>"don't worry guys, i'll be back in 3 days" - jesus, 724,656 days ago
Fuck you cunt never post again
>>2660314
Ok.
Delete this! It was only a metaphor! Fucking fedoras, you don't understand! I think god talks to me in my own internal monologues, and this gives me hope, of something, therefore everything in the bible is true even though it seems blatantly false!
A humanities board without a law thread?
To start off some form of discussion:
Is legal constitutionalism dead in modernity? Is it currently impossible to synthesize power in a single higher authority?
>>2660206
Rule of Law and democracy are possible without a constitution, but other checks and balances must be in order. That isn't to say these would be infallible, but neither is the constitution.
I wouldn't say it's impossible, some leaders are attempting to do just that. Erdogan wouldn't be an absolute monarch, but a presidentialistic system approaches such a state of affairs more than a parlamentaristic system does. This isn't good if you like checks and balances.
>>2660222
A constitutionalist system is possible without a constitution say with the presence of supreme court governing all that is happening. However, I believe such a system cannot exist currently, even if a country is governed by an absolute monarch, the power of the monarch will still be limited through the outside influence of international organizations, treaties and so on. When it comes to international law, the incorporation of a hierarchical structure is impossible due to differences in all of the interests involved and in a sense this reflects upon domestic laws. If you take domestic law without the international influence, yes, perhaps it is possible to construe a constitutionalist hierarchy, however, in the grander scheme I do not see a way for this to happen.
Why do countries fuck themselves over by creating inflexible written constitutions?
Why is it that the first world war is seen as more tragic than the second, even WW2 affected and killed millions more. Is it the futility of it while the second was a good vs evil kind of thing?
>>2660177
It's a meme.
>>2660177
I think because the first World War seemed it could have easily been avoided at a few turns where WW2 is seen as inevitable.
Because Russians and Chinese were the majority of that death toll
WW2 only killed 200,000 Frenchmen and 300,000 British men
WW1 Killed 1.1 million Frenchmen and 850,000 British Men
So no wonder it's remembered more in anglo countries
ITT: Historical figures you'd fuck (in a totally no homo Roman-Greco, kinda way)
>>2660160
Anne Frank
>>2660164
10/10
Would explore sexuality with
>>2660167
>explore
Are you gay?
Were knights even worth it? They got rekt by peasants on multiple occassions but I never heard about for example tercios being stomped by few farmers with sharp sticks and they often cared more about their own ass than the kingdom so they were not exactly stalwart defenders of the realm. They fucking sucked and the crusades prove it.
>>2660048
>American education
What, the first crusade were the took Jerusalem with only around 12,000 men? Or the third crusade where Richard beat Saladin every time they fought?
>>2660065
>2 out of 7 crusades
>they wuz mighty and shiet
what about Agnicourt? Remember how a bunch of inbred proto-hools no scoped them?
>b-but hussars were a meme! :(
>>2659942
They were, only poleshits say otherwise
>>2659956
How were they a meme if they often won against overwhelming odds? Name some major hussar defeats.
>>2659942
Yeah, it was a nice victory, no denying it.
But Sweden at that time was a joke (they lost to Denmark shortly after) and still won the whole war in the end and conquered the Baltics
Aside from picrel and winged hussars which military formations consistently won against enemies who had numerical advantage?
Swiss Pikemen
>>2659883
Two words: Hernan Cortés
>>2659886
What are their most iconic battles? Heard they rekt some knights.
What the FUCK was his problem?
>>2659879
Irish
Dissatisfaction.
Catholics.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Comparing Rome with the United States, are we heading towards the decline of our Empire? Or are we merely entering the later stages of the Republic, anxiously awaiting a Caesar.
>>2659859
Harder to call the US an empire without the phillipines and cuba
>>2659880
I meant are we in decline along the lines of the Roman Empire or British Empire with an overextended foreign policy, or if we're going to reform our politics to an imperial system like the Roman Republic did so it could more effectively govern/expand its territory?
>>2659888
The US Empire by invitation has been in decline since 1990. Joe Schlub is starting to notice.
How come the 3rd world still has slavery when slavery was abolished by most of Europe and America 100s of years ago?
Surely it can't still be the fault of the white colonist oppressors?
>>2659841
I think that this scale represents people who are so poor that they are slaves in all but name, and it may count human trafficking/sexual slavery, which is, as you know, illegal. Still the scale is ridiculous, from 0.04 to 0.75. With a few countries above. And Jesus what the fuck is going on in Mauritania?
>>2659867
Because that map has a wide as fuck criteria.
Also kinda leads to people ignoring shit in the lighter colored parts of the map.
>>2659874
Yeah, judging by the eastern Europe coloring (bar Russia), it's mostly human trafficking and sex slaves. Also, Moldova sticks out like a sore thumb.
On this day, he died for your sins.
>>2659703
Poor Spartacus
>NO EVIDENCE
sure thing anon
>>2659703
This was modern war!
Peace Keeper or World Destroyer?
I think it helped pull the breaks on the war train that had been going since the first world war
However, nuclear proliferation will mean that eventually some dingbat with no sense of morality will get their hands on material he (or she) can use to effect tremendous harm on x country, people, or whatever else they don't like.
>>2659683
Making nuclear weapons is harder than it appears, and if its a singlular person, its damn near impossible. Even nations have a tough time making nuclear weapons.
I think that if Pakistan and India, two nations notorious for hating each other and not afraid to actually shoot it out, aren't willing to nuke each other, it really says a lot about how deterrence is still a legitimate argument for nuclear weapons. That said, the future is never certain.
Peace keeper, so far.
Mecca has always been the holiest city in Islam. What is/was the Christian equivalent? Rome? Antioch? Jerusalem?
Jerusalem, that's where all the good stuff happened.
>>2659662
The Vatican.
>>2659667
>Catholic
>Christian
*Blocks your path*
>>2659653
Oh hey, I recognize this image. It's an Italian propaganda poster. The caption below says "The German is truly our friend".
>>2659665
I want to live in a world where the germans took all the funds for holocausting jews and gays and put it toward transforming them into smiling germaboo allies or something
i would have been their friend :'(
>>2659665
very Orwellian, kek
What would happen If we (America) won WWI but lost WWII
it would be an alternate universe where my family still had our holdings in surrey, and my ancestor's factory had won out over its ruthless competitors
and the moon is likely close enough for frenchmen to launch themselves at it from cannons, and it's made of cheese
>>2659643
funny, if the commies wouldn't take over in my country after the war, we would also get to keep our factory and stuff. Sure, nazis would not be fun to deal with, but maybe just marginally better than commie repossessions...
>>2659670
lebensraum would pretty much mean that your family would have nothing and be replaced with germans by now.