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There's a few important lessons to learn from the Battle of Britain, reading moral equivalence in this isn't one and that's really not my intention. I...

That Germany ever carpet bombed in the UK indiscriminately before the British did - and I'm now even certain they did so in retaliation after Churchil...

This. Plus everything I write is better than the best music out there as it answers to my particular taste and mood at the time. You may hate it but i...

It's common knowledge among historians that the British like to believe that fairy tale. Just read the link reviewing the book.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/27/bombing-war-europe-richard-overy-review I'm pretty sure I got this part right. Hitler hoped for a truce ...

One wonders how he knows I'm a ginger... :rofl:

You're right. I think the reason I misremembered is because Hitler was still careful not bomb civilian targets in the UK at first, hoping for an allia...

I don't need to defend my ego as it's already impervious to troll attacks. It's been fun. Tata.

I just told you not to act like a moron and you just do it again? Do you have reading comprehension problems? Maybe autistic, illiterate or non-native...

Don't act like a moron and put words in people's mouths that have nothing to do with what they said. Nobody is lauding Putin and it doesn't help to dr...

Year over year 7% in the early 2000s + law and order. Weird thing is almost nobody expected him to last. That he controls the MSM and "tutored" half t...

I doubt it. Too abstract and we'll probably end up committing the naturalistic fallacy if we'd try to ground it in human nature. I think in the end mo...

That's a time period well before they started to really think about the concept of a just war so it's difficult to say it applies. But imagine if Iraq...

I think the Allies committed war crimes regularly. Carpet bombing was a UK invention. That's one. Purposefully targetting civilian centers another. Fi...

The point was just shorthand that the example you provided is fictitious. The budget is never zero. There's always a budget of labour available for st...

Where did I say that? Read this again: And while rare, the international community does sometimes act to use force and it does so based on established...

That doesn't make sense. That's for the home team and definitely something dictators don't need to worry about. Try again.

Right. By that token there are no customs and traditions. Not really, really. Every modern ruler, including Hitler, just makes it up as they go along ...

You can easily create a budget by taking from other people. Or taxation.

Do customs and traditions? So yes, I think it does. It is not for nothing that every time some country breaches international law they do so couched i...

Thanks for asking. I'll start by saying that I'm only aware of one clean humanitarian intervention ever, since the idea has come into play and that wa...

Oh look, someone disagrees with you and the discussion is immediately pointless. Why don't you just leave if we're all so clueless? Maybe start a webs...

Without calculations I'd go with betting twice in two lotteries because there's a chance of winning 20 GBP if you win in both but only a maximum of wi...

So you're looking for an echo chamber where everybody virtue signals how much they hate Kim Jong-Un? Maybe just deal with the arguments instead of com...

It's not about what I vote for. It's about whether policies that a majority of people support get implemented or not or whether policies that benefit ...

I had to think about this. A part of this also has to do with the face of war in these times. If we're talking about Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya or Syria...

Not really no. Dutch politics, while certainly not perfect, is pretty vibrant. Last time they tried to sell out to corporations on taxes all hell brok...

I was under the impression the political elite has been trying to extricate themselves from the ME as it definitely is turning to costly. They were fi...

Intellectual dishonesty is dodging the same issue three times in a row. If you think "removing dictators because freedom and democracy", which was the...

More idiocy. Sanctions have always only hurt normal people and caused untold misery for them in the process.

Irrelevant. You argued that it was just and right to invade Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people. I don't have a crystal ball. All I know is what happene...

Simple calculus is that Saddam killed less people during his entire reign than resulted from the Iraq war and its aftermath for which the US was and i...

Oh, and add to that such beauties as the "unitary executive theory" and that it was Obama who started military actions in Libya and Syria without cong...

Read the thread on the Iraq war to see how they'll contort themselves on explaining why it was a good thing. Because your elections are bought and pai...

The question is irrelevant because anyone elected via the banana-republic system in place in the US is unqualified to have access to that button.

I have a new conspiracy theory and since everybody loved my last one: Trump can't accept defeat because he rigged and cheated himself and as such can'...

Not AOC thank God. What Trump has shown is that money doesn't make the campaign, which is good as that opens the door for actual progressives. The tru...

If fascists were "too powerful" we should therefore emulate them? Sounds like the worst excuse ever. I'd suggest it was that monied interests wanted c...

As long as bribery is legal in the US whether via campaign funding or lobbying, the US simply isn't a democracy.

It's not just risky, it's counter intuitive. Increased efficiency and specialisation in production should lead to lower prices. Rising prices are pure...

I doubt it. If 4 years of Trump doesn't make a person reconsider, one speech by Biden isn't going to either.

Something something tiniest fiddle something something...

Philistine. Invite rescinded. You can visit but no whiskey for you.

What a waste of money. I have an 18 year Glenfiddich, 12 year Cardhu and an 18 year Highland Park waiting if you care to visit.

Cnn just called it in favour of Biden.

Can you pardon someone if he hasn't been charged with a crime? Seems a bit weird to me...

That's the case fatality rate not the death or mortality rate.

What are the chances of Alaska flipping? And why hasn't NC been called? The summary I saw has 70,000 votes in favour of Trump and less than 50,000 out...

Because we like saving lives. Why don't you adjust the deaths and cases by population as well? Have fun.

California is only at 66% currently. So it seems to be slower than most swing states.