Why is Heinz Guderian such an underrated general? I understand he wasn't able to be in action a lot since he disagreed with many generals, but shouldn't he still be recognized for his achievements. I think he was better than Rommel it's just Rommel is more we'll know due to the Rommel dicksuckers. Guderian was both a tactician and a strategist where Rommel was only a tactician.
I forgot to add that Rommel was very popular with the German public and was used for propaganda.
>>1829402
Like you already said, he saw little action. He was involved with the disastrous siege of Moscow, which while it wasn't entirely his fault, it certainly harmed his reputation. He wasn't brought back in to the high command until 1943 onwards, which meant he missed out on any chance to lead the wermacht while they still were an effective fighting force. That being said, he was easily the best general hitler had left under his command in 1945, though there wasn't much left to work with at that point.
>>1829405
Well no shit Rommel was used for propaganda. I read from some book ages ago Hitler had three front propaganda campaign for Germans. In the south was Rommel, in the centre being the most important was Hitler himself and in the north was Dietl (who croaked early on).
Not only did Hitler promote Rommel as propaganda tool he was promoted by western allies since he was the only bloody German they fought before invasion of Italy (not counting the early war shit show up to '40.
Are there any books on actual secret societies that we know for sure existed and have evidence of such changing the course of events?
Examples would be the Black Hand Serbian society
If there were books then they wouldn't be secret, though.
>>1829381
Eh, what?
I'm talking about past societies.
>>1829235
"Occult Theocrasy" by Edith Starr Miller.
Interestingly enough, she died immediately after submitting it for publication.
Pedophilia is fascinating because it is the only true remaining "perversion" in the Sodom and Gomorrah sense our culture has.
>this is what christfags actually believe
You know what's also really perverse? Calling yourself a believer and then never actually treating others as you'd want to be treated
>>1829227
Is there a concept to describe that? Hypocrisy?
>>1829214
Yeah, cause being turned on by feces and animals are both really accepted within our society.
Was Spain in exchange for Anatolia a good tradeoff /his/?
>>1829137
I have no idea but that map is awful
>>1829137
Hate to admit it but Iberia gave us Colonialism and European supremacy ensued, so yes.
funny because spaniards traded for ourselves
we dont have to be grateful with snowniggers or anglos; even french made a crusade against aragon
What does /his/ think of this? It supposedly proves how racist white countries are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqv9k3jbtYU
>>1829104
The ineffectiveness of racism is based on an assumption that the overall standard of societal morality is progressivism.
The teacher was appalled by the assassination of Martin Luther King. Why are some people upset, and others joyful?
If you'd ask a Social Justice warrior, they'd tell you that the most racist societies are white, because white people are privileged, and it's the superiority of privilege (systematic oppression) that defines the "racist society", therefore a black society that systematically kills white people couldn't possibly be racist because black people aren't privileged.
Modern social justice is based on progress as the standard for "privilege"; therefore based on that standard, the white man is privileged. (racist).
The opposite could be to be true of black people, if your brand of "privilege" is based on community, because black people are basically the most communitized group of people in America. Whites aren't allowed to have a communtiy; and based on that, this is why people protest affirmative action with "White student unions".
Everyone are racist.
Even babies are racist.
>>1829341
That baby is certainly racist. I can tell by looking at him.
Since today is the feast day of Saint Teresa of Avila, let's have a thread for the Doctors of the Church. Which one is your favorite?
Fuck off, Christfag
The newest, desu.
Gregory of Narek, an Armenian mystic
>>1829096
edgy
>>1829087
St. Catherine of Siena
>helped persuade the papacy to return to Rome from Avignon
>helped the poor
>wrote her "Dialogue" which helped her become a Doctor of the Church
Have economists developed any "scale" to determine how capitalist vs socialist a country is? By that I mean, is there any way to measure exactly how much of the economy is controlled by the government? I would imagine that in the Soviet Union, government control would be something like 90% whereas in the US it would be something like 30%. But it would be nice if there was a better way to measure this. Has any such system ever been developed?
>>1828880
This is a good question.
Good questions come here to die rather than achieve fruition.
I think the closest thing to this is government spending as a percentage of GDP, but that's not perfect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_percentage_of_GDP
>>1828969
Okay. That was good, but I checked the page for sources and apparently all the data for that page comes from the Heritage Foundation which is a Republican think tank. I'm not sure if their measurements are entirely objective, but the fact sheet seems good enough. Thanks.
I recently read two Irishmen served in the Waffen-SS, and that Hitler was an Irish folk music fan, where the Irish viewed as being similar in status to Germans? In Ireland we were thought the Nazi's would have exterminated us, but some of my history professors in college have claimed that Celts were viewed as equals to Germans and that it is marxist propaganda that postulates that the ''Celtic'' peoples would have been looked down upon.
>>1828879
The Nazis actually made two pro-Irish propaganda films about the Irish War of Independence, Mein Leben fur Irland:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxEmGZEtxU) and Der Fuchs von Glenarvon (which I can't find).
The idea of Celtic peoples being considered untermenschen by the Nazis is propaganda and has no evidence to it, although Hitler was a bit of an Anglophile before WW2 started.
The Irish were respected as the final remnants of the true Aryan race
Breeding programs were in place to restore it post-war
>>1828925
Damn. That's pretty cool actually.
how do i start with eastern philosophy and spirituality?
>>1828602
i will make this thread everyday until i get an answer
Laozi, Confucius, The Upanishads etc.
I mean, you do have Google right?
>>1828602
I would recommend the Tao Te Ching as a starting point. It's easy to read, not overwhelming, and a solid introduction to Eastern philosophy.
From there I'd go to the Bhagvad Gita and the Dhammapada.
China and India were the big hubs of spiritual thought in the East, so start with those.
Start with the indigenous traditions (Taoism and Hinduism) and then read about Buddhism and its melding with the local traditions.
I've noticed a tendency for supposed present day scholars, journalist, historians et al. to ignore that European have historically been enslaved by other races or flat out deny it.
Besides a desire to create a false narrative where "Whites are oppressors who have never been oppressed with slavery" why would they do this?
>>1828580
Largely because the people you are referring to- Muslims- aren't picky with their slaves. Furthermore there isn't a racial component involved or developed to explain why certain races are "meant to be slaves" in the Islamic world unlike in America or even in crazier European phrenologists/Eugenics. A slave was a slave whoever he-she was. Period.
>>1828580
A lack of impact on the world, making it much less discussed topic.
>>1828586
Europeans initially started out as not picky with slaves either. It's just that the West Coast of Africa just sold shitloads of them since the states along the coast had loads of wars versus their more unsophisticated neighbors inland.
Although empires like Spain DID cease to use natives as slaves out of the need for stability, ergo making blacks the sole slave group.
Was he right about this ?
Well I don't know about the Russian Communist party, but if we take a look at post-war Germany and their attempted Communist revolution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319
8 out of the 14 names in the list of Communist leaders are Jewish. The rest are unspecified, so that number might be even higher.
This is, of course, not to say that all or even many Jews were Bolshevik revolutionaries, but a lot of the influential figures did happen to be Jewish. Perhaps this is because Communism favours egalitarianism, and the target of any revolution is the establishment, and Jews had been persecuted for centuries by the establishment of many European countries, so maybe they felt they finally had a shot at being treated decently if they overthrew the old order.
Also it's important to note that in Russia, Stalin did purge almost all the Jews from the Communist party (including high ranking ones like Trotsky), and the USSR treated Jews pretty harshly.
>>1828555
He's right that Jewish contribution to the revolution was remarkable, but wrong about that absurd body count.
Solzhenitsyn was red-pilled as fuck. It's always funny to remember that the Western establishment paraded him in the 1970s as if he were just another liberal dissident in the Soviet Union, like so many Jews had already become by that time. Then he went to Harvard and called them out of their progressive bullshit, named the Jew in a massive book and died praising Putin.
Is there no greater meme than the theory of evolution?
>>1828537
Are americans 3rd worlders with to much money?
>2016
>creationism
>>1828537
>branch hanging monkey
>?????
>Hairless, Bipedal, fully erect, tool wielding, intelligent, hairless human being
It was aliens
Is he the end point of philosophy?
>>1828481
No, Nietzsche is.
He's the prologue.
Aristotle ended philosophy when he came up with the scientific method.
>>1828481
The 21st century
"His head and hair are white as wool, as white as snow."
"His face is as bright as the sun-shineth."
Rev 1:14-17.
His head is white and his hair is white, and his countenance is as bright as sunshine. The sun doesn't shine darkness or brownness, it shines pure white light. The head starts at the chin and ends at the top of the skull. What race hasheads that are white?
I imagine Jesus got some semitic features from Mary, but he also got some white features from God because white is associated with light and goodness and purity.
>>1828431
>because white is associated with light and goodness and purity.
unless you're west african, then it is the color of death.
So Jesus is a silver fox now?
>>1828444
Well the verse is from revelation, how he appears in the future.
Hi /his/. I have been looking for the suicide note of Mitchell Heisman, but I couldn't find it. Apparently it is a pretty good essay on nihilism. Does any of you have it?
>>1828399
Bump
>>1828399
https://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/suicide_note.pdf
It's like 2000 pages though, if you want an essay on nihilism there are a few others to read before.
>>1828408
Thank you. I know, but I'm kind of tired of the approach most famous filosophers have, so I wanted to try something new. What else do you recommend me?