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7/26/2025, 2:35:42 PM
>>511413594
I love the way WW2 tanks are an expression of national character. GuP is not wrong about this.
US: "Futuristic" (for the time), the product of a society of mass production and mass car ownership made in car factories. If you could drive a car, you could drive a Sherman.
German: Cool if massively over-engineered, over-complex, comparative to other countries largely coach-built and handmade.
Britain: Makes sense when you consider that they are the product of a society that built lots of steam trains. Mechanised production but not mass production which is a slightly different thing.
I love the way WW2 tanks are an expression of national character. GuP is not wrong about this.
US: "Futuristic" (for the time), the product of a society of mass production and mass car ownership made in car factories. If you could drive a car, you could drive a Sherman.
German: Cool if massively over-engineered, over-complex, comparative to other countries largely coach-built and handmade.
Britain: Makes sense when you consider that they are the product of a society that built lots of steam trains. Mechanised production but not mass production which is a slightly different thing.
7/26/2025, 2:35:42 PM
>>22997010
I love the way WW2 tanks are an expression of national character. GuP is not wrong about this.
US: "Futuristic" (for the time), the product of a society of mass production and mass car ownership made in car factories. If you could drive a car, you could drive a Sherman.
German: Cool if massively over-engineered, over-complex, comparative to other countries largely coach-built and handmade.
Britain: Makes sense when you consider that they are the product of a society that built lots of steam trains. Mechanised production but not mass production which is a slightly different thing.
I love the way WW2 tanks are an expression of national character. GuP is not wrong about this.
US: "Futuristic" (for the time), the product of a society of mass production and mass car ownership made in car factories. If you could drive a car, you could drive a Sherman.
German: Cool if massively over-engineered, over-complex, comparative to other countries largely coach-built and handmade.
Britain: Makes sense when you consider that they are the product of a society that built lots of steam trains. Mechanised production but not mass production which is a slightly different thing.
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