Missinger [it/its]

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  • Missinger [it/its]togamesHmm,
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    3 years ago

    Not my fault you're being too vague about what you're talking about for me to respond properly, and I don't see how your point is relevant anyway?



  • Missinger [it/its]togamesHmm,
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    3 years ago

    You know, you really are pushing the “Great Man Theory” of history bit here.

    Nah I'm not, Chapos are just over-inclusive of what counts as 'Great Man Theory'.

    They're not the primary drivers of history as GMT claims, but individuals and their actions can still heavily influence history.



  • Missinger [it/its]tothe_dunk_tank*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Not to mention, people who say 'neither Washington nor Beijing' always talk about using sanctions or bombs to 'fix' to fix the latter, but :vote: to fix the former. Their attitudes are never really equal.



  • Missinger [it/its]togamesHmm,
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    3 years ago

    I don't think there's any guarantee that the Nazis would even come to power. They barely managed it in real life, another leader could've failed where Hitler was lucky to succeed.

    Maybe in the absence of a successful Nazi Party a revanchist conservative Germany would've fought the Soviets in a similar WWII but yeah that's all speculation. Doubt a Hindenburg would go all exterminationist in that scenario though.


  • Missinger [it/its]togamesHmm,
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    3 years ago

    I don't think he was the deciding factor, but he could have quite possibly been a deciding factor.

    Hitler under different material conditions wouldn't have done what he did, but the same conditions with a different Nazi leader could quite easily have led to a different historical outcome.



  • Missinger [it/its]tothe_dunk_tank*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    I thought that they were (are?) legit, but they're just part of China's normal legal process. Rather than having dedicated buildings for executions, you just have a few specialised vans that drive to places when it needs to be done.

    Capital punishment is still cringe and China's cringe for doing it, but the execution vans themselves don't make them any worse than any other country that has capital punishment.


  • Missinger [it/its]togamesHmm,
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    3 years ago

    Being anti-Great Man Theory doesn't mean you have to discount any and all individual actions. It's not unreasonable to think that a Nazi Party under different leadership would've failed to take power as they did.








  • Missinger [it/its]tothe_dunk_tankLol. Lmao
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    3 years ago

    Kissinger is far better than most Americans on China, if for no other reason than that he wants to protect his own legacy as the man who 'opened them up'.