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Destroying enemy's army?
In any case sieges were more common, less risk involved.

>>1589859
Usually, to either relieve a siege or to keep it intact, depending on which side you're on. Sometimes it was just to break your enemy's power though.

>>1589859
Getting things over quickly.

For one, you will find that a lot of recent philosophers still actively quote their predecessors, are familiar with their predecessors work, who in turn quote their own predecessors, and so-on-and-so-on, until you reach Pre-Socratic philosophers.

You're asking why you should care about the ground floor, when you can have a roof.

>>1589880
The same is true of all disciplines, not just philosophy

Yeah have fun trying to figure out Hegel by yourself without any previous knowledge of philosophy

>There was more to this than just money
>history of maritime trade

No, it was literally all about money.

That's actually the point.

You go from an area with a high supply of a given resource buy some of that resource, and move to an area with a high demand.

Your original picture will explain what resources were in demand where, and common sense should explain why this is so.

>>1589830
Ok, that's actually a pretty good point. But then why did it go on for so long? Surely the colonists of NA would've caught on that they were being cheated fairly quickly?

>>1589837
How are they being cheated? Manpower is in demand there and the more wealthy of them can just buy more of it instead of trying to induce others to move there willingly.

>>1589809
Maybe you should have gotten a useful degree

First write on the blackboard in giant letter DENBTS

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You know what must be done

U S A
S
A

shit happens

>"Hey see those assholes over there? I want their stuff!"

>>1589612

no you soviet boo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQVSHfuPCQ

>>1589612
Stop being a reverse holocaust denier

>>1589612
no, soviet historians made the numbers smaller, they tend to lie and fabricate shit

How is Kant? I've heard his philosophy embraces religion.

>>1589566
I was hesitant to get his Critique of Pure Reason because I'm uninterested and even don't agree with the short summaries I have heard about it. But I keep seeing a lot of hype about him, and saw how he influenced many other great philosophers after him. With my respect for that, plus my awareness that I know very little about philosophy and my opinions may not be based on sound logic, I figured I would be open minded and pick up what some regard as the single most acclaimed philosophical text of all time that is his Critique of Pure Reason.

>>1589566
Kant doesn't so much "embrace religion" as he attempts to develop a philosophical framework that supports Christian morality which doesn't rely on mysticism etc...

Needless to say he failed, but his effort was admirable.

There's a pretty dank meme with Wojak as Kant and Pepe as Schopenhauer that basically sums things up.

The Church can never really be sure they made it to Heaven, right? Surely a few must have been unrepentant child molesters who are burning in the fires of Hell right now. It's just a statistical certainty.

>>1589437
Heretical pagan blasphemies and nonsense.

>>1589458
No one in Church or outside of church ever communicated with heaven, or ever tested a propriety of it... yet if you don't want to question your Pope or in the past the king with its ecumenical councils just better believe it - blindly.

our current time period is shit
>memes (non ironically)
>were getting uglier and dumber
>politics don't even work
>climate change
>losing resources

>>1588965
>>1588980
>be a shitty person
>oh if only the whole world was different then i'd be ok

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>>1588997
romanticism is objectively the greatest time period in human history

>>1588798
He was a former Menshivik while Stalin was always a Bolshevik. Ergo people were more willing to believe that Stalin was more genuine in his pursuit of the revolution while Lenin was a mere poser.

>>1588798
Trotsky had been anti-Bolshevik from the inception of the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP to the middle of 1917 when, seeing the successes of the Bolsheviks, he decided to join them. He was criticised under Lenin a number of times, but it was when Lenin was dying that Trotsky began angling to be his successor and reviving his pre-1917 positions.The Trotskyists refused to adhere to democratic centralism and were gradually defeated through 1924-1928.

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>>1588798
Because Stalin was willing to stop at absolutely nothing to get to the top

Trotsky was probably the more "intelligent" of the two, but is it better to be smart or ambitious?

>>1588529
he did nothing good either

>>1588529
He did one thing very wrong: he didn't have the Arrow Cross party rounded up and shot when he had the chance.

>>1588634
well you have a point there

>>1588378
>Republican killing himself
Hell yeah

>>1588389

Peace and love man.

>>1588378
>tfw you saw this happen live on tv

we had teachers the next day trying to explain to us what happened and why anyone would want to shoot themselves. was very weird for everyone. i was only in first grade.

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Post a better painting. Yeah, you can't

There's always the possibility that Stalin would decide to break the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact after the Red Army recovered from the purges.

Russia was getting stronger faster than Germany, much like the last time the Germans attacked Russia.

Assuming this doesn't happen, but Pearl Harbor still does and the US still enters the war, the temperature in Berlin would go up a couple orders of magnitude around August 1945.

Ukraine was one of the biggest war aims. The world wars were waged largely to fuck up Russia (the only real competition in Europe)

>>1587986
Stalin would have backstabbed him.

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NSDAP, being the plebeians they were, banned both Mahler and Mendelssohn -- two of the greats. They banned Debussy for some perplexing reason, that he had a Jewish ex-wife or something. I can understand why they banned Schoenberg because his music was """"2 modern; not enuff marching music/wagner horns"""". They claim to want a revival of the classicals, but then they failed to see how Schoenberg was actually attempting to revive the classicals. They call Mozart a good German, and in classic German autismo, dismiss the entire notion of Austrian music as distinct from German. They conflated Bach with Mozart as if they are somehow comparable, and then, when faced with the distinctiveness of the 2nd and now 3rd Austrian school, they destroyed the Wiener Symphoniker in a frenzy of autistic rage.

In true NSDAP contradictory style, they held up both Brahms AND Wagner as the definition of German music. The wars of the romantics obviously passed them by, and they must've seen these two composers as somehow compatible. They decry 20th century modernism, and yet support 19th century modernism. It is irreconcilable to hold that Beethoven is the conclusion of Western music, that Wagner is the conclusion of Western music, and that Wagner is the revival of Western music all at the same time. NSDAP were obviously capable of mental gymnastics, probably due to their plebian tastes and ignorance. They almost banned one of the greatest conductors of all time, Furtwangler, from performing.

Not only did they have low tastes, they were also ignorant. They held up Beethoven as the expression of "German Morality", again -- German autismo. The irony of playing the 3rd, 5th, and 9th at NSDAP gatherings shows that their analysis of the 5th is "wwooooww so epin" and the 9th: "badass! ode 2 joy". The morality of Beethoven is Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite. Ignorant.

The climax of their stupidity was that they banned Austrian Jew- Webern, despite him being a supporter of the Anschluss.

>>1588072
It's funny to think about how many Jews would have supported Nazi Germany if Hitler hadn't explicitly rejected them.

During the First World War, Germany had a ton of excellent Jew scientists keeping them on the same level as the allies.

>>1588072
Just to add:

They denounced 12-tone despite it first appearing in the Classicals like Mozart.

They denounced the rhythm of Jazz and "le nigger music XDD" despite it's appearance in Beethoven.

These: http://nationalvanguard.org/2015/03/three-jews-and-the-ruin-of-classical-music/ are the kind of mouth breathers that would have governed the NSDAP music policy.

Just imagine if some /pol/ NEET ran your life and decided if you listened to music that wasn't "Tannhauser, Burzum, and the Evangelion OST" you would be shot in the back of the head.