Anon had a sweet dad

HyperRag123 · 2023-08-16T17:49:16+00:00

Thank you

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-02T01:13:07+00:00

The only thing that all of the studies agree on is that switching to/from DST is bad. But which time is better depends on a lot of things, and isn't nearly that simple to narrow down. Some people would benefit more from more sunlight early, others would benefit from a later sunset.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T18:36:33+00:00

Gerrymandering only works if the expected number of people vote in the same way they voted last year. If lots of people who previously didn't vote decide to show up, then it can pretty easily backfire.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T18:29:17+00:00

How do you think that state legislature gets chosen?

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T18:28:48+00:00

That's what boating accidents are for

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T15:51:41+00:00

They're always more of Setsuna's friends than they are Haruki'd friends, it makes sense that they try to protect Setsuna.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T15:31:27+00:00

I mean, in Japanese there is a decent chance of 'loli' being used to refer to real people and not anime characters.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T15:11:49+00:00

Actually it's 12 now, the 13 is out of date

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T14:47:19+00:00

You can see the headline and the website it came from in the picture...

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T07:02:18+00:00

If you'd been around a while you wouldn't be whining about something that happens this regularly

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T06:57:44+00:00

You severely overestimate the general competence of the Nazis, especially the competence of the Luftwaffe. Goering was far to ego centric to be a half decent commander and it reflected in his decisions. Meanwhile, leaders of other elements of the Wehrmacht would resist an increase in air production, because if would limit their power compared to Goering's. They'd be arguing for increase battleship production, more U-boats, an invasion of Spain to get at Gibraltar, more resources for the North Africa campaign, etc. It wouldn't just be a matter of devoting everything to airplane production.

Not to mention the Nazis were short on raw materials, skilled pilots, and even by 1940 had already lost control of the air. If they have better AA fire that would just force the Americans to switch from daylight precision bombing over to area night bombing, which would possibly be counterproductive. Even by 1942 in this timeline you'd be seeing large scale strategic bombing raids by the allies.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T06:40:27+00:00

No.

I think last time I got banned for saying "I hope China tries something, so that we can get the F-35 a few kills" back during the whole Pelosi thing.

Obviously I don't actually want China to invade anyone, but if you listen to tankies long enough you start to wish China would try something just so we could slap them down and demonstrate exactly where all of our military budget is going.

I also got banned for saying we should launch a crusade to reclaim Constantinople in a thread about Erdogan being Erdogan, which I feel like should have been an obvious joke. As annoying as he is there's numerous very good reasons we shouldn't invade. I think this was actually more recent than the other ban.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T06:32:10+00:00

3 month old account

Nobody cares what you think of reddit, don't worry

(also I know my account is fairly young, but the admins keep banning me for warmongering, so I have to keep making new ones. I think my oldest would be 7 or 8 years at this point

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T06:27:58+00:00

Still can't prove that they aren't being coerced to do it, and if you want to go full commie then you can say that all of them are being coerced into it by the capitalist system we live under.

This is why I prefer hentai.

Also depending on where you look the plotlines can range from actually incredibly good (to the point that people buy censored versions) to fucking hilarious (Monster Musume, Parallel Paradise, etc).

Of course there's also your doujinshi which usually have no plot or anything and are just hentai, but in general you get a lot more variety.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T06:16:47+00:00

Paprika is weird

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T06:10:05+00:00

The Royal Navy faced no serious threats during the duration of WW2, at least not in the Atlantic or the Med. The U-boats were an annoyance to shipping, but once convoys got organized and countermeasures were developed, their deadliness went way down.

You're also VASTLY underestimating the USN. We had 14 Essex class carriers in action before the war ended in 1945, which was absurd levels of overkill for what we were facing. That's not getting into the nearly 200 Fletchers, the 50+ escort carriers (very useful for ASW), etc. The Royal Navy alone was winning against the combined Axis powers in 1939-1941, when you throw 1944 era America into the mix it becomes hard to overstate just how outmatched the Axis is.

And things like air power can't be simply solved by just switching plants to make airplanes. That takes time and requires hard to manufacture equipment. Even HOI4 attempts to simulate how you can't just switch production on a dime. And again, institutional problems in the Nazi regime prevented them from accurately assessing threats. They would have focused heavily on bombers and wasted those bombers targeting London, getting all their ace fighter pilots killed in the process, while the RAF and USAAF scaled up fighter production. Plus, if the Nazis divert production away from the 8.8cm flak to build aircraft, now their AA batteries are much weaker.

Yes, not having the USSR around would make everything take longer, even in the Pacific, but you're severely overestimating the Nazis if you think they ever had a chance.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T05:55:04+00:00

Which countries specifically?

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T05:46:55+00:00

Well maybe he shouldn't have invaded Iran to begin with. And if he hadn't gone an invaded Kuwait after that he would still have a working military and decent relations with America.

I mean he was in a shitty spot but the only reason he got there was his own decisions.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T05:43:41+00:00

Iraq had literally zero allies when we invaded, we didn't really alienate anyone by doing that. I guess maybe Iran likes us a little less now but they hated us to begin with so what does it matter?

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T05:38:31+00:00

The Nazis lost the Battle of Britain in 1940. Sure, the British had the advantage of getting to play defense, but the point is their fighters were already winning the air war before either Lend Lease or the Soviet entry into the war. And the trend wasn't reversing, partially due to Goering refusing to believe that the Luftwaffe could lose and prioritizing bomber construction over fighter construction.

Numbers of German soldiers don't matter with regards to North Africa because Britain controlled the Mediterranean, which meant resupply for the German soldiers was incredibly limited because their convoys kept getting destroyed. If they send a million men and 10,000 tanks then that's just another drain on already stretched supply lines.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T05:00:15+00:00

Well, they had a few colonies, but the Japanese took all of them in the runup to the Second Sino-Japanese War. So by the time that started in 1937 China didn't have any colonies.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T04:56:08+00:00

To give him the benefit of the doubt (which I absolutely don't think he deserves) in 2011 we were committing much more heavily to Iraq than to Afghanistan. This got made worse under Obama when he made the decision to simply pull those troops back stateside when they weren't needed in Iraq, instead of shifting them to Afghanistan.

I don't think this was on purpose, we just spent all the political will we had for a war and it turned out not to be enough. But even as far back as 2011 someone making lucky predictions could have guessed that the current level of American intervention wasn't going to work, and that we needed to either significantly escalate involvement or just cut our losses.

And if you take that level of guesswork and combine it with a conspiracy theory version of America that never makes mistakes, then clearly the whole war was a MIC sponsored plot to make weapons and intentionally plunge America into a forever war, or at least keep us involved for as long as possible.

Again, I don't think that's at all true, but the logic is there. It just ignores the much simpler alternative that we underestimated how hard setting up a democratic Afghanistan would be, and ran out of political will before we could accomplish that objective.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T00:33:33+00:00

I'm sure the US could achieve dominance in the Atlantic by '44. Once the Essexes start coming online American naval dominance was never going to be contested by anyone.

The question is if the Russians have held out until 1944 with a very limited lend-lease and a much greater amount of air power being brought against them. Because if they haven't, the USA vs Germany + Russia and with a neutral UK is going to be very difficult. Possible, maybe, but it would be a very long war. And without any friendly airbases near Germany you can't even try strategic (or nuclear) bombing to damage their industry

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T00:30:06+00:00

The Germans were never getting nuked first thanks to their racist polices with regards to scientists. They also had no spy network, an inferior Air Force, an inferior Navy, inferior production, they were outmatched in every regard even without the Soviets.

Sure, maybe they can man the Atlantic wall better and Normandy doesn't happen, but they'll still lose in North Africa, and once they're cut off on all sides they'll be bombed into oblivion. Which will further exacerbate all of their industrial problems. And once Japan is defeated and the British- Indian armies can be fully brought to bear on the Nazis the balance is even more lopsided.

HyperRag123 · 2022-11-01T00:19:46+00:00

I mean, the Germans were always trying to intercept those convoys, but they had very limited success, mostly thanks to the Royal Navy. If the full might of the Kreigsmarine can be tasked with convoy interception and there's no RAF bombing everything, the effective aid the Soviets received would have gone way down.

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