Lurker > Firewerx

I like how you don't bother to mention that the toilets in your pics are actually the ones for androids.

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Hermetically sealed worlds with an unfeasibly small captive population to sustain them.

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If you scroll all the way down through the article, it says the authorities simply dynamited a village whose name loosely translates to "extreme poverty" just so they could claim it had been eliminated.

All right, it doesn't really.

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The only way Ted Cruz would be hot, would be if you set him on fire.

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The-Apostle posted...

I never watched any Paranormal Activity movies that came out after the first one because the that one was boring af.

You lucky bastard.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

Otoh there is so much damn music that hyper classifying makes it much easier to find shit you want

Never found that to be the case.

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It's a mistake. There just won't be the same chemistry without all the original cast.

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"I didn't forge cheques on your mother's bank account after she died" -- my aunt.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

This is fucking horseshit and you know it.

It may be true for the officer corps of the German Army during WWII. An analysis of the personnel records of three divisions held to be representative of combat units on the Eastern Front -- the Grossdeutschland Division, the 12th Infantry Division, and the 18th Panzer Division -- found that among a sample of 531 officers, 112 were members of the NSDAP. That's 29.2%.

(Source: The Eastern Front 1941-1945, German Troops, and the Barbarisation of Warfare by Omer Bartov, published by Palgrave, 1985. Bartov: John P. Birkelund Professor of European History at Brown University, RI.)

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AdrianBeterson posted...

Also realize there was no such thing as social media in Nazi Germany. So whatever knowledge/information you received day-to-day was controlled by the Nazis, therefore it would be very easy for you to be brainwashed into holding Nazi beliefs.

I'm in two minds about this argument in defence of ordinary Germans. I'd draw a distinction between youngsters who were maybe 18 or 19 by the war's end -- who would have been seven years old at most when the Nazis took power, and who grew up in a hermetically sealed world in which the Party shaped their entire mentality and life experience -- and older, adult Germans.

Many adult Germans did have a different frame of reference, a different set of values that they'd grown up with. Their education, their upbringing, had been in Wilhemine or Weimar Germany. Many key Nazi figures had already had whole lives, careers, families, before Hitler was appointed Chancellor; they knew what it was like to live in a different world. They weren't brainwashed from birth, they weren't robots programmed by the NSDAP; they were able to make comparisons and choices for themselves. They were conscious collaborators.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

not just a Nazi

Everyone is vulnerable to manipulation and social pressures . You are always influenced by the media you consume , the education you have and the people around you

Including you person reading this message

Never forget that

It's quite frightening how many people love to think of themselves as hard-nosed, independent-thinking skeptics because they chucked all their critical faculties out the window and gulped down some half-baked nonsense from a crackpot website.

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Shadow Don posted...

It's that people have this cartoon in their heads where they themselves would obviously have the foresight to not be the ones that are nazis and yet some of these same people fall for blatant fascist propaganda that is strikingly similar to what we saw in the rise of nazi Germany. Just be aware of it and be on guard.

People have been so conditioned to watch out for fascists in paramilitary uniforms, they fail to recognise the ones in business suits.

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realnifty1 posted...

Nope I mean during WW2, the height of Nazi-ism accounts for at most 50% of the population supporting it. The run up as best we can tell was the 1933 free election where the party took 33% of the vote.

Extremely difficult to believe there wasn't a huge surge of popular support once Nazism was believed to "work" -- and particularly during the years of victory between 1940-42, when Germany seemed to have not only risen from the ashes of defeat and depression, but been transformed phoenix-like by Hitler's "genius" and Nazi "revolutionary spirit" into a mighty continental superpower. Meanwhile, Germany's enemies seemed to be toppling like dominoes after a series of miraculous lightning victories.

I think you'd have to be a complete fool to believe that none of these successes (even if temporary or illusory) swayed many of the doubters of 1933, when Nazism was still unproven.

"Popular support" is obviously a very difficult thing to quantify in a dictatorship, but there's a whole range of positive or neutral responses -- from acceptance and acquiescence to enthusiastic support and ideological commitment. Nor was everyone who backed Hitler necessarily a diehard Nazi who gulped down party doctrine hook, line and sinker; many no doubt simply saw themselves as German patriots who were grateful for any champion who turned the country into a winner.

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JustMyOpinion posted...

Pretty sure I wouldn't be. As I recall they were not fond of blacks.

The Nazis were not. I'd point out that there were plenty of black Afro-German citizens in Hitler's Germany: the legacy of Germany's colonial past in Africa. (The Second Reich's overseas empire included all or part of present-day Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Togo, and Ghana.)

There was also the poisonous legacy of Germany's racist propaganda campaign against black African soldiers among the French forces that occupied the Rhineland after WW1, the so-called "Black Horror on the Rhine", which shaped German/Nazi attitudes towards blacks -- and resulted in massacres of black POWs captured from the French by German units during the 1940 campaign.

And yes, Afro-Germans were treated as third-class citizens by the Nazis; there was a forced sterilization program.

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Geno4LoveGeno4L posted...

I think the age of consent should be 25 years old

If you're not capable of making informed, rational decisions for yourself until you're 25, then you shouldn't be voting until you're 25.

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I bet you they'll just move the headstones but not the bodies.

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Atralis posted...

About 65 which was about as high as Afghanistan or the congo is today. Medicine has come a very long way since then.

If people were dying at the age of 65 (on average), it sounds as if people were more vulnerable to chronic or severe ill health at a younger age; so, wouldn't that mean that Covid-19 would have taken them out at a younger age? And indeed, as you imply, sufferers in 2021 stand a higher chance of survival due to modern treatments -- treatments unavailable to Americans in the 1940s. So I'd say it's quite possible that Covid-19 would have been seen as an even bigger killer in the 1940s, rather than go unnoticed.

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ROOTFayth posted...

Covid-19 was blown out of proportion imo due to social media mostly, the real pandemic were the social medias, without it it would only have felt like a pretty bad flu season

The third biggest killer of Americans, racking up a body count equivalent to a quarter of all deaths from heart disease and cancer combined, doesn't strike me as having been "blown out of proportion". And it's hardly a "season"; this fucker is here to stay and to keep on killing until robust action is taken to stop the spread.

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Atralis posted...

To be fair I'm not sure people would even have noticed covid back in the 1940s given how low life expectencies were in general and the state of the world at the time.

What was the mean life expectancy for Americans in, say, 1947 then? (Bearing in mind that infant mortality rates can skew life expectancy stats. To get a more accurate picture, ideally you'd want to be able to say what life expectancy was for Americans who made it to the age of, say, 5.)

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spikethedevil posted...

Total worldwide deaths in WW2 was 75-85 million.

He did ask "which will cause more US deaths", though.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Well... bacon cheeseburgers.

I think it'll be a few years before forensic science can write that on a death certificate, though. Until then: "All we can say at this stage of our investigation is, we believe it was most likely something from the breakfast menu."

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Looks like just about half as many get dead from cheeseburgers every day.

Point taken. To judge from the site you linked to, that's roughly 14,000 a week. (Seems a little unfair to blame all heart disease on cheeseburgers, but until there are reliable stats to break down cause of death by foodstuff...) So if America was hit by two terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 every week, someone could point out that it's less than half the fatalities caused by the lethal cheeseburger.

The question is, if America was being constantly hit by a wave of heavy, relentless terrorist attacks, who the fuck would find any kind of comfort in that statistic? Or argue that the danger of terrorism threat was being blown out of all proportion? What would the reaction have been if Bush had faced the cameras hours after collapse of the Twin Towers and reassured the American public that to put the day's events into perspective, their deadliest enemy remained the Big Mac rather than Al-Qaeda?

And with Covid-19 killing even more Americans than two 9/11 attacks every week, why would anyone seek to downplay the seriousness of that?

Seems to me that if over 675,000 Americans are already dying every year from heart disease, no one needs yet another cause of death catching up that death toll by halfway and piling yet more corpses onto the body count. You don't think there's enough fuss made about cheesburgers? Then that's an argument for making more fuss about cheeseburgers, not for making less fuss about Covid-19.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

It's not even as bad as cheeseburgers.

Trouble is when you post something like that, it trivializes a crisis; and it persuades some people to think along the lines of, "Well, maybe we shouldn't be making such a fuss about this."

Let's put it this way. If cheeseburgers manage to kill four times as many Americans in a single day than the 9/11 hijackers did, then by comparison having a terrorist attack against a major US city on the scale of the World Trade Center once a week, every week of the year would be no big deal for America. So why worry? Why bother spending even an extra cent on trying to defend the US from terrorism?

Yet the simple statistics on terrorism (or other violent crime) versus the killer cheeseburger don't make Americans feel any safer from the former, or make them think it's no big deal. Why is that?

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Ask them what they thought of your nudes.

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Don't tell her at this early stage that you've never had a date before. Maybe tell her that you're a little rusty at this because it's been a long time since you had a date.

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Judgmenl posted...

You can have dual-citizenship.

How does dual citizenship work if you're doing compulsory military service in another country, and then suddenly there's an armed clash between the US and that other country? Would you lose your US citizenship permanently if military action was brief but hostilities did not formally end in a legal sense?

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Nudism sounds like fun until you're cooking on barbecue night without an apron.

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If the chicken was on a train that left the station 15 miles away at 14.30, and the egg was on a train...

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Zikten posted...

They can get help if they admit they aren't the greatest state

And don't complain about commie welfare parasites sticking the begging bowl under the nose of big government and demanding handouts from the taxpayer.

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He's got you mixed up with someone else. Does he keep calling you "Bob"?

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Yes, only in the UK would a sculpture like this ever be called art. Something like this wouldn't even be given a corner in a New York gallery.

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I've heard that some bisexuals actually go to work for several hours day. Is that true?

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Sometimes people pay for a service because they either expect, or have found, a paid-for service to be better.

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Yet another cult predicting the end of the world, eh?

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Probably Earth.

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Monolith1676 posted...

Covid-19 is terrible but like it shows here, it the grand scheme of things it is nothing.

To an extent, that's because of when the outbreak occurred. In earlier centuries, with little or nothing to check its spread or to treat those infected by it, it may have racked up a far higher death toll.

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Smackems posted...

Didn't 210 thousand die in ww2

405,399 Americans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Prismsblade posted...

Biology?

O Biology, what crimes are committed in thy name.

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Prismsblade posted...

Doeasnt help that most people biologically prefer their own race and culture

Culture isn't biologically determined.

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I don't usually begrudge talented people their talent; because if they're talented at something that I'm not, it's usually because they're more passionate about something than me.

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I'd say as a general rule of thumb, it can make you a more rounded and maybe more empathetic person. (I'm not happy about the vagueness of what "better" is supposed to mean.) But there are exceptions, because familiarity can also breed contempt.

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NeoSioType posted...

After I left my body, it was like being hit with a tranquilizer and I didn't make it very far before I blacked out.

Isn't this just a poetic way of saying "I fell asleep"?

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