Without /pol/faggotry can some explain why Jews have such a disproportionate influence in film and media?
>>2918125
Intelligence, greed and favoritism.
>>2918125
In the early 1900s movie making was seen as lower class and was done by Jews and women.
>>2918125
The only non/pol/ theory i've heard is that they started a lot of the productions behind Vaudeville and Minstrel shows which gave them a strong initial hold on the entertainment industry in America.
To what extent was the average German soldier aware of Hitler's plans for lebensraum and colonization of Eastern Europe?
I know that the Nazis distributed pamphlets to soldiers like "Der Untermensch" which makes the case for genocide-based expansion.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html
But to what extent did the average Hans believe in it or was motivated by it?
Even though I have a cynical attitude to human nature, I honestly have a hard time believing millions of normal people would read something like this and risk their lives carrying out something so obviously wrong as genocide. Am I stupid or what? I feel like if I was a German soldier and read "Der Untermensch", I would just say fuck it and desert the Wehrmacht.
>>2918053
Yes
>>2918053
Well they'd only have to open mein kampf, it's all laid out in there, i'm pretty sure they were all fully aware that they were going to destroy communism and turn the land into their new frontier to be colonised.
German nationalist circles had been interested in dominating Eastern Europe since the 19th century. Imperial Germany went halfway, planning to annex parts of Poland and the Baltic states while setting up several puppet states that would be exploited for resources like Ukraine.
The average German soldier was motivated partly by revanchism--the war was started over Germany claiming Danzig and the Polish Corridor--but the war against the Soviet Union was justified as a war against communism (Jewish Bolshevism), with Generalplan Ost being rolled in slowly.
How did Hitler expect to "win" a war against fucking great britain? He very well knew that their navy was 4 times stronger than his, and blitzkriegs don't work on water.
How was he trying to pull operarion sealion off? Was he an autist?
>>2918003
Yes, anon, he was an autist.
>invade his neighbours
>shit france attack
>invade france by pure luck and against all expectation
>attack uk and soviet union
>get rekt
What did he expect ?
>>2918003
He never intended war with Britain and was willing to do much to make peace on fair terms up until quite late in the war. He dreamt of a situation where Germany and Britain would face off against America and Japan.
Can conservatism and libertarianism exist together?
Take me, for example, I'm a social conservative but I think having an overbearing state to enforce my (good to me, bad to others) beliefs is a far greater evil. In simpler terms, I have disdain for drug use and homosexuality but I think all drugs should be legal and the state should have nothing to do with all types of marriage.
Is this a viable position to have? Also, does this belong on /pol/? I figured here would be better since 1) that board is shit and 2) this deals with the struggle between authoritarianism/libertarianism and whether humans should be able to choose their own destiny or not (hurr &humanities)
>>2917836
>Take me, for example
*tips*
>>2917836
Unlimited freedom and liberty for ourselves authoritarian conformity for the rest
surprise your an average human
Why were other countries so slow at getting into colonization? Did it take them 100 years to figure out how to sail? They just let Spain take all the gold and spice provinces
>>2917579
Spain and Portugal were literally the only countries that could into oceanic sailimg for almost 50 years. Also if you add the Canary Islands and the Azores were literally perfect to sail to America you have your answer
>>2917579
Other countries didn't have enough colonial range at the time
>>2917661
>not setting naval tech to 100
>inb4 communism never been tried
If it's so good why didn't they try it?
>>2917506
Last time I checked a small communist state with 20 million people is a threat to the the USA
That either says how stron communism is or how weak neoliberalism is
>>2917563
North Korea is a shit hole and we don't even know if their missiles work. North Korea isn't really a threat to the USA they just make a lot of noise and constantly threaten their peace-loving neighbours, who are supported by the USA.
>>2917563
>Everybody starving and in forced labor camps is good because we may or may not be able to fire a nuke
Why do people without high school educations insist that nobody is related to anybody from the past?
Do they think every pre-modern war was a Dothraki-tier rape & genocide?
Does genetic mapping mean nothing?
>>2917505
They are the same retards who say
>Urr durr you msot likely descend from paesants
When talking about >1000 years ago, ignoring that people have like thousands of different ancestors who lived in that time period
Their understanding of mathematics is lower than a one grader
>>2917505
were all related cousin, just to varying degrees
>>2917505
>using GoT references in historical arguments
>>>plebbit
>MFW Stalin died a preventable death in soaked in his own piss.
It was 30 years too late but still. Makes you think.
Wow that is really deep.
>>2917502
>soaked in his piss
>choked on his own vomit
pottery
>>2917502
>I don't understand , I didn't murder anybody it was all a hoax
>why didn't they help me?
Unironically
Who was in the fault here?
Everybody.
>>2917452
Islam because it theologically makes no sense
>>2917452
reminder that if you blame anyone other than the Christians you are racist and bigoted
Why did the mainland Yuropean powers allow Britain to get away with amassing a huge worldwide empire? Why didn't they make a combined effort to cuck them? Why did they allow themselves to be underhanded by a fucking island? How dumb can you seriously be to let these fags get away with all that land, worldwide? Wtf Yurop? Are you fucking kidding me?
That's what Napoleon tried to do, god bless his soul, may he rest in heaven.
>>2917401
Like wtf, they all go after Nappy when Britain was the greater threat. Yurop is a collective of servile autists, and Britain manipulated them like the bully it was. They wouldn't even ally the one man who could make a difference.
>>2917391
Hello Burger, welcome o this thing called history, now things may seem like they have common sense now, but you must understand our world view is very different to theirs. Britain emerges on the back of the Dutch and French bankrupting themselves in the nine years war, and then everyone failing but the English in the seven years war.
Were the Dark Ages a meme or does the name have some validity?
What the fuck are you on about? It's called the dark ages because after the fall of the empire there wasn't a similar prosperity reached for a few hundred years
It has some validity. Most people just call it Late Antiquity these days though.
>>2917351
The period from the 5th to the 10th century AD was definitely a dark age and a setback when compared to the Roman empire.
Cities abandoned almost completely (Rome went from a pop of 1,000,000 to 20,000), Roman infrastructrures abandoned and left in ruins (aqueducts, sewers, public baths, most roads), trade decreased exponentially and communications over all got worse and say slower, widespread piracy and barbarian hordes all over the place, lower degrees of literacy.
really proves that White Supremacy was part of the religious thinking
Well, white Jesus is actually based off Cesare Borgia that Renaissance artists used as a model
For easier conversion.
Why did Asians depict Jesus as Asian?
How do I know that the images I see are accurate?
How do I know they didn't wear orange?
>>2917277
There's that giant column in the middle of Rome that shows what idealised Roman soldiers looked like.
>>2917277
Guy looks like a snownigger.
paintings mozaic actual findings etc. one shield also survived
believe in God?
Atheists are not smart
>>2917239
How can you say there is no God? How extensive was your search? Did you get off planet? Did you get out of system? Did you travel the multiverse? Do you have infinite knowledge?
Then why don't you just shut the fuck up about shit you have zero clues over?
>>2917239
Being smart doesn't mean you can't believe in silly things.
Also his proof for God requires that you take its axioms as true (since they don't deal with anything that's necessarily true) and causes complete modal collapse if you do.
Why did the Southern states hold onto their British heritage (namesakes and aristocratic style) more so than the Northern states?
>>2917125
Because they didn't. Go look at a map of New England, the placenames are all either British or Indian.
Every state that was an OG 13 Colony has a shit ton of English town names.
Middlesex
Essex
Milford
Concord
etc. etc. etc.