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The only damnedfool thing I did was open my mouth.

I have long been an adherent of the Turkish viewpoint. Today, I was simply trying to admit that even by the Turkish viewpoint, it was still a genocide and still just as bad as by the Armenian viewpoint, still just as morally wrong, still just as unacceptable.

If I cared about what people thought about me on the internet, I wouldn't be posting here.

You moron, that is what we're talking about. We're talking about Poland sending troops into the Ukraine, because I brought it up, and I'm telling you that your response to what I said, is MORONIC. I understand EXACTLY what you're saying, MORON. NATO is not automatically involved, a Russian-Polish co...

I still don't believe any of that; I've just come to believe that it was a genocide anyway and just as morally wrong even if we still dispute the details. Forced relocate and death by massed starvation and exhaustion is just as bad as systematic death camps, that's what I've come to realize. It was ...

13 dead in base camp and at least 18 foreign climbers dead on the mountain with no communication from any of the Sherpas to their organization, and the foreign media only reporting the foreign climber deaths out of racist contempt for the Sherpas. I would expect there could be as high as 100 dead on...

Something to be unsurprised at, surely, though not something I'd call "to be accepted." We can at least imagine and desire a world where the US government is honest enough not to commit that hypocrisy. Even if we obviously don't live there. Yet. I accept massive hypocrisy from all governm...

Because you are ignorant. Nobody wants a nuclear war. The US directly fought Chinese troops in Korea and Vietnam, but that never escalated to a nuclear exchange. If we'd been using Australian troops instead, why would it be more likely? Oh right, it isn't. Grow up! You're just ignoring all of histor...

I still find it very hypocritical that the US is going to call the Armenian genocide a genocide when we won't call the Trail of Tears a Genocide, but that's to be accepted.

The Turkish genocide of the Armenians was NOT more highly planned than that of a Native American people . Taken in exclusion, the Ottoman planning consisted entirely of relocation: We will make them go someplace "safe" for our military needs. Abdulhadi covered this very well, he was a scho...

Putin isn't a fool, he won't start a nuclear war if those four Polish divisions cross the border; they will just be militarily defeated (eventually--they can put up a hard fight) in the battles around Kiev. Since, of course, if Poland sends troops, the Russians will launch a full scale regular invas...

Modern day Japan includes Manchuria and Taiwan and Korea The rest of China is still independent and has risen, because no matter how sophisticated you are, guerrilla war is guerrilla war. But that much we can say for sure.

Sarikamish happened 100 years ago, three months, seven days. That's when the Ottoman Army was defeated. Was it right for Europe that Britain won instead of Germany? Probably not. But who cares. The Native Americans were a genocide. We killed them. We slaughtered their cultures, their independent peo...

Yes, I'd have joined the Nazi Party in interwar Germany, there being no other options for the national glory and salvation, and hoping it would lead to the restoration of the Kaiser. I'd have stayed for patriotism when the war broke out. And I'd have deserved to die for it. In Austria I'd have been ...

If it's illegal for solar-only people, then add a small propane generator. Very environmentally friendly if you do use it during emergencies, lets you put in the cutoff switch, you never have to actually use it.

You fucking idiot, the person in question was a hardcore Nazi in 1933, when the NSDAP only started on its path to destruction. Even back then the person believed in purging hostile races. How fucking dumb must you be? He was a hard core Nazi when he was 12? Yes actually. He joined the youth organiz...

Bah, I think you're overestimating it. Propane generator for the family spread was not hard to get permitted at all, and Washington isn't substantially more permissive than California in that regard. Work took a licensed electrician a single day. We used to have about a minimum of two weeks a year w...

Yeah, the resettlement of the Crimean Tatars is totally unrelated to the view of Tatars in general in the Russosphere of language and culture. That covers the Kazan Tatars as well and several other groups, and I think Cmdrjones just does not understand that.

The Texas high speed rail is a PRIVATE COMPANY which has done economic studies convincing its investors that it will make a profit. They are the very epitome of capitalism. They simply want to use the same eminent domain process all traditional freight private railroads did to build their railroads ...

This agree is reciprocal, though, so armed Canadian officers in the US will have the same rights and privileges. Honestly I'd rather all law enforcement in America be done by Canadians at all times, since you seem less insane about it.

I'm really confused, most household backup generators in rural areas have exactly that kind of safety cutoff already... Why can't you just install one for your solar panels?

I don't know how the hell some professional linguist in America could have their finger on the current of modern Russian culture. The closest thing I've ever seen to the issue coming up was a director in the "making of" section of the DVD joking about how political correctness had come to ...

It's not supposed to be an excuse, it's supposed to be an observation that stricter time in service requirements and, for reasons Ford elucidated upon, perhaps a third crewmember in the cab, should be required. The fireman has to both second the signals according to the rulebook, and stoke the locom...

Driver passes signal at danger is a cause of a huge number of collisions, it has nothing to do with the kind of engine in use. Of course the big thing to remember is that the crews, especially I suspect of an excursion outfit, are generally overworked and pushed to the limit and may have been facing...

madd0ct0r wrote:I dunno, Isis are pretty in favour of it.

The shit has that to do with anything?