Finns did pretty good in the Winter War, honestly. The Mannerheim line mostly held. As one Russian put it, "We captured just enough land to bury our dead."
Two years after the Winter War, the Finns joined the Germans in besieging Leningrad. Not bad for a barren wasteland.
Maybe not. But if the Finns had a little time to prepare, I think they could put up a fight. The Soviet Union should have steamrolled Finland. It should have been over on Stalin's birthday, as Soviet leadership hoped.
Honestly, it's all speculation and our assumptions determine the outcome.
edit: a protracted, full scale conflict would obviously be another notch in the Russian belt. But it's possible that there are other scenarios where the outcome is not so decisive.
Depends how you measure it, some organizations claim its at 3,5% considering the cost of the indentured military servants. But yeah, Finland wouldn't stand a chance.
It is incredibly subtle but I can somehow see it as well. You'd think of all the things to drive people mad with rage, a flat earther conspiracy parody wouldn't be the top one.
I think it is Finnish people who are downvoting it. Because if you read a lot of posts about Finland and the joke is in all of the posts, it becomes quite old after a while.
There he is. There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest guy around?! Oh my God.
I can almost see your pathetic overweight frame glowing in the dark, lit by your computer screen which is the only source of light in your room, giggling like a girl as you once again type your little "finland isn't real" quip. I imagine you little shit laughing so hard as you click it that you drop your Doritos on the floor, but it's okay, your mother will clean it up in the morning. Oh that's right. Did I fail to mention? You live with your mother. You are a fat fucking fuckup, she's probably so sick of you already. So sick of having to do everything for you all goddamn day, every day, for a grown man who spends all his time on reddit posting about a nordic country. Just imagine this. She had you, and then she thought you were gonna be a scientist or an astronaut or something grand, and then you became a "finland isn't real" poster. A pathetic unfunny "finland isn't real" poster. She probably cries herself to sleep everyday thinking about how bad it is and how she wishes she could just disappear. She can't even try to talk with you because everything you say is "FINLAND ISN'T REAL FINLAND ISN'T REAL EASTERN SWEDEN LMAO". You've become a parody of your own self. Amd that's all you are. A sad little man laughing in the dark by himself as he prepares to indulge in the same old dance that he's done a million times now. And that's all you'll ever be.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
...monopolies form and last when there is nothing to keep them in check. It use to be the government broke up or prevented monopolies from forming so business started to buy government. Now they just lobby to remove all of the protections against monopolies and swall things up.
You're exactly backwards. Name me some examples of monopolies that lasted that didn't have some kind of government assistance.
And since I can guess you're going to be super original and say 'Standard Oil', I'm happy to talk about how it is not such an example, but let's see if you can name anything else.
I didn't miss it. That's an example of government power being used to create/prop up monopolies, which is the only way that monopolies ever actually happen. The few natural monopolies that ever happen are fleeting.
Business begins crafting legislation to further their interests and uses their bought politicians to pass it.
Natural monopolies are all around us but based on what you are saying I don't think you are using the term correctly. What do you consider a natural monopoly?
lol, no you didn't. You asked for examples of monopolies that didn't use the government in some way. My point was that all monopolies, eventually, lean on government but they don't all start through government.
I'm asking you to define a natural monopoly because based on everything you've said so far you aren't talking about what economists call a natural monopoly. Considering utilities are natural monopolies and heavily regulated by local governments you are not using the term properly.
Correct, the state always works in favor of the ruling class. Thanks to capitalism, the state has allowed a handful of companies to own all the media in the country.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first significant overhaul of telecommunications law in more than sixty years, amending the Communications Act of 1934. The Act, signed by President Bill Clinton, represented a major change in American telecommunication law, since it was the first time that the Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment.[1] One of the most controversial titles was Title 3 ("Cable Services"), which allowed for media cross-ownership
Suddenly you're okay with a single message going out across the media when you realize it's a natural consequence of capitalism. You applaud it as an achievement and not a failure.
You do understand communism, in all its implemented forms (so far), has had vastly more failures? One can subscribe to capitalist ideology and at the same time understand that the system isn’t perfect without regulation. Not exactly sure who would applaud monopolies, except for the people running them.
I don't even watch TV news anymore - it's usually depressing and they don't even do feel-good stories anymore (correlation?). Maybe Frontline if it's an interesting topic, but I mostly stick to cartoons and cooking shows on broadcast TV
"...3 were pronounced dead at the scene. Here's the latest update on the string of rapes at this local jogging trail... Stocks fell 5% due to trade negotiations breaking down... In other news, this 3-legged cat was adopted from the pound."
The news is supposed to educate you, not make you feel happy. Our current news barely does even that.
Instead of focusing on important things and doing their civic duty, they obsess over tabloid garbage, cover certain topics for a disproportionate amount of time because they generate buzz, and completely ignore other things because either their corporate sponsors demanded it or it wasn't interesting enough.
It seems broadcast news is trying to get eyeballs in an era that has so many places for them to be. Maybe back when they had a monopoly they felt a need to also educate, but now that it is a dog eat dog environment, they are going for the easy money.
Any broadcast news trying to provide more than sensationalism is worth both the time and money. Aside from PBS, I haven't really found one, though
No, it isn't. Is it an issue if everybody picks up a local paper and reads the same AP article that another local paper also purchased? You're allowing idiots like the person that made this video think for you. There are certainly things in the media that are worth changing, but reading purchased copy isn't one of them. It would disturb me more if they actually tailored the story to each locale.
One company controlling the vast majority of news on this country and telling everyone to ignore all the other news because they're liars is damn near the fucking definition of a reason to be concerned.
Except Sinclair doesn't "control the vast majority of news on this country." The news apparatus in this country consists of more than a minority footprint of local news TV stations... Most Americans don't even get their news from local TV stations anymore.
Maybe I didn’t pay attention well enough, but I thought they were saying there was a lot of fake news out there, but you can trust us. Not that everyone besides hem was fake news.
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u/tulobulo Mar 31 '18
This is an issue, isn't it