TranscendentalEmpire
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- Comment on 2 OP 2 days ago:
Not really that surprising, a lot of natural materials have really good insulating qualities. Considering that it’s mostly cellulose and water, I wouldn’t really really think it would be flammable unless dried out.
- Comment on Good evening. 1 week ago:
Needed to learn how to do a sick fade.
- Comment on asked and answered 2 weeks ago:
…so they could capture the Philippines unimpeded. That is not “hoping for peace”. That is hoping for an easier war.
Lol, they invaded the Philippines the same day they bombed pearl harbor… Like I said, they wanted to take the US out in one fatal blow and make it to where the US didn’t have the ability or the motivation for a pacific campaign.
This isn’t even up for debate, it’s well documented history. "Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto recognized Japan’s industrial inferiority to the U.S. and knew that a prolonged conflict would lead to defeat. The surprise attack was intended to deliver such a heavy blow that the U.S. would sue for peace, avoiding a war they couldn’t win. "
You could say that. It would be more accurate to say the venn diagram of the overlap is a circle. It’s weird that you oppose fighting one and not the other. What is the difference you’re concerned with? Do you just not like the word “fascism”, and are ok with governments that are fascist in all but name?
Idk…maybe it’s the fact that the modern political history of the Middle East and 1930s Europe are different? Maybe it’s that I disagree with how the second gulf war was conducted and justified. Maybe our history of supporting and arming both Iraq and Iran may add some nuance to the scenarios?
Do you just not like the word “fascism”, and are ok with governments that are fascist in all but name?
Fascism does not just mean authoritarianism.
More like pan Sunni supremacy. Are you forgetting he gassed an entire region trying to genocide an ethnic minority in his own country?
The majority of Iraq is Shia… He is Sunni and elevated the Sunni minority, however his attacks against Kurds were because Kurds, like Persians are not Arabic. Again, the history of the middle East is complicated and conflict can be raised from anything from tribalism, nationalism, ethnic conflict, economics, or secretarial violence.
Hussein was about as socialist as the National Socialists I guess.
It’s like you are allergic to nuance…
The Nazi party was not socialist, the only reason it has socialism in the name is because socialism was so popular in Germany in the 20s and 30s that you couldn’t get on the ballot without giving it the nod. The Nazi government only nationalized resources and existing businesses so they could then privatize it to someone with in the party as a favour.
The baathis party had a state planned economy. According to Phebe Marr, Saddam “provided widespread health, education, and social benefits that went well beyond those of any previous regime”.[4] Saddam implemented land reform, made hospitals and education free, doubled the number of students in schools and developed infrastructure such as roads, access to electricity and water, in addition to increasing life expectancy and decreasing child mortality.[4]
While he was literally crazy, and an authoritarian, he was still a socialist.
Chamberlain gave the UK time to arm so they didn’t get blitzkrieged into extinction.
Lol, this is the most ahistorical take on Chamberlain ever… It ignores his attitude towards appeasement that he held since the beginning of his tenure. “Chamberlain sought to conciliate Germany and make the Nazi state a partner in a stable Europe.[85] He believed Germany could be satisfied by the restoration of some of its colonies, and during the Rhineland crisis of March 1936 he had stated that “if we were in sight of an all-round settlement the British government ought to consider the question” of restoration of colonies.[86]”
Also, how exactly would Germany be “blitzkrieg” Britain while invading the rest of Europe?
All of your takes are historically inaccurate and based solely on generalizing to the point of indistinction.
- Comment on asked and answered 2 weeks ago:
Oh, ok. That must be why the Japanese attacked the US, right? Because they were hoping for peace.
Literally yes. The Japanese were trying to wipe the entire Pacific fleet out with one punch, making it too costly for the Americans to enter the war. They were hoping that America would cut their losses and settle for a negotiated peace that allowed the Japanese to keep their Pacific holdings.
Saddam Hussein was just as racist, nationalist, authoritarian, expansionist, and cruel as Benito Mussolini. So what exactly is the difference?
Saddam Hussein was just as racist, nationalist, authoritarian, expansionist, and cruel as Benito Mussolini. So what exactly is the difference?
The devil is in the details… Fascism may have some overlaps with the Baathis party, mostly with their authoritarianism. But it’s pretty distinct from it considering Baathism revolves around pan Arabic unity and socialism.
You sound like a republican, circa 2003
Lol, and you sound like Neville Chamberlain circa 1930’s.
- Comment on asked and answered 2 weeks ago:
Lend lease was in full swing, and they were sanctioning the imperial Japanese.
Not really… Sanctions against Japan and Lend and lease were approved the same year we entered the war.
there was a glimmer of hope at the time that the problem could be resolved with political pressure.
I mean, that’s what both the Japanese and the Nazi were hoping for. That the rest of the world would settle for peace and allow them to keep their spoils.
Putting boots on the ground without trying anything else first is Bush doctrine level bullshit.
And when has appeasing fascist with political discourse ever worked? There’s a difference between standing up to literal fascist invading allies, and Bush’s “war on terror”, trying to conflate the two is pathetic.
- Comment on asked and answered 2 weeks ago:
The hyper imperialism kinda kicked off before ww2, it was kinda the reason we got involved in the first place.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation…for the most part the majority of chiropractors are harmless. If the patient believes a chiropractor is helping manage their pain, I don’t really care about the efficacy of the practice. Plus, most chiropractors are risk adverse enough to know not to work on areas where hardware has been installed.
If we’re sticking to the format of items or activities that are a reason for a lot of our appointments… Ladders, motorcycles, bad drivers, trampolines, and electric scooters and diabetes are probably the top contenders.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat.
How? Was he working on an industrial tire or something?
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 3 weeks ago:
It isn’t a male loneliness epidemic, it’s a loneliness epidemic. You’re never going to get satisfying answers to your questions if you accept the framing that it’s a male loneliness epidemic.
My criticism was precisely aimed at people specifically claiming it to be a male loneliness epidemic…?
but pretending that there isn’t a loneliness epidemic because it’s used to power some incel memes is contributing to the apathy about this issue which is causing harm to both men and women.
I never claimed there wasn’t a loneliness epidemic, just that there isn’t a male loneliness epidemic.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 3 weeks ago:
If these idiots would stop equating being lonely to not getting laid there wouldn’t be so much resistance to the idea that there is a problem.
The problem is that the vast majority of the time whenever you logically breakdown the actual complaints being put forth by people supporting the idea of a “male loneliness epidemic” they usually boil down to “i deserve sex”, or some other misogynistic ideology centered around blaming others for their misanthropy.
Once you start asking questions like who is responsible for male loneliness? What’s the solution for male loneliness? Why are we specifying it as a gender specific epidemic? If there are so many men unified in loneliness, why not just befriend each other…?
Usually the answers themselves will just be accusations of misandry or just beligerence. And then if they actually engage with any kind of honesty or self reflection, you will usually get down to “I deserve female companionship”…but it’s totally not about sex. But also there’s a difference between female friends and having a girlfriend… But it’s totally not about sex.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 4 weeks ago:
One of the reasons my friend is in the position he’s in now is because he built a really good relationship with a couple people from the university of Tokyo when he was a grad student in Hawaii.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the Soviets didn’t offer them any guarantees. But I think that’s more of a byproduct of how they held leverage over the specialist, and more of a difference in how the two cultures choose to motivate employees.
Despite this, the affected specialists and their families were doing well compared to citizens of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Zone, apart from the suffering of deportation and isolation. The specialists earned more than their Soviet counterparts. The scientists, technicians and skilled workers were assigned to individual projects and working groups, primarily in the areas of Aeronautics and rocket technology, nuclear research, Chemistry and Optics. The stay was given for about five years.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 4 weeks ago:
Yep, my buddy is finally on a tenure track at a really nice school and it’s the accumulation of like 15 years of stressful work that might have never really paid off.
You have to be good at getting published, attending conferences, creating conferences, building relationships with different universities and that’s just to keep up with the competition. I think what seals the deal is not only getting funding for yourself, but showing universities how employing you would actually be a sound investment.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 4 weeks ago:
The US is all about realpolitik
Not to excuse the US’s history of foreign diplomacy, but I think it would be naive to believe that there exists any major power who doesn’t treat geopolitics with the same level of pragmatism.
The Soviets hated the Nazi even more than the US did and yet they still had their own version of paperclip. Operation Osoaviakhim brought almost double the number of Nazi scientists into the Soviet Union.
- Comment on advertisement 4 weeks ago:
Goodish news… You wouldn’t be eating the poop. It’d be thrown in a blender until it reached an enema appropriate viscosity.
- Comment on Debatable 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, give me the “I want to see your manager” in the front and “I am the fire starter” in the back. Thanks.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
I think that it’s more that we’ve commoditized all aspects of community, and at the same time have stopped offering any sense of financial opportunities to young people.
Social groups are now built around expensive hobbies or membership subscriptions. There aren’t even really any free spaces for people to organize around. Even the alt right groups preying on lonely people are usually just trying to sell supplements or merch.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 weeks ago:
She’s actually an ENT, but it really doesn’t matter what your specialty is. Mnra vaccines are new enough that unless you are actively researching them or are in a specialty like infections disease, most MD’s aren’t really going to be very familiar with them.
I specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation, I know about bones, joints and the things that connect to bones and joints… If anyone asks me about vaccines I’m going to refer them to someone who actually really knows what they’re talking about.
I don’t trust the vaccines because I went to med school. I trust the vaccines because my colleagues in infectious disease trust the vaccines and this is what they do all day.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 1 month ago:
Yeah, especially with today’s political climate. If the other BioShock games came out today they would be labeled anti-american and woke.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 month ago:
Would be cool to see it make a comeback on some of the buffalo reservations. Don’t know if those places have quite the herd size to make it feasible. Amazing what some of the vast herds could do to transform the prairies back in the day.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 month ago:
That’s buffalo clover right? Isn’t that extinct, or like really close to it?
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 month ago:
There are native clovers, but they aren’t what you would really classify as ground cover.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 month ago:
There are native clovers, but they aren’t really what you would utilize for ground cover.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 month ago:
Grass isn’t inherently a bad idea for a lawn, it’s just specific to your individual climate. The main issue is that most of the grasses people plant are native to much cooler climates in Europe.
I have a grass lawn, but it’s a native Buffalo grass. It’s much more drought tolerant than clover, flowers a couple times a year, doesn’t require any maintenance, and provides a natural habitat for native wildlife.
Clover isn’t actually much better than most grasses if you are trying to support the natural biodiversity. It’s not native to north America, and thus only supports a small range of wildlife that’s adapted to it.
A Lot of America’s natural ground cover is actually low lying shrubs and flowering plants.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah… No. I’ve posted on that sub not knowing the community rules and had a mod thank me for my insight and then politely inform me of the rules.
You know what I did…? I apologized for not reading the rules before posting and then took my leave. It’s perfectly fine if you’re not a whiny little dweeb about it. People deserve private spaces, especially considering I don’t own or contribute to the cost of that server space.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 month ago:
There’s jobs. They’re safe. They have stuff to do. Some kind of reason.
Nah, it’s just more affordable than most of the major cities up north. As someone who’s lived in Dallas/Fort Worth, it’s definitely not the safest place I’ve lived. It’s ranked moderate/high in violent crimes on a national scale.
As far as Texas goes, San Antonio and Austin have a lot more to do than Dallas and especially Fort Worth. I wouldn’t really even say there’s a really competitive job market outside of oil and grass. Most of the people who recently moved to the area did so after work from home became normalized.
It’s really just because it’s a larger city that people can still afford to purchase a home in, and that’s about it.
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
It’s also ignoring the fact that we have already surpassed the limitations of what the nitrogen cycle could normally provide. So we would still be relying on fertilizers produced with fossil fuels.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 month ago:
It’s so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity’s culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 2 months ago:
Idk, I feel like allegorical communication is a bit different than someone believing that building a telescope is going to destroy the universe because it takes up too much ram.
I mean there are literal cults out there murdering people because they think AI is going to punish people who dont help AI take over the world.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 2 months ago:
There is something inherent about spending too much time with computers that warps people’s brains into compulsively perceiving everything around them in digital logic.