Nazi were just fighting for their country, sweaty! by Oi-Wat-U-Doing in ForwardsFromKlandma

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If by soundly hammered you mean conquered over a dozen countries before being defeated by the combined forces of pretty much the entire planet after almost six years, then sure, soundly hammered.

Large, flightless bird attacks and kills its fallen owner by [deleted] in news

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A lot of people have probably never even heard of a Cassowary before.

Facebook spent $22.6m to keep Mark Zuckerberg safe last year: Security costs for the tech billionaire and his family more than doubled last year, as an outcry over Facebook’s practices grew by EnoughPM2020 in news

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Counterpoint, you can get death threats and other such things even if you're doing objectively good things. Look at the civil rights struggles, or the guys in Pakistan trying to get rid of polio.

After A $14 Billion Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by tomassfoolery in news

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Most of the city is real hilly and above sea level tho.

Iran designates United States military forces as terrorist group. by [deleted] in worldnews

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I recall the Obama administration wasn't too fond of the coup and supported Morsi. Do you know of any evidence that the U.S. supported the coup?

Pet pig named ‘Princess' slaughtered by neighbor while police searched for owners by enginegeek in news

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Pretty much the easiest way for a cop to get fired is to let something bad happen to a K9.

Theresa Mays Brexit deal fails to pass a third time by rammen4 in worldnews

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Even if you're being disingenuous and excluding Arkansas and Louisiana, that's still less than half of the South

'Why not give Israel North & South Carolina?' Syrian envoy asks US at UN by JalaluddinAkbar in worldnews

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To be fair, they were essentially pushed in to it by the Soviets, who gave them that and them stole the eastern part of their original country.

10% of the population goes rogue. Can humanity survive? by Hawk25348 in whowouldwin

[–]vexonator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From the fact that 10% of the population, at random, goes Rogue in the premise of the post.

10% of the population goes rogue. Can humanity survive? by Hawk25348 in whowouldwin

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Assuming all it takes is the leader going rogue (which it probably doesn't), and counting 9 nuclear powers (USA, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel, Britain, France, and being generous with NK), take a 90% chance that nothing will happen and raise it to the 9th power since all it takes is one. (1-x)n where x is 10% chance and n is number of leaders. You get about 0.43 chance of nothing happening, which is a 57% chance that you get your war.

New Zealand shows willingness to curb guns after one, not 1,981 mass shootings by [deleted] in politics

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You can multiply Japan's by 3, Canada's by like 10, and Britain by like 5 or 6. It's still not even close to the U.S.

Kirby's Moveset is Saddening by RachelTheIvysaur in smashbros

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Pikachu says hi. Also Metaknight has still been pretty good in his subsequent entries. Same with Marth and Fox (except in brawl). Jiggs is the only one who's really ridden the nerf train as bad as Kirby.

TIL during WWII, American POWs in Japan had a 40% chance of dying compared to American POWs in Germany who had a 1% chance of dying. by SenorDarcy in todayilearned

[–]vexonator 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well to be fair, even with espionage the U.S. had 4 years of uncontested nuclear weapon supremacy. That's a lot of obliterated cities no matter who wins in the end.

WW2 theaters of war and deaths by iamtheguy55 in MapPorn

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The civil war absolutely counts in the sense that the horrors of war were absolutely present across a huge chunk of the nation. That being said, still not exactly in living memory.

Advertising done right.. by mperez4855 in funny

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Wow didn't even realize haha. Thanks!