WWII and the Punching Problem

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Q: If it was World War II, and you had the chance to punch a Nazi, would you?

A: It’s incredibly unlikely.

Q: …what the HELLFIRE. Do you like Hitler?

A: I utterly despise Adolf Hitler, and everything he stood for.

Q: So…?

A: So, if it were World War II, and I was sufficiently physically capable of punching a Nazi, I would enlist in the Army, which would allow me to shoot at Nazis, in the most effective manner possible, which is to say, preferably as part of a large group of other people who are also shooting at Nazis as we attempt to win an entire war against all of them. I’m not Captain goddamned America; I do not live in a comic book; I am not personally physically capable of doing more damage to large groups of Nazis with my fists than I would be using a machine gun, in a platoon full of people who have machine guns. I’m actually quite good at unarmed combat, relatively speaking, which means I’d say that I might possibly be as good as, oh, possibly, two bullets

That’s not bad. For fists. It is, however, 1/300th of what a World War II-era machine gun could fire in one minute.

Even assuming I was, like Superman, faster than a speeding bullet, which (spoiler alert) I am not…I’m not actually faster than seven hundred bullets.

Q: Okay, but if it was 1944, and you saw a Nazi walking around, what would you be doing?

A: I’d be trying to get my relatives out of Austria-Hungary before some of them were murdered, you ass.

Q: You know what I mean!

A: …what you mean is you want me to say that I’d punch this person. Because you’d punch this person.Because you really WISH you could punch a person and have that actualy solve something.

 

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