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Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by throwaway_NYC »

Untitled wrote: post #140
whyleyc wrote: post #138

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> Probably many more died because of the British Empire's policies I don't think body counts are a useful indicator of the level of evil intent of a government or a regime. On that basis the U.S. would fare significantly worse than Nazi Germany, based on the 10-16 million killed as a result of U.S. foreign policy since 1945 alone (see http://nottheenemy.com/index_files/Death%20Counts/Death%20Co... ) It would take a c…

> China is increasingly a heavily industrialised society yet still maintains an autocratic system of government with no democracy. So? The Chinese government is arguably more responsible than many democratic countries (as far as foreign policy is concerned). It is not involved with any foreign wars (whilst democratic countries such as the USA are involved in 2). China (as an autocratic country) is arguably better gov…

The British did a lot to modernise he primitive cultures of the world. Even the nobel peace prize winner this year claims that another 200 years of British colonialism is what china needs to uplift itself out of totalitarianism. Sadly, we will never know. Instead we just get dumbfucks like you equivocating Nazis with the british, when they really have more in common with the current Chinese administration.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by Untitled »

throwaway_NYC wrote: post #141
Untitled wrote: post #140

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> China is increasingly a heavily industrialised society yet still maintains an autocratic system of government with no democracy. So? The Chinese government is arguably more responsible than many democratic countries (as far as foreign policy is concerned). It is not involved with any foreign wars (whilst democratic countries such as the USA are involved in 2). China (as an autocratic country) is arguably better gov…

The British did a lot to modernise he primitive cultures of the world. Even the nobel peace prize winner this year claims that another 200 years of British colonialism is what china needs to uplift itself out of totalitarianism. Sadly, we will never know. Instead we just get dumbfucks like you equivocating Nazis with the british, when they really have more in common with the current Chinese administration.

> Even the nobel peace prize winner this year claims that another 200 years of British colonialism is what china needs to uplift itself out of totalitarianism.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner of this year is a fairly obscure writer in China. It is nothing more than the Nobel Prize committee giving the middle finger to China. IMHO it was a worse choice than Al Gore, Obama, Kissinger or Arafat.

> Instead we just get dumbfucks like you equivocating Nazis with

Nice ad hominem. Do you seriously wanted British Colonialism to last another 200 years? Maybe I am not as objective, since the British killed my people in concentration camps. Destroying all industry and putting people in concentration camps sure did a lot to uplift people!

> when they really have more in common with the current Chinese administration.

Really? The current Chinese administration is only involved in the ethnicide in one other country (Tibet) and has no ambitions to control other countries for its own benefit.

How many countries did the British Empire control?

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by mahmud »

chc wrote: post #131
mahmud wrote: post #71

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FWIW, it pisses me off that this Hitler character is so closely identified with Jews. Must every mention of Judaism be associated with this monster, and vice versa?

Not every mention of Judaism is associated with Hitler, so I'm not sure why you ask. Most of the times I hear Judaism mentioned, it is not in the context of Adolf Hitler. I think you're the first person I've ever heard draw a universal connection between the two. As for Hitler, he is most famous (at least in America) for his violent hatred of the Jewish people, so it is likely that mentioning him will bring it to min…

To keep things in perspective: this is a thread about a "cute" rendering of Hitler, complete with innocent Anime eyes, and the mention of Jews is done in a jovial, playful manner, almost game-like.

We're not talking about an internet meme here, we're talking about mass murder of innocent people, not too long ago. There are still living survivors. So excuse me if I refuse to play along, and slap my knees all the way to the cemetery.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by TheEzEzz »

Someone wrote: post #128
TheEzEzz wrote: post #51

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Every law has its exception: Adolf Hitler --> Anabolic steroid --> Peliosis hepatis --> Fecal enema

This law never will have exceptions that last long. Once its Wikipedia entry lists an exception, it no longer will be an exception, as the listing creates a path of length 2.

Ah, but then the article would have to be edited to remove the false exception, thus making the exception valid again.

It seems we've arrived at a proof that Wikipedia in fact can not have perfect, comprehensive knowledge of the world.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by ugh »

Untitled wrote: post #130
whyleyc wrote: post #122

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I agree that the examples you give are terrible and inexcusable, however they don't support your assertion that the British Empire was more evil than the Third Reich, given what we know about the sheer scale of systematic extermination during the Holocaust. It just doesn't compare I'm afraid. Also, the British Empire, whilst causing harm, did bring benefits to some countries (something it would be hard to argue the T…

> more evil than the Third Reich, given what we know about the sheer scale of systematic extermination during the Holocaust. Six million people died during the Holocaust. Probably many more died because of the British Empire's policies. The biggest causes of this was probably the policies of the British Empire that caused famines (by letting British landowners export food while the native population starves) and the…

Twelve million people were systematically murdered, about 60 million people died in WW II for which Germany is solely responsible (at least for the European dead). That all in twelve years.
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