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>>2202666
Nah it's fine.
If there were other intelligent life forms they'd be much more likely to want to exterminate us than befriend us.

>>2202673
Well, from an imperialistic standpoint. It would be great, means we would have free way to conquer and exploit literally the entire universe.

But it would also mean that this small piece of rock in the middle of bumfuckingstan and only this small piece of rock somehow gave birth to a freak chemical combination that is capable of sapience.
Even disregarding filosophy and espirituality, it would defy mathematical probability.

>>2202693
I don't think anyone ever seriously calculated the probability of a planet to generate life, and then subsequently intelligent life.
I mean, our own planet only ever generated one species like that, discounting other primitive men.

>>2202415

Okay, I give.

Mr. Dandalo, I give. I've only just realized that this whole Byzaboo thing I've been nursing since those glorious summers as a 14-17 year old playing CrusaderKangzToo has spiraled out of control. What began as simply a reflexive glee spurred by feeling myself possessor of some esoteric knowledge ("Well, most people don't actually know that the Roman Embire dint even fall until 1453 [or was it 1204???]...), is now a gross sublimation of something all the more sinister. Now, now this reflexive cringe and whinge -- dare I admit, trigger -- whenever anyone as much mentions Manzikert or Mehmed or even your very own Fourth, Mr. Dandalo, now I know that it is merely a stand-in, a convenient formula of metaphor and synapse by which I can subconsciously give shape to a number of ills and self-loaths I never even knew were there.

Don't you see Mr. Dandalo? I want to thank you! Thank you and all your blessed four-score and teen years of existence for collecting one final debt. That which I owe to myself. For you see, I was never reaally in love with the Byzantines. Few are, at least, not those of us who attach so much emotion to something of the past. Instead, I used that faded codicil of the good ol' Imperium as a cypher for regret, to sublimate all my own past mistakes, regrets, and poor decisions. The idea of the wrecked empire, Mr. Dandalo, was nothing ever more than my finally peering down from the mouse -- or even, up at a mirror -- and not being able to help but notice the degradation of flesh, that waste that the silent hours have long since stolen from me. Oh don't get me wrong Mr. Dandalo, this isn't a bitter realization, no! This is a jubilant one, for you see, we all feel regret, we can't help it. I'm sure you carried your own all those years after personally witnessing the fruits of your labor wrecked by Byzantine agency.

>>2202701

Yes, we all carry regret, path not taken and all that. I'm just glad that now, I can do something about it. Now that its out in the open, and no longer being subsumed as 'utterly' futile butthurt, NOW I can go out and seize hold of what years I have left (that I may have have of yours total more). Thank you Mr. Dandalo. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I bet that holy cross splintered up did wonders for all those Italian and French churches, and I'm sure that French whore sung wonderfully on the Patriarch's throne, and if it weren't for you, I bet the Quadriga would have long since been a Turkish cannon, killing many a Hungarian or Armenian. Thank you, THANK YOU Mr. Dandalo. What's that? You want to see if that little Ancona under your manskirt can still feel a tickle? Well Mr. Dandalo, if you insist! Please me to please you! Haha! Yes! [gargling down your spire of St. Mark]. Oh Mr. Dandal-OH!

>>2202415
Alexios IV was a mistake

> how did Spain become so ahead of everyone else in there colonial game.
The Pope gave them half the world

> what caused it to fall apart?
Napoleon invasion and eternal anglo scheming

>>2202352
>what caused it to fall apart?

France ended their european dominance at Rocroi in 1643
After that they were a minor player in Europe and then Napoleon's invasion finished them off
Seeing their master conquered by its neighbour made Spanish colonies cease to respect Spain and revolt

>>2202376
>the pope gave them half the world

what exactly do you mean by that?

It would presumably be a nightmare of constant partisan activity leading to eventual state failure.

>>2201976
Pretty accurate. The only realistic ending is when Hitler dies and the Reich tears itself apart for leaders vying for control. Nazism will stay, but there will be a Nazi France, Nazi Britain, Nazi America, etc.

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if Hollywood is truly run by kikes why are they producing an alt history series where the Nazis win providing masturbation fodder for neo nazis at a time when nascent nu fascist parties and general racism is at an all time high?

really atomizes your apples doesn't it?

yeah but it makes you easily bullied

>>2201897
Happiness is for the niave, existential crisis isn't a time to be happy.

>>2201897
Because it is a very basic idea. Yeah, you want personal pleasure and to minimize any discomfort that befalls you.
And you want the same for everyone else.
And that's when individual peculiarities and desires conflict and you have created an egotistical dystopia.
You can't please everyone and yourself at the same time because what is pleasurable and good is subjective and dependent on the individual.
See
>>2202223

>>2201850
>>>/int/

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>>2201850
"no"

>>2201877
>>2201869
Nice argument

The documentary in question is ''Russia's Last Tsar'' made by National Geographic in 1994.

It can be found here, just in case anybody wondered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJc5NW6oZAA&list=PLjJpMD5rYzOlozIkoTRaksJ2WAH8bBI2o&index=1

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>>2198974
It's probably a conspiracy theory person.

Autism

>>2198874
Because it wasn't their country but a multiethnic kingdom.

pacifist cucks didn't put up a fight

>>2198108
Also interested. What did men and women in ancient egypt, canaan and sardinia wear in this time?

I don't have any information on this, but am very interested as well.

>>2198108
Here are some good books for this :

https://archive.org/details/iB_Ca

People who know nothing about the Civil War will say it was about slavery.

People who know a little about the Civil War will say it was about states rights.

People who know a lot about the Civil War know it was about slavery.

>>2197542
>good guys
>thus an implication of bad guys
Anon
Dear sweet anon
Please no

The good guys were the ones who didn't throw a tantrum over the results of a democratic election and consequently get 600,000 people killed in an ultimately pointless war.

hi Nigel

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Reminder that the German Empire and the Ottomans were the only two countries to massacre civilians en mass during WW1 (Rape of Belgium and Armenian Genocide)

>using words like "good/evil or right/wrong" when discussing history

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>>2210858
The problem is government intervention and too many regulations.

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>>2210858
>most efficiently allocates resources
Worst part about capitalism

>>2210858
So uhm... Basically, if the car manufactures could make any car they want, they would do them like - safer and ecologicer, cause they would be forced by free market. Now they have these regulations and shit, so thay like, rebel against them.

>>2210498
white supremacy

states' rights (to own slaves)

>>2210498
white supremacy. It was vital to their ideology and national identity.

Also expansionism (for more slave states). The Mexican-American War was unpopular in the north and backed by the south. The Confederacy planned, after getting their independence, to invade Mexico, colonize it, and turn it into a giant slave plantation.

>>2210250
>How is it even possible in the post-war developed world for a field with the mission statement of "You're different therefore you're inferior" to exist?

Haha idk lol

If Foucault is right about everything, why is Brazil one of the most violent countries in the world even though our judiciary is extremely influenced by him and judges refuse to punish criminals because as victims of society they don't deserve punishment?

>>2210250
lol right m8 i no that feel

continue: A British invasion launched from Canada, would certainty overwhelm the Union (forcing the Union to fight 2 fronts)?

>>2209604
It would have been a catastrophic mess for sure. European involvement would have meant another European country joining in, hell, maybe the first world war could have started. But I'm sure the Union would have had much tougher time winning the rebellion.

>>2209631
agreed, like if Britain invaded the Union from Canada