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[–] [email protected] 211 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've got class war, which is a real doozy.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yooo same. Why the fuck don't these people just fuck off and relax? I can't imagine having that much money and still feeling like I have to go to work.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Because at some point after the first few million you turn into a dragon that must hoard wealth and the people that generate that wealth become a cost to minimize.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

My sheet says "rome"

Uh oh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

"So, what's Rome's history like?"

"It's all war."

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago

Hell yeah, I got the Dominion War. Time for another DS9 rewatch.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm the War on Christmas guy, and I'm getting my ass handed to me every single year.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I participated in the war on drugs...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

On the winning side, I imagine.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The best class I took in college was an intercession course about the Vietnam War. We had to read an entire book pretty much every day, which was great prep for grad school.

I basically learned that the entire war was completely unjustified, it was horrific and brutal on both sides in ways that aren’t talked about, but that ultimately the United States had absolutely no business interfering. Vietnam had spent years under French colonial control, which they overthrew under their own power. They had already asserted a desire to rule themselves.

Tonkin was also a genuine false flag, which just isn’t acknowledged? We manufactured the cause for an extremely unpopular war. So many young man died or were disabled because of something that was pointless.

That class was first that really got me to question the patriotic narrative I was taught about American history in high school.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Of course we can't acknowledge it, because then we can't make the same "mistake" again and people will start questioning real causus belli like saddams WMDs which we'll find any day now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Vietnam got a rough fucking deal in the 1900s. Shortly after the US left, the Cambodians under Pol Pot invaded, and they were brutal

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And Vietnam ended up kicking Pol Pot off which is impossible to argue as anything but a win for humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

All I got was Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The seven years war is fantastic and is utterly critical to understanding the US Revolution as well as understanding how the Iroquois pulled a power move on the other first nations that worked, but later led to the current situation with first nations in North America.

On the revolution: Namely that corruption was so endemic in the colonies that when the UK actually started to do something about it the revolution happened albeit with a lot of pushing from the upper crust of the colonies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun couterfactual to consider: how many MPs would "the colonies" have needed to blunt popular support for the revolution?

Probably can't go very high, but maybe one per charter? If not that high (Scotland only had 45, I think), then what would have been enough "representation" to preclude the American elites from making a compelling case, or what paths to personal status would have tempted enough of them that there wouldn't have been a critical mass of will and resources?

The British colonized the Americas, particularly North America, very differently than Spain and France did, but didn't seem to think of the purpose or integration of colonies as any different.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Don't let that obsession drag you down under.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

WWIII nut here.

Get yourself a Red Cross emergency kit, a lot of water jugs, and ramen. You're underestimating your chances of survival and how much you'll want to.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

You’re underestimating your chances of survival and how much you’ll want to.

yes, you too can live out the remainder of your miserable days scrambling for rat meat in the irradiated future.

of course, the desire to live, to survive, overcomes a lot, but 'want to live' I think is stretching it a bit.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Mine just says WW15 and has a picture of a green tiger in space

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Second Sudanese Civil War of course (1983-2005)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

~~The one about slavery.~~ ~~I mean state rights.~~ I mean Northern Aggression.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The proper term now is War of the Demonic Democrats Against the Party of Lincoln and Trump

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Huh. "Galactic Civil War" and "War of the Ring."

Neat. Wizards in both!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

WWI was objectively the most world changing and sets the stage for the entire modern era, if you squint WWII was just the Extended Edition of WWI all that being said WWIII was still my favorite.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

« Ce n'est pas une paix, c'est un armistice de vingt ans » — Ferdinand Foch about the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Often translated as "This isn't a peace treaty, it's an armistice for twenty years." but some might prefer "This is no peace, it's a twenty-year ceasefire."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

War of the Roses, winner of Best Named War ;)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

i got the soviet-afghan war and wow did that recontextualize a lot of things about the modern world

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I missed the memo. I am just generally anti war and don't like reading about them. War is all because of dickhead leaders that can't act decent, treat others right, or talk things out without being little insecure manbabies. And when manchildren in power have their big boi pp insulted they make the less powerful fight for them instead of doing anything respectful. Some rebellions which lead to wars are justified. Gotta stick it back to the empowered manchildren sometimes. But it all comes down to a shitty leader.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I decided to focus on wars of leftest and/or peasant uprisings. Often heart breaking, but man if you've ever enjoyed cheering for the underdog, they are definitely that. Plus, you're automatically learning about the Class War at the same time :D

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yo professor, which Falkland Islands you talking about?

https://youtu.be/42_oWaWsiYs

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The seven year war, which is what the rest of the world calls the French Indian war should actually have been called World War One.

It was also started by an incompetent 22 year old George Washington being sent out in his first command who ignored the equivalent of the sergeant put in charge of the new lieutenant advice and executed a French person he shouldn't have.

The taxes that started the revolutionary war? Those were to pay the war debts on the seven year war. Dude literally led an army to avoid paying the consequences of his actions.

EDIT: it's also possible to draw "ALL WARS"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

pfft. enlist when you're 18, you'll get a whole new war.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

The galactic civil war....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I listened to Hardcore History's series on World War I in that window, so that was my assigned war of interest.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mine just says WW3, should I be concerned?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'm glad I missed this.

btw, did you know that the Australian government killed almost 1000 Emus in the Great Emu War and still lost?

The military used over 10,000 rounds of ammunition. that would mean they used around 10 rounds per Emu.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I got the second Punic war, but I think that's just a freebie. I also spent a lot learning about the Falkland's war just to annoy Argentinians online.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

There are 64 books in the Horus Heresy.

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