The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain

Post by landryraccoon » Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

ColanR wrote: post #136

landryraccoon wrote: post #124

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> If so, question of my own. The landlord worked and spent resources (time, money) to increase his assets (develop the property). You, at your job, worked and spent resources (time, etc.) to increase your assets (e.g. size of your bank account). Do you think you should have indefinite ownership of your bank account? The landlord earns rent from his property. I earn a salary from my job. The landlord and I are on equa…

You've distilled your claim: the right to ownership of an asset is dependent on whether or not you keep improving it ("my employment at my job depends on me continually adding value to society"). There are a lot of people on here who built their own SaaS businesses. In a lot of cases, those are just websites that provide some simple service. And, in a lot of cases, once its built there isn't really much to do except…

Post by dragonsngoblins » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 12:41 AM UTC

whack wrote: post #93

nkurz wrote: post #84

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More than "for what it's worth", that's an important difference. The full quote puts a very different spin on Churchill's position. The article: "When some British officials objected to his proposal for “the use of gas against natives,” he found their objections “unreasonable.” In fact he argued that poison gas was more humane than outright extermination: “The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life shou…

If the use of gas is so reasonable, one wonders why he only supports using it against "uncivilized tribes".

Post by Nomentatus » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 3:04 AM UTC

dmix wrote: post #30

darkpuma wrote: post #25

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> "Plus; how would you stop it?" Well the primary targets, the carriers, weren't present. That was fortunate for America, to put it lightly. With the carriers missing, the attacking Japanese pilots focused their attacks on Battleship Row, against which they did severe damage. It should be noted however that after the first attack wave, the USN managed to put up very dense anti-aircraft fire that impeded the Japanese…

The US broke the Japanese crypto and naval signals well before the war. I’m curious how they missed the boat (no pun intended) on the massive attack. I vaguely remember the radio operators mistaking it as nothing which delayed the defences - as the hundreds of aircrafts came into view on radar. But beyond that how could they not have intercepted the planning beforehand? I’m not suggesting a conspiracy just curious.

Post by unmole » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 7:04 AM UTC

sremani wrote: post #146

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> The Last Nizam went to become an MP for a long time. Osman Ali Khan was briefly the titular head of post-accession Hyderabad but was never an MP. > His violent Razakar militia morphed into Political party and wins every Parliamentary election in Hyderabad. MIM as a political entity predates the Razakars. And I'd say the present day AIMIM has as much in common with it's predecessor as the Congress has with it's pre-…

Osman Ali Khan was M.P. of kurnool.

Post by mdekkers » Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 10:15 AM UTC

lucas_membrane wrote: post #139

darkpuma wrote: post #21

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It's an interesting hypothesis. Isolationism was a popular position in America before Pearl Harbor, to the extent that in his 1940 campaign FDR promised he wouldn't enter into a foreign war if he was reelected. And true to his word, after he was reelected America did not declare war on Germany despite many in the press demanding it. Eventually, after Pearl Harbor, it was Germany who declared war on America, not the o…

>> flew combat missions as a civilian (which is a bit strange.) While a civilian, he flew solo missions as a fighter pilot and engaged the enemy. We have a term for this nowadays, "illegal combatant."