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>>1369110
First of all, you are rude. Why should anyone have to use an urban dictionary to translate your question?
Further, why should anyone respond to your question when you have provided no input yourself?

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Baby seals

>>1369151
Welcome to 4chan

No. Zizek is never right. Regarding anything. Even his film theories are highly stupid.

>>1369034
My god
*sniffs*
Pure ideology

Yes, absolutely.

By acknowledging our faults, differenves and cultural stereotypes, we can distanco ourselves from notional pride built on hate and feeling of superiority. I am a Pole, and I embrace the stereotypes. Yeah, we drink a lot and we love to take pride in that. Yeah, we love to cheat and exploit the system. Yeah, we are from a backwater country where you can buy portraits of pope everywhere. Yeah, we quarrel a lot. Yeah, we are brave to the point of stupidity. But that what makes us, that's who we are. What are we supposed to do, revel in the failures of 1830, 1863, 1939 and 1945? Are we supposed to pretend that fall of communism in 1989 was a groundbreaking achievement? Are we supposed to put wings on our backs and act like it is 1683 again?

It is bullshit and you know it. Maybe Americans or Brits don't understand it, but the continuum that is Europe east of Elbe includes Germans, Poles, Czechs, Yugoslavians, Russians, etc. We fought a lot, we murdered eachother, but thanks to that, we understand ourselves. Czechs don't resent us for fucking them up in 1620, 1938 and 1968. I don't hold a grudge against Germans or Russians. But I love the folklore that comes with our differences. But when hard nationalsim comes, that tries to build national mythos on historical grudges and antagonism, when a nation starts to take itself too seriously, that is when bad things happen (see: Yugoslavia, Breakup of).

Oh, and coming up with fancy names for minorities is retarded. Gypsies call themselves Gypsies and our black MPs loved to be called by traditional name of Moor, instead of black.

Greek cities had a system where the wealthiest citizens were expected to pay publicly from their own pocket for civic expenses.

>>1368779

If there are so few people, 'economics' would not be the term for what they were doing together to get stuff done.

>>1368802
*citation needed
This is socialist propaganda. Greek city states had laissez faire mercantilism

History is the story of interacting characters, some make more of an effect than others.

>>1368591
>Implying any of that supports the validity of the GMT

>>1368688
Great man theory is only rarely applicable?

Isn't is basically price-fixing?

Haven't seen any libertarians against unions desu

>>1368521
It just depends on the situation. Unions do tend to stifle freedom of choice just by their very nature. People aren't able to negotiate their own wages etc. But they're not necessarily a bad thing. Pretending that employers are inherently benign and you'll never have to negotiate hard is silly. The best way to negotiate is with backup. I think the reason unions get the reputation of being tied up with the state is due to public sector unions, corruption within them (specifically their historical ties with organized crime), and the fact that the state had to step in quite a few times to keep them from getting obliterated by industry leaders. They have problems but people who rail against unions are pretty naive. Kind of like people who have a hate boner for American "imperialism" or capitalism in general. They lack perspective and take for granted the relative comfort they have on account of those instotutions.

it was shit

it was okay

it was great

what else do you expect from an uzbekistant claymation bulletin board

>>1368508
fuck off nerd

>>1368528
Make me poindexter

>>1368438
seriously?
No

>>1368438
It varies from religion to religion.

Islam says it's because the Quran is so elegant that is has to be from god

Buddhism is basically because you know it in your heart.

Christianity bases everything off the resurrection.

I'm not sure about other religions.

>>1368438
Their gods require their servants to climb the mountain to reach them. YHVH came down the mountain for us.

>>1368345

Well it explains why /pol/ acts like the victims.

Hitler was another fanatic, blaming a boogeyman for controlling EVERYTHING.

>>1368617
BUT WE WUZ NORDICS AN SHIIIIT!

>>1368345
Everyone like to think they are being oppressed by someone else.

It's easier to explain away a life full of failure and disappointment, when it's someone else's fault.

>>1368209
yes one i choose not to make, but others do.

Yes, that's the point.

No.

Exploring spirituality is a choice, and you may decide to believe in god if you do.

If you're religious and already believe in that god, I'm afraid you might be stuck.

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OP's pic is not clover, but Oxalis.
Clover is this pic. The leaves are not heart shaped.

No, of course not.

Well. Except for bad luck.

>>1367519
yep, just check my digits for proof

>the world is shit because people in societies without a social safety net or adequate medical care tend to breed like rabbits
>the abundance of these societies was partly caused by the shenanigans of the Cold War but mostly caused by the fact that industrialization and liberal democracy are an anomaly in human society
>the Cold War happened because Germans fucked up Europe, and Russians can't stop sucking despotic dick
>which happened due to complex factors leading to serfdom ending in Western Europe sooner than Eastern Europe, and local political entities preventing Germany from unifying and creating a tradition of responsible statehood at some point before the industrial revolution
>which happened because in the thousand or so years after Rome fell, England and France developed into a more cohesive entity than Germany
>which happened because coastal transport was orders of magnitude cheaper than overland transport, so Roman administration tended to only exist in coastal areas

FTFY

>>1367501
did you just skip both world wars somehow

Reality was a mistake.

>>1367496
>Why didn't the Romans ever expand towards the North?
Barbarians
>Why didn't they bother expanding towards Ethiopia?
no point, its just desert
>Why was it always Persians they tried to fuck with?
They were enemies

>>1367496
Persians wanted Syria. Persia and Mesopotamia were also very rich. Germania and the Sahara? Not so much.

>>1367496
Actually I think it was Augustus that tried to conquer Arabia Felix but failed.

Nubia was between friendly and subordinated and Ethiopia became friendly after christianization.

There was nothing worthy in the north of Europe or south of the Sahara apart from the aforementioned ethiopians.

>>1367491
>Which empires treated conquered peoples the best?
Rome

>Which treated them the worst?
Not Rome

Most empires lasted long enough that different people got very different treatment.

For example, the occupation of the Philippines by the US, and the occupation of Japan were only two generations apart, but they were very, very different occupations.

The Mongols would probably massacre you if you hadn't surrendered the second you contacted them.

>>1367491


>Which empire treated conquered people the best

Achaemenid empire (few slaves, religious freedom throughout the empire, allowed jews to return to Judea)


>Which Empire treated them worst

Spanish Empire (enslaved natives, introduced inquisition, imported slaves)

A lollipop sitting in the middle of a dark closet is suspicious as fuck.

Not to mention gross.

Sometimes I just don't understand what I don't understand.

>>1367152
You just summed up my entire life. I'm ready to die now.