As a result of the wider diffusion of utilitarian modes of valuation, also known as muh contributing to society maymay.
>>2768243
I like this thread.
Contemporary hermits are probably some underground artists, scientists and philosophers I guess, but they get reall shit from people.
As far as contribution to society, I'd say they have contributed much more than it is known.
>>2768243
With the increasing feminization of society. Not even memeing.
And what's the fucking accomplishment there? How literally did everything he could to lose this war. Americans as always fought on easy mode and still needed 6 years to beat small British forces.
>>2768224
And yet, Britain remains an American vassal to this very day.
Stay mad, Britcucks.
>>2768248
>remains
>to this very day
Sure, but they didn't become such until after the second world war after America jumped into the vacuum that Europe's destruction left, so don't behave as if winning the revolutionary war somehow magically made you top dog.
>>2768224
Is this a shitpost?
I heard fight threads are the trend now.
>>2768089
what am I supposed to do here OP?
you need a strawpoll or something
>>2768089
>apache
>not the superior plains nigger tribe the Comanche
>>2768121
http://www.strawpoll.me/12908810
>apache
>vs
>zulu
Was he guilty or innocent?
Of shooting himself?
He killed himself the year my dad immigrated to the USA, my dad was so happy that even the mere ACCUSATION of corruption drove us politicians to public suicide, oh boy my dad was in for a treat heheh
>>2768051
if he was innocent, he wouldn't have killed himself
Why don't nihilists just kill themselves?
Nihilists are liars. Nothing matters but they eat and shit on a tight schedule like everyone else all the same. I've never seen a nihilist miss a meal. What a crock of shit.
>>2767789
If nothing in life matters, why SHOULD I kill myself?
Because you're still in college and you don't understand Nihilsm
Is this the most unlucky president of all time?
>only in the White House because of being Vice President
>become President because Roosevelt died.
>learn that your country was developing nuclear weapons only after taking oath of office
>try to win a war against an enemy that wouldn't give up
>decide nuclear weapon is the best option
>become the only person in history to use nuclear weapons as an act of aggression.
>have to do it twice because Japs are autistic
>>2767758
Not even close.
I think Carter had it worse
>>2767758
There are some who would consider getting shot a bit more unlucky.
What is it about the Italian people that makes them suck at war en masse (IE when they are surrounded by other Italians, whether it is the country of Italy or the irrelevant shitty states they were forever), but absolutely shit stomp as commanders and soldiers in the service of other nations and peoples, as well as doing really well in individual combat?
Why does a population of people who are by all accounts rough and alpha as well as smart do so shitty at war when surrounded by each other, but so well when surrounded by others not like them?
>>2767727
Dumping with some examples of great military leaders from Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_Montecuccoli
1. Raimondo Montecuccoli, Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire considered the greatest general of early modern warfare who had significant defeats over both Le Grande Conde and Turrene
>>2767730
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrogio_Spinola,_1st_Marquis_of_the_Balbases
2. Ambrogio Spinola, General and Admiral for Spain who succeeded in crushing the Dutch Revolt for a time. Considered by many to be the greatest master of siege warfare in history owing to to nearly 100 successful sieges and 0 defeats in war.
>>2767735
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Farnese,_Duke_of_Parma
3. Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, also in the service of Spain, considered one of the best ever "Spanish" generals who contributed to the crushing of the dutch revolt as well.
So here's what I don't get about Christianity.
Why would the devil have an interest in punishing evil doers when he is himself evil? Shouldn't he reward them instead?
Like if a murder goes to hell why would the devil punish them rather than letting them out to kill more people?
For Christianity to work the Devil has to be a willing part of God's plan.
>>2767717
He doesnt. The devil suffers in hell just like non-believers.
Devil being the master of hell is just "fiction"
>>2767717
Devil isn't in charge of hell, God is in control
>>2767717
Lucifer is suffering, and for those humans who actually have a possibility to see their creator, to live in heaven, amd then they throw that away so they can suffer the hopeless dread of hell. He has hatred 100fold for those weak souls that are so proud to think they can do his bidding on earth
Either side of the American Civil War could defeat any other contemporary military in the world.
Dicksuss.
>>2767623
The Union could, and the South could if they had the same amount of material and industrial capacity
Thread theme song
https://youtu.be/omqqGViq3Ng
May the Tyrant Lincoln rot in hell for eternity with his dog Sherman.
Not Napoleon/France.
Why Hitler wanted Generalplan OST. For example German soldier see some slavic blonde bluy eyed guy but "he is subhuman"! WHY
>When you have no understanding of history
The post
>>2767602
No copies of general plan ost exist. Only soviet "reconstructions" that conviniently agree with soviet propoganda. Soviet goverment literally had to claim that hitler wanted to kill all the russians, in order for a german occupation to be worse than what they were themselves doing to the russians.
>>2767602
>Memeralplan Ost
It's a forged document.
Reading up on the past can make you aware of opinions and ideas you never hear otherwise.
A normal person may say they are a liberal, or a conservative. But what I am thing is that we were better off being mostly farmers and that Feudalism has its merits, so I keep my mouth shut because that's weird.
>>2767542
No, you're WEIRD if you don't realize how different things are and have been in other places, times, and cultures.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2010-14802-001
After talking politics a friend asked if i didn't believe that all cultures were equal, as if that was some terrible backwards idea. That's when I realized most people really have no clue.
I belieb we shuld all be nucked bagg to the stobe age :DDDD
One thing that I never understood about ideologys, religions etc. that belive in a superior master race, world domination and more in general in social darwinism. It's how's that is practial, desirable or even a good thing. What kind of people want to live in a costant state of war? What happens after your race, religion or state defeat others? Nothing, you won and then? I mean I really don't see how this kind of Ideologys and religions would live in a normal or a peace context. Take away that living a costant war is not desirable, but no one ever asked to them self what happens after? >Ok we control the world, we destroyed every other race, we are the strongest and the cooles... Still we are "warriors" without a war now.
And to control the world is totally impossible, so it's just the costant state of war part. Why would someone want to live like that?
And that's why imho communism it's not bad as Nazism or Fascism: When the revolution ends there is actually a plan of peace and stability.
Pls explain is just bugging me
>>2767359
>What happens after your race, religion or state defeat others?
That's literally retarded. That's like saying "why don't you believe in God? What if God comes down to Earth and gives you superpowers, what then?"
World domination has never happened because for vast vast majority of hundreds of thousands of years of human history it was impossible. Real world domination only became possible in the late 19th century AD by European but the specific political circumstances prevented anyone from actually going at it so World War Two is the ONLY real attempt at world domination in all of human history.
Also let's get rid of the implied bullshit before it even begins - white people were NOT the only ones with a superiority complex. Nearly every civilization believed they were the most glorious and most important ones. Chinese literally thought they were center of the world and that everyone else was a dirty barbarian that ought to bow down to them, Arabs oppressed and subjugated the fuck out of Maghrebis and Africans from the moment they met them (famously, in Arabic the word for slave is the same as the word for African) and established a color based hierarchy where Arabs were at the top, then Maghrebis then Africans. And so on and so on.
>>2767359
Well I can't speak for others, but personally as a racist that believes whites are simply the best race, I'd say that's a mischaracterization of what I believe.
I don't believe whites should dominate the world or destroy other races. I believe that when we want to we can do such, but as not only the most powerful race, we also have the greatest empathy for others, and so we've decided that would be cruel, and would rather help other races even to our detriment. This pathological altruism is an evolution of the older idea of the white man's burden to bring civilization to the rest of the world. Sometimes this has admittedly gone awry and been corrupted more sinister, greedy, and base motives.
>>2767381
>white people were NOT the only ones
Never implied m8. I cited nazism and fascism at the end simply because I had those two in mind. When I talked about religion I was Impling Wahhabism
Let's assume that there is no god.
In such a situation how can morals exist? Only social convention can exist.
>>2767183
except none of that has anything to do with the other and youre a baiting faggot
>>2767183
Just try to see from the other persons point of view and you should know whats right or wrong unless you're a psychopath or something
>>2767183
I fail to see how morals can not be accounted for without God.
To me your scenario makes as much sense as saying "let's assume there is no god. In such a situation, how can biology exist?"
Am I too stupid or philosophy is just bullshit? Let's take idealism for expample: it says that world isn't fully available to percept by human senses. What the fuck does it mean? it sounds like some pseudoreiligious bullshit
at least read the greeks or something before you ask this shit
>>2767168
Sounds like the first option desu senpai, baka
It means exactly what it says, consider all the elements of scientific reality that require specialized instruments to perceive or are understood to us only through mathematical equations.
That said, a lot of philosophy does delve into pseudoreligious bullshit.
Now that the dust has settled we can agree that the good guys were in the East, right?
*revs helicopter engine*
>>2767033
>revving a helicopter
Into the trash it goes.
>good guys
>literally have to build a wall to keep your people in
Sure.