All Men Must Report
All Men Must Report
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Most of the guys i know seem to have gotten Star Wars.
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Clone war? Sweet!
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Emu war
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Whale wars
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Amen
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War? Haven't seen one in years ... Oh that? Special military operation... This one? That's a "conflict" but I can see your mistake.
Genocide? Sorry not familiar with that word
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Yeah. The Falklands War was referred to as a conflict in the UK.
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I feel like that’s justified though. Both sides were out in the middle of fuck all squabbling over a rock with a handful of people on it, very few civilian casualties, low stakes for both countries (well ok, maybe not for the specific governments, but neither side had to worry about being invaded anywhere that really mattered to them). Compared to something like the Ukraine war, it’s more of a skirmish.
EDIT: to be clear, I do not want the Falkland’s to be “my war”, it was a stupid war.
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<sigh>
I miss þe good old "police action." Especially when it was overseas, unlike now.
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War on Drugs, reporting for duty.
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For which side? Supply or consumption?
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Consumption, sir! I first served in Easy Company, in the 101st Mushroom Regiment in Amsterdam back around 2015. It changed me.
Redeployed to push back the creeping evils of Marihuana and LSD domestically, but no matter how much I consume, I seem unable to make a dent in their availability to these craven loons and their insatiable and dark appetites.
I've grown very concerned lately about the effects of DMT. I'm hoping to volunteer soon to try to collect as much as I can find and ingest here locally, before it falls into the hands of a drug user.
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Today I learned I'm not a man.
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Good on you, sis!
::: spoiler
J/k
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don't worry, you just need to go down some more roads
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As a dude, being obsessed with war is weird.
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As a kid, being indoctrinated early on by fairy tales with knights, then watching action films later on, I kind of understand, since you only know about the romanticised side.
As an adult, by the time you're supposed to understand the endless pain, suffering, atrocities, needless death of millions (even one single person), the barbarity of trying to resolve conflicts with violence, the immense sadness and sacrifice that comes with war... putting it lightly, I don't get war lovers.
But fuck me, I fucking LOVE to learn about the technological advancements, smart solutions, brilliant engineering (hey, even strategies) that came with those, from the first stone tools to holographic sights and radar camouflaging. On one hand, it's rather sad that we could only develop technologies due to threatening violence or trying to crush others. On the other hand, without wars, we would probably still be amputating limbs due to infections we can either prevent or treat now (thanks to field medicine development), and a civilisation that doesn't develop its own weapons (since why would they, they are peaceful) won't have fun when running into one that isn't as friendly.
(And for that reason, YT already thinks I'm a WW2 nerd)
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Mm, I'd dispute that we developed technology only as a result of war. Humans are naturally curious. We would develop technology no matter what
But it is true that the trajectory would be different, and there's be differences in investment levels as well, but that's more of a symptom of what our societies value
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it's a publicly acceptable history geekage
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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I think there are some ways that are defendable (like those obsessed with WW2 only because they don't want it to happen here, like Robert Evans of Cool Zone Media), but I can't think of a war I was obsessed with... maybe if you include Star Wars? I was a huge fan as a child and I do consider myself still a fan now, though I've grown to know what I like about it is just a standard hero saves the day against stronger enemy fantasy. The people who like and defend the empire has always worried me. Felt pretty fascist apologetic.
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I think it often has to do with the kind of bonding between men during war, and guys being drawn to that more than the war itself.
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"I'm just here to make friends!"
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Allow me to say upfront that my upcoming example is gross extreme hyperbole, but I sort of feel like that's saying sex is wonderful and feels good and that's why people are drawn to rape. I do understand your point, but like, there are other ways to bond than institutionalized bloodshedding?
Y'all ever heard of fishing?
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War is God’s way of teaching us geography.
- Paul Rodriguez
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Looks like I got Second Sino-Japanese, boy I hope I enjoy reading about war crimes.
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what about japanese-russo war 2.0
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Well it's one of the main contributing factors to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and their continuing shortage of raw materials that essentially trapped them into an inevitable conflict with the western powers so it's important reading if you want to understand the wider Asia-pacific conflicts of the 20th century.
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Rare options: Warhammer, wardrobe, warts
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I must have gotten Warhammer 40k because I know all about the lore, I can tell you all the details of the Horus Heresy, I can give you all the info on Lorgar and Erebus (fucking asshole), everything.
I have no clue how to play the actual game, I don't own any miniatures, I've never painted one. I just read the books and watch hours long lore dump videos.
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Wario
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War? What is it good for?
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Absolutely nothing!
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Taking things from others?
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Giving future history nerds something to do.
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There is only one true war beyond all other wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
... standing army losing a war against - birds
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Console war
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Ugh, I got culture war. It's the worst.
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War(io)
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Which civil war?
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Avengers
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At first, I simply assumed that it referred to the Finnish Civil War (any war with any connection to Russia is top of my mind these days), but then your comment made me realize that it's more likely to be referring to some civil war that attracted a lot of international fighters, so it must be the Spanish Civil War.
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I wonder if anyone could analyze education about war (and fascism) and how it correlates with the downfall of the History Channel.
It used to be wall to wall WW2 documentaries. And prior to streaming, sometimes there was nothing else on. So the channel was on A LOT while I was growing up.
Then they started with the Ancient Aliens and Ice Road Truckers shit and eventually phased the actual history out entirely.
Now it seems like the people who grew up during that period know nothing about this shit.
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At least with Pawn Stars they would loop the items back to history a lot of times. (Don't actually remember if Pawn Stars was a history channel show.) But yeah, reality TV slop just filled so many channels.
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I didn't need the History channel when I was a kid to learn about fascism. I had a Grand Father that was in Europe and he didn't talk much about the war a few of his buddies did and I read/looked at books. We were taught history in school as well. I had a teacher whose family had escaped from East Germany and she was an amazing teacher, a little left wing but that's understandable. I grew up during the Cold War, when we still had Nukes on Canadian soil. Now we were always called "peace keepers". That bothers me because during both wars Canadian soldiers were feared on the battlefield. The peace keeper name started with the UN missions but it was also the beginning of the end of our once great military.
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KMFDM is the drug against war.
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"What do you mean, 'Enmerkar's campaigns against Aratta'!?"
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The Long War
it's part of a setting that I'm worldbuilding. I keep lying to myself and saying that one day I'll actually write the book. Think star wars, but with a pinch more cyberpunk, an entire shaker of grimdark, a not insignificant amount of nsfw content.
It's my life's work, and I've got jack shit to show for it.
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i can't even be mad because Terry Pratchett is awesome
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I don't understand what there is to be obsessed about. Or rather, what do you do? Study ever finer details of what exactly happened over the course of the war? To me it seems mostly "on this day some people killed some other people, and on this other day more people were killed".
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Like it or not, wars make people think and co-operate in amazing ways.
We only got computers because of decoding efforts. The first rockets were used to destroy cities, and aeroplanes improved vastly because we were building bombers.
Heck, Napoleon invented canned food because his armies were too vast to live off the land.
Churchill said the only history is military history, and it's hard to disagree.
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Cold war(t)
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what if you think being in to wars and history (The dry, battle of X kind of history, not cool shit like slave rebellions and famines) is kinda lame? Am I like a conscientious objector?
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Welcome to the class war rebellion comrade.
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I feel the same. Like I can watch movies and shows about the material, but putting forth energy into learning about mass murder? Yeah miss me with that noise!
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Mine would probably be the Spanish civil war.
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Spanish civil war, battle of Blair mountain, and every battle in the war for international workers liberation.
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Napoleonic wars with specialization into the Naval aspect.
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I am not in that age group anymore and I can't tell what war I was supposed to be obsessed with.
Ah, yeah, around that time, maybe Fire Emblem. This is the "Crimean war" I used to be obsessed with, until...
Fuck. I think I found the actual war. Definitely not something I'm enjoying, at all.
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The age range here makes no sense.
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Because I'm older than the age range I'm required to be a contrarian and go with Peloponnesian War.
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fuck yeah, emu war
edit: stupid fucking ajax comment loading. you cant ctrl+f search for existing comment :\
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When I was in Canberra I went on a day tour around the city. As part of the tour we went to the Australian War Memorial, inside I talked to the tour guide a bit and jokingly asked if they had anything about the emu war. He actually went to a lady who was working there and asked.
I almost couldn't hold back my laughter. I'm sorry, Bob.
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I got star wars (the Mayan kind not the movies)
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I am glad I am never alone...
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I think I got the Taiping Rebellion.
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One Year War checking in.
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I think it's history in general, not so much a particular war, no?
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It's a little of both. Humanity is kind of obsessed with Wars in general, and a lot of our history is written to reflect that. So you almost can't have one without the other.
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Something something The North Crusade something
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C'mon, so lame. I mean, I agree with the comments saying that being obsessed with a war is dumb, but obviously the right answer would be the Thirty Years War. Far more factions, more casus belli, more fights. Plus, it bolstered German nationalism, which led pretty directly to the Great War, which led to World War II, so those are technically part of its history.
But maybe I'm biased, because my surname originated in the Huguenot diaspora?
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The Outbreak of WWI - From Local Conflict to World War in 1914 I THE GREAT WAR Week 1
You're welcome, whoever you are.
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Agincourt
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To Waterloo
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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
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World Wars are for the war machine fanatics. That's really where it starts for a lot of people.
The American Civil War is mostly where you'll find revisionists and southerners, but there are also true enthusiasts. There's a lot of discussion in regards to the Mexican-American War priming the country for the Civil War, or discussion regarding the politics of the time and it's impact on the course of the war.
Falklands? I want to assume that if you're British then you'd like to forget this ever happened. Although the war did result in the disposal of a dictator and brought a country into the folds of democracy even if it had to occur over what is essentially a colonial territory dispute.
French and Indian War? I'd just say you enjoy colonial era history? Or you're currently living in the area that it occurred.
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"World War 3? There hasn't even been a 3rd world war yet..."
"That one comes with paranoid delusion as a bonus!"
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The French & Indian War was a good one. Fun fact: George Washington started it as a young British officer. He was assigned to partner with a contingent of Indians to take back a remote fort that the French had occupied.
After a fierce battle, the British/Indian side prevailed, and entered the fort. They spotted the French commander, sitting on the ground, slumped against a wall, gravely wounded. They approached him, Washington preparing to speak to him, when the Indian leader, walked right up to the French commander, split his skull with a tomahawk, and washed his hands with commander's brains, while a shocked Washington tried to control his nausea.
And that was the beginning of the French & Indian War.
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The One Year War.
Class war
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That's what I was assigned
...that kind of encompasses all of them, and more.
Goes well beyond those, tho
Same :3