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7/12/2025, 10:13:57 AM
>>17834752
>titanic disaster wasn't a single crisis. It was years of complacency, outdated procedures and lack of awareness/training all around, that all came together in spectacular fashion.
Exactly, it was a bunch of smaller lapses in judgement and regulation, and misreading of the results of previous accidents (such as the sinking of the RMS Republic in 1909), that coalesced at a single point in time to create one of the most spectacular tragedies of the 20th Century.
>i've also heard that proper damage and flooding control could have kept the ship the ship afloat for hours longer but idk if thats just wishful hindsight
If aggressive damage control measures had been taken in the first five minutes and been kept up, maybe it could have bought the ship a few extra hours. But realistically, that wasn't going to happen with an unexpected collision in the middle of the night when half of the crew were sound asleep and the other half were half-asleep. 1st Officer Murdoch to his credit shut the watertight doors within seconds of the collision (and likely prevented the ship from sinking within minutes), it just wasn't enough.
>titanic disaster wasn't a single crisis. It was years of complacency, outdated procedures and lack of awareness/training all around, that all came together in spectacular fashion.
Exactly, it was a bunch of smaller lapses in judgement and regulation, and misreading of the results of previous accidents (such as the sinking of the RMS Republic in 1909), that coalesced at a single point in time to create one of the most spectacular tragedies of the 20th Century.
>i've also heard that proper damage and flooding control could have kept the ship the ship afloat for hours longer but idk if thats just wishful hindsight
If aggressive damage control measures had been taken in the first five minutes and been kept up, maybe it could have bought the ship a few extra hours. But realistically, that wasn't going to happen with an unexpected collision in the middle of the night when half of the crew were sound asleep and the other half were half-asleep. 1st Officer Murdoch to his credit shut the watertight doors within seconds of the collision (and likely prevented the ship from sinking within minutes), it just wasn't enough.
7/6/2025, 11:26:22 AM
>>63946626
>The U.S. has a more laissez-faire approach because our version of secularism is that you can believe whatever you want and the government gets out of the way, and there's no state religion (okay the president will say "God bless America" but it's generally more of a private matter)
Were it not for the institution of Separation of Church and State, this country would have dissolved into a religious bloodbath that would put the Thirty Years War to shame centuries ago. That half-sentence in the 1st Amendment
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
has saved us from more trouble than we can begin to imagine.
>The U.S. has a more laissez-faire approach because our version of secularism is that you can believe whatever you want and the government gets out of the way, and there's no state religion (okay the president will say "God bless America" but it's generally more of a private matter)
Were it not for the institution of Separation of Church and State, this country would have dissolved into a religious bloodbath that would put the Thirty Years War to shame centuries ago. That half-sentence in the 1st Amendment
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
has saved us from more trouble than we can begin to imagine.
6/19/2025, 6:08:43 PM
>>63863171
Please cite one passage written by Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels supporting your position.
>>63863179
Centrally planned economy is merely part of it. Communism is more than an economic system (such as capitalism), it's an ideology, a quasi-religion arguably.
>>63863190
>it's when the government hands the economy to bankers
It's literally not
>it's why Jackson killed the banks
In case you didn't notice, Jackson had already come and gone by the time Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto
Please cite one passage written by Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels supporting your position.
>>63863179
Centrally planned economy is merely part of it. Communism is more than an economic system (such as capitalism), it's an ideology, a quasi-religion arguably.
>>63863190
>it's when the government hands the economy to bankers
It's literally not
>it's why Jackson killed the banks
In case you didn't notice, Jackson had already come and gone by the time Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto
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