What happened to left-wing political violence?
Since the early 80s, essentially all nonstate terrorism has been committed by far-right militants, be them Islamist or white supremacist. Why has the left lost its teeth?
>>1354306
Recuperation.
No financial support from the soviets anymore
>>1354306
We're plotting something big
I picked these up yesterday and was wondering what you guys think of em'. Am I in for an enjoyable read?
>>1353282
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is lengthy but if you enjoy the topic I'm sure you'll enjoy the book. I've never read the whole thing 2bh.
>>1353290
Yeah, I'll be on a trip soon and there won't be anything else to do but read so I'm hoping to grind it out.
What was worse? The Native American genocide or the holocaust?
>hunting bison to near extinction or gassing jews to near extinction
Shit lad, I don't know.
Native American genocide. The Holocaust wasn't even that bad.
>>1351000
One destroyed a continent's worth of indigenous peoples and cultures, the other killed a few million Jews without a homeland. Which do you think is worse?
So wait, how did America, a super power, get its ass kicked in Vietnam? How hard is it to fight against jungle monkeys?
>>1346230
The U.S. 'Operation Rolling Thunder' was the turning point that lost the war.
>>1346230
It didn't
>>1346236
No.
It was combat effective through the war, but without diplomacy to actually control the borders, the enemies received infinite weapons and supplies from china and russia. They would have jeeded to agent orange a quarter mile deep strip along a border and make a trump style wall with riflemen on it
Why is this here?
How come it didn't join Poland after URSS fall? How did Rusia even manage to get it and what was their plan for it?
>>1355493
>How come it didn't join Poland after URSS fall? How did Rusia even manage to get it and what was their plan for it?
No one wanted, it they offered it a few times to Lithuania and Germany both rejected.
>>1355493
They took it after ww2, who was going to stop them? though I'm not sure why they decided to make it direct territory instead of just giving it to Poland. Also interested in how they managed to keep it after the fall of the USSR. It's sad to see such a historical region cleansed of any culture and history.
>>1355493
>How come it didn't join Poland after URSS fall?
Because no one wants it. It's a shithole and money sink.
>>1355493
>How did Rusia even manage to get it and what was their plan for it?
Potsam arrangements, in order to give Russia a warm-water port in the Baltic Sea. St. Petersburg gets blocked by ice occasionally.
So Civilization VI's roster got leaked. /his/, what are your thoughts on the character list?
American - Teddy Roosevelt
Arabian - Saladin
Aztec - Montezuma
Brazilian - Pedro II
Celtic - Grace O'Malley
Chinese - Qin Shi Huang
Danish - Ragnar Lothbrok
Egyptian - Cleopatra
English - Victoria
French - Napoleon
German - Frederick the Great
Gran Colombian - Simon Bolivar
Greek - Alexander
Incan - Huayna Capar
Indian - Gandhi
Japanese - Mojo Tokimure
Malinese - Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali)
Mongol - Genghis Khan
Ottoman - Suleiman
Persian - Cyrus
Polish - Mieszko I
Roman - Julius Caesar
Russian - Catherine
Sioux - Sitting Bull
Spanish - Isabelle I
Venetian - Enrico Dandolo
Zulu - Shaka
Teddy may not have been the best US president, but he was one of the most imperial ones.
Also, they need to eliminate all of the Native Americans to make room for multiple different Greek civs.
>>1352581
>Persian - Cyrus
>there will never ever be a Sassanid or Safavid civ
Needs more Medieval leaders. Why not William the Conqueror for the French and Charlemagne for the Germans and Henry V for the English and Alexander Nevsky for the Russians?
So what does /his/ think of this book ? (Note that I'm asking /his/ not /pol/)
>>1350742
Pretty bad desu, it uses an outdated theory, geographism than was deemed racist like 40 years ago and uses lots of flawed and uninformed pet theories of the author. For what I recall he had friend or was part of the nature billboard and that's why is so extended.
>>1350742
Never actually read it but from what I heard he seems to make a lot of false assumptions, like the supposed lack of large animals outside Eurasia.
I'm a geography student and my professors consider it quite mediocre.
What do we owe the church of the Middle Ages?
>>1349786
European world dominance
Thanks.
our sense of the futility of a central Christian Church. future Christians will carve their own paths in the Word and in their own pursuit of knowledge of happiness, free from the shackles of dictation and tyranny.
>there is no judgement after death
>there is not even something after death
>the greatest monster and the greatest saint both share the same fate
It's just not fucking fair. How do you deal with it atheists?
if you could live your life again in full, exactly as you already have. Would you?
If the answer is no, live your life in such a way that it'd be so. If yes; you have the answer to your questions. It's how Nietzsche dealt with it.
That's why we have to make sure to make THIS world a living hell for all the monsters out there!
>>1348789
But this is wrong anon. Make no mistake; the Lord will repay all men according to their deeds.
>Bayeux Tapestry
> buy er tap iss tree
>buy yuh
>>1352818
Bi oooo tap es tree
What do you think him?
>>1339480
Pretty cool. He was probably the last European leader to stand up to liberal globalism.
>>1339480
>The nazis are bad for trying to take us over
>The US is bad for trying to take us over
>The Vietnamese did WHAT?!
>>1339507
>""""""""Liberte""""""""""""
>""""""""Egalite"""""""""""
>""""""""Fraternite""""""""
What can i read to get enlightened about the roots of our enjoyment of plots and characters?
Why do we like and enjoy reading or watching events occur to different characters?
I dont mean just an analysis of what it is that we enjoy, but why we enjoy it. I am sure there might be different approaches to this but is there a name for such questions?
When I write "we enjoy" I mean what most people find enjoyable, the popular.
>>1354026
Ask the people in >>>/lit/.
I know what you mean. Try reading a book for writers and authors about "How to write Characters", something like that. It will definitely touch on some elements of appeal.
>>1354026
Read up on Tolkien and do some research onto his writing process. He utilized a literary genre called mythopoeia, which is essentially world building through the creation of an in-universe mythos.
Hitler, Napoleon, Charlemagne, Caesar or Alexander?
>>1353798
Angela Merkel
>>1353798
>>1353798
Ceaser. He was God's appointed servant and watcher on earth. Hence why the traitors Cassius and Brutus suffer eternal damnation alongside the three headed lucifer.
Why do protectionist fags leave out the part where france became poorer? They already have hamilton so why make up a great finance minister
Because you touch yourself at night.
explain further?
>>1353787
>Open history book
>Colbert was the best finance minister ever
>He invented culture and science and established all french industry
>He made so much industry the bourgeoisie were invented
>The end
Every history book, when in reality france became more in debt, thus more taxed, while the french east india company failed and industrialization began in England. Industrialization even reached belgium before europe's greatest power
Knowledge: My body's behaviour is partially influenced from outside the material world by me (I am an immaterial mind).
Hypothesis: Every adult human's body's behaviour is partially influenced from outside the materialist world by an immaterial mind.
As we all know, there is currently a plausible account of every human body's behaviour which only refers to material causes.
If my hypothesis is true, does it mean that people like Dan Dennett are basically con-men, who have figured out that even though they know old-fashioned dualism is true, they can't lose the game if they just pretend that it isn't?
>>1353626
Not even a materialist, but I don't see how you can come to the conclusion. They probably just don't see what you are taking as evidence for dualism to be evidence for dualism.
>>1353637
>They probably just don't see what you are taking as evidence for dualism to be evidence for dualism.
In my view, they are basically just pretending they don't know why everyone else is deeply unsatisfied by their answers.
They say things like "consciousness is a trick", or "consciousness is an illusion". Now I know a lot about illusions and tricks. But what sort of being I am is not something that could be an trick.
>>1353647
Conciousness itself as it actually exists isn't a trick. People who use the word conciousness for a variety of silly definitions are tricking you, though.
>unsatisfying
"Being alone in the dark is scary" isn't a satisfying explanation for haunted houses, but that doesn't change how true it is.