The Idea of Secession

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Some Schmo wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:49 pm
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:32 pm
Are you going to explain how you’re going to pay for your invasion force?
Magic. All of his ideas rely on magic, given they are based on wishful thinking.

He thinks we should just invade countries and take what we want (with his imaginary "most powerful military in the world" paid for with proceeds from a weekend bake sale). This coming from someone who claims he can't stand "takers." I'm willing to bet he has no clue what "diplomacy" means.

It would be impossible for his country to have the most powerful military in the world given that only damned morons would live there.
Well, he admires the Roman empire, presumably pre-collapse and pre-Turkish invasion. They did, after all, rape, murder, and enslave their way across Europe and the Mediterranean. But, hey, when you need a road built who ya gonna call?

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ajax18 wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:55 pm
Xanax. Do you have any F'ing grasp on reality? How is the New Confederacy going to pay for this historically strong military? You gonna have a bake sale?

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Take all the oil after we conquer the middle east. Instead of leaving rare earth minerals in Afghanistan for China, we would take them. The military would pay for itself rather quickly.
You have to occupy a country to successfully do this. And not just with troops. Want to be like Ancient Rome? There's a reason Romantic Languages are spread throughout the former empire. Even your beloved Vikings settled the lands they raided. Are you going move your optometry charts, wife, and daughters to Afghanistan?
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Morley wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:23 am
ajax18 wrote:
Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:55 pm


Take all the oil after we conquer the middle east. Instead of leaving rare earth minerals in Afghanistan for China, we would take them. The military would pay for itself rather quickly.
You have to occupy a country to successfully do this. And not just with troops. Want to be like Ancient Rome? There's a reason Romantic Languages are spread throughout the former empire. Even your beloved Vikings settled the lands they raided. Are you going move your optometry charts, wife, and daughters to Afghanistan?
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Most soldiers are in the army for financial reasons. If they're willing to fight, they'll be willing to settle the new lands. It might help the Democrat states of America have fewer airplanes fliwn into New York City buildings without having to occupy a country themselves to stop it.
And when the Confederates saw Jackson standing fearless like a stonewall, the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:22 pm
Morley wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:23 am


You have to occupy a country to successfully do this. And not just with troops. Want to be like Ancient Rome? There's a reason Romantic Languages are spread throughout the former empire. Even your beloved Vikings settled the lands they raided. Are you going move your optometry charts, wife, and daughters to Afghanistan?
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Most soldiers are in the army for financial reasons. If they're willing to fight, they'll be willing to settle the new lands. It might help the Democrat states of America have fewer airplanes fliwn into New York City buildings without having to occupy a country themselves to stop it.
From this, I'm going to guess that you've never been in the service.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:22 pm
It might help the Democrat states of America have fewer airplanes fliwn into New York City buildings without having to occupy a country themselves to stop it.
Once again Xanax OD’s on his own myopia. Timothy McVeigh was a veteran and killed his own Oklahomans with the help of Terry Nichols, a pussy of unimaginable magnitude who couldn’t hack one enlistment. Those southern souls they took included 19 children along with wounding 600+ more.

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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:22 pm
Most soldiers are in the army for financial reasons. If they're willing to fight, they'll be willing to settle the new lands.
"Settle the new lands" he says. You make it sound like the countries you dream of colonising will be like the kind of fertile well-watered land that attracted the colonists to North America from the 17th century onwards, or the broad potentially corn-growing plains that were taken over in the great 19th century move westwards.

However, the countries in question are on the whole deeply unattractive for American settlement, often arid to begin with and now under increasing climatic stress as the world heats up, and, what is more, they are not inhabited by poorly prepared Native American groups, but by ancient urbanised populations, in many cases with modern weapons in their hands and well habituated to their use. What is more, their religion has prepared many of them for the sacrifices demanded by prolonged resistance to dispossession by would-be colonists.

Any American who thought they could just 'settle' there like their ancestors 'settled' in Virginia or Idaho would be ... well, fundamentally mistaken.
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ajax18 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:22 pm
Most soldiers are in the army for financial reasons. If they're willing to fight, they'll be willing to settle the new lands. It might help the Democrat states of America have fewer airplanes fliwn into New York City buildings without having to occupy a country themselves to stop it.
The geriatric eye doctor's wet dream here. Seriously, does anyone else here appreciate how absurd this guy is?
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Yep! There is some serious delusional thinking going on.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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Morley wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:46 pm
ajax18 wrote:
Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:22 pm
Most soldiers are in the army for financial reasons. If they're willing to fight, they'll be willing to settle the new lands. It might help the Democrat states of America have fewer airplanes fliwn into New York City buildings without having to occupy a country themselves to stop it.
From this, I'm going to guess that you've never been in the service.
You don't have to guess. Ajax is one of those tough talking people that says "thank you for your service" without realizing those words are a joke for people that actually were in the service. They guy's biggest struggle in life was probably a hangnail, but that's only because he's too obtuse to recognize his own personal defects.
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Father Francis wrote:
Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:07 pm
Ajax is one of those tough talking people that says "thank you for your service" without realizing those words are a joke for people that actually were in the service.
"Tough talking people?" - "Joke for people that actually were in the service?"

Would you be willing to elaborate some more on this? I am asking because I have thanked people for their service and I have never served. To be clear, these are serious questions that I would appreciate answers to from someone who has served (I assume you have served) - Thanks in advance.
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