The problem starts with this part of a much larger post:
Gallia- wrote:Naturally this leads, almost inevitably, to a world where instead of asking serious questions like "what is the purpose of a surface ship of any variety in a world where submarines can routinely communicate with each other underwater and satellites can routinely monitor the littorals from orbit in real time" instead you get people seriously pondering the return of battleships with railguns and screaming about the threat of boghammars, Osas, and other ancient threats that were solved decades (or centuries) ago. Also they try to explain Eastern Thought Process with Sun Tzu and other bizarre, somewhat racist stereotypes instead of genuine knowledge. Perhaps because they lack historical perspective, perhaps because they focused on some specific niche like "supercomputer modeling" and branched out into history as a side gig, or maybe they're genuine charlatans, but it's so hard to tell that teasing out the difference is almost not worth the effort.
That references almost every single conversation I've had in that thread since I started posting this summer, and he absolutely wrote it to get a rise out of me. I called him out for it and he responded with a long rant about how my entire profession is useless, and apparently a bigger threat to America than literally anything else. Apparently he's still feeling froggy, but at this point I'd rather someone else deal with him.
