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>Sir Henry de Bohun was an English knight, the grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce. Riding in the vanguard of heavy cavalry, de Bohun caught sight of the Scottish king who was mounted on a small palfrey armed only with a battle-axe. De Bohun lowered his lance and charged, but Bruce stood his ground. At the last moment Bruce manoeuvred his mount nimbly to one side, stood up in his stirrups and hit de Bohun so hard with his axe that he split his helmet and head in two. Despite the great risk the King had taken, he merely expressed regret that he had broken the shaft of his favourite axe.

Only cuz of the mask desu

Not exactly a king but Saladin

1.) What shit country do you live in that doesn't allow this?

2.) lol >parliamentary systems

3.) Why even bother with voting if every registered party gets a seat? China does this basically. Form a large enough cadre and get a few seats in the Congress forever and ever.

4.) What does vetoing the President mean? Impeachment? Also, this is just a Prime Minister's position in a parliamentary republic.

The party system thing you want, for whatever reason, would inevitably collapse into ideological stringent minority parties and into transactional mega parties. If everyone gets equal representation regardless of public support, ideological fanatics will just work to get to the threshold for power (which at 18% is pretty fucking low, you can easily find 15% of people who believe literally anything). The fanatics won't help form coalitions necessary to keep the Parliament working.

In response to that and to keep the system going, megacoalitions will form, technically under various names but with minor political differences. These parties will be made up of people who are completely free of any ideological conviction and willing to go along with the coalition leadership in return for access to power, be that legal power or pure graft.

As I said, this is basically the Soviet/Maoist system. Multiparty system full of fanatics eventually gets purged, leaving only the unitary coalition who's differences are smoothed over by pure corruption and the threat of violence.

"I scratch your back..." politics takes total control without true democratic representation.

>>2517110
Some of your points are indeed valid and I would like to change the percenteage from 18 to 23. Furthermore:

1. This is meant to be read in conjunction with the other points.

3. Not every party taking part in the elections would get seats, rather everyone reaching above the percentage does. In case I didn't state it clearly enough.

4. The president gets the power of vetoing anything and everything the parliamentary's concern do.

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>>2517064
>democracy

>>2517024
Because people realized having kids at an immature age can kill the bride and damages their reproductive organs irreparably.

>>2517028
>It took humans 100,000 years to realize something that would have been obvious
I think you're full of shit.

I guess Americans need to look in a mirror when they call Muhammad a pedophile.

>>2517008
Korea was just poorer due to its lack of natural resources and arable land. It wasn't considered less culturally developed, just culturally inferior, as the Koreans acknowledged the Emperor of China as the Heavenly Sovereign.

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Koreans literally lived in mudhuts before Japs civilized them.

>>2517022
I mean, Japan is also known to be mountainous and resource poor. How did Korea and Japan compare? And since Korea maintained trade with China, wouldn't they have a stronger economy?

Charlie was a genius. Hayek just plagiarized his work and called it his

It seemed that way, however, as we sit here at the portal of the 21st century it appears to have reversed.

>>2516983
Quite the opposite. There are millions of fools who cannot even figure out that God's existence is necessary for the existence of this universe.

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No

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>>2516931
>implying

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>>2516984
Funny joke there

Not really, your wealth increases in the form of cheaper and better goods even if you don't investyour own capital. Furthermore, everyone can be an investor, that's not a special class of person.

>>2516898
>the USA taxes labor twice as much as it taxes capital.
Wait what? Seriously? Post some source coz that is just dumb as fuck

And yes of coz neoliberalism is designed for capitalists to throw capital around coz it was made by them. Have we all forgotten 08?

>>2516934
Capital gains tax vs income tax for one.

Christianity = Trinity
Arianism = No trinity
It's not that complicated. Christianity is partially defined by belief in the trinity and without it ceases to be Christian as we know it but something else.

>>2516879
The part where Jesus has authority to override God the Father's decisions.

>>2516914
when did this happen?

Has jesus ever overpowered God?

Didn't jesus simply convince God to reconsider ? Or use some of the power that was given to him by God but which God could overpower if he was so inclined?

>>2516910
it says that arianism is a type of christianity.

Yes, obviously.

>>2516861
yes, you should wish they suffered more than you so you can laugh at their misery

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No, we should all LOVE LAIN!

>>2516722
Weirdly enough, so is with Islam. Islam means submission in Arabic. In fact, all Semitic religions have this philosophy you speak of.

Being submissive to God isn't being submissive to other people. Also your argument is the same flawed thinking of those who think Buddhist can't fight because they have a pacifistic philosophy.

>>2516752
Except Jesus said to turn the other cheek. It's just a shit religion.

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>HAHHAHAHA nation states are inherently ridiculous and are a 19th century fiction that only destroy local cultures
>HAHHAHAHA the HRE was a ridiculous Confederacy of irrelevant microstates hahaha how autistic can you get?

well, when your army sacks the city of rome can you really be called a "roman" empire?

>>2516714

I don't know, ask Julius Caesar

>>2516596
Because Alexander was from a superior culture and brought civilization to inferior cultures. Temujin was from an inferior culture and dragged down the development of superior cultures

>>2516596
Because one is a white European, and the other one isn't.

>>2516605
Babylon and its surroundings were vastly superior to greeks.

The way Romans conducted warfare changed and their equipment also changed to reflect that.

Having your infantry based on dudes wearing heavy and expensive equipment and requiring a lot of skill and discipline to fight in close organize ranks, costed a lot of money for the Roman Empire, which was facing internal rebellions and civil wars. So Rome switch to a more cheaper alternatives to infantry tactics and gear, which involved them fighting more disorganize and having more various basic infantry roles / specialties instead of one central one. The decline of the heavily organize close-rank fighting favored the spatha, which to an individual, whether fighting more out of rank or posted as some guard on a frontier or garrison, is more useful for it's extra reach.

If you're fighting in a close-shield formation doesn't allow it's soldiers much mobility to fight out of rank (like phalanxes or the late Republic and early imperial legions) and using it as your primary weapon, then the gladius is better suited for being more ideal to enclosed and space restricted fighting, it's more longer point, and that since it's more wider and shorter, it's harder to bend and better for slashing if you were in reach. If not, then the spatha was often more useful for it's longer reach.

>>2516573
>decurio-8.jpg
>No handguard
The barbaric shit.

Literature is for neurotypical normgroids. Non fiction master race here.

Terrible underage (sophomoric) writing style obsessed with slurring people as "cringe" and "pretentious" rather than focusing on making the point that real experience is a viable/superior way to gain knowledge compared to reading. You immediately start throwing shit at these cringey sports players rather than continuing up on your sole example of reading mathematics compared to doing

>>2516565
Nonfiction writing is just a way to communicate ideas. It's not really writing you're pissed at, you just don't like most people's ideas. Join the club, it also consists of everybody else in the world.

>>2516559
Despite low numbers and living in a fucking wasteland they managed to terrorize much of Northern Europe and occasionally fuck around even in far away lands.

As for their martial prowess, I would suggest you to ask their Byzantine masters.

>>2516656
>Scandinavia
>wasteland

you're an American aren't you?

>>2516559

Vikings are over romanticised desu

They should just replace the word Viking with "Norman plunderers"