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>>>/tg/

Not even memeing. They also know more about history than /his/ which only ever talks about Hitler, Marx and Sea peoples.

>>2472840
I was hoping for more help with fantasy elements

/tg/

I'm not even butthurt about off topic

But they honestly have a better grasp of history compared to /his/

Honestly I would say there really aren't any. The closest to "accurate" is something that captures the spirit of the era while the events are mostly fictional.

I guess the TV series Rome and the movie The Wind that Shakes the Barley are the closest I can think of

>>2472587
>Tfw Skins will be /his/ accurate as fuck in 25 years

>>2472485
Waterloo and Zulu.

>I hear a voice in my head that tells me to cut my dick and kill everybody who doesn't believe me
>this is the patriarch of two of the world's biggest religion

>>2472400

Abraham is certainly a myth. I'd try Moses (probably real) or Jesus(Judaism wouldn't exist today without Christianity, and neither would Islam)

Charles Darwin, directly responsible for both world wars

>>2471908

>implying

Other way around. I can't think of a single British victory from WWI that compares with the North African or Burma campaigns.

>>2471908
>what is North Africa

>>2471908

They didn't exactly cover themselves in glory in the First World War either, OP.

But as for their sub-par performance in WW2, it's hard to distill it down to a single factor. Some of it, is of course that they did not and never really had a long tradition of land warfare and leadership for such, so that officers and enlisted alike were often people recruited during the war and having little, if any military training beforehand. But you also had enormously bad doctrinal decisions, especially where anything tank related occurred (For example, the Matilda 2 tank, a heavy tank of the early war renowned for near invulnerability in the early parts of the desert campaign, was an infantry tank; designed to support infantry advances in heavily fortified areas. It should have been carrying munitions to help deal with pillboxes and machine gun emplacements and the like. However, those sorts of ammunition was considered the province of the artillery, so those rounds often went to anti-tank batteries, while the Matildas themselves were ususally issued AP stuff in case they ran into a tank or something despite their mission profiles not being designed for it and they being too slow for such a role anyway).

Also, in large part because of the horror of trench warfare in WW1, interwar era Britain bet hard on a strategy of war by airpower alone, a use of strategic bombing to force the enemy to surrender. Bomber Command was just about the only department of the UK military not to have to tighten its belt in the lean budgets of the 30s, and until war's end they'd get an enormous share of military spending. It turned out to be a terrible idea in practice, and would go on to suck up huge resources.

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>>2471259

Remember folks, whenever anything in the Bible seems contradictory, or false, or wicked, or downright dumb, "It's just a metaphor :^)"

>>2471259
That pretty much proves that if you're not killing every non-christian savage is this world you're not a real christian

>>2471289
>>2471304
ITT: retarded idiots. Jesus meant that pagan families and societies would be divided thanks to his teachings.

>>2469904
Some wanted him to be tried and potentially executed, but felt it would set a bad precedent in Europe with Monarch powers and any potential future conflicts

>>2469904
Executing leaders was invented at the end of WW2

> William was not lacking in intelligence, but he did lack stability, disguising his deep insecurities by swagger and tough talk. He frequently fell into depressions and hysterics
our guy

>>2468823
>get gunned down by even bigger shitheads
>that makes him a good guy

god i fucking hate nicky

He contributed to the rise of the commies, so no

>>2468068
Catholics aren't Christian

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>>2468068
>considering joining the Catholic Church
>I'm pretty far left
You're going to the right place. Please stay away from Christian churches.

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>>2468073

>>2467555

>no luther option

>>2467555
>Robospierre

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Charles Darwin is to blame.

His retarded monkey mythology is the reason why the 20th century has been so depressing.

>>2477537
Really now.

Sweden practiced eugenics into the late 70s. There is literally nothing wrong with eugenics. Thank God CRISPR is here the era of the lame, malformed and insane is coming to an end and humanity will finally be free of the chains of degenerate reproduction.

Black people.

>>2474438
So this is the power of /pol/ before they go off to school.

>>2474441
i understand that people were angry over that rodney king thing, but why did it get so out of control?

by the end of it most stores were burnt down and some had "black owned" spraypainted on them

>>2473879
Yeah all those fabled trees that are identical in Argentina, Norway and Thailand, and completely different in Australia

>>2473883
You know what I'm asking, can you not be a smartass, please?

>>2473884
We don't know what you mean. Elaborate.

>>2469570
this is racist

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>>2469570
Why were aborigines the only race with aerodynamic knowledge advanced enough to construct a returning flying weapon while the rest of the world had to make do with bows and arrows?

>>2469574
What's your point?

>>2461232
bump for interest

>>2461232
There was a speculative bubble in the Japanese economy. Japanese banks lent with virtually no regard for the quality of buyers, mirroring the crisis in 2008 in the United States. The Bank of Japan realized the shit that was going on sharply raised interest rates in 1989, causing the boom to go bust. These interest rates caused stock and real estate prices to go down and the Japanese government bailed out the banks when their debt went badly. However, what was worse than the US was that these banks had so much bad debt that they couldn't really afford to do anything other than survive on bailout funds. Regardless of your perspective on the US economy post-2008, we can agree that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, et al are not merely sitting back with their bailout funds and are actively speculating in the market.

The reasons for the Lost Decade are much more convoluted. Paul Krugman argues that it's an example of a liquidity trap: monetary policy can't lower interest rates because they're already super low. Scott Sumner and Milton Friedman would say that the Japanese Lost Decade was caused by money being too tight, not too easy. They'd argue this by saying that low interest rates are not a sign of easy monetary policy, but the opposite- low interest rates are a sign that money has been tight, so by lowering interest rates so much, the Japanese are actually having tight monetary policy, which is impeding their growth. Fumio Hayashi and Edward Prescott argue that the Lost Decade is caused by low productivity and thus monetary/fiscal policy are ineffective, since those only raise consumption.

>>2461232
>What caused it? Is America to blame, like some people say?

It was Jews anon, it's always Jews

modern day america :)

>Was there any other case like this in history, when elites ditched the common interests of the nation and chose to indulge in their own selfish desires

Literally what happened to the ERE after Manuel's death.

It's happening right now you dumbass look out you damn window