I wanted to make a list of the most iconic soldiers for each century (for European history mostly) and was wondering if /pol/ could help me out with that. That's how far I've come:
1. Roman legionary
2. ?? because i want to avoid repetition
3. Cataphract maybe?
4. Hunnic horse-archer
5. ?? Barbarians?
6. ??
7. ??
8. ??
9. Vikings
10. Frankish knights
11. Crusaders
12. Knight order (repetition?)
13. Mongol horse-archer
14. Swiss halberdiers?
15. British longbowmen
16. Landsknecht
17. Polish winged hussar
18. Red coats
19. Napoleonic infantry
20. Wehrmacht soldier
21. US Marines (till now)
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>>1543425
>and was wondering if /pol/ could help me out with that.
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>>1543429
oops i mean /his/ of course
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>>1543425
wouldn't the hoplite come before the legionary?
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On the morality of sex 2016-08-13 10:25:31 Post No.1543163
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Hello /his/,
this is a subject which, in trying to narrow down some sort of moral code, I've wanted to deal with for a while.
What is it that makes sex so special that we can't see it as a mere pleasure act? I can understand sex being more than just a guy fucking someone else's brains out in a religious context, but in society, why don't people just fuck when horny?
P.S.: Sorry if this sounds horribly worded and/or thought-out, but I've got way too much background noise near me. I can try to clarify in the thread, should anyone reply, otherwise I might just post this later. T-thanks
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>>1543163
It creates another human being.
/threads.
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>>1543163
>What is it that makes sex so special that we can't see it as a mere pleasure act
What "we" are you referring to? Different cultures have different ideas about sex, and some don't look down on it as pleasure at all.
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>>1543166
It also causes a lot of tension, especially when one of the people involved develops an intense emotional bond (because the brain often tricks them into thinking they're seeking a mate with which to raise children) and the other does not.
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>"Hit the Poles so hard that they despair of their life; I have full sympathy with their condition, but if we want to survive, we can only exterminate them; the wolf, too, cannot help having been created by God as he is, but people shoot him for it if they can."
- Otto von Bismarck
Discuss.
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fucking germans
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Insidious. Petty. Presumptuous. Cowardly.
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>>1539157
Was it autism?
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How does /his/ feel about KAISERREICH?
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>>1536471
Interesting but i find it hard to believe that the Ottomans did not collapse as well as Austria Hungary.
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>>1536483
Especially Austria-Hungary. If you have to hyphenate your name your country is fucked.
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>>1536471
Arthur Blair being stringently for censorship and in bed with a bunch of stalinist commies triggers me hard
What event in history triggers you?
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Hiroshima and nagasaki were war crimes
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>>1528162
Germany should have won world war 1, the world would be a better place.
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Revisionists.
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Is this Art? Or sophisticated decorating?
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>>1539590
Interior decorating is an art.
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>>1539590
How is the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran not art? Shiraz, Iran contains monuments important to both Pre-Islamic and Post-Islamic Persian tradition: such as Palace of Ardashir (most important imo), Sassanid Palace in Sarvestan, Shapur Cave, Tomb of Cyrus, Persepolis' ruins, Bishapur, Saadi Shirazi's Tomb, Tomb of Hafez, Nasir ol Molk Mosque, and SOOO much more.
Shiraz, Iran is literally the most important destination in Iran:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz
If you don't like Islam, that's fine, but Shiraz is proof Iran still has a direct connection to its Pre-Islamic past. Also, Hafez and Saadi are important to our heritage, and they were more like liberal Sufis.
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>that
>sophisticated
Fucking swimming pool tiling is more sophisticated.
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>Norman Conquest
>Magna Carta
>Glorious Revolution
>Pax Britannica
>Industrial Revolution
There's only one thing bongs are really good at, and that's rewriting history with shitty memes to satisfy their delusions.
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Go to /int/
stop shitting up this board
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Fun fact the first bongs was used by kings who was irish. Tarquinius superbus the last irish king of bongs was overthrown by the iberians who used bongs for a couple of centuries. Until sulla the great irish general overthrew the iberians and exterminated them in the bong war. Now irish was using bongs again and a iberian wasnt seen using a bong again until it was smoked by alaric and the iberians eventually killed or sent the black irish to ireland. Julius caesar used a bong
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If you want to troll you should go to /int/
I swear if I have to listen to him call Herodotus a historical screenwriter one more time
Dan "the loose grip on historical facts man" Carlin thread
Anything outwith Death Throes of Republic, Punic Nightmares, Khans, Blueprint for Armageddon and Ghosts of the Ostfront worth listening to?
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You dont have to listen to shit. Its a podcast not big brother.
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>>1530872
So you've listened to literally nothing from him except for the King of Kings but you're already aboard the /his/meme train?
Dear lord, anon
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>>1530872
>Anything outwith Death Throes of Republic, Punic Nightmares. . .
I don't know if you're trying to say "out of [these podcasts" or "outside of [these podcasts]".
If the former, yes, all of them, if the latter, check out "Prophets of Doom" it's my favorite of his one-offs, I think it was around 3 and a half hours, great for long car rides.
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Why does everyone rip into capitalism when capitalism is literally the reason we have all the technology and inventions we have as well as the modern lifestyles we live?
Communisms especially never cease to rip into it but it was only through the endless competitive nature of business did invention, patents and discovery lead to the world we live in. The Industrial revolution literally happened because of capitalism, which is why it happened in Britain, not Italy with all its renaissance, because it didn't have a liberal government that encouraged competitive business, Britain did. Germany did, the USA did, these are the countries which flung us into the modern world and they did it through consumer capitalism.
The only way Communism countries every developed is by force, resulting in the deaths of millions every single time. No such thing occurred in Britain or the USA, just poor worker conditions which eventually evened out.
Pic related is just a meme and if anything more accurately represents communist nations than capitalist.
Also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D1gJ_GygAI
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>>1539600
>Why does everyone rip into capitalism when capitalism is literally the reason we have all the technology and inventions we have as well as the modern lifestyles we live?
Losers will always rip into existing paradigms as a way of rationalizing their own failures and unhappiness.
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>>1539600
Capitalism Is highly unequal, to the point of creating a caste system.
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>>1539624
You're right, we should make everyone equal by force.
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Is goreanism the ideal cultural philosophy for a happy society?
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>>1534658
>Tattoo
0/10
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>>1534687
>not branding your property
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>>1534658
this only assumes that we already have/had the ideal sexual culture.
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>religion
>ethics
>nationality
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>>1540026
also:
>history as a "real" thing
>Homo Sapiens Sapiens is somehow not an animal
>there are "important" historical events
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>>1540026
Bumping with more spooks:
>Christianity is "The Religion", and everything else is demonic, evil or just simply "role-playing"
>atheism = tipping fedora (whatever that means)
>communism is inherently evil
>war is fun
>there are human races
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>Bond
>James
>Bond
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You meet God.
He lets you ask him ONE historical question, but it must be along the veins of something like "What really happened to Amelia Earhart," not "why are Africans still living in mud huts in 2016?"
What do you ask?
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>>1540006
Were Egyptians black?
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Who was Jack The Ripper.
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>>1540006
Why were Africans still living in mud huts in 2015?
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What are you most proud of in Western culture?
Not a /pol/ thread, interested to see what people think is the dankest stuff to come out of the West.
Examples:
>Democracy
>Renaissance art
>Importance of racial equality
For me, I like the idea of individual rights.
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>>1537350
My top 10 list of dankest western inventions and innovations.
1. Transistors
2. Smokeless gunpowder
3. Cars
4. Trains
5. Aeroplanes
6. New Wave
7. Blues
8. Movies
9. Soft drinks
10. Internet
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colonialism
it was basically us dominating the entire planet while at the same time spreading civilization to the far corners of the world
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>>1537350
Crystal Pepsi tbqh
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Where were you when Sam Harris blew Chomsky the fuck out?
I was at home eating cereal.
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>>1532324
What did he mean by this? This has really made me think
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>>1532324
*tips spoonful of raisin bran*
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>>1532324
I wanna see
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Most Important People in History? 2016-08-10 08:35:23 Post No.1530314
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Most Important People in History?
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If you had to list the top 15 most important people in history, who would you choose, and where would they rank? Also, how would you define importance?
I personally would say importance in this context is based mainly on influence and the scope of one's achievements or discoveries. My list would look something like this:
1. Muhammad
2. Isaac Newton
3. Jesus Christ
4. Christopher Columbus
5. Aristotle
6. Alexander the Great
7. Qin Shi Huang
8. Gautama Buddha
9. George Washington
10. Charles Darwin
11. Cai Lun (invented paper)
12. John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev (tied for bringing the world the closest to M.A.D. it's ever been)
13. Johannes Gutenberg
14. Thomas Jefferson
15. Constantinople
Let's see how much everyone's lists vary.
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The most important person in human history was an early homo sapiens from 150 000 years ago who did something. Had he done differently it would have completely changed the course of human history due to the butterfly effect.
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>>1530314
Zoras
Moses (same person?)
Caesar
Christ (same person?)
Edward VII
Hitler
etc
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>>1530314
Might as well be the one to get it out of the way, why Muhammad over Jesus?