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>that pic

Not really.

The US never really financed itself with foreign occupations the way the Romans did. Most of them were money sinks.

The US is more of a hegemon than an empire, in the strictest sense.

>>2077421
it's more accurate to consider "the west" as analogous Rome then a single part of the West

>>2077315
arms

>>2077315
knights

>>2077315
ass clappers

>>2077197
Everything is justified in war if it helps you win

Both towns were legitimate military targets anyway

People need to stop being autistic about this

Nuking a city and fire bombing it makes hardly any difference.

yes
although who literally gives a shit outside of baby boomers who were all "wtf i hate America now???" when they found out WW2 was sorta unpleasant

Because they're Nordic aliens from Plaedes

You'd be scared too if some autistic Swede woke you up in the middle of the night saying he has a message for you from god

>>2077130
horrifying or not, them just showing up out of nowhere delivering divine truths is gonna' freak people out.

also yes, some of them are.

>>2077151
>also yes, some of them are.
source?

>>2077089
Nah, but Zoroastrianism was heavily influenced by Judaism

>>2077097
guaranteed replies

>>2077089
these threads make reasonable bait

>>2077075
Managed to advance into the iron age directly form stone age. This didn't happen anywhere else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

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>Why are they so superior to east Africans
If that includes the Northeast, they're not really.

>and southern Africans?
Southern Africa wasn't integrated into the Afro-Eurasian trade (except the Swahilis and Zimbabwe) so they didn't have the cultural or economic stimulation that West Africa did. Agriculture also took hold much later there, not reaching the fertile Rift Valley highlands until around 500 BC when West Africa was already developing stuff like the Nok Culture. West Africa was also tied together by river systems (Senegal-Niger-Benue) which encouraged the integration of cultures into larger regional economies and political systems, while Bantu Africa was much more disjointed in comparison.

>>2077127
>muh geographical determinism>

that jewish shit has already been debunked

Shortsighted mods not realizing just how relevant Peterson is to /his/, and/or a postmodernist fact denying mod with a power complex

Rampant /pol/phopic bigotry

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>>2077047

True speech is the antidote for all this madness

didn't the gommies admit that it was a bit of a fuckup

Nicky did.

Thousands of people were murdered by his government for political reasons.

The rest of the family, not so much.

>>2076939

Maybe if Nicky hadn't been, "BUT MUH SERB BROTHERS!" and just not gotten involved in WW1 because you know there are problems with your military if you got BTFO by Japan.

>>2076928
Why has god stopped working wonders just at the time the devil invented the video cam?

>>2076928
Mass hysteria + optic illusion.

God BTFO proddies and fedoras

>>2076855
This world is black and white, we have no room for grays like you.

In all seriousness people need to learn to compromise in order to function well in government, however on a personal level centrism is just someone who is afraid to say one way is right. As long as there are objective truths there will be a "best" way to do something. Being a centrist you are always wrong because you are generally riding the middle and will be relegated to the dust bin of history cuz eventually one side will win.

Hold firm in your stances but allow comprimises for the greater good is what I say.

What's the middle of the road position on people demanding that the public school system teach creationism? What's the middle of the road position on whether or not AGW is real and how to deal with it? How do you handle business interests wanting to totally abandon the minimum wage while people who work low skill jobs want it increased?

Centrism is nice as a general idea but many of the issues that come to dominate politics are pretty either or.

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>>2076855

In academia, political centrism is god tier, as you actively and dispassionately need to evaluate political matters without bias (Jordan Peterson comes to mind in his evaluations of Ideology).

However, centrism seems to spin its wheels in all other respects. even in the first point. If, in the course of one's studies, begins to move either left or right by means of objective evaluations and unbiased research, one should not force one's self to remain in the center, because that in it of itself is morally and intellectually dishonest and may reflect badly on later work.

In short:

Bad: 1.Right/Left in, Right/Left out.
2. Center in, Center out

Good: 1. Center in, Right/Left out.
2. Right/Left in, Center transformation, Right/Left out as a result of unbiased centrism and study. (much harder than #1, I speak from experience)
This principle applies to everything, including academia, politics, especially when studying politics, philosophy, and history. Do not force yourself to remain neutral, if you move in one direction or another, simply remain honest with yourself and others, and continue to pursue what you find through unbiased study to be the objective truth. It's hard, but telling the truth is rarely easy. whatever you become, know that there can be no compromise on basic moral principles.

Pic is Moi

Primitive terrorist bullshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B17lAVteRKk

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>>2076818
>destroying the only good thing about Christianity

>>2076818
Nice looking/sounding word, bad idea.

>>2076574
because his rhymes are too complex for the common man to comprehend

>>2076574
It is actually a branch of mathematics.

>>2076685
Isn't Mathematics some sort of applied Logic?

>>2076511
Yes, and?

>>2076525
>be at the forefront of a massive airborne assault
>pitch black
>aa going off all around you
>drop into drop zone
>Get into an argument where precisely you should drop your smoke signals, your faggot co worker insists you're off by 2000 yards and the other guy is pissing his pants and just wants to go hide in the bushes
>hear German voices in the distance from the darkness they don't sound happy
>start sweating

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>when you fuck up and guide a glider squadron into a forest

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>>2076457
Basically this.

>>2076457
The Anglos had some problems with the Irish throughout the history before they conquered them so they had reasons to dislike them. So they invented this theory.

>>2076457
It was just another way of dehumanising the (Catholic) Irish, so the the (Protestant) English/Scottish could feel better about themselves for taking their land, massacring their people, and treated them like they treated every other indigenous race they encountered around the world.

kinda

>>2076260
>Isn't Plato somewhat irrelevant compared to Socrates and Aristotle?

Sort of. He's the symbolic figurehead of western mythology, his trial and conviction is basically the creation myth of what would be the face of the western philosophical tradition.

Personally I agree with Nietzsche that he fucked everything up.