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>People hailing from the Medieval middle or lower class proposing aristocrat Nepotism rather than Meritocracy
Why is this allowed?
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>>1403111
Meritocracy is a lie, those who have merit will turn into nepotism in order to protect their own family, rather than allowing competition.
At least open nepotism is honest about it
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>>1403111
>Medieval middle or lower class
Are you retarded?
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>>1403133
That don't mean others should aid them in their nepotism or push them to power even when the first in line is far from fit for the task.
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Was the Nation State a mistake?
>standardises language and culture
>creates a massive bureaucracy that cannot but fail to keep in touch with all the different local and regional communities
>constant war and/or propaganda effort to justify itself
>local/regional politics becomes less important, disempowering local communities and forcing them to submit to a somewhat alien power
>it's a leviathan whose great power can easily be abused by tyrants
>a prelude to international superstates that are even more tyrannical
pre-modern peoples saw themselves as belonging to a region or local city-state, e.g. the Romans called themselves after the city Rome, not the land of Italy; the Athenians and the Spartans, etc. This is arguably a more natural form of government because you are not being ruled by a power geographically distant from you and alien to your way of life, but by a local power that you can go and can complain to directly. The Roman Empire (until it was beginning to fall apart) and kingdoms of the middle ages were not run by a centralised bureaucracy, rather, the emperors/kings, even though they had all authority over their empire/kingdom, nevertheless gave the office and power of ruling to local authorities who were able to directly communicate with the local people.
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Every expansion of power has brought with it a reduction in the violence experienced by the power under it. Neolithic bands suffered extremely high levels of violence since there was no-one to protect the average guy from the band's psychopath, tribal federations suffered slightly less since tribal rulers can settle band-level disputes, settled kingdoms less violence still, and nation states less yet again. Then you get to the megastates like the USA and China, which have even lower rates of violence since even the component states are prevented from fighting one another.
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city states founded by tribe confederations are the most organic emergent civilizations imo
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>>1402711
Was the City State a mistake?
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Grandma just told me my ancestors are Raubritter's. Gave me a good laugh, gonna steal/pillage/plunder your shit and hide behind my title!
What did your ancestors do, /his/?
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>>1402669
They were all farmers
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One of my ancestors spied for Washington. That's about the only noteworthy thing.
We have been here a while though.
>tfw your ancestors have lived here since the early 17th century on the European side and for thousands of years on the Amerindian side and yet people assume you're a first or second generation immigrant because you're brown
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My ancestors were barons and the founders of my village but noone gives a fuck about it so meh
Why are Athens and Sparta the only Greek city-states that ever get mentioned?
Can /his/ tell me more about their peers and rivals?
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>>1402530
Bumping for a potentially interesting thread
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I hear a bunch of faggots had their own unit.
Also I want the Spartan fucking shits to leave.
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Two other polis that that I learned about in the history books was Corinth and Thebes
Thebes naturally are famous for Oedipus, the Sacred band, and kicking Sparta's ass (Only for other Poli to band together and kicked their asses after they remembered Thebes sided with Persia during the Greco-Persian war).
Corinth was the richest of the Greek Poli, but it's mostly known for its colony Syracuse.
Who were the first settlers of Japan and why did they settle there?
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hunter gatherers
to hunt and gather
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rogue Chinese
it looked like a cool place to live
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I didnt know the rice harvest was such a party
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Why do economic embargo and trade disruptions never work during war?
>Napoleon tries to embargo Great Britain, doesn't work
>Allies form navel blockade around British Channel in WW1, doesn't work
>Hitler tries to embargo Russia and Great Britain, doesn't work
>America tries to embargo Vietnam, doesn't work
>Entire world tries to embargo present day Russia for acting a fool, doesn't work
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>>1402083
You know nothing about ww1.
And blockades don't work if a lot of countries ignore them and the aggressor country can't enforce them
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Those were all effective minus Vietnam
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>>1402083
>Why do economic embargo and trade disruptions never work during war?
>in WW1, doesn't work
?????
the blockade was one of the most potent factors in winning the war for the allies
http://m.wikihow.com/Persuade-an-Atheist-to-Become-Christian
It didn't work bros, why not.
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Probably because they used to be a Jehovah's Witness.
We were taught the bullshit of every other religion twice a week (three before about 2008) for years. Some, decades. Then we learned all the bullshit about JWs and just gave up on spirituality.
That or they think they're too smart to believe in ~le imaginary cloud man.
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>>1402084
>the way I see through bullshit is completely valid
>but if anyone else also believes it's bullshit they are completely unjustified
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>>1402084
>they think they're too smart to believe in ~le imaginary cloud man.
They /are/ too smart to believe in the imaginary cloud man.
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Was Mussolini all that bad? The impression I get from him is that he was a decent leader, but gambled in allying with Germany expecting an easy war and ended up losing.
Aside from that, I can't really recall anything that bad about the guy. You never hear about Italian fascist execution squads or any persecution of minorities. He reigned for a fairly long time and it seems like Italy did quite well under his reign until they entered WWII.
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>>1401421
yeah, but in terms of dictators, he wasnt that bad at all. No autistic purges or genocides, and no retarded invasions, until he just became hitlers bitch
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>>1401948
I Concur. After Hitler's "Persuasion" he basically fucked Italy over. Italy would've been better off today had they not intervened in world war 2.
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>>1401421
I wouldn't exactly say the Italians treated North Africans and Ethiopians like best buds.
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Human logical behaviour does not exist.
There are a number of philosophies that, trough pure mathematical logic, prove that logic does not exist. For example, the argument of the primal premise, or Descartes' notion that the only thing that can indeed exist is my own consciousness. All behaviour and thought process ultimately results merely from the chain reactions of eletric discharges performing synapsis in the neurons of our nervous systems, and it cannot be assumed that these meaningless systems in any way reflect or accurately interpret the greater realm of existences of truths and reality.
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Why cant they reflect reality if they were shaped by it, just like a canyon?
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>>1401366
What would the canyon answer?
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>>1401372
Canyons can't think.
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Which country was the most violent and warlike in history ? 2016-07-11 21:08:38 Post No.1400567
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Which country was the most violent and warlike in history ?
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Probably Assyria.
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Mexico
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Mongolia
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Gentlemen...
What should Napoleon have done to defeat Britain or at least to maintain France dominance on the mainland?
>Hard mode: You start at Waterloo
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>>1400444
>Hard mode: You start at Waterloo
It was already over
The answer is he shouldnt have invaded Russia
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>>1400491
>don't invade Russia
>Britain gets rich
>Russia invades Warsaw
>Austria turns
>Prussia probably turns
Not an option
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>>1400444
Allied with Britain
Legit serious
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Is there any serious philosophical argument for "sanctity of life", or it is just muh feels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxi5wzmPRA
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Not watching your gay video.
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>>1400378
Not even Philosophical. The Golden Rule is literally survival-tier thinking.
>Let us not be dicks to each other to heighten our chances for survival.
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>>1400378
>Is there any serious philosophical argument
No.
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Would it be acceptable/historically accueate for me to wear knights hospitaller gear to a renaissance faire?
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>>1400141
yes, they held to their christian vows unlike some
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In 13th century knightly gear? No.
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Just do it.
Probably like 90% of the attendants will be in historically anachronistic or otherwise inaccurate dress.
Is Ares the most beta god of war in all mythology?
>only Spartans even liked him
>got wounded by Diomedes with the help of Athena
>Athena was more revered as war goddess and she also was responsible for civilization, justice and wisdom instead of just being a sperg
>every time Ares got wounded he run away like a bitch
he's a god equivalent of vikings - only good against guys who don't fight back
fuck Ares
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>>1399918
Well, he is the greek god of war, of course he is as useless as the norse god of fine arts or the egyptian god of snow
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Don't conflate Homer's jocular portrayal with the common conception.
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Athena was basically that kid in elementary school who gave himself every superpower when he was playing pretend superheroes.