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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Okay, but that's all of history. One thing leads to another. The problem is, you can't say what would have happened if things went differently.

Would there have been no Nazi party if World War I never happened? Was Hitler's rise to power in part due to his experiences in World War I and the economic crisis Germany was put in due, in part, to World War I? We have no way of knowing.

Maybe if Victoria and Albert hadn't married, World War I would still have happened, but been even worse because there would have been even greater enmity between the British and the Germans. We can't know. The best we can do is write speculative fiction.

[-] Daveyborn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Good thing I wasn't grabbing all of history in my statement then, just 2 plot points.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Did you not read past the first paragraph? Everything else I wrote was about WWI and WWII. I literally talked about Hitler.

[-] Daveyborn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Do you get off on acting like this at every chance? And yes I did

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Okay, then why did you say:

Good thing I wasn’t grabbing all of history in my statement then, just 2 plot points.

When I was literally discussing those two plot points?

I'll paste what I said again. Maybe you'll have a legitimate response to it?

Would there have been no Nazi party if World War I never happened? Was Hitler’s rise to power in part due to his experiences in World War I and the economic crisis Germany was put in due, in part, to World War I? We have no way of knowing.

Maybe if Victoria and Albert hadn’t married, World War I would still have happened, but been even worse because there would have been even greater enmity between the British and the Germans. We can’t know. The best we can do is write speculative fiction.

[-] Daveyborn@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Because you said that's "all of history", it's not like I'm trying to link Christopher Columbus to 9/11 here. I even stated the dude mixed the wars up in another comment thread.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

So you're not going to respond to what I have now said to you twice. I see.

[-] Daveyborn@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

As I said in the beginning it was not anything profound, don't know what your trying to make this into but I'll nip it now. Welcome to the list

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