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Red pill me on the mob. Did they do any business with Al Capone? Is it true that Lucky Luciano helped American troops during WW2? What brought their downfall? Are they still powerful today or have the cartels and blacks taken over?
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>>3277719
>blacks taken over
How can a race take over a gang?
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>Did they do any business with Al Capone?
...umm, yeah they did.
They are not really that powerful anymore. They used to mainly supply drugs to ethnic gangs to front their sales but now the cartels have taken that over so they are left with extorting businessmen like Trump by manipulating construction unions, and taking payments from various small businesses.
A lot of successful Mafia men had their familes go into legitimate business and move away from crime, the FBI pretty much destroyed them in the last 20 years due to informants.
Its still as strong as ever in South Italy though.
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>>3277737
I meant organized crime
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Any Quakers here? You want me to beat you up.
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I am quacker
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yo mama's so fat when Mao Zhendong walks around her it was documented as "The Other Long March
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Yo mama so dumb when Jesus say suffer little children she get out the spoon
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>>3277557
Yo mama so fat, when Stuart rode around her, Lee was marching blind for a week.
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Yo mama so fat, Napoleon sold her for four cents an acre.
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What would history look like if humans didn't died by natural causes, didn't aged and could die only by chopping the head off?
What would religion look like?
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Kind of really open Question.
Either set a start date for the event or just assume that only a few have this ability like in the movies.
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>>3277516
I mean, like, if we naturally, since the beginning were eternal beings.
breeding would be bad then
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>>3278058
Everything would be so incomprehensibly different that we could never hope to guess.
But let's try anyway. Tech would be ridiculous, and their art would be beyond anything we can create. The main limiter on early advancement was the difficulty of recording information. Immortals can just learn and learn, practice and practice, and spend their time on nothing except for construction, science and the arts. Even the most basic immortal labourer would be beyond us- imagine a plasterer or a bricklayer who has spent five hundred thousand years perfecting his craft.
Overpopulation wouldn't even be an issue, because if they presumably don't need to eat or drink, or indeed consume any resources.
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Did Russians use longswords?
If not then why?
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>>3277458
From what period in time? From your pic i guess you mean middle ages.
And yeah, i think they did. Not sure tho.
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>>3277458
They've used Halberds.
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>>3277513
that's not an answer you fucking retard is like if I asked did people in England use axes and you would say
>they used bows
you fucking abortion
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There are so many books to read but the pseuds tell you to keep reading and reading and reading without any judgement except for what they tell you to do.
I tried to read the last 70 pages of manufacturing consent last night but it was so fucking boring I could only read 20. I would never have read it in the first place because the propaganda model is repackaged common sense. How can these shitloads of "Super insightful praised by NYT, NY, Obama Zuckerberg, FT" non fiction works all be worth reading? Not even Chomsky's (and Herman's) book was worth reading. I knew the book could easily be summarised and the model was unnecessary and trivial and it was a catalogue of medias bias written for the sake of referencing, not reading
Chomsky didn't get to where he was, writing syntactic structures, by reading all day (reading prose books, not reading as a means to an end you pseuds). The behaviour they want from consumercucks is very different from what they praise in producerbulls. I guess if you're a woman you can get away with the "Tee-hee! I just luv boooks :))))!" attitude because someone else pays for your stuff, but get a grip you cucks.
Do you have any books under 250 pages to recommend? I'm sick of how everything is a fucking monument to the authors narcissism, even the nonfiction.
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>>3277421
kek it took me a long time to realize that's mcconaughey
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>>3277421
long books doesnt necessarily mean good, but i think long historical works are justified and to call it nothing more than the author's narcicissm is reductionist. How about their own passion in the subject? maybe they hold comprehensiveness as an ideal?
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>>3277421
Most "recommended" books made after WWII aren't worth reading to be perfectly honest and all have the exact same framework of mindset. You won't gain any insight whatsoever reading them unless you're trying to study propaganda tactics.
Best /his/ documentary thread.
Post your poison.
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WE WUZ CARTHAGO AND SHIEEEEEEEEET
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*loud music*
YOU'VE HEARD THE STORY BEFORE
BUT NEVER IN THIS WAY
TODAY WE WILL REVEAL ALL
THE TRUTH ABOUT PYRAMIDS
*commercial break*
WELCOME BACK
TO HEAR THE TRUTH
ABOUT PYRAMIDS
THEY WERE BUILD BY
ALIENS AND BLACK PEOPLE
*american anthem starts playing*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQux0OTe9sQ&list=PLZxIFAN12m6wmm5K8fPkApSB1F90885hS
When I was a kid I would come home from school and put on the discovery channel (212 on freeview) and watch this for an hour every day instead of cartoons.
Literally the documentary that got me into history even though it is normie tier.
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So how did politics go back in the day when people didn`t war over something.
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So long as there has been politics there has been things people are willing to go to war for, often the reason politics exist is to prevent all conflicts being resolved with war.
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Extreme pacifism in history
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What are some extremely pacifistic countries/tribes/you name it to the point that they will let themselves get tortured and killed in most brutal ways than do anything to defend themselves? The only ones I know are the Moriori tribe and some Indian sects.
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>>3277338
A dead civilisation tends to be easily conquered by foreigners (e.g. Mesopotamia/Egypt under Alexander, Rome during the invasion of Germanic tribes, China during Mongol and later Manchu attacks).
The impossibillity of self defense comes from different factors:
1. Land lost its role as the major indicator of wealth in rual areas.
2. The money power of the cities has taken the power over the land.
3. Religion lost its role in public life.
The human who is not bound to his ground and traditions (the cosmopolite) will do nothing to defend his home, since he has none.
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>>3277462
retarded reasoning and absolutely trash choice of examples, unfortunately this shit is so bad i don't particularly want to waste my time dealing w/ someone this stupid
ad hominem etc you're still thick as shit
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>>3277488
lol
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How much of human behaviour is instinctual and without conscious consent?
Can we actually know for sure that we make our own choices? Or are we just along for the ride?
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Who fucking cares? Does the concept of free will really matter that much?
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Everything is merely a unique pattern.
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If there is a physical sensation accompanying it it is in large part instinctual. If not it is abstract, though its formation was in part guided by instinct.
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Wallachian/Romanian History 2017-08-22 01:28:50 Post No.3277187
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Where should I start with this region and its people? Can anyone recommend any good entry level books on it?
Particularly medieval Wallachia/Moldavia/Transylvania, but I'm also interested in the modern history of the place.
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Lol what a stupid French cuck.
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>>3277122
Why did he make those decisions?
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Where do /his/ believe the actual ultima Thule was located?
The old Brittish chipmunks believed, after scouring old texts, that it must've been ireland or iceland at most.
Surely this cannot be the case, as the old texts refer it to a 6 day voyage north from England with stories about sleeping moose leaning against trees.
Surely they must've arrived at the outskirts of Norway, considering a ship at the time could on average do 12km/h. There's no moose on Iceland or Greenland - surely Thule must've been somewhere in Scandinavia - the question is, where?
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>>3277099
>What is mythos?
It doesn't matter if and where it existed, it manifestited itself in tought and action already.
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>>3277111
All that exist of Pytheas descriptions were that of it existing in the north, sleeping moose and a place where the world ends and the ground turned into goo..
Yes, it's mythos but since no actual archeology have found traces of greeks in the northern reaches other then the british isles it's fun to thought experiment what location he actually meant.
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>>3277099
Finland
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If Japan was intent on defeating the US navy during WW2,why didn't they focus on creating many torpedo boats?
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>why didn't they focus on creating many torpedo boats
...and then doing what?
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>>3277093
they could've used Patrol Torpedo Boats to assist in fighting them around the ocean
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>>3277075
And when the U.S. sinks them all from hundreds of miles away with carrier planes?
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>throughout history, politicians style themselves as either "reformers" or as defenders of tradition who want to return to "good old days."
Why is this?
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Just because an idea is new doesn't mean it is better.
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>>3277041
Because voters want shit fixed. You can fix shit by going back to when the shit wasn't broke, or by going forward to a time when the shit presumably will no longer be broke.
People who go up on platforms saying "all the shit that's broke should stay exactly as broke as it is" don't get many votes.
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>>3277041
Because those are appeals to emotion which work, instead of sound reasoning and logic, which few people have the attention span to understand.