Do you believe in the Jews were enslaved in Egypt? Even though there's no evidence of it? Because if you don't you might be guilty of hate crime and antisemitism.
Well, are you a Egyptian enslavement denier /his/?
>>2616575
that* the Jews
>>2616575
There were certainly Habiru (aka Hebrew) peoples in Egypt, but it's not clear that they were actually slaves.
They might have been hired hands pissed off about working conditions who were exiled.
Old Testament history is shrouded in many layers of confusion, like an ogre.
>>2616575
>we wuz image casually thrown in with an otherwise on topic thread
What is this trend? Hard to imagine it's anything other than an attempt to legitimize this shit.
I just finished Ceasar's memoirs of his conquest of Gaul and now I'm interested in his civil war against Pompey. Recommend any books that give a good overview of events? I'm looking for something that does more than just states facts and and gives dates, no, Ceasar was here, this skirmish happened, blah, blah... I want something that gives insight into what Ceasar and Pompey are thinking, why they did things, the political climate in Rome at the time, something that has some excitement. Got anything?
Rubicon.
Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series.
Historical fiction, but well researched and something you can really sink your teeth into- 7 books totaling ~7000 pages
>>2616554
The Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
I'm interested if there was a strong multicultural element in the early (i.e. 20s and 30s) soviet union.
Did they portray themselves as being strong due to the heterogeneity?
>>2616538
Yeah they portrayed themselves as multicultural. I suggest you see the Soviet film Circus (1936). It depicts Americans as racist and lynchers and the Soviets as multicultural and just.
>>2616543
Thanks, that's a really cool example.
>>2616552
You're welcome. There's literally a scene where the different cultures sing a lullaby in their traditional languages and empashize their cooperation.
>>2616470
No. That movie bombed at the box office actually. Victory of Faith and later Triumph of the Will were required viewing in classrooms though
pill me on the history of unions in the united states and whether or not unions were really all that great
I mostly hear about how bad working conditions used to be, but I feel like that's mostly a meme, in that it's greatly exaggerating the minority cases that went wrong and we don't hear about the times it went good
Surely it was not all that bad before unions
>>2616390
Conditions were horrible and unions started forming to deal with that but capitalist factory workers hired Pinkertons to attack and even kill strikers and union workers. Things didn't begin to improve until Teddy Roosevelt's presidency.
>>2616390
My ancestors were Irish-American coal miners. Working conditions were horrendous. People worked long hours and worked with heavy machinery in low lighting. My great-great uncle had fingernails that were cracked and bent, and once got a gash on his head from the tunnel ceiling, leading to him having to have an operation done while lying on his kitchen table. My great grandfather died relatively young from brown lung (lung disease from constantly inhaling coal dust). I'm not that old.
>>2616390
>but I feel like that's mostly a meme
it really isn't, there were a lot more ghastly conditions than good conditions for sure
a majority of people who made a living in the coal industry ended up dying of respiratory disease
shit, my great grandfather was a merchant mariner for Newfoundland for just 5 years during ww2 (was a fisherman/handyman for the rest), and he ended up getting COPD
Why do people insist in the idea of "justice"? Let's pick two of the biggest outright fascists of humankind:
>Hitler, died at age 54
>Stalin, died at age 74
Meanwhile the greatest genius of all times, Einstein died at age 76, only two years older than Stalin.
Consider that Stalin outlived many people in the world at the time as the life expectancy was set around 60 years old at average. There ain't fair game. Stop believing bs people tell you. Only science can save us!
>>2616321
but Stalin was a hero. He helped kill literally Hitler
Stalin dindu nuffin you dirty kulak
>>2616321
Stop trusting in science
>""Italy""
>Not Greater Sardinia
Oh an Italy thread!
Reminder that Corsica is rightfully Italian.
That is all.
>>2616294
>Greater Sardinia
> not i'll Regno delle Due Sicilie e un po 'più terra
>>2616298
So is Dalmatia and Piedmont and Tripolitania and Albania
>Declares war on a neutral nation leading to the most damaging war in human history
>resigns a couple months later
What drives the *nglo to be so perfidious?
Here's your reply
>do everything not to go to war
>german austism won't stop can't stop
>destroys europe for the second time in 2 decades
What drives the kr**t to be so perfidious?
>>2616291
Everyone knows they unfairly lost too much land after WW1, they were just correcting the *nglos wrongs.
What is to be done about shitty, immoral people?
Leave them to their own devices? But this is unsafe.
Attempt to rehabilitate/re-educate them? But this is wasteful.
Punish them? But how?
>>2616275
>Attempt to rehabilitate/re-educate them? But this is wasteful.
How is it "wasteful" if it has an effect and the alternative of not doing anything is even more damaging?
>Punish them? But how?
You forgot to also say "but this is wasteful". Also, same as above.
>>2616299
How can it be done without wasting inordinate amounts of time and money on people who may not be willing to change?
Punishment is efficient. They could take off limbs like they do in Saudi.
>>2616299
>>2616324
>How can it be done without wasting inordinate amounts of time and money on people who may not be willing to change?
It creates capital for private run prisons. However, one should discuss wether throwing people in jail is actually effective. Also, this leads to a lot of potential for abuse, since law enforcement can be in cahoots with private prison owners and send them more "prisoners" while they get a share of the profit
>Another mass media product about WW1 overrating Brits at the expense of the much more relevant French
>Another mass media product about WW1 depicting Germans as the bad guys
Right after the cancerous BF1, this shit will finish off the perception of France and Germany in WW1.
Deal with it guys, the Eternal Anglo has won.
Not by himself, but thank to his son America.
german and french ppl had their ancestors fight enough wars, they dont enjoy that much larping
so anglos for pay for that shit, thats why its done like that
its just supply and demand
if anything, its proof anglo ppl dont know what actual war is, since they are sheltered on their continents/islands
That they will only watch in the US
>>2616221
Dude neither has fought in a major war in 70 years
Let's have a chat about this Adorno chap. Admittedly, I am not a man of the left but nonetheless I'm always willing to entertain theory, even if I don't necessarily buy into it. Has anyone read much of his work and has anything to say about it?
What are some his key ideas and where should one start with his work?
You should start with his "Dialektik der Aufklärung" (Dialectic of Enlightment) his Main Opus, which he has written togehter with Max Horkheimer.
One of his main thesis was that the enlightment is developing in a dialectical process between reason/freedom and superstition/tyranny. In his time the superstition was the believe in capitalism, modern technique and science. Adorno combined the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud to the doctrine so called 'Frankfurter Schule'. With this methodological tool the academic youth should be taught to detect the origins of unfreedom, fascism and capitalism.
Literally the face behind the collapse of the west
>&humanities
>>2616149
>science is superstition
wut
>tfw your fantasy of finding a medieval waifu is ruined because you realized everyone before the 1800s didn't wash enough and would've fucking stunk
Is this a meme or true? it seems like it'd be fairly easy to wash in local lakes.
>>2616104
People didn't bathe, but they did wash regularly, with wet cloths and such
>>2616104
Don't know about other cultures but a lot of people in the west in pre-industrial times only bathed like once a month or something. If you time-travelled back to 14th-16th century northern europe you'd be overpowered by the stench
Would it be historically accurate to say that the French Revolution only truly ended in 1871?
As accurate as saying American revolution ended in 1865.
There is no true ending. Events aren't objective things so their start and end dates are always tentative
>>2616054
it ends with the 5 republic
alos, there are liberal frenchmen who want a 6 republic claiming that this time, they will get the republic right
So what's it like to be a bat?
You mean from a historical perspective, am i right?
u cant kno!
Probably pretty comfy.
>spend most of your time snuggled up with 10,000 of your friends and family, hanging out of danger, napping and cleaning each other and fugging
>even your poop is carried away by gravity
>"work" only a few hours in the evening and morning, flying with incredible acrobatic abilities through swarms of food
Could be worse.
These are KGB rank insignia of some sort. Can you help figure out the time and rank itself?
It is KGB, rank of Major.
However the blue with yellow edging is hard to place
I think this is the rank of Major since it has golden stripes indicating a senior officer and one star.
>the time
Cold War period? I don't know
OP here, seems they are post-1973
This website says the letter codes came into use "Since January 1973"
http://army.armor.kiev.ua/forma/rkka_55-94.shtml