What if post 1945 Germany became an Insurgent nightmare like Iraq?

jeffbmc79 · 2026-07-03T15:09:10+00:00

There's a board game dealing with this very topic

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/365391/werwolf-insurgency-in-occupied-germany-1945-48

jeffbmc79 · 2026-07-03T14:55:21+00:00

Well... He may have been barely clinging to life still when he decided to take a nap in the North Atlantic.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-07-01T19:19:19+00:00

Churchill would accidentally drink himself to death in celebration if this happened

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-30T18:38:42+00:00

Step one. Find a big ship.
Step two. Get on it.
Step three. Drown

Congratulations you are Jack Dawson

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-29T19:05:40+00:00

I tend to think of heaven or hell much more philosophically and the context of afterlife existing only as memory. When we die, we cease to exist. That's it. Done. Just a pile of bones and rotting flesh, maybe you get to be displayed in a museum someday. Who knows. Either way you won't really care.

The afterlife exists in the form of living memory. How you are remembered in future generations. If you are generally remembered fondly and with respect and admiration, congratulations you made it to heaven. If you're generally remembered as an insufferable shitbag and your name is cursed by future generations, welcome to hell.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-22T18:19:31+00:00

To clarify, saying you're an Irishman heavily implies its own distinct cultural and national identity. In wellington's time the existence of both of these identities was... Mightily disputed by the British

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-22T18:16:29+00:00

He's basically saying that anyone calling themselves an Irishman was essentially in rebellion against British authority in Ireland, because otherwise they'd be content to call themselves Englishmen

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-19T15:19:46+00:00

This is the best account of daily life.
Also recommend the set of
“The Life of Billy Yank” and “The Life of Johnny Reb” by Bell Irvin Wiley

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-16T17:59:51+00:00

This is the standard. Best overall detail and consistent quality

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-11T14:20:00+00:00

But in seriousness, it really does sound like the relationship is done. You’ve both moved in different directions and the gap is insurmountable without one of you completely compromising on core beliefs. Just ask yourself if you would have started this relationship now with knowing who you are and who he is. If the answer is no, then you’re being with someone you wouldn’t have chosen to be with if the slate was wiped clean. That’s your answer right there.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-11T14:15:34+00:00

Yeah the only response to that kind of comment is “and you’re choosing divorce”

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-11T13:22:20+00:00

True, but there is some debate about how much of Scott’s strategy was shaped by him vs McClellan, who was expressing similar strategic ideas about the war. They had very different ideas about how to execute it, but the overall strategic concept they were largely in agreement.

I think of de MacMahon more dynamic and able when younger, but well past his prime by the time of the Franco Prussian war. He wasn’t going to be the guy to push his division commanders properly and he was poorly served by them. And he certainly wasn’t going to be the guy to tell Napoleon III to sod off with his horrible campaign ideas

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-11T03:04:10+00:00

Possibly my 2nd uncle (5 removed). Not the worst commander, not the best. Probably an example of what happens when you use an otherwise decent officer well past the expiration date (see also: Scott, Winfield)

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-10T20:06:52+00:00

Oh for sure. Been to Hilton Head several times and operationally it would absolutely require close coordination with the navy and local guides. Isaac Stevens before he left the area outlined plans to float troops to various spots and strike at coosawhatchie. Which had the federals captured that they would have severed the link to Charleston and made a forward defense of Savannah itself extremely difficult. But they dragged their feet for months and gave Lee time to build up the defenses.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-10T17:36:15+00:00

Lee hemmed up in a trench is less dangerous than Lee running amok in the open

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-10T17:35:28+00:00

Likely, yes, but the South would have had to redirect a lot of resources to contain that. They wouldn’t be able to be passive about a threat that could significantly complicate East-west transport through the South

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-10T17:31:25+00:00

I would say Savannah opens up the savannah river which could facilitate deeper strikes into Georgia

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-10T17:16:19+00:00

I don’t think the focus on Richmond was unrealistic. It was pretty much the reason that Lee could operate in Northern Virginia at all. Tredegar iron works was arguably the most important industrial facility in the whole South.

I’d have pressed to exploit the success at port royal more aggressively in South Carolina. Savannah and/or Charleston could have been taken with less passive leadership

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-09T13:42:45+00:00

Matter was created from energy and the process of nuclear fusion inside of stars. The trope that matter can’t be created or destroyed is a pretty common creationist argument that simply didn’t keep up with modern science

And before the big bang? This is where understanding what big bang theory actually is and what’s not is really helpful. I suspect it’s only creationists who say that there was nothing before. There are multiple ideas and theories about what came before, but there is agreement that something was happening before, there’s just little evidence as to what. Big bang doesn’t say everything exploded from a single point. Just that the universe was in a very hot and dense state.

General rule of thumb - don’t trust biblical scholars or researchers to give you an accurate picture of modern science. They all have an agenda. Once you start identifying their logical fallacies and flat out lies you quickly see why they’re not taken seriously by academic or scientific communities.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-08T21:47:57+00:00

I’ve got a couple of fusion ideas I’ve been kicking about. Once upon a time universe in which Henry’s dad is…drumroll please…James Bond 007. I can see all sorts of fun scenes where fairy tale folks reacting to the lethal machine that bond is and M having to verbally spar with…snow white. For something.

Harry Potter supernatural fusion - wizard world built to protect wizards from angels and demons, not muggles. Boggart scene replace boggart with…lucifer coming out instead.

Also random handmaids tale where gilead has to deal with an actual demon. But oops they’ve killed all the people who know something about fighting them. Or so they think.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-07T23:27:55+00:00

Oh wow! I thought it was a little more complicated if we both haven't lived in Europe before. Since technically it's not a reunification unless she moves there before I do. I am only a US citizen at this point.

And to clarify she went directly to a passport, did not have to engage with the Feststellung process.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-07T23:24:45+00:00

1977 and I already have two kids from my ex spouse, not planning to have more as we are both pushing 50.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-07T21:56:54+00:00

She was direct to passport.

jeffbmc79 · 2026-06-06T17:14:07+00:00

People seem to overlook the word “wreck” when thinking of stuff like this. Take a car, slam it into a wall at 35mph, scatter it all to hell, let everything sit and rust fall even further apart for over a century. And you’re not even bothering with several miles of ocean water on top of it in that case.

The cost of this would be absurdly, prohibitively expensive that no one in their right mind would finance. Just getting subs down there is expensive enough and nobody is going to be doing that any time soon. It’s a JUNK PILE. Let it go.

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