@BlakeSNeff

Vietnam and Afghanistan ended in defeat. Iraq was sold with justifications that proved completely false. World War 1's cause was stupid, its impact was catastrophic and its peace deal only set the stage for World War 2. All of them, for America, were complete wars of choice (save Afghanistan; but even there decades of nation-building could have been skipped).

World War 2 began as a war of aggression by a revisionist totalitarian power that incorporated industrial genocide into its war strategy. The war ended in total American victory and inaugurated an entire lifetime of unprecedented middle class prosperity and American political, economic, scientific, and cultural dominance. Instead of leaving behind enemies plotting revenge, America transformed its two primary foes into prosperous, free allies.

That's all a tremendous amount of good to argue against, and it's a noticeable pattern that people who decide to do so repeatedly end up making arguments for the good faith and positive intentions of Adolf Hitler, a historical figure conspicuous for lacking such traits.

Hopefully that helps explain the "weird" fact that people get more exercised about World War 2 -- people are able to tell the difference between criticisms of dumb wars we lost and well-justified wars that we won decisively, and suspect the intentions of people who choose to bash the second.

https://x.com/BlakeSNeff/status/2107501528856567876

Wow. So much WINNING! Very cool historical lesson, Blake!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174406)

did he learn nothing from his time on xo?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174417)

@GoySuperstar

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This is the most cynical, dishonest, cucked, and embarrassing garbage from you yet. Do you have any shame at all?

In retrospect, you deserved all of the "injustices" that happened to you

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gotta agree with goy superstar here. fuck this bald geek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174424)

Or maybe his handlers wrote it for him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174433)

I agree that this basic bitch CATO style analysis is beneath him as an xo alum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174519)

I have a pretty consistent worldview that sometimes falls in with the prevailing consensus here and is sometimes very unpopular with it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174700)

this place is just reddit for edgy bald lawyers in its circlejerk nature

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174702)

Get bent you fucking dork. You have the gall to go around sneering at others calling them "contrarian" when that's literally all you do: attack whatever someone says, regardless of the content of what they're saying, and regardless of any "opinion" that you yourself might have on the matter

Fuck off and go somewhere else, you whiny ass dweeb

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174710)

*Trips and falls down curvature of the Earth*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50175614)

it's by far the biggest concession americans have ever made in any conflict.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174756)

you have to take world affairs as they come, and the 60s was when we took our eye off the ball—or actually the 50s, I think the role of cuba as the loose thread that started america's unraveling is badly underestimated. but world war 2 became the origin of something that it never really had to be, we could've walked it back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174766)

it’s also not obvious that world war 2 counterfactuals lead to a world where this doesn’t happen, there are many reasons a state might suddenly decide a more centrally planned social order is in its interests.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910259&forum_id=2#50174817)