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Favorite monarchs and why 2017-05-02 04:07:57 Post No.2745170
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Mohammed Zahir Shah (Afghanistan)
>forty years of peace, maintained neutrality in WWII for example
Charles XII of Sweden
>military prowess, great northern war
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
>thirty years war, began Stormakstiden (the era of great power AKA swedish empire)
Henry VIII of England
>english reformation
Charles II of Spain
>technological advancements hundreds of years ahead of his time, played a major role in civil rights which was uncommon at the time, brought spain to its peak in history and waged war with the finno-korean empire (nearly destroying it, might I add)
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Fuck you for not replying to my thread
good night
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>>2745170
Who is this man and why does everybody bully him?
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Khalid bin barghash
>was only sultan for 38 minutes
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What's so terrible about mercantilism that allowed Adam Smith to singlehandedly destroy it?
Shouldn't a nation primarily focus on production, in order to not become dependent on foreign goods? Would a nation be able to secure themselves if they were dependent on a foreign power for weaponry?
Granted perhaps some goods of the highest quality can only be produced in regions of its needed natural resources, but mercantilists argue that the natural resources should be purchased from said region and manufactured into finished goods at home anyway.
You don't want to be dependent on another country, where they can grab yours by the balls; without finding some other way to grab them back.
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Because Mercantilists think that there is a finite amount of wealth in the world. You can create wealth, though. By having high economic activity. So Mercantilism is bad.
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You can make brass cups for $20 each.
You can make steel rods for $50 each.
I can make brass cups for $10 each.
I can make steel rods for $70 each.
Mercantilist policy suggests it would be in your best interest to sell both the rods and cups to me and buy neither rods nor cups (because you are trying to acquire wealth, not trade it away). Likewise, I should do the same. Because you're stifling trade, you're distorting the market and actually losing more money than you would in a free market system.
But free market policy suggests I should buy your cheaper rods while you should buy my cheaper cups. Both of us benefit.
Yes, there are situations regarding national security (military, sometimes food production) where a nation might not want to be reliant on other nations for goods, but when it comes to consumer society, the free market is clearly a superior system.
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>>2745220
>You can make brass cups for $20 each.
>You can make steel rods for $50 each.
>I can make brass cups for $10 each.
>I can make steel rods for $70 each.
If these were countries instead of individuals, the second country would lose since they would be importing more than they're exporting, meaning the national wealth would go down.
>Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558)
>Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700)
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Spanish aren't great with math.
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>>2745092
Different dynasties or something like that
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He was Charles V of the HRE he was Charles I of Spain.
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Has there ever been a leader that wanted to unite all humans for the greater good?
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The one and only
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>>2745062
Yes. Charles II of Spain.
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>dad just told me his stories about life as part of the 1% under communist rule in Afghanistan
>learned he was constantly fed collectivist propaganda, had many classmates (14-15 years of age) taken behind the school building and shot in the back of the skull for dissent, threatened with the very same at multiple times by school officials, and even cornered by a group of communists at one point and "persuaded" for lack of a better word to start attending communist meetings
I would give you the entire story but I want to go to bed. Basically, a little over year and a half passed between the Saur Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. My dad lived in Afghanistan during this transition period. He remembers:
-all the things just mentioned thanks to those damned communists
-lots and lots of Americans coming to visit his household/UN diplomat father, and something about how they were not allowed to say why but just that he had to "get the fuck out of there"
-how my grandpa persuaded commie afghan officials to let him take his family on a "three day trip" to france for a UN presentation, then succesfully persuaded the french government not to deport his ass as the entire family would have quite literally been executed the second they stepped off the plane (which is true anyways) plus the UN ties helped
-lots of other experiences like leaving german shepherd behind, grandpa was considering going back soon but my dad woke up on christmas eve to the newspaper which read, well, you can guess what happened on christmas eve 1979
>mfw firsthand experience with commies turned my dadinto the staunch libertarian he is today, and thankfully a lot of that rubbed off on me
sorry if this post is a mess, I'm tired as shit and want to get some of the info out there. Potentially more to come.
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>>2745055
>taken behind the school building and shot in the back of the skull for dissent
Not gonna lie that sounds made up but totally believable at the same time.
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>>2745065
I made it sound scary but it was 100% real. Imagine a government planning to hand over power to the soviet fucking union (which we all know is totally liberal and tolerant) within the next year or two. Then throw in a rather uneducated population and voila.
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> TMW being Muslim or Arab doesn't make you violent, but rather political unrest
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Itt we talk about things we were taught that were definetly obscure to the actual causes and effects because muh patriotism or muh nationalism.
I'll start.
>That great moment when I was taught that italians were the remnets of the great Roman empire.
>Mfw we were actually mudhut germanics who raped and pillaged the rements of Rome.
>mfw the greeks raped and pillaged us.
>mfw the Normans raped and pillaged us.
>mfw my families land was taken from us by Communist and now we are poor and had to move to America.
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>>2745033
There is no "we". Most of europe has been invaded by each other at some point. Thinking you know who your ancestors are more than a few hundreds years ago is next to impossible to pin down to specific countries.
For all you know your "italian" ancestors could've only lived there for a generation or two before coming from somewhere else
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>you must help these retards, because they were born to the same clan as you
>dont under any circumstance become friends with those nice people, their clan's ancestors fought our clan's ancestors for that yonder river bank
Nationalism is retarded on the individual level and only makes sense for the big state.
So stupid that the common people love and preach it, when it does nothing for them but limit their space by alienating "rival nations".
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>>2746168
While i agree with you for the most part it does have a few upsides such as protecting national cultures and ideas.
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Why did the Indians provide scouts for the US Army during the Indian Wars? Didn't they understand that white people basically saw all of them as the same, and didn't really favor one tribe over the other? Why help the group that destroyed your people, just to fuck over a group you also hate?
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Any books on this topic also appreciated.
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>>2745025
Because your assumptions are wrong and none of it was as simple as you think it was.
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>>2745032
Hence the request for books on the subjects
post you're favorite quotes from philosophers and historical figures
“we are no more than mortal men, and we should at all times make due allowance for the unexpected” – Polybius
“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?
Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity!
Thus spoke the devil to me once: Even god has his hell: it is his love for man. And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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>>2745006
>And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate?
Hate? Disagreement? Genocides aren't compassionate, unless he's being an autist and implying that working towards a "greater good" is the same thing as compassion.
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>>2745006
>Gibs me NEETbux
Karl Marx
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RED PILLS: ISLAND EDITION 2017-05-02 03:17:39 Post No.2745000
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pro tip: take two positions
> Robert David Lion Gardiner himself said as much during a rare interview: “We have always married into wealth. We’ve covered all our bets. We were on both sides of the Revolution and both sides of the Civil War. The Gardiner family always came out on top.”
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>>2745000
>owns and entire island
>on the long island sound where the trash of every city in Connecticut flows and polutes so bad that entire populations of fish have been whiped out.
>came out on top
Kek
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What was so historically wrong with the middle east borders?
Are we not above political relations now after two and a half world wars later? The middle east divided is a middle east at war.
Restore Persian Monarchy over Iran, and the old borders East of Iran, provided they effectively outlaw extremist Religious by capital punishment.
Restore Ottoman Sultanate over Syria, lebanon, Jordan and the Arabian, provided they also install capital punishment for religious extremist.
Leave Jerusalem, Arab and Jewish designated areas of Israel alone, but make it a Sanctuary State of the UN and not its own state.
Invade and occupy Isis controlled secs of Egypt, Lybia, Algeria, Nigeria and declare martial Law, outlaw all Isis affiliates, and outlaw radical religious extremist activities punishable by death.
Restore Tunisia and Carthage and Annex it as part of Sicily and make Sicily it's own Nation, provided that they secure the naval power over the Mediterranean and secure the borders in which refugees and cartels are flooding into Europe.
Middle East Crisis solved.
Prove me wrong.
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>>2744891
>2 1/2 world wars
>WWI, WWII, WW II.5
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>>2744891
>osman family ruling over the levant and arabia
nigga what
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>>2744949
They dindunuffin wrong. Wrong inheritance, wrong time, wrong war to fight. Restore the Ottoman rule and youll see a much more secured Middle Eastern Region. Turkey has already proved to be a strong western ally and they culturally do not support Radical religious ideals that places like Iran, Syria, Palestine and many others that were once in Ottoman control support.
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What the fuck was his problem?
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Literally what happens when you combine nazism + communism
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>>2744836
Turns out, you can't implement Gommunism in one country thru racial hatred alone.
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>>2744855
he was toppled by vietnamese communists though
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Who is the most evil human of the 20th century?
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>>2744738
You for making this thread
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kissinger
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>>2744738
Talât Pasha
My great great grandfather was a pirate in the Bahamas
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and your great great grandmother was a whore
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>>2744626
well, technically her father sold her to him when he was around 50
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>>2744619
So did you move to Somalia to continue the family business?
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What can change the nature of a man, /his/?
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>>2744592
Browsing too many shitposts
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good book that
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>>2744592
everything around him.
the human is living through a constant process of changing his mind, even if it is bit by bit
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Why did Latin replace the languages of Western Europe while it made little leeway in the east?
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paganism
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Look at the land accumulated by the Holy Roman Empire, then look at where the Latin language was most used.
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Latin was encouraged and did well in the area north of Greek in the Balkans too. Even Albanian is a semi-Latinized language pretty much.
It didn't penetrate the East as much because there was already a unifying language that had also been prestigious for Rome since early times, Greek, alongside with local languages that had developed literary traditions. Even the emperors who didn't care much for Greek and the sometimes anti-Greek attitudes didn't do much about it in the East overall.
>>2744524
Not getting exactly what you mean but since you brought it up, it's obvious to compare the Holy Roman Empire and the Teutonic Order with territories that had been formerly Slavic and Baltic speaking in the East and slowly became German.