• Dolores [love/loves]
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    who the fuck is still thinking about john mccain fucking hell

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        • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          Heard some lib radio host glaze McCain just yesterday while drivingfor work, called him a war hero

          I couldn't contain my anger so I yelled "HE WAS A WAR CRIMINAL! WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF HERO DROPS NAPALM ON INNOCENT CHILDREN?!?" guts-rage

          • roux [he/him, they/them]
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            3 months ago

            Sort of a "call coming from inside the house" thing when the US is a terror state.

      • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        my lib mom got upset when Trump mocked the USS John McCain cause it was disrespectful to both the man and the troops

        i just don't get libs

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          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            i'm not saying anyone on there is an intellectual heavyweight but the few clips i have seen from the view were basically all Mccain getting clowned on by basic liberals lol

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  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    If the initial push into France fails I'm pretty sure the nazis are deeply fucked lmao. I suggest opening 13 more fronts, that always seems to work.

    As for how to win the Iraq war, I would do a billion 9/11s. This is from Saddam's perspective, right?

  • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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    telling that all of these are reactionary daydreams and fantasies, and there's no progressive alternatives offered or discussed. Here are some of mine:

    What if Lincoln had picked a radical abolitionist as his VP and after his assassination there was a massive anti-southern aristocracy crackdown to enforce reconstruction?

    What if Kruschev didn't win the power struggle and instead Molotov did? What if the sino-soviet split never happened because Kruschev didn't get into power and immediately start shitting on and dismantling socialist achievement?

    What if Stalin didn't stop at Berlin? What if the USSR discovered nukes before the west?

    What if Lenin was not shot and didn't have health complications resulting from that?

    What if the Spartacus Revolt was successful and the German Revolution joined with the USSR?

    What if Napoleon defeated the British at Waterloo? What if Napoleon allied with the Haitians and revolutionaries of the new world instead of turning them into enemies? What if he supported a Haitian-African American take-over of the Louisiana territories?

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      What if temperatures stayed stable in the Paleocene, resulting in the dawn of civilization around paleolake megachad?

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        Everybody has a really pronounced jawline, nothing else changes.

      • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        WW2 would have looked very different indeed. Socialists vs. Imperialists instead of the weird mishmash of socialists + imperialists vs. newer more vicious imperialists. The victory there would have been a victory for socialism instead of a descent into cold war against an untouched US.

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      What if Napoleon defeated the British at Waterloo?

      He would be defeated in the next battle. He had already won at Ligny and Quatre Bras, and it didn't bring him a strategic victory, and neither would a victory at Waterloo.

  • fox [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    The Nazis literally could not have ever won WW2 and anyone who argues against that is way too vested in learning about Nazi campaigns specifically

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I think it's the closest you could get to historical determinism. The only way for the Nazis to win was for them to not be Nazis. They lost the war the moment they started it. Germany was doomed even if they never went to war because fascist economics will demand that they do. The whole thing was a fuck because it was fundamental to their ideology.

      There's some scenarios where they could have maybe gotten a draw (like forming an alliance with the US and UK to invade the USSR), but it would have still left them worse off than...not being nazis.

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      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        FACT: 99% of wonder weapon scientists quit right before finding the one that will sweep aside the slavic hordes

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    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      They won against France only because Allied generals thought it was a good idea to stick their neck into an obvious trap, and then German generals decided that they were absolute geniuses and could win whatever they want.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Yeah it turns out it really easy to win battles when you just surprise attack unmobilized neutral countries. When countries become mobilized and ally against you, horse carriages and bolt actions no longer cut it.

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          • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Dont know about that. Elon would never think to use a train to transport his vehicles with their own wheels. He's going to make a bigger cybertruck (cymi-truck) for you to use on the uberloop.

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        • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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          No, France was already completely mobilized by the end of 1939, combined forces of France and Britain were stronger than German army, but their military leadership managed to send most of the army straight into encirclement in May 1940. Germans expected a major but limited victory, not a complete destruction of main Allied force, which happened only due to monumental blunders.

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  • duderium [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Genre fiction writer here, 99% of genre fiction is fascist.

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      • Poogona [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Even the Mahabharata is like a thorough endorsement of Patriarchal power structures but it's what makes mythology and its fuzzy ironic (ambivalent?) relationship with its historical context so interesting

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          • duderium [he/him]
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            the idea of purity, especially purity in a patriarchal sense where a woman held captive by "impure" enemy forces must painstakingly, exhaustively, and perhaps even dangerously prove her "purity" to the patriarchal power.

            Maybe not so different from Iphigenia / Isaac.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        "The main character needs to have her naked body described in detail during a mandatory shower scene."

        Okay cmon no way did anybody say this to you, right?

        ...please let it be fake...

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  • Rom [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    They're aware John McCain died in 2018 right?

  • heggs_bayer
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    3 months ago

    pepe-silvia Here's how Hitler can still win!

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  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    The soviet union would have to not exist for the nazis to win, I think. Even without allied forces drawing german war materials away from the eastern front, there's no way they coulda beat the red army, I'm pretty sure.

    Also though the nazis were gonna invade places that would bring them into conflict with the allies anyway, lol lmao

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, the Battle of France. Where you had that one general doing that maneuver.