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>>3010504
lol look at this pleb. Swords are shit and inferior to spears.

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>>3010546
Context matters, friend. In war yes, but in a duel, not so much.

I find it interesting when people say the Roman Gladius killed more men than any other wepon in history, because its simply not true when we consider spears.

There is spear fencing in HEMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZZjtxgUGeU

>>3010504
The worst part about the katana is that its short for a two handed weapon.

A world at peace?

Ayy lmao fuck this

>>3010242
The problem with a "neutral" perspective of Nazi Germany is even perspectives trying to be neutral sound biased because of how horrible the Nazis were in nearly every aspect

I'm in the middle of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer at the moment. He's about as neutral as one can be so far

>>3010264
Basically this. It's like trying to be neutral about genghis khan and the mongols. You can talk about his achievements.. but it's kinda hard to gloss over the fact that the mongols killed ~100 million people, as well as basically stated the Black Death

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>nation of immigrants
>complains about immigrants

>>3010225
>>complains about immigrants
i don't mind immigrants, but the plight of native americans makes a strong case for walls and strictly enforced legal immigration

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>>3010228
Free movement of peoples is a human and moral right. As a libertarian, open borders are imperative.

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>>3010202
For who?
France didn't have a choice in fighting the war and Britain had a great time letting french people starve and hiking through mountains.

>>3010215
>France didn't have a choice in fighting the war
What? They invaded an ally so Nappy could put a relative on a throne. It was a retarded move

>>3010215
For Napoleon obviously.
Did he really need to invade Spain and Portugal.

soviet union would have 100% invaded

>>3010143
Fuck off

>>3010153
They would have. Or they would have embargoed Germany

>>3010004
I wish that Varg was my uncle. Not my dad but as an uncle who you visit sometimes and stay with in his cabin in the woods and go hiking with.

>>3010027
Me too desu
Now someone answer my fucking premise

>>3010027
>>3010051

You mean your uncle who actually assasinated someone out of paranoia and lives like a hermit in the wood writing and making vieos about ridiculous autism as well as larping as MUH VIKANGZ??

>>3009797
Because the world is objectively evil and values evil.

Think about it, we only exist because we were able to drive something else to extinction first. Could a Loving God really make the world one big Gladiator match? The only way to win the game, is to not play at all.

Face it, the Cathars were right. Also, bathing sucks

>>3009797

1. CATHARISM WAS NOT A RELIGION, BUT A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.

2. CATHARISM DID NOT ADVOCATE SUICIDE.

3. CATHARISM APPEALS TO NOBLE PERSONS LACKING IN HEROIC IMPULSE.

IF YOU ARE IGNOBLE, OBVIOUSLY, YOU WOULD REGARD THE WORLD, AND LIFE IN IT, AS INHERENTLY "GOOD"; IGNOBLE PERSONS LIKE YOURSELF ARE INCAPABLE OF COMPREHENDING SUCH IDEOLOGY, SO WHY EXPLAIN IT TO YOU?

>>3009797
Cathars still married and had children. Only the "Perfecti" abstained from marriage.

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Islam of course if you disagree your a fuck bigot.

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none, the prophets themselves may have been pure but every religion has been exploited by the ambitious to allow them to do terrible things

Jainism

he is a nice chocolate

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>>3009576
He was fucking handsome and has a shrine

>>3009576
You were better than Hirohito, but that is not saying much

hunt what they could

eat what they could

cannibalize probably

eventually the population would be at such a low point that it could be sustained by a recovering ecosystem and would regain strength as the ecosystem did too

this is total unfounded bullshit mind you, just my two cents which i think are pretty reasonably assumptions

>>3009502
>homo
they fuged butt :DDDDD

>>3009626
this

>>3009201
The critical battle of the campaign was the one at Sedan, in which the Germans managed to achieve a local superiority of about 3:1 by concentrating their best elements at a single point, even if they didn't have overall superiority. This should have led them to become vulnerable (probably towards their own right where they were significantly outnumbered by the Franco-English troops), but no Allied offensive ever materialized.

Once they broke behind the French lines, you had a relatively small, highly mechanized force running around behind the main line, chrewing up second echelon stuff, and not stopping until it had created the "sickle cut", trapping a massive amount of force in a pocket up against the North Sea, (Dunkirk was the last part to be closed, but contrary to popular imagining, it wasn't the whole of the pocket by a long way.)

That in turn eliminated roughly 1/3 of the French force in about 10 days, which made further resistance largely untenable. You had some halfhearted attempts to hold back Fall Rot, the second offensive into most of France proper, but everyone knew the war was over by that point.

Before anyone starts jumping into the stale memes, I recommend you to read "Strange Defeat" by Marc Bloch, a french historian. It was written in the summer of 1940 and it gives a pretty good insight on what happened.

Spoiler : [spoiler]There's many reasons behind France's surrender[/spoiler]

>>3009238
Not op here but why didn't they just pour their remaining resources into Paris and defend it, I'm sure the soviet got their shit kicked in too before the siege of Stalingrad

>>3008749
>Why did the French abandon the Saar Offensive?
Because it stood no chance in hell of succeeding as Germany was mobilizing rapidly and they hadn't even encountered the Sigfried line?

>Did they fear the black warrior?
No.

>>3008749
Because they are cowards that's why
they thought people would forget it

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>>3008749

>Anne Frank is 9 months pregnant writing her diary about how she fears for her child being born into a world ruled by Nazis
>Negroid SS soldier bursts into her attic
>"muh dik, Jewish bitches, sheeeeiiiittt"
>"No please! I'm pregnant. Don't hurt my baby."
>"That baby gonna come out carmel colored by the time I'm through with yah."
>"Nooooo!!!"
>music from the Mad Max Fury Road trailer begins playing in the background
>"Da fuck?"
>50 men clad in white hoods carrying torches ride over the nearby hill on horseback
>"What's this cracka shit?"
>cries of "yee haw" become increasingly audible
>SS soldier's eyes widen
>"Oh fuck"
>"WE'RE COMING FOR YAH NIGGER!"
>SS soldier turns to run but the all-American Klansmen catch him with a lasso around his neck
>Anne watches in half-horror, half-amazement as the Klan drag the hapless SS soldier to a nearby tree and begin stringing him up
>once he's fully secured to the tree, the hooded men take turns whipping the SS trooper repeatedly
>they finally finish him off by taking a red hot Bowie knife to his farm parts
>"say goodnight to them nuts blackie"
>they strip and clip him and he bleeds out
>SS soldier's last words before the life force drains from his shitskinned body are "we wuz Nazis and sheeiiittt"
>Anne protectively holding her belly approaches them as the Klan as they finish their deadly work
>"Thank you kind sirs for saving me and my child."
>one of the Klansman takes his hood off
>it's Jared Taylor
>"No need for thanks ma'am. We always look out for our white women, be they Christian or Jewish."

Script for Call of Duty WW2 DLC I saw on /pol/ a few weeks back

He was a fairly decent president, not much else.

>>3008536
He was a cuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
>legalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982
>At the time, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that about four million illegal immigrants would apply for legal status through the act and that roughly half of them would be eligible.

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>>3008536
He was a treasonous scumbag who fucked us over in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

>>3008434
>throw sticks
dude you needed to ram the other ship and board it

>>3008434
First punic war was basically decided on the waves.

>>3008434

>Ramming enemy ships with the full force of hundreds of sweaty, muscular, almost naked men manning oars who get whipped if they don't row hard enough

>Gay

You might have a point.