Are we too obsessed with WWII?

[Thorthoth]

lol, says the guy who called me an idiot for thinking dunkirk was in france...
f*ck off, loser.

Said, the douche-tard ciggie-egg that thought Mayor West was the mayor on American Dad.
You f*ck off, llamo-loser.

Agreed

what does vegetable lasagne not knowing where dunkirk is have to do w/any of this, fake bern?

llamsagna. go back to school, you failed.
Specifically the intro course on 'Early 21st Century MacFarlane Animated Comedies'.

[riskllama]

lol, ITT we learn that vegetable lasagne was home schooled.

[mrswdk]

Explains a lot.

[Thorthoth]

lol, ITT we learn that vegetable lasagne was home schooled.

Haha. Perhaps, but my 'home' is the entire poly-dimensional time-space continuum of the all-encompassing multiverse.
One can't get a broader education than that.

[riskllama]

Explains a lot.

it certainly does.

[jusplay4fun]

I think we need to rename this thread (and several others) as "Are we too obsessed with hatred, intolerance, vitriolic speech, and trolling?"

It seems that many who post here are indeed so obsessed to avoid talking reasonably and prefer instead to use put downs, insults, and name-calling. They apparently cannot deal with the effort to think beyond what their reptilian brain comprehends.

JP

[mrswdk]

It seems that many who post here are indeed so obsessed to avoid talking reasonably and prefer instead to use put downs, insults, and name-calling. They apparently cannot deal with the effort to think beyond what their reptilian brain comprehends.

Amen to that:

You're JUS FULL of SHIT, b. grow up, and take a dump. You need to do BOTH. The DUMP is seriously need

[DirtyDishSoap]

I think we need to rename this thread (and several others) as "Are we too obsessed with hatred, intolerance, vitriolic speech, and trolling?"

It seems that many who post here are indeed so obsessed to avoid talking reasonably and prefer instead to use put downs, insults, and name-calling. They apparently cannot deal with the effort to think beyond what their reptilian brain comprehends.

JP

It's the only way to validate an opinion nowadays. Shout over the guy you're debating with. Even if you're wrong, if you're loud enough, they'll give up.

[Bernie Sanders]

It seems that many who post here are indeed so obsessed to avoid talking reasonably and prefer instead to use put downs, insults, and name-calling. They apparently cannot deal with the effort to think beyond what their reptilian brain comprehends.

Amen to that:

You're JUS FULL of SHIT, b. grow up, and take a dump. You need to do BOTH. The DUMP is seriously need

[jusplay4fun]

World War II, bernie.

JP

[Bernie Sanders]

World War II, bernie.

JP

Come here and sit on your Daddy's lap and tell me your insights of World War II, while I watch Fury on TV.

[Thorthoth]

World War II, bernie.

JP

Come here and sit on your Daddy's lap and tell me your insights of World War II, while I watch Fury on TV.

Get away from me you sick perv... and YOU ARE NOT MY DAD!
(Thorthoth dropkicks F-Bern right in the 'lap')

[Bernie Sanders]

World War II, bernie.

JP

Come here and sit on your Daddy's lap and tell me your insightsh of World War II, while I watch Fury on TV.

Get away from me you sick perv... and YOU ARE NOT MY DAD!
(Thorthoth dropkicks F-Bern right in the 'lap')

Only your Mom can answer that question.

[Symmetry]

World War II, bernie.

JP

Come here and sit on your Daddy's lap and tell me your insightsh of World War II, while I watch Fury on TV.

Get away from me you sick perv... and YOU ARE NOT MY DAD!
(Thorthoth dropkicks F-Bern right in the 'lap')

Only your Mom can answer that question.

You have a very high opinion of his mom.

[jimboston]

Is the western world still too focused on and traumatized by WWII events that it still dictates current events?

I grew up watching "Hogan's Heroes."

Most people wouldn't know WWII if it came and slapped them on the bottom. What they know are the propaganda of the victors. This is why we obsess over the German Concentration Camps and ignore the Camps set up to contain American Citizens of Japan descent. This is why we obsess over the mass killings in those camps by the Germans but we never obsess over the mass killings and genocides of the Russians.

Everyone obsesses over the two nuclear bombs the United States dropped on Japan but forget the firebombing of Toyko killed more and damaged more. There are lots of complex things about the war that gets ignored. War is hell, and WWII is a good example of a big war. But tell that to the guys who suffered the hell of Korea, or the hell of Vietnam, or the hell of Iraq. Hell is hell.

I don't think people ignore the Japanese American camps. What the US did to Japanese here in the States was bad... but really not comparable to what the Nazi's did on the Concentration Camps. Their not on the same level. That's why the Nazi Concentration Camps get the attention.

The Nuclear Bombing is different, and people have current political agenda's that focus on that being "wrong".

I think your statement "most people wouldn't know WWII" should be changed to "most people wouldn't know history".

Ignorance of history (especially in the US) is a common problem.

I don't know if it's because "most people" are just stupid an only concerned with their own day-to-day... or if it's a problem with how history is taught. It's probably a bit of both.

I know I only "kinda liked" history in school... and it wasn't until I was an adult when I started reading more that I got into it more.

Told properly history is fascinating.

Of course the other problem with history is there is so much of it... and you only have so much time to get into nuanced points.

[jimboston]

waauw spoke about people being so traumatized by WWII as to let it guide current events. The Cold War was enabled by the demise of the European powers following the World Wars, but the USA and Russia did not enter into a rivalry because people were shaken up by WWII and made decisions that were guided by their memory of WWII. They just started squaring up because they were the two biggest powers at the time.

I will concede that a lot of Europeans cling on to the EU with peace in the aftermath as WWII being an explicit reason why they like having the EU so much.

Russia and the US "squaring up" because they were to only two powers left... that's a result of the war no???

[mrswdk]

I literally already addressed that point in the post you just quoted.

[jusplay4fun]

NO one asked: what is TOO obsessed...??

I will, NOW.

JP

[Thorthoth]

Seriously, what is this WWII that you all keep yammering on about?

[jusplay4fun]

fake bernie, are you SO JEALOUS that you are NOT my father? If I were your son, I could not speak, write, or discuss anything intelligently.

Wrong again ThorT. They now have DNA Testing.

Oh, I forgot, that happened after fake bernie left school and he did not get to high school anyway to learn any Biology.

And secondly, one can look at traits, both physical and personality traits and see how much I resemble my father, NOT THE FAKE you are.

ALL I would know how to do is to get BANNED from CC for STOooooPPPIDITY. That must be the ULTIMATE problem for both ThorT and fake bernie. Neither can learn and neither can take a hint from the mistakes they repeatedly make. SAD.

JP

World War II, bernie.

JP

Come here and sit on your Daddy's lap and tell me your insightsh of World War II, while I watch Fury on TV.

Get away from me you sick perv... and YOU ARE NOT MY DAD!
(Thorthoth dropkicks F-Bern right in the 'lap')

Only your Mom can answer that question.