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The Japanese attack at pearl harbor was meant to give the Japs time to conquer the Pacific Islands, like the Philippines and other smaller Islands.

They thought they would get about six months before America would be able to launch a counter attack. The expectation was to dig in and that it would become to costly, and that America wouldn't be willing to lose the amount of men it would take to dislodge the Japs.

They were right, that it would take about six months for America to launch their attack, they were wrong about how willing Americans would be to fight.

Almost paradoxically the Japs where right that carriers would be the future of Naval Warfare, but America didn't have any carriers at Pearl Harbor.
Meaning that there attack, while devastating to the ships in at Pearl Harbor, was not as crippling as it could have been.
 
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Failure to adapt is just as bad. The United States is just as guilty of this and has "lost" to angry peasants and cave dwellers because they wanted to fight their way instead of adapting to do what was necessary to win.
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If you mean Vietnam and Afghanistan it wouldn't of mattered how well the military adapted because the strategy at the top was flawed. In the former's case, the United States always possessed the means to properly invade North Vietnam and knock it out as soon as possible but didn't want to risk another Chinese intervention which is what happened in the then recent Korean War. Meanwhile with Afghanistan the USA propped up an incompetent government that had an issue with corruption, bad morale issues and lacked legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
 
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I don't think anyone really knows how a naval war with China would go. We don't know all the capabilities or materiel of each side, it's obviously largely classified and nothing any poster could possibly be an expert on. The best rule of thumb is just to look at which country is bigger on the map. We're kind of similar size countries on the map so it could probably go either way. Coin flip outcome
 
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A: By the second generation of kids, (the immigrants grandkids) this stops. Asians who were raised by parents born here are almost identical to white kids in terms of interests and performance and general attitude. Average to lazy, decent to good grades, experiment with drugs and partying, will only do things they're interested in. They want to be influencers and gamers not engineers and doctors.
B: For the past 10 years the intensity of this stereotype even for second generation immigrants has dramatically lessened. Anecdotal evidence, but my vietnamese coworker's parents basically got blackpilled by having their degrees become absoleted by some computer program, 40 years of torturous tiger parenting down the shitter.
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I have political dealings with the Vietnamese, and this dude is one hundred percent correct.
Asians are unironically a lot closer to White people in terms of how they act by gen 2 or so over here, y'know just a different flavor a bit but you see similar trends. As for the youth, man it's looking rough for them tbh.
 
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Then you had all of a sudden the Boomers didn't want their grandkids treated like they treated their kids so laws started slamming down keeping you from even telling your kid "no" or anything like that
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This annoys me like you would not believe, and I'm 110% convinced this is why kids are the way they are these days.

Spoiled rotten bastards that can never be told "no", never be disciplined, and have the entire world in their hands in the form of a phone/tablet, so by the time they grow up they act like they know everything when in reality they don't know shit about fuck.

I had an argument with someone about this a long time ago. The dumbass had the audacity to say me playing my fucking Game Gear at age 8 was the same thing as a 7 year old with an smartphone.
 
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BallsMcLongDong said:
I talked about this with my wife. She was reading the bible and got to the New Testament. We had a conversation about it and I told her the basic summary of the beginning of the bible is that God chooses the Jews, the Jews fuck over every chance they get, so God sends his son to Earth to die so everyone but the Jews get to go to Heaven.
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It's worth pointing out that it was the plan all along.

Says a lot that there was no universe in which all of the pharisees stopped and went 'Hey all the common people like him and are convinced he's the messiah, he's also performing legitimate miracles... might we be the bad guys?', doesn't it.
 
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What engaging in premarital sex does to a mf. How about you just be sensible and track your wife's cycle? You can fill her womb as much as you like so long as she has a regular cycle and you pick the right days. Never had a pregnancy scare, never used a condom except the very first time.
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This is a weird Puritanical flex that also misses my point, which is that using protection works. You can have all the holy, wifely sex that you want but that is not what a lot of men and women are doing out there. Condoms work. Birth control works. Hell, abstinence technically works, although pro-abstinence campaigns have been a complete failure for decades. It is super-duper easy to avoid unwanted pregnancies by using protection. I don't think that's a controversial statement.
 
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This is a weird Puritanical flex that also misses my point, which is that using protection works. You can have all the holy, wifely sex that you want but that is not what a lot of men and women are doing out there. Condoms work. Birth control works. Hell, abstinence technically works, although pro-abstinence campaigns have been a complete failure for decades. It is super-duper easy to avoid unwanted pregnancies by using protection. I don't think that's a controversial statement.
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The Rhythm Method is how China ended up with a billion people. If you think that shit works you’ve never actually tried it. A woman’s body will find ways to get herself pregnant. Life finds a way.
 
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As an expert in navel combat, from my years of playing battleship, is that the only thing that matters is how much seamen you can shove into crevasse. Chinamen, due to lack of fortitude and a diet of dog penis and rice, do not make quality seamen. Americans, eating nonstop protein, have seaman shooting huge loads of artillery and able to cover all faces of combat.
 
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Chinabros. I don't feel so good. Surely this had nothing to do with zombie tier workforce, Styrofoam walls or fake safety equipment, right?

Maaaaasive explosion at a pesticide chemical plant.




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BEIJING (AP) — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV. An additional six people remain missing.

The blast was powerful enough to knock out the windows at a storage warehouse more than two miles (three kilometers) away from the factory, according to a video shared by a local resident, who declined to give his name out of concern for retaliation.

His home shook from the blast, he said. As he went to the window to see what was wrong, he saw a tall column of smoke from the site, more than seven kilometers (4.3 miles) away.


The explosion happened at the Gaomi Youdao Chemical Co., which is located in an industrial park in the city of Weifang. It manufactures pesticides as well as chemicals for medical use, and has more than 500 employees, according to corporate registration records.

Local fire officials sent more than 230 personnel to the scene, according to CCTV.
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A facility like this, undergoing rapid discombobulation, has probably emptied metric tons of organophosphates into the environment. Which... is BAD. Like... Generational impacts bad. That area is probably fucked like 1/4 of Chernobyl levels fucked. Someone will probably dump videos of the actual explosion before too long. Looks fucking epic.
 
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