Asked this in /pol/ but I'd like to hear your opinion. Tried to tone it down for the /pol/ish "language"
My country (Argentina) has a decadent upper class/elite caracterised for their disgusting elitism and moral degeneracy. It's main features are:
>being "immune" to the law
>being full blown degenerates but believing they are good and moral people because they go to church (the church as well hides their scum and is full of shit like child abuse. The church is pretty much part of the elite)
>promoting their decadent burgoise values
>forcing their image of ""moralism"" continuously
>saying we must help illegal bolivians while shitting and laughing at white argentinians who aren't at their economic level
>fake patriotism (they are the first to accuse you of being a traitor to the motherland while having their money outside, living outside and hiring cheap illegal foreigners)
>controlling all the media, politics, judicial system, diplomacy, etc while people believe that voting clown 1 vs clown 2 will change anything
>believing they are superior for being "european" when a lot of them have native blood from colonial days as opposed to working/middle class who are fully european, whom the elites disdain and discriminate
>basically any power they have is due to money and inheritance, most have bought positions/ degrees, etc while others do the job
>etc
They run everything and keep the country being shit.
My question is: which kind of elitism is more similar to this? European or american?
If european, is like this in ALL Europe?
Or it is like this in ALL the world, including the East?
All of the world to a good extent, however it seems more amplified the way you are explaining it. Is there a healthy amount of middle class and/or just rich but not elites?
>>2194563
Argentinian middle class was pretty much destroyed since 2001 crisis. The rich/poor breach is bigger every year and I noticed people who moved up embracing such values more and more.
By elites I mean the bunch of families+ the church and other institutions (it's like a big circle, the same thing in the end) who control the country, then there are the upper uppper class who borders with then but aren't fully elite.
>>2194581
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_French_Revolution
I had an abortion
Am I even entitled to happiness anymore?
Seriously, I don't know
>>2193733
Sure.
Of course you are.
If you're a Christian, you'd want to ask forgiveness though
Were you entitled to happiness in the worst place?
Either way no dude
sry
Why are leftists so good at war?
At the turn of the 19th century, every power in Europe tried to topple the French revolutionary government... but lost. A century later, the Bolsheviks won the civil war and defeated 11 foreign invaders despite overwhelming odds. Despite losing 90% of their men after being betrayed by the Kuomintang in 1927, Chinese communists manage to seize control of the world's largest country. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was likely the worst backfire in human history, resulting in all of Central and Eastern Europe being incorporated into the socialist bloc.
During the Cold War, Cuba, Vietnam, and Nicaragua successfully resisted imperialist attempts to destroy their societies. Now in Syria, the communist YPG are beating the shit out of ISIS and other right-wing forces. Even the Syrian government is scared to touch them.
What's the deal?
>Catalonia don't real
Leftism is driven by resentment and once you give these "people" permission to kill they do it with extreme cruelty. That's why once they seize power their countries always turn into paranoid autocratic hellholes
>>2192500
Fighting a large amount of nations does not necessarily fight a large military.
/his/, please enlighten me on all of the absurdities that occurred during the crusades.
Preferably funny things that may have happened.
did you ever hear of the children's crusade?
The pope sent a huge faggot to fuck up the fifth crusade which could have been a quick success.
There was that one battle where the crusaders fell into a ditch of shit and all drowned.
ITT: We invent new nicknames for historical people.
I find a lot of times "The Great" is overused for so many people in history. So let's get a bit more creative.
Starting with Catherine II "It's Art Not Porn" of Russia (she collected erotic furniture).
Ghengis "Swaggity Swooty" Khan.
Christian VII "Busy Hands" of Denmark
Peter "Ottomans think they can have the black sea? We'll see" The Great
Figured this is more a philosophy question than anything else. In video games, why is killing people and violence is ok, but sex and nudity is still controversial?
>>2198909
Americans.
>>2198909
'murican values. You're not suppose to enjoy yourself when you can join the army and die for some rich fuck instead,
Because children would fuck each other if they see video game characters doing this.
Is Confucius still worth reading today? Will it teach me relevant things about philosophy or as it become obsolete? Can I at least get some historical knowledge out of these books?
Ancient China General thread too
>>2198765
Laozi is better
Jain and Hindu philosophy is definitely worth studying.
But it's useful to understand eastern philosophy regardless of its relevance, it will help you understand the historical context of what is going on today
Confucius is trash and the dogmatic obsession with Confucian exams held China back from modernization
>>2198765
Confucianism in a nutshell
>Respect your parents
>Respect your elders
>Shit on women
>Observe social hierarchies
Real talk /his/, why did it take so damn long to put this little punk down? Did he have ANY friends at any level of society?
His big and strong German guards
>>2198685
Didn't he cuck and fuck his guard too?
>>2198679
He bought off the praetorian guard which kept him safe for his rule. He also effectively used fear to keep the senate and upper classes in check. It took something drastic (his moving to alexandria) to move provide motive, his loss of favor with the praetorian guard to provide the means.
What was his fucking problem?
>>2198664
At least he didn't download the same picture twice faggot
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>>2198678
are you retarded?
>From Roman Empire to Colonial Empires
How could other sides on earth even compete?
>>2198621
The Mongol Empire was easily bigger and unlike the Europeans they didn't have any diseases to easily take out the local population.
>>2198621
>>2198773
Pic related
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>>2198784
The Mongol Empire was pretty impressively large, but didn't really leave much cultural or genetic impact.
IMO the only real competitor with the British and Spaniards for greatest empire is the Umayyad Caliphate. They conquered from Iberia to South Asia and left long-lasting influence.
What is exactly so wrong about abortion. Lets say I am a woman who is pregnant, what obligation do I have to let this little bastard develop inside me at my expense and cause me problems for the rest of my life? Furthermore, it's inside my body, attached to me until very late in to pregnancy. Is shaming just a complete sperg move?
>>2198558
Stop baiting please. We already have one thread for this open.
What exactly is so wrong about killing the homeless. Lets say I am a taxpayer, what obligation do i have to let this little bastard collect welfare from my tax dollars and cause me problems later in life? Furthermore, it's my money, i earned it until its taken by the government. Why can't I just shoot all the poor people?
>>2198572
Are there any historical instances of blacks committing genocide?
I can't think of any other than the Rwanda genocide.
Haiti
>>2198515
Chimpcago
I don't consider Haiti a genocide, the reason the French were attacked was because of the worst slave conditions in the New World.
People say it was about race but they supported Poles and Germans. Germanic people were even put in the constitution as honorary blacks making them eligible for citizenship.
>>2198515
Well that was instigated by europeans the Germans and Belgians but really the protestant and Catholic churchs were really trying to start shit it was horrid.
The Tutsi especially further south had assimilated Hutu nobles for some centuries, by the time Europeans came only a fraction of Tutsi could be said to have all the phenotypic stereotypes. They made people tutsi or Hutu based on cattle or nose shape or height and religious affiliation most people were mixed. It was sad desu.
Jews are the human players
Every one else is an npc
>>2198425
Because Jews have had a revolutionary spirit since they chose Barabbas over Logos.
>>2198425
They didn't want the people to be free, so they infiltrated communism to steer it towards failure, that is why it failed :^^^^^^^^^)
Let's say Gavrilo was stopped. The Duke lives. WW1 as we know it is avoided. What would happen to the world? Would there be an even more devestating conflict later?
>>2198110
They would have found another excuse to go to war. Same shit with Lusitania or pearl harbor.
If you think that the Death of ff was the cause of WWI, you're probably in the wrong place.
Why was the Soviet Union years behind technologically when it produced so many renowned and respected scientists?
The Soviet government didn't take advantage of their scientists. Americans were better at recognizing "pure science" research as being technologically useful.
Take the case of Petr Ufimtsev. His work paved the way for stealth technology, but the Soviets didn't notice its significance, while Lockheed did.
Why this was case, I'm not sure, but I'd wager it has to do something with the capitalist mindset making Americans better at application .
>>2197891
>when it produced so many renowned and respected scientists?
It didn't?
Most famous "soviet" scientists were born and partly (if not wholly) educated during the times of the Russian Empire.
>>2197970
>Why this was case, I'm not sure, but I'd wager it has to do something with the capitalist mindset making Americans better at application
This.