Is the sudden rise in popularity of pornography depicting Middle Eastern/Muslim women something to do with (Western) men's subliminal desire of 'taking the women from the enemies after conquering them', which had been a tradition from ancient times (in this case, rise of ISIS)?
I legitimately find it quite interesting from historical viewpoint to be honest. I'm not even shitposting. Do you agree?
>>2263749
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWM4bJNpch0
>>2263749
I'm gonna need a source for that. Not the girl in the picture but the rise in popularity of pornography depiciting Middle Eastern/Muslim women.
>>2263760
This, I have seen a rise in her popularity not middle eastern porn in general
Why do people say that religion is "just a part of humanity" or that it is a natural development?
Human beings seek patterns and meanings from everything. They take in information through stimuli and experience, process that information by constructing narratives in their own head, and then act upon that narrative. This is how religion formed, but this is not that only thing that has formed from this flawed process. Everything we do and experience is limited by how our biological functions work.
Pattern seeking is good for early humans/civilizations as these narratives provide better survival rates and cooperation, but as a civilization develops these same pattern seeking behaviors become destructive and limiting where they were once helpful and expanding.
Essentially what I am saying is that once human beings develop past a certain point, these behaviors and religion itself become limiting forces on what society can actually accomplish.
Here's an example of this:
In early civilizations, populations were a lot smaller and many people did not make it to adulthood. This meant that religion needed to encourage stable relationships between a man a woman, and it also needed to encourage lots of childbirth so that civilization could grow.
In modern day we have plenty of people to accomplish the tasks that we need to. Infant deaths are extremely low compared to even just 100 years ago. So when religion says, "Only a man and woman can be married, and they can use contraceptives" it doesn't make sense anymore. If you were to limit the use of contraceptives for religious reasons, the population would skyrocket. And most of these would be uneducated poor people. (Nothing against them, we just don't really benefit from more of them). In modern context, a lot of things in religion just don't apply anymore. Sure the basic stuff like don't kill, steal, etc. still apply, but that information can be conveyed without religion.
>>2263583
And they can't use contraceptives*
>>2263561
You should spend more time reading and less time listening to ""punk"" music.
How the fuck was the Dred Scott Decision allowed to pass? Even if justices were pro-slavery, did they not understand the blatantly obvious effects this would have on slavery?
>>2263502
It basically destroyed the "necessary evil" argument for slavery and made Northerners think that the country was becoming a bitch for the slave lobby, which they already thought after the Mexican-American War.
Seriously.
The lead justice thought
>I'll make a ruling and fix this once and for good, and that will solve the problem
>>2263510
Still though, by ruling that blacks weren't citizens and had no right to sue in free states it basically made the Compromise of 1850.
White abolitionists had made the argument that slaveholders would eventually treat whites the way they treated blacks to much effectiveness and that slavery would lead to the growth of a new aristocracy, and this decision basically proved it.
Were they all Southerners on the court or something? It just seems like such an objectively bad decision, even in the context of the time. He could've just upheld the status quo.
You're stuck with this chap in a elevator for an hour.
What do you do?
>>2263466
Discuss our favorite French monarchs
>>2263466
Talk about the Boer and Irish genocides.
>>2263475
He suddenly goes on a rant about how England won the Hundred Years war. What's your move?
Adolf Hitler was into History and Humanities.
This makes you all Hitler.
>>2263394
>Adolf Hitler was into History and Humanities
watched films about romans all day at his comfy house in bavaria
Oy vey shut humanities down
Adolf Hitler drank water.
Adolf Hitler ate food.
Adolf Hitler read books.
Adolf Hitler could walk.
wtf i hate all of those things now
Why did hats fall out of style in America?
What do you mean, hats are still popular.
Baseball caps are still everywhere.
If you're talking about fedoras and top hats, they became passé after JFK gave his innagural speech without one
>>2263371
a common myth
Alisdair Macintyre
man was a analytical marxist for most of his life then in his 50s he radically shifts to being a Catholic Thomist philosopher
this isn't a disrespect on McIntyre's work, but i just find it amazing how people can totally shift their world view just like that
>>2263297
Stunning revelations.
he probably realized this marxism shit isn't going anywhere and that its only promotion is from his colleagues that are still stuck in the nostalgia of the 60s
I alternate between being a white nationalist and an internationalist communist, but then again I'm schizophrenic.
What are your favorite periods of art in history? So much art from history gives me so many feels.
>>2263275
Cold War era.
The cleaning of house and realignment of virtually every single major power, combined with the decolonization wars, is fascinating as fuck. I don't think we will ever see an era as exiting in quite some time with the World flung into such polar opposite factions.
Honestly, modern and contemporary. Meme away, idgaf.
>>2263275
That body shape reminds me of my ex
Did any of your ancestors serve in any wars, /his/?
My Great Grandfather served with the 7th Armoured Division in North Africa, Italy, and Germany as part of the crew of a Sherman I believe.
His own father and his uncle both served in the Great War. Beyond that, I don't know much about them.
Yes. He killed many yankees until getting wounded. Good times.
>>2263261
How many did he get, anon?
All four of grandparents were Yugoslav partizans
Is Objectivism a meme?
>>2263179
yes
>>2263188
>"""""thread"""""
Yes, while objectivism and Rand's philosophy are somewhat useful on an individual level, they quickly fall apart when applied to governments and economies
for discussions relating to trial, sentencing, common law, federal/state law and international law.
I was musing today the strange nature of bail
so we don't want to institutionalize offenders for less serious offenses, I get it
but does is increase the rate of re-offence, and significantly reduce the deterrence effect?
why are so many repeat offenders still getting bail?
I've heard the argument "if someone is locked up for murder, does the time, is doing OK; we don't want to re-incarcerate him for punching someone after his bail period expires"
it's admirably pragmatic, but the end result is that criminals are held to a lower standard than the general community
even more unfathomable to me is how serial petty offenders avoid time because "we don't want to harden them" or "they arn't worth locking up"
if it's not worth locking petty offenders up, the prisons are full, it costs the taxpayer too much etc
why not just go further, giving cautions instead of arresting them in the first place
why is giving a longer sentence; then softening that with bail seen as the best policy
>>2263159
You seem to be confusing bail with parole, OP.
Bail is just an amount of money you put up in order to await trial in your own home instead of in a local jail cell. If you're found guilty, no matter how much money you put up, you don't get to walk away.
Parole is when they lessen time off of a sentence for any number of reasons.
Also, most people wouldn't be imprisoned for a first offense misdemeanor simple assault.
>why is giving a longer sentence; then softening that with bail seen as the best policy
Assuming you mean parole, is because it allows for customization of the sentence. Someone, I don't know, steals something. They get the statutory minimum at the very least, and if they behave in prison and seem to have learned their lesson, they get out shorter; if they don't, they can sit in a cell longer. (Which also provides incentive to behave in prison). Since for almost every crime, sentencing guidelines are given as ranges anyway, it's not like you give up much.
>>2263192
ah; well I suppose I confuse the two
embarrassment on my part here
bail I think is part of the issue however, because a combination of bail and a suspended sentence (or parole) often sees an offender walk back into their community the day after they commit a crime; go about their buisines for months until their hearing/trial, then get out after three weeks in low security prison
you have put that person through three institutions, the community hasn't been protected, there isn't a lifestyle change that could help that person get straight
it's especially worrying for drug-violence hybrids
the "customization" argument is common, but doing this through suspended sentences has a number of effect I would question
primarily it puts power in the hands of the prison and the parole board
I would question if the judge was not the most appropriate person to make these decisions
I don't think parole hearings provide enough rights, it's the same time in prison a court would hand down at the end of the day
and I doubt it's effective trying to measure someones behavior in a prison setting and infer what they would do in the community
for serious offenders I understand it' about protecting the community; but the vast majority here are petty-mid offenses
we also see a serious discrepancy with how people are given suspended sentences and parole hearings
there are social arguments made that I think overstep the place of judges and take power away from the community
After having been on the receiving end of our legal system, I feel like I truly have been "red pilled" so-to-speak when it comes to how the courts operate. If you browse sites like Reddit, the court system is always painted in this black and white fashion that operates strictly by the book. It's thought of as this soulless entity that issues punishments verbatim as dictated by the law.
But I have learned that really couldn't be further from the truth.
The attorneys, public defenders, and district attorneys all collaborate outside of the court room and use a great deal of common sense. Factors taken into consideration include prior history, your income/job, what kind of family you have, the neighborhood you live in, etc... and they use this information to come to an agreement on what kind of sentence you should receive. Then they present it to the judge, the judge approves, and you're done.
At least that is how they do it here in Massachusetts. I should be in prison considering what I was arrested for but I am not and I virtually got everything dismissed given my circumstances. They dragged me through the whole procedure of arraignment, pre-trial hearing, motion for discovery, RE-SCHEDULING THREE FUCKING TIMES, and then the actual trial date itself. Then the day before the trial, I am informed that the DA and my attorney have reached an agreement that got me a favorable deal so we don't have to go to trial. The entire thing felt like a fucking charade.
I dunno man. bottom line is, don't trust the retarded liberal shit you read on reddit, because they are all retards. That is what I am getting at here.
Anyone else ever notice how providential it was that so many wars happened when they did?
Imagine if the U.S. Civil war didn't happen until the next election. Think of the technological changes that happened over the next four years. You'd have widespread use of repeating rifles, dynamite, large ironclad navies, mass produced Gatling guns...
Even the technology at the time lead to the deaths of 8% of the male population. Imagine if the weapons were 4 years more deadly.
Or heck, what if WWII happened a few years later? Before the war ended, everyone would have atomic bombs, and no compunction against using them. Imagine London and Stalingrad, and Dresden getting bombed, not with air raids, but with an atomic bomb?
>>2263139
>everyone having atomic bombs
If anything I feel like Germany would get BTFO as easily since people like Russia and France would be more prepared and stuff
>>2263139
This is bait, right?
On the off chance that it isn't the difference is that those things get invented five years later.
>>2263155
The U.S. started researching atomic weapons long before it entered the war. You think things like nuclear technology and jet engines wouldn't have been developed without a war?
And the American Civil War had no affect on the invention of dynamite, nor technology that was already in the process of being integrated before the war broke out, but wasn't fully used, like repeater rifles.
What would you consider one of the best Empires (no Roman Empire)?
>>2263059
Mongolian Empire, during the rule of Chengis Khan. That motherfucker literally ruled China and Russia at the same time. Sure, it splintered into four factions right after his death, but damn he was terrifying when he was alive.
>>2263059
German empire till 1914
Pioneered modern social welfare, allows me to live comfy off NEET bux
prussian eagle is really cool
had fucking awesome uniforms
>>2263076
This and the British.
Seriously /his/, why did Poland get so much hate from places like germany and russia in the 20th century? Do people still not like poles today? What's the deal?
>>2263009
they are assholes.
>>2263009
My friend is Sweden says they are notorious for theft and committing crime. My other friend in the UK says they are immigrants leeching the system.
>>2263009
Success breeds envy
What would be an interesting dissertation to write on Napoleon and/or the Naploeonic Wars?
>>2262959
Why becoming the Emperor was the mistake of the century
>>2262969
What should he have done?
>>2262959
Was Napoleon another Hitler?
>Invades russia
>Gets rest of europe to declare war against him
>Implement gas fittings in every town