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Would have held together if it didn't become corrupted.

>>1453000
Sure, but it would have required a complete overhaul of the administration and political system anyway. The historical model just could not deal with the weight of imperial administration.
How are you gonna bring about such momentuous changes anyway? Hint: you're not. Hence the empire.

Short answer is no.
And anyways, monarchy was better and where Rome achieved all it greatness. Sadly bad Emperors had lot of weight to the end of Rome.

25 years rule

Silly goyim it was those dirty muslims! You must support israel

>>1452915
It didn't
It got hit from debris from a falling skyscraper and caught on fire
It wasn't


If you want more in depth answers consider more in depth questions.

When did it become culturally unacceptable to commit homicide?
Is it actually wrong or just a spook?

If you still use the term spook unironically, forget about sleeping with anyone.

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> culturally unacceptable to sleep with those under 18
Speak for your country.

>>1452793
>Is it just the method of succession?

Yes. Hereditary monarchy and constitutional monarchy are both very distinct from single-party dictatorships and military juntas, but in practice the line can blur. Juche in North Korea basically produced a hereditary monarchy of the Kim line, independent of the regional and agricultural systems that would consider it feudal.

Dynastic familial reign

vs

Temporary control

>>1452793
Yes. You also have differing lines of loyalty going to the top. If you're a low level clerk in one of these delegated areas, and you find out your governor is breaking the rules, your loyalty to the regime is supposed to be superior than your loyalty to your boss, and you should turn in the governor.

In a feudal system, it works the other way around. A knight's primary loyalty is to his immediate superior, not anyone further up the chain.

>>1452748
>Willingly joining a shitfest that does not bother you at all.
Yes OP why didn't they?

>>1452748
Notice how America had it the best out of all the involved parties? Why would Latin America fuck it up for themselves by taking sides?

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>why didn't Latinos spend millions of dollars to travel thousands of miles to die in a conflict that had basically nothing to do with them?

Gee I dunno OP, what a mystery !

>>1452746
>HURDURR IS HAS LOT OF THIRD WORLDERS, THEREFORE IS MARXIST
Get the fuck out.

>>1452746
liberation theology is a fucking meme, without jesuits insisting on its legitimacy it wouldn't have a leg to stand on
t. jesuit

Because both discourage free thinking and lad to lazy corrupt people

he shills his neocon idealogy every video
His nazi victory videos were cringe incarnate
>if hitler won everyone without blue eyes and blonde hair would be killed!!!

it's good entertainment, scenarios can be debated forever so he usually just gives the most probable one, which pisses people who want to argue different outcomes.

I did get to speak to Cody last year when he was hosting a Man in the High Castle panel at SDCC, pretty chill guy.

I suppose if you're very incurious and don't think beyond your immediate problems anything is possible.

>>1452581
Possibly, but very improbable.

>>1452586
why you think so?

>>1452593
yet, can we find examples of men in history that achieved this absolute apathy?

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If I take that hate off will you westernize?

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>>1452614
I will be extremely parallel

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>>1452620
For you

>>1452353
Not really. Both parties have changed over time so I wouldn't say they switched sides.

the American political parties are almost always changing platforms in response to new challenges and new political climates. Hell the Republican Party today and the party during Reagan in 1980 shows a stark change, especially on immigration.

but to put it simply, each party is almost constantly changing and switching positions to better court the public vote, as that's the goal. If holding a political position is going to guarantee lost votes, then a party will abandon it for something else pretty fucking fast.

>>1452353
When the American (and British) electorate showed signs of shifting to the right in the 1980s, pragmatic Democrats (and Labourites) like Clinton (and Blair) felt the need to repackage themselves as "center-left", remaining more liberal than the Republicans while couching their policies in language that was less threatening to the right and center populace.

Meanwhile, in a separate process, the Republicans, who had always relied on less-government and more-faith-in-the-market planks, found themselves in a string of severe recessions (1993, 2000, 2008) that were only kept from disaster by extensive government involvement in the marketplace, and found themselves demanding more of the same.

Just this week at the Republican convention, key speakers demanded government underwriting of the coal, gas and oil industries, condemning the Democrats for not providing it and promising that Trump would intervene in the free market to do what in any other age they would have denounced as socialism.

>>1452141
Math has more to do with philosophy than science

>>1452141
Because our universe is bound by logical principles and facts.

If your argument is sound/valid, then your reasoning must therefore be correct.

R8 this justification as to why utilitarianism is a good moral philosphy to live by.

>Humans like being happy.
>Humans generally even gain pleasure from making other human beings happy.
>Utilitarianism teaches us that we should make the decision that causes the most amount of people to have the most amount to gain the most amount of happiness.
>If you agree with the first two premises then you must therefore admit that utlitarianism is a pretty good moral philosophy to live by.

Unless I massively fucked up?

>>1452160
>Unless I massively fucked up?
You cannot quantify happiness.

>>1452114
Did Buddhism
Or Islam
Or Scientology

>>1452114
>Did christianity hold back or accelerate science in history?
both
>So is this graph accurate or just bs?
just bs
>Also, would we today live in a more scientifically advanced world without christianity, or would we be less advanced?
we cannot possibly know

>>1452063
Look at that friendly, open smile. Almost like Comrade Mao. I miss the old days.

What did he achieve?

>>1452241
he invented marijuana

>>1452055
>So what replaced it /his/?
Mohammedanism.

>>1452055
Christianity is still around, and in those groups that cast it off, all of your options and more apply.

Nihilism

alternative thread title: what went wrong?

>>1452042
They chopped down all the trees on the island.

>>1452042

They were repeatedly fucked.


For unknown reasons, a coup by military leaders called matatoa had brought a new cult based around a previously unexceptional god Make-make. In the cult of the birdman (Rapanui: tangata manu), a competition was established in which every year a representative of each clan, chosen by the leaders, would swim across shark-infested waters to Motu Nui, a nearby islet, to search for the season's first egg laid by a manutara (sooty tern).

The first swimmer to return with an egg and successfully climb back up the cliff to Orongo would be named "Birdman of the year" and secure control over distribution of the island's resources for his clan for the year. The tradition was still in existence at the time of first contact by Europeans. It ended in 1867. The militant birdman cult was largely to blame for the island's misery of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Each year's winner and his supporters short-sightedly pillaged the island after the victory. With the island's ecosystem fading, destruction of crops quickly resulted in famine, sickness and death.