What's the furthest back into the past you could go that living in Europe would still feel more similar to today than to the Roman Empire?
>>3192156
The enlightenment probably
>>3192156
Renaissance
He was the best Tsar in Russian history. Prove me wrong.
>>3192142
Facts can't be proven wrong anon
He's a dirty backstabber who ruined everything. He could have helped make Europe great!
>>3192169
How?
Greatest empire edition
>>3191990
>hide his boldness
>>3191990
Why do French memes always make sense?
>tfw see Anastasia cause musicalfag
>tfw realize how much amazing music/art/poetry/philosophy/architecture/etc. Russia contributed during the 18th and 19th centuries and earlier
>tfw realize what a beautiful land it could have risen to
>tfw could have been the eastern paradise, a capitalist land frought with classical wisdom and those distinctly Russian aesthetics
>tfw realize commies didn't just kill a bunch of poor people, they killed the chance for the brightest star of a nation ever
God damn if the tsar had just been a little chiller, we could have had such a cool time. We lost such a chance
>>3191910
Tsarist Russia was worth keeping is such a stupid fucking meme, you should honestly feel bad about perpetuating it.
>>3191917
I never said I wanted Tsarist Russia, kings of any sort are bad and the people were wholly justified in revolt due to overwhelming tyranny.
I'm just saying imagine if it had been a US-style revolt, and they didn't burn everything of the 'pre-revolution' world left and right. If they had saved the awesomeness of Russia instead of killing it too.
End the tsars, but put a republic or something in instead. Keep the old world charm and beauty, keep the mysterious wonderland, leave the terror-empire part.
>>3191910
>a little chiller
Nicholas II was a soft beta faggot, if he was a true reactionary like his father those gay revolutions would've never happened.
Can someone give me background into the historical trends and movements referenced in the iron pill comics? He's also reading books all the time, and I know some of them are by evola, but what else does he read? And is the iron pill philosophy internall consistent?
There is a chart with some books. I've read a few of them; archeofuturism and Donovan's books.
I'm not sure if it is consistent. I would describe it as ecofascism but archeofuturism isn't.
it's just a meme dude
>>3191778
The irony with the iron pill is that anyone who even knows of the iron pill is not iron pilled
Why is it that the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is so talked about amongst Roman historians, but not the campaign Germanicus did after in response?
>>3191724
Because Germanicus's campaign was just another Roman punitive campaign where the Legions marched into Barbarian lands, fucked shit up, and left with a stern reminder to keep the fuck away.
Teutoberg forest was the largest single total defeat until the crisis of the third century, and halted Roman expansion to the Rhine. Augustus could read a map and figure out that the Rhine and the Danube would make a great natural border and shorten the frontier that needed to be defended.
>>3191724
Because it is very rare for 3 legions to be lost in a single campaign. To put it into context, the loss of 3 legions and associated auxiliaries represented a total wipeout of 10% of the entire Roman army. It's the equivalent of 200,000 American soldiers being sent into the Iraqi desert and only 400 coming back to tell the rest of the world what had happened.
>>3191732
>ugustus could read a map and figure out that the Rhine and the Danube would make a great natural border and shorten the frontier that needed to be defended.
This is a frequently commonly held myth. Romans did not have accurate maps, particularly of the Barbaricum beyond the frontiers. They mostly relied on itineraries, lists of destinations on the road networks with distances between them. Actual maps were incredibly distorted and were of no real use for military planning.
Writers like Luttwak who wrote the "Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire" had their arguments completely demolished over the past 50 years. Romans really did not have the capability, or even the conceptual knowledge to know exactly where their frontiers should be on a macro scale.
>>3191724
>Germanic prince raised as a Roman, who is now a a fairly high rank in the Roman army leading his own auxilia, uses all of his tactical knowledge, fair bit of luck and advantageous time of year+ terrain to completely fuck up 3 legions led by a chucklefuck who wanted to pull off another Gaul, but forgot he wasn't Caesar
>AYOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOL UP!
>10 years later Caesar's step grandson crosses the Rhine, and brings the fucking hammer down so hard, Tiberius shits himself and calls him back
>b-b-bu-but we wuz?
Was the abrahamic god originally a war god or associated with violence. It would be fascinating if he was.
>>3191534
He was considered to be the only god, thus also incorporating aspects of traditional war gods in combination with being the general deity (with other features)
>>3191534
yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
>In the oldest biblical literature he is a typical ancient Near Eastern "divine warrior" who leads the heavenly army against Israel's enemies;[8] he later became the main god of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and of Judah,[9] and over time the royal court and temple promoted Yahweh as the god of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses.[10][11] By the end of the Babylonian exile (6th century BCE), the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the true god of all the world
Grrrrr. Behold my masculine aspects!
Are historical stereotypes of a country's population still relevant, or after the 20th century have things changed too significantly?
Yes.
>>3191240
Bong here, some of this stuff seems to have just manifested it's way into a modern discourse
>>3191240
This is golden
/his/
I can't take the WE WUZ anymore.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/165752716/kids-2-kings-comics-about-4-kids-7-kingdoms-and-1
It's all fun and games and I thought nobody was serious about this, or they were as serious about it as the /pol/fags are about Egyptians being some kinda Nordic race, but ..
>>3191143
Why do you go out of your way to find things to be upset about, it's not healthy
>>3191153
This. /pol/ is right, but only on the internet. Go outside sometime.
>>3191143
What makes this much worse than all other pseudohistories and pseudosciences people seriously believe in?
One thing I can say for a fact that history taught us was that people where shit posting way before the Internet.
Post examples of such acts.
Here for example is the infamous "End him rightly" from an old book about dualing in which tells us that to truly "fuck someone up" you must mid duel unscrew your pommel and throw it at your opponent.
Throwing a heavy lump of metal at a guy to distract hin while you stab him sounds like a pretty good idea to me
Someone post the walls of Rome full of shitposts please
>>3190905
>infamous "End him rightly"
Just searched this up, go back to facebook you faggot
Why is there a distincition between anarcho-communism and communism? Aren't they essentially the same thing?
>>3190491
The methods to reaching communism, Marxism calls for a transitory socialist state on the path to communism while anarcho communism skips that step
>>3190491
An-com skips the Socialism/ Dictatorship of the Proletariat steps.
Kotkin's 2nd volume of the planned 3 on Stalin has advanced reading copies going out it looks like. Who's hyped?
>>3190221
At first I was confused about an american writing 3 tomes on Stalin, but apparently he was in the USSR a lot for academic research and fellowships, so I guess he has enough experience and has heard enough tales.
I've added it to the ever growing eternal backlog. Maybe I'll finish the first 2 volumes before the third is done. Thanks for the headsup.
>>3190733
You're welcome. I'm pretty excited because this means it'll likely get done so I need to get started on volume 1 to be ready for when volume 2 comes.
>>3190221
is this the guy who basically says "Stalin dindu nuffin"?
or is that some other american author
What are some /his/ approved movies?
>>3190108
Zulu is p good though I cannot speak to it's historical accuracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiLrTiqU4q4
>>3190108
Red Tails
>>3190132
*its, sorry
What's wrong with social anarchism?
>>3189811
feed me OP my legs don't work
>>3189811
> "The Jew is the enemy of the human race...This race must be sent back to Asia, or exterminated...H. Heine, A. Weil, and others are simply secret spies...Rothschild, Crémieux, Marx, Fould, evil choleric, envious, bitter men...who hate us."
what did he mean by this?
>>3189811
Like all kinds of anarchism is runs into the problem of psychopaths. Like all forms of socialism, it runs into the problem of free riders.
>it's the year 1853, you are a 17 year old virgin Austrian girl walking down the streets of Vienna when you see a young handsome Johannes Brahms checking you out
What do you do?
He was more in to cougars than lolis
>>3189713
G'day m8, bonzo pozzy - u crackin' a fat?
>>3189713
Try and rape Ludwig II or Hans Christen Andersen.