Tell me about the history of whistleblowers /his/. Who was the biggest one in history?
>>1347968
Martin Luther.
>>1347968
Jesus Christ
>>1348357
This and Muhammad.
Predict what happens to North Korea in the next 10-20 years.
>people are starving
>beg for more aid
>survive another year
>repeat
It feels now that the people are less brainwashed and the military elite know that the people are less brainwashed so sometghings gotta give.
nknews.org/2014/04/how-long-until-north-korea-collapses-eleven-defector-perspectives/
Also, the Spaniard in this documentary has to spy right?
>>1347960
>strong military leader decides to man up and start a coup
>the coup ousts the Kim dynasty
>US is happy
>new government calls for reunification of Korea
>US gets buttmad and plots a coup with the remnants of the Kim
Just when the US supported Pol Pot after the Vietnam War.
>>1347980
Nigga this isn't 1976
>>1347980
Pretty sure the US are 100% behind unified Korea. The their troops can piss into China and Russia from the Korean border.
What was his fucking problem?
He was skeptical of progress, contrary to all the other German thinkers of his century who saw some new and great age right beyond the horizon when their philosophy would define the world.
The Will
>>1347814
Buddhism is a helluva drug.
Is the history of the Horn of Africa as intrinsically linked to the Middle East as North Africa?
yeah, there was a bit of trade
The Land of Punt (now Eritrea and Somalia) was a trading partner of Egypt. Mostly gold, ivory and incense
Depends on the what area and subject you're talking about. The civilizations that flourished there certainly were. The first civilization there in northern Ethiopia, called D'mt, seems to have originated with the Yemeni Sabaean civilization. Later civilizations, like the Aksumites and later Ethiopian Christians, the Somali city states and the Muslim sultanates in the eastern/central highlands were culturally linked with the Middle East and the rest of the Eurasian/North African world in their religious and political culture. Linguistically, most people in the Horn speak Afro-Asiatic languages. That said, Christian Ethiopia mostly developed in relative isolation from the Middle East after the 7th century AD (they still traded and had contacts with places like Egypt and Nubia, but their development as a civilization was mostly insular). Looking away from civilization, there were also plenty of other cultures whose development owed a lot less (if anything at all) to the Middle East. Cultures in southern Ethiopia for example domesticated ensete and thrived independently of Middle Eastern developments..
>not semitics
>not indo-europeans
WHO were Sumerians?
Kangz probably
>>1347727
People who lived there before those incursions? Does it need to be something you'd recognize today?
>>1347727
Those are Assyrians.
Sumerians were probably just the native people of southern Iraq who adopted agriculture from around Syria/northern Iraq, or they might have been the descendants of those early agriculturalists who migrated into the region.
Memes aside, what do you guys think of Stirner?
>>1347534
A meme.Probably NIeztsche plagiarized him
>>1347534
I like a lot of what he says. He really delves into the nitty gritty regarding the problems with political religion and his prediction regarding Marxisms evolution into a cult was spot on.
A lot of people don't actually bother to read his work and instead spout memes.
>>1347534
Fedorafag
/his/
Who created the "mansion" meme?
Why do people aspire to live at huge empty houses?
>>1347523
To an extend it's status, but that's mostly concerning stuff like decoration. Back in the day people had a lot more hobbies than sitting behind their pc. They would have an office, a study room, a wine cellar, a library, a dining room, a living room, a bedroom with a bathroom, sometimes the husband and wife slept separately, so they would each have their own bedroom. Than there would need to be bedrooms for guests and family, each with their own bathroom. Than there would be another retreat for staff like gardeners, nannies, cleaners cooks and servants. Some stables for when people travelled by horse would also be needed. Each room with its own expensive decoration of course.
The mansions of today are sort of a leftover of this. Mansions in the victorian age were probably already a lot smaller than what you would get in the middle ages. Today a mansion wouldn't need to be as big, but with all the stuff people want, having large rooms to decorate to your wishes and having some space is always nice. A library would be nice, a separate room for my pc, a large kitchen, a garage for multiple cars, if I had a large garden I would probably go outside more.
Of course we could live in small single bedroom cubicles, but you can guess what would be wrong with that.
Americans
Capitalism
>his ideal home is not a small red cottage deep in the swedish forest
stop using 'meme' in this way
I've met several people face to face, and many online, who would agree with both of the following statements.
>America really won the war in Vietnam on the ground
>The Soviets lost the war on the ground in Afghanistan.
I have never seen someone reach both conclusions by applying a consistent set of criteria. And while this is probably the most explicit example of such I'm personally aware of, there are plenty others.
So, I mean, in a crude way, I get it. We idealize and idolize figures and institutions that we connect with on some level, and then dismiss their faults while highlighting those in others. But what happens to people when they're exposed to information that obviously highlights flaws in their theories? (for lack of a better term.) Clearly, some kind of rationalization goes on, but I have trouble seeing how people manage to delude themselves to that extent, even when surrounded by evidence that people do in fact delude themselves to such extents.
How does it work?
>>1347510
This is my favorite subject i.e. pure ideology. But I have no clue.
I sometimes wonder if some people are just too, um, something to see inconsistencies in their thinking.
>>1347510
I guess to believe America did not win militarily before a cease fire, you'd need to throw out data like casualties, etc. No one won the whole thing considering 2 million people probably died.
The fault really lies with the French. They broke rank so quickly, the inevitable power vacuum was what destroyed that society. I haven't seen them be much help in the world, since, except for themselves.
>>1347510
>How do people handle cognitive dissonance
They ignore it, or make up excuses. You actually seem to know how people rationalize or downplay evidence that contradicts their position. So I don't see where your doubts are laid.
If you are asking why do some people show more biases than others, that is because they feel more strongly about some subjects than other people. This keeps them from more dispassionate, objective perspectives.
Why is Shia so much more based than Sunni?
Persia has more interesting history than the rest of the muslim world that is west of Persia combined.
No Salafism, for starters--that seems to be the real problem on the other side of the fence
Why did Britain want to keep any of Ireland? They don't seem that relevant to us, nor do they seem that great. Why didn't we just leave completely?
>They don't seem that relevant to us
why are you making a thread about us then, faggot?
United Kingdom. The King's domains must stay united?
>>1347318
Do you know how autistic kids flip out when you try to take their toy they don't actually care about?
ITT: Post historical flags
>>1346828
well memed
>>1346828
haha epic post friend :) mind if i upload this to r/4chan for upboats?
OP is right though. Two years and this flag is history.
thoughts on Nobunaga? was he just an edgy Cao Cao?
Both Nobunaga and Cao Cao did nothing wrong and were no worse than Tokugawa or Liu Bei, on the contrary, they were better imo.
Are you implying that Cao Cao himself wasn't a maximum edgelord?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk9MzFD9T-Q
>>1346858
ROTK is just Shu propaganda, and it fellates Liu Bei worse than the New Testament fellates Jesus.
Which are the greatest docudramas?
I nominate BBC's Hannibal.
Fall of Eagles
incidentally also a BBC production
>>1346654
Parade's End was fun
>>1346654
is that doran martell?
Was the average Crusader a good person?
>>1346532
>bloodthirsty religious fanatics or opportunistic looters in search of land and plunder
Sure.
No. They were paid soldiers, although they were christian.
Were they badass? Another question altogether.
It depends
Did he maintain the true Lutheran faith established by Jesus Christ, despite satanic vatican influence?
If yes, then yes. If no, then no.
What do you think of this cool dude right here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC7-Q1dPa_c
Also, can you recommend any good books on him and Iraq in general?
>>1346432
He should've allied with Iran against the west tbqh pham
I always liked Saddam. Dunno why
>>1346454
Up until 1991, so did we.