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What's your beef with utilitarianism?
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it's platonism repackaged for industrialism and shoehorned into democracy (it doesn't really fit)
JSM is dogshit.
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>>2554993
Utilitarianism is nothing like platonism
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>>2554979
1 person consuming 1,000,000 utils of happiness would be superior to 8 people consuming 100,000 utils.
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>http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1865
>Bismark just wanted to build a cozy, peaceful reich that would just be the content industrial giant that wouldn't harm anyone
Why did Willy have to fuck it all up? With the Austrian and Italian Alliance there was literally no reason for Willy to be as aggressive and militaristic as he was,pissing off the French even more in the Moroccan crisis and trying to naval race with Britain, making them paranoid.
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>>2554954
>Why did Willy have to fuck it up?
Because Willy WAS fucked up, he probably had mental disorders.
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>>2554954
Wilhelm 2 was an anglo plant to destroy germanic greatness.Spent all his life wanting to be a beady eyed fuck only to see his autistic desire destroy everything.
People complain about merkel today but it was really this retard who destroyed germany.
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>>2554954
Hohenzollern heirs always rejected those that came before them and their ways.
Wilhelm II rejected the liberal (English) ways of his father Frederick III (and his English mother).
Wilhelm's story was more a tragedy if anything. Even his namesake Wilhelm I - who unified the Empire - commented that because of his arm he coukd never be a true Prussian King.
He surrounded himself with a cadre of officers to emphasize his manly army ways (turns out it was entirely made up out of homosexuals). He also designed his own military uniforms. He was blind to such things because they appealed to an ideal he had put on a pedestal.
If anything Wilhelm's major flaw wasn't his jingoist ways. His major flaw was his indesiciveness; flubbing the agadir crisis because he couldnt make up his mind and trying to cancel German mobilization just before shit hit the fan in WWI.
Had Freddy 3 actually allowed him to be part of governing before his coronation then maybe we wouldve seen a more mature Emperor and not the manchild we all know and love.
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United we stand. Divided we fall. Why didn't any of the Yugoslavs know that?
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>>2554870
they were too busy fantasizing about killing each other
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yet another nation destroyed by capitalism
nazbol is the way to go
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Macedonia looks too much like my scrotum
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How? How did this very simple man become the face of evil? And why did he do all those things he did?
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History is written by the victors. If he just stopped after the Anschluss and Sudetenland he would probably be thought of as one of the greatest German leaders ever known. Also holocaust probably would have never happened as they were spending millions of reich marks to relocate the Jews to palestine. A shame he went completely autistic over Danzig
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>>2554727
Hitler is a symbol of modern barbarism. He proved that modern civilization can be as violent and evil as the barbarians of the past.
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>>2554790
>the exterminator cleared the rats out of my attic, what a fucking barbarian amaright?
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Compared to other cultures, does western culture struggle to accept death?
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I dunno man
no one cares
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Its predominant religion is a masochistic death cult.
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Were both world wars instigated on purpose to destroy Europe and to kill Europeans? Or were they just a series of unfortunate events?
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>>2554562
German aggression.
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Albert Pike.
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>>2554562
Nah. Just the Eternal Dindu Eternally Dinduing.
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Why were paintings so shitty in ancient times compared to sculptures of the time?
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u wot m8
Roman frescoes didn't look like trash unlike medieval art.
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What's Heraclitus crying about anyway?
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He's crying because the constitution is fundamentally wrong
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he can't find the lake he vacationed at last year
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Everything flows
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Was there a country that got universally-hated in history?
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Israel
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Israel
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>>2554520
Americans have a weird boner for them
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He was described as a foreigner but like probably Arab or Turk.
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We wus filosophahz 'n shit famm
Spittin dem proto-rap rhymes nigguh, fo sho.
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Is there a /his/ equivalent of this?
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the guy on the left should be ري هقوص R Y · H V Q V S
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>>2554474
a stormfag trying to say his shitty jpegs and conspiracy blogs/youtube videos are on the same level as Richard Evans
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>>2554474
There is no /his/ equivalent because this board doesn't have any threshhold of taste to spurn people.
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Anyone else like Islamic calligraphy?
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How did they make words look like a cat?
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>>2554399
Mystical magic
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Pretty dope way to circumvent the Islamic ban on drawn depictions of things.
Also Arabic is a beautiful language.
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What cup size was Joan of Arc?
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>>2554380
Didn't her squire write in his journal that she was thicc af?
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>surrounded by thousands of men with high testosterone and wanting to release their energy and some fun due to war
How did she NOT get raped?
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My Sociology Textbook Had This to Say About Galileo 2017-03-24 01:59:35 Post No.2554358
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My Sociology Textbook Had This to Say About Galileo
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"About 400 years ago, the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo (1564-1642) helped launch the Scientific Revolution with a series of startling discoveries. Dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he discovered some of the laws of gravity; making his own telescope, he observed the solar system and found that earth orbited the sun, not the other way around.
For his trouble, Galileo was challenged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had preached for centuries that earth stood motionless at the centre of the universe. Galileo only made matters worse by responding that religious leaders had no business talking about matters of science. Before long, he found his work banned and himself under house arrest."
This was under the title of "Does Science Threaten Religion"
This is being taught in a university setting. Even if it isn't a history class this is pretty messed up.
The textbook is Society: The Basics by Macionis et al.
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Yikes, that's shockingly incorrect. It's not even misconstrued, it's just a blatant lie.
Are you in a class where this is being taught? You should probably have a word with the head of the department or something.
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>>2554358
As someone who knows nothing about this time period what actually happened?
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>>2554451
Not him, but I doubt people actually care if it's 100% factual, I'm sure they're simply happy that the students know he existed, and was responsible for x,y, and z discoveries, that were important because a, b, and c.
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Let's make it clear once and for all. Stalinism, Leninism, Maoism - those were against the teachings of Marx. Communism is the other way.
Some ideas of communism were used to fool people and screw them over. Truth is, you can't have "power to the people" and a dictator. That was a lie of USSR and a lie of US capitalists. This meme is repeated over and over: "Don't like capitalism? Go back to Ruskies and die like the 16 billion victims of communism". But the poor Ruskies were always fucked. Even today they say they have democracy, but from outside it looks more like a dictatorship. They are happy with what they have now, because it's still better than anything they had before.
The only instance of applied communism that I know of is Israel in the first half of XX century. The kibbutz movement helped to create a civilisation in the middle of an empty field. Of course with support from outside, but they didn't end up with a dictator killing millions. So the idea that you can't have communism without some asshole hijacking the system is false. Truth is every democratic structure is prone to becoming a facade, not only communism. So you need a conscious society not to get buttfucked.
The communist doctrine has it's years and im sure there is a lot to improve upon. For instance absolute control of the market is ridiculous, however planning is crucial for any society that wants to become more than just a cancer of this planet.
Overall I find socialism a good direction to go from here where we stand. Because we stand in another lie - that capitalism and democracy can coexist. The US two parties - same team system and the LOBBYtomized EU show us that this is clearly wrong.
Inb4: If Marx is evil than so is Jesus. If you tip a fedora in this thread, your mother will die in her sleep tonight.
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Anon we unfortunately do not get to decide what is and isn't communism.
If materialism ever taught you anything, categories are just things we make up to explain phenomena.
If the First AND the Second world, for years, got to call Pol Pot and Breznev "communist", this is now the meaning of the word. It didn't use to be, but it is now. Drop the hammer, drop the sickle, drop the red flag. Drop the name "communism". It's just cultural superstructure after all. What matters is the means of production. We need to rebrand. Our symbols are forever soiled by untold atrocities, literally MORE MISTAKES THAN GOOD. Why keep them? Be pragmatic, be unconstrained by tradition, nostalgia and other vanities. We need to turn the page and start again.
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>>2554338
I like the way you think anon. It aint gonna work though. The ideal of collective ownership of production itself has been tainted too. It's all been ruined by the authoritarians. All we can do is present minimal social change under the guise of capitalism with the end goal of gradually cutting the upper classes further and further away from wealth.
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What am I? Am I plain?