Is this the best historical twitter account ever, or what?
https://twitter.com/crimesofbrits
this guy sure is butthurt about libya
Stay mad, frenchie
Only one I follow is this one:
https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII
What originally sparked your interest in history?
>>1869092
Being a kid and realizing how aesthetic the past was in books and movies and how hideous modernity is, and wondering why.
History club at school
>>1869095
What's this? A Reddit meeting?
my professor said it wasn't until the 1600s when Europe really started to surpass Africa
is this true?
>>1873030
Are you a history major? Or a liberal arts major with a professor who's only job is to make students merely pretend they learned history
>>1873030
He confused with Asia
Europe surpassed Africa millions years ago when the white man evolved from the negro
I highly doubt it.
Why was Satan in heaven?
>>1868075
He was called Lucifer then.
>>1868079
But if God knows everything and is omnipresent then why someone who is going to betray you and take a shit ton of your kingdom with them be in heaven?
Was there any war or theater of war as hellish, destructive, and horrifying as the Eastern Front of WWII?
Bumping with pics
Who were the first humans?
>>1876751
Not monkeys, put your delusions to rest.
Homo sapiens sapiens were the first homo sapiens sapiens.
>>1876751
Adam and Eve.
>Have the most powerful country in Europe
>Lose it all
Why the fuck did that happen?
>listen Wilhelm
>there are two big factions in Europe
>you have the Franco-Russian alliance, they're the big land powers
>there's the British, who are the big sea power
>you want to get in good with one of them, to balance out the other
>what do you mean no
Hereditary monarchy is stupid.
>>1872653
>let me just kick out the great balancer as well
>>1872642
they were stronger than any single European Power, but not stronger than all the European Powers.
as for why it happened, the alliance systems of Europe were designed to create a balance of power, to make sure no one player had it all, and the Franco-Russian alliance was specifically designed to counter Germany, and was Bismarck's nightmare come true. and it worked, it cost 4 years of traded blows and 10 million men, but the alliance did what it was meant to do, stop Germany.
Heracles (or Hercules because for some reason his roman name is more popular) = Odysseus > minotaur shit > every other hero
prove me wrong
>>1870951
Achilles outdoes all of them because he is literally the only heroic figure in the entire Greek literary corpus to eventually swallow his pride.
>>1870951
Perseus is objectively the best Greek hero
The 7 from thebes >all
when did being a nerd become a bad thing because looking back at the past the vast majority of military and political leaders were what we would call nerds
is this another retarded thing we have to thank america for
>because looking back at the past the vast majority of military and political leaders were what we would call nerds
How, exactly? Or are you saying "educated" or "intelligent" is a direct equivalent to "nerdy"?
The term 'nerd' also has associations with a lack of social (and often physical) skills, not just being smart or studious.
>>1874728
Socially awkward people were never liked.
>>1874741
>The term 'nerd' also has associations with a lack of social (and often physical) skills, not just being smart or studious.
That may actually be the case but the term is generally applied, especially in rural America/ the deep south areas, to any person, socially competent or not, that has interest outside of sports, booze, and cunt.
People wonder why so many Americans think the sun revolves around the earth when the nation's cripplingly anti-intellectual.
Thinking of converting to orthodoxy, it actually speaks to me on a spiritual level. What do you think /his/? Is it just a meme, or should I actually try it out?
fine if you are greek or slav, orthodox are national churches
>>1872911
Grow up you man-child.
>>1872925
Faith should be a matter of truth first and foremost.
And yes, choosing your church is beyond the level of simply what aesthetic you prefer and where in the world you are from.
Just got done watching "Denial", thought it was alright.
Interested to know what /his/ thought of it, especially the main character's conviction that certain aspects of history are "beyond debate" and that you must accept them as fact.
>shilling your movie
>>1862397
oy vey
>>1862391
That's correct, so long as we are sticking with things like the Resurrection and so on.
>/his/ literally made me antisemitic therefore anticommunist and anticapitalist
So... what kind of ideology is better for me? reactionarism? fascism?
Distributism.
>>1872291
Comfy monarchy with fascist elements
/his/ shits on and complains about /pol/ all the time though
What was his name again, /his/?
Elliot Rodgers.
Yuan Yafrenza
>>1871344
This is what anime does to the young mind
>the people above you are there because they deserve to be there
>remember: there is no alternative
>it may not be the perfect system, but its the best one there is
I always hate serfs complaining about feudalism when they'd starve to death without it.
this triggers me
argh
there was no neat magical fairy land feudal pyramid at work anywhere in europe in the middle ages
god damn
you had dukes more powerful than kings less powerful than counts less powerful than wealthy businessmen less powerful than church officials more powerful than dukes etc. ad nauseam
no, the king didn't magically grant all the land everywhere to his dukes who gave it to their counts who gave it to their esquires or whatever
huge tracts of land (kek) were held in allod, by the church, by "foreign" nationals, by nobility without any fealty to anyone above
rrrrrrrreeeeeeeee
>>1870412
Don't forget the part about it being the most "natural" way of doing things
How objectively true is this view in general:
>German Jews attempt coup in 1918
therefore
>Germany capitulates
therefore
>Germany loses ethnic German land through sanctions
Enter: Hitler
>wants to restore unity of ethnic German land (without violence if possible, see Austria & Sudetenland)
and
>wants to deport (not exterminate) Jews from Germany for acting against the German nation (1918 coup) and in favor of globalism (Marxism)
The 1918 Jewish coup attempt in Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319
See pic as well.
It's objectively false because Hitler made it perfectly clear he wanted to fight wars of aggression against the Slavs for lebensraum since the 1920s.