Am I missing the joke? I don't really know what Saxons are so can someone explain to me that too?
I think they're the historic British people who invaded or something but truly have no idea
>>2234239
Don't get the meme, but Saxons were a Germanic people from northern Germany. They had enough restless excess youth who set forth and BTFO of Celtic-Brythonic people in the British Isles. Joke was on them, because not long after, Norman French people invaded and become top dogs. Saxons still had enough influence however, that they basically became the dominant language among the lower farming classes, and their language (mixed French and a bit of Latin, and to a much lesser extent Celtic languages) eventually came to dominate the isles. So they did have the last laugh in the end. English is a Germanic language, and it's thanks to the Saxons, along with their close cousins the Angles and Jutes.
>>2234294
>Normans
>French
triggered
they wuz vikangz
>>2234239
The Saxons are the result of Germanic people capturing a Roman legion in a forest and then using those legionnaires as bull studs to breed their women and thus producing a super master race of man that eventually crossed the channel to culturally enrich the Britons. They succeeded but then they were btfo by the Norman Vikings.
He had a hard life...
>"I am wounded; it's nothing much; give me your hand to help me up..."
>"Lannes! Lannes! Can you hear me?! It's me! It's me, Bonaparte! Your friend..."
He was too good for this world.
Hey at least the Jews didn't get him and ritually sacrificed and raped him and his children like they did with the Romanovs.
post a more useless organisation
*expresses concern*
>>2234123
*has a meeting with Anita darkness Ian over gamer gate "harassment"
*lets Emma Watson complain about feminism
*gives award to the fictional character Wonder Woman because of gurl power and as a cheap promotional gimmick for the upcoming movie
What did the UN mean by this?
>>2234118
You called?
Is he the most underrated president?
>>2233984
I like Ike!
>>2233984
He did a good job but he also had the easiest run out of all modern presidents
>>2233984
Probably 6th or 7th underrated president after people like Arthur, Coolidge or Hayes.
Or Tyler.
Or Van Buren.
Or Harding.
Or Cleveland.
And Garfield kind of but you know..
>yfw the life of a quiet sustinence peasant farmer is being eradicated and all of humanity from Brunei to Karachi to Dublin is moving into cities wherever nobody talks to each other and everyone hates everyone else for a life of perpetual wage slavery and both the left and right wing say this is good because peasants with simple honest values are either reactionaries or not good capitalist consumers
>>2233920
I really like not dying to dental infections.
>>2233920
While you frogpost on the internet there are in fact millions of irl subsistence farmers living out their lives that you didn't even think about.
That's the irony, if you practiced the virtues to claim to profess, then none of us would be listening to you right now.
>>2233932
>implying dental infections were common in peasantry
No, it's the modern people overdosing on surgary garbage who have shit teeth.
Which version of the bible should I read?
>>2233917
Director's cut.
>>2233917
OT: Masoretic + Koine Septuagint
NT: Koine
If you read the Bible in English you're a literal pleb.
What are you reading it for?
The King James is considered a major accomplishment in English literature. The RNSV is a major feature of academia these days.
So a few days ago I asked /his/ to attempt to argue why democracy is better than monarchy. The arguments i got were disgustingly weak, so I decided to make this thread again to try to get better arguements.
Before I begin, I'm not talking about feudal monarchies like in the middle ages, I'm talking about Administrative and Absolute monarchies in the time when serfdom was more or less no longer a thing.
>monarchs are raised from birth to do nothing but rule
>monarchs can make quick decisive decisions while democracies have to have long drawn out debates over what to do
>you need tons of people to run a democracy, tons of representatives etc
>on the other hand, for a monarchy to run you only need the king and some bureaucrats
>less people working in gov't = more people with real jobs doing something actually productive
try to prove me wrong
>pro-tip: you cant
I would say feudal monarchies are better. They allow for individual rulers to try out some of their own policies as a micro test of those. They also give someone with power an incentive to fight againt tyranny that would hurt the common man (as it would ruin his tax base) and there would thus be a balance of power with plenty of room for individual liberties.
As a Monarchist, I've spent many years of my time trying to explain to people the benefits of this great system.
But I must start with a stage, a place of general understanding.
All citizens are equal, with no over thinking it. The words "Liberty" and "Freedom", are worthless; they are like honey, used by exploiting rich men to get the people on their side.
They are just words, and worthless ones.
Now then,
In a Monarchy, it is imperative that the heir, whether male or female, is born into the job. The accident of birth makes it certain, in the idealistic sense, that no money was ever involved in placing the heir in power. They must be strictly taught throughout childhood in order to be greater than others. A nobility is important here as well. Wealthy, landowners who collect taxes, enforce law, and defend the realm ideally will be friends with the young heir in order to ensure they won't pursue the throne.
By the time they are Monarch, they will place the smartest or loyalist people they've known or found.
There was never been so bumbling a monarch to completely destroy his nation with his own bad choices.
Monarchy is a magnificent form of government for one reason beyond all others: effectiveness. A Monarch can Place, Repeal, Replace, Execute, Build, Destroy, Rise, Fall, Forgive, Amend.
All of this however is impossible. People have been corrupted by useless idolatries such as fancy luxuries and schools, which while hard to understand, is unneeded and a waste of time. We are taught that we need these things, which we don't. People have lost their sight of what is important.: Their own lives. They expect too much from their government, yet fear it when they have given it too much power. A government's primary goal must be to protect the weak from the strong. This is the primary goal of Monarchy.
It does not exploit, nor does it cater. It simply lets you live in peace.
don't bother these morons can't argue against anything outside of the paradigm of the traditional neoliberal bubble I've made threads asking people to argue against mass surveillance states and all I get is muh free dumbs
>meet a girl
>she's into history 'n shiet
>agrees that sub-saharan Africa is overrated by normies
>ask her what's her favourite empire
>"Roman Empire"
>I ask why
>"It was the greatest empire of all history
>>2233738
I fucking hate Empires, Empires a shit.
>>2233738
I know your pain. Any girl who doesn't consider the Haitian empire the pinnacle of human civilisation should be dumped asap.
>>2233738
>meet a girl
>no penis
Thanks but no thanks.
Why is this guy cherished again? I find him repulsive to be honest.
red pill me on him
>>2233716
He hated negroes
>In 2016, a group of Ghanaian academics, students and artists called for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus. They accused Gandhi of being racist towards black people by holding the view that Indians were higher than them.[235][236] This view was also held by two South African professors Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed who claimed that Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness”. Gandhi also demanded separate entrances for blacks and Indians at the Durban post office while he was living in South Africa.[237]
>>2233716
>Neet as fuck
>Prefers not wearing shirts outdoors
>Biggest IDGAF agenda
>Threw Brits out without taking a weapon in his hand coz boredom
Is he our guy?
>racist against blacks
>admitted he would use a nuke against britain if india had it
>had a harem of girls give him enemas
>ugly as fuck
all around nasty dude
Since everyone asked for it, here it is: the thread to discuss and learn about Swedish history.
If you need to catch up on parts of Swedens history, i can happily summarise it. Other than that, share your thoughts and questions in this board
How far north do you have to go before you reach the Swedish equivalent of the American South?
>>2233684
Culturally? The south (mainly Skåne) is very conservative.
Is dying due to Muslim hordes.
*blocks your path*
>no double axe
>no horned helmet
>no bear skin
Fake desu.
>>2233725
this. where are the berserkers
>>2233674
>"""""""""""""warrior"""""""""""""
>loses to peasant inbred celts
???
Redpill me on the spanish civil war, por favor.
pic unrelated
>>2233654
Primo de Rivera did nothing wrong.
>>2233654
Fascist revolt supported by the army and reactionary groups attempts to take down left leaning republic supported by socialist and anarchist militias but the movement gets hijacked by reactionaries during the civil war and, after wwii, bought by the US becoming neo-liberal
Commies and anarshits try to install a bloodthirsty dystopia and cry opression when they are prevented from doing so.
Why are thin people who believe they're fat considered ill and in need of help, but men who believe they're women are healthy and should be encouraged?
Because there is neurological evidence to support Gender Dysphoria as a legitimate medical condition whereas the former is just textbook delusion.
If gender is a social construct, what's all the female hormones about?
>>2233650
>Why are thin people who believe they're fat considered ill and in need of help
Because they don't want to be fat
>but men who believe they're women are healthy and should be encouraged
Because they want to be women
Is it true, that...
.) France was spared widespread destruction by the Germans?
.) The Soviet Union invaded Poland 2 weeks after Germany, and not only did the Allies not declare war on the Soviet Union for this transgression, but it barely even gets a footnote in popular history?
.) Britain started deliberate bombing of civilian targets in Germany before Germany started deliberately bombing civilian targets in Britain?
.) Hitler waited for months before retaliating on British civilian targets?
.) Germany was the first country in the world to raise public awareness against smoking?
.) Hitler loved animals, liked children, and was a vegetarian in later life?
.) it was Britain and France who declared war on Germany, and not the other way round?
.) Allied powers (e.g. the Soviet Union) ran concentration camps after World War II ended, in which German prisoners of war were held, among them civilians, and that many of these camps were run by Jewish overseers who had vengeance in mind?
.) Thousands of ethnic German civilians living in Poland were massacred in the most brutal of ways by the Polish shortly after the Wehrmacht invaded Poland, perhaps the most iconic of these known as the Bromberger Blutsonntag ('bloody sunday')?
.) Hitler did not want a war with Britain, or even France, and sent several peace proposals that were rejected?
.) Adding up all Axis-run concentration and extermination camps' official death tolls (as accepted by historians today) only yields about half the holocaust's Jewish death toll?
.) Nobody knows approximately how many people were killed in the Auschwitz I main camp?
.) It was claimed for decades that 4 million people were killed in the entire Auschwitz camp complex, a figure that turned out to be an invention by the Soviets, one which was slashed by 75% in the early 90s?
>>2233637
.) The number of rooms thought to have been homicidal gas chambers at Majdanek has decreased, and the means by which homicidal gassings took place (hydrogen cyanide and/or carbon monoxide), is also no longer known for certain?
.) Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were transferred FROM Auschwitz, "the death factory", to the less deadly Bergen-Belsen, located at the other end of the Reich, and weren't gassed either, but died from typhus? Why all this complicated logistics if the intent of the Nazi party was to exterminate the Jewish race? What use did two frail teens reduced to skeletons have for the German war industry?
>>2233637
Yes.
Yes and no because everyone knows the USSR invaded Poland and had a non-aggression pact with the Nazis.
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, and vegetarians were insufferable back then just like today
Yes, that's how alliances work
Everything else is a mix of yes and no fring conspiracy bullshit that you were trying to lead in with mostly true factoids to justify bullshit.
>>2233637
>.) France was spared widespread destruction by the Germans?
not really. I mean, it was war so the German tore up France. But they didnt needlessly go around breaking shit "for fun" but there is the Nero Decree that Hitler ordered France to basically bombed into oblivion if the allies retook it, which the military governor Dietrich von Choltitz deliberately disobeyed for how abhorrent he found it.
>.) The Soviet Union invaded Poland 2 weeks after Germany, and not only did the Allies not declare war on the Soviet Union for this transgression, but it barely even gets a footnote in popular history?
yes to the invasion. They did try to fight the USSR, but its more complicated than just one sentence to describe.
>.) Britain started deliberate bombing of civilian targets in Germany before Germany started deliberately bombing civilian targets in Britain?
40,000 British civilians died in The Blitz. Furthermore, the Germans were bombing the fuck out of civilian areas of Poland before any of this.
>Hitler waited for months before retaliating on British civilian targets?
not really sure what this means
>.) Germany was the first country in the world to raise public awareness against smoking?
yes
>.) Hitler loved animals, liked children, and was a vegetarian in later life?
yes
>.) it was Britain and France who declared war on Germany, and not the other way round?
this isnt even revisionism, its just basic history
>Allied powers (e.g. the Soviet Union) ran concentration camps after World War II ended, in which German prisoners of war were held, among them civilians, and that many of these camps were run by Jewish overseers who had vengeance in mind?
complete horseshit
Philosophically, is being a pseudo intellectual better than being a genuine unapologetic philistine?
Can you define "pseudo-intellectual?"
>>2233730
noam chomsky
>>2233730
average /his/ poster