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>>1370406
Comparing a mace to say, a sword, you have denser construction, the mace is thick, especially around the head.

That means, for the same weight, you have a shorter weapon, and a correspondingly slower swing.

Reach is good. Striking quickly is good. It's only when armor develops to the point that the extra anti-armor utility is worth giving up reach and speed that you see maces overtake things like swords and hafted weapons.

Armor got some huge boost in the late medieval period, hence the rising popularity of the mace then.

>>1370406
>maces, clubs, warhammers etc. used so rarely?
What the fuck are you talking about? All the knights carried warhammers around, it's the only way to defeat plate.

>>1370406
It wasn't as required?
You need blunt things like that when you're dealing with heavier armour. There are tons of issues with using weapons like that which are 'outweighed' by the need to defeat armour.
If the armour isn't enough to warrant that sort of attention why bother with it at all? Of course there will have been people who do prefer that type of weapon in many periods but the most efficient solutions become the most common. Clearly something was doing the job better.

The Devil.

Giant fire breathing flying lizard

Crocodiles

Mods will delete this thread if there is any good in the world

>>1386944
That is quite possibly the most retarded battle tactic I've ever seen

>>1386944
Replace the elves with rocks then maybe

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Human Civilization

Egyptian

>>1388759
Why?

Capitalism-Private ownership of the means of production and wage labor

Socialism-Communal ownership of the means of production

Spooks

why?

Unironically, Hitler

Manstein & Guderian

>>1384501
General Winter

Germanics are the ones that ruin everything.

>not realizing that Britain was one of the first things ruined by the English

If Vortigern had lopped off Hengist and Horsa's heads the moment they stepped their Germanic asses off of their boats the world would be a much better place.

>>1381650
You're expecting too much from retarded /pol/sters

It literally was a combination of socialism and the fact that they relied heavily on oil

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>>1377318
>Suffered from extreme capital flight
>Rely on oil to prop up economy
>Tried to solve the capital flight with hairbrained currency swap scheme
>Currency swap scheme creates a bubble
>Bubble bursts when oil prices fall

Contrary to popular belief, it took more than "feeding poor people" to ruin Venezuela's economy. Shit was falling apart at the seams for decades.

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>>1377318
Chavez killed manufacturing and made the economy rely exclusively on oil. When oil prices went dowm,Maduro was forced to print money to keep the clienteralist structure,creating tons of inflation. So pretty much socialism

It isn't.

>>1387352

Evolution does not necessitate atheism. It just describes how biology on earth changed and makes no reference to the existence of God.

Atheism does not necessitate humanism because humanism is a narrow set of ideals extolling humanity when others, like nihilism, would have equal worth.

The use of "Socialism" as a negative universally is retarded, because unless you're an-cap, you believe in some of socialism. However, if this means excessively socialist economies, then no, it doesn't necessitate from humanism, which does not make judgements on the intricacies of economies.

"Socialism" does not lead to Communism, in fact, it's usually the opposite. Communism came to power in feudal states which hated Socialism, while Western states used Socialist methods to stop Communists from being popular, particularly Britain.

I wonder if whoever made this has ever heard of Objectivists.

No. Not a single one of those steps is necessarily true. It could be true, but nothing guarantees that evolution will lead to anything, much less a (loss of a) religious or ideological position

>>1383225
Power

>>1383225
You, OP. You are the sublime object of ideology.

a sound dicking

the planned parenthood women who help poor racial minority women get abortions and finance abortions in poor foreign countries.

>>1387797
I'm talking specific historical figure here

>>1387800

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

She was a historical figure.

>>1390920
No they probably didn't understand that. Either way most of them were probably fucked in the end.

>>1390920
>Revolutionary socialists
>Understanding anything
Nice meme

>>1390920
Cuban revolutionaries turned to socialism because they pissed off the big US of A, so they needed a big new friend, the soviets.
In the beginning Castro wasn't a communist.

>Brits
>powerful

lol

>>1390617
They only conquered most of the new world you butthurt fag.

>>1390627
>latin america
>most of
ok

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>>1390340
>Why doesn't He schedule one every 100 years or so

There was a big one 99 years ago.

>>1390343
>some solar effects and Portuplebs overreacting
>"""miracle"""

>>1390340
Do you really think this only happens every X100 years? Or X1000?

>>1390262
He looks like the bad guy from a Disney movie.

>>1390336
He was a Disney villain IRL for all intents and purposes.

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He just wanted to make his own jolly empire