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Honestly, the only reason to want Königsberg it's not Kalniningrad fuckdammit back is because it was Immanuel Kant's hometown and Hannah Arendt's, I guess.Aside from that I've been told it's a shithole.
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Honestly, the only reason to want Königsberg it's not Kalniningrad fuckdammit back is because it was Immanuel Kant's hometown and Hannah Arendt's, I guess.You forgot to mention German civilians were held as "reparations labour" by the USSR. 473,013 people have been confirmed killed in soviet camps with 1,905,991 unsolved cases.XSI wrote:In complete honesty, they just sorta took it after WW2 and declared it to be a part of Russia. That's all there is to it. Beat other country, take clayCosmicScientist wrote: Oh oh oh! Political question time! Why does Russia have Kaliningrad and the surrounding area above Poland and to the west of Lithuania?
They've apparently offered to sell it back to Germany at one point but Germany (Read: German politicians worried about having to pander to more voters) didn't want it, so now it's just sorta there and they made the best of it by just building a bunch of army stuff on it
Of course this is not detailed or anything, but I've not really looked into it that much so that's what I can get you on it
Before being betrayed by the axisInsaneHyena wrote:Oh no, those poor germans, working to restore the country they destroyed.
>unironically defending Soviet slaveryInsaneHyena wrote:Oh no, those poor germans, working to restore the country they destroyed.
shut your mouth u fucking stereotypeInsaneHyena wrote:Every time I think "Starmute can't possibly top the previous retarded thing it said", and every time I turn out to be wrong.starmute wrote: Anyone in their right mind would be anti-Russia
starmute wrote: Russia destroyed their own country by allowing psuedo-communism to flourish.
Jesus, please save mepseudo-communism
more like slav-ery amiritecedarbridge wrote:>unironically defending Soviet slaveryInsaneHyena wrote:Oh no, those poor germans, working to restore the country they destroyed.
it's not REAL communismInsaneHyena wrote:starmute wrote: Russia destroyed their own country by allowing psuedo-communism to flourish.Jesus, please save mepseudo-communism
IMO it actually was "A dictatorship" hiding under the idealism of communism (which can't exist due to human nature).lntigracy wrote: it's not REAL communism
Glassing the middle east is my renewable energy inventive.calzilla1 wrote:>forgetting about oilIncomptinence wrote:Wrong wrong wrong wrong.bandit wrote:>implying that the last five decades if not more of world history, and definitely the last two, have not involved various countries collectively pissing in the Middle East's cheerios
The middle east is made of pissed cheerios from the ground up.
The fertile crescent is important to ancient history and shit but at this point entire place has been a mess for centuries before the ottoman's or post ww1 map drawing ever happened.
Fighting over this shitty region is so pointless I say just get it over with exile all humans from the manifestly unholy land then salt the earth / glass the shit pile so our species expends no more resources on this geographical time waster.
CosmicScientist wrote:Isn't that fascism?ColonicAcid wrote:>virtually all industry is owned by the government and centralised
>"gobbunism ends"
>virtually all industry is owned by figures connected to the government.
http://puu.sh/xISEG/88fcde70af.jpg
the only difference is your ass can get mcdonalds...
Both do not existDemonFiren wrote:"communism is the same as democracy"
-starmute 2017
DemonFiren wrote:CosmicScientist wrote:Isn't that fascism?ColonicAcid wrote:>virtually all industry is owned by the government and centralised
>"gobbunism ends"
>virtually all industry is owned by figures connected to the government.
http://puu.sh/xISEG/88fcde70af.jpg
the only difference is your ass can get mcdonalds...
Compromise?
ShadowDimentio wrote:There's only like an inch of difference between Communism and Nazi-ism
Well stated.CosmicScientist wrote:
Communism sounds like a minmaxer's wet dream and surely democracy is impossible outside of small scale if you do not consider representatives to be an extension of the rule of the people? I mean, the people are stupid and the representatives are stupid so that sounds right for democracy.starmute wrote:Both do not existDemonFiren wrote:"communism is the same as democracy"
-starmute 2017
Democracy would be rule by the masses with no elected representatives
Communism would be from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
In theory if you had some way to easily compute the information available, you could have a rational consensus government where people could compile and instantly vote based on preferences.ShadowDimentio wrote:"""True""" democracies don't exist because it's totally unfeasible for people to vote for the constant things that need to be done in governments, it's considered a good year when 80% of a population of a country show up for presidential elections or an equivalent, and those only happen once every few years.
Not the one I was thinking about but looked it upSuper Aggro Crag wrote:Jc denton did it in deus ex 2
Communism only exists as a ideal.ShadowDimentio wrote:"It wasn't REAL communism!" -Communists describing communist countries
The only lesson people need to learn about communism is that someone always has to get fucked over. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a fast way to make sure nobody is happy* and everyone is equally miserable, not to mention it's an EXTREMELY good reason for everyone with any skills that you might need to, say, fill vital roles in the country to flee, hence why the Berlin Wall was to keep people in, not out.
*Except the people running the show, they always ~mysteriously prosper~
Not really a supporter of Marxism myself but I'll tell ya that people will defend their ideals to the death even if they know they are wrong. Click spoilers for more details.XSI wrote:I've been talking to a legit communist occasionally, and from what I've learned there is one big lesson about communism
The other guys are doing it wrong. Always. There's a lot of different kinds of communism and they all hate each other, and most of them hate the soviet union too
Also on Köningsberg, yeah. I've got nothing. Just repeating shit I heard since I've yet to look into it. The area doesn't really have much interest for me past WW2
Three pointsCosmicScientist wrote:
Oh and going back to that Adam Ruins clip, there's a sense of smug superiority that rubs the wrong way. I don't know if that's by design since that would mean the makers assume the viewers could realise their prejudice, feel confliction and come to the conclusion that the video is right rather than just hit the downvote for causing negative feelings. The rest of it I could probably armchair it and say they are cliche designs although sadly I can only go as far as armchair since I can't tell you what cliche designs aren't in the video rather than work off my own steam:Okay I'm going to stop there. They know what they're doing. If I put it one way, it's by the book but lacks sincerity. If I put it another way, it's manipulative in a way that scares me if they have a concerning message to push. And if I find a third way to put it, they come to a mostly right but simplistic conclusion for a video designed for amusement rather than to provoke thought, however the serious end doesn't justify the jokey means.
- normal presenter getting beaten up verbally and physically to relieve the audience after being told by this know-it-all what the facts are/they have misconceptions
- gender divide (majority female audience with audience surrogate?), same sex beating up same sex isn't as much of a contrast and it may also be tying into common concept of woman weak, man stwong to not turn people off either being unstimulating mentally or repelling for playing into a bad stereotype (or again, majority female audience might be playing in on this one, give the audience a surrogate because no-one wants to see gastropod the stinky green alien winning or being right when no-one is even close to being gastropod the stinky green alien, it's like how in Futurama, Fry was the audience surrogate exploring everything and coincidentally, an important word, the writing got shit about the time he became familiar with the future), feel free to hate me on this one starmute, I'm trying to stay gender neutral but this was the conclusion I came to after I took a very strong dislike to muh man being beaten up by da woman of evil
- quick reference mentions just like a paper I had to do for university! making it appear professional (although that is a tad misleading because this isn't a paper, no-one is using this as research material, youtube is not responsible for making sure this material they are hosting isn't lying or misinterpreting findings in the reference material and without looking up the reference material, I can't even say they are reliable with how they're presented in the video, although papers do suffer a flaw of needing to look at the references to not consider a paper founded on them to be baseless, I mean if you're being paid enough)
- subtle (but forced) facial and verbal tone changes
Seriously, I get too excited and start being too friendly. In 2004 I was doxxed by being stupid. Never trust people on the internet, share pictures or video.CosmicScientist wrote:
Nuuu. Post college humor stuff. Just not that weird Adam Ruins thing, it even seems to attract everyone to post politics in the comments and everyone calls Adam an SJW and then aaall the buzzwords appear.
Right of conquest.ShadowDimentio wrote:I was born here, I have just as much claim to the land as any native.
I'm not going to argue morality here but I would bet if Puerto Rico got to vote (they are a territory instead of a state) he probably would change his tune.Incomptinence wrote:Waiver the Jones MERKIN ONLEEEE shipping act for Houston and Florida for disaster relief efforts.
Refuse to waiver in Puerto RIco because business interests.
Blah de dah, bad president.
https://i.imgur.com/9Ia1boF.jpg
Look at all the business opportunities!
2012 statehood voteSuper Aggro Crag wrote:Puerto rico doesnt want to be a state
This is a joke comment rightShadowDimentio wrote:back when the US was founded and the natives were getting fucked they got off pretty easy all things considered for that era.
ShadowDimentio wrote:To the victor goes the spoils
Not saying it's very fair, but back when the US was founded and the natives were getting fucked they got off pretty easy all things considered for that era.
If you claim clay you must support clay in theory. Currently we are seeing "in practice"Grazyn wrote:Why do the US still bother with Puerto Rico? Is there any actual advantage from having it as a territory, besides "more clay"? It seems to me that any profit you gain from it goes down the drain when such things happen, yes obviously you can refuse to send help but only for so long. Not to mention the constant threat to republicans in case dems reach power and make it a state. Could the US just unilaterally cut them free?
I mean, compared to absolute extermination, I'd wager living in a shitty play pen at the crappy end of the yard is a step above.oranges wrote:This is a joke comment rightShadowDimentio wrote:back when the US was founded and the natives were getting fucked they got off pretty easy all things considered for that era.
Ironicly the first ghettos were considered a step up for jews.lntigracy wrote:the first ghettos
Exactly.cedarbridge wrote:I mean, compared to absolute extermination, I'd wager living in a shitty play pen at the crappy end of the yard is a step above.
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