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I was always under the impression Brits were more knowledgeable on history than us Yanks. Perhaps I was wrong or British education has degraded to US levels.
1 posted on 11/01/2019 6:25:47 AM PDT by C19fan
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Extreme snowflakery.


2 posted on 11/01/2019 6:26:52 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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What in the world is an “instagram influencer”?


3 posted on 11/01/2019 6:27:00 AM PDT by ealgeone
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I was always under the impression Brits were more knowledgeable on history than us Yanks.

Part of that is simply having a history. We only go back 200 years. They had a heckuva lot going on with their little island for 1000 years prior.
5 posted on 11/01/2019 6:27:53 AM PDT by chrisser
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Norm MacDonald has a couple of funny jokes about WWII —

“I don’t care what anyone says — I think Hitler was a bad man.”

“I don’t know if you guys are history buffs, but I’ve been reading about WWII, and I’m starting to not like this Hitler guy.”

The jokes are funny because everybody knows about WWII and no one disputes the evil of Hitler. It’s so obvious. But, if we can keep future generations ignorant, Norm’s jokes stop being jokes at all.


7 posted on 11/01/2019 6:31:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Their mental health is already seriously damaged from all the propaganda and untruth that they have been fed by a decadent society which holds TRUTH in contempt.

Reality will devastate them when it comes crashing down.

But you can't feel sorry for them. If they were not such spoiled, self-indulgent, intellectually and morally lazy fools, they would have demanded TRUTH long ago.

8 posted on 11/01/2019 6:31:14 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH, as clearly as we can perceive it and put it into words, is the best we can do.)
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“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”

*snowflake = ignorant, arrogant, lazy, immature douchebag


9 posted on 11/01/2019 6:33:12 AM PDT by twister881
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They are already out of school


11 posted on 11/01/2019 6:34:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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Sugar coating life. Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.


12 posted on 11/01/2019 6:36:23 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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They know that they beat Germany and tell the Germans that at soccer games. People know there was a blitz. Probably a few names are still current. I don’t know if their knowledge - or ours - goes much deeper than that.


13 posted on 11/01/2019 6:36:47 AM PDT by x
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Freddie Bentley is in the dictionary under PUSSY!

What a frickin' whimp.

14 posted on 11/01/2019 6:36:51 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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Just think, one of these morons will cancel out your Repub vote in 2020.


17 posted on 11/01/2019 6:40:01 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Ping.


18 posted on 11/01/2019 6:40:23 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Anything that was good about the Brits looks to be a thing of the past. The Marxists have just about destroyed everything good worldwide except in the United States. But we’re certainly not immune.


20 posted on 11/01/2019 6:44:43 AM PDT by Crucial
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They literally fought Hitler and Nazis!!!


21 posted on 11/01/2019 6:44:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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"Instagram Influencer"?
22 posted on 11/01/2019 6:45:35 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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Depending on how one counts either civilian, combat or both, 80 million is either wildly under-counted or wildly over-counted.

Combat deaths for the US, USSR, Germany, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, are in the neighborhood of 32,000,000

Civilian deaths for the same countries 34,000,000 (this counts only deaths of citizens for each country due to war - not concentration or gulag numbers).

Figures for China, Japan and other Allied countries are sketchy or not broken out from the sources I could find. But nowhere near 80,000,000. If you want to go whole hog, so to speak, with gulag, concentration camp, assassinations, and deliberate starvation, the numbers climb to over 200,000,000.


23 posted on 11/01/2019 6:47:19 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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“”Oh my God it’s so intense””

My goodness - poor thing! Better not step outside his own door if learning history is “so intense.”

Please - stop the world - it’s not I WANT TO GET OFF - it’s to let people like him jump off!! And good riddance!


27 posted on 11/01/2019 6:51:00 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To think that I’ve been reading about it, and watching documentaries on it since I was a teenager back in the mid 90s, and I dont have any issues.

I seriously cant stand 90% of that generation.


33 posted on 11/01/2019 6:57:52 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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If you don't remember what happened, you risk a repeat.
A Taste of Armageddon - Star Trek
38 posted on 11/01/2019 7:01:34 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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40 posted on 11/01/2019 7:03:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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