What went wrong, /his/?
What is the underlying reasons that you can give me for their failure? The most reasonable hypothesis I heard is that the engineers and bureaucrats of the time did not design the complexes (those constructed in the name of "urban renewal", such as infamous Cabrini and Pruitt) in a way to foster a sense of community (i.e., they did not create smaller spaces that gave the illusion of ownership), opting for large communal spaces. However, this resulted in creating large communal spaces that no one felt particularly attached to, leading to their neglect and vandalism that caused everything to spiral downwards.
In evidence for this, is the case of some of the small, two-family landings at the infamous Pruitt-Igoe: while the complex was going to Hell, these small and more private units - that had a low ratio of residents per cubic public space - managed to maintain a semblance of orderliness and respectability that the main apartment complexes lost early on.
>>1554946
Come on now, let's have a real discussion. It's a subject that greatly interests me, and the "niggers" narrative is not particularly convincing.
>>1554946
not an argument.
>>1554956
Scum can rise up and form their own communities and have respect for eachother, and eventually earn the respect of the country of which they are at the bottom of. The Irish did it. The Chinese did it. The Scottish did it. The Germans did it. The Sikhs did it.
But when 50% of the country's politicians spend half their time destroying any opportunity for economic advancement for your people and the other half of the time making sure crime and drugs stay rampant, it's hard to rise above that sea floor.
"Niggers" is not the sole reason for the failure of urban renewal, but any theory that blames architects and bureaucrats instead of Niggers is completely and utterly wrong.
but what was his plan?
Being perfidious.
crashing this party
>>1554902
Being an ultimately irrelevant and forgotten minor party leader.
How would absolute monarchism or feudalism be feasibly adapted to the modern world? Or more specifically, in what ways could a modern world long-used to democratic republicanism, egalitarianism, and personal legal rights be successfully transplanted into the monarchist/feudalist model? When it began dying out in favor of constitutional aristocracies and later democracies, technological advancement was pre-industrial and heavily reliant on factors such as a mostly agricultural serfdom. Modern corporations trade agreements, industrialization, digitization, legal rights that permeate class barriers, and the enfranchisement of the common worker have more or less gained ubiquity after older feudal models fell out of favor centuries ago, not to mention social progressivism and equal rights. What interests me if how advocates of neo-feudalist politics and economics would suggest adapting the system for the modern era.
For that to work you'd need a largely impoverished and illiterate population that cares little for the functions of government and the separations of powers, and actually believes that Jesus chose certain families to perpetually rule over everyone else
have oil to fund your bullshit and placate the plebs, lots of oil, like saudi arabia
>>1554807
Hypercapitalist privatized technocracy under the auspicious leadership of the benevolent Chief Executive Science Officer, Elon Musk.
I TRIED SO HARD
Constantine Palaiologos is my husbando
>You will never escape from Constantinople together and flee to Italy and live out a peaceful and simple life as farmers
>You will never cuddle him
Why live?
>>1554805
That's Hannibal.
>>1554813
Hannibal was Afro-American...
ITT: We list empires that LOOKED cool as fuck, i.e. art, arms, armour, but were actually shit
I'll start
>HRE
>Byzantine Empire
>Prussia
>>1554742
The 3rd Reich.
>>1554753
Jesus, imagine what it's like to be standing in the middle of that crowd, unable to see the front or back. It would be so claustrophobic.
Polish litwa commonwealth
Why was there no war fought over Australia like all the other continents?
>90% inhabitable desert
>native fauna is man-sized spiders and hostile emu aboriginals etc
Gee, I wonder
>implying japan didn't attempt to invade australia
>>1554722
What is there to fight about
Who on a purely trading, discovering, political and essentially an empire building styled peoples were the best out of the norsemen, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes/Geats, Frisians?
(Yes i know Vikings are a meme...)
>>1554619
Danes tbphwym80.
The danes are best for discovering by far. They established trade routes from modern day Denmark through to north African and central Asia. They were also responsible for some of the largest attacks on France and England during the Northmen Era.
What was the effect on the Australian mind when they were defeated by birds?
>>1554584
Australians are first and foremost known for shitposting now
They learned a healthy respect for the power of nature to give life but also take it away.
>>1554595
So, they took their frustration out on us?
Hey guys, would anyone be able to help a fellow companion out and be able to answer why the battles of midway and coral sea affected the outcome of ww2? i cant find any info anywhere and this was my last resort. please
mainly the war in the pacific too
>>1554512
It didn't. Japan won and US lost.
>>1554512
Coral Sea permanantly fucked up Japan's plans in the South Pacific and made Midway a little easier thanks to 2 IJN carriers being too damaged to participate. At Midway, a shit-ton of IJN carriers were sunk, which fucked everything up for the Japanese since carriers were so powerful and they didn't have the capacity to build new ones or train new pilots and sailors.
Could zweihanders be used as a sort of blunt weapon?
>>1554419
sure but why would you when even a slight sharpening would make them that much more deadly?
>>1554433
When fighting opponent in plate armor, I forgot to add that. Would they be effective?
>>1554455
Getting hit with a giant fuck off piece of metal is probably disorienting which would leave your opponent vulnerable for a split second that you could take advantage of, but there isn't enough weight to it for it to be effective against armour.
Let's pretend a new weapon was just introduced. This weapon is cheap to produce and easy to implement. Even a 3rd world nation has access to it.
Think of it as a purely defensive system that can accurately destroy oncoming missiles or aircrafts before they can reach your borders. This weapon isn't effective on land when compared to standard artillery. The actual way it does this is irrelevant to this exercise, just know what it can do.
Now that air power and bombs/nukes are no longer a feasible ways to exert power over another nation, how does the world change? Do we all keep with the status quo or does the ww1 style of warfare return?
How does international agreements change when the implied threat of military action is no longer an issue?
This is really more of a /k/ thread since its about weapons rather than history.
How would nukes be "irrelevant"? Even if destroyed at high altitudes, they can be set to detonate at said altitudes: the shockwave would still be destructive, there would probably be an EMP, and the radiation would be just as bad.
Shitty thread.
Well since the air superiority and bombing is off the table I predict nonstop border wars using conventional firearms and tanks.
Terrorism would get a huge boost since the only counter to them is bombings and drone strikes.
Like, Russia already invaded the Ukraine and Georgia last decade, Syria would be way way worse with no rockets or bombs.
You wouldn't think something so embarrassing, would you?
>>1554283
It's only a problem if people hoard cash.
If you save by investing, no problem
If you pay part of your debt off after each paycheck, it's just giving the money who someone else who will spend it.
If you hoard cash and then give it to pay off your debt then we have a problem.
Adam Smith was wrong.
Seems like Vulgar Keynesianism to me.
>>1554283
What is this from?
Is this Krugman? He's a bit of a meme desu.
The problem with lowering debt, private and public, is that paying down debt lowers consumption, which lowers GDP. Western governments believe that debt is sustainable so long as the rate of change of GDP exceeds the rate of change of Debt. Since GDP growth is, and has been for the past few decades, shackled to credit spending, by paying down debts, the debt ratio will actually INCREASE. Consider that, when people lower their consumption prices will lower, deflation. This deflation essentially increases the the real value of the debt, and so you find that you have to pay of more debt in real terms.
Some debts CANNOT BE REPAID, and attempting to repay them because "muh honor", or "b a gd housewife", is not only moronic, but catastrophic. Just look at the utter clusterfuck the Greeks are in now thanks to the ECB.
The solution is to simply abolish all private debt.
since the American school system hardly talks about Russia before the Soviet Union formed, what was Russia pre-Communism like? All I know is Tsars and shit
Poor and shit for most people
Glorious and French af for some
>>1554234
>the American school system hardly talks about Russia before the Soviet Union formed
Maybe in your shitty school district. Most cover everything at least as far back as Kievan Rus.
It was a growing economy whose growth was the main concern of the Germans. If wwI hadn't broken down they would maybe have broken free from strong ruthless rulers which they will be trapped in forever.
I'm trying to create a roleplaying setting for my group, low fantasy gritty early medieval RPG. I DON'T want to base the cultures of my main lands on medieval England, France, or the Holy Roman Empire given how commonly those are used.
I'd like to use Aragon and Italy as those are some interesting regions rich in history, different from the standard. But the problem is that all my medieval history knowledge is focused on England and France and little else.
What are some good books on the culture, people, and life in general in Italy and Aragon up until the year 1300AD? Are there any?
Bumping for hopeful recommendations.
http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
look through here for any topic that you might think fits your topic.
>>1554106
also, what system are you using? im tg too, and id like to rp in a historical setting, too
Why does everyone hate him?
>>1554094
Charlie Chaplin is a beloved American icon
>>1554100
I kek'd
he was a heroe