Asked /lit/ but they didn't help.What are some good books to learn about US involvement in Vietnam?
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>>2630216
Embers of War is fanfuckingtastic. Well-written too.
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>>2630216
I wanna fucc that horsey ass
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>mfw Nietzsche was actually a Christian reformer
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>yfw he ate 7 pounds of fruit a day
I shit you not, look it up
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>>2630238
Of course
Fruit has intrinsic value
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>>2630238
Why did he eat so much fucking fruit
Nobody actually NEEDS that much fruit
It's probably actually bad for you
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Is it true that samurais would break arrows with their swords?
disproportional
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no all samauris had autism, thus why evreyone thought they has special sword powers
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>>2630041
Probably, the last headmaster of Maniwa nen ryu practiced it.
the founder of Ten ryu was said to be a master of it, after winning a duel he was ambushed by the guys followers who shot at him with bows. Using a kama yari (sickle spear) he knocked down many of them but they kept firing and he died "As full of arrows as a hedgehog has quills" according to Amdur's "Old School" book.
That said it seems to be something of a rare skill, only one school today is said to practice it,and only as a adjunct to regular training
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>>2630092
Its probably possible but not exactly worthwhile.
Best case scenario youve knocked aside his arrow and youre 2 steps closer to him while he notches another. And another. And another.
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>The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognisance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously.
What did Patton mean by this?
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That Russians aren't whites. They're a hodge podge of barbarians, Orientals, and savages.
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>>2629928
He looks kinda Mongoloid in that pic himself, just saying.
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Is she right?
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Yes.
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(((no)))
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>>2629920
Unironically yes, collectivism always leads to mass murder and genocide as in the case of socialism, communism, fascism etc.
Libertarian free market capitalism and individualism with limited government is the only way.
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East prussia, austria, the studenland, and silesia should be returned to germany
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"returned" as if those territories belonged to any of the former Imperial states that now make up the Federal Republic of Germany.
Hell, if everything, all the German states should submit to Austria (and also Rome)
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>>2629760
>listening to the cucksburgs
never
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>>2629760
I personally have always viewed Austria as the "other" Germany that wasn't permanently fucked over by the communists.
>Knowing that an individual death is meaningless - any individual death, especially your own - that you are not a person, but a statistic - and noticing, more each day, the countless deaths that occur around you - of other people, of animals, of insects, of the sick and infirm, of accident victims, of plants ripped from the earth and worms crushed beneath the blades of plows - of authors in their rooms, scribbling out desperate words in the backs of books no one will ever read- even the shattering of molecular bonds, the disintegration of atomic structures, happening in every moment, millions in each nanosecond, everywhere
so /his/, what's the point?
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Literally, the point, in so many words, is heroin. You'll thank me later.
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>>2629630
The point is to stop thinking about the point and try to make it the best experience you can while you're here. Either that or suicide. Why waste your time doing something you don't enjoy? I decided I don't really wanna die yet so I'm gonna try and go for the first option.
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>>2629675
fpbp
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Did Justinian cause the Dark Ages?
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No. the Western Roman Empire fell long before Justinian was born.
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>>2629451
>dark age
I believe you mean late antiquity :)
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> the dark ages are real
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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>>2629419
the most beautiful gif in existence
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>>2629419
*pppppppffffffffttttttttttttt*
Oh honey, I think I shart the bed!
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>>2629419
brits were dumb to give up hong kong
screwed yourself and the hong kong natives
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So how exactly did the Greeks react after their Megali idea fell flat on its ass and they got btfoed by Based Ataturk?
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>>2629256
Why didn't they want the whole of western Anatolia?
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>>2629256
I imagine the Greeks, Armenians, and Italians all feeling smug after ww1 only to have their smile and optimism destroyed
Also, why are the Turks the only Islamic people that managed to militarily drive off European invaders in the 20th century .
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>>2629274
They did want it though. IIrc that was their goal when they tried to invade. only to get completely annihilated. Today they unironically blame the british or a monkey biting their king over the loss. Between them and the Arabs they are probably the sorest losers to have ever existed.
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Childhood is wanting justice
Adulthood is realizing Realpolitik makes more sense
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>>2628975
I used to hate Kissinger, now I realize he did some things right.
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Childhood is doing what you're told by authority figures.
Adulthood is realizing realpolitik makes more sense.
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>>2628987
Look at how shit everything has gone since we've abandoned honest power politics
fuck the formalities come on let's be honest
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How in the h*ck did this tiny country conquer the known world?
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The republic of China is fucking gone you moron
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>>2628334
This thread again, stop bullying us, I see enough of that on int.
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>>2628334
Japan is powerful
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Was Greco-Roman architecture superior to medieval architecture?
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>>2628107
yes it was, until they started building those giant gothic style cathedrals
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>>2628107
Theit ability to mass produce architectural feats most certainly outstripped what came after. I would say they were much better engineers with bigger budgets and better infastructure.
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Is there a better form of government than a Monarchy led by a Philosopher King a la Plato?
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Plato sucks.
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>>2627813
delet this
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>>2627809
Any other form of government
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>be me
>be big thick strong Siberian peasant
>have problem with drinking and whoring
>wander frozen shithole known as Russian Empire
>have spiritual awakening
>become monk
>get into mysticism
>travel to Moscow
>still have drinking and whoring problem
>work my way up the aristocratic latter by fucking noble women
>kind of liking new status
>decide to influence the Tsar
>tell the queen I can heal her son of hemophilia
>just actually want to fuck queen and gain power
>wtf I actually healed this inbred fuck
>get lots of royal pussy
>nobles get pissed that I put my dick in everything
>get stabbed in stomach, feelsbadman.jpg but whatever
>get invited to party a few years later
>drink wine
>it was poisoned enough to kill five men
>literally never felt better in my life
>go home
>be in St. Petersburg
>get shot in back with revolver
>fall unconscious but wake up and fight off attackers
>get shot more
>get clubbed
>get tied up and rolled up in a rug
>thrown in river
>drown
>mfw
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Good thing he died as a legend instead of a bald old man.
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>>2627625
This dude probably has some rare, superior genes. Maybe Neanderthal DNA or something, but he is definitely not comparable to your average Joe today.
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>>2627625
Did he actually tap the tsarina?