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so Kenny G was carthaginian?

makes you think..

Looks apish desu

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>>2377821

>>2377575

>knew neither hunger or disease

Spectacular citations needed

>>2377575
To many people on the planet to rely on hunting and gathering so they started farming.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/oldest-human-cancer-disease-origins-tumor-fossil-science/

unrelated but why would china side with the west?

>>2377171
Russia outnumbered the allies in europe like 3 to 1 or something.

>>2377195
Don't think that matters. They were underequipped and their infrastructure was a pile of shit in 1945.

>>2377123
Orthodoxy
Steppe
Mongols
Vodka

>>2377134
p much this but "steppe" added in 3-4 more times.

>>2377123

Tyranny, Tartars, vodka, and terrible, terrible weather.

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>>2376094
You bet.

>>2376094
They were neither evil nor a good military force, but they're always portrayed as such in US media for propaganda purpose

>>2376094
>why are the people we literally fought an independence war against portrayed as the bad guys
GOLLY GEE I DUNNO

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>>2376053

>temporarily disable US power projection in the Western Pacific
>use this period to take MUH GREATER ASIAN CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE and dig in
>once the US is presented with a fait accompli, and realize they can't push back without taking enormous losses, public opinion will force a negotiated settlement

This is incidentally the fantasy that their high command continued to cling to right until atom bomb number two.

>>2376064
i love how the us and uk just look worried or midly disgruntled

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>>2375578

>not just fucking a whore

?

Pre-modern man used imagination for almost everything. These days we see everything in front of us. Don't you miss the days when you could just think about a girl and fap off?

>>2374688
Masturbation is a recent phenomenon. Up until recently people just boned or raped or got hookers. The squeamishness of the current age, unmatched in the totality of human history, has changed all that

>>2371742
Yea basically
But there were things like tactics, having cavalry, archers, gunners and in the 14th to 15th century; artillery

Swords were rarely used as primary offensive weapons. In general, lances/spears/pikes and ranged weapons were the primary weapons of war, with swords being reserve weapons, sidearms, and civilian weapons.

The major exceptions are typified by 4 general categories:

1 - Armies that deployed with infantry combat tactics organised and centred around one specific tactic, involving the use of swords. Post-Marian Roman Legions are the best example of this. The sword was the standard weapon around which their infantry tactics revolved. In this kind of warfare, the sword is just a replacement for the spear, the emphasis in combat is on discipline, unit cohesion, and all the other facets of organised warfare.

2 - Individualist swordsmen. Landsknechts, Samurai, and late medieval Knights typify this category. Soldiers who fight individually, with the goal being personal accomplishment either in single combat or in the single-handed breaking of a line. These kind of soldiers generally formed shock battalions or were the result of noblemen fighting on foot for various reasons.

3 - Tribal armies. 18th century highland Scots are by far the best example of this. These armies are large gangs of well armed individuals, who do not fight with organised, disciplined unit cohesion, but rather as a mass of heavy infantry whose goal is simply to close to melee and hack the enemy to pieces. This leads to exceptionally bloody warfare, and can be devastating, even against more technologically advanced and organised opponents through sheer force.

4 - Cavalry armies. 17th, 18th, and 19th century light and heavy cavalry, hussars and irregulars (cossacks and the like) often favoured the sword over the lance due to its flexibility and the lack of long-shafted infantry weapons that needed countering, allowing cavalry to close to melee before facing danger. Everyone knows how this works.

>>2371782
>tribal armies
>1700s Scotland

Am I missing something?

>>2370145
They're not in the bible

>>2370147
Yes they were

There is no evidence that they were real

>>2364305

Depends what you define a 'martial art' to be, anon.

Pretty much all varieties of wrestling and boxing have their origins in Europe.

>>2364305
They did, most of them died out or became sports

European civilizations did have martial arts, and they're still incredibly popular and widespread. Most people just don't think of them as martial arts because they're seen as common sports. There's a pop culture bias that makes most people think of "martial arts" as a term which refers to Eastern arts because they're exotic and easier to think of in those terms. But unless you restict the meaning of the term to be something nonsensical, boxing, wrestling (including the tons of folk wrestling varieties), and fencing are definitely martial arts.

A bunch of whackos held up in a building because they thought the government was coming to kill them. Then the government came and killed them.

You tell me where it went wrong.

The TFA trying to get good press and being an incompetent unit with a mean streak. I mean, to throw a grenade into a room your buddies just walked into is fucked, or bulldozing the compound.
The FBI for being a bunch of fuckin shady assholes who did an obvious cover up

The Branch Davidians for being weirdo religious people, but they followed the law and were very compliant with the authorities so I hold them little responsible

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FEDS FUCK OFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

perform a sacfrifice, your sister will do fine

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Matthew 9:13—But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Usually you are brainwashed as a kid into it. Or you pretend to believe in it while struggling internally with the absurd of existence.

Not history or humanities

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>Immortality is an evolutionary dead end.

>>2377986
If you are immortal, you don't want to have children, since they (presumably also immortal) will compete with you forever.
So you don't procreate, since its stupid to do so, and not in your interest, and thus your genetic code isn't altered to be better via mutations over the generations.

>>2377983
Its philosophy and/or ethics. I don't ask how it would be done, just if it should be done.

Yes, there was a general consensus that Slavs were basically niggers back then and tha nazi racial theory just took it to a new level. They viewed them as retarded apes used by the Jews. Like Slavs were irks in lord of the rings or something.

They weren't the final boss for nazis, but the entire nazi idea was colonizing Eastern Europe and Slavs were in the way so fuck em. Also, their actions in the eastern front vs in Western Europe show how much they hated them based on the pure brutality and savage as they treated Slavs.

Stormfags are just desperate for followers so try to lie about it to convince retards.

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>>2377650
I've tried bringing up how Soviet POWs were deliberately starved and forced to live in inhumane conditions, and how western POWs were treated well enough, and how explosive ammunition was permitted for use on the Eastern Front but not the Western Front, but stormfags just deflect and say the starvation was because the Soviets were bombing supply lines or some such nonsense, or how it was Himmler who did all that and Hitler dindu nuffin

>>2377650
>Stormfags are just desperate for followers so try to lie about it to convince retards.
I thought that stormfags were on the rise.