>We would still be pagans if Julian the Apostate had remembered to put on his breastplate while fighting the Persians
because the old pagan emperors had succeeded at stamping out the Christian faith when it yet wasn't the officially recognized religion of the Empire
>>2882453
But muh sacred fire
>>2882431
His paganism was already Christian in character in many ways. Doubt he would've turned the tide
>America sends a bazillion troops with the stated war goal of preventing south Vietnam from falling to communism
>pulls out its troops after suffering too many casualties resulting in public disapproval
>south Vietnam falls to communism
>GUISE WE TOTALLY DID NOT LOSE THE WAR
but muh k/d ratio anonymous
muh kills
muh mcdonalds in saigon anonymous
>>2882385
Honestly I've never heard of people arguing that Vietnam was a victory.
>>2882385
The whole shit with Vietnam and Korea was the military industrial complex exerting its new found political power. It still does.
Is Vietnam quickly becoming the "forgotten war"?
Communism and the Cold War are largely irrelevant conflicts and Vietnam is a US-ally today, furthermore the Iraq war has replaced the Vietnam war in us media and culture as the go-to example of a pointless unjustified guerrilla war.
>>2882376
>Is Vietnam quickly becoming the "forgotten war"?
I don't see how anyone can claim this when we're still having media products about Vietnam being produced to this very day, and when a ton of very impactful pop culture sensations of the 70's and 80's were about Vietnam.
Compare that to the real forgotten war, Korea.
Barely any videogames or movies to perpetuate it in pop culture.
>Communism and the Cold War are largely irrelevant conflicts
No, it's still very much in the popular consciousness with plenty of living survivors.
Iraq is unpopular but lacks the cultural legacy. I think the Iraq war will be more forgotten than Vietnam in a few decades.
How does a population on a completely isolated island in the middle nowhere take on the same mannerisms, looks, and behaviors as those found on a completely different continent halfway around the world?
>>2882158
Humans are still humans
>>2882161
>not recognizing individual groups of people to combat systemic racism and colonialism
back to /pol/ you go
You just think these manners are similar due to their common phenotype
Would Hitler have succeeded without pic related?
>>2881887
No his personal instabilities would have brought him down regardless.
Had he won the war, I would figure most of the upper echelons of the Nazi party would've had resorted to infighting and coup attempts with Hitler being one of the first taken out, as it wasn't really well organized.
Also, if any of you history scholars would like lecture me about Goebbles, please do. This guy seems interesting.
Goebbels was an autist emo and a closet homosexual
When did the practice of awarding medals to soldiers become commonplace? It just seems like a strange concept.
>Oh, well, you're maimed for life and you'll never be able to do anything fun ever again but look on the bright side you earned a gold star!
War does not foster any benefit to those who fight it. So to not stifle those who gave up their rights to fight for their citizens, we try to honor those who fought. Such is a rare thing to happen when one gets back to home, I suppose
>>2881708
This could be completely wrong, but I always looked at a soldier's uniform, especially the dress uniform, as their resume. Every ribbon and flourish tells you something about their military career. I think that's a cool way to look at it.
>>2881708
war pensions
How do you deal with the fact that you will never be a 'great man?'
Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let 'em all die in exasperation
Have 'em all healed of their lacerations
Have 'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like 'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
Because I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
Bump because i need to know too
Never had to tbqh
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateFascism/comments/6e11py/an_update_on_the_spanish_civil_war_veteran_ama/
So apparently one of the only 3 surviving nationalist Spanish Civil War veterans will be doing an AMA over on leddit in a couple of days, probably the only chance you'll ever have to get a first hand account, as all 3 are around 100 years old and will be dead within a few years.
What would be some good questions to ask?
>>2880727
I am pretty sure that a 100 years old Spaniard is going to waste his time answering questions in Englis on reddit.Kek.He got paid by some redditor and another person is going to answer the questions
>>2880727
I'll post a link in lefty pol and r/communism thanks buddy
most of the questions have already been asked
this will just fuel more negative thoughts in the spanish society, the thoughts of the civil war massacres are already latent and a lot of people want to blame modern day people for them
the constitution of 1978 was a mistake
destroying national pride in 78 was a mistake
Is Fascism pretty much social democracy without the democratic part?
>>2880342
yes, facism is being social
>>2880342
no social democracy has racial values at its heart like national socialism
Was he an exceptionalist or a clear thinker?
>>2879429
>DUUUUDE INVADE IRAQ CUZ I DON'T LIKE RELIGION
>>2879429
>ultra liberal Marxist
>supported the war on Iraq
???
Lets assume the following:
>The date is right after the Invasion of Poland (So you can't avoid war)
>You can send up to 10 articles
>They will be delivered to Hitler or anyone else of you choosing within the Nazi high command
What do you choose?
>>2893569
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manstein_Plan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Instrument_of_Surrender
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan
I have 11 articles, fite me
>>2893619
>aber Herr Hitler, theze are from ze fjuture
>NEIN!!! Angriff Stalingrad!!!
>>2893619
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
Would they have won if there weren't any foreign involvement?
>>2892619
yes, easily
>>2892619
No, easily
>>2892619
>Would they have won if there weren't any foreign involvement?
No. The Second Sino-Jap predated WWII by years, and by 1940 China was basically Japan's Vietnam War.
is democracy good?
>>2892113
We don't have democracy. The ability to vote is called suffrage. If you research real, actual democracy, it's fucking great
>>2892118
Inefficient though
Democracy is too broad a term in this day and age
Is destroying priceless historic artifacts okay sometimes?
>>2891789
No, erasing history is never okay. And doing so is often a symptom of a repressive system who's afraid of ideas that a historical object might represent.
>>2891789
Yes
t. iconoclast
>>2891789
Yes all the Semitic regions need to be carpet nuked for the betterment of mankind and we will enter a whole new paradigm of antiquity
Why were there so few religions into veganism?
I mean abstain from meat like Mahayana Buddhism.
>>2891713
Veganism is encouraged in Buddhism but it wasn't realistic in places like Tibet, in Ethiopia "fast" days were the majority of the year and thus it is largely vegan and is the food of priests.
Still the average peasant needs a higher caloric intake than priests and thus milk, meat and fish (yes I know it's a meat but it's defined differently in Judeo Christian tradition)were accepted as a reality.
I'm plant based mostly because kosher meat is expensive and I'm not fond of dairy (save for ghee) though I'll eat whole fish on occasion and use fish sauce. Some rabbis extol veganism however and that was the reality of Jewish peasants for milenia.
Because meat tastes good, nigga.
>>2891713
I would have figured becuase non-animal based proteins are difficult to obtain on a traditional diet where the species of vegetables maybe limited.