Pretty weak pitting.
Coldfire tacitly acknowledged the fact that the allies weren’t acting out of complete selflessness, he mentioned how they saw the liberation of Europe as a benefit to all. Which in my mind does more than enough to show Coldfire was acknowledging the fact that the countries that sent troops to liberate Europe certainly weren’t doing so in a completely selfless manner.
His thread mostly focused on the soldiers, who were indeed shipped off to a war most of them wanted nothing to do with, and Coldfire mentioned that as well.
But when confronted with it, most of these young boys did very well fighting the Nazis, they put their necks on the line and a great many of them did more than their duty or their obligations required.
He also openly admitted that many of the Germans weren’t big supporters of Hitler.
And the claim that the UK was the “next on Hitler’s list” is only true because the UK declared war on Germany in response to the Polish invasion. Hitler made it pretty clear in his many writings he was hoping for peace with the British, and would have preferred they never go to war (same as with the United States.)
Hitler wanted to destroy France because he felt as long as France existed Germany could never have freedom of action, and he wanted Germany east through most of Russia because he simply felt it was the right of the German people.
Anyways the United States and to a lesser degree the British actually could have stayed out of the war if they really wanted to do so.
And talking about the Dutch collaborators really doesn’t serve any purpose in that post. You don’t have to talk about the entirety of a situation just because you mention the situation in general. You can talk about WWII without talking about the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima without talking about the European theatre etc.
So any legitimate criticism you may have had about the factual nature of his post has pretty much been destroyed.
Your criticisms about the “simplicity” of his post are just inane and stupid. He posted in MPSIMS. Not some nonexistent forum we have here devoted to “Masterful English Prose”, in fact I don’t’ think I’ve seen you put anything down here that I would call “complex, artistic, creative, grand” either. If we start pitting people because their posts are “too simple” or “too straightforward” then this is going to become a forum of asshats and douche bags pretty quickly.
Saying we should be suspicious of anything that inspires awe is also so stupid I don’t even know how to address it.
I think part of the reason you pitted Coldfire was the fact that you’re just wanting to start an argument, which is a good reason to not even entertain your pitting.
I also think another part of it is you’re just an attention whore and are jealous you didn’t generate a post that received so much attention.
He made a simple appreciation post in MPSIMs, people liked it. End of story. Get over it.