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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 199 points 5 months ago

I've got class war, which is a real doozy.

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

Yooo same. Why the fuck don't these people just fuck off and relax? I can't imagine having that much money and still feeling like I have to go to work.

[-] themoken@startrek.website 18 points 4 months ago

Because at some point after the first few million you turn into a dragon that must hoard wealth and the people that generate that wealth become a cost to minimize.

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[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago

My sheet says "rome"

Uh oh

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

"So, what's Rome's history like?"

"It's all war."

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[-] squidman@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah, I got the Dominion War. Time for another DS9 rewatch.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months 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.

[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 months ago

Of course we can't acknowledge it, because then we can't make the same "mistake" again and people will start questioning real causus belli like saddams WMDs which we'll find any day now.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Vietnam got a rough fucking deal in the 1900s. Shortly after the US left, the Cambodians under Pol Pot invaded, and they were brutal

[-] ours@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

And Vietnam ended up kicking Pol Pot off which is impossible to argue as anything but a win for humanity.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] ODuffer@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

I participated in the war on drugs...

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago

On the winning side, I imagine.

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[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

All I got was Star Wars

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago
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[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 26 points 5 months ago

The seven years war is fantastic and is utterly critical to understanding the US Revolution as well as understanding how the Iroquois pulled a power move on the other first nations that worked, but later led to the current situation with first nations in North America.

On the revolution: Namely that corruption was so endemic in the colonies that when the UK actually started to do something about it the revolution happened albeit with a lot of pushing from the upper crust of the colonies.

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Fun couterfactual to consider: how many MPs would "the colonies" have needed to blunt popular support for the revolution?

Probably can't go very high, but maybe one per charter? If not that high (Scotland only had 45, I think), then what would have been enough "representation" to preclude the American elites from making a compelling case, or what paths to personal status would have tempted enough of them that there wouldn't have been a critical mass of will and resources?

The British colonized the Americas, particularly North America, very differently than Spain and France did, but didn't seem to think of the purpose or integration of colonies as any different.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 months 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.world 10 points 4 months 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.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Mine just says WW15 and has a picture of a green tiger in space

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[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Huh. "Galactic Civil War" and "War of the Ring."

Neat. Wizards in both!

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Second Sudanese Civil War of course (1983-2005)

[-] FatTony@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

~~The one about slavery.~~ ~~I mean state rights.~~ I mean Northern Aggression.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The proper term now is War of the Demonic Democrats Against the Party of Lincoln and Trump

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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago

War of the Roses, winner of Best Named War ;)

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Yo professor, which Falkland Islands you talking about?

https://youtu.be/42_oWaWsiYs

[-] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 4 months ago

i got the soviet-afghan war and wow did that recontextualize a lot of things about the modern world

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[-] Count042@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The seven year war, which is what the rest of the world calls the French Indian war should actually have been called World War One.

It was also started by an incompetent 22 year old George Washington being sent out in his first command who ignored the equivalent of the sergeant put in charge of the new lieutenant advice and executed a French person he shouldn't have.

The taxes that started the revolutionary war? Those were to pay the war debts on the seven year war. Dude literally led an army to avoid paying the consequences of his actions.

EDIT: it's also possible to draw "ALL WARS"

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I got the Cola Wars

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

The galactic civil war....

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

pfft. enlist when you're 18, you'll get a whole new war.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months 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.

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[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months 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.

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Mine just says WW3, should I be concerned?

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[-] blah_blah_blah@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

I got The Late Night Wars. I'm on Team Coco, obviously.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 4 months ago

the century of war between Berwick-upon-tweed and Russia

[-] Vladkar@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

There are 64 books in the Horus Heresy.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"WTF is Granada?"

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

My case was Paraguay War a few weeks ago and I learned so damn much that school completely glossed over. What surprised me the most was just how much of a madman Solano Lopez, the Paraguayan dictator, was. You dare bring bad news to him? You bet your ass you'll be flogged. You failed to follow one of his suicidal orders? Off to forced labor camp. You didn't put him above God and Christ? Say your prayers, you'll be ~~shot~~ bayoneted in order to save bullets.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

I got Brood.

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