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Post by **Superior Bacon** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:02 am

Yeah, Germany being used as a scapegoat in WWI was kind of sort of a horrible idea.

Fooflyer · Post by **Fooflyer** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:16 am

Except it actually did do the majority of the damage

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:41 am

Still, blaming everything on one country just makes things worse.

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:48 am

God daisies Jews.

Deiphobus · Post by **Deiphobus** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:20 am

Jews are cool people

Fooflyer · Post by **Fooflyer** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:15 am

Jews are ghey

Squigzog · Post by **Squigzog** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:24 am

Jews...

No thats all I have to contribute.

Aceclade · Post by **Aceclade** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:56 pm

Ultimately, yes. A government usually mandates: anyone who belongs to the nation shall take up arms or industry whenever they are called to action. Even the United States acknowledges war fronts at the home. If you take shelter within a nation, you are expected to be their asset.

People have fled countries when they didn't favor war. Besides the persecuted, some WW2 Germans vacated the country to avoid being part of the war machine. If people choose to vacate a nation's war effort by leaving the country, that is enough evidence that they aren't fueling that war effort and such would be protected from harm.

Countries or armies that accept no international laws of engagement still manage to stay alive. Sure, there are large allegiances that imply a wide realm of power, but often it is a power unused. The only times The States really answer such nations are when those nations have something The States want. If it's a matter of one tribe attempting to erase another tribe, the big powers are often reluctant to respond. It also helps to have a nuke in your arsenal.

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:56 am

Fooflyer wrote:1)World War II never would of happened if Germany wasn't allowed to do ANYTHING after World War I. And I mean that brought them into a state of huge economic depression

Correction.

World War II wouldn't have happened if Germany wasn't ridiculously unfairly punished after WWI, which caused a huge economic depression, intense nationalism, and hatred towards the rest of the world which developed into the Nazi party. AKA, it was thinking like yours which caused World War II.

Furthermore, World War II also wouldn't have happened if other major nations weren't being such pussies about a fear of another World War, that they refused to fight back against Germany until they had built up a lot of strength.

Deiphobus · Post by **Deiphobus** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:11 am

reminds me of those stories when someone tries to stop something but just ends up causing it to happen

The Idiotic Oracle · Post by **The Idiotic Oracle** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:21 am

Deiphobus wrote:reminds me of those stories when someone tries to stop something but just ends up causing it to happen

"And don't worry about the vase."

"What vase? *turns and knocks over a vase, causing it to shatter*"

"That vase."

"I'm sorry--"

"I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it."

"How did you know?"

"Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?"

Tall-Hatted Yanimae · Post by **Tall-Hatted Yanimae** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:06 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOEhoVj4Tww&NR=1

So my dad sent this to me. What do you guys think?
I suggest watching the whole thing.

But not the ending there's like this weird ear screeching thing that goes on ow my ears ;-;

Xeraphem · Post by **Xeraphem** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:16 pm

Nutrients as a toxin? Where did they come by that "knowledge"?

Plasma · Post by **Plasma** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:35 pm

It's an angry lady complaining, about how a suggesting (emphasis on that - Codex Alimentarius does not make ANYTHING mandatory) food safety guide is going to destroy the world, without really properly explaining how or why.

And it's not even the funny type of Seriously Stupid either. I... don't really know why Yanimae suggested watching it in the first place.

Deiphobus · Post by **Deiphobus** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:03 pm

it's the classic "us" vs. "them"