I’m living proof that you can recover from being this guy.
Is Guns Germs, and Steel good? Way back before I knew anything about politics I thought it sounded neat
The average person is paradoxically far too knowledgeable for their own good, specifically because they are not knowledgeable enough. The ideal is to be highly educated, but being totally uneducated is far preferable to being slightly educated. Being highly educated allows you to be right. Being slightly educated allows you to be totally wrong while having some scraps of “backup” for your claims. The midwit is far more dangerous than the totally uneducated, because the midwit can be far more effectively weaponized against Communism due to their appearance of “correctness” brought about by knowing some irrelevant trivia.
Civ 4 is the best though. They got that right
This was me too; history channel, video games and also midwit dad gets you this far.
Did yuo no taht teh Black slaves were sold to the Americans by there African kings?
Not enough paradox games
Having above average knowledge of WWII military technology :
is this historical understandingI love to talk about the Russian tanks though. And Stalingrad.
If i ever learned anything from channels like History, it’s that the anglo historians are full of overwhelming regret that nazis had lost.
Are these specific weapons (and one plane) actually picked for a reason or is it just to reinforce this idea of “Guy who thinks history is just battles and wars” kind of thing?
I think, it is Mauser 98k rifle, although I’m not sure.
I think its a garand. Doesn’t have a bolt handle like the 98k one
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Oh fuck off, you didn’t have to use the best civ game out of seven to call
methis guy out like that 😭This is just reddit
I had to check if Dan Carlin and Hardcore History were the same and they are. Literally every Reddit post about history circa 2017-18 would talk about Dan Carlin. I genuinely thought it was some astro turf movement.
Just the echo chamber effect
Used to work with this guy.
He also thought that the Kurds working as US proxies were the coolest guys in the world.
Second only to the gurhkas
i think japan would have surrendered
They tried twice, one directly to USA but it was refused, and second time they asked USSR for mediation but USSR also refused since they were bound by Tehran promise to attack Japan and were not neutral.
Japan was already surrendering, actually. but it was to the Soviets
I’ve always thought it would have resulted in two Japans, like how Korea and Germany got split. But I have no idea where the socialists in Japan would have gained power. I know they existed though, like that guy who got killed with a sword on TV.
That’s what Truman and co feared, which is why they staked their claim with the atom bomb. Even against the advice of MacArthur.
