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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by throwaway48476 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:24PM (#42764972)
They spent the wealth of empire fighting a war and achieved what exactly? They would have been better off losing. Crazy when you think about it.
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by WillPostForFood on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:30PM (#42764995)
They would have been better off losing. Crazy when you think about it.

Better if they had let the Nazis won and ruled the UK? WTF?

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by throwaway48476 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:43PM (#42765051)
That was never going to happen. And the Nazis didn't exist in 1914.
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by twixfel on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:21AM (#42767116)
Nah the Germans were militaristic arseholes in 1914 too.
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by mike_hearn on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:46AM (#42770436)
Just so everyone is clear, the Nazi plan for what to do with an occupied Britain was to enslave large parts of population, to completely erase Britain as a country, and they also considered mass deportations of the native population. "Better off losing" is not really supportable under any reading of the historical evidence.
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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by hackandthink on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:55PM (#42771235)
Hitler admired the British Empire.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-Hitlers-opinion-of-the-Britis...

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