German soccer team kneels

Fire_Marshall_Bill

http://nypost.com/2017/10/15/now-a-german-soccer-team-is-kneeling/

TurdBomber

Now that they've declared themselves virtuous, their work is over. Back to getting handsomely compensated to play games. I'm touched.

YellowSnow

The Germans still have about 100 years left in my view before they get to share their opinions on the internal affairs of another nation. Seriously - fuck off.

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow said:

The Germans still have about 100 years left in my view before they get to share their opinions on the internal affairs of another nation. Seriously - fuck off.

This.

Fuck the fuck off 12 million times.

greenblood

This is like Roman Polanski giving us a lecture on why it's wrong to rape 13 year old girls.

RaceBannon

Welcome to Dresden

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Welcome to Dresden

The German's were the first to open that Pandora's Box...

Pitchfork51

Whatevs you fucking americans

Southerndawg

RaceBannon said:

Welcome to Dresden

Amazing resemblence to modern day Detroit.

RaceBannon

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Welcome to Dresden

The German's were the first to open that Pandora's Box...

I was just reminding them

And it was mainly the Brits that lit up Dresden. Good call

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Welcome to Dresden

The German's were the first to open that Pandora's Box...

I was just reminding them

And it was mainly the Brits that lit up Dresden. Good call

@RaceBannon There was a recent documentary on the History Channel (don't watch it much as the content usually sucks) or Nat Geo - I can't remember - about the German Empire's WWI Zeppelin raids over London, which was the first instance of one European power trying to terrorize the other's civilian population through aerial bombardment.

Turns out, Zeppelins were actually really difficult to shoot down with the technology of that war. Using regular machine gun fire couldn't poke enough holes in the damn things other than to cause a slow leak (would have taken days for the enough hydrogen to leak out before crashing the damn thing). Then the Brits tried bullets which caught fire, but that didn't work either because there wasn't enough oxygen to combust the hydrogen. Finally, the pilots figure out that they had to strafe the same spot on the zeppelin over and over to allow enough oxygen in to cause the initial explosion.

Sledog

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

YellowSnow

Sledog said:

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

One of the more chinteresting counterfactuals in the field of history- i.e., would the USSR still been able to defeat NAZI Germany, had the US not entered the war in Europe? Remember the Soviets had stopped the Germans from taking Moscow a full year before we had any troops engaging Wehrmacht units in N. Africa. Lend lease aid hadn't started in earnest yet either. All that being said, Jake Browning sucks; and I think the more likely outcome would have been some sort of stalemate on the Eastern front had the US not entered the war.

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow said:

Sledog said:

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

One of the more chinteresting counterfactuals in the field of history- i.e., would the USSR still been able to defeat NAZI Germany, had the US not entered the war in Europe? Remember the Soviets had stopped the Germans from taking Moscow a full year before we had any troops engaging Wehrmacht units in N. Africa. Lend lease aid hadn't started in earnest yet either. All that being said, Jake Browning sucks; and I think the more likely outcome would have been some sort of stalemate on the Eastern front had the US not entered the war.

Stalin just needed more time to get his own guys in there in '42.

Eventually in a war of attrition, Russian still wins but probably not until at least a year, maybe two later than 1945. And by then, it's possible Germany would have developed the A-Bomb.

People forget Russia came in for the gold medal match with Japan right before Hiroshima. On the other hand, if the US threw everything it had vs. Japan rather than deploying into N. Africa and Europe, the Pacific War might have ended earlier and the US could have funneled supplies to Russia via the Pacific side without much hassle from German U0Boats and shit.

Either way it would have been chinteresting.

YellowSnow

PurpleThrobber said:

YellowSnow said:

Sledog said:

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

One of the more chinteresting counterfactuals in the field of history- i.e., would the USSR still been able to defeat NAZI Germany, had the US not entered the war in Europe? Remember the Soviets had stopped the Germans from taking Moscow a full year before we had any troops engaging Wehrmacht units in N. Africa. Lend lease aid hadn't started in earnest yet either. All that being said, Jake Browning sucks; and I think the more likely outcome would have been some sort of stalemate on the Eastern front had the US not entered the war.

Stalin just needed more time to get his own guys in there in '42.

Eventually in a war of attrition, Russian still wins but probably not until at least a year, maybe two later than 1945. And by then, it's possible Germany would have developed the A-Bomb.

People forget Russia came in for the gold medal match with Japan right before Hiroshima. On the other hand, if the US threw everything it had vs. Japan rather than deploying into N. Africa and Europe, the Pacific War might have ended earlier and the US could have funneled supplies to Russia via the Pacific side without much hassle from German U0Boats and shit.

Either way it would have been chinteresting.

Stalin definitely pulled a Petersen in the late 1930's trying to get his OKG's.

Swaye

YellowSnow said:

Sledog said:

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

One of the more chinteresting counterfactuals in the field of history- i.e., would the USSR still been able to defeat NAZI Germany, had the US not entered the war in Europe? Remember the Soviets had stopped the Germans from taking Moscow a full year before we had any troops engaging Wehrmacht units in N. Africa. Lend lease aid hadn't started in earnest yet either. All that being said, Jake Browning sucks; and I think the more likely outcome would have been some sort of stalemate on the Eastern front had the US not entered the war.

YellowSnow

Swaye said:

YellowSnow said:

Sledog said:

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

One of the more chinteresting counterfactuals in the field of history- i.e., would the USSR still been able to defeat NAZI Germany, had the US not entered the war in Europe? Remember the Soviets had stopped the Germans from taking Moscow a full year before we had any troops engaging Wehrmacht units in N. Africa. Lend lease aid hadn't started in earnest yet either. All that being said, Jake Browning sucks; and I think the more likely outcome would have been some sort of stalemate on the Eastern front had the US not entered the war.

Hitler got close the Asia at Stalingrad (and El Alamein for that matter), but technically speaking they were on European soil for the duration.

Swaye

YellowSnow said:

Swaye said:

YellowSnow said:

Sledog said:

Ungrateful bastards still resent getting their ass handed to them in WWII. If it weren't for us being there now they'd all be speaking Russian.

One of the more chinteresting counterfactuals in the field of history- i.e., would the USSR still been able to defeat NAZI Germany, had the US not entered the war in Europe? Remember the Soviets had stopped the Germans from taking Moscow a full year before we had any troops engaging Wehrmacht units in N. Africa. Lend lease aid hadn't started in earnest yet either. All that being said, Jake Browning sucks; and I think the more likely outcome would have been some sort of stalemate on the Eastern front had the US not entered the war.

Hitler got close the Asia at Stalingrad (and El Alamein for that matter), but technically speaking they were on European soil for the duration.

Thanks for letting the few remaining people who didn't realize I am stoopid in on the secret.