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>>1448801

They also understood that voting for your leaders is not democratic but oligarchic, since the rich and powerful have greater influence than the poor. This is why they practiced sortition, or appointment by lot, wherein government officials were randomly chosen from a pool of all eligible citizens. We still do this when we pick our juries, we need to return to selecting at least some of our top officials this way too.

>>1448855
Counterpoint: the rich and powerful ought to have more of a voice in the political system than the average pleb, by virtue of the traits that allow them to be rich and powerful. This in turn provides a huge incentive for the non-rich to become so, and feed a positive capitalist system of value-creation.
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When people talk about the "failures of democracy" or sigh with embarrassment and say "these people are allowed to vote", they are speaking accurately of the typical, colossally uninformed citizen, who in all likelihood doesn't even have the capacity to run their own life properly. It's the same reason why Rabbis in Judaism are expected to have families.

>>1448876

They already have greater influence in the economic sphere, why should they get such in politics as well? Either you believe all citizens should be politically equal or you support oligarchy, there's no crossover.

the nature of god within even religion is that he is impossible to grasp by the human mind

deal with it scrub

>>1448060
*tips fedora*

Nobody told you religious ppl were smart fampai

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oklahoma

>>1441152
I'm thinking Virginia.

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>>1441208
Forgot my image.

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t. Giuseppe Anafesto

The transition of Republic into Empire ruined Rome in the long run.

bump for interest

You're looking at things from a modern western viewpoint.

In other lands and times a government could only be considered legitimate if it had the backing of God (or the gods or heaven or whatever), usually vested in a single monarch or some kind of ruling class.

>>1450258
Because the majority of humans are stupid fucks, only a selected few should lead a nation.

>>1450274

Obviously, that is true, but if the government is led by an unpopular minority, then that leads to rebellion and instability.

>>1449679
No. Nazi Germany's decision to go to war lost the war.
Even the best case scenario would have resulted in Nazi defeat.

>>1449679

No. There was no possible way the airfield bombardment would have enabled Germany to win the war.

For starters, the Brits can always pull their planes back up to the Midlands, where it'll be real tough to get at the airfields. Secondly, sooner or later, you need to do more than maul the RAF, either try to destroy their morale through bombing (good luck) or try to damage things enough to make a sealion work. (even better luck)

>>1449679

No this is a meme. The RAF was not near collapse, they had plenty of reserves and British aircraft production outpaced that of Germany.

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>everyone is born good

>>1449684
>good

>>1449690
>>good

>>1449291
*tips fedora*

>>1449291
>The self is an illusion, death is eternal.
If self is an illusion, then it means you can never die, since you never existed. Therefore death is not eternal, and by extend death is an illusion.

>>1449320
+1

>>1449184
>this chair is too stiff
>the painter looks like a filthy intellectual
>I wish I was with Josephine again
>this collar is too tight
>the room is too red
>I wish I was invading somebody right now
>United kingdom? more like united cuckdom heh heh!
>is it time for my hot chocolate yet?
>how much longer will this picture take?
>I bet this will amuse the plebs
>I might give this fag a medal, liberals love medals
>I could be out raping some Austrians right now
>I wish I was at the schonbrun
>my arms starting to cramp
>I hope he covers my receding hair line
>I can't believe I left my hat in the other room
>fuck sake

>six months ago, just six months ago, I had it all
>had the whole world in my grasp
>500 000 men strong undefeatable army
>largest borders my nation has had since the Frankish times
>all of the old world washed away and replaced by revolutionary stuff I came up with after 1780's
>six fucking months ago

>>1449184
>can a monkey be fired from a cannon? if so, what calibre monkey would be most useful in breaking holes through infantry columns?

>>1449045

All the Founding Fathers.

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>>1449045
Sargon of Akkad, the Youtube one

was jfk?

>>1448772
There was definitely a lot of competent, professional soldiers in the Red Army, but a lot of them spent time in gulags before being reinstated, and they were outnumbered by le slavic liberators

Red army in 1941: 2/10
Red army in 1945: 9/10

>>1448816
Pretty much this. The Soviets were amazingly good learners.

That's because faith has nothing to do with reason, both are two completely different things

>>1448667

How else are you going to keep your control over the "sheep" when they start asking tough questions? Those churches ain't gonna fund themselves, you know!

>>1448727
My question is why people continue to tolerate it.

Like I stated, in no area of life is 'faith' expected or even considered useful. But suddenly, upon entering a church on Sunday, it's held as the highest virtue; and worse, people actually act on it and want to force others to act on it as well.

Most people would not believe it if a stranger came to them and told them they'd seen a ghost; but people will believe their preacher when he says YHWH smote Sodom with fire or that Jesus died and resurrected, despite having no evidence.

WHY? I don't understand: the claims of the Christians have nothing inherent in them that make them any more believable than those of any other religion or other ideas supposedly considered 'crazy'.

So he can keep track of it, except they say he ignores it most of the time. Lazy bum.

>>1448639

Why would a perfect being create a universe of any kind?

>>1448639
Why would God create an infinite Universe?

Look around you. You see what happens when people have nothing to strive for, they start to self-destruct.

This is somewhat similar to Isiah Berlin's notion of positive and negative liberty. We live in a world of negative liberty, which is a world intentionally with no meaning. However, positive liberty, which is liberty with some kind of purpose attached, will always be a massive threat to negative liberty, because of the meaning, purpose and hope it provides.

Or in other words: people will never settle for a simple office job, and will sometimes even prefer neo-nazi/ISIS membership over it

>>1448568
This is only true because most people are looking for a gnostic escape from the physical world as opposed to seeing the beauty it has.

Is nihilism the most meme philosophy?

Oh I get it so dumb ''Hitler did nothing wrong'' and ''swords suck'' threads are ok but asking actual history related questions doesn't cut it on this board? You fucking faggots.

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>>1448525
I'd answer dude but I don't know. This board has proven to be much slower than others so be patient.

Guess semi bump. Don't know much about Chinese warfare. Speaking without any authority, it seems like it was a lot of spear armed infantry supported by bows. I'd like to know more about their renowned engineers and siege weapons.