World War One: on the peculiar geopolitics of passionate, armed teenagers
@goodpasture wrote: sasavi: Well, if King George's wife had been driving down Boston streets, she would have probably been shot in the stomach, if not worse. Probably. But not by George Washington. I...
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@Mindysan33 wrote: To be fair, it would have been an unruly mob, not George Washington himself. The "founding fathers" were hardly radicals. To be sure, there were radicals. All during this time, the...
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@Mindysan33 wrote: Are all acts of violence equally amoral? Is there a time when violence is justified? does it take a level of inequality and oppression such as was the case with say the Warsaw...
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@goodpasture wrote: I simply don't think there's an argument to make that shooting the man's wife was justified. Read full topic
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@sasavi wrote: goodpasture: I simply don't think there's an argument to make that shooting the man's wife was justified. I would agree with you here. Unfortunately, not everyone would. Read full topic
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@Mindysan33 wrote: Sure. I don't think so either nor is anyone else, really. But would that be true if she were the one wielding power? I think it's kind of beside the point. And the French revolution...
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@kennykb wrote: I'm just incredibly glad that Jan Sobieski's army held back the Ottoman invasion at Vienna, or else we'd have this sort of thing all the way across Northern Europe to the Rhine! Read...
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@daneel wrote: Not sure where to put this, but I found the Guardian's revisiting of its obituary for Franz Ferdinand this week pretty interesting....
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@goodpasture wrote: Mindysan33: Individuals who make themselves symbols of power are often the target of political violence Neither Sophie nor Marie Antoinette made themselves anything. They had no...
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@Mindysan33 wrote: Now I really wanted to know what you said... it's they mystery of the thing that kills me. Read full topic
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@goodpasture wrote: Posting snafu I think I fixed it. Read full topic
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@billstewart wrote: That thing they say about "hindsight is 20-20"? Yeah, not even close. Read full topic
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@billstewart wrote: Way too many medium-large powers making alliances with each other about killing the other guys, way too many weapons makers selling to their pet armies and armies building...
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@Kimmo wrote: luis_stoole: thanks for world war one.the world would not be the f'd up place it is today without it. You only ever hear people talk about it like it was a bad thing, but check this out:...
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@daneel wrote: So we're about due another one? Read full topic
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@goodpasture wrote: Kimmo: You only ever hear people talk about it like it was a bad thing Yeah, if only we could kill a few hundred thousand people in trenches every few years, this whole...
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@Kimmo wrote: Imagine my words being spoken by Hawkeye or Blackadder, and you've got the picture. It's an interesting counterpoint to the general take on it, you have to admit; it certainly wasn't all...
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@Kimmo wrote: I guess that would be true if every once in a while the ruling classes just got bored and threw up their hands, saying 'Fuck it - it's time to blow some cash and spill some guts' or...
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@Mindysan33 wrote: I'm unclear what you're objecting to? I wrote a whole bunch of stuff there. All of it? The notion that we can understand the Balkans? That we can understand the past? Read full topic
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@Mindysan33 wrote: Ever seen that show Torchwood children of Earth... these aliens come down and demand some percentage of earths children, and the British cabinet have to decide who goes... I'll give...
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