I don't understand. Why were they never able to unify and become a superpower in any meaningful way?
They are obviously not uncivilized types... as individuals they are amazing and their contributions to history from everything ranging from art, to science, to even war are without question.
Even the meme that they suck at war... they always performed amazingly as commanders... but only in the militaries of other countries.
I just don't get it. They are the best of us... and they could have succeeded so well... instead it is almost like they deliberately chose to fail in spite of their natural talent and magnificence as a people. Thats what hurts so much about it. It is fine to expect nothing from the Irish people or the Albanian people. But that the Italians failed so much as a state or nation in spite of their individual magnificence... that is what hurts. Why... why...
STOP MAKING FUN OF ITALY WE JUST HAD BAD LEADERS OK EVERYTHING ELSE IS FINE
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
also frogs give back Corsica and Nice
>>2313902
I am not making fun of Italy... I am saying I love and admire Italy and Italians.
And that you all let us down because you are the best of us naturally. And it was a willful choice not to be as good as you all really are.
>>2313910
wasn't our choice it was our cucked leaders who had ideas of grandeur for the wrong reasons. I can't believe people on /his/ admire Mussolini for his ideas when all his ideas were written by smart people and he ruined them.
Also Ethiopia was a mistake. Also Cavour was a mistake. Also Napoleon was Italian.
If gender is partially determined in the mind why can't somebodies mental gender differ from their bodily sex?
>>2313534
Gender doesn't exist. Nouns have a gender. Animals have a sex.
>>2313534
My left arm is pretty feminine desu
>>2313534
Gender/sex is a social construct. Your gender/sex is whatever you feel it is in your brain.
Why does everyone dislike capitalism so much in favor of socialism?
Socialism or communism is an economic system that has been proven ineffective in practice. The Soviet union's economy was shit compared to the US. North Korea's economy compared to South Korea's economy too. West Germany compared to East Germany etc. So the only justification most communists have for their beliefs is just idealism, saying that no one has ever done it right or we just need leaders of good enough quality to lead such a state.
The thing I don't get is why even ideally would you want a communist state? If we're talking ideally capitalism is still better. In an ideal capitalist society people care about each other and don't exploit people for more shekels. Competition still creates the fairest prices and breeds ingenuity and invention. Plus capitalism seems more for the people because it is in fact economics run by the people and not some huge ass government.
Obviously in reality capitalism doesn't quite work out that way, but socialism sure doesn't create utopia. So why do people still believe in communism/socialism if ideally capitalism sounds better/just as good and in reality works 10x better?
Capitalism is unsustainable
Capitalism is problematic
Capitalism is patriarchal
Mine is pic related, for team murica of course
Why? So you could go home a heroin addict and get called a baby killer?
>>2312833
None, ever.
>>2312833
Hopefully none, but if I were to choose it would be the Napoleonic Wars
Can we get a thread on WW2 Japan?
I'll start with the Yamato.
Largest ship ever built, but saw practically no action in WW2. When the war was about to end, the crew considered it would be a dishonor for the Yamato to go down in history as a hotel. They sailed to Okinawa. The idea was that, upon arriving on Okinawan shores, they ram into the battleship into the land and turn it into an undestroyable fortress. The crew would live off of the resources on the islands and surrender only upon running out of ammunitions. However, as they had no escort, they were sunk on the way.
It's a beautiful ship, regardless.
>>2312015
A beautiful ship made for the beautiful open seas.
take it to /k/, newfag
Yes, but it'll be deleted shortly for not being otaku culture.
I visited the Yamato Museum in Kure during my Comiket overstay, they've got a big plaque with the name of everyone who died. There probably wasn't that much I couldn't have learned from more accessible sources but it was interesting to see the videos and artifacts.
When has democracy ever worked?
>>2311733
>actually expecting democracy to work
What next, communism?
equality and democracy is bullshit, Chad and Stacy still run the show the same way they did back in the homo erectus days, manipulation charm and small group psychology are the immortal governing dynamics of all social interactions, people die with 100 million bank just based on how good looking they are
>>2311760
t. virgin beta
you have a good waifu though :^)
Why isnt Communism decried as pure evil the same way as Nazism? Germany shut down its concentration camps in 1945. Soviet Union had Gulags until 1956 in which as many died as in the holocaust. Hitler starved POWs and Communists starved POWs and anyone who opposed them including whole ethnic groups and classes. Mass graves were first discovered in Communist occupied eastern europe and brought to the worlds attention by the Germans. Communists were the first aggressors attacking Finland then carved up Europe with the Nazis. Yes eventually it got much better after Stalin died but the facts should not be ignored Communism was much worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzMHD0F4yQ
Because the SU kept things lowkey. The Nazis exploded onto the world stage, with socialism and gunsablazin.
>>2311434
Because Jews. Not even memeing.
Because the things about the Soviet Union are just propaganda
And white by repeating propaganda all day you can get people to believe they're true. You can't demonstrate them because they're fake, so can't be as harsh as with the real thing (nazi crimes)
Why is it so hard for some people to believe that Jesus was white? Israel is part of the Levant, a region that had several prolific European groups through it (Alexander's Greeks, Romans, etc.) just prior to Jesus' birth. He easily could have had kinky blonde hair and blue/green eyes just like many native Levantines. The Arab Muslims hadn't even been through yet so it's even more likely.
>>2311210
The only thing we pretty much know for sure is that he wasn't black. I don't think he looked like a pasty Swede, but I reckon he'd pass easily for a Greek or Italian.
>>2311234
We know he wasn't black mongoloid, amerindian or polynesian. That leaves every premodern phenotype from europe, north africa, the middle east and the stans (excluding pakistan).
>>2311210
What I hear from most we wuzers is theres verses in the Bible (don't know en off the top of my head) that describe him as having a bronze color skin tone and hair that looked like wool, which suggest he may not have been white.
Again, I'm not making such a claim, I'm just telling you what I'm hearing.
"Hey you, small one. Which gods do you pray to?"
How do you respond?
>>2310971
I pray to the Almighty Glourie of The Amazing Dildoni. Soon, you will too, if only for the tearing pain to stop. Now turn around and bend the fuck over.
>>2310971
The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
>>2310982
I'm pretty sure Odin made the heavens and Earth when he slew Ymir.
Could the 2017 Bundaswher match the 1938-1945 Wehrmacht in equivalent combat capability for the time period?
>>2310921
What? No.
>the current German military has 400 tanks and a handful of artillery pieces
they'd get steamplowed alas France in 1940
>21st century army vs WW2 era army
gee, i wonder
So in the 1780s, Louis XVI decided to punish the playwright Beaumarchais by sending him to the prison Saint-Lazare for several days. Saint-Lazare was reserved for women and teenagers whose families wanted to be rid of them for a while (for acting out, not doing what was expected, etc). The reason Louis XVI sent Beaumarchais there was for the humiliation: at Saint-Lazare, the method of punishment was spanking as a deterrent.
What were some other non-lethel punishments meted out by royals intended to humiliate their targets? Anna Ivanovna's Ice Palace punishment also comes to mind.
>>2310881
Chinese Emperors castrated the sons of rebels and forced them to become palace servants.
You did say nonlethal & humiliating.
>>2310881
18th century France was such a degenerated society. Thank God for Revolution and for Robespierre.
during the spanish inquisition people were given badges for some crimes that they had to wear every day for the rest of their life
What are some instances of very different warriors from foreign lands clashing in history as bizarre occurrences?
There was a sword duel between a Montenegrin volunteer (Aleksandar Lekso Saičić) and a Japanese samurai during the Russo-Japanese war.
Ended with the Montenegrin cutting off the samurai's head and paying respect.
Decapitation isn't a sign of respect, shitlord.
>>2310484
Paul?
>>2310484
>and paying respect
As in he followed it up by paying respect, ESL Anon. Decapitation was during the duel and was the winning blow.
We haven't had a Burgundy thread in a while.
>>2308767
I'm more of an azalea guy myself.
>>2308767
I was wondering this myself. There was always a Burgundy thread on /his/ a while back. Have we lost our medieval hipster sensibilities?
Charles the Bold did everything wrong
21st century - Century of China
20th century - Century of USA
19th century - Century of Britain
18th century - Century of France
17th century - Century of Spain
16th century - Century of Habsbourgs
15th century - Century of Italy
>>2303924
>17th century - Century of Spain
wat
>>2303929
Shit no fuck i fucked it up
well fuck me
century of Germany when?