What in tarnation is a “curiosity vessel”

somewhere in the corner of the internet where they celebrate white history month, i imagine

Then they are just as awful as you.

You are an awful human being. And many Jews would be disgusted with what you just wrote.

Man, if you haven’t already, you should really put some pen to paper. Experiences like those of yours are so rarely communicated effectively, and with such genuine earnestness, that it’s downright necessary that you get a chance to relay them on a wide-spanning platform.

I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely off topic, as towards the end of the video there is discussion of deaths in other wars and atrocities - and the extermination of a huge portion of North America’s indigenous population certainly counts, and indeed is on the list.

I thought it was at least nice that he pointed out the US forces targeted civilians in Japan. The firebombing in particular is nasty. Some US General pointed out that the Japanese favored wood and paper construction for their buildings, and that therefore firebombs would be particularly effective against them. All…

It is a goddamn tragedy what has happened to Detroit. Michigan won us that war

While I think that’s a very valid sentiment, at the same time, war has a tendency to accelerate the development of science and technology. Radar, rocket technology, and synthetic rubber are just a few developments that came directly from WWII. Seeing war on such a grand scale and the development of nuclear weapons led…

Excellent visualization, but it’s missing perhaps the single most devastating mass death in the civilized era: the Columbian Exchange. Estimates vary, but over 80% if not close to 95% of the native American population died from smallpox, measles, yellow fever and other European diseases— most of them long before they…

I remember studying Russian in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s- the glaring lack of old men was stunning. There were plenty of old women, who swept streets, sold the ubiquitous tickets needed for museum entry, told complete strangers to wipe their feet before entering, to stay off the grass, to button up a coat…

Agreed. The camera just kept panning and panning up on the Soviet column.

That or the global economy has reached a point where its in no developed nation’s best interests to wage war with another developed nation. That and the kind of widespread suffering that really fuels acts of war is fairly unheard of in the 1st world these days.

If you’ve ever played Milton Bradley’s Axis & Allies, it really does seem that the best Russian strategy is to toss endless numbers of troops at your opponents...

One wonders what great novels, fantastic inventions, cures for diseases, etc., never came to exist because of these deaths. :(

This visualization also makes it horrifically clear that Stalin was not even remotely close to speaking in metaphors when he was asked about his strategy for defeating Germany and replied “They will choke on our dead.”

F*#K! I’ve spent years studying and reading about WW2 and the numbers are no surprise to me but to see it laid out like that is heartbreaking. Makes me think of Stalin’s famous aphorism, ‘A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

The “Long Peace” is due entirely to the invention and adoption of nuclear weapons; they made large-scale conflict between nation-states unthinkable. The principle danger today is such weapons in the hands of non-state actors.