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Pro: Troll the fuck out of commies

Con: Everybody will make fun your dick long after you're dead

If you have competent and reasonable people at the top you can get more shit done and better than demoracies.
If you don't, then your nation will die.

Note that facism works best with culturally and ethnically homogenous nations.

Trains run on time

>>1313910

His handwriting's pretty nice.

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>>1313910
That motherfucker got dosed by the CIA.


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/

He was right about pretty much everything, you know.

>>1313125
There's a great book called The Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph Tainter. It focuses mostly on the technical/economic aspects of civilisational collapse, but illustrates its point with plenty of historical examples that might tangentially answer your questions.

To sum it up, after the initial period of chaos and painful readjustment, things for the average Joe get surprisingly better than they were before the collapse.

The Decline of the West

>>1313147
This anon is right. Once society collapses things are usually bad for a few decades, but once things calm down some the quality of life improves greatly.

>>1312864
Even the Etruscan architecture has no parallels in Lydia, the arc for instance was developed in Etruria and is a huge element of the Etruscan architecture, there are no arches in ancient Lydia.
Also what about Bronze age Lydia?
Well first of all it wasn't even called Lydia back then, nor Sardis was ever mentioned at the time by the Hittities, and we know that they were a Luwian people, so still very much Indo European, differently from the Etruscans, who spoke an isolated language, again, the Bronze age people who inhabited what would have been Lydia did not leave us anything that suggests that they were the ancestors of the Etruscans.
3)Another easily debunkable argument in favor of the Anatolian origin of the Etruscans is the Lemons stele, written in a language similar to Etruscan, which is for some a proof of their Eastern origins, this makes no sense because:
1)The stele has been dated to the sixth-fifth century bc, while the first documents in the Etruscan langauge date back to the 7th of perhaps even 8th century bc, so if anything this is a proof of an Etruscan outpost/settlement on the island, as we know that the Etruscans were known as sailors and pirates by the Greeks, it is quite possible that they installed some ports in the Agean to trade with the Greeks.
2)The Lemnian language is only attested on the island and nowhere else, not in mainland Anatolia or Lydia, where people spoke Lydian and other Indo European langauges.

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>>1312864
>>1312866
Just a note: Anatolian Indo-European languages were very different from all other indo-European languages.

So what are the Etruscans then?

Interesting. I've never been into numismatism, but I can see its appeal.

I never see modern coins so worn down, even fifty year old quarters. I know this coin is 115 years old, but it has not been in circulation that long. In fact I doubt it was in circulation after 1925 or so.
Is it that silver is just that much softer than copper alloys we use today?

>>1313773
That'd be correct.

my sister got some greek bitch on her leg
I hope it's a greek who-ah

>>1312533
Greek tattoos are getting popular

Still waiting for an ID

>>1312516
socrates is my guess.
that beard reeks of socrates, but it might also be generic.

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>yet another holocaust thread
Oh, fine, just this once.

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>>1312048
Just memein the memes along pham

tl;dr : it's worth the read, no matter how much people will tell you it's not.

Diamond presents an essential piece of the puzzle on what makes civilizations survive, but, as his harshest academic critics would say, he oversimplifies it to 2-3 reasons or causes.

but overall he it not /wrong/ per se, it's just a sweeping generalization on the basic foundations of societies and peoples.

>>1312072
>continually uses counterfactual history to support his points
>he isn't /wrong/
He's as wrong as your idiotic fucking post.

>>1312040
[spoiler]You did something wrong, though.[/spoiler]

>>1312040
Ironically that's what he did wrong, that he did nothing.
Hadn't he pussyfooted around the nobles he maybe could have been able to push through the reforms necessary to hinder the revolution.

>>1312040

[spoiler]He did nothing[/spoiler] which is what he did wrong

>>1311920

bump

I can't think off the top of my head of any books that are about the complete history if Rome from its founding to its decline.. too much history there to provide a detailed account. Read Livy's Early History of Rome and all of his books for that matter. That's a good starting point.

>>1312721
I forgot to mention there is A History of Rome to 565 A.D. by A.E.R. Boak. And it's free online too.

>>1311433
Dravidians actually have the same skull shapes as Caucasoids. They are one of many sub-groups.

>>1311734
Of course they do.
I don't get your point.

>>1311433
What makes you say that? Also, the guy in that picture doesn't look like a Dravidian at all.

Hadron collider was pretty anti-normie.

The downside of democracies is that a large quantity of resources goes to low IQ plebs. We will probably never go back to the moon due increasing non-white population = dead weight.

>>1311059
>art and media

My bad.

>>1311036
Waiting for Godot

I don't know details, but you couldn't just sign up for it. They were all officers, for one thing, which means they were all from the upper classes.

>>1310910
Most were already civilian pilots before the war and simply turned military when the war started

>>1310910
Today, all pilots of military aircraft are officers. That means they graduated college or went through a military academy (college+bootcamp for officers). I imagine the same must have applied for WW1.

So I imagine only well educated individuals from a most likely wealthy background were capable of being pilots. The military probably advertised it as a program for anyone interested.

>>1310890
lol

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>>1310890
"Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.

MFW Herzl was the true messiah.

'Kay, where did this meme start

>>1310824
shaft

and no it dies not break when hit by an axe or sword.
shafts are incredibly strong and rarely broke in battle

>>1310824
Yeah. I do it all the time in Dark Souls.

>>1312659
You can't parry with an axe in dark souls though.