The Berlin Wall was built 55 years ago today, and it should remind us that walls don’t work

Didn't one side suck though? I would still rather be on the side that didn't suck...just saying.

The wall worked fucking great. Thousands of people died trying to get on the other side.

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>Walls don't work
I would disagree, the berlin wall was enormously effective.
It only came down because of political incompetency and the tension that comes from dividing a conquered people.

ignore leftist news articles, they never make sense

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Well I just read the article and it basically boils down to "walls work until they dont".

just think of that fucker was still up and running. back when you could call a sack of shit, a sack of shit

But it did work. It kept slavscum out.

Israel have a wall and it just werks.

This.

This

was build for different reasons, didn't divide 2 different people but actually people OF THE SAME FUCKING CITY
this is why we call you libtards. while you say conservashits or drumpf bacause those names makes you giggle, we're simply stating that those kind of stataments are generalistic and don't make your point

Every day i feel like im entering deeper into the twilight zone. Amazing time to be alive. Shit will hit the fan in our lifetime. FUG

achktchualy this is a prison wall, but yes they do a great job

>another story about Hitler's Berlin Wall

>implying it was there to stop people from coming in and definitely not to stop people from leaving
>implying people want to leave the USA

The wall worked great. People were fleeing the east in vast numbers. After the border was secured the number dropped to become insignificantly small

However of course building a wall to keep your own people in where there dont want to be is something very different to a wall that keeps foreign people out, where they want to go unregulated

that's a prison though

Beatiful. Tell me, are There seismic sensors? What about land mines?

>Hitler's Berlin Wall

The wall did work, communism did not.

>Hitler's Berlin Wall
Burger education...

If the wall didn't work why did it have to be torn down?

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Why is there a wall around Israel, then?

Just fucking kill yourself, jew.

It worked pretty well, actually.

Very few, if at all, crossing happened illegally, and those that did were subject to being killed rather than simply deported.

The Berlin Wall is probably one of the greatest walls made.

But whole books have been written about the batshit insane schemes DDR civvies had to cobble together in order to make it to W. Berlin without getting ventilated...

Israeli wall, Mexican wall, and the soon to be built Calais wall proves that walls work

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Nah mate Hitler personally planned the wall (pic related) and it worked.

This

>tfw leftists bring up the Berlin Wall which their ideology created to shit on Trump

>israel builds a way
>people just shoot rockets over it

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a bunch of years ago, the great wall of china was built, and it should remind us that walls work perfectly fine

also, that israel wall, right?

Actually, it was built by Bismarck.

Was expecting it to be a leaf thread.

>should-remind-us-that-walls-dont-work/

well it worked pretty good as long as it was properly funded.

Walls don't work? Are you fucking kidding me?

That wall stopped thousands of people crossing daily to like 100 people in 30 years. Of course it fucking worked.

Are you kidding? That damn thing was amazingly effective

That dog gets me every time

I still don't understand why people couldn't just walk around the Berlin Wall at either end.. It's not like the wall was circular, or abutted against natural walls, like mountains or oceans.

Did they have a nigger and muslim invasion back then?
Check mate.

It's a meme you dips.

They do have a point, the wall didn't work too well when it came to hot air balloons

Pretty sure it worked. It must have if we're still talking about it

Then why did it need to be taken down?

Why did Kaiser Wilhelm build it anyway?

All LIES

Every TRUE Frank knows Carolus Magnus built the wall to keep out the Slavs

This.

The fucking thing split a unitary city for 40 years.

>a few hundred people cross it between 1961 to 1989
>wall falls because communism didn't work
>walls don't work

55 years ago? it came down 27 years ago.
surprised its even worth talking about now.

I bet the guy who wrote that article sleeps with his door locked.

but.. it did work, it literally kept everyone from leaving or entering

It was a 1 post bait and run by OP.
I was a border guard during the Cold War in your country, the entire border worked. I was on the German-Czech border back then.

Landmines and lots of them.

BAD GOY!!

But it did work.

The sign says (((Israel)))

Wall worked just fine, it was the commies who fell

It actually did circle it. The wall was 96 miles long, which circled the city. Why would you say something so stupid and untrue when it is a very easy fact to google?

Da Jooos

How is the Berlin wall even comparable to the USA/Mexico wall?

USA and Mexico will NEVER be part of a unified union or country

Wasn't it an extension to the Hadrian's Wall? I'm sure it started in Scotland, or Britain at least.

Tunnels were dug under the Berlin wall. They don't even need to dig tunnels between US and Mexico. They're already there. This is another thing Trump with change his mind on if he becomes president and possibly before the elections.

Is that true? Are there any Jews in Israel? Are they in the government?

This was the problem the russian side was shit so even the guards were hopping over the wall.

only works when u give a shot to all that try to jump the wall

>USA and Mexico will NEVER be part of a unified union or country

Silly goy.
Make mexico great again also.

A more effective argument for the OPs author would be. Reminder: walls are sold with the premise of keep unwanteds out. Once built the true function of the wall is to keep people in.

Slightly more interesting (maybe not true) idea and significantly scarier than 'wasteful spending'.

>A wall that worked really well until they took it down.
Really makes you think...

Go away Szczesny, also checked

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>dividing a city is the same as reinforcing a national border
>a wall being bad means it didn't accomplish what it was meant to do
whew, really didn't make me think

because the rest of teh border where there was no wall was still protected by soldiers, mines, fences etc

If the wall didn't work, why did they have to tear it down?

>a single country with the same language, culture, and values, artificially divided between two world powers, is tooooootes the same thing as a whole nation erecting barriers to keep out hostile invaders from another land

You're thinking of the East Germany and West Germany border, not the Berlin wall.

A sign saying 'minefield ahead' and a little evidence of an actual minefield will work almost as well as a wall...

this

Berlin wall comes down.

Within hours, massive numbers of people cross the border into the west.

Did those people want to cross before the wall came down? If so, the wall worked.

only a few Jews, don't believe antisemitic canards, Jews aren't in control of any government in the world, the government of Israel is multicultural and has lots of non-Jews

And dog runs, we had German Shepards.

I know the benefits of building a wall but are there any possible consequences?

you have to go back

>the government of Israel is multicultural and has lots of non-Jews

Lol U

Didn't they create some system to shot down the rockets?

It worked perfectly well for those who weren't commies though.

>but are there any possible consequences?
Jobs for blacks?
Somebody has to build that wall.

They never tried a real wall, though

>minefield
Those were on the German border with the Eastern Bloc, not in Berlin.
Also K zone, dog runs, and more.

>israel shoots a bajillion of rockets back at them
>the US and Germany give money to Israel in the form of "reparations" so they can buy more rockets and build the wall again.

Probably more multicultural than Polands Sejm, kolego...

Minus the Jews this picture makes me erect.

Black jews are still Jews. Non jews can't be Israel full citizens.

But it did work

I think he's talking about the Arabs and Druze and other minorities they have in the Knesset.

And that second point is untrue, non-Jews absolutely CAN be full citizens of Israel in every sense of the word.

Quality post

Becausr evil germans no longer wanted to be split apart

I like the one about the people that had an auto repair shop with all the seperate parts of tank and they practiced over and over assembling and disassembling the tank until the time was right and they put that tank together and then drove it thru tonthe other side. I believe there was also some people at a knitting place that made a hot air balloon of sorts and floated over.

Walls sure work for Israel

I do.

The USSR fell 25 years ago and should remind us that socialism doesn't work.

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You can cross my border anytime.

Venesuela fell recently and yet US idiots still voted for Sanders.

>Walls don't work.
>kept people in their place for 28 years.
>Doesn't work.

>The USSR fell 25 years ago after it cucked National Socialism to death and should remind us that communism is better than National socialism

Because the power of Anschluss is too strong.

This, the GDR is a perfect example that walls work, but socialism doesn't.

>throughout recorded history and probably before that walls worked as they were designed to
>they won't work for this purpose now though

commies can't make anything right, even a fucking wall

Reminder that the wall was built to keep people in, not out. Reminder that it it fell only due to a mistake made by one chairman in one interview.

It worked really well. It worked until it was torn down. Suddenly it didn't work anymore.

Small walls don't work, but walls like the Great Wall of China work. That is why we need a YUGE wall. Arm it with auto turrets and a job well done. Nothing will cross that shit. Add some ground penetrating radar along it and nobody will go under the wall.

>doesn't lock his doors
>he won't hear a robber or zombie fuck with the door
>he won't have enough time to grab his gun or knife

lol

Taking down the Berlin Wall was a mistake.

No, no, user. It was obviously because Mr. Big Strong American Ronald Reagan said in his manly American voice "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" despite having blocked multiple attempts by Gorbachev to make peace.

Leftists have the worst understanding of history imaginable. You do have some obviously among the right who put the cart before the horse by having a thesis then finding the facts to back it up but it's embedded in the fabric of leftism/modern day liberalism to have your thesis and then justify it with selective and not even half truth but quarter truths at best.

They'll do drive by historical analysis, relying on facebook, imgur, buzzfeed or youtube historical vomit they can digest in 30 minutes or less. Rather than try and draw a conclusion from a myriad of sources indirectly, they will just swallow the regurgitation of someone's highly agenda-driven narrative. Put in a less obtuse academic wordy way:

One should draw their conclusions and ideas from multiple sources which are not setting out to proselytize a single policy or agenda ("A history of international relations since the cold war" rather than "Why the liberal theory on international relations is superior and correct and has won out over the realist jungle-theory since the end of the cold war"). Don't just regurgitate what John Green or whatever the in vogue hack of the day says.

>Argue with someone about why the idea of no-borders is a terrible idea
>They compliment me even if we are diametrically opposed and ask me what book/author I got my ideas from.

What the fuck nigger I got this view from reading about the ethnic sectarianism of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empire and realizing GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS

>tfw the Jews have turned Israel into a giant camp

Walls don't work when the people on either side are the same people. They work when they aren't the same people.

If they don't work, why was pulling it down such a BIG FUCKING DEAL

>The Berlin Wall was built 55 years ago today, and it should remind us that walls don’t work
They do work, you fucking piece of shit degenerate. That's why they had to end up destroying it.

Top Fucking Kek.

Walls are just an artificial concept, maaaaaan. Just like borders, maaaaan. Like fuck borders, maaaaaaaaaan, they're just there to keep the common man enslaved, maaaaaaaan. Like nobody's illegal, maaaaaaaaan.

wall don't work? Israel would disagree with that one

>comparing berlin wall with us-mexico border wall

You are so desesperated Juan de Jesus de los Angeles

>property's just an artificial concept too, maaaaan. Hey, what the fuck are you doing in my house, dude? Stop taking my stuff, maaaaan

Open borders today, the abolition of private property tomorrow. Guaranteed.

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It wasn't Gorbachev who tore down the wall though, was it?

Also threadly reminder that the scum in the mainstream media actually complained about Reagan criticizing the Wall, because they claimed it was war-mongering.

>Comparing a wall built to keep people inside a country to a wall that is built to keep people out of a country

Pretty sure it worked, what didn't work was communism

The wall did work until the commies were BTFO.

>communist side is clean and pristine as fuck
>capitalist side is disgusting and covered in graffiti
wew lads

Western capitalist pig dogs confirmed for fucking degenerate scum.

If you got close to the wall from the commie side you'd get shot or have your legs blown off by a mine
fuckign smug anime poster

there is no "capitalist side"

it was built by commies to keep people IN

Most of the graffiti is from after the wall came down, though.

Built 2,2 k years ago

All these lying liberals should be put where they belong

The great wall didn't work, though.

That was for keeping people in you dumb fuck.

My grandfather was a spy in East Berlin, the Russians only rebuilt the outer 200m of the territory to make it look nice, inside it was still in rubble, 1955-1970 account.

>Wall meant to keep people in
>Effectively kept 99% of people in

What's the problem here man.

right, the Chinese empire has since collapsed and left Mongolia in its place

Actually it worked pretty dam well. That's why they had a celebration. It was pretty hard to bring it down. Also Great Wall of china proves this point moot.

If the Berlin wall didn't work, then why was it such a big deal when it was built, and when it came down?

>Lefties in charge of making sense

Everytime you get baited into visiting a "journalism" site, you are inadvertently giving pennies. Even with ad-blockers installed, the company uses visitor statistics to maintain relationships with their advertisers. Windows operating systems have a feature called the "hosts file" that will let you block these websites.

>The Windows Hosts file allows you to define which websites are linked to which IP addresses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

Here is how to use it

Notepad
Open with admin privileges.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
This is where your Hosts file is located. Open "hosts" (does not have an extension) with Notepad. If you utilize Spybot - Search & Destroy, you will see a very long list of unsafe domains already entered here. For your convenience, enter the following lines in at the top:

Spacing DOES matter in your host file, so ensure it looks like the examples in the following:
gist.github.com/ChimeraCoder/7495794

Save the file. The "Save As" dialog box will appear. Save this as "hosts_new".

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
1) Back in your \etc\ folder, rename your previous "hosts" file to "hosts_backup".
2) Rename the newly created file, "hosts_new.txt" to "hosts"

Congrats, no more accidentally giving pennies and view counts. If unsure, please do your own research.

What?

The wall worked perfectly fine. Just the communist empire behind it collapsed because of completely unrelated reasons.

System 32 Kek. Don't fall for this anons. Basic Internet safety never trust anyone online. In fact never trust anyone. Not even yourself.

ah yes, I forgot mongols ruled china now

Also your a jackass for trying to fuck with someone's computer. Do the world a favour and kill yourself. Better yet, go to where you belong.

>a wall supposed to split a country in two worked for decades
>suddenly they realized dividing a country in two different countries was a dumb thing to do
>now I must remind you people voting for trump that a wall doesn't work at all!
>Look at that!!!
>Building a wall for dividing our external borders with mexico just can't work because a country that divided itself using a wall 70 years ago had to unify itself once at a certain period of time!
>AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I'M TOTALLY IGNORING THE CHINESE WALL!!!

>follow my logic you bigots!!!!!!!! Walls don't work!

The Manchus ruled China up until the communist revolution, lad.

>what is a conquest dynasty
study Chinese history my dude.

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>walls don’t work
Is that's why they had to tear it down in order to cross to the other side? Because it didn't work as intended?

Fucking morons.

oh canada

who sleeps with his door unlocked?

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Also:
>your
you're*

Fucking jews in full on propaganda mode

and it keeps the prisoners in

I thought leftists love the DDR? I've seen them even praise it as an example of socialism working before. Besides if they wanted to make some dumb article they should've went with "Donald Trump praises Reagan but Reagan was for tearing down walls while Trump builds them." or something. That said the national anthem of the DDR was amazing though. I do legitly like it more than what Germany uses now.

youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM

I don't even lock my doors when I leave my house. Although I live in a military base and I don't think I've ever heard of anyone robbing anyone. Hell people just leave cars unlocked over here too.

But it did work. That's why they had to tear it down.

>walls don’t work

Why was it such a big deal to tear down the wall if it didn't work?

Bedroom door? Unlocked all time
Entrance door? Locked after 11pm

However until 15 years ago or so, my grandma and my aunts slept with their houses door unlocked. My grandma still keeps her doors completely open on sunny hot days.

You still need to go back to mexico.

ok? why was the wall built

This. Don't know what the fuck OP is on about.

To keep the Northern barbarians out. It failed multiple times though.

I do.. i have a dog that will eat anyone who enters my driveway.

It worked pretty damn well though. Especially because there were machine-gunners stationed along the whole thing waitng to take down anyone trying to cross it illegaly.

Worked pretty well all the way up until it was torn down. Guess that proves walls are ineffective.

Because of a traitor.

The mongols never conquered the wall itself, they were forced to go around it. While the other time the wall was breached, it was because a general betrayed China and opened the gate for the enemy. The wall did its job amazingly well for its time.

Worked pretty well for a while.

The Xiongnu captured the main gate and used it to raid China.

And succeeded many other times.

Because the Han dynasty was on its way out and left the wall under guarded.

A wall without reinforcement does nothing. It still did effectively stopped all looters and raiders.

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It was a fence not a wall, learn the fucking difference.

Actually, the wall worked quite effectively until the USSR started to implode.

I like how this shill got stumped in the very first reply. No shit a wall built to keep your own people inside who desperately want to leave wont work. It's like trying to run a Prison with not enough guards.

Commie anthems were always the best.

Didn't work...
Umm it's probably the most effective fucking Wall in history.
Just cause it's ripped down now doesn't mean it didn't work ffs

>At least 138 people died trying to cross the border. While some did make it safely across, it is unclear how many people exactly reached the western part. Some estimates claim that 5,000 East Germans reached West Berlin via the Wall.

compared to 11.4 illegal immigrants in the USA, that's pretty fucking effective bro

God, I wouldn't want to meet the poor bastard that made that 11.4 instead of 12, what the fuck happened to him?

Cartels got him and threw his remains over.

much like the teacher who went up into space and had the entire crew destroyed due to an O Ring failure. The only means of them confirming that her body was infact on the flight was match the colors of her eyes with the remains, one blew right and one blew left

Then why is there a wall around the White House?

That's different, it would be a huge security risk to the nation if one of those insane bastards got out of there.

Same reason guns are bad and can't protect you but Hillary Clinton needs large squads of bodyguards with guns.

The Berlin wall was fine, the shit started when that wall came down.

The unification of Germany was one of the biggest mistakes in human history, it never should of happened.

>walls don't work
a thousand years was a pretty good run

Don't like being second fry to Germany Mr. Bong?

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Margaret Thatcher is that you?

I miss West Germany.

If the left were correct about anything, they'd be "right"

what was so different about it compared to EU germany ?

God damn, user!

>Although I live in a military base and I don't think I've ever heard of anyone robbing anyone. Hell people just leave cars unlocked over here too.
Confirmed for not being in the military and full of shit.

Everybody is just trying to get their stuff back user

depends on the shit hole you stationed in and what branch M8y

It worked fantastic up until the collapse of the USSR.

Army.

Nothing is ever stolen, everybody is just trying to get their TA 50 back that got stolen from them.

>walls dont work

I think these walls stopped invaders for over 1000 years.

Until they made cannons.

>The Berlin wall didn't work

>That's why we needed to tear it down and make it a huge moment in human history when we did so.

Top kek. Do you think these people are aware of the cognitive dissonance and just ignoring it, or are genuinely too stupid to realise?

Came to post this

Humans have been building walls for thousands of years.

Only a fucking liberal would not understand the implications.

makes sense, army lets you borrow tons of personnel equipment thats payed for by them but if its lost, stolen or broken in an uncertain way then your paying for it. no wonder why the airforce doesn't issue any personnel shit unless the budget is good enough for the right people in the right place at the right time but for that you dont have to pay for or track, however it rarely happens

Don't see many illegal immigrants with cannons fortunately.

>HUr dur the Mexican immigrants will blow it up with canons.

Okay then thats an act of war you absolute retard. Nobody is coming to put the border-wall to siege.

NATO

>army lets you borrow tons of personnel equipment
They don't let you borrow shit. They force you to draw everything, fucking everything.

Yes and pay for it if returned unserviceable.

Walls work, because if you ever manage to get over it, they know that you're clearly not supposed to be there so they can light your spic ass up no questions asked.

it wasn't high enough

Fuck man when I finally had to return my TA 50 I already went over my own sheet and inventoried everything so I knew exactly what I was missing and how much I would have to pay to clear post.

Now I was going to buy the few things I was missing so I could clear CIF for perhaps a little less money and make it simpler. I ended up just saying fuck it because I had a bunch of other shit to deal with at the time, but I did have all of my magazine pouches because I had to buy a few.

The fucking cocksucker dropped that magazine pouch I bought and I almost fucking lost my mind because he kept saying I didn't have it and I say this retard drop it into the fucking bucket without checking it off. Now granted that only was $10 of the I think $250 I had to pay (had some soft shell CW jackets stolen), but fucking still. Fuck that prick.

I love it when CIF is lazy /not paying attention. I threw a beanie in a giant pile of gear, then someone picked it up, said "I find my beanie," and threw it back in.

Also, free gear when your unit finally gets the new shit

I actually got like 4 brand new pairs of the flight acu's in medium long because they were in the amnesty bin. Any time I ever swung by CIF I always checked in there for some goodies.

>walls don't work

Then why are buildings a thing?

heard worse, had a buddy retire from the army and he said since majority of his equipment was outdated they forced him to pay for the full TA 50 even though they told him multiple times prior to his out processing that they didn't have to update his equipment unless the camo was out of regs so the guy said fuck it and just payed for it

>wall built through to divide a city is the same as a wall built to protect a country

>wall

>Shitler's Berlin Wall
ebin burger :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

You described it very well, it seems that leftists are unable to have own, genuine thoughts.

The question for the author of your ideas reveals two things:

1. They cant imagine that somebody gets his own ideas based on facts and making up his mind about actual situations

2. It is more important to them to know how came up with the idea to attack the person and not the idea

the wall worked great

communism (which the kike author wants) didn't work

These pictures make me depressed. Hitler had an unfulfilled life, the war should have never happened, he should've built up Germany like he wanted.