The True Nature of the World is Savagery

[George K]

@89th said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

300,000 US soldiers died in Vietnam

What?

[Wim]

@George-K I thought it was appr. 60,000.
Which is horrible just as well.

[Mik]

I think it was around 56,000. It certainly wasn't 300,000.

[Renauda]

@George-K said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

@89th said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

300,000 US soldiers died in Vietnam

What?

Try 59,000.

Still a lot of humanity.

[Copper]

@89th said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

I believe 600,000 enemy fighters were killed in Vietnam

Rambo killed that many in a week.

[Doctor Phibes]

The point of the article wasn't that we should learn how to die again, it was that we should learn how to kill and destroy, so surely the important statistic for this guy is how many foreigners died, rather than Americans?

Personally, I think the writer's a bit (I'm being kind) of a dickhead, but that's just me. I don't see how lots of Germans dying in Germany is really that different from lots of Iraqis dying in Iraq.

[89th]

Oops sorry, my google included allied forces too. I was just making sure you were paying attention.

[Jolly]

53,000,000 deaths, WW2.

Been nothing remotely like it since. Especially in the West, as the author has noted.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

53,000,000 deaths, WW2.

Been nothing remotely like it since. Especially in the West, as the author has noted.

Oh I dunno, my uncle spent some time in Bosnia. Long enough to know playing death count games is what you do if you have the luxury of never being in a conflict.

I mean neither have I but I know what that does to my credibility when playing armchair general.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

53,000,000 deaths, WW2.

Been nothing remotely like it since. Especially in the West, as the author has noted.

By death count alone, WW2 really wasn't a western war. China lost 20 million, and Russia another 24 million, although admittedly they were fighting a western nation.

[Copper]

What is a war?

War is defined as an active conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 lives.

Has the world ever been at peace?

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

How many people have died in war?

At least 108 million people were killed in wars in the twentieth century. Estimates for the total number killed in wars throughout all of human history range from 150 million to 1 billion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/what-every-person-should-know-about-war.html#:~:text=How many people have died,150 million to 1 billion.

[Jolly]

Si vis pacem, para bellum

[Doctor Phibes]

Nosferatu Bellendium

[Renauda]

@Jolly

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Alicuius filius sufficiet

[89th]

Lingua utere ut canetis captiosus

[Mik]

What's Latin for keyboard?

[George K]

Semper ubi sub ubi.

[Copper]

@George-K said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

Semper ubi sub ubi.

Every time you post that it brings me right back to high school Latin class.

Taught by Brother Floyd, he could knock you right out of your seat with a backhand.

[Renauda]

@Mik said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

What's Latin for keyboard?

fabricata tabula lapidea

555

[Jolly]

@Renauda said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

@Mik said in The True Nature of the World is Savagery:

What's Latin for keyboard?

fabricata tabula lapidea

555

I think you made that one up...