Oh my God, enough WW2 posts!

I never said or even implied that they are bad people. Sure I know that sentiment is popular on reddit but that’s not at all the point I was trying to make.

And your points above about the inner city officers. That’s because their departments have failed them by never rotating them out of that environment. Those officers need to spend time in an area with less criminal activity to avoid the problem of seeing all citizens as criminals.

All of our problems with the police could be solved internally but the problem is both sides see themselves as being attacked. In some circumstances that seems justified but we seem to have gone away from the days where officers of the law were tasked with serving the commmunity and are now in the mindset of its us against them.

Well you're very knowledgeable about this aren't you!?

Interesting. I had never heard about this before. Reminds me a little of the Rommelspargel (Rommel's asparagus). War makes for odd sights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel%27s_asparagus

Or maybe they’re not an English speaker?

Wow, I was there about three weeks ago. Beautiful Christmas market in the old town square. I was looking around at the buildings and I notices the limestone frame around the doors of old buildings have bullet holes in them.

Kinda shocking when you're standing there and realized what happened.

It's a wonderful town BTW.

Oldphotosinreallife

I am not from the US, but from the outside the population have a terrible relationship with the police. Going by reddit it appears they recieve no respect, which is nescessary for them to be an affective force.

We're arrogant enough to assume this is only in the past.

You go put this up on /r/wwIIpics right now!

Glad you're enjoying it

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Stuttgart has one too, they are often called Monte Scherbelino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuttberg

The US was known for incredibly rapid, widespread, and accurate use of artillery in WW2. The Soviets might have taken a half hour to line up artillery after it's been requested for defensive support fire (to their credit, the Eastern Front was vastly larger than the Western, and they had less industrial capacity than the US), and the Germans maybe 15 minutes. Because of extensive planning work and the most incredible feats of logistics work in history, the US could do it in 2 minutes, sometimes as low as 30 seconds.

IMO, it's overkill how they try and be as vigilante as you say. Lot's of contextual reasons led to Hitler's rise as the fuhrer and while he maintained his ardent supports the populace as a whole likely started regretting it and he also seized power, really.

They were initially downtrodden, humiliated and stifled by clauses from Treaty Versailles and someone came to them claiming birth right cultural and heritage pride and to be prosperous once again, to be fair it sounded good. I'm not an apologist, well, actually I might be for most of the people, it happens to the best of us and will again too.

If it gives you any hope those tough, hardworking, better educated people you mentioned are coming up with a ton of potential solutions to climate change - better renewables, better batteries, more efficient tech and more efficient systems. Even without international cooperation scientists around the world are dragging us off the precipice of a climate catastrophe.

Which is not to say the climate won’t change, or that people won’t be harmed during this process, but it is being mitigated. As a fantastic cherry on top the United States passed an enormous climate change hill that has already inspired huge investments in the green revolution. The world tends to follow American trends, and with only a few exceptions voters around the world are demanding their politicians take part in the solution.

Though I do foresee the possibility of great and terrible times ahead, I do not think they are inevitable, probable or even likely unless we let some of these bad actors use law and politics to wipe away our gains (aka Americans can fuck it up if they give too much power to Republicans, as that party is currently constituted). Humanity is pushing forward through these stormy times. Try not to despair, that which is good in this word is not yet lost, not nearly, and billions of your fellow humans are fighting to keep it, improve it and thrive.

Where the freedom braveries.

That’s prety emotional, thank you for sharing!!

When you get pissed enough and just want to end the battle yet make a statement.

10 posts total over 2 years, yet for some reason people are recommending this sub.

10 posts total over 2 years, yet for some reason people are recommending this sub.

This would be a terrible idea:

• The crews are not trained on the MG42 and they definitively would not have had the possible many years of muscle memory build crewing the M1919
• Adding foreign weapons to squads on the assault would complicate resupply logistics to the detriment of the speed of the assault
• Most importantly, firing a very recognizably sounding MG like the MG42 would turn you into a magnet for friendly fire, including mortars and tank rounds.

Clearly not the same spot since there's no 4205 in the picture

It’s crazy how we as people fight like this. We all live on the same damn planet. It is what it is I guess.

My Grandfather never talked about it either. He did have his scotch and smokes every day though.