Historically how rare was it that people were allowed to arm themselves? Especially in modern times, in the ancient days I know many people had family swords. Once guns became common though it seems more rare that common people are allowed to arm and defend themselves. Also is it out dated in your opinion?
>>1562617
Not rare at all.
>Once guns became common though it seems more rare that common people are allowed to arm and defend themselves.
Wrong. Once guns became common, it coincided with the emergence of standing armies, organized police forces, and military industrial complexes that centralized lethal force in the hands of the state
That said, America is still not unique since in many countries, you could still own a firearm but you only need a fucking license. Why this is tyranny to many US Bubbas whose privilege to drive their fudd-trucks also requires a license is fuck-weird.
>>1562639
First, driving a car isn't a constitutional right so it's not really comparable. America is the only country I know of in there bill of rights has arms ownership as a right. It's a privilege in every other country it they even get to have that privilege.
>>1562639
Centralizing control of the state involves disarming people, hence why so few people in the developed world have a right to own firearms.
Also general historical genocide awareness thread.
Over exposure, I for one am sick of hearing about it
I haven't gone a single day without somebody bringing up the holocaust in my entire life
It was the first thing I heard as a fucking baby
>>1561726
I hardly ever hear about the holocaust. The place I most hear about the holocaust is /pol/ and other racist forums i used to frequent in my angsty years.
>>1561693
what it really boils down to is people not liking jews, so they are retarded on purpose and say it never happened so then everyone will stop feeling sorry for them
Like seriously jesus christ. What a fucking waste of life. What an absolute shitshow.
My favorite meme desu.
>after winning, the north genocided 150 thousand people.
Also my second favorite war. I spend much of my day thinking about vietnam. I cant wait to write about it.
I think I would have honestly killed myself if I went there.
What are the definitive books to read on Vietnam?
An atheist and another man are on a cruise ship, far removed from anybody else on the ship.
The man, who is a stranger to the atheist, accidentally falls over the railing and into the water.
What motivates the atheist to try and prevent the man from drowning?
(It doesn't matter how the atheist helps, whether he throws him a life preserver, calls ship crew to help, or dives in after him - so long as he put forth the effort to help save his life)
>>1559303
To save the man's life so he can go on living the one life he's got to live.
>>1559303
People generally don't like letting other people die because it would make them sad
goodness
My brother in law just got out of being fined for driving without a license by arguing the court and the judge could not prove jurisdiction.
How the fuck does this happen? Why doesn't everyone just use this defence? This seems so stupid.
I'm picturing it being you, not your bother, and I'm picturing it turning out like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-32-m0_-Sg
>>1559270
Why the shit would I succeed and then say someone else did?
I'm genuinely perplexed at how retarded this is. Worried that the idiot is going to let it go to his head and get his ass thrown in jail eventually.
I would really like someone to explain how American law can be this fucking stupid.
quality /his/tory thread
I don't know shit about the Risorgimento. Teach me /his/.
Also, any good English-language books on the subject?
Why does he look Muslim?
>>1559015
how can you be this retarded
>>1559015
I guess the funny 19th century hat and the poncho which I guess it's from South America
What made Hitler such an effective orator? Also general oratory thread.
>>1555210
Body language.
>German people can't psychologically accept that they lost WWI on battlefield
>Along comes Hitler who not only affirms their beliefs, but also has the convenient scapegoat they can now blame the defeat on
Was there a worse thing in history?
This thread.
>>1554511
The Sea people
>sea people happened around 1200bc
>mongol empire happens in 1200ad
This proves my theory that sea people were just huns who swam with their horses
Thirty Years War was the worst thing humans ever did in all of history, so yes.
We can't count the plagues that followed contact between Eurasia and the Americas, nobody decided to do that.
Why do photos of cities from the 50s/60s always look so much comfier than modern city photos
>always look so much comfier
Nostalgia?
Mostly white people.
>>1549786
Because you have an emotional bias, plus they are generally of lower quality
Has the sexual openness gone too far?
Are modesty, decency, and shame nothing but oppressive illusions?
It's not sexual openness that's the problem, it's sexual hypercapitalism and mindless rational self interest that's the problem.
Sex is something you must do with more than one person. It involves both taking and giving. Capitalism is based around the idea of just taking. This is why hypersexualism doesn't lead to any type of satisfaction, it's because the giving part has been taken away, which is half of the fun
>>1563020
>Sex is something you must do with more than one person.
What?
>>1562986
>Has the sexual openness gone too far?
Well, do you think there is a line where you can tell other grown up people what to do?
>be Catholic
>want to be saved
>can't just pray to God, that would make too much sense
>pray to Mary instead and ask her to ask God to save me
>think for some reason that she is more merciful then God, which is definitely not blasphemy
>but wait, I can still make this worse
>can't focus on praying without some sort of image
>carve statue of Mary to look at while praying
>someone points out that the second commandment forbids making graven images
>"It's ok, some religions back then thought their gods were really in the statue, and I choose to believe that's what God meant"
>they shake their head and walk off
>go back to idol worshiping
Just admit it, papists. You have a fetish for statues, and you'll twist logic to any extent to keep them even if it means damnation.
>>1562648
Roman Catholicism is pretty much crypto-roman paganism. they replaced the statues of gods to statues of saints to make it easier for people to convert and keeps their traditions.
>>1562648
Why so salty proddie?
>>1562666
Which is why it is based, who the fuck would follow the preaching of some jewish hobo in the fucking desert on their right minds?
The following could amount to a crucial and timely philosophical breakthrough. It seems to be very close to what Immanuel Kant called the philosophers' stone.
Delusionally oversimplified: A new philosophical backbone for a global order,regional orders, local orders, personal orders, some degree more potent than communism.
"Do I seem free enough?
If yes, for how long probably?
If so, what could I do that seems best for all?"
This is the root of a new ethics. It gives people a "start for thinking", which accounts for a basic bipolarity: (non-deity-) agents have two high objectives: existential and recurring personal liberation, for example from itch or death, and moral activity that attempts, what seems to be best for all.
This may seem abstract, but in the time it grew with me, it raised some heavy/influential consequences:
- a bipolarity for the political landscape, that seems scalable from the individual to the whole of humanity, and that at the same time seems much more cooperative, as every human experiences both parties' central objectives in his daily life. Maturing democracy's appeal big time.
- a basic root thought for an artificial intelligence, that could invoke a reasoned, largely beneficial stance on humanity (in case you mind: see "control problem")
-...
And it has some important conclusions for the present years' situation:
- Liberation is important besides "best for all", therefore there has to be a dynamic limit: "increasingly voluntary liberations sum equality" (Binding engagement subtracts from liberation.)
- Liberation, that is ignorant of other agents, risks their antiliberation, pressing them to liberate themselves as well. This possible mutually ignorant subgroup liberation can spiral down. The way out, even for past events, seems to be "increasingly voluntary antiliberation compensation".
The first point would ease inequality tensions and the second would slow downward spirals in politics, economics... from small to big scale.
-If you mind, take these last points to a news page of your flavour and test them.
-Please be careful to implement, I can not yet afford compensation for damage done.
-I cherish anonymity here, as I am productive that way and I guess, that with a public position that would change, to long term detriment.
-I learned to prefer gradual evolution over disruptive revolution. This system should help with that.
-The MOST URGENT consequence seems to be, that people keep calm and go on in their doings, now seemingly assured of improvement, to avoid systemic seizure.
Thanks for all good
All good to all
>>1556436
But this is just Rule Utilitarianism anon-kun.
Is this a copypasta or are you seriously doing a "breakthrough" in philosophy here?
Either way, spooky thread.
How did the USA goverment convince all the German-Americans and Italian-Americans to go and kill their race brothers in WW2?
>>1555905
money
money from a thousand years of collecting all strings leading to east coast america
They barely killed anyone
>>1555905
Because German-Americans and Italian-Americans saw themselves as Americans above all else, not as Italians or Germans.
The US government used to do a damn good job at integrating people into society and making them patriotic.
What is your opinion of this game? Good or bad? I was hooked on the original RTW (as well as Medieval II) so this took some getting used to. Pretty cool how there was a client state feature, and I like the inclusion of loads of different factions.
I think it's rather good, though I feel the AI is pretty bad at managing large scale invasions. At most it will come with one or two armies even if at peace at all other fronts, which may be a pain for a small faction but which becomes a piece of cake when you are large.
Feel like there really isn't anything that slows down a big empire from growing.
They fixed the issues plaguing the release, it's quite a good game now. Attila is better, but wait for ancient empires if you want the Rome 2 setting, its coming in autumn.
>>1554974
Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_QK-lcW8a8
>Porphyry writes fifteen books detailing criticisms of Christianity's tenets
>Christians get butthurt about not being able to beat him and just burn all his books in the 5th century
>Emperor Julian writes 'Against the Galileians', yet another set of criticisms of Christianity's beliefs
>Christians once more get butthurt about not being able to come up with a good response, so they burn all copies of his book and mangle whatever excerpts they can from his work to make him look like a fool
>Theodosius bans the Olympic Games and orders the closure of all non-Christian temples, in which, incidentally, most - if not all - of libraries and book collections are contained
>Libianus the pagan vocally protests the destruction of pagan shrines and sacred groves and libraries to the Emperor, but is ignored
>"ABLOO BLOO, WE PRESERVED KNOWLEDGE N SHIET"
this board is full of religious fags so either this will go ignored or you're gonna get reaction imaged to hell.
>>1558919
Christians were very much the jihadists of their time.
>>1558919
>in which, incidentally, most - if not all - of libraries and book collections are contained
Kek, never thought of that before. Any anons know to about how much of the empire's literature was stored in temples vs. secular buildings such as libraries?