*blocks your path*
>>1968151
*Crush it with my shoe, clean it up with a paper towel, then continue on my way*
>>1968151
*shoots*
*successfully invades*
Fascism might have worked pretty well, if it weren't so war-mongering. Strong state, protectionism, unity, etc. The economy would be as stable as Japan or Asean countries, and even better with socio-cultural progress that isn't shitty commie modernism.
Yeah, it's a shame Mussolini was so autistic about Ethiopia.
>>1967350
Pretty much everything we know about economics shows that protectionism is not beneficial for economies.
>>1967383
Too bad there's more to consider than just what's most beneficial to the economy.
How did a bunch of camel enthusiast managed to stay irrelevant for millenia and then all of a sudden conquered north africa, middle east, iberian peninsula and the persian empire in less than a century aaand still managed to stay irrelevant again?
People were tired of the old Empires and their endless wars. Islam was a new fresh hip thing back then from the old corruption and priest castes.
>aaand still managed to stay irrelevant again
Blame the Abbasid cucks that would ally with filthy shia's and give persians the rights that the Umad's would never ever dream of.
Sure, it led to the Golden age but it also led to the splinter of everything Whalid and friends had fought for and almost the re-appearance of their shitty meme religion of Zoroastrianism and a new Persian empire under "muh unconquered" Dailamites.
That is, until we arrived and set everyone straight.
They were lucky the plague wiped out much resistance prior to their expansion and unlucky that the Mongols came in to rush B(agdad)
With the power of Allah
Is true altruism possible from a human standpoint?
Of course, I don't mean to dismiss the actions of people (such as Teresa) who help others as self-serving, but doesn't the tenet of "kindness as its own reward" inherently imply that altruistic people do, indeed, gain something from their transactions with others?
>>1966315
Study her and her works closely and you'll see just how self-serving she was. A drunk who shares his last bottle with some other drunk he doesn't even know is more altruistic in that moment than she was in her entire life.
>>1966294
If it feels good to do it, then no
Is the American economy suffering because of corporate tax rates and high taxes on the higher income earners or is the American economy suffering because it doesn't produce anything besides shitty iPhone apps and shifts financial instruments and insurance policies around?
It's because you need a healthy labor force to have a healthy economy, and the US has created a labor force that is anything but healthy.
>>1972289
Are you trying to say most American are out of work or that most Americans are fat?
Whats the economic system that believes in regulated markets and thats profits are good and all, but ultimately, the plebs need some sugar or else there will be problems and that's more important than the freedom to become a multi-billionaire.
Why is constant panic over the economy even a thing? Why can't you just keep interest rates constant, fiscal policy within reasonable bounds, and let the chips fall where they may?
because capitalism requires its corporations to expand infinitely which is illogical
>>1969084
because interfering in the economy has terrible effects no matter your intentions
>>1969084
t. Great depression
Why is Tsar Nicholas II so venerated /his/? He was a terrible ruler
He was a bad ruler
>emancipated urban tatars
>allowed mosque constructure
>he allowed Tatar moslems to move into Russian areas(Commies banned that later)
>build Cathedral mosque in Saint-Petersburg which was biggest European mosque at the time(commies used that as a storage later)
>dragged Russia into war with Japan
>dragged Russia into war with Germany
>he left to some ball after the massacre in public(Hodinka) instead of speaking to his people
But he still was European legitimate Monarch and not some Middle Eastern terroris that changed him and Transition Government eventually
>>1966878
LARPing monarcucks and contrarian edgy kids.
>>1966878
>Looked nice.
>Under him Russia was on the Right Side Of Historyâ„¢ by fighting Germany.
>The rulers who followed after him are seen as evil.
>Disney made Anastasia and it was popular.
>Allowed his competent underlings to rule instead of his incompetent self (Sergei Witte and Peter Stolypin reformed the state) until someone told him to go roleplay as a general and FUCK EVERYTHING UP SHIT FUCK ASS
>not fit to run a village post office
t. Trotsky
>although Nicholas did not have a naturally autocratic personality, his wife Aleksandra and multiple reactionary statesmen forced him to rule the country with an iron fist
t. Moorehead, contemporary historian
How true is this statement?
>>1966301
The joke was that Yang was a complete moron about all things aside from military tactics, but thought himself an enlightened scholar of history.
>>1966331
To be fair he got yanked out of his history courses in a draft. He never got a chance to learn anything except how to be a smarmy alcoholic.
>>1966301
Is Yang's and Julian's relationship supposed to be reminiscent of classical pederasty?
>The founder of the Sui Dynasty allegedly had a chariot pulled by two goats and whereever these goats stopped he would have sex with the closest concubine. So there are stories of concubines leaving out fruit and sugar hoping to stop the goats.
>Ghengis Khan went to watch with his blood brother for control of Mongolia. After he defeated his blood brother he offered to rule with him as equals. His blood brother told Ghengis to kill him saying "there is only room for one sun in the sky".
>>1962380
According to Battlefield 1 the 1918 Spring Offensive of the Germans could be heard as far as London, due to all the artillery
imagine how loud it was to be there lel
>Malaysia once sent their best commando to infiltrate Malacanang Palace to steal a highly sensitive document pertaining Sulu Sultanate claim on Sabah. Imagine a solo inflitration mission a la metal gear solid vidya happened in real life.
Too good to be true.
>When Kveldulf and his men came to the gangway, they went up it to the stern of the ship, while Skallagrim headed for the prow. Kveldulf had a gigantic double-bladed axe in his hand. Once he was onboard, he told his men to go along the gunwale and cut the awnings from the pegs, while he stormed off back to the after guard, where he is said to have become frenzied like a wild animal.
>...
>Kveldulf and his son did not stop until the ship had been completely cleared. When Kveldulf went back to the after guard, he wielded his axe and struck Hallvard right through his helmet and head, sinking the weapon in right up to the shaft. Then he tugged it back with such force that he swung Hallvard up into the air and slung him over the side.
Has paedophilia/hebophilia and other weird fetishes (like feet) always been popular among those in power?
Pic unrelated
Explain?
Do you have any evidence of this beyond 4chan meme conspiracy theories?
>>1971938
>Explain?
Rolf Harris, Jimmy Saville, examples are endless.
I'm wondering if it's a trend in history.
>>1971938
Jeffery Epstein & friends.
There's really a lot of information about elites doing these kind of things it's not even hidden, just ask Corey Feldman.
many such cases like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux
Is the idea that Japan regressed into collective infantile after getting nuked legitimate, or just a meme? My heart tells me that's what really happened, but I'm not 100% sure they weren't just like that all along. Would a different country have reacted the same way if it were nuked instead?
US dismantled the samurai so only submissive peasants were left.
>>1969821
It's a meme. They weren't like that in the 1950s.
>>1969836
I think the idea is it didn't take effect until the generation of children who went through the atom bomb trauma grew up, which would be later than the 1950s.
I think it is very interesting to look into these Marian apparitions, and approach them from a sociological point of view. Of course, I don't believe anything genuinely supernatural occurred (owing to the faulty and contradicting testimonies of those people involved, as well as inconsistencies in terms of reported events, etc.).
The most renowned Marian apparitions are that of the Lady of the Medal, the Lady of Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, and Medjugorje. The events always seem to occur as a reactionary backlash against the perceived marginalization of the Catholic Church as socially progressive or secular fashions are underway.
The Lady of the Medal, Salette, and Lourdes all occurred in post-Revolutionary France, which had a famous tradition of anti-clericalism (laicite) - most famously, the Lourdes apparitions just so happened to affirm the controversial 'Ineffabilis Deus' while portraying the Pope in a saintly light; Fatima occurred during the years of a Leftist and anti-clerical administration, and Medjugorje occurred in an area rife with religious conflict between Catholics, Orthodox, and Muslims, with the apparition strongly condemning 'progressive' ideas such as homosexual behaviour and abortion.
I have read others approach the phenomenon from different sociological views, such as those claiming that the phenomenon of Marian apparitions is a re-appearance of 'Mother Goddess' tendencies under a nominally Christian world-view. Personally, I believe the visions were born from the fantasies and imaginations of precocious children, which then happened to be seized upon by the Church in attempts to assert its relevance in a stage where it saw its power diminishing.
Your thoughts, /his/?
>>1969127
Marian Apparitions are demons
>>1969127
>owing to the faulty and contradicting testimonies of those people involved, as well as inconsistencies in terms of reported events
This happens in literally every investigation. People's memories suck.
>>1969127
>and Medjugorje occurred in an area rife with religious conflict between Catholics, Orthodox, and Muslims
but all three of those groups lived in relative peace in 1981 Yugoslavia
Would an A.I. that is of human intellect be allowed to become a christian?
>>1969096
would it need to? it doesn't have an ancestor that ate a """""metaphorical""""" fruit
What do you mean "allowed"? You don't "allow" people to believe in something. As for the church institutions, it would be the same as with gay marriages: more liberal-leaning will cave in, more conservative-leaning will say that AI is abomination to God.
There's a short Korean movie about an android becoming Buddha (as in one of the Buddhas, not Gautama), and the company that made him comes to the shrine to shut him down.
So if Christ wasn't resurrected, what happened?
>>1968504
He was probably eaten by dogs or something
Time travellers from the future robbed and dismembered his corpse so they could sell the pieces at a premium to people in the middle-ages.
>>1968504
The Romans would be laughing their asses off at the buttblasted proto-Christians.
how old were you when you recognized the Holy Roman Empire as the legitimate successor to Rome?
>>1968767
In all fairness I'd imagine the Holy Roman Empire to have bigger tits.
>>1968775
this
>>1968775
golly goodness, do i have some news for you