Yes it's a thing, fuck you
Why is the Whitlam Dismissal so controversial? He couldn't pass a budget, and refused to call an election.
Yes, I can see why a Labor supporter would be upset. But if he was ahead in the polls he clearly would have called an election. He was behind, and he tried to game the system to stay in power and buy some time, and it backfired.
>hostile senate blocks him several times
>libs go behind everyones back straight to GG who shouldn't have used his perogative powers like that
>>2449018
If only there was some sort of mechanism directly built into the constitution for when a bill is repeatably blocked by the Senate, that has been used multiple times by many governments, most recently less than 12 months ago
Where did the idea and folklore from Elves come from? Did they exist? if so, do they still exist?
germanic culture, no, still no
>>2448863
metaphors for the more accomplished and mindful but ultimately vain humans
are we actually living through humanity's least edgey era ever?
i mean Isis filmed a few people being burned alive but in terms of edge factor it's kinda low
>>2448499
More exposure to events and increased stigma to their reception surprisingly doesn't imply the world is any worse now than it was before, who would have thought.
>>2448499
you just raised that edge level anon
Fuck, meant to post this in /k/.
>>2448172
It's ok, we all do mistakes :^)))))))))))
you will be drafted sven
Hello /his/,
I have always had an interest in history and thought I had a decent knowledge about it until I came here. The amount of detail you guys dive into only makes me want to understand more about your implications in an argument. I want to know what books I should start reading to get a true understanding of history. I'm am going to start a book version of a bucket list. What do you guys recommend?
>pic related I love color and colorized photos of the civil war/Victorian era to WWI
>>2448110
Read American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund Morgan. He is what I believe to be the best historian to ever live. And I think that is his best book
A good way to tackle history (and the way they teach it to you in higher education) is by learning the material by normal academic means (lectures, reading history books, documentaries, etc) and then reading the documents of that era with both modern and period contexts.
For example, let's say you learn about the American Civil War. You would read a history book or watch a documentary, then read some of lincoln's letters, read some slavers defend the practice, read some abolitionists' arguments against it. What are the average union soldiers thoughts on the war? Confederate soldier? A slave himself?
I've alwayd felt that reading the documents themselves in context really brings history to life in a way that modern material on the subjects can't.
What comes after the age of unironic contrarianism?
A post-ironic wonderland where everyone over-appreciates everything while secretly hating everyone
>>2447619
Is this degenerative?
>>2447627
no, it's progressive
https://youtu.be/gr3hG16KgOg
Your video is the worst type of shit I have ever seen.
Never ever post here again.
>>2447105
Holy fuck... I am coming off of oxycodone, so I am very aggravated. Fuck you kid... This shit is terrible. What does it add? It is a shallow perspective on pop history. Fuck you. Fuck you kid. I want to stab you. I want to throw you down stairs with nails tapped into your forehead.
>>2447137
>>2448143
Are right. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. I CAN TELL I HATE YOU.
Tell me about philanthropic Nazi German programs. How much good did they actually do? Are there any others besides the winter relief?
more like pogroms amirite?
It seems if you needed welfare the idea was you had to go get it yourself, basically you'd be asked to go door to door to get it but people were expected with heavy emphasis on expected to give something.
The goal was everyone pitches in even if it was a little rather than you have to give a lot.
It's a classic quote that has been discussed to death at this point, but I still wonder,what do you think of this timeless question?
Rene Descartes walks into a bar and the bartender says "Do you want a drink?"
Descartes says "I think not," and disappears
>>2446558
Had a sensible chuckle.
>>2446558
I finally managed to start reading Nonfiction. Pic related is my first one ever and I am still on it. Which nonfiction books should I read afterward? No advanced academia bullshit, I am just a pleb who just got into nonfiction.
I loved the first part of that book. It went downhill fast when he stopped talking about anything after the agricultural revolution.
>>2446471
Your opinion is irrelevant. Only your book recommendation is. Faggot.
>>2446488
>opinion
Which was basically the entire Sapiens book. If you're going to be a cunt go to /lit/.
Why is it virtually impossible to argue against someone using the just world fallacy? 9/10 you use the just world fallacy in any debate, any environment and the audience votes you the winner. Why?
in a JUST world, you would drop dead from having posted this OP
>>2445386
Why is "pffft" always followed by retarded shit? Also until I came to 4chan Ithought it's supposed to be a fart noise.
Whats your opinion on this story?
If Zeus had a taste for toptier boipucci then so will I.
>>2445356
That's where the word catamite came from when the Romans tried to pronounce Ganymede
Is there anything in the bible that actually supports classical theism? Seems like it's just a product of syncretism with Hellenistic philosophy
Acorn becomes tree
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
What was their endgame?
To out jew the jew in terms of greed and apathy towards God.
>>2444383
fpbp
Death
Why did people throw such a hissy fit over Jack the Ripper killing prostitutes? I mean, its not like he was killing doctors or policemen or something, he was killing prostitutes, people whom most of society would rather pretend not exist anyway. Like prostitutes have a really high mortality rate anyway, most day from drugs, alcohol, physical abuse, it happens a lot. Why did Jack the Ripper get so much attention?
>>2444251
Primo because it's still a serial murderer, something the media love to feed on, no matter the circumstances.
Duo, because Victorians were fucked up fetishists who were fascinated by the murder of prostitutes. There has been much written about this so do your own research.
>>2444251
> People would rather pretend prostitutes didnt exist
What world are you living in? Prostitutes dont hold you down and rape you, then steal your wallet. If people didn't want prostitutes to exist they would simply ignore them and market forces would pressure them into different work. People like prostitutes as much as they like sluts and porn, which is a lot. But its publicly embaressing/reprehensible/immoral to admit it.
Why did he get attention?
1. Murder is worse than the voluntary/socially forced commerce of sex
2. People were worried their favorite hoe was gonna get cut
3. He wasn't caught. This provokes interest because that means it could be someone you know and that not all crime gets punished.
4. People wanted to know what kind of beta neckbeard this fag was. He was probably denied by every woman so when even prostitutes wouldnt accept his money he flipped shit.