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Originally Posted by Grimmlok

This article is vastly stupid in so many ways, but this one takes the cake.

The French had STATIC DEFENSE EMPLACEMENTS, built at the end of ww1.. it was called the maginot line. All up and down the french border with germany, up to belgium.

What did hitler do? Went through belgium, went over the maginot line and came down behind it, effectively cutting their military forces in half.

Also, I love how lack of American jingoism is (naturally) tied in with the evil elitsts and 'intelligencia' (i guess patriotic people are just bumfuck stupid?) and of course.. THE HATED FRENCH

where do you FIND ignorant bullshit like this? Is someone payed to write it? I'd be embarrassed.

ah yes, the dreaded intelligentsia, those elitists.
and cosmopolitan too, internationalists and pacifists... (they make those sound like dirty words ).
back when patriotism/nationalism was all the rage, 'cosmpolitan' was just code for jewish. nationless and therefore devoid of love of their homeland and automatically suspicious and potentially dangerous to national unity.

Originally Posted by Sasha

Does patriotism matter?

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
..Albert Einstein
..Oscar Wilde

i love this quote.