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Post by brendanrizzo on Dec 28, 2011 10:45:59 GMT -5
So basically, even the one war in all of human history in which it was completely and totally justified for the US to intervene would have been opposed by Ron Paul had he been a politician at the time.
Of course, the generation of World War II was called the Greatest Generation for a reason. No current generation of Americans could ever top them. Nowadays we never fight just wars; instead we deliberately lie in order to justify entering two simultaneous wars in order to get oil, and have not actually fought to spread democracy anywhere since, you guessed it, World War II.
Sorry for the rant, guys.
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kzn02
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Post by kzn02 on Dec 28, 2011 21:57:11 GMT -5
Don't forget good old General Winter.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Dec 28, 2011 23:08:25 GMT -5
So basically, even the one war in all of human history in which it was completely and totally justified for the US to intervene would have been opposed by Ron Paul had he been a politician at the time. Even the hippiest of the hippies, wearing a tie-dye "Mean People Suck" t-shirt and puffing away on a joint while screaming, "Make love, not war!" at a Grateful Dead concert, will agree that the US was more than justified in getting involved in WWII.
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Post by N. De Plume on Dec 29, 2011 9:10:11 GMT -5
So basically, even the one war in all of human history in which it was completely and totally justified for the US to intervene would have been opposed by Ron Paul had he been a politician at the time. Even the hippiest of the hippies, wearing a tie-dye "Mean People Suck" t-shirt and puffing away on a joint while screaming, "Make love, not war!" at a Grateful Dead concert, will agree that the US was more than justified in getting involved in WWII. So, we should send Paul a joint, a tie-dye kit, and some Grateful Dead albums?
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Post by The_L on Dec 29, 2011 10:24:35 GMT -5
Even the hippiest of the hippies, wearing a tie-dye "Mean People Suck" t-shirt and puffing away on a joint while screaming, "Make love, not war!" at a Grateful Dead concert, will agree that the US was more than justified in getting involved in WWII. So, we should send Paul a joint, a tie-dye kit, and some Grateful Dead albums? Naah, send him some old Jefferson Airplane. It's trippier.
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Post by N. De Plume on Dec 29, 2011 10:50:07 GMT -5
So, we should send Paul a joint, a tie-dye kit, and some Grateful Dead albums? Naah, send him some old Jefferson Airplane. It's trippier. As long as the Hitler-fight vibe would rub off from them onto Paul, I’m good. ;D
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Post by dasfuchs on Dec 29, 2011 11:55:04 GMT -5
Unless you buy into the WWII conspiracy theories, there really was no alternative to the US getting involved. After all, Germany did declare war on us. On December 11th, 1941. Also, they made this poster. Apparently, Americans were a bunch of racists who were run by nasty Jews. Contradiction? What contradiction? Well, at the time the KKK was a big deal and was quite popular in the foreign knowledge and at points prior had been a political power...back then they didn't hate jews so much as it was them nasty n---ers.
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Post by dasfuchs on Dec 29, 2011 12:01:06 GMT -5
"his micromanaging"
This was the main fault to everything. The German war machine did just fine, the problem was resources, Germany had very little, he was relying on stuff they would have by capturing other countries. When his push for oil in the mideast crumbled, that pretty much screamed the end of any chance.
But by far, his micro managing everything was the big downfall. No military unit could be used without his meddling, even going so far as to make up phantom armies while he plotted things out.
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Post by discoberry on Dec 29, 2011 13:12:54 GMT -5
For some reason there's a space added near the end of the image URL. The picture is this one: Anyone know what it says at the bottom?
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Post by CtraK on Dec 29, 2011 17:16:24 GMT -5
Anyone know what it says at the bottom? Apparently it says "The U.S.A. will save European culture from destruction" in what is presumably very sarcastic Dutch. Also, did someone say Nazi superweapons? ...the Landkreuzer P1500 Monster, with 800mm cannon, which never got out of the design stage because much smaller prototype tanks had issues with speed, ground clearance and the way the tank tracks smashed perfectly usable roads. Apparently, the Nazis also looked into sending an expedition to Tibet at one point to investigate the possibility of a hollow Earth. It's usually an easy slur to say that dictatorships are mentally ill, but really, the Nazis were totally fucking mental, which is essentially why they were never going to win WW2.
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Post by dasfuchs on Dec 30, 2011 9:05:45 GMT -5
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 30, 2011 9:34:25 GMT -5
You mean the one in Captain America?
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Post by dasfuchs on Dec 30, 2011 12:07:06 GMT -5
I didn't see that movie
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Post by Shane for Wax on Dec 30, 2011 12:08:48 GMT -5
Short of the long: High altitude bomber that could take nukes to the entire eastern seaboard of the US.
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Post by ironbite on Dec 30, 2011 16:57:42 GMT -5
Nukes powered by the Cosmic Cube mind you.
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