https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
What's the ""best"" one? How can a ""best"" political spectrum even be defined? Should there be three axes, or even four, rather than just two?
>>2192540
Fundementaly flawed because it only measures differences between simularities and not simularities or differences between individuals.
No one can be accurately reduced to catagorical simularities.
Funny human maladaptation is to reduce parts of a system that are interconnected by causal interaction and the environment they function in, down to constituent members like groups that are defined and connected by catagorical simularities.
May have helped us make sense of the world as wild animals but in today's self-imposed evolutionary novel habitat, this fundamentally inaccurate view of the world around us directly threatens our survival as a species, by causing us to exploit the world unsustainably. The systems that allowed us to get here were lost in the process.
Essentially, the reductionist worldview has turned itself into a evolutionary anachronism. An adaptation that caused itself to turn into a maladaptaion by destroying the environment it adapted to.
We're all devo.
The hypercube that Nationstates uses is pretty good.
I'd say like 5 or so axes are necessary: with rough labels, a liberal/social one (to what extent should the government be active in the economy), an interventionist/isolationist one (to what extent should the government involve itself in foreign affairs), a totalitarian/libertarian one (to what extent citizens should be able to challenge the government), an autocracy/anarchy one (to what extent the government should be able to control citizens in matters not directly related to the existence of the government itself), and a nationalist/globalist one (to what extent government should focus on its citizens to the exclusion of foreigners).
I'd score myself as social/isolationist/centrist (speech regulation is no good, but bring on the surveillance)/anarchist (though having values is great, they shouldn't be enforced by the state)/nationalist on this scale, but the traditional 2-axis approach would have the four non-economic axes interfere with each other and say that I'm something vaguely centrist, which doesn't really tell the whole story.
(The difference between the third and fourth planks is that the third talks about security-related things like surveilance, speech, gun rights, and treatment of whistleblowers, while the fourth talks about ultimately arbitrary factors like alcohol/drugs, abortions, gay marriage, and so on.)
Right wing nationalism in Ireland has been basically non existant since the 1960s.
Any remaining "nationalists" are radical socialists, with the far-left monopolising any republican events.
So /his/, are there any other examples in the 20th century where the left are the principal nationalists of a country?
Man I fucking hate Ireland this place is a shithole but I am glad we don't have any of those right wing fuckers
>>2192532
>Ghandi's revolution in India
>African National Congress
>SNP
>Plaid cymru
What are Left wing nationalists like in Ireland? I'm from Scotland and most SNP supporters are unbearable. The majority of their arguments are just anti-tory and they seem to think that growing up in a scheme and talking like you've got a mouth full of marbles makes you more suited to politics than somebody essentially raised from birth for the role.
Not to denigrate the working class but I'm of the opinion that there needs to be a certain degree of emotional distance between the ruling class and the working class so that tough decisions can be made effectively..
>>2192550
Probably similar to Scottish nationalists in their poxy economic views.
However, some are quite fond of dressing up in paramilitary garb and holding stupid parades. They see themselves as the successors to the IRA yet most are either scumbag criminals or stupid unemployable wanders.
Politically, Sinn Fein is probably the most mainstream of the left wing parties, similar to the SNP. Then you have the AAA-PBP, a populist party that attract the dregs of society. Both have made major gains in the last few years.
Is conscription and compulsory military service a form of restriction of basic civil rights?
Discuss.
>>2192488
>Georgia and Ukraine
>Plans to abolish conscription in the near future
I wonder when this map was created
>>2192488
It would be a form of civic duty, similar to how some countries push you to vote.
>basic civil rights
Anyone cares to state his opinion about him without referring to the first Napoleon?
>>2192405
Best leader France ever had.
>>2192405
Actually made France into a modernized industrialized nation.
>>2192405
Great prime minister, shit emperor
lol
>>2192341
A thread died for this.
>>2192356
Let's soak this thread up while it lasts
as humorous as this might be, roman numerals of a high register really don't matter in the slightest to the people of the future.
>The purpose of all living things is to survive and reproduce
>Philosophy is a tool that should serve us
>Any metaphysics and epistemology other than "I am a being within an objective external world which I can observe and empirically learn about" are useless and do not help me to survive or reproduce
>Therefore this is the only acceptable metaphysics and epistemology
Is this right?
>>2192331
explain
>>2192328
Let's assume your first premise is right (it isn't, but whatever). What do you mean by "a being?" What do you mean by "objective external world?" Welcome to Philosophy 101
Mine: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Coolidge, Reagan
Fuck Progressives
>>2192208
Exxon-Mobil is going to make America great again, those dirty progressive gunna keep there flithy hands off aur guns don't u worry, we are gunna take aur jobs back from those flithy beaners
Neoliberalism, ONLY FOR AMERICA THIS TIME -the greatest country God ever created :D
Support the military industrial complex, not the coastal homo-elites, okay? Public health and ethical business practice kills jobs, and that make Jesus cry. Liberals want to kill Jesus so they can sacrifice ur jobs to Satan
Praise Jesus y'all
>>2192273
The problem is everything you said is what progressives support minus guns and looking at illegal aliens negatively.
>>2192273
This would be funny and counter culture in the 2000s.
>military industrial complex
>Protectionist appraoch to jobs
>People think these are neoliberal
Gone too soon ;(
>>2192118
Why is his obsessed with Burgandy? EUIV?
>>2192129
He looks good we at /his/ know that pederasty is patrician
>>2192129
There's not much literature on Burgundy, so it's our little hipster niche.
Post strange, interesting, aesthetic, fascinating historical names (of people, places, empires etc.)
>Seleucia-Ctesiphon
>Dionysius the Areopagite
>Galileo Galilei
>Gustav II. Adolf
>Hnanisho II.
>Tiglath-Pileser
>Å uppiluliuma
>Philipp Melanchthon
>Gordon Pasha
>Mengistu Haile Mariam
>Constantine the Dung-Named
>Diogenes
>Chikamatsu Monzaemon
>Syngman Rhee
>Bandar Seri Begawan
>The Khedive Isma'il
>Subutai
>Ögedei Khan
>Hülegü Khan
>The Golden Horde & The Ilkhanate
>Baybars
>The Dervish State
>Assurbanipal & Assurnasirpal
>Siddhartha Gautama
>Manzikert
>The Schmalkaldic League
>Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg
>The Bogd Khan
>Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi
>Usman dan Fodio & the Sokoto Caliphate
>The Varangian Guard
>The Pretorian Guard
>Caracalla, Geta, Elagabalus
>Sulla
>Karakorum
>Ikh Khüree - Urga - Ulaanbaatar
>Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu
>The Sultanate of Zanzibar
>Engelbert Dollfuss
>Netherlands East Indies
>Tenochtitlan
>Chiang Kai-Shek
>Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
>Atahualpa
>Lalibela
>Sijilmassa
>Democratic Kampuchea
>Congo-Brazzaville
>Francisco Franco
>The Straits of Malacca
>Tordesillas
>Antonio López de Santa Anna
Somewhat more contemporary:
>Hailemariam Dessalegn
>Bhumibol Adulyadej
>>2192104
>>Diogenes
Top keks
This is actually a really good idea for a thread OP. Good job.
GoÃdel Glas (Latinised as Gaithelus) is the creator of the Goidelic languages and the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels.
Tubal-Cain is a person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis 4:22. He was a descendant of Cain, the son of Lamech (not the other Lamech, father of Noah) and Zillah. He was the brother of Naamah and half-brother of Jabal and Jubal.
>>2192135
is that a shoop or is she really catholic?
>The game
>>2192056
0/6
>>2192056
Being the best bodybuilder does not mean you are the most fit.
Was it autism?
>>2192047
most likely
schizoid
what if everything in the world were a misunderstanding; what if laughter were really tears?
is it true that europeans did not know how to bathe until the moors taught them?
>>2191959
Romans had giant bath houses, vikings bathed every sunday.
>>2191959
No
Almost everyone bathed in some way, even african tribes who are in the stone age make soap and use it without western contact
The most prolific bathers where Romans, Scots, Scandis, and Greeks
How were muslims seen throughout history ?
Were they seen as barbaric and anti-intellectuals like they are seen today ?
I know Churchill said something about how single muslims are like christians but collective-wise they are like a dog with cholera and the most retrograding force in the world.
>>2191927
No now now, today muslim world (especially the traditionalist like pakis, afgan, saudi, etc) is like qing dynasty and japan before meiji era
they hate knowledge like science, physics, biology, and others because think invented by non muslim
They do something that sometime illogically because so easy to believe a fatwa
No, back in the Islamic golden age they were fucking based and made a lot of scientific and cultural advancements.
>>2191946
The comparison with Qing/Japan makes no sense. Neither of those two entities are anti-science/anti-physics/anti-biology. Nor are they hostile to non-jap/chinese invented stuff. Infact both Qing and Japan bought military arms like guns and ships from Europeans. They regularly sought out the knowledge in engineering and science from the west, the Europeans however feared giving them knowledge and power. So they imported opium to destroy the internal governance and the local people's morals.
Was there any single points in the timeline of the Western Roman empire that led to it's collapse or was it all just long-term factors?
Long term factors
Long term factors built up over the centuries in conjunction with individual points of stupidity.
>>2191906
Bad decisions early on lead to it.
Its not like a full roman empire collapsed overnight.
Why was he so angry, bros?
Not gonna say it
>>2191856
Even the douchey Roman Emperors were /fa/. Were they picked based on what would look good on a statue?
He is upset about his decision in 212.