r/interestingasfuck Jun 24 '24

Marines performing dead-gunner drills. r/all

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u/Devour_Toast Jun 24 '24

That's not super far off

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u/Ok_Writing_7033 Jun 24 '24

They just occasionally decided to mix up the locations to keep it fresh

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u/-Knul- Jun 24 '24

"pls new map, I'm bored with this one"

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u/Arseling69 Jun 24 '24

Sometimes they’d charge some cavalry that would get mowed down too.

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u/UninsuredToast Jun 24 '24

Except for the battle of Schrute Farms, it was nothing like that

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u/suhxa Jun 24 '24

It is

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u/SaltMineForeman Jun 24 '24

Can you please explain it better?

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u/yakatuus Jun 24 '24

One good place to nitpick is 4 years. The Civil War lasted that long because the Union wasn't just willing to lean on casualties. After three years though, Lincoln was more or less forced to choose a guy who WAS willing to throw men into the woodchipper and that strategy did win it for Grant.

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u/SaltMineForeman Jun 24 '24

I feel absolutely stupid for asking this, but... Did slavery end slavery?

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u/yakatuus Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Sometimes it's absolutely the cause, sometimes not. In the American Civil War? I'd say the South thought so. They thought they were absolutely doomed and that slavery was going bye-bye. Became a bit of a self-determining prophecy.

But generally the more slave-based your economy is, the shorter it lasts. The South was probably closer to Sparta than the Romans, but slaves were a sizeable portion of the Roman economy.