Han (The Preble) shot first.

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    4 months ago

    Quick, someone remind me which ship it was that was starting to sink so they just shoveled water to one side do they could extend the range of their weapons and effectively become an extra artillery team during WWII (was that the siege of Normandy?)

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            I mean we can be cynical about what it was, but it’s plain to see that people actually cared and worked together when we had the facade of caring about freedom. As we become more divided and cynical, as we push each other away and become more aware of the injustices around us without taking the steps to affect them, we clearly become less effective all the way down to the individual level

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              4 months ago

              The country back then was divide by law. Fascism was very, very, popular. There was routine civil/labor rights violence. Political assassination, and attempts, were more common.

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                4 months ago

                People also fought for us to be where we are now. They didn’t roll over and die like so many want to do now

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                  There were plenty of those people too. It was damn near impossible to convince the majority of people to join the war effort, hell, they may never actually have. The public, at large, was fine with doing business with the axis, and what came to be our allies, and didn’t think we should bother getting involved, it wasn’t our problem. It took the government going against these wishes, to engineer a situation in which it became our problem, before there was enough support to do something.

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                    4 months ago

                    You mean the people in government at the time stood up and fought against oppression? Because they were inspired by the facade of standing for freedom?

                    People centric language can make history look more inspiring instead of damning some times