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Ken Burch

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44. No. And actually, World War I didn't "threaten the entire world".

Wed Jan 31, 2018, 12:49 PM

Jan 2018

It truly made no difference which "side" won that one.

There was no moral difference between the Battenbergs and the Romanovs(the empires on "our" side) and the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns. Just a feud between a handful of imperial cousins over lines on a map.

All that conflict did was to make sure the dying imperial states were replaced by conservative nationalist regimes(and that the Third Reich eventually took power in Germany and Russia ended up being turned over to someone like Stalin) rather than the a global victory for humane social transformation.

No one gained anything but a few wealthy industrialists, no one was liberated, no one was "saved".

Why was THAT worth the lives of 20 million men?

The setting made it impossible to watch the movie. Superheroes should only be used to end just wars. Why should I cheer the story of an Amazon who fights for nothing that's worth fighting for?

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OK, let me rephrase that Ken Burch Jan 2018 #47

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