What Gives?

[Toast]

So yeah, minding my own business, not doing much. Kinda bored. So I decide to start a thread about how an armed conflict between the US and Russia would go. I was hoping to have an intelligent conversation about the possibilities and have intellectual debates over why a certain aspect would blah blah blah and what not. So I post a thread. And I wait. In less than three minutes the thing is gone. So I'm kinda wondering "wtf?"

What's wrong w/ what I posted? Is there some unwritten rule about not talking about hypothetical scenarios involving two or more world powers? Or is there a rule that forbids intelligent conversation in general? Because it sure beats reading about the dumb stuff that usually floats around general discussion.

This all happened about 2 1/2 maybe 3 hours ago. Can I get an explanation or something, because no one said anything and I don't even know who offed it.

[Kaspersky]

Russia found it inadequate to have a thread up regarding imminent defeat.

[Toast]

So who was it? I'm actually surprised this didn't get deleted as well (yet.)


Srsly, no one is gonna tell me?

[Pochitos]

Blank is Russian.

[FlippysKnife]

In Russia thread deletes you

[maggerz]

Those crazy Russians, they did it again....

[jfella91]

Let's make lots of threads about it.

[Timeline]

Maybe you put it in the wrong section or something.

[OmegaLemming]

This is exactly why we need a "Real World Issues" forum.

Either way, not really sure why it got deleted.

[Toast]

Real world issues? That's new to me... Oh well.

I wish I could post w/out bumping >.>

[HWV]

Blank is Russian.
no he isn't. He's canadian.

On topic: Don't know who did it, but that is not cool. :(

On issue: I don't believe much would happen. If you are talking about a ground conflict, russia would win by sheer numbers. We could win air/naval conflict thoiugh. As for a nuclear conflict, Nash's Equilibrium will never be contridicted. No nukes will ever be fired, unless an improbable "Dr. Strangelove" incident occurs, which it won't.

[Toast]

On-Topic: no word yet from any officials...

On-Issue: it may be true that Russia has a greater amount of active duty soldiers, but America has a greater overall population which means a larger amount of fit for duty persons who could be drafted if one was activated.

[HWV]

Personally, I think the selective service act is outdated. It was protested when we had it in the past, but I think this time would be worse. As much as I dislike Obama trying to control everything, I don't even see him doing something like that. He is too worried about PR.
Conincidence (or maybe not), but know who else was worried about PR? Hitler. He was also socialist.

[Toast]

That reminded me of...

http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq34/obamanati/hitler_obama_great_speeches.jpg

http://newjerseysewer.com/obama_poster_hitler_yesweca.gif

Neither pics are what I was looking for, but they caught my eye.

[Ryuk]

Personally, I think the selective service act is outdated. It was protested when we had it in the past, but I think this time would be worse. As much as I dislike Obama trying to control everything, I don't even see him doing something like that. He is too worried about PR.
Conincidence (or maybe not), but know who else was worried about PR? Hitler. He was also socialist.
I won't even flip Godwin's law this time around[Hitler (or the Nazis) supported X, therefore X must be evil/undesirable/bad], but Obama really isn't left or liberal enough to really be a full out socialist. He is actually quite moderate by European standards and is at best a democratic socialist.

Here, read this article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031301899.html
The author of this article is himself a true, self confirmed socialist.

Many of the people that attacked Obama with verbal attacks and labeling him as a socialist(cough, McCain and Huckabee) they're idiots. They have not idea what the institutions and principles of socialism are, and they should not pretend to be scholars on the topic.