ITT: historical figures who legitimately had Asperger's
Thomas Jefferson, he was also the only confirmed non-Christian president, although Lincoln may have been an atheist
>>1879160
REEEEEEEEEE CATHOLICS GET OUT
>>1879160
Yukio "invade the USSR and America or I'll kill the commandant" Mishima
>60's - 90's
>PLO is funded by the Soviets and get weapons off the Soviets
>Israel know this, yet continue to allow it and also buy weapons off the Soviets
Explain?
>>1879081
All governments need foil enemies to rail against.
>>1879081
cold war politics m 8. Soviets sold weapons to everyone as did the US
>>1879081
>Israel know this, yet continue to allow it
What were they supposed to do?
>and also buy weapons off the Soviets
Right, that's why all those IDF reservists are running around with AK's hanging off their asses.
>1 (one) fucking tank
JUST
>>1878875
But 5 tankettes, so it was fair imo
>>1878893
They don't look very intimidating at all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carden_Loyd_tankette
>>1878980
did you get the wrong screencap, anon?
Anyone here into Colorization of b/w photos?
I just started and I'm wondering if anyone else here has an interest in this.
Feel free to share whatever you have. I would be happy about some galleries with high res b/w photos, already know about Shorpy and this finnish military archive.
in the meantime I'll dump some colorized photos. can be a historical photos general, i guess.
Colorized WW1 photo
Are people alive today responsible for the actions of their ancestors?
>>1878524
Yes if the context is related to ancestry.
I would argue no,
Even if they are doing whatever actions themselves, they are their own masters and can make their own decisions.
>>1878529
What does that mean?
Why does so little of Pictish culture remain?
Is it the Gael's fault?
simple and barbaric culture that couldn't exist with Christianity
but yes, gaels and vikings
The eternal Hibernian strikes again
>>1878389
They left behind few writings.
What are /his/'s thoughts on Operation Urgent Fury?
Bonus points for Veterans' stories/cool photos
Not a vet, but I was in grade school when it happened. Ask me anything.
>>1878098
How big of a deal was it? Was it dominating the news or did the bombing Lebanon overshadow it/
I can imagine a lot of people were scared that it was going to turn into another prolonged conflict, it was a mere eight years after Vietnam and the devastating emotional impact of that war was still deeply entrenched in the American psyche.
>>1878091
My dad went into Grenada with the Marines, he doesn't talk about it but I'm sure it's just because he didn't really do anything in the first place.
Redpill me on why it was looked down upon to be a banker in medieval Europe.
>pic not related
Usury was a sin, and you're not productively creating. You can't worship both God and mammon
>>1877804
Is it really included in the bible that usury is a sin?
What the fuck was his problem?
>>1877724
manlet
>>1877724
Kim Jong-Il was Kim Il-Sung's first son, but his mother died before his father obtained power. Kim Il-Sung remarried and had a public wife, Kim Sung-Ae and had a son, Kim Yong-Ju, and people pretended that Jong-Il's monther didn't exist.
So even before the inheritance principle was established, Kim Jong-Il was engaged in a power struggle to establish his legitimacy as Kim Il-Sung's son. To win this struggle, Kim Jong-Il positioned himself as the most loyal perfect son. This is where the Cult of Personality in Korea really takes off, because Kim Jong-Il makes an industry out of it.
Now obviously, praising Kim Il-Sung has the double purpose of ingratiating himself to the president, and making him seem like a loyal son, but this really takes off because the cult of personality becomes a system of patronage just as the North Korean economy is locking up from the limits of a command economy and the implementation of Songun.
Expensive public flattery becomes a way to distribute semi-illicit goods upward, towards his father, but also downwards and horizontally, allowing Kim Jong-Il to control vital goods. Since he outplayed all his rivals in the power struggle, he expanded this system, which means more over the top praise and declaration of godhood as this becomes the primary means of moving luxury goods, with Kim Jong-Il controlling all distribution.
By the 80s he's cemented his position and succession, and begins appearing regularly in public images and monuments to Kim Il-Sung, as his equal. At the same time, he begins running day to day affairs of North Korea. But he was never really a leader and public figure the way his father was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Z5ypN_08Q
Even when he was old, Kim Il-Sung had a strong, confident baritone voice for public speaking. He began his leadership with a small band of partisan fighters, and those strengths carried him and set his limits. (continued
>>1879127
Kim Jong-Il was in many ways that Stalin to Lenin, he secured power through bureaucratic rather than populist means. Combined with the whole 'had to struggle his whole life to be acknowledged as his father's son' thing, he had a wee bit of a chip on his shoulder and was deeply paranoid that people would betray him at the first opportunity. He also never had a life outside the party and expected the same of everyone else.
What do you think of Pentecostalism, /his/?
The only true Christians
>>1877640
I think my gf is part of that sect.
She's very traditional and conservative so I guess it's ok.
>>1877640
What is it?
I was wandering around Wikipedia and came across the attached pic at the link below and thought these ancient Chachapoyan Indian funerary statues from the Andes, look suspiciously like the Moai statues of Easter Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachapoya_culture
“The anthropomorphous sarcophagi resemble imitations of funeral bundles provided with wooden masks typical of the "Middle Horizon", a dominant culture on the coast and highlands, also known as the Tiwanaku–Wari culture. The "mausoleums" may be modified forms of the chullpa or pucullo, elements of funeral architecture observed throughout the Andes, especially in the Tiwanaku and Wari cultures.”
>>1877594
>these ancient Chachapoyan Indian funerary statues from the Andes, look suspiciously like the Moai statues of Easter Island.
>>1877594
I read that the easter Islanders and some others polynesisns cultivated potatoes which aren't native to those isles they must have taken them from South America
>>1877597
I’ll also add that the sweet potato, extensively farmed by the Polynesians, is a New World crop;
“The sweet potato was grown in Polynesia before western exploration. Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1000 AD, and current thinking is that it was brought to central Polynesia around 700 AD, possibly by Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back, and spread across Polynesia to Hawaii and New Zealand from there.[14][15] It is possible, however, that South Americans brought it to the Pacific, although this is unlikely as it was the Polynesians who had a strong maritime tradition and not the Native South Americans. The theory that the plant could spread by floating seeds across the ocean is not supported by evidence. Another point is that the sweet potato in Polynesia is the cultivated Ipomoea batatas, which is generally spread by vine cuttings and not by seeds.[16]”
How can one man be so right about absolutely everything?
>free will is compatible with determinism
he wasn't. but he set the groundwork for people who are.
>>1877585
Who is this smug motherfucker? I feel an instinctive need to punch him right in his smug mug.
he wasn't right about why we like tragedies
Daily reminder that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution under the guidance of Mao Tse-tung was NOT a mistake and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the most advanced stage of socialism yet discovered.
>>1877463
Prove it.
dumb teenage frogposter
>>1877463
Daily reminder fag trolls are everywhere.
So is this a meme, or is there actual proof of this shit?
>>1876971
It's a meme that's more popular with white supremacists than black ones.
>>1876971
Yes everyone knows the Moors of all people ruled America until 1774
Wasn't mansa musa the richest kang in history or something?
Ottomans and Russian Empire should have worked together. The true enemy of Russia and Ottomans is the West
t.Konstantin Leontiev
The true enemy of Turks and Russians has always been themselves.
>>1876917
>the (((West)))
>>1876917
Which western power could Russia expand against?