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You realize the bantz has existed since time immemorial? Attacking a person's character rather than their argument is the primary strategy of most politicians, despite being a fallacy.

>>2137223
Pointing out your opponent's character flaws was a major part of Roman rhetorical tradition as it undermined their argument. Ad hominem was basically a legitimate tactic. If someone was regularly getting assfucked the Roman mindset was that it had damaged their honour and made their views and arguments suspect.

>>2137223
what?

>>2137197
He's proof that huge western loans work

I would not call a country collapsing on itself in a civil war, complete with genocide fucking working

>>2137278
>I would not call a country collapsing on itself in a civil war, complete with genocide fucking working

Yeah,but is not fault of him,was because of his incompetent sucessors.

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>the fall of imperial russia and the execution of the main branch of the romanov family

i still weep

>>2136902
He deserved it. His family didn't but Nicky definitely did.

>>2136968
Nicky was a shit ruler, aye, probably the reason why the Romanovs were executed. But Alexei didn't deserve the execution. Guy would probably have been a great ruler.

>>2136864
Who?

>>2136876
CHING CHONG DING DONG

>>2136876
the yellow emperor of china, or huang-di.

his initials are written to the left in chinese. something along the lines of "god appointed yellow emperor". (excuse shit translation, might not be accurate.)

>>2136750
This is the end product of extreme SJWness.

All nonwhites are now sinless bastards and were just wronged by whitey.

Fuck each and every opinion of occupied Asian countries that the Japs did sick shit.

>>2136750
Yeah, no. It's a load of bullshit. Even ignoring that shit with Nanking, Unit 731 was responsible for horrific experiments and the use of biological warfare. Believe me, it's definitely nonsense.

>>2136750
Seriously?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

You just wanted to give a qt a Santa hat didn't you?

>>2136727
>ever
>not always
Genocide is always justified.

Not a crime.

Unless you get caught, of course.

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>>2136718
>Without the arrival of fresh American soldiers to not only reinforce Allied troops but boost their moral with the knowledge that they would be reinforced in the first place, could the Spring Offensive have succeeded
Well, after the Nivelle Offensive failed disastrously in 1917 and much of the French Army mutinied, Petain declared that no more major offensives would be taken until the Americans arrived. France was taken very near to the brink of social disintegration like the kind Russia was facing at the same time.
>If, in the "worst" case scenario, they were able to take Paris, would this force the Allies to end the war on Germany's terms?
France would likely capitulate, and experience MASSIVE political unrest if not revolution, given the communist and pacifist sentiments that were promulgating within it. I believe the United Kingdom would withdraw the BEF and continue the war in other fronts, like Italy, Greece, or Mesopotamia/Palestine. Germany would move its troops from the silenced Western Front to answer, and the war would continue. From there, I can't really say who would win, as I don't know how far Germany would go to keep its people fed with the Russian land it seized at Brest-Litovsk.

Hope this helps answer somewhat.

Also, I'd like to ask another question. What if, instead of the Spring Offensive, Germany deployed its troops in simultaneous offensives against Italy, the Salonica front, and the Ottoman front?

The Central Powers were running out of food by 1918 and American forces played only a marginal role in the actual combat on the Western Front. It's doubtful Germany could have won even if the American Expeditionary Force had never been deployed to Europe. American loans and weapons sales to the Entente played a much more significant role, and that would have not have gone away had France or Italy surrendered. The British made plans to continue the war from the Middle East on this basis in 1917 and still believed they were going to win

>>2136257
Well parts of the gospels could be called philosophy, but he was more a theologian

did jesus have a big dick

>>2136277
He was an arab, so probably not.

>>2136244
It mostly had to do with being bored with nothing major going on. the arts always flourish when there is nothing to preoccupy the minds of the youth. You could comment about the drugs being thrown around and increased sexuality and changing culture but those are also symptoms of being in a society with no major problems (by this I mean the problems pertaining to the actual citizens, obviously the US was involved in a fuckton of international bullshit but the average citizen didn't feel it that much).

>>2136244
No, they were just on drugs and most of the real innovators were british people combining folk with blues music.

Americans innvoated in music in the 20s-40s with jazz, and then again in the late 80s with the rise of hip hop and rap

>>2136256
>most of the real innovators were British people
>Brits copying 1950s girl bands and fusing it with 60s American rock bands
Oh of course they were the innovators. They were so innovative that every single band from the Isles sounded exactly the same.

>>2136172
Wasn't that fond of it i think.

Why Stalin is so smug on that picture?

>>2136172
More like, "what was Stalin's attitude towards anything?"

Guy is such a strange figure.

>>2135944
The numerous potential USSR - USA conflicts of the second half of the 20th century.

>>2135944
Alexander's conquests of india, westrrn europe, and arabia he was planning before his death.

If one historical figure died too young it was him. He was The Great, but if he lived longer he would have been The Greatest

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>>2136052
> The control system of the original Minuteman model had a design flaw: small fluctuations in the electricity entering the command center could mimic the series of pulses required by the launch switch.
> For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code at all Minuteman Silos in the United States Was 00000000
Really makes you think...

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For me? It's the Chicago School. The best economic system.

>>2135932
>its a cryptoaustrian thread implying austrians are on the same level as neoclassical and keynisian and ignoring monetarist and chicago

>>2135947
Chicago School is still neoclassical.

Is that a dick.

>>2135847
I recognize that bulge

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>>2135843
How did OP manage to make this post?
It was always pure autism.

Prussia did not exist in WW2

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>>2135801
Get out.

>prussia
>ww2
Autism.

>>2135708
I hate it.

I live in a wonderful town, architecturally-wise. It's a old, medium-sized suburb that developed over a long period of time, chiefly from 1890-1930. In the core, you have lovely Victorians, Italianates, that kind of thing. A bit further out from the center you get bungalows and Craftsmen. On the very edges, where I live, you get ranches and split-levels from the 1950s. Although these are not as pretty as the older homes, they are at least unobtrusive in their simplicity and add to the architectural variety of my town.

All around, however, the McMansions are coming up. Officially, these homes are termed "neo-eclectic" because they freely cannibalize from every style. In reality, they are big, empty boxes with a bunch of random ornamentation thrown on: a Gothic window there, a Greek Revival column there, and an ugly mess of too many gables sprinkled on top. They're also all disgustingly huge, with far more space in them than most any suburban family would need.

I am generally not a fan of architectural modernism or postmodernism, but the example in the OP is not an antidote to that. It is a cheap product of our consumerist culture that has nothing to do with the great traditions of vernacular architecture in this country. Even an ordinary ranch house would be better.

It may seem strange, but I feel very passionate about the aesthetics of the average American home. Maybe because I grew up in a place where those aesthetics were so prevalent. I believe the single-family house is the one form of art that plays the largest role in one's day-to-day life.

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I personally like modular homes, they're comfy to me and I like the idea of personalizing your home and shipping it to your own land. But I'm probably bias, since I use to do the foundation for these.

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>>2135762
What the Fuck are you even talking about. The houses op wants to discuss are not Mcmansions. Not every min contemporary home built after 1970 is a McMansion