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Fuck Stan Kroenke

Can you guys hear that sound?

It's the sound of thousands of clickbait Youtubers throwing together thumbnails with big red circles and arrows

The aft turret and three of the 5-inch secondaries are offline, we took a 14-inch shell below the waterline, and there's a fire amidships.

The Arizona GOP is insane even by the standards of the rest of the party, and that is really saying something

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Gotta admit, as silly as the "Entire Army of Boba Fetts" plot angle was, it was still a better choice than what the EU did.

I think the silliest thing about it was the scale. An army of a million clones or however many there were is comically small for a conflict the size of an entire galaxy.

Absolutely not

Sariana21 posted...

Its RotS that is the callback to ANH if anything.

4 comes after 3, though.

Fuck yeah

Social media is shitty all over the world

Came across a guy trying to argue that the Soviets were "one of the most underequipped and incompetent forces in the world"

Which is, I'm sure, why the war in Europe ended in Berlin and not Kuybyshev. It's only logical.

The sad thing is that there were people who legitimately thought this during the primaries

Questionmarktarius posted...

Remind everyone that protest signs need to also be in French, and that'll quiet them down for a few hours at least.

And the French needs to be larger than the English. That part is critical.

I heard the MyPillow guy sent them pillows. Because of course he did.

I didn't know the director of Battlefield Earth had a GameFAQs account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPgRV85c5g

It's a bad documentary with a flawed methodology.

This is one of the worst things I've ever read

Nearly at 450 posts now

Civilization IV

Garioshi posted...

Party of small government

Government small enough to fit inside the womb

LincolnDuncan posted...

wait until you get to DS9. <3 Garak.

You have to suffer through DS6 and 7 before that point, though. The series really hits a rut before it regains its stride.

Two weeks ago or so. They were evacuating people because they feared an explosion, but I never heard any more about it. I guess they managed to put the fire out?

I can't recall seeing a porn magazine in my life

Fuck, is Tommynumbers's warning really over already?

Is this, what, the fourth reboot now?

DD Divine posted...

Yea lets attack Russia in the winter. Stable genius

Well, if it isn't this post again

You are a bad person

Crazyman93 posted...

Not true! Call of Duty taught me something or other happened at Moscow too! I think it involved using potatoes for grenade training...

Because real grenades are valuable. In fact, they are worth a lot more than you are.

Crazyman93 posted...

Well, that's when American high schools aren't ignoring the fact the USSR was involved at all to better fit Cold War era propaganda.

Everyone knows that exactly 5 events happened during WWII: Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, D-Day, the atomic bombs, and the Holocaust. And maybe Berlin fell at some point in there, I'm not too sure.

yemmy posted...

The M14 is a piece of shit anyway

Perfectly serviceable as a DMR

Oh god, what has been done to that M14

I don't have any opinion of it other than CE is hilariously insecure about its existence.

John Cazale is the correct answer for this question

ScazarMeltex posted...

To be fair here though I would like to point out that there are far more sources and books from the German perspective which is why people's views get skewed in this direction. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is the Allies perpetuation of the clean Wehrmacht myth after the war.
There is also the fact that Russian isn't an easy language to translate, the books that did get translated saw smaller print runs and are thus harder to find, and the cold war left people in the west with little interest in the trials and tribulations of the people who were now their enemy.

This is a problem in most military history really. There are so many interesting conflicts in Africa and Asia that people never get to learn about because none of the primary sources ever get translated and thus very few books ever get translated.

David Glantz has written extensively about the Eastern Front, with information taken from the Soviet archives. It does a lot to challenge and dispel the myths that were spread by the Germans during and after the war.

This is also the reason why Parshall and Tully's Shattered Sword is probably my favorite work of military history, because they went directly to the Japanese war histories and found that a good deal of the stuff we knew about the Battle of Midway was bunk based on the accounts of someone who was notorious for, shall we say, creatively interpreting his experiences. They found that western understanding of Midway had basically been stuck in place for 50 years because no one had bothered to consult the Japanese, and they turned the whole thing on its head.

Oh, I have no idea. I've never been a C&C player.

DeadBankerDream posted...

I feel like we're implying some pro-nazi sympathies in amateur history buffs here, but really I think amateur history buffs in general are just terrible at understanding history in any way beyond reciting a bunch of numbers and factoids.

Oh, to be clear, I'm not trying to imply that an interest in history is a red flag. I'm just poking at the specific people who claim to be interested, but their interest mysteriously doesn't extend past the Wehrmacht.

They'll be quick to tell you that a specific Tiger crew killed so-and-so many T-34s at Kursk, but you ask them why the German tactical and strategic goals went unfulfilled at Kursk and they clam up or start muttering something about hordes with more men than ammo.

Ruvan22 posted...

On the other hand if Einstein erased Hitler from the timeline leading to Stalin realizing his dream of unobstructed westward expansion I don't think Rommel's tactics would have been effective

Rommel, you magnificent , I read your book!

Slide

Anyway, back to the original topic.

Can you believe how easy it would have been if Hitler had just listened to Rommel, the greatest genius and also cleanest Wehrmacht officer ever to grace a battlefield? The war would have been over by 1940.

I always get him confused with Turbam

Three things are infinite: the universe, human stupidity, and the hypocrisy of conservatives, and I'm not sure about the universe.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Russia was literally planning/preparing for the invasion of Hokkaido when we dropped the nukes.

Where's your proof of that? As far as I'm aware, the potential invasion of Hokkaido was an idea that Stalin may have briefly entertained, but that his generals and advisors all advocated against.

UnfairRepresent posted...

They were flat out going to invade literally a couple of weeks after the bombs dropped. The US was aware of this and was terrified of it. They knew what we know call the Cold War was coming and both the US and Russia were collecting scientists, land and resources like they were pokemon cards.

They were invading Manchuria, which had already been agreed to at Yalta. The Soviets had agreed to enter the war against Japan 3 months after the defeat of Germany, and August 9 was three months to the day after Germany's surrender.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I like the fact you're using "It gave them a lot of trouble." as if that was a concern for Joseph Stalin

I'm not even talking about casualties. At Shumshu, the Soviets lost 5 of the 16 naval invasion craft that they had leased from the Americans. That level of attrition couldn't be sustained. They just did not have the experience or equipment to launch a larger scale invasion of Hokkaido.

The Jeopardy subreddit has turned into an annoying anti-Mayim cult

The Shawshank Redemption has an absolutely perfect ending.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Hell remember that Japan was still fighting when Germany was soundly defeated and we only droped nukes on them at all because we knew Russia was going to take it over.

The Soviets had agreed at Yalta not to invade the Home Islands. They also very likely weren't capable of launching amphibious operations in the first place without months of training and construction or purchase of the necessary equipment. Their limited operations against Sakhalin and the Kurils were much smaller in scale, and those still gave them a lot of trouble.

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Please don't call it "the Ukraine." The term is a holdover from Soviet times and undermines the independence of the country.

UnfairRepresent posted...

She's not much of a history buff if she doesn't know that Tank production was never Germany's problem.

Their problem was oil and fuel supplies.

Making tanks you can't use effectively would have been nothing but lovely target pratice for the British

But, you see, it's just not fair that the Americans were able to produce so many tanks that they could send a platoon of Shermans every time they spotted a Panther or Tiger. Why couldn't they play fair?