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    T___A got a reaction from xthetenth in Collimatrix's Terrible Music Thread   
    The best version of Dixie:


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    T___A reacted to EnsignExpendable in WoT v WT effort-thread   
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    T___A got a reaction from Tied in The Official Feathered Dinosaur Shitstorm Thread   
    People take Jack Horner seriously after this:

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    T___A got a reaction from LoooSeR in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Object 279 autoloader and testbed. So it seems to me all the loader would have to do was press the button and the autoloader would load the shell into the breech and then put the propellent case in the breech himself.
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    T___A got a reaction from Tied in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Object 279 autoloader and testbed. So it seems to me all the loader would have to do was press the button and the autoloader would load the shell into the breech and then put the propellent case in the breech himself.
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    T___A reacted to EnsignExpendable in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Also the Red Army hasn't existed for a few decades by the time the T-64 was in production.
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    T___A got a reaction from Tied in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    So It turns out the main reason the T-64 wasn't the main and only tank of the Red Army was that Kharkov was literally the only place that could manufacture the T-64.
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    T___A got a reaction from LoooSeR in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    Soviet version of the S-Tank
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    T___A reacted to Donward in The Official Feathered Dinosaur Shitstorm Thread   
    I'd imagine that in reality, dinosaurs wouldn't be single-minded killing machines who'd spend all their energy trying to track down homosapiens (other than Velociraptors cuz they're bad-ass like that). Instead, precautions like you'd take when out on African safari or in the Bush in Alaska would probably be more than sufficient. And if you ran into a sick or hungry man-eater that just had a hankering for human flesh, anything from a 45-70 on up would be more than sufficient with shot placement etc.
     
    That's one of the annoyances I have with movies that I'm usually - usually - able to overlook.
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    T___A reacted to Collimatrix in Moscow officials license referendum to restore monument to KGB founder Dzerzhinsky   
    That's because capitalism is stronger than socialism.
     
    As an American, I don't have warm and fuzzy feelings about the KGB.  To Americans, the KGB were the villains funding many a terrorist group, and trying to install tyrannical dictators in countries that already had perfectly good tyrannical dictatorships.  Certainly the CIA also funded terrorism, although they mostly left that to the State Department.
     
    But the time for American views to become popular in Russia is over.  Russians will not, by and large, take an objective look at their miserable history and decide that they have been ruled by a series of unstable, alcoholic dickbags for the past... three hundred years, give or take, and try something more American.  There was a time when such sentiments were popular, and where such a thing was possible.  The American government blew it.
     
    This should come as no surprise; the American government has been developing incompetence to a high art form since the mid 1970s.  The US only won the Cold War because of capitalism.  Capitalism is stronger than socialism; it was the same lesson learned from the American Civil War.  Benjamin Franklin had pointed out that slavery made no economic sense way back in 1751, to which Southerners retorted that slavery was a form of paternalist socialism, to which the North retorted by burning down their cities because they had a crushing advantage in industrialization.
     
    The American god is a severe, faithless edifice of pure commerce.  He is not like Moloch, who can be quieted by sacrifice.  The American God becomes hungrier the more you feed him.  He is of transcontinental railroads, broken contracts, sixty hour work weeks and sexless hydrogen.  The American God is unstoppable and all who do not worship him will die.  All who worship him will also die.  But he will lead his followers to victory over the faithless, for his brutality is both sufficient and efficient.
     
    At some point, Americans lost faith in their god.  They thought that putting their faith away would make them kinder, but it only made them stupid.  By the mid 1970s they were noticeably weaker than they had been a generation ago, and by the early 1990s they were shamelessly coasting on past glory.  Fat Elvis.  But they had a huge pile of skulls to coast on, so they managed to win the Cold War by default.
     
    But by then, Americans had forgotten how to win any sort of war, or any sort of peace.  They didn't try to re-start the Cold War; it just sort of happened because nobody was trying anymore.  Nobody was trying to smooth things over when NATO bombed Serbia and the Russians weren't even kept in the loop.  Nobody was there to accept Putin's offers of international solidarity after 9/11.  Nobody was watching the Harvard advisers who helped rape and pillage the Russian industrial base.  Nobody cared that the Georgian government was filled with dangerous yahoos who would start WWIII if they thought it sounded nice because the Georgian lobbyists in DC were slick and well-funded.  Americans did pay attention to some punk rock band that wasn't even that good that desecrated a church and was sensibly thrown in prison because church desecration is a black metal thing and not a punk thing.
     
    So it's too late for Americans to have opinions about the Soviet Union.  Nobody in Russia is listening.
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    T___A reacted to Tied in Experiment Confirms Reality-States Travel Backwards In Time   
    Man i used to be handsome

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    T___A reacted to Sturgeon in Challenger 2 vs Toyota Yaris.   
    No, but don't tell my readers that.
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    T___A reacted to Tied in The Chieftain on US Armor Myths   
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    T___A reacted to Sturgeon in Current Reads Thread   
    Picked it up for $30:


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    T___A got a reaction from LoooSeR in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    The UTD-40 meant for the Object 770:

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    T___A reacted to Priory_of_Sion in The M4 Sherman Tank Epic Information Thread.. (work in progress)   
    The M4 had sloped armor!? What!? Madness! My 47 mm could still pen it with its Katana Bullits!
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    T___A got a reaction from Donward in Historical Pictures Thread   
    President Wilson the 50 year anniversary of Gettysburg:

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    T___A got a reaction from Sturgeon in Obsolete American Accents   
    Analysis of the  speaking patterns of early 1900s presidents from reddit:
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    T___A reacted to LostCosmonaut in Toledo Steel vs Weeaboo Steel   
    "How should we turn our backwater South African whiteocracy into a world power?"
     
    "I know, we can hire generals from the CSA!"
     
    "You mean the people that just got the shit kicked out of them by the US?"
     
    "STOP CLOUDING THE ISSUE WITH FACTS"
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    T___A reacted to Virdea in We Have A New Subforum   
    Like the 6.8mm SPC?
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