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>Political orientation
Right-wing liberalism (free trade, free movement, freedom of religion and social freedoms)
State should have as little function as possible while still maintaining general safety

>Greatest general
Even though i hate frogs, its gotta be Napoleon

>Favorite ancient(mesoamerican cultures also count)/medieval/early modern state
ancient - Phoenicia
medieval - Jagellonian Empire
early modern - British Empire

>opinion on Islam and Middle East
Islam isn't bad, its just ME thats fucked up

>Shoa real/fake
Real

>Was Hitler right? Should Nazis win?
Racism is wrong, the difference between niggers and whites is cultural, not biological and there are no jewish illuminati.
And victory of totalitarian states would be the worst setback the world could've seen

>opinion on Communism
Generally good idea, but incompatible with human society.
The final stage never existed and what people call "communism" was always just totalitarianism using communism as ideological disguise.

>opinion on Religion
Bullshit for weak people who can't bear the thought of pointless existence and who can't hold out morals solely out of empathy for others.

>opinion on Multiculturalism/nationalism
People should be proud of their nationality and multiculturalism shouldn't be generally promoted, but its also not something that should be hated

>Who would win in a fight between a viking, a medieval christian knight, a medieval arab knight or a samurai?
Samurai

>Were ancient egyptians black and are black people responsible for all modern civilized culture?
Idgaf

>Are Germans inherently evil?
They are like machines with no conception of morality, so no

>Are Russians inherently evil?
Animals can't be evil

>Was USA a mistake?
Nowadays its a mistake, it used to be the coolest thing in the world

>Political orientation
Traditionalist farmer, not worried too much about politics beyond local and state at the moment

>Greatest general
Hard to say, different wars different eras but a personal favorite is Caesar

>Favorite state
My own, Virginia

>Opinion on Islam and Middle East
Is ok if not religious, or christian. The best man at my wedding was a catholic berber

>Shoa real/fake?
Used for political means a bit too much but jews and poles and gyspsies died etcetera

>Was Hitler right? Did good guys lose WW2?
The problems began with the french revolution, everything post 1779 was a mistake

>Opinion on communism
Stupid idea but cool aesthetic

>Opinion on multiculturalism
Ok if organic through natural migration, trade or intermarriage. Disasterous when planned and enforced

>Who would win between a viking, a christian and muslim knight and a samurai?
Knights had the most durable equipment overall but it would come down to setting, individual skill and setting

>Were ancient egyptians black?
They called themselves the red people

>Are Germans evil?
Probably, but doesnt mean they dont mean well, despite their autism

>Are Russians evil?
Same as above

>Was USA a mistake?
Yes

>Political orientation

Trotskyism,that is the ideology based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky who was Stalin biggest opponent within the communist party

>Greatest General
I really don't know but I ll go with Hannibal

>Favourite State
Lmao none fuck the US


>Opinion on Islam/middle East
Things were alright there before the western Imperialists destabilised the region. Also the Islamic state should be put down with the upmost brutality


>Shoa
Real


>Hitler and WW2
Hitler was the baddie but some of the bad guys also won ( Americans)

>Opinion on communism
Obviously i agree with it but there are many different tendencies inside of it and it shouldn't be generalised like that. But if you are just talking about Karl Marx's ideas then it's great

>Multiculturalism
A good that shouldn't be enforced though

>Christian Knight Vs Arab Knight Vs Viking Vs samurai
Most likely the samurai


>Were the Egyptians black
Nope


>Are Germans evil
I don't think that there is an evil race but if there ever was one it has to be the Germans. They ruined everything good even produced by Europe

>Are Russians evil?
Nah just misunderstood


>Was the US a mistake
Hell fucking yes

Sorry my American friends but that's the truth

>people dying from a shit ton of diseases that are easily treated or virtually non-existent today
>child labour
>prohibition
>no TV, internet or video games

Yeah, I'll pass

Year: 2017
Location: Any large city in the US coasts

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Year: 1986

Location: Miami

>>2772157

>South Vietnam surrenders almost immediately without outside help
>it's the Americans who are bad at fighting

>>2772157
Little practice for a superpower of their calibre.
They only fought against themselfs, third world countries who cant hit back and joined the two only worthwile wars at the very end, when there was hardly any serious fighting to do anymore
All the while they delude themselfs in regard to the role they played and the magnitude of their past achievements,

Thats why they keep losing their wars, despite having everything going for them

>>2772171
>Get in a war with lost cause
>hurr durr american strong
>haven't secured any of the main objectives
>hurr durr w-we didn't lose

>against a group of civilians with little to no weapons

The Mysteries and Mythology of Ancient Scandinavia

Which paganism? There are dozens of different religions that are regarded as being pagan and theyre all completely different from one another.

>>2771766
You're a faggot by father Michael
Whites can WEWUZ too by Tyrone Anderson
And why the fuck are you glorifying them rather than 18th and 19th century Europe by Nigel

He was pretty good

>>2771647
Because he beat america and they produce most of the pop history we consume in the west

Although he was very highly respected by US commanders

>>2771647
He is overrated actually. The only thing he ever did was zergrushing his opponent and losing most of his battles.

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>>2771641
Is that so? I hear in the forums that Pompey is out of touch with the plebeians. Caesar, his co-consul, is in much higher standing. But don't mind me - I'm nobody important. No agenda, just passing through...

>>2771664
This rome loved Gaius more.

>Pompey
>conquers the Hellenized eastern Mediterranean world
>despised and forgotten

>Caesar
>conquers a bunch of unwashed barbarians
>loved and celebrated

being Pompey is suffering

>>2771496
Anne Frank

>>2771496
OP's mother.

>>2771496
Malcolm X

Catholics and Mormons

>>2771503
Wouldn't sunnis be more of a fit to catholics?

>>2771503
Protestants* and Mormons. They even have the same insane amount of sects.

Negative numbers are invented by the Jews to enslave us Christians, like they did to Jesus Christ.

>>2771466
Debt is just slavery. It allows the master to use force to take the fruits of the slave's labor, so that the slave's actions can not even benefit himself except to escape harsher punishment.

>>2771466
it's real if you let it be, that's how 75% of man-made concepts work.

Like love, economies, democracy and tradition to name a few.

The dying gasp of antiquity

>>2771203
great tactician and a great figure. But until he tried to invade Russia

pretty cool guy

he fights literally the whole world and doesn't afraid of anything

>>2771125
It was fun.

>>2771125
They wanted land and the Germans were selling it.

>>2771125
The first time, to get back at Serbia and Romania for the Second Balkan War and get some land out of it.

The second time, they didn't really fight alongside the Germans. They played on both Soviet and German ambitions to avoid getting mulched like everyone else between Moscow and Berlin.

There was a massive revolt in Judea in 66AD.
Nero had previously used Christians as the scapegoat for the Great Fire of Rome in 64AD - Christianity was still a sect of Judaism.
When the rebellion was put down in 70AD, the Romans went apeshit. It's not the first time the Judeans had rebelled and Rome certainly had a history of setting an example for others by harshly punishing insurrection.

>>2770819
It was conquered by the Roman Empire, then captured by the Ottoman Empire.

>>2770848
That's kind of wrong in a lot of the details anon. Nero's persecution of Christians was old news, and for that matter, Vespasian repressed the Jews primarily because of their loyalty to the old regime (The Julio-Claudians tended to like the Jews because Iudea was just about the only puppet kingdom out east that was pro-Caesar back when he was fighting Pompey)

Also, the big uprising was the first one that had to have legions called in to put it down, the rest were just little police actions; and that wouldn't be the one that saw the Jews kicked out en masse. Bar Kokhba's revolt some 70 years later is the one that did that.

Huh, Never knew there was Bamboo in south america. And here I was thinking it only grew in Asia. Thanks for the botanist lesson anon!

>>2770787
Fun fact: Bamboo covers around 11 million hectares in South America.

>>2770787
there´s a species of bamboo so thick the spanish made cannon with them

>>2770588
Is there a greater vocalist than Phil Collins?

Yeah ethics, political philosophy, you know, relevant things

Epistemology is the most important

He was right. Muslims are irrelevant and powerless in the long run and we will all be prosperous Rhineland capitalist by 2050. Prove me wrong.

>>2770446
wut
I've only read the first chapter and want to see other peoples thoughts on the book as a whole.

Only read Origins of Political Order.

It's pretty good. A solid general theory of development without the huge selection problems of Why Nations Fail or gaps of Guns, Germs, and Steel.

I still think the best big explainer book for politics is Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate though, ironic because he's a neuroscientist not a political scientist.

Reading Blank Slate and Origins back to back would be a great start though.