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>>1976130
Ring, liberty bell! True freedoooom for all men!

Governance requires study and a fairly lengthy education on law and the existing and past conditions of your nation and others.
Even if an official possesses none of these things, but is elected anyway, they will act to surround themselves with those who are trained in these things in all pertinent positions.

The aforementioned statements only become more true and relevant as the nation-state increases in complexity.

Therefore, if you wish to serve as an elected government official, you must spend much time, money, and effort preparing yourself with the required knowledge and certifications to run for office. If you are unsuccessful, you must start all over again in finding an alternate career. This largely hinders the vast majority from wishing to run for any elected positions, and as a product of this, less people also seek out the knowledge about democratic leaders, which hinders the populace's ability to discern a good governor from a bad one.

If you are in an elected position you must keep it or find another, or face financial ruin. This motivates law-makers to work in the interests of the populace, but it also means that senile, ambivalent, or out-of-touch lawmakers will continue in government as long as physically possible.

Aforementioned lawmakers who wish to attract voters will focus on how their laws will solve universal problems, provide financial relief to the largest voter margin, or by diverting attention to their own opinions and views, appealing to ideological allies. These methods used continually over time will cause voters to ignore factors such as efficiency, ability to successfully win over political opponents, attendance, foresight, level of seclusion from public, what he is willing to sacrifice to make deals and treaties, etc.

With these conditions it is quite easy to have a situation in which
1. All candidates for a position are unappealing
2. All officials act in their own interests
3. voters do not understand why nothing works

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>>1976535
Thank you very much for the answer

>>1975437

Galicia didn't even exist before late 18th century.

>>1975895
Ok. Where can I find a detailed Latin (or other Romance) language map from before the 16th century of the region later known as Galicia?

>>1976294
>>1975437
It was Kingdom of Poland.

inb4 pictures of mushroom clouds

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>>1983826
Wandering /k/ommando here. I believe I can field this question.

Because twenty million people, mostly civilians and mostly non Japanese, were already dead; and that every week heightened the death toll.

Because we knew that the Japanese had given orders to kill every Allied POW in the event of a landing.

Because, using the fighting on Okinawa as a metric, we stood fair to lose half a million casualties and kill 20 million people in the event of an invasion. (The Army ordered about that many Purple Hearts for the invasion. Get wounded today in Iraq? Get a medal made in 1945).

Because the sick-making atrocities they committed in places like the Philippines -- nurses gang raped and their eyes gouged out, and so forth -- made us not give two fucks.

That's why.

>>1983826
Because they only had two? I guess if they had 3 or 4 at this point, US would use these too. Hell, I guess if they had a lot of them they'd just drop one every couple days until Japan would surrender.

1. Russian Empire
2. Technically Pakistan, right? It was all a mess when the British let go.
3. Romulus
4. Glorious, American.
5. Indonesia? Idk.
6. I believe they did, did they not?
7. Ethiopia and Liberia
8. I have no clue, you got me on this
9. ??? Communists?
10. Napoleon III?
11. 1911?
12. Bush

Pls forgive for any mistakes, I prefer colonial history over everything else.

I can answer most of those and I consider myself pretty dumb.

What now?

>>1982703
Roosevelt too, i think, on the last one. Maybe they weren't father and son

>>1981923

ancient greek texts were imported to europe from kebabistan during the enlightenment cos the church banned/burned their copies since they were scared of competing pederasts stealing their thunder.
do you even history?

>>1981923
>Carter praise

>Christianity emerged before Judaism and Abraham, Moses and everyone before Jesus were actually Christians
>linear causality is to this day the most advanced model of reality and totally not useless in a world filled with complexity
>Christianity spontaneously emerged out of literal nothing and wasn't influenced at all by themes from Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Greek philosophy, and before that, the same thing applies to the Old Testament, which wasn't influenced at all by the polytheisms of Egypt, Ugarit, Mesopotamia and Canaan

Christian zealots truly are a hilarious bunch

sam harris
actually new atheism generally

well, "meme" philosophers I don't know, but if you want to read more essential bullshit-busters try hume and husserl.

Philosophy is useless. Spend your time on something with tangible results.

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>>1984128
The weak should fear the strong.

An example of why always pacifist never works

>>1984128
I believe you mean "Western China" comrade ;)

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Spanish civilians say goodbye to the Blue Division soldiers

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An illustration from one of Jose Antonio's propaganda pamphlets

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>>1980388
Good riddance.

He died to become a meme.

>>1979125
You get the fuck out. You get the fuck out right now. To answer OP, no. Rioters got sat the fuck down by the government.

>>1979121
I never got the full story on this picture. Did the tanks stop because of him or was the picture taken right before they ran him over or drove around him?

>>1978723
Yes.

> implying the whole civilization isn't born from autismo

Name one piece of evidence the Great Pyramid was built as a tomb.

>>1974188
The exact moment the democratic experiment became a failure.

>>1974188
>Minnesota
>Blue

Makes sense. There is a lot of Swedish heritage up there.

>>1974188
What went wrong?

>>1984172
Yes, ever heard of "cultural catholics"?

>>1984172
Most of the US and western Europe.

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>>1984172
They're called Catholics.

>>1984589
>savages
Which one

>>1984589
don't worry, in 10 or 20 years, we will fight against degenerates and heretics, remember: the 4th reich is coming...

>>1984589
>defend to save your people and religion
>He's willing to die for someone else and an imaginary friend

pic related was pretty much the reason why

when you are the bastard child of Vikings and Mongols no can fuck with you anymore.

>>1983334
>it's a "retards think Russia existed before 16th century / Kievan Rus was Russia" episode

>>1983334
Poland took Muscovy tho, Germans did pretty much the same through Lenin too. Russia is pretty much a conquest empire and if you contain it in its borders long enough it will collapse from the inside.

>>1983217
>am i watching a bunch of cowards
Did you sign up for Afghanistan?

>>1983217
>some of the men depicted in the HBO series, "Band of Brothers" are older, late 20's- early 30's.

The actors were. Realistically they would be pimply teenagers.

Seriously?

>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.