Recent content by Linkman226

And did you actually read the article? There's two different polls.

As I've said before, Don Quixote.

You were by implication, seeing as you brought up the Volga Germans. This is utter hogwash and you know it. Even today, there are huge differences between Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Mizrahim. But further, even if it were true, you would not be proving much. The initial claim was that Jews...

Again this seems like an extremely specious line of logic to me. I have no doubt that we train our soldiers to kill more effectively by removing psychological barriers, but I don't see any proof that that wasn't the case before as well. What I really don't understand is why you're excluding...

The Volga Germans did not even come into existence until Catherine the Great anyways, and weren't that large of a group until the 19th and 20th centuries. I presumed that this was the time period you were talking about, during which Standard German had already been invented. Can you just admit...

If mental gymnastics was an Olympic sport, you would win gold every time. The overwhelming majority of Germans did have a common language, unlike the Jews. But keep pointing out minor exceptions and employing egregiously fallacious logic ("some Germans spoke Russian, therefore no one spoke...

Right, their religious language, whereas Russian was an every day language amongst the Volga Germans. No Jew ever spoke Hebrew casually with another Jew before; hell, most Jews didn't even know Hebrew fluently, only those who were rabbis and scholars of the Bible did. You're basically arguing...

Implying Jews prior to the Hebrew revival had a common language.

Well OP is merely asking us to analyze who would win, which is fairly straight-forward. The US Army would no doubt devastate the Mongolians. The person I was responded to (Owen) and the person (s)he was responding to (Denkt) was making a far grander claim- that the Mongols or the US Army make...

Tell me more about how Spain isn't a first world country because one person has ebola and there are isolated instances of corruption. I'm sure Indian and Chinese peasants slaving away for two bucks a day, half of which goes to paying "protection money" to the local police chief, are deeply...

Oh of course. Infixes, man. Can I recommend Kaiser Quixote instead? It even alliterates.

Hey Commodore, I like the part where you conveniently ignore my exasperated explanation of why this whole discussion, but especially your analysis, is fairly irrelevant and off-the-point. Real cool magic trick, bro, do it again.

Can I get a citation for that? That seems incredibly spurious, seeing as the history of military technology for quite some time has been "How can we further divorce a man from his prey?" I also am not quite sure why you think removing some ~800 years of military innovation is as easy as...

Uh, nothing. Looks like we agree. Moving on?

Which are all products of technology. How is it fair to compare power projection (for example), when we have planes and satellites? Mongolia can into space?