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MrLogan posted:All the civil war generals fought together during the Mexican American war. I took a military history class in college with a focus on this war. I remember the super conservative professor who was teaching a bunch of ROTC blockheads and a couple of clowns like me who thought "oh that sounds interesting" still feeling compelled to say 'look you can't judge a general by what he's ordered to do' because this war was such an obvious land grab. Prof absolutely loved Winfield Scott and thought he was brilliant, but I've completely forgotten why.
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Grittybeard posted:I took a military history class in college with a focus on this war. I remember the super conservative professor who was teaching a bunch of ROTC blockheads and a couple of clowns like me who thought "oh that sounds interesting" still feeling compelled to say 'look you can't judge a general by what he's ordered to do' because this war was such an obvious land grab. John Brown was the only moral white dude in the 19th century.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:09
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axeil posted:I would like to know more, please share with the class. Right now I am reading about how France wanted to side with the Confederacy and had even drawn up some loose plans where the Confederacy would help France's bid to colonize Mexico in return for recognition. It never happened because France didn't want to join the Confederacy without Britain also joining and bad feelings between British and French scuttled that idea. Also Britain secretly aided the Confederacy by building ships for them also Karl Marx was a big admirer of Lincoln and a bigtime Union supporter
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Oct 20, 2017 22:10
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Grittybeard posted:I took a military history class in college with a focus on this war. I remember the super conservative professor who was teaching a bunch of ROTC blockheads and a couple of clowns like me who thought "oh that sounds interesting" still feeling compelled to say 'look you can't judge a general by what he's ordered to do' because this war was such an obvious land grab. My mil history prof spent a lot of time just making GBS threads on Monty which I was cool with
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Oct 20, 2017 22:14
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Its Rinaldo posted:My mil history prof spent a lot of time just making GBS threads on Monty which I was cool with In the spring of 1925 he had already begun a campaign to win the affections of a beautiful girl whom he met in Dinard, on a golfing holiday with his battalion colonel. Loath to waste time, the innocent 37-year-old Major Montgomery proposed to the innocent 17-year-old music student, Betty Anderson, at the end of his first dance with her, giving rise to a reckless series of proposals which Betty turned down, to the disappointment of her parents who saw Montgomery as a man with a future.  according to wikipedia his courtship methods included talking about how he'd deploy tanks and such
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Oct 20, 2017 22:23
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Patton is my favorite primadonna general
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Oct 20, 2017 22:29
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a patagonian cavy posted:according to wikipedia his courtship methods included talking about how he'd deploy tanks and such Hey baby, wanna see how I'd assault your fortified bunker?
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Oct 20, 2017 22:30
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SHOAH NUFF posted:Right now I am reading about how France wanted to side with the Confederacy and had even drawn up some loose plans where the Confederacy would help France's bid to colonize Mexico in return for recognition. It never happened because France didn't want to join the Confederacy without Britain also joining and bad feelings between British and French scuttled that idea. Also Britain secretly aided the Confederacy by building ships for them Is it embarrassing I know the Lincoln bit because of the Harry Turtledove book series where the South wins due to winning Antietam and Lincoln goes on to form the Socialist Party of the US?
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Oct 20, 2017 22:32
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Holy poo poo lol it’s like a train wreck just can’t look away
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Oct 20, 2017 22:33
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Grittybeard posted:Hey baby, wanna see how I'd assault your fortified bunker? survey says: no
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Oct 20, 2017 22:35
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axeil posted:Do you have a link? That sounds like a great read. Well there's a bunch of them and they're in archives in the LP forum, and he tends to do wargames from a lot of different historical eras. Lemme see, uh... The current War in the Pacific: Day by Day thread. This one is playing out the entire pacific theater of WWII, one in-game day per real day, from the Japanese side. As a successor to the epic War in the Pacific thread that successfully completed the entire war from the Allied side. Crown of Glory is europe in 1792 Silent Hunter 4 is submarines in the pacific theater in WWII Here's a civil war one with AEOGD, which I guess was the later Forge of Freedom thread with goons vs. goons roleplaying. I suspect this is old enough that a lot of the images are waffleimaged. There's links in there to the individual North and South threads. The threads I was thinking of included his original Forge of Freedom thread, but I'm having trouble finding it. The LP Archive only has war in the pacific, war in the east, and jutland.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:37
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seiferguy posted:Richard Spencer having a blue checkmark should be all you need to know about Twitter's harassment policy. Truth
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axeil posted:Is it embarrassing I know the Lincoln bit because of the Harry Turtledove book series where the South wins due to winning Antietam and Lincoln goes on to form the Socialist Party of the US? Where is the alternative history series where the BPP goes back and hooks up with John Brown and leads a defeat and secession of the South the real way. Just Playa Haters in Time up and down the cotton belt. Fred Hampton first president of the Confederacy.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:46
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So are those nazis that shot at people actually in danger of going to prison for a long time?
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Oct 20, 2017 23:44
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:So are those nazis that shot at people actually in danger of going to prison for a long time? their combined bonds are $5 million so I'd say so yeah
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Oct 20, 2017 23:50
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Spoeank posted:their combined bonds are $5 million so I'd say so yeah What a happy day
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Oct 20, 2017 23:52
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https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/921446600240713730
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Oct 20, 2017 23:52
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I've got 2 more hours till I have a 4 day weekend planned so of course it is crawling. Going to hang with my dad in KY, get drunk and watch the Saints win on the TV, then watch TLC!
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Oct 21, 2017 00:13
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Jesus every time I try to come home after traveling for business I get delayed. Fuckkkkkk
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Oct 21, 2017 00:55
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Delayed again, someone loving kill me
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Delayed again, someone loving kill me Buy Pron's civil war book and read it!
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Oct 21, 2017 01:48
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Grittybeard posted:Buy Pron's civil war book and read it! Too tired and angry to read plus they don't have it in the airport bookstore. I can get Tom Bradys pile of poo poo though
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Too tired and angry to read plus they don't have it in the airport bookstore. I can get Tom Bradys pile of poo poo though You could peruse and angrily post about that, it would pass the time. Hopefully you just read it in the store and don't actually buy it though.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:52
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Grittybeard posted:You could peruse and angrily post about that, it would pass the time. Hopefully you just read it in the store and don't actually buy it though. I would never buy it but I did keep moving copies of it behind other books until I was told to stop. gently caress Tom Brady.
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Oct 21, 2017 02:09
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Delayed another 15mins. We're apparently just waiting on pilots. People are getting rowdy.
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Oct 21, 2017 02:14
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Delayed another 15mins. We're apparently just waiting on pilots. People are getting rowdy. You can fly this plane. I believe in you.
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Oct 21, 2017 02:24
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Quiet Feet posted:You can fly this plane. I believe in you. Hell at this point it's worth a shot just so I get at least part of a weekend
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Oct 21, 2017 02:28
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Planes fly themselves now a days. Just hit autopilot and chat with the flight attendants about their pets
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Oct 21, 2017 02:31
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Leperflesh posted:
The images are still good on this one!
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Its Rinaldo posted:Planes fly themselves now a days. Just hit autopilot and chat with the flight attendants about their pets 
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Oct 21, 2017 02:44
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Annnnndddd another delay. I'm definitely not getting home tonight. Just want to sleep in my bed.
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Its Rinaldo posted:Planes fly themselves now a days. Just hit autopilot and chat with the flight attendants about their pets You too can make your own Helios Flight 552! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D56xn3-P5tY Mayday: Air Crash Investigations is the best show ever made on television.
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The plane that's supposed to fly us has just now taken off from it's previous destination. They straight up stopped giving us a departure time. "So your flight will be boarding in..... shortly" 
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Oct 21, 2017 02:57
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FizFashizzle posted:Lol if you haven’t started a story with “yeah I got a buddy...” only to realize you were talking about someone from tff Vilerat tried to help me get into foreign service 
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:Vilerat tried to help me get into foreign service He helped me figure out whether or not it was something I should pursue. I used to bullshit with wheez occasionally about food. It's weird to have vague internet friends die. I never know how to feel about how sad it makes me. The modern world is a weird place.
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It really is. I still haven't responded to wheez' sister's pm. Literally 0 idea what to say Only reason why I'm posting this is because I won't remember tomorrow.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The plane that's supposed to fly us has just now taken off from it's previous destination. They straight up stopped giving us a departure time.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The plane that's supposed to fly us has just now taken off from it's previous destination. They straight up stopped giving us a departure time. You ask the gate agent if they could get you on another flight?
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Wanted to give a shout out to all of the suggestions in here, I decided to buy Nixonland and even though I'm just starting out I can tell I'm going to enjoy it.
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Neil Armbong posted:You ask the gate agent if they could get you on another flight? Yea but I was already on the last flight back to DC. It finally showed up, we just boarded and got 100$ vouchers. Would prefer my Friday night back.
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