Is there a funnier story than that of Constantine V's other sons?
>oldest brother ascends to the throne in 775
>attempt to take the throne in 776, fail miserably and lose your title
>Brother dies in 780, and you try to take the regency for his young son
>fail again, this time become tonsured and have to give communion at Christmas Mass in 780
>in 792 the young emperor loses a major battle to the Bulgars, and in response the army proclaims you emperor again
>get blinded and sent to obscure monasteries as a result
>following a coup in 797, a group of citizens of Constantinople see if you want to become emperor again
>two years later some random magistrate proclaims you emperor a fifth time, he gets executed and you get sent to another obscure monastery
>finally, in 812, following another disastrous imperial defeat the army tries to elevate you to the purple one more time
What is it with Romans and usurpations?
>be taking a dump
>minding my own business
>spent the past 6 months trying to avoid the other officers so that I don't get roped into something
>turns out that they've all been pissing each other off and now loathe each other
>their fractious rivalries have spilled over so now the troops hate them all
>pull my cloak back down
>walk out the tent to head back to the headquarters building
>mob of soldiers charges out of nowhere towards me
>they pick me up and throw me up onto their shields
>they are cheering
>what the fuck is going on
>one of the soldiers forces me to put a purple cloak on
>its been hastily assembled out of bits of expensive curtain
>oh god no please
>I keep trying to tell them to put me down and that I don't want this
>they believe this is just classic ritual
>one of them forces a crown on my head
>the men continue cheering and screaming "emperor! emperor! hail to the emperor!"
>forced to hide in my tent
>a letter arrives from Rome demanding that I come back and explain what's going on
>oh fug
>if I go home i'll be executed
>I guess the only thing for me to do is go along with this charade
>if i'm emperor, at least i'll live
>march on Rome
>fail
>get my cock sliced off with a hot knife, my eyes gouged out and then forced to spend the rest of my life praying
Fuck's sake.
>>3276959
Greeks aren't roman.
>>3276966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_and_Esau
>Daniel J. Elazar suggests that the Bible indicates that a bright, calculating person who, at times, is less than honest, is preferable as a founder over a bluff, impulsive one who cannot make discriminating choices.
Is Judaism basically 'git gud'? Does it teach "Evil always wins because Good is stupid"?
>>3276217
the choice of Jacob over Esau is justified in genesis by Esau having a canaanite wife.
>>3276217
(((Daniel J. Elazar)))
/pol/ aside, that statement is so blatantly retarded that you'd have to be a Jew intentionally lying to people to say something like that
>>3276270
But I've seen multiple references to it in Jewish magazines and they described it in a similar way, saying 'The Torah teaches'. They seem to focus on the birthright thing.
Can you explain why they would lie? Are you saying it's a Jew smearing Christians?
Redpill me on the Kali yuga.
>>3276216
>Redpill
...
>>3276244
>trip
>,,,
It's a meme you retarded reddit namefag, take a joke
>>3276216
More like kali judea
"Good men with good intentions will do bad things for the best outcome."
Is this true?
herem in a nutshell
It's not a philosophical absolute
That's why philosophers don't run countries or do anything significant
>given A-bombs
>men dying in Pacific
You just drop the bomb. It's not good or bad.
The moral judging from the couch is what PHilosophers do and why they are largely the most parasitic occupation.
So stop philosophizing and just look empirically at everything.
>>3276211
I read that as harem and I thought how much it applies to harem anime.
>Jock Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒJs/; born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.
Tell me /his/, how is the work of this man not child pornography?
>>3276084
>hurr everything nude is porn
murica was a mistake
he's balancing on a fine line and I'm sure he knows it himself
>>3276102
MODS
>>3276084
Where are the photos dude wtf ???
Alright /his/, Im gonna do it. Im gonna seclude myself in rural America while spectating the politcal landscape for 10 years, and dominate politics till i fucking die. You heard it here
>>3276080
>implying you'll win against me in the race to the presidency
You'll never win against me, kiddo.
>>3276088
U DONT KNOW SHIT HEAVEN IS ON MY SIDE CUNT. THE STATE OF BENEVOLENCE SHALL RISE AGAIN
Don't forget to invent a wheelbarrow
Related question: How would things have played out had he not done it?
>>3276047
>>3276047
He was appeased to the brim.
Austria? Check. Czechoslovakia? Check. Poland? Why would this be any different? Also he acted like a child and demanded his demands be met without exception. Hand in hand, his megalomania probably lead him to believe it would be successful without retaliation.
>would things have turned out differently?
Likely not. Slim chance he would have waited and even then, if he did wait, it would have happened eventually. Even if he was appeased then, he would have expanded eastward more until war with te soviets was inevitable. Maybe if there was a war solely between those two states the Nazis may have won (unlikely) there is a limit and he probably would have attacked westward eventually.
>>3276047
Hitler was confident that Britain and France would not honor an alliance with Poland to maintain appeasement, and if they did, Germany could win another European War with the USSR not involved.
and Hitler's war was going even better than planned until the battle of Britain, with France knocked out in just 6 weeks and Britain on the ropes, but Hitler's failure to bring the British to the negotiating table in time came back to haunt him in the long run.
If Hitler didn't invade Poland, Germany would've been faced with economic collapse from their extreme overspending on rearmament and other projects. Hitler's plan from the start was to take immense loans that Germany could never pay back on its own weight, and conquer territory and use the spoils of war to keep the economy alive. If no such conquering took place, Germany would've had to default on its loans in the early 1940's, kicking them back to a severe depression just like the 1920's.
>>3276047
Hitler planned out the conquest of the entirety of Europe and the conversion of that land to be Lebensraum for the German people. There was no way he would never invade Poland, the war was happening as long as Hitler was in power.
Was the Rhodesia nation the baddies?
Is the world a better place without Rhodesia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHFVj313Dc4
This one is OC, fresh off the presses.
Forced as well as ruined meme
>>3276067
well you're a faggot so heck off
I like your meme anon but we already had a similar thread not so long ago and a general meme thread with several chads. Let it rest a bit.
What are some good books about Weimar Germany?
Most depressing podcast. I eventually had to drop it.
I'm reading "Founding Weimar. Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-19" at the moment. Seems to be quiet detailed but is very specific about a small time frame.
>>3275980
>Mein Kampf
How do we stop collectivism? It is becoming increasingly pervasive and dangerous.
>>3275937
We have to put all those we suspect of harboring collectivist sentiment in concentration camps where they are re-educated in the ways of individualism.
>>3275937
>we
>when you use your control of the media to place one of your own in the spotlight as the face of individualism in order to mold the narrative while creating red herrings and canceling out other voices in the movement thus propagating the false narrative that your kind occupy both sides of the spectrum and are ideologically and not racially motivated.
Not sure where to post this. Any grad students out there?
>Accidentally deleted half of my master's thesis
>Methodological analysis. Gone.
>Bulk of primary source citations. GONE.
>Evidence linking the latter part of the paper to the beginning. Gone.
Like an idiot I didn't back it up to the cloud. Fuck my life bros
really?
>no backups on hard drives
Are you literally retarded?
Does winblows still do system restore
Why don't you give that a shot anon
What's the best biographic book regarding Napoleon?
>>3275866
I've heard good thing about "Napoleon: A Life" despite it having the dullest title imaginable.
>>3275935
It's also stupid long but yeah, probably your best source.
Shakushain's War.
How detailed the Shogun were in writing it down makes reading up on it like reading a script to a film, or an investing novel. Not to mention it's organized bow wielding Ainu Natives vs. Samurai ready for war.
I love how I can see the reasoning in both sides and their faults, yet how vicious they both were to each other regardless.
>>3275766
Sounds neat, what's some recommended reading on the topic?
>>3276357
"The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion 1590–1800"
>>3276403
Reading it now, it's already pretty interesting, thanks.
If Inuit are a recognized people of Canada, does that mean Greenland is rightful Canadian clay?
>>3275750
Greenland is basically it's own country, and most of the people there are indigenous. So becoming part of Canada would be a downgrade.