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The entire world as it is today is because of the French Revolution

>>2696833
if it hadn't happened, a similar event would've happened in another country.

>>2696833
OP here, I made this post because of this

wtf I hate hitler now

>>2696785
Did anyone ever give a shit about one of Hitler's speeches outside of a Nazi rally?

>>2697066
Triumph of the Will is actually important for film-making's history despite the politics. Also Hitler's non-verbals are on point, like many statesmen.

Nah. De gaulle was deluded.


>Americans liberate Paris for him
>Pretends in his speech the french resistance did it
>Begs the Americans to leave quickly because they're embarrassing him

He's so easy to laugh at.

>>2696647
>burgers and bongs don't want him to develop nuclear weapons
>want to treat france like an occupied country rather than an ally
>develops France's nuclear arsenal and gets himself an occupation zone in Germany
Funny to think today that France is only behind the US and Russia in their nuclear weapons arsenal.

>>2696627
they were fake news created by the dishonest french media

>>2696627
feature. The system heavily encouraged the development of them intentionally and unintentionally. Same with underdevelopment in many colonies held by many powers.

A feature, going from how they were reported at the time.

A bug, going from how historians write about them today.

The Bengal Famine saw food being exported from that country while farmers starved. If a local government did the same thing, they would have caused the famine. Since the British did it, they caused the famine.

>>2696538
what to read and where to read it? im not paying for books lol

>>2696673
Libgen

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>>2696673
Ummmm, at a library, sweety. Pic related is my current read.

>>2696130
Having grown up in them... fuck no.

Economics:
The consolidation of the rich over the poor. Where I live, 80s Britain was grim, poor, and despressing. Suicide rate increased massively with the high resulting unemployment.

Social/fashion/music:
Rose-tinted glasses here. There was far, far more shit music and fashion than the good parts you've decided to cherry-pick.

Politics:
Yeah, the ever-present threats of nuclear war and Irish terrorism were great.

Grow up, kid.

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>>2696166
When has Britain not been a depressing shithole?

Anyways, this thread was made to talk about the 80s in the only country that actually matters.

>>2696192
That picture is a joke, literally so. It's satire.

> When has Britain not been a depressing shithole?
Any time not in the 80s.

> Anyways, this thread was made to talk about the 80s in the only country that actually matters.
Yeah, Britain.

dumb frogposter

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>>2696126

delet this

>>2696122
History needs to be judged in the context of its time. Electricity and flight are too high technological jumps from the Classical Era to be demanded so that a civilization can be called great.

Besides, imagine how people 2000 years from now will think about now. "Why is civilization X considered to be great if they didn't even invent teleportation and dyson spheres?"

The USA was an irrelevant literal who? right until about 1918. No need to meddle.

>>2696141
They were massive competitors with England's steel trade and were one of the fastest growing nations on the planet. Whilst they weren't a superpower yet, everyone knew they would be.

Also, it restores prestige.

>>2696104

Supporting the Confederacy made sense from a realpolitik standpoint, but there was little political support and Britain didn't have that big of a military presence in Canada.

Direct British intervention against the United States also would have sparked a war with Russia, who backed the Union (again as a counterweight to Britain in the Atlantic/Americas rather than due to political ideals), even stationing their Pacific fleet at San Francisco.

I think this is a pretty cool story

>>2696053
what comet?

>>2696128

wow..really makes u think

that's a pretty vague word.

You want military tactics?

Hand-to-hand combat tactics?

Textbook-reading tactics?

Test-taking tactics?

marketing tactics?

Big dick growth switch tactics?

Pretty sure you can google any of the above if you're really in need but I hear Sun Tzu's Art of War is ok.

>>2696021
I was thinking military tactics, I should've been more specific. I know the art of war is meant to be good, but I don't know how entry level it is.If anyone here has read it, would you say it was good for a beginner or not?

amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics

a lack of staple goods, usually

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>>2695872

>>2695872
In most revolutions in history you can find large numbers of poor, disenfranchised, and angry men who have nothing to lose.

Other wise it's due to upper class citizens or groups who rebel against what they see as overreaching authority.

>a cause must be intentional

There was a cause sure, but you're juxtaposing intention into the situation. I can hit a table and knock over a glass by accident. Just because there is a cause does not mean there was intent behind it.
>there must be an infinite amount of causes
And one of them is the god you believe in, the others are the other creation myths, and the other is there is no god. Your argument is just as valid as that of a Muslim, Jew, pagan, Christian or whatever the fuck else.
>therefore there must be a god
That's called jumping to conclusions.

>>2695640
>Everything has a cause.
Prove it.
>There must be an infinite amount of causes.
Why?

>>2695640
It's
>everything has a cause
>there must be an uncaused cause
>we call this uncaused cause God
I didn't know Aquinas was this hard for Americans to understand

"Left-communism" is generally opposed to the centralized party model that you see in Leninism (Maoism is a type of Leninism). Read up on the infighting between the Left SR and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

>REAL political spectrum
>all ideology but one are failure
>that one is total shit

>>2695529
>jazz clipart

Adorno, you card...

>>2695450

Because there is an objective difference between all the races.

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>>2695454
Such as?

Collectivist thought is cancer. Also because retards apply statistical group averages to individuals.

>>2695437
>Without war the world would sink into a swamp of materialism

Ironically World War One largely led to the materialism that most people take for granted today.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?


War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler