Germany invaded in large part to capture Russia's resources to fuel their global war effort
I'm going to have to take another look at Germany's resource objectives, but you realize, I'm rejecting the idea that there was a global war effort?
witnessing the complete opposite of mechanized high tempo warfare in Ukraine
No. What we are witnessing is Russian failure.
I actually don't like the "dindu/nigger-word/darkie" verbiage very much (unless I'm on /pol/ talking to some asshole who is probably a white guy or jew). I guess I'm frustrated as I'm the picture child of the "post-racial" millennial. White Americans were the least racist people in space and time in the year 2000; the following decades were a do over for assholes frustrated that white people decided to judge people on the "content of their character".
Anit-racist is anti-white.
I would shoot twenty middle school kids if they were attacking my mother. I would sleep soundly.
What does keep me up at night is seeing a new generation of people who behave like animals. They aren't getting any younger or weaker. And they're black because, of course, they are. We are getting to the point where any black person who can do algebra is going to avoid blacks as must as the average white.
Johnson's Great Society program turned the lion's share of black Americans into dependents; the descendants of the welfare dependents are turning into existential threats. Commies to blame, nothing new.
Otherwise, invading Russia is pure folly
Without getting into the why and how of Barbarossa, this is a pretty bad take. If the USSR was going to invade, the ideal time to respond would have been when the USSR was "almost but not quite ready" to invade. That's the gist of Suvelov's idea. You don't just turn on an invasion, you have to prepare; if your opponent beats you to the punch, you've taken two steps backwards. Decapitating the USSR was required for the success of Barbarossa; that's how modern mechanized wars are fought. Germany failed.
Martyrdom is for when you are truly under the boot, like the Christians of the 1st and 2nd century. Amusingly the problem of people "pursuing martyrdom" became a problem the moment Christianity was decriminalized in the Roman Empire. It took effort by various Patriarchs to tell people "Cut that shit out, if they're not trying to feed you to lions, don't volunteer." Seems we're doing the same thing in reverse now.
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However, since Britain didn't give a shit about Poland, Britain only declared war against Germany, but not against Soviet Russia, which invaded Poland at the exact same time. Weird.
I swear to God, even as someone who like to challenge the orthodox narrative, this has never occurred to me. I mean I know Britain didn't declare war against USSR in response to their invasion of Poland, the magnitude of the disparate response is ... interesting.
Edit: meant to respond to u/Kienan
No matter how you feel about the stunning and brave national socialists
I can both criticize the evils of the Nazi regime and claim that the unilateral -- and not uncontroversial at the time -- UK/France defense pacts with Poland were the primary cause of the broader Second World War. The modern equivalent of Halifax's agreement with Poland would have been Victoria Nuland creating an agreement with Ukraine that obligated the US to put troops on the ground in the event of a Russian invasion, without the approval of congress.
it's another to legitimize the violent expansion of a rival
The history of the Free City of Danzing and the German population of Poland should be understood here. In Danzing, Germans were being deprived of rights and property under the Polish government, a situation that accelerated after Halifax's agreement with Poland. Why not ethnically cleans Germans if Britain will come to your aid if Germany tries to prevent it?
isn't the kind of plan you just make up in a few months.
It can be. Barbarossa has always been a head scratcher for professional and amateur historians alike. By all accounts Germany was outmanned and out gunned going into the offensive. The traditional, and pretty unsatisfactory, explanation is that Hitler was a madman bent on world domination. Suvelov's proposal of a desperate preemptive strike makes a lot more sense. As to why Germany made it as far as they did; if the Soviets were posturing for offence, striking first gave Germany a chance. An army preparing for invasion is organized completely different from one preparing for defense; most of Soviet war materiel was at the front line and once they lost that they were at a severe disadvantage for some time.
There is ample evidence that Barbarossa was in response to an impending Soviet invasion, the English language wiki is more critical of the idea than sources from outside the Anglosphere.
If this had happened, WW2 would not have happened. Germany offered peace terms after the invasion of Poland. France and UK told them to pound sand (encouraged by FDR). They sued for peace again after the invasion of France / driving the British expeditionary force back across the channel. Shit only dialed up to 11 after the Soviets seeing Germany beginning to fall into a quagmire, started preparing an invasion of Europe.
disproportionately represented online and in the media, white and middle/upper class.
One of the problems with the Imp being back, is that you can't say too many Impish things. If I may share a personal story, I'm afraid that the average woman is as bad as they say. The story is, in fact, from the "religious" sphere so you might not be surprised. I had a cousin who married a big boobed chick, she was all that: fun, pretty, decent cook. They split a year after the wedding. Not particularly surprising.
What was surprising, was overhearing was hearing my own mother (8 years after the fact) explaining that the reason for my cousin's marriage dissolved was: he watched some porn. That the girls was fucking the Pastor didn't come up. Only way MY mom heard this fanciful story was from my cousins mom.
The "mothers" of my family are still blaming my schmuck cousin for his wife being a whore.
Of all word in tongue and pen the saddest are these: the Imp is right again.
Good Christian women™
That was a joke; no reddit /s here. Fuck R16.
So...why are you disagreeing?
To be honest, because I appreciate the role of women in society, and understand that it can go either way. You clearly understand that the role and impact of women is important but assume they're pure "bad." I think women must be guided in their ideas and behavior but are potentially good and ultimately essential to any society. Truth be told my ideas may be more "misogynistic" than yours.
Yes, Solanas. A walking demonic figure. I get it Imp, but her ideas are traceable. Her>Foucault (with his female groomers) >Sarte (and his female groomer) >Marx > etc; most had a penis.
the secret Hollywood way of saying 'she is cheating on him by banging lots of other guys'?
I've known so many women who start boinking strange the moment they're unhappy in the marriage. Good Christian women. Funny thing is they've always got a new BF while they're "working through difficult times." Meanwhile the dude is pathetically seeking social penance and "working out his problems."
Imp fails to understand that there are movements that hate anything good; they will tell a boy to cut his dick off and a girl to chop her tits off. Imp assumes anything bad is female, rather than demonic, in nature.
No smearing from touching the wound/around the wound either. Never known that to happen.
Always
Maybe, maybe not. Walt Disney and his studio were the only voices in Hollywood opposed to foreign interventionism leading up the second world war. Oddly the studio was literally occupied by US Army in the hours after the bombing of Pearl harbor. A strange bit of history.
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
I've been trying to work through this. Proper moral philosophy... is hard. I was first introduced to Macintyre through his plenary talk "Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?".
Florence Pudge ain't that good looking naked. That's all this comes down to. She is a narcissist, wore a transparent dress, and some folk didn't like what they saw. She is literally complaining that some people didn't like the free show.
Did we every actually try to modernize the global south? Or did we just import foreign workers to suppress local wages while selling chinesium seconds to keep those who couldn't immigrate happy?
You're probably right. Hate to see it; back to OpenMW and all the mods.
Its the reason we moved away from lynch mobs
We never did lynch mobs as a legal system. Not a hundred years ago, not a thousand years ago. If we accept these fuckers' ideas we will be regressing to pre-history.
"Pronouns" are a big deal because the alphabet people figured out they could control your very words and mind by making you comply with stupidity:
[...] I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” --Theodore Dalrymple
That was actually 8chan, a site that "became to be known for racism and child pornography." Still that image is the best response to modern Christianity I've ever read.