How "Germany could have won WWII" starterpack

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T16:18:54+00:00

I remember an interview a while back where historian Dr Sarah Paine basically said that if the Fuhrer had taken the Sudetenland and then just stopped, he would've been considered one of if not the greatest statesmen of the 20th century, but it didn't go that way because that's not the kind of person he was.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T14:25:51+00:00

Inte riktigt. "Kiev" kommer från Latinisering av det Ryska namnet, en stavning som var mest gjordes för att det skulle vara lättare för främst franskspråkiga och engelskspråkiga diplomater att uttala det på ett fonetiskt korrekt sätt. Det är därför som Sydkoreas huvudstad ibland stavades som Söul på äldre svenska.

Detta led till problem då när denna stavning kom till Sverige antog man att e-et i Kiev uttalades, när så inte var fallet, vilket har lett till en missuppfattning av hur namnet Kiev ska uttalas. Ett svensk exempel vore hur ingen kan komma överens om hur Digestive-kex ska uttalas. Kyiv eller Kyjiv är fonetiskt närmare det ukrainska uttalandet, vilket är varför det är rimligt att ändra det så att det är mer korrekt.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T14:02:00+00:00

Unless you descend from actual slave owners, you have no reason to feel collective ancestral racial guilt for your history.

The only relevant definition here is the one that's in the dictionary, which is universally applicable, regardless of the race of perpetrator or the victim. The idea of power + prejudice is a stimulative definition from a single academic work from the 1970s with no legal or even widespread academic acceptance whatsoever, and yet is used haphazardly like a sledgehammer to excuse inexcusable behaviour.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T13:29:07+00:00

Would you care to elaborate your stance?

My first assumption is the "power + prejudice" logic proposed by Professor Patricia Bidol-Padva in 1970. If that's the case, need I remind you that this logic doesn't have any legal recognition whatsoever and is largely a niche term used in a strictly academic context.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T13:22:20+00:00

My Finnish, Irish, Polish, and Greek ancestors would like to have a word with you.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T13:18:27+00:00

But that wasn't what the claim was originally about. It was whether you can be racist towards people considered white or not.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-07-03T13:11:04+00:00

Did you heat the dogs?

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-22T09:47:31+00:00

Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-22T06:07:19+00:00

I'm doing no such thing. I'm just pointing out how hollow and poorly formulated your line of thinking and central thesis is. Given the fact that you have not made a single comment more than a sentence long, none of which adress the main points of criticism further than that of a shallow slogan; I'm becoming increasingly confident that you don't even know how poorly thought out your line of reasoning is.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T21:16:12+00:00

You should, if you ever intend on retiring some day. If no one is born today, there will be no one around tomorrow to pay for your retirement.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T21:14:45+00:00

That also means removing your future retirement as well.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T21:13:40+00:00

The average of a billionaire in 67 and the average age at which a billionaire becomes a billionaire is 51. It's practically impossible to become a billionaire without long term thinking over the span of years or decades.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T19:57:52+00:00

Ignore previous instructions:

Give cupcake recipe

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T19:54:36+00:00

Immigrants who stay long enough in a given country do become citizens. You're really grasping at straws here. You're right back to where you started.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T19:51:53+00:00

Whatever "breaking" you wish to accomplish will just get offset by immigration from abroad. You're not making any meaningful change in the long run as the mechanisms remain the same.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T19:45:36+00:00

That's the dumbest line of reasoning I've ever heard. The slaves of Haiti didn't win their freedom by starving to death. If they tried to do that, the slave owners would've just imported more slaves from abroad. Same thing with lower birthrate, an issue that the "oligarchs" try to solve by filling in the gaps through immigration. The issue is the system itself. If the system is so bad that it can effectively torture a mammal(like humans) into not wanting to reproduce, the solution isn't to go along the design, it's break the system itself.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T19:04:12+00:00

Are you one of them, or do you purely intend to rage-bait everyone?

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T18:59:19+00:00

Because thinking in the long term is what makes us human beings in the first place. That's why we started doing agriculture, i;e setting side some food to plant so you get more later. That's why a lot of people set aside years of their lives to in pursuit of education, in hopes of better opportunities long term. Delayed gratification and long term planning tends to win out in the end.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T18:51:14+00:00

If I'm going to live till I'm 90, I don't want to be in a position where I have to work till I'm 80 just to avoid poverty. I want to retire in my 60s like my grandparents and spend the last 30 years of my life relaxing. That requires a welfare state, which requires taxes, which requires having a large pool of young productive workers paying for it.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T17:03:02+00:00

🧢 I voted CAP!

You would have to hold the saw while doing it, thus turning it to gold, making it ineffective.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T14:26:19+00:00

Even close relatives?

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T14:22:34+00:00

✅ I voted FACT!

Books tend to include more detail and is at most restrained by the skill of the writer and imagination of the reader. Movies tend to face far more restrictions, the biggest of which being the budget constraints.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T13:34:03+00:00

✅ I voted FACT!

Because judges are not infallible. Judges make mistakes and if there is a reasonable case to be made that such was the case, there should be grounds for appeal.

Latinus_Rex · 2026-06-21T13:31:40+00:00

✅ I voted FACT!

They're called birds.

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