• Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 days ago

    I’m the War on Christmas guy, and I’m getting my ass handed to me every single year.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    252·
    7 days ago

    The best class I took in college was an intercession course about the Vietnam War. We had to read an entire book pretty much every day, which was great prep for grad school.

    I basically learned that the entire war was completely unjustified, it was horrific and brutal on both sides in ways that aren’t talked about, but that ultimately the United States had absolutely no business interfering. Vietnam had spent years under French colonial control, which they overthrew under their own power. They had already asserted a desire to rule themselves.

    Tonkin was also a genuine false flag, which just isn’t acknowledged? We manufactured the cause for an extremely unpopular war. So many young man died or were disabled because of something that was pointless.

    That class was first that really got me to question the patriotic narrative I was taught about American history in high school.

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    WWIII nut here.

    Get yourself a Red Cross emergency kit, a lot of water jugs, and ramen. You’re underestimating your chances of survival and how much you’ll want to.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      You’re underestimating your chances of survival and how much you’ll want to.

      yes, you too can live out the remainder of your miserable days scrambling for rat meat in the irradiated future.

      of course, the desire to live, to survive, overcomes a lot, but ‘want to live’ I think is stretching it a bit.

      • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I’ve worked briefly with civil defense stuff and got to visit and learn a whole bunch about bunkers. That cemented my “take out the long chair, open my best bottle, put on some shades, and enjoy the brief light show” approach to a hypothetical nuclear alert.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 days ago

    I’m glad I missed this.

    btw, did you know that the Australian government killed almost 1000 Emus in the Great Emu War and still lost?

    The military used over 10,000 rounds of ammunition. that would mean they used around 10 rounds per Emu.

    • stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      They also used actual military tactics to fight the Emus, like mapping their routes and setting up ambushes. In one of these, they managed to get close to a flock of about a thousand emus and attacked them with machine guns only allowing the escape of… lemme check… about a thousand emus.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Hey, the Falklands is the one I’m obsessed with and it’s actually really interesting. Only “modern” war between near peers before ukraine.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    I listened to Hardcore History’s series on World War I in that window, so that was my assigned war of interest.

    • ThePancake@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 days ago

      This was me too. I probably listened through the “Blueprint for Armageddon” series three times. Never really found any other history podcast that piqued my interest nearly as much as that did.

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        I like that he’s very open about the fact that he’s not an expert/professional historian. He walks the line between storytelling and rigor pretty well for a pop historian. My favorite episode is the one about the Memnonite (edit: Anabaptist) rebellion that ended with corpses being left up for centuries.

  • stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    6 days ago

    I got the second Punic war, but I think that’s just a freebie. I also spent a lot learning about the Falkland’s war just to annoy Argentinians online.

  • tetris11@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    Oliver’s army is here to stay
    Oliver’s army are on their way
    And I would rather be anywhere else
    But here today

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    I can’t be the only Ersalrope Wars buff here, right?

    confused travolta meme, no text, transparent background

    and who really can go more than a few hours without thinking about the Koinonian Wars?

    still of Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, removing swamp leeches from himself, with the caption "nobody else got hit? i'm the only one? what's the deal?"

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    26·
    7 days ago

    Ah… remember when England decided they owned an island that was located inside the territorial waters of another country?