Comments on: On outrageous Wargaming history posts

By: Doddy

Doddy — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 02:31:34 +0000

Actually “opportunistic” apparently does have negative connotations more than “taking opportunity” and i have been using it wrong my entire life. Oh well, learn something new every day and all that.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:35:26 +0000

…are you talking about the Sovetsky Soyuzes? Four of those were laid down too you know, though the design wasn’t *that* special – ‘merely’ in the Yamato/Montana ballpark. Certainly well short of the sheer titanic what-the-fuckery the German H-class proposals degenerated into…

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:24:28 +0000

Please don’t join him in failing Politics 101.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:03:59 +0000

I take it besides being painfully stupid and a bad troll you’re unfamiliar with the concept of “Realpolitik”?

Plus “opportunistic” is an entirely accurate descriptor of Finnish policy throughout the Continuation War. (Gave the Germans no small amount of gray hairs that.) Given that when the dust settled we were still independent and not a smoking ruin it was rather succesful too.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:57:35 +0000

Not sure if functionally illiterate or just really poor troll.

By: Schlomo Shekelstein

Schlomo Shekelstein — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:08:24 +0000

Yes stupid goyim, the state knows best what’s good for you!

By: Schlomo Shekelstein

Schlomo Shekelstein — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:38:15 +0000

Oh, look who’s talking out of his ass again. “Opportunist” is used pejoratively more often than not. Since the article is blatantly biased against Finns, it’s obvious that exocet’s and SilentStalker’s interpretation of the meaning of this particular word is correct, but I can see why a person afflicted with autism would have trouble determining that – after all you’re not capable of comprehending the art of interpersonal communication.

opportunist – someone who tries to get an advantage or something valuable from a situation without thinking about what is fair or right
Synonyms
chameleon, chancer [British], acrobat, temporizer, timeserver, trimmer, weathercock
Related Words
egoist, egotist, self-seeker; conniver, machinator, plotter, schemer
Near Antonyms
altruist

By: Realist

Realist — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:17:01 +0000

“Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism”

Hmmm, sounds strangely soviet :)

By: mondog

mondog — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:52:05 +0000

Ukrainian isn’t Russian. Many western Ukrainians hate the Russians.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:07:51 +0000

Well… technically speaking there *is* no “Finnish Karelia” and hasn’t been since the Forties…
And I wouldn’t be all that sure about “nothing like anywhere in Finland”. ‘S not like this corner of the world had some kind of shortage of rocky outcroppings and marshes.

Have to agree on Arctic though. I’ve read a bit of the Mannerheim Line fortifications and the terrain on the Ishtmus they were built in, and… yeah. No.