How many people really died in the Dresden firebombing, and was it justifiable? If Dresden had 600k inhabitants, and the city was turned ti rubble, shouldn't it be more than 25k dead?
I'm not trying to start a flamewar, I'm just trying to have a peaceful discussion.
>>1949451
>850 000 bombs+a firestorm
>25 000 dead
Sumfin ain't right
>>1949451
oy vey 6 million innocent germans died!
>>1949567
Serious discussion please. Do you mean that 25000 died?
What goes on in the mind of AnCaps. What exactly causes them to adopt their ideology?
You know how most teenagers get rebellious? Some of them never grow out of that phase and those that are interested in politics become ancaps.
something something cities have to "sell" themselves to their prospective citizens and operate under a profit motive because muh free market and muh competition will result in the best possible living conditions because citizens are customers who can vote with their wallet
basically magic
>>1947981
>signing the social contract
Very funny anon.
To answer your question, basically they take the classic American love of the free market and of entrepreneurship and combine it with anarchism and get this novel hybrid that no one other than them likes. To put it another way, they're libertarians who realized that eliminating the state is the logical conclusion of their beliefs.
Where, academically, those ideas of white privilege and structural racism came from ? I'm from Europe, and have only started to hear people talk about this seriously recently. I really can't understand why some teachers would push these ideas since it basically creates more and more racial tensions.
>>1947965
Conflict breeds opportunities.
People working in racism related fields don't want racial tensions to go down, rather the opposite.
Just like a professional soldier wouldn't want a war to end, just to see his job at risk, his promotion chances smashed, a return to a stricter peacetime discipline, etc., so racial studies professionals (who even if they work in academia are really more politician than teacher) don't want for emotions to cool down just to see his work getting far stricter scrutiny, less media attention, less budget from interested parties wanting a study to point at regardless of quality.
Talking about racism isn't race baiting. Just because you or I have never experienced racism doesn't mean it doesn't exist, so when we do hear instances of it occurring from people who it actually effects, we should listen and take steps fix said issue.
Not talking about racism doesn't make it go away, it hides it in its corner and lets it feed upon its victim and while brinign it out in the open may often be uncomfortable it needs to be addressed
As far as im aware they are just some garbage idelogues thats been posted on the internet. Havent heard any proper academic source to them. A lot of books seem to be written about it but none them seem to want to be criticized by their peers. Any proper criticism also tends to be either ignored or the criticizer gets attacked with verbal abuse. From little ive read on it, it sounds very Freudian with some nonsense about subconscious thought crimes or whatever it was called.
Is Christianity a European religion?
Christianity as we know it evolved in Europe, yes. Indo-European polytheism was no more indigenous to this continent than Abrahamic monotheism was so Varg's argument in this is shit.
>>1947781
It's a Jewish religion.
>>1947781
Where is Jesus from? What is now Palestine
Where is the Bible set? The Middle East
No. Just no.
Is the world currently undergoing a second religiousness?
It seems that liberalism is in decline all around the world, in the West (where nationalists are surging in popularity), in the Middle-East (where Islamic fundamentalism is now the norm), and even in places like the Philippines, with people like Duterte.
>>1946997
Yes which is good
>>1946997
>Religiousness
No. Liberalism was running on the momentum of religiousness. What's left afterwards is a reversion to pre-religious barbarism.
>>1946997
Second religiousness is something that happens well into the Imperial era, and is heavily associated with a society in decline, readopting religion as a coping mechanism.
According to most proponents of Spengler we in the west are still waiting to transition into the Caesarist era. This sort of conservative backlash to progressivism could more accurately be compared to the ultra-conservative movements of late Republic figures like Lucius Sulla or Cato the Younger
>national hero
>died in a prison senile serving a life sentence
Post more examples of falls from grace
>>1946820
>was on top of the world
>no new songs
Let me get this straight: god built us for sin and then cursed us for eternity when we did sin but decided he loves us but instead of removing his curse he did a blood sacrifice of his son so that we could remove the curse on ourselves individually but only if we believe in an impossibly implausible scenario and never sin either?
Don't forget that his son is really just an aspect of him, so in order to forgive us he had to convince himself by hanging himself on a cross. After that he was so touched by his own sacrifice he lifted punishment he decreed.
>>1941045
Yes, several.
1. Why would god curse all of humanity for all time because of one thing one of our ancestors did?
2. Why didn't he just 'forgive' us?
3. Why the fuck would anyone worship this asshole?
Who's the butterface
Roman was citizenship not nationality.
Get it right.
>>1948733
Different jaw, different nose, different lips, differend brows, different cheeckbones...are you serious?
>>1948760
nobody is saying that Caracalla was a time-traveling Ice Cube
>>1948760
Why are so many people saying he was the first black emperor then?
Let's accept that there is an absolute truth and that moral values are objective. So... what follows from it?
>>1945837
Do you have any way to divine absolute truth? String theory and dark matter and shit going on inside black holes might be true, that doesn't mean we know shit about them because we have no way of learning more about them. Then you just end up with guys running around claiming they have the objective truth spoken to them by god.
>>1945848
Well, I'm not saying there are absolute truths and objective values, I made this thread with the purpose of understanding those who say so.
>>1945859
Those that say so have faith in a set of values generally from a holy book. There's a few secular humanists that try to derive absolute morality from self evident universal truths.
>Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
did people really think there were mountains that tall?
Does this make you happen?
>>1950849
Does this mean the Devil owns the earth?
Tell me about Armenia.
I know nothing about the Caucasus in general, so please throw some of that in, but how come these guys are Christians surrounded almost completely by muslims? Are they arabs/turks/russians/iranians, what?
where did they come from
what have they done
where will they go?
>>1950419
Oldest memers, constantly getting attacked by muzzies, used to be all over anatolia but nothing happened and they all stopped living for some reason.
They were a mix of persian and greek then they were culturally enriched by the turks and became kurds. Soviets tried to separate their part of armenia (how typical) and create an hayastani culture that is supposedly the only actual armenians.
>>1950419
Some Byzantine emperors where armenian. Culturally close to what pre-turkish-zerging populations where in anatolia. (Greeks, Assyrians etc.) The armenian language is indo-european and close-ish to greek. They where massacred by the ottomans along with other christian populations of the area in the early 1900s. System of a down's members are armenian.
What was the most interesting time period for Scotland?
>>1950375
Dark Ages maybe? I've been trying to learn a bit about it lately. Anyone have any suggestions?
>>1950375
1707-1945
Scottish Enlightenment?
Wars of Independence?
I wish we knew more about the Picts and pre-medieval Scotland.
>*blocks your path*
>>1950330
hullo
>>1950330
Bu... Bonjo- I mean ello guvna! Wut wood you lik to parl- speak aboot? I'm jus a umble Anglais paysan...t... In France... I'm lost m8 gimme directons or summint so I can get back to blighty knomsayin millord.
>>1950504
*no-scopes you*
Who were the good guys?
>>1950190
Everyone who wasn't Bosnian
Fucking Bosnians
USA
>>1950190
>good guys
I've never met someone under the age of 25 who believes in god.
I've met countless people under the age of 25 who are hostile to religion.
>>1950170
The church confirms people at twelve. I can assure you at the time I fervently believed in God, as I did until my late twenties
>>1950176
Different generation obviously.
>church confirms people at twelve
Also this is literally child abuse.
>>1950184
The church believes at this time you have the moral and intellectual maturity to understand and pledge yourself to the faith for the rest of your life.
It was 12-14 its been along time but they do it in 8th grade