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>human nature is absolute
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>humans have a nature
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>Nature has rights
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>>2702412
how can that be fedora
it's a statement of most religions
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1. Your religious stance.
2. Your opinion on capital punishment.
3. Your reasons for #2.
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Irreligious
Pro
Talk shit get hit
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>>2702261
1. Agnostic
2. Against
3. Punishing a crime by having the State doing the same crime transform justice in a mere commerce, were nothing in learnt by society except that in a world without punishment there would not be reasons to not do evil.
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>>2702261
1. Pantheist/Pagan
2. We need to start hanging murders again
3. Psychopaths aren't human, prison costs too much, I've been one of those people (a gutter trash degenerate) and they deserve no sympathy
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/tv/ is currently having a 'movies women will never understand' thread.
Someone there said that women cannot understand themes of honor, respect and (especially) isolation.
Since /tv/ is dumb, I'm posting my question here. Interested in hearing your thoughts, if you care to share them.
1. What's the difference between honor and respect? The concepts may be separate, but they are largely co-dependent. We respect honorable people, so it is really fair to split them into two and claim women aren't capable of understanding either of them?
2. Women, at least proper women, do feel certain social pressures to act in a 'virtuous' manner. Not being promiscuous is but one of many aspects of it. I'm inclined to say acting honorably is also possible for willing women. It's not like dishonorable women are valued or respected. So if a woman can be virtuous, and honor is a virtue, can we really say women are incapable of understanding honor or acting honorably?
3. Isolation is also possible for a woman. She may have it easier then men, that's true, but you could argue that being married to a cold yet jealous man is a form of isolation, no? Or, say, a woman who tries to be virtuous in the increasingly decadent society of today, and is shunned or mocked for it. Is that not a form of isolation as well?
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>>2702212
Honor and respect are spooks.
There is only isolation
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>>2702220
This should be a banner
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>>2702212
>honor and respect
It's all culturally bound to the point of almost being personal.
I've seen Evangelicals praise Mexican and Central American cartels for being "honorable Christians" while decrying ISIL. The only difference? The trajectory of faith.
I've seen people defend ISIL as a 'devil's advocate' because they're at least honest about what they'll do, but decry Scientology because of deception.
>so it is really fair to split them into two and claim women aren't capable of understanding either of them?
It's just /tv/ & /r9k/ memes; I highly doubt these folks know well enough women to make this judgement.
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Hi /his/. I have an essay do for my college history class and wanted to know if you could help me. I really don't care about history and have slept through every course I've ever taken so i'm really desperate for your help.
The Question is "How were Jews treated in the German Third Reich?"
Thank you.
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>>2702210
I found something fun:
Book Review Was Hitler Inspired by Racist American Laws?
'Hitler’s American Model,' by James Q. Whitman, contends that America's racist legislation served as a model for at least portions of Nazi Germany's Nuremberg Laws.
http://www.haaretz.com/life/books/1.778929
Spoiler Alert: At least influenced.
https://www.amazon.de/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/dp/0691172420
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poorly disguised /pol/ bait
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Does he deserve to be idolized?
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Absolutely
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His voice is /comfy/ not gonna lie.
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The single most actively destructive administration in American history, though his handlers did most of the work while the demented geriatric B-movie actor was mostly just a puppet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
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Redpill me on the Zanj revolt
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Niggers
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>>2703621
>3 unique ids
hmmmmmmmmm
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All the texts I read about Constantinople's walls was that for over a millennia the walls were virtually invincible, never being broken by a siege until the introduction of gunpowder, but never really go into much detail about what was different about them that made them so difficult to properly breach.
What made the walls so impossible to break down? the system of forward wall, a moat/trench network, followed by the main wall was pretty standard for most medieval castles and other city walls of the time and later, so what made Constantinople's so different that they couldn't be broken by armies of over 100,000 on numerous occasions?
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>>2702017
They were coated with anti-roach chemicals.
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>>2702017
Mostly it was the navy's ability to keep all the sea walls safe while the enemy could only focus on the land wall.
the Byzantine Navy was undoubtedly the strongest in the world for most of its history thanks to greek fire able to annihilate enemy fleets with little effort, keeping the city supplied with food and water through the Bosporus, and with the enemy unable to siege the sea walls, the entire Byzantine garrison was free to focus all their attention to the land walls.
Since the only route of escape for the enemy across the strait, and that being secured by Byzantine ships, the enemy armies were effectively trapped and were unable to resupply with their water crossing blocked off, which led to the entire army either surrendering or being cut to pieces by the Byzantine army.
in a sense, attempts to try and siege the city led to the attackers being surrounded and besieged in return.
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>Mostly it was the navy's ability to keep all the sea walls safe while the enemy could only focus on the land wall.
This.
>>2702017
For an Eastern or Southern enemy Army
>as it was usually the case what with the Byz.-Arab wars and the Turkic invasions, excluding marauding slav armies and nomadic raiders.
the first approach to the city is by sea. So you can expect fireships and a fleet of dromon ships as well as coastal defenses that'll tear your fleet to pieces. If by any chance the enemy pushes through the naval defense and lands behind the theodosian wall, they would face a moat and three walls of increasing height, one behind the other, manned and ready to torch them with greek fire from above.
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So, some of the answers to this thread: >>2700135 made me ponder about a thing: what advancements in warfare motivated the evolution of Roman armor during the time, like in pic related? In which ways is the soldier number six better then the third one? In the byzantine empire the aesthetic became even more similar to other European nations. What new tactics, weapons and other medieval innovation made roman warfare completely obsolete?
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>Romans discarding the well-engineered pilium for a convential spear
Please tell me this image is inaccurate.
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>>2702005
You say 'advancement' as though there is a clear line of improvement, which there isn't. Strategy is relative, you may have a strategy capable of defeating countless hoplites yet you could still be dominated by a smaller force yielding foreign tactics.
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>>2702022
The pilum was replaced by smaller darts called plumbata which were stored in pockets on the inside of the shield. It's thought most soldiers carried about five or six plumbata.
This allowed Roman soldiers to be more effective skirmishing troops and carry a spear as well, which made them much more effective against cavalry.
>>2702028
This anon is right. Will do a more extensive writeup in a bit but Late Roman soldiers looked the way they did because the nature of warfare was changing dramatically and the kind of soldier than image 3 depicts wasn't as effective anymore.
Why were ancient Romans so racist against white people? Is this still true today?
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>>2701889
Because gay shit.
No.
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>>2701907
>It's another "only blond barbarians are white" episode
Of course germanic scum was seen as inferior. After all, they were filthy barbarians living in huts with barely any form of scripture, in a time when southern Europeans were the apex of civilisation.
And when Julian speaks of Africans, he's obviously talking about the people that Romans called Africans, i.e., Egyptians, Numidians, Berbers, not Sub Saharan blacks.
Kys.
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>146BC
>destroy Carthage
>destroy Corinth
Where the romans justified in losing their shit or was it turning point in the "style" of roman imperialism? It just makes no sense why Rome would destroy not just one, but two gigantic trade hubs the exact same year.
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>>2701783
The destruction of Carthage was mostly because the Romans were scared like shit from the Carthaginians. They probably got spooked even more when Hannibal turned to be an efficient administrator as well, making Carthage wealthy again.
It's sad but when you look at it from Rome's perspective... it was justified. The Punic Wars were 20 years each and laid waste and slaughter to both nations. Rome lost 20% of it's male population in the second.
They just couldn't risk Carthage rising up and challenging them for a third round.
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>>2701783
eat shit you penny-pinching profligate,
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>tfw carthage was literally a semitic merchant empire bringing north africans into italy
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What went right?
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le banker face
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no one outside cared about them
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I want to say education, direct democracy and international irrelevance but who are we kidding here they're mountain jews.
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Why did Arab nationalists align themselves with the Soviet Union? Why did Israel align itself with the West?
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Arabs are known to be fucking idiots.
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>>2701540
Dealing with the soviets was a lot more straightforward without all the excessive patronizing.
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>>2701540
>Why did Israel align itself with the West?
Because the Soviets literally expelled all their Jews you mongoloid
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Redpill me on italian history as fast as you can
go
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>>2701451
Used to be kangz
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>>2701451
One state
Two state
Red state
Blue state
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rome -> little states -> renaissance -> unification -> meme no one cares about
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Tell me more about them. Do they maintain Mongolian traditions? How does the rest of the population in Afghanistan view them? Are they still Mongolian by blood?
>The Moghols (Mogul, Mongul) are descendants of the Mongol Empire's soldiers in Afghanistan. They live in the Kundur and Karez-i-Mulla villages of Herat province and speak the Mogholi language.[1] The Moghols sometimes call themselves "Shahjahan", because they joined the Shah Jahan king's army of the Mughal Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moghol_people
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bumpd
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They're wewuzing Turkics
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>>2701767
>Mongols
>Turkic
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>Has a country ever been BTFO more than Russia in the 20th century 2017-04-22 09:30:06 Post No.2701223
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>Has a country ever been BTFO more than Russia in the 20th century
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>Lost the monarchy after the disastrous first WW
>Millions killed in the Russian civil war, ending up with the country in the hands of the Soviets
>Led by a madman who hates the existence of other people independent from himself
>Get rekt again in WW2, with the enemy killing as many people as they could
>Kill millions of their own people because of a retarded government
>Have to spend enormous amounts of the GDP to keep up with the west militarilly
>Wind up collapsing with most of their land leaving the country again, leaving a rump state Russia
>Has to stay a dictatorship to keep a strong centralized government to protect from collapse
>even now is dependent on oil
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russia in the 20th doesn't even come close to poland in the 18th
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>>2701223
Sweden
>lost its empire and great power status
>got BTFO so badly it remains pacifist to this day
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>>2701223
all the countries I wiped off the facfe of the earth (Germany, Japan, Native Americans...)