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City States are best states. 2016-12-29 06:12:18 Post No.2152791
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City States are best states.
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2016-12-29 06:12:18
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The only thing better would be if each individual communities governed themselves with no government above them, anarcho-syndicasm.
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I tend to agree. I am in favor of decentralisation anyways.
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>>2152791
City states are like that thread on libertarianism.
It's all fun and games and "muh close knit civic identity" until one starts a fucking empire.
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>>2152899
Rome should have stayed just a city.
>those poor souls caught in the middle of history
Did he deserve it lads?
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>rule your country on behalf of an invading army
>invading army is driven out
If this happens to you, you pretty much need to get fucked. It's simply the way the world is.
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>like the marechal petain song
>go to youtube to listen to it
>see comments
>plenty of """nationalists""" praising him
Are stormfag nationalists okay with selling out your country if you are selling it to nazis?
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>>2152706
Yup. On the internet "nationalism" is merely an international subculture.
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Checkmate, liberals.
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wtf i hate FDR now
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This map is inaccurate because Alaska is an island off the coast of mexico
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mind = blown
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This question has probably been asked here a hundred times already, but I'd prefer to have a live discussion about it;
If mankind and everything we know is merely a spec, to be imminently destroyed and forgotten in the history of everything, what purpose is there to anything at all?
I only have pepes, sorry.
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hardcore hedonism
but it makes religious people butthurt for some reason
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What of mankind? Honor your father and mother. Select your friends. Choose a nice wife. That's it.
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>>2152433
I was thinking something like this, it's really the only thing that can escape logic but usually requires something to achieve it like money requiring labor, and for someone so disenfranchised with life in general labor is a miserable trade-off for a glorified drug binge of hedonistic activities
>>2152444
I was also thinking that, but then I realized my family that already exists and the one I will go on to create don't matter any more than a single grain of sand on a beach. Why bother?
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Is this why there are so few great women in history?
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could it be that they're simply inferior?
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>>2152344
This feels true, is this a meme graph?
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>>2152344
Because women are sub-huMAN
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ITT: Wars where the bad guys won
I'll start. The Opium War. Britain made China safe for drug dealers
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>>2152315
World War 2
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>>2152343
Non-edgy posts please
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inb4 American Civil War
Fuck the Confederacy, those traitorous cowards.
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Is there a better symbol of Russian imperial decadence than the Russian imperial Faberge eggs?
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Cherry trees.
t. Litard
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>>2152211
What?
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>>2152204
They look pretty cool.
What do you guys know about the Aztec Empire?
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>>2152151
>Aztec
>Empire
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NOSOTROS
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They ripped peoples' hearts out on top of pyramids to ensure the sun rose again and threw the bodies down the pyramids!
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>most /his/ members are university educated professionals
>I'm merely a forklift driver
Who /proletariat scum/ here?
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Bruh, poverty is a set of habits, not a set of material circumstances.
If you decide that you belong in a given class, and you work hard enough, you can generally achieve it.
t. born into money
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>>2152048
Ugh and I'll bet you're a f*cking white male too. How do you live with yourself you disgusting racist piece of shit?
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don't worry about it too much, it's not the 1920s anymore where only the elite upper crust of society go to university, having a degree literally means nothing these days desu
t. grad student
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Is Gibbons Decline and Fall obsolete or is it still at least worth having?
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Almost completely obsolete by any metric, even if you believe Christianity was crucial in the collapse of the Roman Empire.
It's almost better as a view into the enlightenment mindset than as a work of history, but still very much worth a go.
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>>2152008
>worth a go
I'd rather start with something more current to lay a foundation desu, know anything better?
also, how are these?
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>>2152008
Gibbons is a little out of shape but still worth feeding
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The Western front was quiet and soldiers were at rest
They took time out from battle having done their very best.
The tired and the wounded, now at recreation time
As replacement troops arrived, to fill the battered line.
The skies lit up one early morn, from the blasts of German guns
The Panzer Troops were breaking through, on another Blitzkrieg run.
It was operation CHRISTROSE, Hitler’s hidden secret pawn,
the sixteenth of December, a cold DECEMBER DAWN.
The outposts were alerted on the thin defended front,
Brave soldiers stood their ground but soon were over-run.
It was the beginnings of a battle, hereto not divulged.
It was "A TIME FOR TRUMPETS"--THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE.
Peiper and his KAMPFGRUPPEN led the foe’s attack
The Tiger tanks and Grenadiers drove the Allies back.
Model and Manteuffel let the Wehrmacht on a ruse,
It was Rundstedt's Last offensive to reach the river Meuse.
Now Eisenhower’s Lieutenants rushed to halt the German flow
There was Middleton and Hodges and the Corps of Len Gerow.
There were armored tanks with infantry fighting by their side
And bridges blown by Engineers to stem the rushing tide.
The noise of battle sounded throughout the dark ARDENNES
The purrs of churning motors and the tramp of marching men.
Armor clashed with armor on the roads to gain the towns
The GI's met the Grenadiers to hold the frozen ground.
Winter days were harsh that year, with temperatures so low
The bitter cold that claimed the troops became a soldier’s woe.
Hip-deep snow and ice slick roads proved the Army’s bane
But none-the-less with Stamina the GI staked his fame.
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>>2151974
The battle raged from town to town, to Stavelot and St. Vith,
The armored columns turned their tanks to face the Nazi myth.
This was the German "waterloo" as Peiper turned about
His Kampingruppe columns shattered and Panzer tanks en route.
On Christmas Day in Bastogne, McAuliffe’s troops prevailed.
The 'Battered Bastards' held the town while help was on the trail.
Armor-men and Infantry came to join the bloody fray
The hurrying Fourth Armored arrived to save the day.
The clouds above cleared that day, our planes were in the skies
Supplies and ammunition dropped —A Christmas Gift surprise.
Now Patton’s Best came from the West to end the German thrust
The BULGE was closed by Stalwart men who gave their very best.
A liberated people, now toast those Battling men
Who paid the price for Freedom in the woods of the ARDENNES.
The Battle won by Stamina of youth who stood so tall
Winston Churchill said it, "The Greatest of them all.”
John t . McAutilTe
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How did the allied intelligence miss the German build-up prior to the Bulge?
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Was the "Rape of Nanking" a hoax?
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>>2151962
No.
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Was the Holodomor an invention?
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>>2151962
Pretty much.
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Got an amazon gift card for christmas /his/
Can anyone reccomend a good all-round book on the Punic Wars? Also general book rewccomend thread, I'll contribute what I can
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>>2151939
Are you opposed to book piracy, anon?
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>>2151997
I'd rather not desu but if there is some must-have piece of writing attainable via piracy I'll do it
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>>2151939
Pic related isnt a bad starting point
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Was the Russian language used by the aristocracy during the rule of Ivan the Terrible?
Afaik, the Russian aristocracy only used Russian when barking orders at the peasantry so I'm curious when did French become the dominate language of the Russian ruling class?
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>>2151897
Im interested too. Bump
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Never. French culture was popular but they wouldn't have been speaking French as their mother tongue.
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Was it ever?
Anyway, the Ouiabooism began with Peter the Great, and then Catharine
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Has there ever been a group of science worshippers like the Da'at Yichud? Or any people who thought that they could communicate or learn from god doing science?
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Deism
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>>2151857
>Has there ever been a group of science worshippers
Yeah, new atheists
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>>2151857
Cargo Cults?