It's a common leftist talking point that walls in history have never worked. Is this true?
It's a common leftist talking point that walls in history have never worked. Is this true?
Daniel Flores
Ayden Adams
>Leftists build Berlin wall
>Some ML leftists support this
>Anarchists don't and want it torn down
In some cases one could argue that walls work, but they don't often last, either that or they're infiltrated.
Grayson Allen
"The best gardens have fences", I suppose.
While wildflowers grow in the wilderness, they lack the cultivation received in the garden ensuring a harder, shorter life.. However, should the kindly old lady die, who is to say the garden would be appreciated by her successors?
Gabriel Cox
the great wall worked until they opened it to let foreigners in
Oliver Hughes
No, walls are extremely effective defences against pre-gunpowder armies
Daniel Campbell
Yet Ghengis and his sons fucked half of Europe
Evan Moore
They barely made it to the Carpathians. Hardly half of Europe.
Brandon Morales
Danube to the urals is probably more than half of europe. I think you mean the part of europe that "matters" which betrays westerb eurocentrism
Dominic Parker
>Common leftist
Lol fuckoff. Can't tell how many times LE WHITE POWER people thought the Chinese stupid for building the great wall, and now those people think it works to fit your meme narrative.
Landon Jones
Theodosian Walls anyone?
On a related note if it wasn't for fortified castles like Krak de Chevaliers, the Holy Land would of been reconquered by the Muslims long before.
Luke Wood
China, they literally did half of China dummy.
Kayden Walker
>had the most defensible position in the world
>had the most educated populace in the world
>had the most professional army in the world
>had the strongest defenses in the world
>lose because you forgot to lock the fucking gate
The Byzantine empire was a mistake.
Grayson Kelly
>Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
It'll work but you'll lose eventually.
Logan Harris
>Assuming that one part of Europe is harder to conquer than another part of Europe is Eurocentrism
Lincoln Taylor
More like (((They))) left the door open
Elijah Adams
The Rus were ill defended from the East, they mostly focused on the North-South approaches. Kyiv didn't even have walls when the Mongols first showed up.
Carter Lee
The Byzantine empire fell in 1204 desu
Bentley Rivera
>leftist
Because it's obviously one united ideology
Mason Taylor
Not enough Jew noses and nigger lips.
Dominic Hall
When did they say that? Walls work and even the fences on the american borders yield insane results...for the area where they're placed of course, people might just go somewhere else.
Christian Ross
Not even remotely. Modern walls work too, like the ones ISRAEL has. I wonder why those leftists never complain about those
Jace Sanders
The sneaky seajews, right?
Caleb Johnson
Leftist parties complain about israel all the fucking time, what the fuck are you on about? Seriously, why do you retards even come to Veeky Forums, all you do is quote every single OP and say something about jews. That's all your contribution to "history".
Brody Allen
t. Vladimir
Jaxon Richardson
you're welcome
Jeremiah Nguyen
>Common leftist talking point that walls in history have never worked
I have never heard this as reason to oppose the wall and I doubt you have. The wall is dumb because it's a massive waste of money that doesn't actually fix the problem people say it'll fix. It's a meme solution.
But yes, walls have worked before.
Austin Moore
If they haven't worked, they would have not been built.
Michael Roberts
>I have never heard this as reason to oppose the wall and I doubt you have.
>being this sheltered
Nathaniel Evans
Maybe if you spend most of your time arguing with shitposters on /pol/ you hear it, but I don't have that experience. I'm white, so I don't go on /pol/.
Josiah Watson
Ayden Robinson
>first article talks about times walls got fucked up by "rank amateurs"
Wow, it's fucking nothing.
>Second says border walls don't usually work
There is a difference between border walls and city walls, user. One covers a vast area and requires more men to guard than the other. "Op claimed said that Leftists claim that "walls don't work", not "border walls don't work".
Blake Hall
>for the area where they're placed of course
Exactly. So we should make the whole border that area.
Charles Richardson
Flawless logic
Josiah Hernandez
Border walls is implicit considering OP's pic.
Joseph Hughes
There are six countries currently spending billions of dollars to maintain extensive border walls. Hungary, Macedonia, Turkey, Tunisia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. You should send them the memo that border walls don't work.
Matthew Ramirez
Short term they do well, the long term is highly dependent on domestic and political dynamics though.
You should check out the relationship between Gibraltar and Spain for instance.
Connor Allen
I'm with the liberals on this one but for different reasons
walls mark the end of expansion and we should never squander chauvinistic spirit
Samuel King
They only work as defensive fortification, as in only if you're willing to kill and maim people to secure it constantly.
Wyatt Long
I hope Phokas/Phocas is burning in hell
Cooper Torres
this the Roman empire peaked with Tiberius then Hadrian started building his walls and limes
Evan Rogers
Look at all those countries that have vastly different governments, environments, cultures etc than America
Really gets the noggin joggin