Friday History Lesson
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Do you know who I am?
I was raised in one country but my father was born in another. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with a number of women.
I became very close to my mother because my father showed little interest in me. Then my mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name. My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a reliable birth certificate.
I grew up practicing one faith, but converted to Christianity because this was widely accepted in my country. But I practiced non-traditional beliefs and did not follow mainstream Christianity.
I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career, organizing people.
I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.
I became active in local politics when I was in my 30s and then burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office when I was in my 40s. I had a virtually non-existent resume, very little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker who managed to draw incredibly large crowds during my public appearances.
At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy. I was critical of my country in war. But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I had a plan on how we could do better. I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.
Mine was a peoples campaign. I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support. I offered the people the hope that together we could change our country and the world.
I spoke on behalf of the downtrodden including persecuted minorities such as Jews, but my actual views were not widely known until after I became my nations leader. However, anyone could have easily learned what I really believed if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with. But they did not.
Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth.
Who am I?
Please scroll down for the answer...Adolf Hitler
Is that who you were thinking of as you read?
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HandoEX;246551 wrote:
Exactly, don't voice your opinion! This isn't a democracy or anything.Well technically it still is, it won't be in about 6 months
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Well, hopefully not.
I hope you are all making fun of me 4 years from now for being so alarmist.
If I'm wrong, I look like a dipshit and the world goes along fine. I eat crow, I start forecasting doom and gloom in the 2012 election, and everyone has a big laugh at my expense.
If you're wrong, it doesn't matter who looks like a dipshit because we're either slaves or dead.
If I were you, I'd make sure I had the guns, ammo, food, water, and fuel I think I'd need for a SHTF scenario. And a plan for what you're going to do when the feds come to take your guns. [Fight? Flee? Bury them?]
You don't have to tell anyone about it. Just do it silently. Nobody will make fun of you because nobody will know. And hopefully you and I will laugh about it later.
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thrash;246581 wrote:
If I were you, I'd make sure I had the guns, ammo, food, water, and fuel I think I'd need for a SHTF scenario. And a plan for what you're going to do when the feds come to take your guns. [Fight? Flee? Bury them?]I lost all my guns in a boating accident.
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not that im going to do it, but if someone were to bury a gun in dirt, what kind of receptacle would they have to place it in to keep it safe for a few years? There was a 57 plymouth buried in a cement vault for 50 years in tulsa, but when they unearthed it it was basically completely shot because water had gotten in at some point. To me, it seems cement would be tough to seal, wood eventually will rot, steel will rust. Whats left? Stainless or plastic? But I guess there is a big difference in a couple years vs. 50 years.
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integra_gsr98;246584 wrote:
I lost all my guns in a boating accident.I already have this scenario planned, but not really gonna go into it...
But the short of it, hide them till a big enough rebellion is formed, than join up and Civil War #2 is started.... Or just shoot all the bastards that come for them...
This was a very good read, the great public speaker thing was what got me questioning if it could be Hitler...
It's sad to see ignorant ppl not learning from history and most likely causing us to repeat it once again... I'm predicting Russia #2 for us... socialism till the economy completely goes to shit...
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Briggs&Stratton;246611 wrote:
not that im going to do it, but if someone were to bury a gun in dirt, what kind of receptacle would they have to place it in to keep it safe for a few years? There was a 57 plymouth buried in a cement vault for 50 years in tulsa, but when they unearthed it it was basically completely shot because water had gotten in at some point. To me, it seems cement would be tough to seal, wood eventually will rot, steel will rust. Whats left? Stainless or plastic? But I guess there is a big difference in a couple years vs. 50 years.Seal it up in a big pvc pipe, and put some of them "do not eat" things in there so your shit wont rust.
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No realy what I meant were those things that say do not eat on them. If you call them that thats your deal
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thrash;246581 wrote:
Well, hopefully not.I hope you are all making fun of me 4 years from now for being so alarmist.
If I'm wrong, I look like a dipshit and the world goes along fine. I eat crow, I start forecasting doom and gloom in the 2012 election, and everyone has a big laugh at my expense.
If you're wrong, it doesn't matter who looks like a dipshit because we're either slaves or dead.
If I were you, I'd make sure I had the guns, ammo, food, water, and fuel I think I'd need for a SHTF scenario. And a plan for what you're going to do when the feds come to take your guns. [Fight? Flee? Bury them?]
You don't have to tell anyone about it. Just do it silently. Nobody will make fun of you because nobody will know. And hopefully you and I will laugh about it later.
Sorry, still convinced he was the better candidate and rightfully won. -
Anyone who is complaining about Obama winning I think would certainly be VERY happy to, after 4 years, say "yes our gloom and doom predictions were wrong". At least that is my opinion...I just don't really see EVERYTHING being hunky dorey after his first 4.
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so since obama is a good speaker and won the election he's going to start rounding up all the jews and putting them into concentration camps, torturing them, experimenting on them, and senselessly killing them?
or is he going to come to your house and take away your gun?
Or is everyone (except the majority that voted him in of course) going to be so pissed off that they are going to start a rebellion/civil war pt. 2 based on a bunch of bullshit that the right wing talkers have said about him that has not been proven at all?
Wow, these next four years are going to suck.....
...or maybe the senseless war will be put to an end, the economy will start to swing upwards again, we'll finally have a retard out of office, and this country will start back on track towards the way it was before said retard took office...
...who knows...
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darkelvis;246668 wrote:
...or maybe the senseless war will be put to an end, the economy will start to swing upwards again, we'll finally have a retard out of office, and this country will start back on track towards the way it was before said retard took office......who knows...
Iraq has already stated they want us out by 2010 or 2012...the dems are the major reason the economy is in the shitcan right now so they'd best fix the problem they made.
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