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>>2760634
it wasn't designed to be effective

>>2760634
Oh boi, wait until you find about the predecessor

>>2760634
It was a spurious, illogical idea from the start and should've been put in the grave after the first shitty prequel (League of Nations).

http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2011/02/democracy-born-chains

>Want to redistribute land? Impossible—at the last minute, the negotiators agreed to add a clause to the new constitution that protects all private property, making land reform virtually impossible. Want to create jobs for millions of unemployed workers? Can’t—hundreds of factories were actually about to close because the ANC had signed on to the GATT, the precursor to the World Trade Organization, which made it illegal to subsidize the auto plants and textile factories. Want to get free AIDS drugs to the townships, where the disease is spreading with terrifying speed? That violates an intellectual property rights commitment under the WTO, which the ANC joined with no public debate. Need money to build more and larger houses for the poor and to bring free electricity to the townships? Sorry—the budget is being eaten up servicing the massive debt, passed on quietly by the apartheid government. Print more money? Tell that to the apartheid-era head of the central bank. Free water for all? Not likely. The World Bank, is making private-sector partnerships the service norm. Want to impose currency controls to guard against wild speculation? That would violate the $850 million IMF deal, signed, conveniently enough, right before the elections. Raise the minimum wage to close the apartheid income gap? Nope. The IMF deal promises "wage restraint."12 And don’t even think about ignoring these commitments— any change will be regarded as evidence of dangerous national untrustworthiness, a lack of commitment to “reform,” an absence of a "rules-based system." All of which will lead to currency crashes, aid cuts and capital flight. The bottom line was that South Africa was free but simultaneously captured; each one of these arcane acronyms represented a different thread in the web that pinned down the limbs of the new government.

>>2760369
>Waaahh stahp blaming whitey for everything Reeeee :(

Sums it up

History is complex and multifaceted.

Unfortunately, most people are simpleminded and easily bored about any subject if you get too detailed about things. People want clear cut and easily digestible narratives. I'm sure you probably like anime but reading extensively detailed books about anime production would bore you to tears.

> Did Hitler do anything wrong?
How is this even a question? The guy was so wrong that he killed himself. Imagine how he could prove his ideas in Nurnberg instead of dying like a coward.

>>2760254
> killed himself
You mean escaped to Argentina/Antarctica

>>2760247
Yes.
Everything.
Terrible if you cared about things like liberty, freedom and was a minority or belonged to a left-wing party.
No.

>>2760039
>Were human rights a mistake?
>Are human lives overrated?
What about the world today gives you the impression that human life in general is rated highly at all?

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>>2760039
Human rights are bullshit

>>2760085
Someone gets shot by a cop and riots spark up
Children die in the middle east and the whole region is set on fire
Death penalty is under a negative view
People are still throwing money at African tribes

There is also the fact that we can't outright execute those who are clearly damaging society without doubt and instead are later added to the chain of leeches that live off it. The norm is that human lives are precious and we are not allowed to take them lightly (in public) or we are heading to a slippery slope

HONORARY

>>2759619
ARYAN

>>2759616

Tojo in disguise,

Do you think HHwhite people were able to run concentration camps with their consicence?. Na it's all the eternal nippons fault

Nazis dindu nuffin, hitlah was a gud boy gettin his countries economy togetha

>>2759260
Spain had a foreign legion in the thirties but it eventually desolved because it was mostly just Spaniard and South American people using foreign aliases.

>>2759260
Most of the Carthaginian army ended up being volunteers from wherever they were fighting from, since Carthage itself didn't have a great amount of soldiers to draw from. Hannibal had to constantly get locals to join to keep up the fighting prowess of his army.

>>2759260

Well, off the top of my head, without looking anything up, I can list:

>Dr. Livingstone's (the explorer) son moved to America for a time purely so that he could join the Union Army during the American civil war and help abolish slavery

>George Orwell (the writer) fighting with leftists against Franco during the Spanish Civil War

>Eddie Rickenbacker and other American pilots joining the French Air Force during WW1

>Modern day Mexicans joining the US army to get American citizenship

>The enormous number of foreigners who've gone to Syria to fight there for one side or another, ranging from hardcore jihadists to unbelievably naive westerners.

Weirdest story I ever saw was two Latino gangbangers from LA who went to Syria to fight for Assad for some reason that I'm sure makes sense only in their minds if they're somehow still alive.

>>2758643
>What went wrong?

centralism.

People wanting power for themselves betrayed Bolivar.

Thats why it was so easy for USA to split panama. And there was the possibility to be splited even further.

>Would Latin America have been better off?

I don't think so.

There wasn't good leaders after Bolivar in any of these countries till Chavez. (you may like it or hate him but he was a leader).

So chances are that gran colombia would became another big mess like mexico.

>>2758643
>What went wrong?
Like every other Latin American state that fractured, regions with different interests saw themselves as being exploited by and for the capital and its political structure. They weren't necessarily wrong, either. The capital, in turn, tried to force greater centralization which usually just caused more strife.

>What could have been done
Realistically, nothing. Every state in Latin America went through a centrifuge. The confrontational divides they all experienced had existed long before independence came. Mexico just happened to lose fewer parts and that was mainly because their other territories weren't populated enough to actually break off without being broken off by someone else.

>Would Latin America have been better off?
Hard to say. I can't say it would be worse, but I doubt it would be better.

>>2758682
>>2758697
Why is it that the Spanish colonies tended to fracture, but Brazil held together?

>>2757579
America still is pious supposedly

I bet those who say they are religious know deep down god is bullshit

you would think a people who believed in a heaven would have no fear and yet they hide in their houses while leftist activist youth take the initiative

>>2757579
>On a scale of 1 - to proper fucked..
End Times/10

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>>2757579
Most of my country is "religious" (some 90% identify as catholic) in the sense that they go to church and do nothing else related to christianity. They are utterly useless. Our priests are not all that good, either - they are mostly detached and disinterested, and the beauty of the sermons is ruined by their insistence on sounding as if they were bored to hell. Our youth, of which I am part, is nearly beyond repair with irresponsibility, promiscuity, apathy and calousness towards society and others. Most young people I know have at least some form of emotional issues (of which the most common seem to be the unwillingness to seriously commit to anything, particularly relationships, and fears of abandonment) and are almost invariably nihilistic and hostile toward religion and patriotism. Divorce rates are skyrocketing, and the effects of broken families on people are fairly obvious when you get to know them. I am genuinely trying to help people overcome that phase, and have actually had successes with several people, but it is a Sisiphus quest. The whole state of things is tragic. I wish I were joking, or that I could claim those judgements to be inaccurrate on account of knowing too few people, but I am not joking nor can I claim that. Just bloody end this.

t. Croatian catholic

It wasn't a stupid assumption, he might have had more luck if he didn't go full autism and drive potential allies right into Papa Stalin's loving arms.

>>2756913

Truly kicking the door in has never been tried.

>>2756913

It's funny how Hitler managed to repeat all the mistakes of WW1. He was so obsessed with his "stab in the back" myth that he never even considered the fact that the German command might have made mistakes.

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>>2756646
Tie up between this

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>>2756655
This

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>>2756663
And this

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I'll probably be arrested on suspicion of being a Jacobite so I may as well actually become one

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>>2756259
>being a Jacobite
Bow to the one true king, Wenzel, Lord of the Scots and the English!

>>2756248
>So how fucked are you?
Northern Switzerland, I should be fine.
>Any plans to change the world?
With the money I can build a prototype for cotton gin's combing machines and spinning jennies. If I manage to find investors I can kickstart the Industrial Revolution early.
Either that or emigrating to the America, becoming a wealthy plantation owner.

black nigger brigade black nigger brigade
i fought with them when I tried to get laid

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Lucius Septimius Bassianus (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was a Black Roman Emperor who ruled from 211 to 217.

Caracalla was the eldest son of Septimius Severus, the first black African-born Emperor of Rome. But before Septimius Severus, there had been other Roman-born black Emperors of Rome. This story of the other black emperors of Rome will be explored in another write-up, but for now we focus on Caracalla.

Unlike his father Septimius Severus, Caracalla was born and raised in Italy. After the death of his father, he ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until the latter’s death in 211.

Caracalla’s reign was notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana, granting Roman citizenship to freemen throughout the Roman Empire. That act laid a foundation for a peaceful multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Empire that Rome was to become.

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Very Rare image of Henry II (972-1024) King of Italy and Germany also Holy Roman Emperor during the time of the Ottonian Dynasty. From the Sacramentary of Henry II (1002 -1014). Undeniable proof of so called black presence throughout Europe.

>>2755245
the purpose was to boost the self-esteem of white bois who couldn't compete with the bbc.

>>2755245
One of countless instances of science trying to be 'objective'. Oh wow, it just happens to confirm the Zeitgeist!

>>2755245
It was to confirm what they had already made up in their minds using stupid categorizations.

It's like the use of Caucasoid; Ethiopians are caucasoid, Tutsi are caucasoid, Fulani are caucasoid, Maasai are caucasoid, Polynesians are Caucasoid, Ainu are caucasoid, Native Americans are caucasoid, everyone who isn't someone we find out right inferior is caucasoid.

It shows an inferiority complex.

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I think they just made a flag that looks pretty, nothing more to it than that. No symbolism, other than using stars and red, white, and blue colors.

The actual flag of the confederacy was originally just the Austrian flag with a blue square with a circle of stars in it.

>>2754754
>Austrian flag
I don't think Austria was discovered yet.

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>>2754736
>>don't even put the cross correctly on the flag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire
and at least post a correct/good CSA flag

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Astur-Leonese and Aragonese are pretty much dead languages at this point.

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>>2752926
> Don Kossack?
Kalmyks (Mongol Buddhist that lives in Russia)