Anyone else got into history because of escapism? Reading about the past is literally the only thing that can make me forget the present.
I'm kinda there myself too
>>2477807
Kinda, It certainly is cool to read about History, almost like reading one long Tolkien book.
But personally I Study history to get a better understanding of the present. It has actually helped me a lot.
>>2477822
For instance My Polish Friend really doesnt like Muslims. When I asked him why, he says its been taught to him by his family members, grandparents and other Pols. But after studying a bit, you understand that Polish may hold a grudge over those of the middle east because of their mass expansion into Europe.
Was the Nanking Massacre a fabrication?
No, But Japs did nothing wrong
Sub-human Chinks deserved that.
>>2477824
that's not nice
>>2477806
> protesting in Japan with signs in English
Medice Pavel, ego sum CIA.
>>2477783
IV V
>>2477783
>Pavel
>not Paulus
>>2477790
>Slavii, non barbarii
who is your favorite pre-10,000 BC leader and why is it based Hammurabi
>>2477733
>Hammurabi
>Pre-10,000 BC
>/his/
>>2477733
But the earth is only 5,000 years old
>>2477733
Great Finnish Khan Spurdo IV, leader of the Finnish Khannate during the initial phases of Finno-Korean Hyper War.
to being a full-out dictator pretty much?
>>2477604
He or Lincoln.
[spoiler]I also think they were both good Presidents.[/spoiler]
>>2477604
No.
>>2477604
Imagine what he would have accomplished had he not had polio
Any good 18th century waifus?
>>2477586
Catherine the great, the horse queen
>>2477586
Duchess de Polignac
Urffffffff hurfffffffffffff
Don't mock Charles the economist.
>>2477479
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>Monsieur Danton, I'm Committee of Public Safety.
>>2477367
If I take you out of that bath, will you die? We all see the joke.
Or perhaps he's wondering why somebody would shoot themselves, before getting guillotined
>>2477367
>The Constitution I've filed with the Committee list me, my virtues, Madame la Guillotine here and only un de vous!
>First one to talk gets to live through my revolution!
The Sword In The Stone and Excalibur both fail the Chekhov's Gun principle. Why are they in the myth at all?
>>2477353
>Why are they in the myth at all?
Because it's myth, not story. You don't have one composition by an author who has plenty of time to think over and edit the plotline or plotlines to make sure it's a coherent whole. You have a huge number of stories being tossed around by various authors, half of which contradict the other half, and eventually get rolled together in some sort of grand retelling, based on what that individual compiler thinks was cool.
>>2477353
Real life doesn't follow your gay trope conventions.
>>2477353
Who appointed you king of the no fun brigade?
>>2477349
"What the fuck's the difference with the head blowed off?"
>tfw Teutones and Cimbri were Celts, yet everyone believe they are Germanic
Why are you so mean to us ?
Does anyone else NOT like Austrian economics but like Carl Menger??
>>2477259
I like both to a certain degree, but I wouldn't call myself an "Austrian", since I think people who deliberately adhere to a school of thought (most pseuds on the internet calling themselves Austrians) are severely limiting themselves in what they can do, especially with respect to economics.
>>2477879
Can (You) explain the differences anon, It seems like a good opportunity to learn since you seem to speaking from some level of experience
>>2477951
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I guess I'll try to explain myself a little bit.
Usually internet Austrians take on this bizarre epistemological aversion to any and all empricism, as if Austrian Economics demands radical a priorism (which they call Praxeology, which isn't what that word means or what Mises meant by that word.) Usually they learn their economics from jpegs of quotes from Rothbard or Hoppe, who are alright when actually read and understood, but sometimes they wrote very low and the understandings of most people match it.
How I see it, the "a priorism" of Austrian Economics comes from the fact that it is specifically a school that discusses theory, empirical matters are determined to be "economic history" by most of them, which is something I'd say is generally acceptable, but the issue comes when internet Austrians decide economic history isn't useful in illustrating and understanding theory, which is what it's good for. History cannot disprove theory, only theories can. This sounds close to a statement like "socialism has never been tried." but if we're talking from an austrian position, socialism was tried, and it failed for the exact reasons the Austrians said it wouldn't work.
on praxeology, it isn't so much of a method as mises trying to better explain what economics is as a social science as a theory of choice or action. (Notice that praxis is a word that literally means action.) Praxeology is pretty neat, i'd say, if not just because it accepts subjectivity and rationality and the fact that only humans acts and not groups (there are mob mentalities sure, but there is no asabiyyah or whatever.) It provides that neat and important understanding of why a person made a choice which is always "because it was the best one they could think of at the time with their knowledge."
Take what i'm saying with a grain of salt because I am no expert, just someone struggling my way through all of these things.
Heil dir im seigerkranz
Heil Kaiser dir
https://youtu.be/4xqnb0lQhxA
Fuck this autist and fuck the German generals.
>muh colonies
>muh navy
>muh russia
Imagine if the German Empire had remained a neutral, economic & industrial powerhouse?
>>2477028
No, it just should have fought against the austrian empire.
>>2477001
The world would be a better place if they won.
I'm very interested in WW1, I enjoy how much of a clusterfuck of pretty much everyone being in the wrong it was as well as what it led to for society.
The problem however is that I'm a filthy brit and only ever got the information for the war about the European side of the war, and only the British side at that, then we just sort of lamented about how terrible it was for 4 months and read poetry.
My question is: what would you all recommend would be a good place to start finding out info about it, different viewpoints of the war (Russia, Greece, whatever Spain was doing), what other area's were involved in war besides Europe and what sort of things it led to for each country involved.
>>2476850
www,google.com
>>2476850
Read Gary Sheffield's "Forgotten Victory."
Then look at the bibliography and mine it.
David Stevenson's 1914 -1918 - History of the First World War is pretty awesome and very complete
Lenin (aka the singer int the band the Beatles) was assassinated in a showing of Hamlet. The doctors were able to save him, but once he was saved his head exploded after doing a triple backflip at his rally in Texas to commemorate his 14th presidential term. After he was assassinated the vice president Truman was given the choice to nuke Egypt or Japan.
After a week of deciding who should be bombed president Harry S. Truman decided to nuke Egypt. Because he wanted to see if the sand would turn to glass.
After the bomb killing 80,000 egyptian employees (and customers)
The Egyptian government flew 2 plains into the Eiffel tower launching Nazi Germany and Poland into the Vietnam war.
With a total of 20,000 polish and German soldiers dead the U.S. began to help Germany by helping Brittan leave the UN. After the British exited the UN Poland and Germany pulled out of Vietnam and thus ending the civil war.
american history books in 2032.txt
After the civil war a russian man named Stalin decided to split Germany into 4 countries for Germany, Russia, The U.S. and Brittan. This couldn't happen because global warming was melting the ice that Europe was made of. So they all had to move to Australia.
Australia at this point was empty and dry. When Europe showed up they planted alot of trees and plants. The ISS reported "in the span of 12 months Australia was completely turned green from the original dessert-color" and thus Australia was renamed to "Greenland"
Greenland was a trade country with the Germans constructing the government.
The country was peaceful until a guy with a weird looking mustach got tired of Muslims entering Greenland. H le started to murder them and paint paintings with their blood. People thought this was really messed up so they hung him publicly and thus was the day that the Jews celebrated "Holocaust day"
/his/ approved documentary thread
I just want to highly recommend the BBC's 50 year anniversary series about the first world war 'The Great War' lots of good footage, information and interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxK-qR14pVg
>>2476591
Who is this beautiful semen demon?
>>2476596
Some Portuguese galdem
The Guns of August documentary is quite good too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTanoepNIbw