• @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    1011 month ago

    I’m reading a book from the 30s and it has phrases like: “in the time after the war”. It’s written in 1937 and hits differently in hindsight.

    • partial_accumen
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      1091 month ago

      They called WWI “the war to end all wars”. Then humanity developed its interest in sequels.

      • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        301 month ago

        Yes, the “second war to end all wars” and the “cold war that only gets hot in the periphery”

      • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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        201 month ago

        Nukes are about the only reason we haven’t made it a trilogy.

        It’ll be the last one in the franchise if they do.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          21 month ago

          It is possible to engage in global warfare without deploying the nukes. Don’t undersell their creativity.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        61 month ago

        WWII wasn’t even really a sequel - it’s more of a classic reboot. It’s almost exactly the same story as the first one, just with a few twists like Japan and the atomic bomb ending thrown in.

        • partial_accumen
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          11 month ago

          I think you’re underplaying the sequel aspects. Russia was one of the antagonists in the first installment, began as an antagonist in the second, but flipped to protagonist ally in the first act. Also in the first installment the Ottoman Empire was an antagonist ally, where Turkey was neutral through all of WWII. Finally, China was an ally in WWII and huge victim of the Japanese , but underwent a revolution joining with Russia to become the primary antagonists in the third installment “Cold War”.

    • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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      171 month ago

      Wow, that truly is my favorite part of reading/watching old media. I love learning how people thought back then.

      • IndiBrony
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        311 month ago

        People in November 2019: “Next year is my year!”

        Little did we know.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          21 month ago

          No joke, my wife and I had legitimate plans to finally do some traveling abroad in 2020, after talking about it for a decade and a half. FML.

      • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        1 month ago

        He also talks about unemployment rates in Britain and “unless a war is coming soon” many people will stay underfed. Maybe the British proletariat is behind WWII?

        Edit: Since I’m downvoted: the last sentence was a joke, obviously