So what exactly causes revolutions to happen exactly?
Most People are pretty aphetic if their freedoms are taking away and forced to live in police states. Happened in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and North Korea and people didn't seem to have a problem with it.
So what is the breaking point that will force even the normies to revolt?
You can't just group revolutions together, Anon. What happened in England is different from what happened in France; what happened in America is different from what happened in Russia.
Zizek said they happen not when things are bad but when things go from bad to slightly better and I'm inclined to agree.
>>2596961
Got any examples of this?
I don't see why so many people base morality on happiness in some form or another. It seems like an arbitrary connection. Am I just a retard for not seeing why happiness matters to morality or what?
>>2596583
If something doesn't produce happiness, then what is it good for? All that ultimately matters is muh feels. It's the only thing you can't choose not to care about.
>>2596650
Even if it was the only thing we can't choose not to care about why would that mean it's all that matters and that we should base our morality system around it?
>>2596719
>why would that mean it's all that matters
Because what "matters" is subjective. If I can dismiss something with "who cares?" then it doesn't really matter to me.
>and that we should base our morality system around it
Ultimately the decision of what to base ethics on is axiomatic, i.e. it is not itself a decision that can be justified by appeal to ethics. But if we want ethics to be a functional thing as opposed to meaningless, abstract wank, then basing it on something that's real and that we're hardwired to want and need seems like a fine idea.
Can someone explain to me what's wrong with materialism?
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>>2596573
https://webmshare.com/play/mBMYG
>>2596744
I'm not talking about materialism in the sense of wanting to buy things and consumerism ans shit. I mean materialism in the sense of everything in the universe being made of a physical thing.
How can there be anything wrong with the objective truth of reality?
So these guys managed to have complete control over literally MILLIONS of people and yet entirely failed in the endeavour to emancipate the average individual?
Why?
I understand the argument you're going to make, central planning doesn't work etc. and I get that, central planning lacks the data that is inherent to the market through the laws of supply and demand but still, is there any way in which they could have achieved something noteworthy?
What if Mao didn't go full retard? etc.
Don't you think it's at least interesting/fascinating that they managed to obtain such support from their people? How can we hope to achieve such a collective effort again without the disasters of dictators?
Because it wasn't real communism
>>2596504
The Left singularity is a real thing.
It just wasn't real communism. Remember that marx said there wouldnt be states, therefore making every communist 'state' a fake.
I am looking for an honest man
>>2596412
yes, how can i help you sir
>>2596412
holy shit what a retard honestly if I was alexanderI would have hung and quartered that fucker muh cynicism fuck off with that bullshit he was a useless NEET no one women would touch so he put peanut butter on his balls for his dogs what a fucking creep anyway he wasnt relevant no philosopher who wasnt athenian or didnt move to athens honestly what a fucktard hating money the only reason for it that he was jelly it was athens who could mint coins due to control of mines in laurum and thrace honestly why anyone worship that piece of shit is beyond me
Traps are gay
I'll start
>Ooga Booga where the Anglo women at?
From an objective stand point, how much of the blame does he actually deserve fro world war 2?
>>2596083
Most of it.
>>2596083
I would say most of the blame should go to Wehrmacht officers who initially HATED Hitler.
>>2596083
A political figure is merely a pawn used by the masses to use for either hate or love, sometimes both. In the few cases a leader does have power, it's usually considered a tyrannical who goes against the wishes of his people.
Quite contradictory to the media bias against the Nazis, Hitler was not a tyrant. He was a smart political figure who held more power than most of his time, but he went with the wishes of the German people rather than against them.
However, an entire country being evil propaganda would obviously not go so well, so instead, the media of the time just demonized Hitler and the Nazis claiming they were dictators who got their power from force.
Do you like to look at armor in museums?
>>2595950
Why is that armor so small? It cant be normal size, Is it for a child? No that cant be.
>>2597624
>he hasn't seen manlets
The Musée de l'Armée is worth a visit if your in Paris.
What race was Muhammad the Prophet?
>>2595917
Semitic
>>2595917
He is described as having white skin and red hair.
>>2595917
Obviously black
Stop loving this world
>>2595912
No.
>>2595915
STOP
>>2595912
Genesis 2:15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
Does anyone know why the Frankfurt School returned to Germany in the 1950s? Is there at least speculation?
>>2595879
The KGB funded them I think
I'm sure they went to the pinko partition of Germany, which would make absolute sense.
Post your favorite historical sites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWuSbK5cwqo
>>2595874
>favorite historical site
>american "wild west" town
How is this your favorite historical site, i've got houses in my neighbourhood older than that for fuck's sake
>>2597178
There are in-use stone&twig hovels in Ireland older than civilization, but that doesn't make them interesting.
>>2597189
Sure, but due to vast history behind them they would be at least more interesting than a heap of wooden shacks somewhere out in the desert
Can we have a polandball thread, or are those reddit?
>>2595651
>>2595651
> extermination of religious culture
What was his endgame?
>>2595615
To make up the population lost in the Great Patriotic War.
>>2595615
Who the fuck uses glasses without temples.
>>2595640
They're called "Pince-Nez."
Are all civilizations equal in term of achievements and contributions to mankind?
Or there are civilizations that triumphed over the rest?
>>2595487
>were the malians comparable to the romans and greeks
I think you know the answer.
Of course everyone knows pygmies and aboriginals are equals to Romans. Everyone is equal.
What a stupid topic. Obviously not. You are implying that every culture in the world progressed/advanced at exactly the same time as each other, which obviously isn't true. You can learn this from looking at history (or present day) for 2 minutes. How do you even begin to justify that every civilization has made equal contributions to mankind as a whole? Absolutely worthless thread. /r/ delete.