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>>2511669
Neither history nor humanities, but it's annoying when they refer to countries as plural. It seems recent or maybe I just started noticing
>Britain win competition
Are Britain a great country then?

>>2511669
>I learned about "thot" a few days ago. It's short of "that hoe over there".
>There's no reason to not use the word slut instead.

But those mean different things?

Anyway, good luck with your war on synonyms.

It sure seems that way.

>>2511603
His theory about mathematics shaping a culture's world view is fascinating as fuck. It's worth reading for that section alone.

But he also paints with some really broad strokes, like "Magian" civilization, whatever the fuck that is. Plus I think he tried a little too hard to distance the modern West from Greco-Roman civilization to the point of absurdity.

Not really. It's easy to whine about the supposed decline of European civilization, if you claim every event either supports your desired theory; or say at most, only stalls it.

Also he refused to either support or condemn Hitler, doubting Hitler could've turned the tide of supposed cultural decline (even though he probably wouldn't have backed anyone, in order to keep his hands clean). He was just a lifeless conservative sap who sat on the sidelines of the scary, risk-filled present, in order to indulge his fetishized version of history.

He just the product of a delusional, post-WWI mindset that swept Germany

>>2511575
"Read my lips, no new taxes."

>>2511575

He looked at his watch. Classic campaigning mistake.

More people voted for Clinton. Also, Perot.

>>2511493
Read "Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze. Germany's racist policies were extremely helpful in both motivating the population into a war ultimately contrary to their interests (living standards under the Nazi economy were not good) and getting maximum utility out of occupied territories (don't have to feed occupied populations, can take whatever you want, and can use the Slavs/Jews as slave labor).

>>2511493
>By the later years of the war, was it a case of "We know we're going to lose, might as well take the Jews down with us"?


Pretty much. Remember, people fight wars to secure some kind of policy goal; annex this disputed bit of territory, end that embargo, change the regime in such and such country. There's a lot of military tactics and operations in how to do that, but ultimately, the goals are political.

One of the main political goals of the Nazi regime was to wipe out Jewish influence, preferably through eradication of the Jews. When it became clear that the war was either lost or at least wasn't going to be won anytime soon, well, better do it now rather than possibly lose the chance to ever do it.

>How can a country known for being efficient and pragmatic to the point of anal-retentiveness have had its priorities so ass-backwards?

That's something of a meme. "Efficient and pragmatic" countries don't have bureaucracies with no fixed areas of responsibility except what department heads Hitler likes, or air forces with their own armored divisions, or two separate "High commands" of the army, or design tanks out of factories that use different manufacturing processes and thus do not have interchangeable parts within the same supposed model, or design giant penis guns that are too slow to move around and overkill against pretty much anything.

The G*rmans needed someone to blame on all their problems. Plus wartime is the time to get it done while everyone else is busy.

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Residents of Sarajevo getting water in order to survive the siege. Not going to comment on how long the siege went on for.

Why were Serbs so evil back then?
Too much Communist indoctrination?

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United Nations tank sometime in 1991 or 1992

>>2511338
Is law part of the humanities?

>I have a question about my ongoing suit, I'd like to hear a sound off of opinions from total internet strangers instead of just asking the trained professional I have on retainer

>>2511358
actually it is. check on the first page of the board

>>2511251

No. Non-trinitarian sects would be the most pure sects of Christianity. At least if you are referring to Christianity as it was originally understood in its earliest years.

>>2511260

Non trinitarians were dubbed as heretics during the first synod of Constantinople, and even before were not accepted into becoming bishops of the church.

Also Arianism was not the earliest incarnation of Christianity. The apostolic era is.

It's the current greatest, yes.

Admin tech 4 before anyone else, instant colonization focus with full diplo point pour in exchange for briefly inferior trade and naval tech.

>>2511206
>someone will bite this

>>2511220
You mean admin tech 5?

jesus christ is that Neo?

Because there was a lot of racism at the time.

Plus it obviously wasn't all peaceful. You have to keep riots under control.

>>2511099
It's the only language protesters hear.

>>2511101
kek

Cos Saddam like him heaps. who the fuck knows and who cares?

>>2511087
Saddam was mostly secular.
Also, soon Ethiopia will be majority muslim, and its ran by christians.

>>2511087
Imma Saddam, I likeh you, I like baaths.
Is nice~

Link leads me to a completely different article, mate.

>>2511052
>Rebecca Silverstein
>Silverstein

Who could be behind that article?

>>2511052
>Silverstein

Every fucking time. Why is the American jew so obsessed with racial issues?

>>2511033
Wilhelm II was opposed to socialism

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>>2511035
Wrong.

>>2511061
Source?

>>2511023
Well, for starters, all of the civil law system, which is the far greater amount of cases, would fall apart. You kind of need judges and lawyers for that.

In the second, what would actually be gained? Crime problems, at least in the contemporary U.S., aren't a result of being unable to catch and sentence criminals, they're primarily because they can't effectively process criminals once caught. I'm not sure how Judge Dredd style enforcement gains anything.

>>2511044
The Judge system goes a long way towards preventing recidivism.

>>2511181

No, the prison system where you're shipped off to a stasis cube off-planet but are then given a second societal chance once you've done your sentence prevents recidivism. (in fiction, anyway, whether or not it would work in real life is debateable) Merging the police and judicial departments while completely eliminating due process does jack shit to prevent recidivism.

>>2510986
>So how come Greeks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Romanians, Hungarians, and other victims of centuries of Ottoman slavery and colonialism aren't prone to illiteracy, drug use, violence, and rape?

They are

>>2510993
This

>>2510993
I am?

Guilt about killing the king -> Total about face and angry justification for killing the king -> Repeat cycle

They let in Algerians

>>2510950
They're not any more corrupt than any other Western country, their press is pretty damned obsessed with exposing it though.