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It’s amazing how @Freak reads every post on every single thread
Freak is likely talented enough to have certain words like Freak, ban, banned, or whatever he deems important flagged and toss an alert to him.

Or, there are spies everywhere. Since this is the Politics Forum, lets go with that.
 
Freak is likely talented enough to have certain words like Freak, ban, banned, or whatever he deems important flagged and toss an alert to him.

Or, there are spies everywhere. Since this is the Politics Forum, lets go with that.
We should identify the flagged words and then agree to substitutes so we can fight with each other unfettered from our oligarchy.
 
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Truman showed restraint. My Father, who fought in WWII, thought he should've given Tokyo a week to evacuate then leveled it and set Japan back to 1900 or beyond.
Arguably the firebombing campaign against Tokyo wreaked more damage and resulted in larger loss of life than the two nuclear attacks. (Edit to clarify, singular raids. I can see combined casualties of both nuclear raids being higher but not sure)
 
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OK, there's always a first, and one time would be bad, but if I had a dollar for every time someone raised the specter of terrorists sneaking across the southern border since 9/11, I'd be a rich person. 20+ years of this fear mongering.

None of the 9/11 terrorists, and any other terrorists since, have done this. They didn't need to, they just came into America normally in airplanes, or drove across the border at a checkpoint.
 
Wasn't there a Star Trek where two warring planets or something had a computer working out "war attacks" and the populations stepped into some kind of "death chamber" to match what the computer said were casualties?

I suppose the "woke" antiwar message of the day but I think I recall an episode like that.
A Taste of Armageddon.
 
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That only worked because the Germans were scared to death of Patton, unlike the rest of the Ally general staff. Patton was unpredictable, his men would do anything for him and he was an unstoppable force when he got rolling.
Unstoppable by the Germans at any rate. Eisenhower and Bradley had no qualms about reigning Patton whenever Monty was looking bad by comparison. The halt order that prevented Patton from closing the Falaise Gap in August 1944 allowed untold numbers of German soldiers to escape certain encirclement and probably prolonged the war an extra four to six months (as well as allowing the Soviets to occupy most of Eastern Europe and reach Berlin first). All so that Monty could get the glory of closing the gap (which he didn’t do until too late).
Only one example among many.
 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals across the U.S. this weekend on immigration violations, including one in St. Paul, Minn., who officials said has ties to Hezbollah and another they said was a former sniper in the Iranian Army who had been living in a small town in northern Alabama.....

The sweep also netted a man in Mississippi who ICE officials said had been named a “known or suspected terrorist” in February; a man accused of domestic abuse who was carrying a loaded 9mm pistol when agents found him in Houston; and two men in Colorado Springs, Colo., one of whom officials said was convicted of drug crimes and child abuse and had been living in the country illegally since the 1980s.

 
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