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America:
>only won their independence through guerrilla warfare because they were too scared to fight Ike real men.
>couldn't invade Canada
>couldn't invade Cuba
>couldn't even invade Iraq successfully
>lost to poor Korean and Vietnamese communist farmers
>only won both world wars because they joined the wining side late in the war.
Have Americans ever actually won anything?
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>>3261339
>only won their independence through guerrilla warfare because they were too scared to fight Ike real men.
You mean the war most colonists wanted nothing to do with and the majority of those fighting were either brainwashed with propoganda or were paid to fight?
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The Cold War. The U.S. more-or-less dominates the West, doesn't it?
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>>3261339
Still better than whatever shithole you're from
Stay mad fag
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"The Etruscans raise all the children that are born, without knowing who their fathers are. The children live the way their parents live, often attending drinking parties and having sexual relations with all the women. It is no disgrace for them to do anything in the open, or to be seen having it done to them, for they consider it a native custom. So far from thinking it disgraceful, they say when someone ask to see the master of the house, and he is making love, that he is doing so-and-so, calling the indecent action by its name.
They are keen on making love to women, but they particularly enjoy children and youths. The youths in Etruria are very good-looking, because they live in luxury and keep their bodies smooth. In fact all the barbarians in the West use pitch to pull out and shave off the hair on their bodies."
Theopompus of Chios, 4th cent. B.C.
What did the Etruscans mean by this?
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propaganda, etruscan women are sluts and the men are cucks and perverts
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>Greek commenting on the decadence of another civilization
Takes one to know one I guess
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>>3261307
>ancient spit roasting
more
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>The vast majority of classical texts are lost forever
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>>3261283
Thank cezer and Alex for that
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>>3261299
*Thank the passage of time for that
ftfy
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>>3261329
>ftfy
back to rebbit with, ye
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How do I get into philosophy?
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Start with the greeks
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Actuate with the Achaeans
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>>3261204
https://www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler/featured
start with the core concepts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIjwnfPgqLkLJ7cHXAqDHfBA
If you are lazy just search the phrases you are curious in his channel, friendship, greed, virtue whatever
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Why do people think so negatively of the berlin wall, when it successfully prevented fascist from entering the DDR?
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>barbed wire and watch towers facing inwards
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lmao
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>>3261042
Because the experiment had run its course. The free capitalist side was thriving, and the gray communist side was atrocious. When the wall came down, exactly zero people went from West to East.
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what would have changed if Lee was leading the North? 2017-08-18 03:42:28 Post No.3261018
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what would have changed if Lee was leading the North?
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If Lee was the general of the North from the start and didn't pick Virginia over them, would the war have been over quickly? Does he get along with Lincoln and has his backing? Does that mean Lee goes on to become the president instead of Grant? Does his term go as badly as Grants?
Just a series of what its with the whole scenario.
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It certainly would've ended much quicker.
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>>3261018
Take a seat and let Uncle Turtledove tell you a story...
http://www.tor.com/2011/09/07/lee-at-the-alamo/
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The south capitulates after a series of devastating defeats and Lee being the savior of the Union gets elected after Lincolns 2 terms. He and Lincoln make great strides to industrialize the South and it recovers economically rather than stagnating. Slavery still exists for another decade or so since no one important in the north gave a shit until later on.
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Why did heaven favor Sima Yi?
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Because he is only loyal to his ambition, not some stupid ideal or an incompetent emperor
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>>3261009
Turns out the side with roughly 15 times the manpower has a massive advantage. Who'd have guessed?
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Can someone explain the mandate of heaven to me? Was it someone who simply had a lot of good luck and fortune?
literally everyone who lives near me is shit at history and geography, one even thinks world war one happened 1000 years ago and almost ended the world
someone else thought Hitler still owned germany
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>>3260998
USA I presume?
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Are you in college?
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>>3261060
yes, there all fucking troglodytes
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*acts jewishly*
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Constantinople had it coming
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>byzaboos
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>Massacre some Catholics
>get BTFO
>Lose to a bunch of horsefuckers a few decades later
So this...is the power...of the Roman Empire
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Are there any documentaries or video archives where I can see how the life was in Germany before WW2? There are some clips on youtube but I feel like I've seen all.
Big photography archives would be interesting as well.
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>>3260695
There are several documentaries available on DVD.
In regards to photographs, this page has accumulated a nice selection of images:
http:/
/www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=195918
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>>3260722
That link is great, thank you very much.
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>>3260722
>http:/
>/www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=195918
some of those places haven't changed that much
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ITT "bad" guys who did nothing wrong
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>>3260615
Usurping the kingdom when the king is away on campaign is pretty bad dude.
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>>3260663
>be me
>be Mordred
>legitimate son of the king
>king dies
>bastard son becomes regent
>usurps me
>20 years later "king" goes on retarded campaigns in Gaul
>puts me in charge as regent
>I cuck him and take back what is mine by right
>sacrifice myself to end the bastard's life
>end up as a traitor to European hack """"scholars""""
Mordred literally did nothing wrong
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>>3260615
Posting a thread like this is asking for /leftypol/ and /pol/ to come in and shitpost
ITT: we post a nation and other rate it's /his/ credibility
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>>3260384
What's a "/his/ credibility"? How much history it has? How true we think it's history is?
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>>3260384
2/10
They are living on ancient Kurdish lands and shall be removed accordingly like the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia.
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>>3260540
t. Elif
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-American_Company
I just learned that Russia colonized California and used to think they can own North America (fighting Spain for it).
What are some other less famous colonization efforts?
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>>3260319
>Russia colonized California
There is a difference between claiming authority over a region, and actually establishing and maintaining permanent large-scale settlements. Russia did the former rather than the latter.
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>>3260326
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ross,_California
They build a fucking castle in California, thats establishing.
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>>3260334
Again, actually read what I have said. Building a small wooden fort isn't enough to claim a whole region. Establishing and maintaining permanent large-scale settlements is.
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Is there any point in not completely giving into nihilism if 90% of us are going to die anyway in the next World War?
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Why does everyone pretend that when a nuclear war starts every country nukes every other country.
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>>3260162
Any of the US/Russia/China trio annihilating each other's infrastructure would (on top of good billion deaths just form nukes) utterly fuck the rest of the world economically and resource-wise, resulting in hundreds of millions more dead in short order.
Nuclear winter would just finish the job.
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>>3262078
Yeah but the most likely nuclear war scenario isn't that, it's Pakistan/India. Which is a tragedy, but humanity can survive the loss of that.