Is your wife incredibly cute to have such a cutiepie for a child or did you help with the matter? Mym mum took a look and she was all over it. BAAAWWW[/quote]
Ha, thanks, HP, did you miss the pictures I posted on pages 3 and 4? There’s a pic of my wife at the bottom of page 3.
I happen to think she’s pretty hot. AND that I helped with the matter. I know I’m right about at least one of those…
[quote]Cortes wrote:
One more gratuitously narcissistic pic. [/quote]
Do you compete Cortes? You look awesome.[/quote]
That was the day of a show, between pre-judging and the show itself. I’ve participated in two SMALL shows. I may compete again, soon, now that the whirlwind of childbirth and raising a newborn has pretty much passed (again). I’m pretty sure I could really do it right, given my previous experience and what I’ve learned in the interim since my last show.
Such reasons may “explain” (excuse?) a lot, but nothing justifies cooking 100% civilians in ovens. What could the rationale be for that?
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See, this is where Hitler went wrong. If, instead of putting the Jews in camps, working them to death and incinerating the corpses, he had just firebombed the ghettos, he would have achieved the same thing, and history would have looked more kindly upon him. I mean, who can find anything bad to say about the carpetbombing of Dresden, or the firebombing of Tokyo? Hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, all of them justified.
Such reasons may “explain” (excuse?) a lot, but nothing justifies cooking 100% civilians in ovens. What could the rationale be for that?
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See, this is where Hitler went wrong. If, instead of putting the Jews in camps, working them to death and incinerating the corpses, he had just firebombed the ghettos, he would have achieved the same thing, and history would have looked more kindly upon him. I mean, who can find anything bad to say about the carpetbombing of Dresden, or the firebombing of Tokyo? Hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, all of them justified.
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Who was it that the Jewish nation declared war on again?[/quote]
The Canaanites.
Deuteronomy 20
13: And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
14: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
15: Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16: But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:
17: But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you
Of course, I doubt there’s any lineage that could be traced to the 1930s.
EDIT: very much not defending Hitler’s actions… but just saying, it’s happened.
EDIT: very much not defending Hitler’s actions… but just saying, it’s happened.[/quote]
Aw, now, see? You chickened out. And this is just what Orion was talking about. It is impossible to have a rational discussion about these issues because everyone is terrified of being perceived as “defending Hitler” or “denying the Holocaust” or “being antisemitic” or “racist” or “a Nazi”.
An American can choose not to give a shit about the genocide of a million and a half Armenians, because pffft, Armenians. Who cares about them?
An American can choose to shrug his shoulders over the internment of Japanese civilians, because hey, we said we were sorry.
An American can choose to justify the incineration of women and children because come on, man, it’s a war.
But we have no choice in how we view Hitler, the Nazis and the Holocaust. There is one script, and God help us if we deviate from it.
Is your wife incredibly cute to have such a cutiepie for a child or did you help with the matter? Mym mum took a look and she was all over it. BAAAWWW[/quote]
Ha, thanks, HP, did you miss the pictures I posted on pages 3 and 4? There’s a pic of my wife at the bottom of page 3.
I happen to think she’s pretty hot. AND that I helped with the matter. I know I’m right about at least one of those…[/quote]
Does your mrs lift?
My wife has zero interest in lifting. but loves jogging! Crazy, I know.
EDIT: very much not defending Hitler’s actions… but just saying, it’s happened.[/quote]
Aw, now, see? You chickened out. And this is just what Orion was talking about. It is impossible to have a discussion about these issues because everyone is terrified of bein perceived as “defending Hitler” or “denying the Holocaust” or “being antisemitic” or “racist” or “a Nazi”.
An American can choose not to give a shit about the genocide of a million and a half Armenians, because pffft Armenians. Who cares about them?
An American can choose to shrug his shoulders over the internment of Japanese civilians, because hey, we said we were sorry.
An American can choose to justify the incineration of women and children because come on, man, it’s a war.
But we have no choice in how we view Hitler, the Nazis and the Holocaust. There is one script, and God help us if we deviate from it.
Hmmm, kinda like the War on Terror. [/quote]
On behalf of the human race, I want to personally apologize for all the shit we’ve done to the rest of the human race. That should pretty much cover it.
If we’re talking relative atrocities, I’d feel worse about being a Mao apologetic than a Stalin apologetic than a Hitler apologetic.
But I really only take responsibility for the things I’m responsible for… I had nothing to do with slavery, I had nothing to do with the oppression of women, I had nothing to do with the forced migration of the native Americans, the bombing of Dresden, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, etc. And I resent the implication that I should treat anyone better than me simply because their people were somehow victimized by “my people”.
Consider, LoRez, that regardless of the fact that Mao’s and Stalin’s crimes were of a magnitude far greater than Hitler’s, both in terms of civilians murdered and territory stolen, we are allowed the choice whether to hate them or not. They were both greatly admired by the United States at some point of their careers (so was Hitler, but we’ll ignore that), and it is possible to talk about the good they did for their respective empires without quickly and obligatorily bringing up those forced labor death camps.
The T-shirt above is available for purchase in the United States. The Chinese characters read “May Mao Zedong Live Ten Thousand Years”, or, more appropriate to the American vernacular, “Mao Zedong, Fuck Yeah!!”
Try wearing a “YAY HITLER” shirt. See what happens.
I asked this before but it might have gotten lost in the shuffle.
If anybody can answer me this, that would be fantastic. We all know that Japan has the lowest crime rate in the world from statistics and census but from information on imageboards and other Japanese interest board, this is an illusion. Due to the rumor that the criminal element is so infused with the government, murder rate is under reported and sometimes aren’t even reported at all or labeled under suicide or accident. Can someone provide me information on this or even confirm this?
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
I asked this before but it might have gotten lost in the shuffle.
If anybody can answer me this, that would be fantastic. We all know that Japan has the lowest crime rate in the world from statistics and census but from information on imageboards and other Japanese interest board, this is an illusion. Due to the rumor that the criminal element is so infused with the government, murder rate is under reported and sometimes aren’t even reported at all or labeled under suicide or accident. Can someone provide me information on this or even confirm this?[/quote]
You want confirmed that people who just disappear where really murdered?
I thought the whole point was to make that impossible.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Consider, LoRez, that regardless of the fact that Mao’s and Stalin’s crimes were of a magnitude far greater than Hitler’s, both in terms of civilians murdered and territory stolen, we are allowed the choice whether to hate them or not. They were both greatly admired by the United States at some point of their careers (so was Hitler, but we’ll ignore that), and it is possible to talk about the good they did for their respective empires without quickly and obligatorily bringing up those forced labor death camps. [/quote]
I see what you mean. The only explanation I have is the cliched idea of a heavy Judeo influence in US media and finance. If, instead, that influence were Japanese or Chinese or Russian or…, I imagine the narrative would be quite a bit different.
I’m not particularly good at summarizing everything about a person or an event into a simple “like” or “hate”. It might be assumed that I “hate” Hitler just like “everyone else does [right?]”, but that’s only because I haven’t publicly taken a position either way. I could say that “America hates Hitler” with a lot more confidence than “American hates commmies”.
All moral and ethical and whatever discussions aside… I don’t think Hitler was particularly effective at reducing global Jewish influence, which was the ostensible goal as far as I know. At least measured in terms of effectiveness and efficiency of a policy at achieving its goals. And, from what I can tell, the “War on Terror” seems to be barely more effective, if that.
