>Russia wasn't defeated in WW1 because it had a revolution.
>>2592201
Never heard anyone say that about Russia.
About Germany, on the other hand...
>>2592222
Russia wasn't invaded in WW1.
Have the victim counts of the USSR and other socialist countries been greatly exaggerated by western sources as part of an ongoing anti-communist propaganda campaign?
>>2592192
Americans were literally brainwashed to hate socialism/communism throughout the Cold War due to targeted efforts like McCarthyism and the Red Scare, I would not be surprised that they inflated victim counts and falsified sources to fit their narrative.
>>2592204
So how's your garbage pit in Eastern Europe or South America working out for you?
>listen to podcasts with two famous people from social science / humanities
>they're discussing a contemporary issue
>filled with appeals to analogy, appeals to history, selective information, lies, and laughably huge generalisations
I don't get it. How can social sciences be so openly fraudulent? How can the media be so complicit? Seemingly every area of either bullshit or common sense has some social scientist attempting to monopolise it through pseudoscientific (or literary!) methods.
It seems like people pretend that domain knowledge can give them universal knowledge when that domain is wishy washy.
media involvement means money
money means corruption
if its pushed into your face, its about the money
>>2592153
I can't know what exactly your example entails, because you don't disclose it, but:
>appeals to analogy, appeals to history,
Those can be valid.
>selective information,
Especially any historian should know that a selection of information happens inevitably.
>lies,
Not every false statement is a lie. You can also be deceptive, you can be bullshitting, or you just might be unknowingly wrong based on false premises, or based on a false inference.
>and laughably huge generalisations
You mean like saying "the media" or "the social sciences" like yourself?
>>2592190
Also, note that your post implies that you're making vast generalizations about a field based on a fucking podcast.
What was the most dangeroust gamble in history?
>>2592090
Ww1 brining Germany into the light
>>2592090
Caesar letting himself get trapped between the Gauls, relying on their impatience.
Napoleon
Going by history, can socialism work if its tried again?
socialism or communism ?
Only if it's Real Socialism TM.
>/his/ is simply neo-/pol/ and mods don't care.
The bubonic plague was beneficial for the economy in the middle ages and started the Renaissance. Would something similar happen today if a virus killed 60% of the world population?
>>2592044
The service economy would fail and we'd move back to an industrial economy, the middleclass would actually shrink which would help biodiversity be maintained. It would certainly change the benefits system, which would most likely mean more government funding to the natural philosophies rather than to Ahmed and his 10 kids who all have diabetes from staying inside for too long
Probably
Overpopulation makes everything more difficult
>>2592053
> biodiversity
> when 60% of the world population died
Why were Nazis so fucking aesthetic, and why are modern army style so garbage?
Even the British officers during WW2 looked pretty cool compared to their modern equivalents.
White privilege
>>2591929
Uniforms designed by Hugo Boss.
>>2591929
Modern uniforms are practical, theirs were minimally practical.
1.) How effective was the Kriegsmarine in World War II really?
2.) Did they have any real strength outside of their U-Boat Fleet?
3.) How did they stack up against other navies of the time? Were they the fourth most powerful behind the US, Japan and the UK? Could they have been stronger?
4.) Why didn't they expand and build more surface ships and even aircraft carriers? Wouldn't that have given the Wehrmacht considerably more strength, particularly in the Atlantic?
5.) Is there any truth to the notion that the Kriegsmarine were the least "nazfied" branch of the Wehrmacht? It seems like the Luftwaffe was definitely the most full of actual Nazies and the Heer seems to be a mix of conscripts and actual hardcore Party followers. Plus I've heard that Hitler didn't care for the Navy at first. Is any of this accurate or is it not that simple?
Also, general Kreigsmarine and/or World War II Navies thread.
>>2591887
Other than the subs they mainly just sat in port for the entire war trembling in fear at the might of the British Empire.
>>2591887
Not really effective at all
No
Bellow French&Italians but above Soviets
No matter how much they had built up their surface fleet it still wouldn't had been enough to counter the head start that brits had
Despite having a relatively weak navy outside of their u-boats, weren't those pretty damn effective compared to their size and supply/support? Like didn't the Americans actually copy their wolf pack tactics for their submarines against the Japanese in the Pacific?
How would you say the German U-boat fleet stacks up against the submarines of other nations during the war? And is it true that being a member of a German u-boat crew was the most dangerous assignment in the war statistically? I also heard that the submarine corps in the American navy suffered the most losses of all American branches per capita too.
Let's post some religious art, since this is the humanities board.
I've been fascinated by the Mormons recently, so I'll post some of theirs.
This is the prophet Alma being visited by an angel, who charges him with being the high priest over the Nephites (Israelites who colonised the Americas in Mormon belief).
Here's Alma's father (Alma the Elder) baptising some Nephites in a lake. I think the landscape is meant to emulate central America, or maybe its mythical.
The prophet Abinadi speaking to the sinful King Moses. I like the leopards in this one.
Nephi making the gold plates that the records of the Nephites were written on. They're the plates Joseph Smith claimed he found buried in a hill and translated (lol)
How do Women in Times deal with menstruation?
Putting rags in their panties.
Native Americans kicked menstruating women out of their tents during full moon
Impregnate
was he really that corrupt compared to other politicians and did he have a chance off becoming president if he didn't get assasinated?
also did he have autism?
long boy
>>2591565
FDR ordered the assassination.
Is Italy the most lucky/smart country ever?
>ww1 starts
>stay neutral than attack the guys you had a defensive alliance with
>win the war and destroy the austrian empire
>ww2 starts
>army sucks and lose africa
>shitolini loses in Greece too
>get btfo by everyone
>manages to get out of the war with no occupation and few territorial changes while Germany gets divided like a cake and occupied
How the fuck did they do that I mean it's not like they were the best at war but how did they manage to win a war (ww1) beating one of the strongest empire at the time and to not have the same faith as Germany in ww2?
>>2591521
>than attack
I meant "then" god fucking damnit no bully pls
nobody ever saw them as a threat so nobody bothered to "punish" them
like when the nerd kid tries to get people in dodgeball during gym class. it's cute, but you know you can dodge his attacks and just smash his face in any time you want
>>2591526
You always can delete post/thread and create new, dummy.
how prevalent was homosexuality in the europe and america in the 19th and 20th centuries?
>>2591517
not as prevalent as it is in your everyday life
Possibly somewhat less prevalent, because it was still a taboo. More people supressed their urges, so they just fucked their wives doggystyle.
>>2591517
Is that a russian?
How did Japan convince an army to rape 20,000 women (including children), force families to commit incestuous acts, and murder 60,000-300,000 civilians at Nanjing?
>he thinks it's difficult to get soldiers to rape the conquered
You're adorable
THERE WAS NO "RAPE OF NANKING".
>>2591495
Prove it.
What was his endgame?
It wasn't to liberate Rome's slaves.
It wasn't to invade Rome itself.
For some reason he wasn't trying to escape.
So what is it? He seems to be just raising shit for shit-raising's sake.
>>2591420
One could speculate that after he reached the alps and his troops requested to turn back that his ego took over and he imagined himself a general sacking the confederation. Sort of like how the Teutones did a few hundred years before
>>2591420
Defeat Crassus so his army can also cross the Alps into Transalpine Gaul/Germania with the civilian slaves. However he wasn't confident he'd beat Crassus so mainly it was a holding action.
That's the show at least. The historical Spartacus was sending correspondence to Sertonius and Mithradates, so it's possible they were hoping for a three pronged attack against Rome, but it didn't work out.
>>2591420
He was barbarian scum, meaning that his only goal or purpose in life was to shed bled. However he did not know his place in the arena among many other 'people' and decided to shed the blood of innocent civilians. Fortunately Marcus Licinius Crassus out an end to his dastardly tirade.