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The choad filling in for Rush today just said, while making spurious comparisons between Afghanistan and Normandy, that D-Day was the turning point in WWII.

There is only one correct response to this:

Bakapor!
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  • I just learned a new word.

  • I'd vote pearl harbor, because of what eventually happened

    Ya the sovs had awesome resources, but once fatman and littleboy got used, the history of the planet changed forever. Everything up to that point was still conventional war, no matter the scale.

    • Congrats! You just made the same mistake the choad did! (Hint: WWII stands for WORLD War 2)
      • He knows that. He admits that it was a conventionally fought world war prior to US involvement, and is arguing that our involvement was itself the turning point of the war since it a) pushed us of the neutrality fence, and b) ushered in the atomic age.

        I would argue and disagree with his assertion, but can't summon the energy required.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by zogger ( 617870 )

        Well dang, ya sorta splendid rolled me.

        I jiss so ashamed...

        over it

        • over it

          That's the spirit. And why you're a survivor, to boot.

          • never got (Score:2, Funny)

            by zogger ( 617870 )

            never got goatsed here, although one day I did give in and take a look..dang

            I work with cows so I was able to avoid long term psychological harm from that ;)

            I did get rick rolled, now splendided. Too funny really. I R dumbass

  • Awesome word, thanks!

    So you don't think D-Day was the turning point, your think he's an idiot for comparing it to Afghanistan? Considering the scope of WWII I wouldn't against D-Day being a turning point, I just don't think it was the turning point. I would argue that there simply was no single turning point in the war, but a whole mess of turning points. At least that my $.02 through the long lens of History.
    • No. '42-'43 is when the German forces went from advancing to retreating. Additionally, Stalingrad was a major deal. Capturing it and the region would have ensured that D-Day never got to happen.

      • I'd say the real retreat began in July '43- with the invasion of Anzio, Sicily, and Salerno, combined with the home-led coup against Benito Mussolini. And I'd call THAT the real turning point, when the German forces began retreating.

        Stalingrad WAS also a major deal...if it hadn't have been for the Russian defense during the winter of '42-'43, I think the events in Italy would have still happened, but the allies would have faced much more resistance at Normandy and in Greece.

      • Agreed. D-Day was indicative that the tide had turned, but was not itself an inflection point. That happened years previously with Stalingrad, Midway, Torch, and the allied victory in the North Atlantic convoy war.

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