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Question: The Entente, the Central Powers, or Neither?
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The Central Powers (w/reservations)		  
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« on: April 01, 2015, 07:11:14 PM »
Neither, of course.
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2015, 07:13:11 PM »
Neither, and there was really no issue at stake.
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2015, 07:13:58 PM »
Option 1
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2015, 07:14:35 PM »
Entente.
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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2015, 07:24:15 PM »
Neither
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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2015, 07:38:11 PM »
Quote from: tara gilesbie on April 01, 2015, 07:13:11 PM
Neither, and there was really no issue at stake.
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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2015, 08:18:00 PM »
Neither, considering it was the most pointless goddamn war of the last century.
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2015, 08:55:21 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2015, 09:14:06 PM »
Neither, but I'd root against the Russian Empire.
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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2015, 09:18:31 PM »
I would have supported my country (normal 1910s socialist).
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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2015, 09:19:00 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2015, 09:20:18 PM »
I probably would have been a pacifist, so neither.
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« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2015, 09:41:32 PM »
Neutral. As a Pentacostal and adherent of the Assemblies of God, I would've been a objector on basis of religious belief.

Compounded with my familial heritage in the Dunkard Brethren.
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« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2015, 09:54:22 PM »
Quote from: Lief 🐋 on April 01, 2015, 09:18:31 PM
I would have supported my country (normal 1910s socialist).

The real socialists opposed the war and spent the latter part of the decade setting up a workers' state on the carcass of Russian imperialism.
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« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2015, 09:56:53 PM »
Ideally neither, and not just because i'm a wussy pacifist, but because there really was no need for a war.
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« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2015, 10:01:04 PM »
I'd be in a prison for dodging or protesting the draft.  I imagine that would happen to me in any country involved in the war.
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« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2015, 10:09:57 PM »
Quote from: Senator JCL and the geologist on April 01, 2015, 09:41:32 PM
Neutral. As a Pentacostal and adherent of the Assemblies of God, I would've been a objector on basis of religious belief.

Compounded with my familial heritage in the Dunkard Brethren.

As far as I'm aware, most members of AoG like their Southern Baptist and other evangelical counterparts have no objections to wars in general.
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« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2015, 10:13:02 PM »
Quote from: CELTICEMPIRE on April 01, 2015, 10:01:04 PM
I'd be in a prison for dodging or protesting the draft.  I imagine that would happen to me in any country involved in the war.

Right, who cares about liberty in wartime?

Neither
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« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2015, 10:27:54 PM »
Quote from: National Progressive on April 01, 2015, 10:09:57 PM
Quote from: Senator JCL and the geologist on April 01, 2015, 09:41:32 PM
Neutral. As a Pentacostal and adherent of the Assemblies of God, I would've been a objector on basis of religious belief.

Compounded with my familial heritage in the Dunkard Brethren.

As far as I'm aware, most members of AoG like their Southern Baptist and other evangelical counterparts have no objections to wars in general.

I don't know much about the AoG but the Southern Baptist/Evangelical part is unfortunately true.  There are many Evangelicals, like Laurence Vance, who are anti-war though.  If it wasn't for the influence of the religious right and the GOP I'm convinced that Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, and Calvinists would be leading the American anti-war movement.
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« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2015, 10:28:51 PM »
I would have been neutral right up to when the Zimmerman Telegram was revealed, after which I would have reluctantly cast my lot with the Entente. Europe was going to be overrun by an imperial power either way, and I'd at least prefer it to be one that doesn't want to hand over part of the US to Mexico.
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« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2015, 10:52:10 PM »
Neutral, but if we had to get involved then on the side of the Central Powers so we could liberate Canada from their British overlords.
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« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2015, 10:55:05 PM »
Quote from: Lief 🐋 on April 01, 2015, 09:18:31 PM
I would have supported my country been totally against the war.(normal 1910s socialist).
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« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2015, 11:06:01 PM »

Beyond patriotism and reservations regarding the government of the Kaiserreich (which in certain aspects such as universal suffrage superior to Anglo-American democracies), I'm primarily driven by the belief that an early American intervention in World War I was necessary to bring about a quick end to the conflict and thus avert the bitterness engendered by four years of bloody slaughter in the trenches, instead bringing about a more concilatory peace.
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« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2015, 11:15:42 PM »
Neither.
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« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2015, 03:02:41 AM »
My country (normal and certainly the only option for the vast majority during the war).

Quote from: Ron Paul 2016 on April 01, 2015, 09:56:53 PM
Ideally neither, and not just because i'm a wussy pacifist, but because there really was no need for a war.

This is a myth. Whilst you may find the issues that caused the war distasteful, they were still serious issues that needed to be worked out one way or another.
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