Not sure what the deal is with tennis balls, raquet balls hurt a whole lot more!

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    Serbia accepted all parts of the AH ultimatum, except for one, which was a complete violation of sovereignty.

    There were no significant negotiations over this, because that ultimatum was not intended to be accepted.

    My comment was specific enough, go fuck yourself.

    EDIT: Also using tired metaphors like “powder keg” in the context of WWI does the opposite of making your argument stronger. Argumentation is about logic, not about conforming to style. You might also want to lose that smug tone, it’s equivalent to spending your opponent’s goodwill on something unconnected to the subject. You might call the situation where everybody wants war a “powder keg”, yes, but that doesn’t really matter, war already was in the air for a few years before the assassination. In newspapers, in diplomacy, in preparations for their own grand victory by all big powers. Since Balkan wars (Ottomans losing trust in British world order), Bosnia and Herzegovina (South Slavs realizing they are food), Russo-Japanese war (ruining Russian friendship with Germany and Austria).

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      Person who enters an argument with insults presumes to lecture about spending “opponents” goodwill.

      Tell others immediately to go fuck themselves when met with the mildest rebuttal before going on yet another near irrelevant tangent.

      Also missed the very clear implication that while the WW1 may well have been on the horizon the Duke’s assassination initiated it and the relevance to killing Trump. Especially given US internal politics and its geopolitics.

      Why do I even bother trying and failing at being witty when the jokes write themselves.

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        It wasn’t an insult. You’re the person who sees any disagreement as a critique of their nonexistent intellectual authority, apparently.

        Also I didn’t miss any implications. FF’s assassination couldn’t by itself prepare troops and railroads for close war. That it was used as a formal cause means nothing. In 1870 France declared war on Prussia with the formal reason of being insulted (EDIT: this is false, they made some demands and such, dunno where I got this from). Tail doesn’t wag the dog.

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          It wasn’t an insult.

          A sardonic, “you can’t be that silly” passes muster, and is semantics either way.

          I caught your edit and I gotta ask, are you Serbian? I assumed you were just looking for an argument given the tone of your replies but the edit made me think otherwise. You surely can’t have interpreted my initial comments as blaming Serbia (or even Black Hand necessarily) for starting the war right? Because that is not what I was doing.

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            No, not Serbian, but I’m nervous about possible misinterpretations of such events, as today these may cause justifying “smaller” crimes to avoid some supposed bigger catastrophe. As that would happen right before WWII.

            My first comment was just that there’s usually no single cause of war, and if FF’s murder and Serbia rejecting one part of the ultimatum were that, then the war would last for a few months after which everyone would apologize to each other and go lick their wounds.