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Answer to who was the best president:
>people who know a lot about history
Lincoln, FDR
>people who know a little about history
Polk, Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt
>people who know nothing about history
>Reagan, Obama, Jefferson, Washington
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>expanding the federal government is good
Okay
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Alright /leftypol/, what's your opinion on safe spaces being shut down in the wake of LGBTBBQ in Oakland?
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>>2103157
Obama was the first nonwhite president, shitlord.
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Why is Keynesian economics taken seriously and used by the vast majority of governments worldwide when it's based off logical fallacies and faulty mathematics?
You'd think our leaders would be intelligent enough to not have debunked theories as the core of their economic system.
We've been off the gold standard since like 1970. What do we have to show for it? Everything is shit for the middle class.
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>>2103071
Because the only refutations to it are in MS paint.
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>>2103077
Ha
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>>2103071
>used by the vast majority of governments worldwide
Every single western nation abandoned Keynesian economics decades ago, friend.
It is all about the unending nightmare of Neo-liberalism now.
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Scariest things to hear a close friend or family member say
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>>2103035
"What's my name...?"
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"Alexander was Macedonian and we are his direct descendants."
It's disheartening how often l hear this nonsense.
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>>2103035
America's ordered state-boundaries are stupid.
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Beige or Green?
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>>2103002
Feldgrau
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white
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Neither, as soon you will learn about the elder god uniform.
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The creation of Poland was a mistake.
They should have never re-established a Polish state after world war 1, it was never viable. Poland was never viable as a country, they had to incorporate territory from Lithuanians, Belarussians, Ukrainians, and Germans to create a viable state for "Poles". Otherwise it would have been too small and landlocked and nonviable, so they decided to patch on territory from a bunch of other countries to create a "Poland".
In fact, the only way Poland managed to become a viable state after the war was to expel millions of Germans and shift the entire border westward, and return the ukrainian and belarussian territories. That's how much nonviable the idea of a Polish state was. Germany was completely right in demanding territory that comprised ethnic Germans and was historically part of Germany, that Poland only laid a claim to because it wanted sea access. Just because you want sea access, doesn't give you a right to snatch land that doesn't belong to your people.
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>doesn't give you a right to snatch land that doesn't belong to your people.
funny, that's what I thought about the Anschluss
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>>2102967
but the anschluss was supported by both countries, austrians were mostly german nationalist at the time and supported union with germany, they are both ethnic germans. The Germans in the polish corridor never consented to being annexed by Poland.
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>>2102954
Land belongs to whoever wins and the Russians won and did what they wanted with the land.
Fuck off.
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I've been reading a lot about ancient India (the Vedic period from ~1500-300 BC), partly out of curiosity of the Indo-European migrations and it seems that most of the ancient "history" of India is based on oral tradition and mythologies. There is a surprising dearth of archaeological evidence of the supposed great Aryan civilization that flourished beyond the Indus before Alexander's invasion. I don't think there is any evidence of writing (Indus Valley was not Aryan even if they did have an actual script), stone sculpture (or idols even, that Hindus today love to worship), monumental architecture, fine metal working, coinage before the Greeks arrived. All of these appeared suddenly in the post-Greek contact Mauryan Empire.
The most that has been found dating to that period are a handful of hoards with very crude metal implements and some distinct pottery cultures.
Yet this also was supposedly a mighty civilization where the kingdoms raised armies that terrified Alexander's and according to the religious texts constantly engaged not only in warfare but also in trade, artisanry and, by the end of the Vedic period, increasing urbanization and consolidation into highly centralized kingdoms. But still no material evidence of weapons, jewellery or great cities from that time has been found.
Is it just that the Vedic Indians left behind no surviving trace (because of the climate and chaotic history) or that their glory has been exaggerated by myth?
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We have proof pf cities and dams even in Sri Lanka dating as far back as 900-700 BC, I dont Know about the rest of india
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>>2102926
because those cities continued to be inhabited for long stretches of time. The IVC was abandoned because of extant climatic changes that were unearthed in the 19th century later.
meanwhile cities on the indogangetic plain continued to be settlements where people continued to live. Pataliputra for example is still the capital of Bihar, and goes by the name of Patna.
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>>2102980
Pataliputra was a Mauryan city and so post-dates the Vedic period. This is also apparent in its ruins that have been excavated which show clear Greek and Persian influence.
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Were the Legalists right?
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yes
Chip everyone, surveil everything, a d store everyone's DNA in a central database
There is literally no downside other than muh cawnstitooshun
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>no dogs
>no alcohol
>no fun
>camera surveilance
is that your average britbong sharia zone?
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>>2102866
>there is no downside to giving the state full access to and control over everyones life
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Look at this fat kid, he's the real history
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kys
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onward comrade longsdon!
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GTFO NORMIES
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>The full title of Darwin’s most famous work included some stark words: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin wasn’t the first to propose biological arguments for racism, but his works fueled the most ugly and deadly racism.
>Hitler believed that people were engaged in a constant struggle for survival. The climax of history would be the survival of the fittest race—which he believed to be the “Aryan race.” Darwin’s theory, upon which those tyrants based their actions, was wrong.
Prove this wrong
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Race was just a taxonomic label in between subspecies and strain.
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>>2102768
Social Darwinism is a misnomer, Darwin had nothing to do with it.
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>>2102768
I love it when Darwin said the negro finch was the worst
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I just got a match from a chick on Tinder who claims to be a historian. Got me thinking, does anyone know some historically-based innuendo?
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invite her to the neptune equester
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I'll be your swan if you'll be my Leda.
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How did Saturnalia become Christmas?
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priest: stop worshiping saturn at the winter solstice, saturn = satan
plebs: whatever dude
priest: I am totally serious about my religion, satan is totes real and will burn you, stop it or I get the local thugs to bash you
plebs: no fun allowed
plebs keep worshiping in secret
another priest: this isn't working, also it is less about satan and more about eggnog and toys
priest sigh
priest: ok winter solstice is about jesus now
plebs: right...
priest: in fact you can come to the church and have a comfy mass and we will serve treats, especially to the little chilluns so they grow up to be notpagan
plebs: fine
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Saturnalia has nothing to do with Christmas. Saturnalia takes place over several days, and none of them are December 25th.
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>>2103845
>nothing to do with Christmas
>except being a holiday of lights around that's held at the exact same time of the year with banquets, gift-giving, and a general atmosphere of universal hospitality
You're in an unpressurized bomber in world war 2, with electrically heated suits because it's -60F and oxygen masks because you're at 22,000 ft on a bombing run. What position do you have? I'd be a waist gunner, looks fun.
> too tall to be ball gunner.
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>tfw bought a $700 ww2 bomber jacket from Barbour and wore it everywhere
>actually saved up money for it too wagecucking
>eventually stop because it hits me all at once how autistic I look
It's a curse I tell you I wish my mother didn't wait until she was 38 to have a son. Fucking selfish whore.
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>>2102732
> she was 38 to have a son.
Risky, You're actually 38+your age old.
Females have their eggs mature at birth.
38, the odds of congenital disorders is like 50x having a kid at 18.
Risk of birth defects[edit]

The risk of having a Down syndrome pregnancy in relation to a mother's age.
A woman's risk of having a baby with chromosomal abnormalities increases with her age. Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal birth defect, and a woman's risk of having a baby with Down syndrome is:[5]
At age 20, 1 in 1,441
At age 25, 1 in 1,383
At age 30, 1 in 959
At age 35, 1 in 338
At age 40, 1 in 84
At age 45, 1 in 32
At age 50, 1 in 44
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>>2102727
I'll be the pilot because fuck being at the mercy of someone elses shit piloting skills.
t. DCS pro
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Tell me everything you know about it.
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Apparently the current Emperor of Japan is related to Amaterasu and Susanoo
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>>2102693
Weaboo
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Is it child abuse to bring a child up in poverty, or even in a poor household?
Poverty greatly limits a child's future opportunities.
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>>2102635
"Instead of eliminating causes of poverty, let's eliminate the poor (and do it again when the causes of poverty we ignored generate more of them)."
Solid thinking, my man.
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>>2103223
>"Instead of eliminating causes of poverty, let's eliminate the poor (and do it again when the causes of poverty we ignored generate more of them)."
wew, talk about putting words in a niggas mouth
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I only know that I don't want to make children if I can't ensure I can provide them with a reasonably good standard of life and also lots of family time (I don't think it's smart to be missing from my children's life working 12 hours a day or something like that).
Poor people usually do it because their relatives and society are pushing them into shitting out children.
>I don't know nuffin about budism, but I know that these statues will bring good energies into my house.
What does /his/ think of Buddha statue hoarders who know jack shit about buddhism, yet believe it is the ultimate enlightenment?
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>>2102628
those types of people are too busy rushing their lives.
just an aesthetic string tied around a misguided finger.
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>not getting a fat buddha to rub his belly for wealth and good luck
>which really isn't a buddah but budai
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>>2102628
I know that bored rich leftists love to put them in their home