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Also, American Football is most certainly not football.

It's Rugby. Except American.

Eyy, @Lordship when are we playing ball?

39 minutes ago, Micchan said:

Preview of the new season

https://static.neregate.com/2017/02/neregate.com-Spring-2017-Anime-Chart-v2.webp

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka?
Shingeki no Kyojin Second Season

Much hype.

Just now, Micchan said:

Can be good if they kill Goku and based clown of destruction is the new MC

lol.

1 hour ago, Micchan said:

No, it's like one of those fanfiction you can find online

I was more saying that rhetorically. Of course it's never going to be good lol.

1 hour ago, Micchan said:

Hype!

Much hype! Also No Game No Life movie!! HYYYPPPEE

8 minutes ago, Micchan said:

Watched the second season without the first one? 

Feels good to live in a weeaboo country.

It's unfortunate, but whatever. =p

Now just suffering through Super, wondering if it's ever going to be good, and only keeping up with it I guess because I have nothing else to do so why not.

Super excited for Overlord 2 though! I read the manga and it's great, can't wait for it.

5 hours ago, japan77 said:

There are no winners in war.

War doesn't determine who is right, just who is left.

On 3/23/2017 at 6:46 AM, Deus said:

Yes.

But to as an answer to the original question, there would be no winners.

Nonsense. Believe me, the guys that own the factories producing the bombs love a good war.

On 3/23/2017 at 3:20 AM, Rin said:

Has Russia ever lost a war?

Just for the most obvious example, although they were on the "winning" side originally, it's pretty safe to say Russia lost WW1. A massive rebellion broke out that took out the Czar and ended the Russian Monarchy in the middle of the war, and they were forced to sue for peace with the Central powers. Enter the Soviets.

14 hours ago, Micchan said:

Why americans call it Dragonball Z when Z is just the second season? The anime/manga is called Dragon Ball

Funfact, should have been Dragon Ball 2 but the publisher has confused the 2 with a Z

You left out the part where everyone liked the Z instead of a 2, and Toriyama decided to just go with it, making it *officially* Dragon Ball Z. Also, most Americans grew up on Dragon Ball Z as Dragon Ball didn't reakky air in the US until after Z in 2001. Funimation tried to air it in 1995 but cancelled the project due to low ratings after just 13 episodes. Dragon Ball Z on the other hand aired in 1996 and was successful. As a result, for the most part Americans just know Dragon Ball Z to be the anime they grew up with, and may or may not have seen the original Dragon Ball something like 5 years later. Remember, the anime following in the US in the 90s was nothing like it is today.

16 hours ago, Micchan said:

I like when the episodes aren't the standard 12-13/24-25 because it means that they have used the correct number of episodes instead of adapting the anime to the standard duration of the season and ending inevitably doing unnecessary things to lengthen or rushing by deleting some things

You're right about that. I definitely prefer an anime to have as many episodes as it needs to tell the story and tell it well. That said, I was simply saying I expected more than 10 episodes for season 2. =p

Somehow managed to accidentally post that as I was typing and apparently can't edit...sooo....As I was saying...

With no NATO support and just a straight up conventional war, Russia takes 'em out pretty easily. EU wouldn't have the time to build up a defense to stop Russia, then it's too late. But that's only because of the parameters given for this hypothetical.

Europe is an economic and politcal center. One that relies on NATO for protection. With the US backing you, who needs a military? With no NATO suppor

1 hour ago, Micchan said:

And the first one for this season is finished

 

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 2: Explosion/10 ... I mean 8/10

Huh...I thought it would get at least 12...Haven't see ep 10 yet though no spoilers please.

5 hours ago, Deus said:

 

Well I was 9 years old when SU collapsed, but what I remember is that everything was scarce - shops were empty, because of planned economy and theft all along the production chain. People didn't actually use the term buy, but rather procure. People were poor and repressed.

 

Communism ca work in a very small community where all the members agree with it and feel responsible, but in a big system where the state owns everything and the workers "own" the state, you end up owning nothing. If that's the case then who cares?

 

Also dictatorship of the proletariat can't end up well.

 

But then again I had a nice childhood. Lot's of being outside, building of tree houses, swimming in the sea, no to little parental supervision (because it was a lot safer). For a kid it was super, but for an adult (with opinions) not so much.

Okay, so here's the thing. One, you seem to be implying that dictatorship and communism go hand in hand. They don't, it just so happens to be the case that every failed communist state has also been a failed dictatorship. Two, the communism that has been tried in these *extremely* repressive states has been a certain brand of communism that pretty much misses the point. The point of communism is "more for the people" so to speak, whereas what those states have been like seems a lot more like "more for the state." A dictatorship using communism as a means to attain power is not true communism. Where communism promotes fairness, equality, power to the people rather than the state etc, the USSR, China (not modern day) and all these other communist countries promoted the state over all else.

Someone else above raised a fair point that communism goes against human nature, and that's a fair assessment. Humans like to compete and be rewarded for their efforts. In a world where you get the same no matter what you do, that goes against that. It stifles competition and everything else I'm sure I don't need to argue. However, I would disagree that this means the idea itself is a failure as a result.

Our species is clearly trending towards mass automation of all jobs, skilled or not. In a world where you have mass abundance as a result of the means of production being achieved through complete automation, workers who don't require motivation, competitiveness or even a wage for that matter, this point falls flat. In this case society has enough goods and resources where money no longer even becomes necessary, and everyone is living in abundance and luxury so it becomes a non-issue. In fact, in that scenario, the true enemy to worry about is capitalism, which if you went too far into, would start to see the owners of those means of production reaping all of the benefits while the rest are forced to live off whatever charity the mega-elite are willing to give out. The exact same problem with Soviet Communism except now the table is turned. The mega-elite aren't very charitable and should not be trusted.

So is communism a failure? Absolutely not. It's just *very* ahead of its time. But fairly soon, not only will it be a good idea, it'll be a necessary one. You can already see the cracks of capitalism forming. In the US, wealth inequality is RIDICULOUS. The mega-elite own so much wealth that the could easily buy and sell the bottom half of the country. The poor are starting to hurt almost if not as bad as a soviet-era family might have been hurting. The middle class is starting to become indistinguishable from the poor. Capitalism's greed caused the worst collapse of the US economy since the great depression, that was only avoided due to the sacrifice of the tax payers, which is atrocious because the poor and middle classes ended up having to pay for the short comings of the rich, while the rich got bailed out and kept getting richer. Capitalism is clearly in the beginning stages of failure in the US, and all this red-scare garbage propaganda is doing more harm than good because whenever someone tries to do something even remotely good, like take care of people's basic needs (HEALTHCARE) they're labeled filthy commies and ostracized by the entire right and most of the center. It's ridiculous.