>>2395701
>mozart
no
troll imagine because of mozart, Wittgenstein and especially Schwarzenegger since he wasn't going for fit but rather aesthetics
>>2395701
Sorry, I'm an illiterate nobody.
Somebody please provide labels for who these guys are. Is that Stanley Kubrick for the Film category?
Has a society than combines multiculturalism with egalitarianism ever worked?
Define "worked".
Flawlessly? No.
Functionally? There are plenty of functional multicultural egalitarian societies around right now. And if someone goes
>the west
>functional
They're memeing nostalgic /pol/tards.
If you expect literally any system to work flawlessly you need to lower your expectations, none of them do.
>Evolution
An atheist fairy tale not grounded in reality.
>>2395220
What's the difference between a theory and a fairy tale?
>"The Romans fought battles in quincunx (checkerboard) formation and not as a continuous wall."
Is Lindybeige correct /his/? Did the Romans fight with gaps in between their centuries?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=croWDsDhgPo
Yes it their 2,200 years as a fighting force the Roman army fought exactly the same way from the 8th century BC until the 15th century AD
>>2394984
During their height yes, they did phalanxs early on though
>>2394984
As far as I'm aware it would start as a checkerboard, then after the velites moved back through the gaps the first rank would advance and close the wall so that it was a solid rank. Then after the first rank was tired and started depleting it would fall back through the gaps of the second rank and then they would close the wall and advance.
Fighting this way kept clear avenues of retreat and allowed fresh troops to constantly be moved to the front
What did the "French Resistance" achieve if anything?
>>2394641
They are a good excuse.
>>2394641
Beating up their women for falling in love with Chad Germanicock
ITT: People whose direct actions ruined the world
>>2394469
just looked him up
what did he even do except killing himself?
>>2394544
that's it, he was the heir apparent, and he killed himself
ruining everything
People give Rome wayyyyy too much credit for being one Empire...
May have been "united" for a time under one emperor. But Roma never had nearly as much land as people think it had.
>>2394178
I think it's common knowledge that Rome was divided into separate holdings. If you hear different its usually just Romaboo trying to claim his fandom over Rome is best.
Also in a way it really wasn't divided, though there may have beem different holdings once it did unite as one Empire the Politics were very similar and for that reason it was only untill after Rome fell that we realize how much of an influence their political order had on the land it held.
>>2394178
There a strange trend in Roman history. The people became much more roman as the empire started to politically fragment. A British citizen of Rome in 350 shared a lot more culture with the Mediterranean society than the the Britain of 150 AD. There is a similar trend in many of the marginal areas.
It is not just about how much territory you hold, but which territory.
The British and the Mongol Empires are the largest, but a good portion of both was barely inhabited wastelands of either steppe or frost.
Similar to the Caliphates, who count the entirety of Arabia as some glorious millions of km2 of land, even though only the coast was marginally inhabited and the inland just scarce nomadic beduin tribes without any civilizational value.
Rome is important because they either held important territory or they made non-important territory into important territory(western Europe).
That is why the Roman Empire had twice the GDP per capita as basically any other Empire of the time period, including most of the Chinese dynasties.
Similarly in modern times, Russia is fucking enormous, yet it has the GDP of a mere Italy.
Post flags. Good flags, bad flags, historic flags, alternate history flags.
Here's some OC for the hopefully upcoming merger of the German states Bremen and Lower Saxony.
>>2393919
>>2393919
Spain has some cool flags
>>2393919
So does Prussia
Were there any other famous leaders in history with genital deformities?
Nope! Hitler was the one and only!
That is pretty weird! I'm sure he was the only guy with a dick this weird and that there will never be another.
Damn! I F-ing wish I had a micro penis instead of a pu$sy!
I've gotten into the show Vikings, which has led me to researching the viking Sagas, and all that, and finding that these old stories, while told in a totally different way than even stories that come a few hundred years later or even before, have a quality about them that are really nice, and I've been trying to find more audiobooks of stuff like this
Tellings of real legends and tales from Iceland, Norway, England, Ireland, stories you could see a family of people cuddled up around a fire telling in like the year 1000, or a story a bard might tell in an english pub in the 1200s. You guys have any shit like that?
>>2393286
You should read Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology. Really good introduction and a very easy read. You get to read about Loki tying a billy goats beard to his genitals and then pissing off the goat. While loki shrieks in pain the gods laugh til the house is shaking and loki is excused of his mischief
>>2393286
I highly recommend the podcast "Saga Thing." Two friends (and professors of medieval literature) read the Icelandic sagas like they're supposed to be read, telling a story and talking about what happened in the story in a fun manner. They approach the characters in the sagas like real people, talking about their motivations, calling the villains dicks, figuring out why some characters are complete idiots, and so on. Then, after they're done reading a saga, they'll do an episode where they score the saga, total up a body count, and try to figure out who was really at fault for the mischief and mayhem that took place. Its great fun.
>>2394235
thanks!
whats bulgarias problem?
Thracian blood
Turk blood
>>2393091
The eternal Serb tried to screw them out of the land they'd promised, even though Bulgaria had shouldered the majority of the burden in defeating the Ottomans the year before.
Are organizations like the Illuminati and the Freemasons actually evil? What are their agendas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due
>>2392971
The latter, no. The former, they don't believe so, but some people would disagree based on their own perceptions.
>>2392971
the goal of freemasons was the end of all monarchy and the establishment of republics which could be easily more controlled by money and other means
its why freemasonry nowadays is mostly a joke but back in the day people had a reason to hate them since they were behind all kinds of anti monarchist plots
What is the origin of gynocentrism?
things that are good and fine
>dressing scantily
>taking drugs
things that are not good nor fine
>rape
understand, godcuck?
niggas wantin their dick in a pussy
>>2392204
>good and fine
>wrong
According to your arbitrary morals.
>Spend the entirety of the 20th century backing religious extremists in the Middle East instead of left-wingers because of your own Conservative and anti-Communist bias
>Wonder why it comes to bite you in the ass
Of all nations in the world, is the USA historically the worst at foreign policy?
>>2391615
The fuck is that flag?
>>2391623
all i could find on google in 2 seconds
>>2391626
The fuck did you Google? Things that look sort of like the US flag but are not?
Hello, I was wondering if any of you know a good documentary, best if a series, about the Spanish Civil war.
I know that it is near impossible to get something unbiased, so if there is any other option I'll prefer a "pro-República" point of view.
I'm more interested in military action than a political one, it amazes me how the heavier soviet tanks were defeated by the smaller german ones.
Uh... well, Spanish Civil War images thread I guess then...
BFF
>arrested for attempting to instigate a coup
>appointed chancellor ten years later by the same government he tried to overthrow
Explain this.
High energy.
>>2391300
Germany isn't known for having great leaders.
>>2391300
>... by the same government he tried to overthrow[.]
NO, BY THE THEN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM, WHICH HE SO EXPEDIENTLY USED.