@Dissonance 's post about tanks was in reply to another poster who had said that the Soviets had never produced any military systems which were any good. That point was absurd, and @Dissonance rightfully corrected him.
@DrDeth came in with his typical complete nonsense about the tanks, which developed into the hijack.
Exactly, it was a giant threadshit by @DrDeth which @Aspenglow rightly shut down. And a threadshit by DrDeez with walls of quoted text that DrDeez likes to italicize rather than put in the convenient [quote ] [/quote ] box so that it is readily identifiable as quoted material. And the material that DrDeez himself quoted contradicted what he was saying.
Oh, and is also DrDeez refusing to let anything go, even things he was shown to be completely wrong about years ago in threads with even less relation to collective farming than one might imagine. The bit where he states:
Good luck finding where I said that earlier in that thread about collective farming. It isn’t there. It’s from a thread several years ago.
Well, at least we know his memory isn’t completely gone.
So, how about them tanks!
Ah, ol’ DrDeth, aka Deplorable Record of Dreadful Errors & Truthless History, strikes again!
Ha! That’s where he gets the name.
Well, it’s logical that if you operate heavy tanks on farms, they’ll compact soil and reduce crop yields even if they scare hell out of the weevils.
[Bob Hope] Tanks for the memory… [/Bob Hope]
Now this fucking idiot says the Dope being an American-centric board means us foreigners can’t criticize America here.
What an absolute arse-wen of a giant man-baby. “Waah! My Uncle Sam said you can’t call me names at my own party! Waah!”. Tosser.
In fairness, you’d never hear an American poster dare criticize a different country. We are a demure, civilized lot, everyone knows that.
Nor would we ever interfere in the affairs of a another sovereign nation. We are like Starfleet, scrupulously observing the prime directive.
There was a point early in my time at the Dope when I realised that the single most contentious OP I could post would be:
There are some aspects of America that could be improved somewhat.
And honestly I thought that time had largely passed. But here he is kicking off about “America bashing” in response to you saying something as milquetoast as this:
which… I mean if that is crossing a line into unconscionable and ill-mannered abuse of one’s hosts then gosh.
Which thread? I’m an American who has lived overseas for many years and, in many ways, “gone native” on foreign customs and beliefs. Even though I haven’t been back in a while and am actively pursuing alternative citizenship, my passport is still American. Am I allowed to criticize? I’d like to test this.
How wealthy would the wealthiest person be in your ideal society, in GD. Or what Stanislaus linked to 
I followed his link and have replied. Perhaps inadvisedly.
But Lord, what a maroon.
“We … we … we …”
Also, if I want to know what the American opinion is on a subject I’ll ask Sam_Stone like any sensible person would.
DrDeth was doing just fine in that thread, using the one thing he actually knows about to advocate for strong progressive tax policies and an end to obscene wealth accumulation. His comment about “the American way” to mean “people should be rewarded for their hard work but not at the expense of everyone else” isn’t even the top thousand of classic DrDeth moments.
Of course once he got jabbed about it he spiraled away from good sense, which is pretty much where you’d expect him to go.
That’s not any American Way I’ve ever heard about. Sounds more like Scandinavia, to be honest (not that they’re all that great, Sweden’s GINI is terrible).
It’s the storybook version of the American way, sure. Anybody can be successful if they work hard, everybody has the same chances! In an America without obscene wealth accumulation it might even be closer to the truth.
If you’ve watched any of the Star Trek shows, they decide that “just this one time” they need to break the Prime Directive so often that they might as well be Neocons. 
I mean, they were written for an American audience after all.