How do muslims (countries) deal with inflation?
How does their economy work if they're forbidden from charging interest?
>>2562732
Bump
>>2562732
interesting
>>2562732
of course they charge interest, they just don't call it that way. people are pretty good at rationalizing things
has anyone else dismantled Christianity as fast as sam harris?
>>2562138
This guy is a meme, he might sound logical but he isnt
The people who invented his arguments, presumably.
>>2563402
True that, he just throws statments of people that came before him
For the last time. This is Ali not Muhammad.
>>2561979
fuck you
>>2561979
So are there any decent actual drawings of Muhammad from the era?
Does this mean I get fatwa'd?
Is it the Americans or the British that are the reason why were all speaking English today?
both
>>2561925
America is why Europe speaks it
Britain is why Australia, Canada, India and parts of Africa speak it.
>>2561927
This is the only sensible and so correct answer. /thread
Let's hypothesize an absurd scenario for history: Ancient Roman forces discover America and attempt to settle it. Even if it could be impossible, according to some, feel free to be creative in this premise.
>>2561551
they take florida, build a wall from the mexican gulf to the atlantic, build copypasta cities on strategic key points, eventualy evacuate all military and buerocratic personel leaving whats left to slowly sink into the swamps
>>2561551
It would be the germanic tribes all over again
>>2561551
They'd have to take the Scotland/Ireland -> Iceland -> Greenland -> Nova Scotia route.
I imagine an alliance with the local Indian tribes would be impossible, as they had neither a ready supply of goods or the promise of military protection to win the support and loyalty of the local elites.
The best I see for them is a temporary, Viking style frontier settlement where a few nutjobs who think they're in Arcadia scrape a living with the Native's consent.
My "creative scenario" would end with the creation of a Transcontinental Railway between Roman East Coast and Chinese California.
Let's discuss about the Feudal Japanese era. From samurai to wavering alliances and daimyo, few would even become influencial leaders, there's a lot to discuss.
>Everyone always talks about Sengoku Jidai
>No one ever talks about the Gempei War
Who /Taira/ here?
>>2561438
Minamoto here. Ours is the fury
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Why did it fall?
Was it yhwh?
>>2561321
jew propaganda
>>2561321
it's a metaphor
Some real loud horn blowers or something.
Is this historically accurate or bad history?
Idk but a book I'm reading says the same thing about agriculture
>>2561162
>technology is bad
>uses technology to spread his manifesto and carry out his attacks
Bad history I think.
Although industrialization is objectively bad for the workers (which in modern times can span an entire society) it's completely necessary in an urbanized global civilization.
Just think of pants. If 3 million humans are going to cluster together in an urban center where the F are they going to get enough pants?
The market demands that someone provide all those people with 3 million pairs of pants. Now say they need more than one pair and there are 70+ cities in the same predicament....
Somewhere, someone has to make all that.
Is that a thing?
I know there's lots of variations noted among blacks (Congoloids, Bantus, whatever Somalis are etc) but nothing about aboriginals. Just going off the size of Australia and how isolated each tribe would have been I'm assuming there would have had to be.
>>2560509
buffalo niggers are related to asians somewhat
>>2560509
Much of inbred neanderthals.
>>2560513
hol up you're taking about abbos not american aboriginals my apology for autism
same answer applies but instead of buffalo niggers its kangaroo niggers
What's your favourite period in history, and why?
Bronze Age
alot of wacky civs all over the place
Late Antiquity
Bridging the gap between Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages I think it often gets overlooked and when it's not overlooked it seems to be grossly misunderstood and overly simplified. Just look at every hack pseudohistorian in the world coming up with their own set of reasons why the western Roman Empire fell.
Dark Age Greece.
Seems comfy, living a small life in a small country between the times of big empires
Everything about the 18th Century (in Europe) is creepy as fuck.
Especially the rich culture.
I think it's cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGnlib7164
>>2560270
>creepy
>>>/reddit/
18th century Europe makes me think of ghosts, witches, dark occultists, vampires, werewolves, decadent nobility, hungry peasants, conspiracies, and senseless colonial wars
What's the best argument against moral relativism
Nobody has been able to bust good ol' Plato.
The common human reaction to death and suffering.
there is an overarching morality because the laws of physics are the same here as they are everywhere else, it is just that different situations call for different measures
>They wuz Hittites
>They wuz Persians
>They wuz Greeks
>They wuz Indians
>They wuz Romans
>They wuz Germanic tribes
>They wuz Vikings
>They wuz every major European civilization
How the hell did they become so successful? Also could the Indo-Europeans be classified as real life Kangz?
>Hi, I'm going to post one of the less regular /his/ topics
>just let me shit it up with memes first...
>>2559767
NOONE WILL EVER TAKE ANYTHING THAT YOU POST SERIOUSLY AS LONG AS YOU EXPRESS YOURSELF LIKE THAT.
>>2559793
Look who's talking
By the time the Civil War started most countries in the Western Hemisphere had all ready outlawed slavery and the British Empire with NGO's was working to outlaw it world wide.
Now let's say the South managed to win the Civil War. How long would it have taken for the CSA to outlaw slavery under international pressure and economic needs relating to industrialization? Also a follow up. what would an independent CSA have done policy wise in the first several decades? I know they had plans to take over central America and the Caribbean. Would they have become a regional power or global power given time?
Most likely answer is that they would just chill and not invade other countries and rebuild. They would probably end slavery by 1890s like everyone else and maybe re unify with USA or stay as a USA-like state.
>>2559035
>Now let's say the South managed to win the Civil War. How long would it have taken for the CSA to outlaw slavery under international pressure and economic needs relating to industrialization? Also a follow up. what would an independent CSA have done policy wise in the first several decades?
The problem is that the most likely outcome where the CSA 'wins' (for any given likelihood of the CSA winning at all) is not an outright, direct victory, but a coercive victory a la the Vietnamese in Vietnam; they are too bloody and costly to put down, and you get something like McClellan winning the 1864 election on a peace platform.
The problem is that he won't get into office until the spring of 1865, and even if the CSA does better than they did hisorically, they're still likely to be enormously battered and have a huge chunk of their territory occupied and cut off by the Union, who won't want to give it back, and there's going to be considerable impetus to go for a round 2 once the north is ready.
The CSA will know that, and have to spend most of its energies just keeping its remaining territory intact. It will probably turn into some kind of Prussian style military state, and if anything have to double down on the slavery to free up manpower to put whites in military roles.
>I know they had plans to take over central America and the Caribbean. Would they have become a regional power or global power given time?
In all likelihood, they'd get crushed under by the North 10-30 years down the line.
>>2559056
>It will probably turn into some kind of Prussian style military state, and if anything have to double down on the slavery to free up manpower to put whites in military roles.
I agree with the CSA becoming some sort of Prussia in the Americas with a martial protestant tradition with the added bonus of having a quasi-racial caste system but I can't see the CSA keeping slavery for very long unless they want to become international pariahs who don't keep up with technological advancements.
Is the Rote Armee Fraktion something that interests people outside of Germany/Austria? Do non-german people even know the RAF existed?
I only know that they existed due to being involved in Leftist circles. But they are to Tankie for my taste.
I am more likely to support the like of EZLN in Mexico
Sound familiar to me
we had something like that in chile iven the logo look like it