Were they doomed from day one?
Every instance of fasism is doomed to untimely fiasco. As fascist ideologues consider their enemies too weak and too strong at the same time, making timely and accurate decisions becomes more and more difficult down the line
As was Icarus when he jumped.
>>1764997
They were doomed the day the first lend-lease shipment hit Russia.
Why is Hitler remember as the ultimate evil when Josef Stalin, who existed in the same time period, was responsible for millions more innocent deaths? Why does mainstream media take the spotlight away from this Soviet murderer?
also
Why does the Holodomor genocide have such a varying death toll? It ranges anywhere from 2.5 to 10 million people
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Fuck you
>>1764356
you seem upset
>stalin killed 60 million people
>somehow this massive population shortage immediately made the soviet onion stronger which allowed it to engage in a cold war with the west long after stalin had died.
Has Sam Harris made philosophy, and humanities in general, obsolete?
>>1764184
He's easily one of the greatest authors/philosophers/intellectuals of our time.
>>1764192
That's stricly your opinion, and quite frankly an unfounded one.
>>1764184
How? He's just a meme.
why do some Japanese people look down on Chinese and Korean people? The Japanese upper class originally adopted technology, governing ideas, philosphy and even clothing from Chinese royalty. Koreans helped establish Buddhism and laws. I didn't find any prior hostilities to the Imjin war. It seems that it started after the unification of Japan by Hideyoshi, Nobunaga and Tokugawa but was it just a plan brought by Hideyoshi to grab power or was there already such unfavorable relations? It seems Japan only fought Korea at that point because they refused passage to manchuria although I'm not sure but it seems there is still a purveying view, even on here, where Japanese have a bitterness towards Koreans and Chinese. Is it simply exacerbated by WWII or was there a preliminary dislike between these neighbors?
>>1761992
why?
>>1761976
A combination of racism and nationalism, basically. It's really not that complicated. However, you are right in that memories of what Japan did in WW2 have faded but not disappeared. Pretty much anytime Japan builds a new carrier nowadays, China starts yelling something about how Japan is getting ready to invade again.
>>1761976
Humans are naturally racist.
Ok, christians of /his/. Why christianity?
>>1761805
Judaism really is better. if you aren't Jewish you only have to observe the 7 Noahide laws which are pretty simple stuff like worship only YHVH, don't murder and don't torture animals like a sick fuck
>>1761805
Because Jesus really is God, and really did rise from the dead.
>>1761817
But in Judaism you have to chop off your foreskin. And if you're judging "better" by ease of practice, then thinking Christianity is more difficult than Judaic practice, I think you're mistaken.
Tell me about the Satanic Verses.
Aren't they the 'smoking gun' that Muhammad was making things up on the fly?
>>1755730
Perhaps he wasn't making things up on the fly, but he certainly tried to accommodate Meccan beliefs.
There's theory that Islam was initially a hodgepodge of monophysite Christianity and Arabian traditional beliefs and transmuted into strict monotheism only after Muhammad moved to Medina.
>>1757118
My theory is that Islam as we know it has little in common with Muhammad's teachings. Same is with christianity and any other major religion.
>>1757118
Doesn't the Koran state that Christians believe that Mary is the third person of the Trinity? How could Islam be much influenced by Christianity when Mahound got even the rock bottom basics of Christian theology so totally wrong in an obvious factual error?
I think Islam has a lot more in common with Phariseeism. My guess is that Mahound was a high-functioning sociopath who was vaguely acquainted with Christianity, but much more familiar with Phariseeism. In order to secure his own social status within his tribe and later to manipulate his nascent Saracens into fighting a bloody war of conquest, Mahound reworked his Arabian paganism into the mold of Phariseeism. The one thing he definitely stole from Christianity was its global outlook, which allowed him to ape Christianity's successful expansionism.
So I'd say that Islam is Arabian paganism reformed along the lines of Phariseeism, but reworked to be a more complete inversion of Christianity in part by adopting its proselytism.
And that's not even considering the possibilities that Mahound's "Gabriel" was really Satan, and overlooking the fact that Mahound's followers doctored his teachings to suit their own agendas.
Descriptions of ancient societies from the point of view of other society. The further apart they are the better. I'll post what I have.
On the Arabs [Dashi to the Chinese], compiled from the records of Du Huang, who was a POW in the Abbasid Caliphate following the Battle of Talas.
>>1755535
>"The Dashi (Arabs) were originally under the rule of Anxi (Persia). The men have high noses, are dark, and bearded. The women are very fair [white] and when they go out they veil the face.
>Five times daily they worship Tianshen [lit. Heavenly God]. They wear silver girdles, with silver knives suspended. They do not drink wine, nor use music. Their place of worship will accommodate several hundreds of people.
>Every seventh day the King (Caliph) sits on high, and speaks to those below saying, ' Those who are killed by the enemy will be born in heaven above; those who slay the enemy will receive happiness.' Therefore they are usually valiant fighters. Their land is sandy and stony, not fit for cultivation; so they hunt and eat flesh."
>>1755537
>"Kufa is the place of their capital. Its men and women are attractive in appearance and large in stature. Their clothing is handsome, and their carriage and demeanor leisurely and lovely. When women go outdoors, they always cover their faces, regardless of whether they are noble or base. They pray to heaven five times a day. They eat meat [ even] when practicing abstention, [for] they believe the taking of life to be meritorious."
>>1755535
>"The followers of the religion of the Dashi have a means to denote the degrees of family relations, but it is degenerated and they don’t bother about it. They don’t eat the meat of pigs, dogs, donkeys and horses, they don’t respect neither the king of the country, neither their parents, they don’t believe in supernatural powers, they perform sacrifice to heaven and to no one else.
>According their customs every seventh day is a holiday, on which no trade and no cash transactions are done, whereas when they drink alcohol, they are behaving in a ridiculous and undisciplined way during the whole day.”
What did he mean by this?
>>1766655
getting raped in the ass by altaic jurcho-koreans/manchu-koreans
>>1766669
>>1766655
they won't fight well unless they think their life completely depends on it and if retreat is too easy.
>dude axes aren't shit because muh poleaxe
>poleaxe was used as a spear and axe blade was ignored
lmao axes confirmed for being shit beyond all redemption
>talks shit about axes and pole axes
>shows a Bec de Corbin
>doesn't realize that's really a hammer
0/10.
Shit bait, m8.
>>1766515
It's literally the page right before. Don't be a cunt.
>>1766540
>spike
>axe blade
xD
Literally a Charlatan who copied Mussolini and had no real intellectual tastes of his own. A complete fraud.
Mussolini grew up fighting in wars and editing multiple newspapers. He read many philosophers and was a truly great individual in terms of intellectual and willful capacity.
Prove me wrong, protip, you can't.
>>1766191
BAIT
Intellectuals need to be hanged.
>>1766202
Thanks for not being able to prove me wrong.
ITT: historical "villains" that did nothing wrong.
>>1766061
Robespierre
Lenin
Mehmed the Conqueror
>>1766061
Süleyman I. - the magnificent.
>be in uni
>taking world history course
>just finished talking about french rev
>time for napoleonic wars!
>"napoleon just conquered a few countries then invaded Russia and failed then no one liked him"
Have any of your professors pulled something like this?
>then no one liked him
>except for that time when he came back and everyone liked him again
>>1765597
I don't get the image
>>1765661
*pew pew bam kaboom* !!!!
>Thoughtcrime deserves eternal punishment
Why do religions do this?
>>1765377
As far as I know, Christainity is the only religion that does this. Why do you equate it with all religion?
And even with Christainity, it's not so much thoughtcrime as innate human nature deserves eternal punishment, which admittedly is probably even more fucked up.
>>1765385
Singling out Christianity is a good way to get tons of shitposters and funny hat maymays.
>>1765377
Because.
Religions are indicative of the type of civilization they come from.
Feudal nations have religions where the gods are very human in their needs and desires; this is because feudal societies have loyalty rather than legality.
The desert towns that spawned Judaism and Christianity were state religions with objective moral punishments, because they had a society of thieves, merchants and others, so they needed laws in place of loyalty.
While I consider myself a Christian, I think Christianity was the biggest instance of worldwide cuckening, because nations suddenly became capitalistic, and the values of everyone changed. People became more materialistic.
I know most forms of theism and organized religion are in all likelihood giant crocks of shit, but I've gotten an interest of late for deism. Deists pride themselves on being non-dogmatic and being open-minded and emphasizing learning every day, but the last argument I had with a deist, he seemed very closed-minded and hanging on to weak cases that barely proved his points and continually assuming his worldview is right while trying to shift the burden of proof. So deists of /his/, why should I be a deist, and what logical reasoning leads you to deism and the natural god?
I don't know how to elaborate on deism when it's literally just "I believe in a god who left the world to its own devices" and there's no structure to it.
>>1764975
Obviously, but why? You can't believe something for no reason.
>>1764981
I can and I will
What are some good examples of active colonialism occuring in the twentieth centuary?
Durring the Soviet union's rule in the Baltics they would move in Millions of Russians and have the language of public life be Russian, removing any need for the settlers to learn the local tongues. Even today many of those can't speak the local tongues
>>1764779
Same things come to mind with expulsion of germans from eastern europe, especially poland and czechoslovakia. And of course, the Greatest Ally.
>>1764779
>tfw live in Riga
everyone literally expects you to learn Russian yet they don't bother to learn Latvian and call you a fascist cyka blyat if you ask that they speak in the FUCKING OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY
>>1764779
Ain't Lithuanian like an mix of Russian, Polish and their original tongue?