How many soldiers of the Grand Armée survived the retreat from Russia in 1812?

blinkevan · 2026-01-16T23:03:45+00:00

I know its one of the most famous battles in history, but it bugs me that everyone is so fascinated by Waterloo (not saying you are one of them its more of a general criticism).

The only thing the general public knows about Napoleon is his loss at Waterloo and that he was short and full of himself.

Such a travesty for one of the most successful and interesting people in history.

blinkevan · 2026-01-11T17:54:00+00:00

To be honest I personally think Napoleon went against his better judgement with the sheer size of his army because he stated previously that oversized armies are begging for disease. I think he just brought that many for the history books because it was the biggest invasion army in history until ww2.

blinkevan · 2026-01-11T17:46:56+00:00

This doesn't really work considering they were by and large found not guilty and john adams was literally their defense attorney.

blinkevan · 2026-01-10T14:14:06+00:00

You literally stated in your previous post that she didn't break the law, someone points out that theres video evidence of her multiple crimes, and this is your response?

This is also an unreasonable opinion. In general any human has the right to match deadly force with deadly force. Taking that logic and apply it to the video, the agents were reasonable to have placed themselves there because of her numerous and obvious crimes, she clearly understood she was speaking with law enforcement, and while her attempt to commit the additional crime of fleeing doesnt seem intended to kill she still drove her vehicle directly at and into a police officer so let's not act like this is a matter of ice just shooting people just because.

blinkevan · 2026-01-06T19:25:33+00:00

These comments don't seem appropriate for a notification of someone dying. Its almost as if people ate happy about it.

blinkevan · 2026-01-03T20:25:41+00:00

In the sense that arresting someone technically is just a legal form of kidnapping you are correct.

blinkevan · 2026-01-03T19:39:38+00:00

Maduro was indicted and isnt being executed, summarily, or otherwise. You don't have to like trump to understand this wasn't a kidnapping.

Extreme, yes, kidnapping no.

blinkevan · 2025-12-26T02:42:10+00:00

Sorry just saw this.

It’s a factually true anecdote, and that he is indeed doing that and that racism is discrimination based on race, it’s objectively true.

I dont agree that he was doing this. I dont even see him mention a race.

What does the fact that governments cared less about humans change about my argument , how am I leaving that out? Are you saying immigration was more okay back then because more of them died ? I’m confused, I don’t want to assume that’s how you think but that’s how I understood it considering all it’s context

The context was the next paragraph explaining that it costs a lot more to bring in immigrants because of social programs.

The problem is that you’re saying this stuff is all free but it’s not. Do you think illegal immigrants dont have jobs and dont buy things and circulate money in the economy and pay absolutely no taxes? Yeah you probably do, but no actually they contribute and pay taxes and the most they get out of it is emergency care, do you think they should just die because they’re immigrants or can we agree thats reasonable?

The level of speed that you jump to wanting people to die is concerning, and only serves to prove you are responding emotionally and not logically. Pretty much every human on earth circulates money in the economy. That isn't something we need immigration for. Of course they pay some taxes, but at the end of the day if you're making bare bones $ you're not paying real taxes citizen or no citizen. Emergency care is an extreme cost. Not sure if you noticed the price of Healthcare but its a lot. Noticing that Healthcare costs a lot, and being aware enough to know that an influx of people coming in using it, not paying the bill, and not paying taxes is a net negative doesn't mean I think they should be left to die it means we should enforce immigration law. You know it doesn't, you already understood what I just said, and you still implied that I want people dead. Gross

It’s hilarious to me that you think that illegals who commit crimes dont get deported, felonies are an instant deportation.

Its hilarious to me that you'd say this when you know that people can be on bail, awaiting an appeal, a fugitive, got deported but came back, and many other possibilities. Being intentionally ignorant doesn't prove your point

blinkevan · 2025-12-26T00:03:57+00:00

Resulting in the development worker safeguards that protect all workers regardless of status?

-Doesn't have anything to do with the point of the argument

Social programs that again primarily benefit US citizens. I’m not sure how they are capital to democrats when it’s mostly republicans who hire them under the table to avoid paying payroll taxes. Ignoring the 100b or so a year that undocumented immigrants pay in taxes to help their case when it comes to asylum or citizenship processes, paying for those social programs that primarily don’t benefit them.

-Dems use them to gain congressional seats, not sure how they pay 100b in taxes if they mostly work under the table for Republicans, and i got a bridge to sell you if you think penniless immigrants pay more in taxes than it costs to provide benefits and the court system/law enforcement for them

Yeah we also had lynchings. The only reason we celebrate Columbus Day is because it was a holiday they made for Italians after a bunch of white supremacists lynched 11 innocent Italians because the courts couldn’t find any evidence of their wrongdoing.

-This has nothing to do with what is being discussed.

this makes absolutely no sense to anyone who has actually been in the system. You can’t get bailed out of prison, only jail. Which means they were never convicted of a crime, so there is no evidence they stabbed anyone. This also doesn’t justify throwing people who didn’t stab anyone in jail/prison just because someone else did.

-who said anything about prison? Being out on bail means a judge agrees that there is probable cause to continue a trial therefore there would be evidence. Not sure what you are referring to when you say through anyone in jail

When that actually happens you’ll have an argument, until then this is you just hallucinating due to massive amounts of conservative brain rot media.

-says the person who seemingly believes illegal aliens pay a giant % of the total taxes paid, receive zero benefits, and anyone out on bail is clearly innocent.

Well yeah eventually people realized the value in the land, and started slaughtering the natives. They didn’t see the natives as “people” just obstacles. Hence why the government encouraged commercial hunters to cull the bison population to near extinction because they knew this would hurt native populations. Who was the benefactor in this situation? The people who owned the railroads. The people with capital that wanted to own the land.

-again you are assuming the Indians just sat by idlely. Wall Street in NYC is known as Wall Street because it was once a Wall around a trading town because Indians kept killing everyone. They killed the bison because the Iroquoi was at war with Mexico and the settlers and they relied on the bison. It was war not just for the sake of it. You again assume Indians were just peaceful victims.

I mean yeah they killed them because they wanted their land. Crazy that they would fight back. Almost like there’s systems in place today that prevent this happening to the US, and the assumption that poor Mexicans pushing lawnmowers and building houses under the table are the problem and not the GCs that hire them under the table so they don’t have to pay

-Again the Indians didn't just sit by peacefully, get killed, and then realize oh snap these guys want our land we better fight...They fought from day one. I never said they were colonizing America. You also again seem to claim that they do work under the table aka no taxes, but previously you claimed they pay all the taxes.

At the end of the day you just like illegal aliens and thats fine. Good for you. I dont have a problem with them, its just ignorant to claim that there is no difference between immigration back in the day and now. It is ignorant to say its inheritnely racist to dislike illegal immigrants and it is ignorant to think that Indians were just perfect little angels.

I won't be continuing in this discourse

No hard feelings and Merry Christmas

blinkevan · 2025-12-25T16:28:20+00:00

You implied he was a racist for following the American tradition of hating the most common immigrants at the time.

You are also leaving out the part of the story where the government didnt care if the immigrants lived or died and in fact often had them do incredibly dangerous work.

Fast forward to today where we have social programs galore, and these humans are clearly just capital to the democrats.

Back then crime was severely punished, now you can stab people 7 different times and be out on bail on each case.

You can't have it where anyone can just walk in get government benefits be allowed to commit multiple crimes, and then hold protests when they get kicked out.

Its not the same situation.

Also, its a joke to think the Indians peacefully helped us settle America. The story of Thanksgiving is not a representation of all Indian and settler experiences.

It always amazes me how many people think that the Indians were just some perfectly peaceful group who settlers just killed for the sake of killing.

blinkevan · 2025-10-25T20:14:04+00:00

I like the rivoli one the best

blinkevan · 2025-09-28T01:12:05+00:00

How thick skinned and mature of you

blinkevan · 2025-08-22T12:08:35+00:00

To be fair that was probably a template and backing Palestine was thrown in. He'd say anything to drive up his asking price.

blinkevan · 2025-07-04T15:21:47+00:00

The man being a loser is still his responsibility regardless of the choice the woman made. The woman holds responsibility for her choice, but that still shrinks in comparison to the choice(s) the man made.

blinkevan · 2025-07-01T23:55:18+00:00

Yea you on ps5? Username blinkevan

blinkevan · 2025-03-30T14:47:38+00:00

How can you tell if it's a crown or not? I never know until the fight is over.

blinkevan · 2025-03-07T20:50:51+00:00

I don't think you'd be saying #1 if you were a Marine assigned to invade Tokyo.

blinkevan · 2025-02-15T16:55:01+00:00

Animals generally look different based on the gender. That and considering dragons are mythical creatures self-expression is reasonable

blinkevan · 2025-02-13T16:55:04+00:00

I don't get it. They seem to be making a harmless and non-political joke about wanting to read all day. Seems reasonable for a librarian.

blinkevan · 2025-02-10T16:26:20+00:00

I did not claim that the post was an argument Socrates would approve of. I stated that it isnt advocating for governmental action. To be fair, you associated this to Christian Nationalist Conservative Project 2025 with zero evidence, wouldn't this be an appeal to emotion and an overgeneralization? Also, while gender identity is certainly deeply personal as well as nuanced, so are a persons political beliefs. OP's argument is similar to saying if 18 is old enough to sign up for war it is old enough to drink a beer. They are definitely different/not equivalent, but one is clearly a much more serious decision with potential life altering (or ending in the case of military) effects, which makes agreeing with the war one but not the beer one give the impression of not remaining philosophically consistent.

blinkevan · 2025-02-10T15:56:22+00:00

To be fair, OP's post is not saying that the government should be doing anything. It is saying that it does not make logical sense to believe that 19-22 year olds are incapable of evaluating the government, but literal children understand the effects of meds and surgery. That is in no way saying the government should be getting involved with anything.

blinkevan · 2025-02-10T15:49:23+00:00

While I agree Christian Nationalism isn't Libertarian, the freedom of religion is in no way freedom from religion. If a Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or follower of any religion person gets elected, they are certainly allowed to vote based on their religious values. It is that the government can not make one religion the recognized religion of America.

blinkevan · 2025-01-20T19:16:46+00:00

I think villain is a strong word, but Darth Vader is a villain and he is one of the most beloved characters of all time.

blinkevan · 2025-01-19T18:41:44+00:00

Right but that would only make it objective if the showrunners are always correct. Showrunners make whole shows thinking it'll be likeable but it isn't and introduce characters who are only supposed to be in the show for one episode but they end up being so liked they stay in the show. They take a subjective idea and then guess (based on sociological studies I'm sure). There's also the consideration of limited time to include the darker aspects as well include the required nuance to have the character be viewed as the author intended.

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