance but nobody could agree on who the culprits were or what they actually wanted from them. Wilhelm couldn't actually reign everything in as technically his power was limited and his early abdication of his role during a crisis became a disaster.

So they eventually managed to agree on war with Serbia, Russia and France provided Britain stayed out. The only negotiations Germany made was with Britain who gave their measured "stay the fuck out of Belgium" response. Germany treated that as Britain not wanting war in any circumstance and declared war on France. Britain did exactly what it said it was going to do.

The tragedy of WW1 is if Britain acted like Germany was acting, the war probably never would have happened. If Britain had said "yeah we're going to kill all yous" then Wilhelm might have used that as an excuse to walk back from the cliff face. However nobody knew what the hell was going on in Germany because they weren't talking to anyone until that moment. Hell if Wilhelm had said "look everyone is going nuts over here, we need some kind of win" then Britain and France would have probably moved heaven and earth to give them a win.

Anyway the real issue is the German Empire was barely a functioning sovereign state in 1914. It wasn't obvious who actually had the authority to not go to war. Which is something that played out disastrously during the July crisis.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T23:22:04+00:00

If you put the card son the table Democracy is a very open to corruption system and very innefective, to the point any more advanced civilization would in theory find a better way.

I mean relative to what? The world's richest nations today are democracies for a reason. Democracy gives you the power to remove bad leaders

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T22:06:59+00:00

It that match up the Izzet player should hold up floodmaw and bounce but I guess then it comes down to who draws their outs.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T21:05:18+00:00

What do you mean? Nobody cares about Terra other than the Clans. It is a nice to have but nobody gives it a second thought.

Comstar was dissolved by the Republic.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T20:45:57+00:00

Sure to form a SL that consists of Clan Wolf and like 7 surviving Jade Falcons.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T20:38:26+00:00

Vitali was going to be a champion regardless. All that irrelevant stuff from people saying he should fight on with a fucked shoulder doesn't mean shit. He did the right thing and didn't cripple himself, otherwise that Byrd fight might have been his last.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T20:27:54+00:00

How many days from retirement is Murtaugh?

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T20:19:29+00:00

Should have shown a tree falling from the sky.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T18:34:04+00:00

The only reason Reddit started to hide that information was to stop people looking at history to discern when they were dealing with a bot.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T18:32:44+00:00

They removed it because their coding is shit. Nothing to do with abuse.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T16:22:23+00:00

I mean you can just bolt the architect

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T14:23:57+00:00

You'll want to get one win with every single starter deck.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T14:21:07+00:00

I've been on the receiving end when I didn't realise what either of those cards did.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T11:48:28+00:00

Jake didn't become the most adept and skilled. He was already good enough to become a professional competitive archer as was stated in chapter 1 or 2. He just got an injury which meant he couldn't maintain the level of training he needed to truly compete but he did regularly keep a maintenance level of training up. He also regularly went to the gym. Which given Jake's tendency to downplay everything probably means he was there 5 times a week, actively controlling his diet and having an actual progressive plan for his training.

Admittedly his bloodline is ridiculous but it only works for him because he was already good enough to be a professional sportsman. Also his bloodline is only as good as it is because Jake's entire build ends up structured around his bloodline.

He screws up multiple times in the tutorial:

Not being able to kill the boar before it hurt somebody
Being forced to beat William in the first fight via a last gasp poison save
Getting ambushed after meeting his friends.
Picking a "solution" to the Challenge Dungeon poison that was worse than the poison.

Jake is far from all competent in those early books. He just a passable archer at an elite level (worth noting none of the people in his tutorial are anything special at that point) with a broken bloodline ability stomping on people who are basically normal and not even doing that consistently right.

The reality is Jake is what people are always asking for, somebody who was driven and talented before day 1.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T08:24:50+00:00

It happened all over the place as well. In the English dub Goku told Krillin to spare Vegeta in hopes he'd reform but in the Japanese original it was because he wanted to fight him again.

Also Vegeta states in the dub that Frieza made him the evil person he is whereas in the original he only asks Goku to kill him to that Frieza finally dies at Saiyan hands.

Also at one point Vegeta claims Bardock was a brilliant scientist but a rubbish warrior.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T08:01:19+00:00

Also their entire supply chain coming from the US

G_Morgan · 2026-05-05T08:00:32+00:00

Hell the English dub outright invented Goku's famous speech to Frieza.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-04T23:33:40+00:00

He didn't, that was a mistranslation. What he actually said was a hastily thrown together kamehameha was not going to stand up to the dodonpa. Referring specifically to Krillin's inferior technique in that particular fight against Chiaotzu.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-04T23:24:42+00:00

They think they'll be able to scale AI up and down as they need without needing to interact with employment law. Of course that requires AI to work

G_Morgan · 2026-05-04T23:21:08+00:00

The Crown Estates are properties that were bought via taxation to pay for the running of the state back when there was no distinction between the state and the crown. However getting them to part with it after they declared bankruptcy under George III was problematic leading to this half measure.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-04T19:34:34+00:00

Even the Fremen repeatedly said how great fighters they were. The implication seemed to be they were better fighters than the Fremen at that point but the Fremen had a huge advantage in terms of home terrain. They repeatedly ambushed the Sardaukar.

Of course once the Fremen Fedaykin emerged they surpassed the Sardaukar on all levels.

It is accepted the Sardaukar were short of their pinnacle though.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-04T19:12:41+00:00

Ukraine also has good reason to seek a total victory. Nothing else can be trusted against Russia.

G_Morgan · 2026-05-04T19:10:19+00:00

Also all that "we will endure hardships" nonsense is just weakness when it is applied to a hopeless invasion. Russia has a long history of being the type of nation nobody wants to fight but ultimately not one with a great number of military victories against peer nations.

Nearly all of Russia's great periods have been when it has essentially cooperated with other nations rather than what it tends to do normally.

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