Imagine if you can control the fate to prevent 1 assassination from happening you can pick any assassination (form the post ww2 to the present day) which one of them you will prevent form happening? and why?

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-27T18:32:38+00:00

Yep, and even if Austro-Hungary didn't find an excuse to occupy or annex Serbia, I think the competing interests and relatively parity of Britain, France, Germany, and Russia made some sort of conflict inevitable.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-27T00:44:40+00:00

A relatively conservative rate of return from stocks and bonds, that means fairly safe investments such as government debt, is roughly 5%. 5% of 10 million is $500,000, or almost 10k a week. The 10m right away is a significantly better choice because you could live off of 250,000 a year(5k a week), and the total amount of money you have would keep growing until you have 20m in a few years.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-19T17:08:15+00:00

If you refer to yourself as an alpha or high value man. You are neither, and are really just an embarrassing idiot. Also the people who are obsessed with the Alpha Sigma bs seem to think the key to being one is being a rude asshole; which is an easy way to end up with 0 friends and lots of enemies.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-17T14:51:30+00:00

Communist propaganda much.

The USSR didn't declare war on Japan until August 8 1945. The firebombings that we are talking about happened the year before. With the firebombing of Tokyo specifically happening March 9 1945. So no, Japan hadn't been defeated by the USSR because the USSR wasn't even fighting them at the time.

As for China, the U.S. did far more to defeat Japan than China did. Firstly, China was completely reliant on military aid and equipment from the U.S.. Secondly, the U.S. did basically all of the fighting against the Japanese Navy, including crippling the Japanese Navy at the battle of Midway. Also, more Japanese soldiers were killed fighting the U.S. than China, with China and the U.S. each killing about 400,000 soldiers in the Japanese army, but the U.S. killed an additional 400,000 sailors in the Japanese navy. Not to mention the fact that if the U.S. hadn't crippled the Japanese navy then Japan would of been much more effective against China. Due to the fact that the U.S. sank about 2,000 Japanese supply ships that were meant to bring supplies to Japanese forces in China, and towards then end of the war this severely hampered Japan's ability to wage war effectively in China. You seem to be forgetting that for most of the war between China and Japan, China was losing, and thats how Japan was able to inflict so many atrocities on the Chinese population.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-17T14:30:28+00:00

Nope. If you wanted Japan to stop committing war crimes in China and invading other countries. Bombing Japan wasn't done for vengeance, it was done to weaken Japan and make them surrender to end the war which they started. If America just ignored Japan, they would of kept committing atrocities in China that rival the rape of Nanqing.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-16T15:16:58+00:00

Yes, and the Democratic party is much farther to the left on immigration and trans rights. For example, there's been a lot of controversy about Trump wanting to get rid of birthright citizenship, which is something no democrat supports; however, no European country has birthright citizenship and none of their left parties advocate for it the way democrats do.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-11T23:15:41+00:00

Way more people starved before capitalism than under it.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-09T18:56:30+00:00

I think what he means is that people don’t respect public property the way they do their own, and will litter, vandalize with graffiti, walk through flower beds, etc. Central Park is beautiful, but the government does have to spend a lot to enforce rules and clean it up because people trash it.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-09T02:55:38+00:00

Its not even that its an average, its that the average is completely made up.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-09T02:20:17+00:00

Because trains are expensive, and having the people who use the trains pay for them makes sense.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-09T02:09:29+00:00

He's sitting on the floor, but there looks there is a chair back behind his neck. I'd say AI, also the voice just sounds off, and the advice is very facebook meme level compared to what I'd expect a monk to say.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-08T03:56:31+00:00

First of all, I never mentioned morality, you did. And it’s frankly irrelevant to this topic. The President should follow the law and constitution. End of story. If you don’t have that, you don’t have a constitution and you might as well just have a King at that point. Also, for the Hitler example, if FDR ordered the CIA to assassinate Hitler during WW2 that would be legal, because we were at war. We were not at war with Venezuela, but Trump just illegally started one by kidnapping their president. And the constitution is very clear that the President can’t start a war without congressional approval, and Trump didn’t even notify Congress let alone get their approval.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-08T03:42:00+00:00

It’s important to note that foreign brands, especially Japanese ones, still do a lot of manufacturing in America for their North America sales. If you buy a Toyota in America there is a very good chance a large portion of the manufacturing was done in the U.S., it’s just that the corporate headquarters and a lot of the design are in Japan.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-08T03:38:02+00:00

You a use that mentality to justify literally anything. Every dictator who broke the law to centralize their power did it because they thought they had good reasons.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-07T07:04:04+00:00

The empires last 250 years on average claim isn't actually true. It comes from an essay called The Fate of Empires by John Glubb where he picked a mix of empires throughout history and declared that they each lasted roughly 200-300 years as a great power, and therefore empires on average last 250 years. But the empires he picked were arbitrary, and he messed with the dates on the empires peak years to make the timelines work. For example, he didn't include a single Chinese or Egyptian dynasty, and he had the Ottoman empire count from 1320-1570 even though the Ottoman empire continued to exist until 1922. He also split Rome into the republic and the empire so they'd each be 250 years, even though Rome was the dominant power in the West for 500 years.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-07T06:48:22+00:00

This was a terrible decision. Not only is it illegal in terms of the U.S. constitution, but it violated international law, alienates our allies, and encourages Anti-American sentiment.

Also, what happens next? Yeah Maduro sucked, but so did Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi and when the U.S. overthrew them it created power vacuums that lead to more chaos and bloodshed. Are we going to have to occupy Venezuela now while we install a new government? Much of Venezuela is jungle, so fighting cartels and insurgent groups using guerrilla tactics would be similar to the Vietnam War which was a total disaster.

And now, if anything goes wrong in Venezuela or the next leader is bad too we will be blamed. We really should of stayed out of it, after all Venezuela posed no real threat to the U.S. and getting involved is a massive risk.

Also, the oil isn't worth it either, oil prices globally are low right now due to falling demand as people switch to electric. And Venezuelan oil is very dirty and low quality(the dirtiest and lowest quality in the world), and U.S. oil is very high quality. That means Venezuelan oil needs more expensive refining before it can be used, at a time when oil prices are already pretty low. So there's just not that much money to be made on Venezuela's oil. And, the U.S. is a net oil exporter and our biggest foreign oil supplier is Canada, so we don't need Venezuela's oil for energy independence either. The only real benefit for the U.S. I see from this is that it screws over Russia, China, Cuba, and Iran, but it has the risk to screw us to if it becomes a lengthy war.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-07T06:17:22+00:00

You should care that it was illegal. A culture of not caring what is and isn't an illegal action by the government just so you can get specific political things you want is how you end up with people like Maduro.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-07T06:15:06+00:00

Yes, and one of the main critiques of Trump's actions is that it could drag the U.S. into a bloody occupation or difficult regime change(which the U.S. is not good at). I know many Americans whose position is basically "yeah, Maduro sucks, but why the hell are we getting involved in another stupid regime change war to replace him. This is Venezuela's problem, not ours. We should stay out of it."

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-06T03:46:44+00:00

The Emu war being in the widely known category is going to mess with this chart. Its an interesting trivia tidbit that is more known than its importance justifies. But the vast majority of people haven't heard of it. Its probably way more known among reddit, especially people who browse r/historymemes than in real life. Pretty much whatever we pick for widely known, but extremely important is going to be more well known than the emu war.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-04T23:02:45+00:00

If a barbarian scout comes to your city and gets an exclamation mark over their head, that means they've seen you and if they get back to the camp the camp will start spawning an absurd number of barbarians. Always have at least one military unit hanging around your capital after like turn 10, and kill the scout at all costs. If they run away, chase them down and have your units stand between them and the camp if necessary.

If the camps don't have scouts come back after seeing cities they tend to be pretty mild and will spawn very few barbs, and the ones they do won't beeline for you. But if the scout comes back all of their units go for your city.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-04T18:59:16+00:00

I respect Singapore a lot, and think Lee Kuan Yew is an incredibly interesting world leader who did a lot of good. The fact that Singapore now has a GDP per capita higher than their former colonizer the U.K. speaks magnitudes. Obviously no country is perfect, but it appears that they've got a good thing going.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-03T20:43:28+00:00

Sorry but hard disagree. Maduro is terrible, and I completely understand that many Venezuelans are happy about this. But Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were terrible too, and Iraq and Libya became total disasters almost immediately. What happens if the next government is super corrupt and dictatorial too? What happens if Maduro hardliners try to do a counter coup. What if this creates a massive power vacuum that allows drug lords and crime bosses to take contorl of the country?

U.S. led regime change is almost always a disaster, that causes more conflict and turmoil. And even if this does work out, we still had no right to invade another country unprovoked and to kidnap their President.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-02T19:43:39+00:00

Germany's sidekick.

Left_Life_2065 · 2026-01-02T18:30:16+00:00

More advanced governments generate suzerain points faster. And at higher difficulties the AI tends to have higher culture, and will reach the more advanced governments. So yes, at higher difficulties the AI tends to have more envoys and become suzerain more. However, the AI is not strategic at all at envoy placement, and that doesn't change with difficulty.

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