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   JOE MACKEY to GEORGE POPE   
   Re: WW II   
   27 Oct 21 06:26:54   
   
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     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   >  >   When I'm on the clock I give it my all.  Even if its just warming a   
   chair.  :)   
   >    
   > I like variety, so a lt of territory is just fine. If I run out of "other   
   duties as defined" I'm quite capable of finding or creating more!   
   >    
   > Bottom line: nobody pays me to do nothing.   
      
     Sometimes a job in security is just being there, in case something   
   happens.   
     I retired (or thought I had, long story) I am more of a floater now.   
     One post today, another tomorrow, etc.   
     Some are active (such as back in parking at the moment), others I make   
   occasional rounds, others where I just there in case an alarm goes off.   
     They all have their pluses and minuses.    
      
   > I agree the temptation to keep pushing against those he considers subhuman &   
   deserving of conquering & killing would've rapidly become toomuch for his   
   megalomania.   
      
     For him personally, but once a land was conquered true believers would be   
   made who would carry on (i.e. Hitler Youth).   
      
   > True. What gets me is how the Italians were mere pawns to the Germans, even   
   though nominally "white"   
      
     Hitler didn't really care for Mussolini,whom he saw as a clown.   
     IMO once Hitler had England and Russia under his rule, he would have   
   turned on Ol' Benito since German troops were already in Italy.   
     He knew with all his bluster Mussolini would fold in no time.      
      
   > America can be brutal to newcomeres, makimg them jump through hoops    
      
     Various groups.   
     The Dutch in New York hated the English when they took over, the   
   English/Americans disliked the Irish, the Irish disliked the Germans and   
   everyone   
   disliked the Jews.   
     As waves of new comers came they were seen as taking American jobs,   
   working for lower wages, etc.  See above.   
      
   > From the same group?  They'd already been busy in the South Pacific, which   
   slowed way down after December-1941 & the USA's declaratoin of war on them.   
      
     By early 1942 Japan had already over run Guam, Wake Island, and Hong   
   Kong, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaya, Singapore,   
   and   
   Burma.  They didn't stop after 12/7/41.   
      
   > You still hold Guam(Now home of textile sweat shops making clothing for   
   > American corporations) from then.   
      
     Guam was seen as a fort against the USSR.   
     It may still be needed as a fort against China the way things are going.   
      
   > Your second view certyainly follows wqith what we've seen since, with   
   Arabic- looking American citizens   
      
     Yep.   
      
   > I like how Jeff Foxworthy explained it:   
   > Blue Collar, White Trash & Rednecks are put down constantly, buy think about   
   it:  blue collar meanas a laborer.  Rednecks labour so much under a hot sun   
   they get sunburned, white trash are laborers whose industry(mining, often)   
   dried up & were abandoned to    
   >    
   > The Red, The White, & The Blue, they're who made & make America what it is:   
   great!   
      
     Concur.   
       
   > Because they were raised to beoleve that, even though they're a superior   
   race, they need do whatever work is nee3ded to support themselves & their   
   families.   
   >    
   > Amereicans tend to think(on average) they're superior/chosen people but   
   wo9n't stoop to do work they feel should only be done by slaves and immigrants.   
      
     Its always been thus, going back to ancient times.   
     Medes and Persians conqueror some country and enslaved those people.   
     Greece, Rome, etc all the same.   
        
   > Hitler pointed to Jews running the banks as the source of all of the common   
   German's troubles.   
      
     This goes back to the Middle Ages.   
     As merchantism began, church law didn't allow interest to be charged on   
   money loaned to the merchants.  The Jews had no such prohibitions on loaning   
   money.     
     As merchants borrowed more and owed more they became resentful of owing   
   that money and took it out on the ones who loaned it to them in the first   
   place.   
     Jews, in general in Europe, found a way to make money in banking.   
     Joe   
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