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Because Britain was a naval empire, not a land one.

>>1408394
This. And they were financially ruined since 1929.

They didn't wanted to get under the american's economic trade and decided to start their own shit with their colonies which didn't really worked as they found themselves more isolated than anything. The brits thought they didn't needed anyone else and that they could be self-sufficient with their colonies, like in the good ol' days. The war took a toll on them considering they didn't had any funds to update or even have a sufficient army. Add that to the fact that the majority of their colonies knew what the hell was going on and were in a better positions to make demands. The empire was weak and needed to make as many concessions as possible in order to gather sufficient supports for the war.

If it wasn't for the helps of the states (and indirectly the soviets and Hitler being a retard), britains would have gotten rekt by germany. It was only a question of time before they would have yielded. And they didn't much against Germany besides stalling them.

>>1408475
So you think that if Hitler laucnhed operation barbarossa towards the UK instead, they would've won?

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>You will never personally shoot the Romanovs.

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I will never be a dashing cocksure cavalry officer of the Napoleonic era

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>>1407715
>you will never be a Confederate plantation owner who can rape and whip his slaves as they work to make money for his own gain

>you will be never be a Japanese soldier stationed in Korea who marries a Korean qt that lusts after your colonialist cock

>you will never be a Chinese merchant on the Silk Road having sex with various women of exotic ethnicities and phenotypes

>>1407582

No.

>>1407590
Yes he was

>>1407599
no he's not

>>1407215
So Italy has like 70000 /int/ shitposting mana or something?

>>1407215
Saudis should be way higher considering Sunni Islam and all its arab cultural practices are done by a quarter of the world

>>1407229
Can't be, Australia's got to be at the top.

I'd say Teddy and Wilson made it mainstream for America.

>>1407022
Germany was the first country that created social security. France was the first country to create paid vacations for the working class.

>>1407022
Cause the class war is bulshit, people can feel fraternity with you even if they're richer than you.
Also social peace & reformist communisme.

>>1406610
God forbid we talk about anything other than Rome,Communism, or Stirner

Anyone that looks closely at the events of 1968 and still doesn't believe that the base shapes the superstructure is a god damn idiot.

Post-war and pre-68 America is fascinating.

Such an interesting time. It should be called the 'Second' Gilded Age, because that's exactly what it was: on the outside, apparent prosperity and harmony and conservatism. But a deeper look inside, and the revelation of all sorts of festering problems assailing the country: racial tensions, high unemployment, sexual frustration, paranoia and uncertainty, the growth of media and pop culture (which had never existed), the cultural gap between young and old...

Extremely fascinating.

>>1406522

funny hats

>>1406522

Shithole, had 100 years of not being totally terrible, but fucked it up for themselves.

>>1406522
greatest ally

Laugh at everyone who was actually enjoying their life and then kill myself.

>>1406511
Ask NASA where meteor would hit for instant death

>>1406511
Jiujitsu. I got a month, that means a month of Jiujitsu. I got more, that means more Jiujistu. It's all good.

maybe because optimism is hoping rather than doing or forcing things to be the way you want? which i guess takes more balls and risk? maybe?

>>1406332
Facing reality for what it really is takes courage. Being optimistic about the worlds future is being a coward by denying the true face of reality.

>>1406334
>doing or forcing things to be the way you want?
Nah, things don't work that way in Spengler's worldview.

The history of every culture is the same, so it's irrelevant.

>>1406270
>Is Marxism inherently anti-traditional culture?
Yes.

>If so, why?
It's non-traditional and only people with daddy issues support it.

>>1406286
That is an extremely ignorant simplification

>man I used to think witch hunts were bad but now that I saw this fictional movie I realize they were justified all along.

I think witch hunts are one of the few things that have zero defenders left in the present day because they were so retarded. They don't have the excuse of 'it was a different time' either, because people actually didn't believe as strongly in evil spells and witches prior to the witch hunting craze.

There were some nice touches in the movie alluding to actually European witch 'mythology' as it were. The flight ointment made from the fat of a baby and the book in which people sign their souls over to the devil for example.

Thomasin was qt.

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It was all bullshit. The Puritans were highly letigious and sued one another and accused each other of being witches all the time. Their society was communal so all disputes were settled in public in front of a court. There were feuds between neighbors and between the separate communities of Salem Town and Salem Village (over which side to build the church or some dumb shit like that) so they started flinging deadly accusations at each other. Hysteria, intimidation, and theatrics took over in what is now a well-documented psychological situation, resulting in complete chaos, panic, and mayhem.

One particularly rich family of Salem Town (the name escapes me atm) quarreled with everyone to try to get their way so often that over the course of 50 years or so they brought almost 200 accusations of witchcraft against others in the community, just to have them hauled into court and humbled. It was all bullshit and like 2% of the people accused ever were punished... because normally it wasn't done in a full-fledged hysteria.

People treat each other like shit, and we're so horrible that we laugh at how horrible the dumb people of the past were, with the same contempt that people in the future will have for us. There is absolutely no justification for the witch hunts of the past, and even then they fucking knew it.

>>1406172
Mercenaries from there started the first Punic war which was Rome's first step outside of the Italian peninsula which would eventually culminate in Mare Nostrum. I also think that Pyrrhus of Epirus split a guy in half who was from Calabria.

The 'Ndraghetta

>>1406200
is that like a 'za

You could have made a /his/ related thread, if you just put your mind to it, OP.

Instead, you created this failure.

>>1406160
I think our fear inhibits us. We are afraid or nervous of what we don't know so we avoid it.
Whatever it is OP, do it. Just fuckin do it because you're gonna die so like why the fuck not? You'll live your life in regret and mystery. Do it.

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>>1406164
This is totally related to philosophy. Shut the fuck up faggot.

OP, you need to just shut your brain off. Whatever it is you want to do, you just have to physically do it. You want to learn a language? Go to some language learning website and just fucking start. Get some pomodoro technique shit going, and just do it.

I fucking hate Nike, but "Just Do It" is the best fucking slogan I've ever seen because it's so fucking true. I learned this when i started working out in middle school. I would be so anxious to work out, but I just shut my brain off and physically made myself do it. I stopped thinking about why this or that and I just fucking did it because I knew it was better than just sitting around thinking about why or why not. Doing something is better than nothing.

>>1406169
This. OP, we're all going to fucking die, and we don't know when. If there is something you want to do but your head just keeps holding you back, just fucking do it and tell your anxiety to shut the fuck up. Shut it off. Ignore it. You want to become a physicist? Just do it. You want to ask that girl out? Just go fucking do it. You're going to fucking die OP. It could be next week, one year, ten years, etc but it's going to happen, I guarantee it. Looking back on your life and thinking about all of the fucking time you wasted thinking about why or why not, silly bullshit that just won't affect you on the grand scheme that is your life is just such a fucking jerk off.

Ask that girl out. Go learn a language. Get good grades in school. Go travel. Just do it motherfucker. You don't have enough time, trust me. You'll look back wishing you did more even if you did a whole shit load. Imagine how it will feel if you didn't do shit.

>>1406136
Population density was way higher in the old world and you had greater contact for communicable diseases.

>>1406136
Actually, they did.
Thousands of Europeans who went to the subtropical America's, died of hemorrhagic fevers.

>>1406136
Europeans had being living along side domesticated mammals (pigs specifically) for thousands of years prior to contact with the Native Americans...that contact led to the deaths of millions over time but also greater immunity.

Europeans did get some nasty STDs from the Indians though, some are still with us.

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>>1406015
Big Bang, et al. Pretty much makes sense. Sorta of an AA Atheist Higher Power thing. There are no implications. It's the way it is. Everybody else can just "get over it".

>>1406103
stop posting that fucking image, shitposter

>>1406103
Well, I disagree with that. Marcus Aurelius for instance said that since we're all components of the same divinity, it is our duty to cooperate, as lower teeth cooperate with upper teeth. It's a clear implication that follows from the central premise.

There's also nothing atheistic about it.