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re: Worst Decisions in World History
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:03 pm to Tigerfan56
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:03 pm to Tigerfan56
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The people who made up religion have set back humans in just about every generation.
How much further would we be as a species if we didn’t have a large section of the population devoting their lives to their chosen religion, or stalling human progress because of the beliefs they obtained from a made up book thousands of years ago? I’d think we wouldn’t have so many simpletons who settle for “God has a plan”, “Everything happens for a reason” etc. lines that severely limit critical thinking.
The ignorance in your post is astounding. I don’t blame you though. I blame the indoctrination you received that was passed off as education.
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:04 pm to Darth_Vader
I feel like Hitler deciding to wipe out an entire race was a pretty bad decision IMO
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:04 pm to OMLandshark
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2) The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
And what about that dagum traffic circle?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:07 pm to arkyhawk
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I feel like Hitler deciding to wipe out an entire race was a pretty bad decision IMO
He was far from the first nor will he be the last to do this. The only thing that sits him apart is he was the first to go about it from an industrial standpoint.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:09 pm to OMLandshark
Trusting that bitch Brutus.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:09 pm to Darth_Vader
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He was far from the first nor will he be the last to do this. The only thing that sits him apart is he was the first to go about it from an industrial standpoint.
Those damn Germans and their ingenuity and efficiency.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:11 pm to OMLandshark
Some interesting ones:
Sykes–Picot
Accepting the Trojan Horse
Decca Records signing Brian Poole and the Tremeloes over the Beatles
Richard and Maurice McDonald partnering with Ray Kroc
IBM allows Microsoft to retain copyright for DOS platform
Edwin Drake fails to patent his oil drill
Excite passing up Google for a million dollars
Blockbuster passing up Netflix
The 12 publishing houses passing up Harry Potter
Sykes–Picot
Accepting the Trojan Horse
Decca Records signing Brian Poole and the Tremeloes over the Beatles
Richard and Maurice McDonald partnering with Ray Kroc
IBM allows Microsoft to retain copyright for DOS platform
Edwin Drake fails to patent his oil drill
Excite passing up Google for a million dollars
Blockbuster passing up Netflix
The 12 publishing houses passing up Harry Potter
This post was edited on 6/26/19 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:24 pm to ChewyDante
Regarding the issue of Hitler delaying the final push to Moscow, there’s actually quite a lot of folks who point to this decision as a major blunder. Would it have won the war against Russia? Definitely debatable. But had he kept going it’s highly likely Germany is in position to make a massive assault on Moscow before winter hit and before significant Russian reinforcements/defenses were in place. Moscow falls, the nerve center of Russia falls. What’s really interesting to me is whether they could have still beat Germany after losing Moscow, they certainly still had plenty of manpower but i have no idea if they moved enough factories, equipment, oil, etc to the east, or what manufacturing capacity already existed in the east, for them to sustain a war effort.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 9:59 pm to TigerMond84
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Regarding the issue of Hitler delaying the final push to Moscow, there’s actually quite a lot of folks who point to this decision as a major blunder.
That's not the issue being discussed though.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:02 pm to Rooco
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Burning of the Library of Alexandria. There's no telling how much that set humanity back, or where we'd be if the library hadn't been destroyed.
I was questioning if I should put that on the top position.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:10 pm to OMLandshark
Indians selling Manhattan Island for $24 worth of beads and trinkets.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:10 pm to LoveThatMoney
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The Sacking of Baghdad has to be up there.
I don’t see why that was a bad decision for the Mongols. The fricking over of the envoys I addressed.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:12 pm to sumtimeitbeslikedat
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Nope... just a delusional one who thinks everything just sorta flew together exactly in balance, creating life out of absolutely nothing. One single atom is even too complex to “fly together” over billions of millennia, even if the raw material to do so was readily available (which, of course, that had to come from somebody creating it). To believe in anything but divine creation, one HAS to believe in spontaneous generation. And that IS truly delusional. Also, I don’t care how many times or how hard you throw dirt in the air, it ain’t ever gonna come down breathing and calling you “momma”. Creation is ALL God.
BTW the correct answer to the OP is
1. Listening to a snake.
2. Listening to a woman who took advice from a snake.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:17 pm to ChewyDante
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That's not the issue being discussed though.
It’s what I’m discussing. When Napoleon took Moscow, there wasn’t a mass train and intellectual industrial complex there. You take Moscow in WWII though, where are the Russians going to go? It’s not like you take the Csar out of Moscow and the troops defend him. How is Stalin going to get out secure communications and supply lines to his people if Moscow isn’t intact.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:19 pm to OMLandshark
The world would look a hell of a lot different if Phocas hadn't murdered Maurice in 602 AD.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:23 pm to DoctorHalloween
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indirectly leading to the siege of Baghdad, which put the Middle East into the development toilet for hundreds of years.
I always see the sack of Baghdad mentioned as a reason why Islam is so backward. Seems like a bullshite excuse. It’s been 800 years. If your glorious civilization can’t recover in 800 years then your civilization was never on firm ground to begin with.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:28 pm to OMLandshark
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2) The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
This is often underestimated. We dont even know what we dont know because of the knowledge loss in that event.
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The Europeans/Americans dividing up Africa and the Middle East among themselves
Yea. Imagine the difference in the world we would see today if the lines drawn after WWI were just a little different.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:28 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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The world would look a hell of a lot different if Phocas hadn't murdered Maurice in 602 AD.
How do you think it would be different?
Posted on 6/25/19 at 10:30 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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The world would look a hell of a lot different if Phocas hadn't murdered Maurice in 602 AD.
Because Phocas was incompetent which led to the exhausting war against the Persians/Avars and would’ve otherwise been able to smother the Muslims early? Probably so.
There are many little things that could’ve happened that would’ve kept Islam from spreading.
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