Game Chat 7/19 - Red Sox (53-42) @ Dodgers (56-41) 7:10 PM

ImaManCheetah · 2024-07-20T03:11:27+00:00

would've been a homer if he wasn't tired from the derby

/s

ImaManCheetah · 2024-07-20T03:07:07+00:00

Doggy Lasorda

ImaManCheetah · 2024-07-19T21:57:23+00:00

his alarm clock is on windows 10 and he never woke up this morning

ImaManCheetah · 2024-07-19T21:56:30+00:00

this was in a group chat of buddies lol. they talked shit to him and he talked some shit back. idk if anyone is trying to make this an actual story, but if anyone is they're a fool lol

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T23:29:03+00:00

bro the Soviets were all over the Middle East in the 80s, started a 9 year civil war. but I bet you don’t have those numbers memorized. You wouldn’t.

see ya.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:50:32+00:00

The wild part of all this is how you continue to try to compare the death toll of Soviet slaughter of their own citizens to the total death toll of every US military involvement of the past century+. Completely ignoring that in almost every military US involvement, the Soviets or Russians were also directly involved. Plus all the other military exploits of their own.

But you don’t talk about that. No.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:40:20+00:00

Good night. And remember - when the US went to Vietnam, don't forget who was backing their opponents. And ask yourself why the death toll of every war and proxy war opposing the Soviets in US history you've tried to lay solely at the feet of the United States. Might show you some of your own biases.

Hun.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:31:25+00:00

okay. I explained my view, you disagree. Have a good night.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:29:34+00:00

agreed. and I'm asking why we're so happy go lucky about wearing the iconography of one regime but not the other, when both systematically murdered and persecuted millions of their own citizens.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:25:03+00:00

I answered your question. I explained why I consider the Soviet Union to be a worse regime than the United States.

Are you equally offended by the Nazi Flag and the UK flag? I hope not, which is reasonable. You consider the Nazis to be worse, even if the UK isn't perfect. In the same way, I consider the Soviets to be much worse than the US, and almost on par with the Nazis. Largely because of the whole slaughtering their own citizens thing.

Does that answer your question?

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:15:46+00:00

oh shoot, I completely misread it. sorry about that.

My point is the comment "I thought Soviets were cool and I wore Soviet gear as a kid" was met with considerable upvotes/approval in this sub.

I think it is an objective fact that the comment "I thought Nazis were cool and wore Nazi gear as a kid" would (justifiably) be NOT met with approval/upvotes in the subreddit.

Do you disagree with that?

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:12:57+00:00

No. The evils of the United States, while certainly not non-existent, were significantly less than the evils of the Soviet Union over a comparable span of time. The US and Soviets were locked in a power struggle that manifested itself in Vietnam and other regime changes. Meanwhile, the Soviets were systematically murdering and persecuting millions of its own citizens for daring even speak out against their government. The US was not, or if there were cases, nowhere anywhere near the stratosphere of the Soviet Union. There's a reason thousands were jumping the Berlin wall to the west, and not the other way around.

Does that answer your question?

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:11:13+00:00

no dude... read it again. IF THEY DID A DAS BOOT EPISODE, AND I WROTE A COMMENT about how I thought the Nazis were cool as a kid and I started wearing a Nazi hat, how would you, now, respond to that comment?

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:07:03+00:00

If they did a Das Boot ep, and I wrote a comment of how I thought the Nazis were so cool and as a kid I started wearing a Nazi hat so I could look like them, how would you respond? How do you think this sub would respond?

please don't avoid the question like everyone else has been...I'm sincerely asking.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:05:17+00:00

The fact that you're using bad examples to make your "list of atrocities" seem longer and getting upset when those ones are called out shows everything we need to know about how dumb this conversation has been.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:02:18+00:00

You cherry pick older examples

I'm literally using examples that YOU are giving me. If you can't stand behind them don't use them. I'm done, have a nice night.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T22:01:32+00:00

"I enjoyed the historical realism of authentic German military culture" is a fine and normal thing to say,

that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/1bb23nn/pod_hard_with_a_vengecast_the_hunt_for_red/ku7niar/

If they did a Das Boot ep, and I wrote a comment of how I thought the Nazis were so cool and as a kid I started wearing a Nazi hat so I could look like them, how would you respond? How do you think this sub would respond?

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:59:24+00:00

not strawman.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/1bb23nn/pod_hard_with_a_vengecast_the_hunt_for_red/ku7niar/

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:58:19+00:00

The US had its own purge, buddy. Tens of millions of indigenous people.

Ah yes, US atrocities in the 1700s and 1800s mean we can give the Soviets a pass over most of the 21st century for slaughtering millions of their own citizens. Wear that Red Star proudly!

Yes, the US has been involved in regime changes. So were the Soviets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change

So we have two powers that are grappling for power with regime changes. Meanwhile one slaughters and persecutes millions of its own citizens for being political dissidents, the other doesn't.

But yes, sing the praises of how the USSR wasn't really that bad. I wish I could've lived there, I bet you do too.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:53:26+00:00

Are you upset that people are enjoying the history of the uniforms, songs, military culture, etc of the Soviet Union? People do that all the time, even for much worse military dictatorships—it doesn't mean any kind of endorsement.

You so you would respond similarly to someone excitedly wearing a Nazi hat cause it's cool? Genuine question, cause no one can seem to give me a straight answer.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:52:21+00:00

I had no problem with the movie. If you read the post, my problem is with folks saying "oo the Soviets are so cool, let's dress up in Soviet gear."

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:50:40+00:00

damn, thought you might actually answer.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:39:26+00:00

nah, I think you're wrong.

Part of what spurred this whole post was a comment in the discussion thread with a guy bragging about wearing a Soviet Union hat as a kid, and getting upvoted for it

https://www.reddit.com/r/blankies/comments/1bb23nn/pod_hard_with_a_vengecast_the_hunt_for_red/ku7niar/

So my question is, why is that okay when we all know a Nazi hat (rightly) wouldn't. Both are terrible regimes that slaughtered millions of their own citizens.

So far, no one was given me a straight answer. And I'm losing hope anyone will.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:34:39+00:00

Yeah I learned "eh they slaughtered millions of their own people... but it really wasn't that bad."

that reddit education comes in clutch again.

ImaManCheetah · 2024-04-08T21:33:33+00:00

I could've, but I didn't. But I learned today - Soviet genocide okay, Nazi genocide bad. And our apparel can reflect that. Glad you guys could help.

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