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Pat Buchanan quote. (media.scored.co)
posted 1 month ago by EJGeneric on scored.co (+1 / -0 / +77Score on mirror )
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XBX_X on scored.co
1 month ago 15 points (+0 / -0 / +15Score on mirror ) 2 children
THIS is real history. Not just what happened and "why" but understanding what *wouldn't* have happened.

Understanding how everything is a consequence of everything before it.
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TakenusernameA on scored.co
1 month ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 1 child
My favorite thing about Mein Kampf was that Hitler recognized this fact and thought it should be taught over simply just memorizing dates and locations.
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kalerg_plan on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Meanwhile in modern history classes:
For no reason at all, Hitler was voted into power.
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TakenusernameA on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
And they also claimed he hated jews for basically no reason. Im not joking, the best justification we got for Hitler's antisemitism was the Treaty of Versailles (which they repeatedly told us absolutely had nothing to do with the jews). Nothing of Weimar was ever mentioned, nothing of the revolution or the spartacist revolt that took germany out of WWI. The official American History narrative of Hitler is that he hated jews for no reason whatsoever since he was born and then somehow magically gained control of the german press and made everyone hate jews for no reason whatsoever as well. Unfortunately, I was too hopped up on autism drugs to question it at the time.
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IGOexiled on scored.co
1 month ago -3 points (+0 / -0 / -3Score on mirror ) 1 child
*And if I hadn't farted in 3rd grade, my best friend Billy would have grown up to be an astronaut.*

You can't just say "X would happen". There should be documentation showing the likelihood isn't just pulled out of your ass.
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XBX_X on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
I'm not talking about speculation, but we CAN see how certain events in history were created as a direct result of actions and policies immediately preceding them. It's not hard to "read" history backwards and connect the dots.

For example, the Taliban were formed by some of the Afghan Mujahideen after the Soviet-Afghan War. The Soviet-Afghan War came about as a proxy battle of the Cold War, which was a continuation of the Vietnam and Korean Wars, etc., etc., etc.

That's not speculation, that's literally scholastic history.
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IGOexiled on scored.co
1 month ago -3 points (+0 / -0 / -3Score on mirror ) 1 child
If its so clear that one leads into another, then where will the next war be?
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XBX_X on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
> It's not hard to "read" history BACKWARDS and connect the dots.

Quit being a jackass.
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IGOexiled on scored.co
1 month ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
If i flip the coin and it doesn't land on heads, then it will land on tails. Because there are only two possible outcomes we can say this. Technically the coin could lodge on its side but we can give **small** benefits of the doubt.

Invading countries during war is a complex problem with more than two outcomes. Blocking one eventuality does not necessitate the other. One should not give such a **large** benefit of the doubt.

It's not rocket surgery, it's basic critical thinking skills.

"If we didn't have pizza for dinner we would have had hot dogs" says the man who didn't take into account that there's also steak.
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