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>>1292194
Some are born eunuchs, some are made eunuchs and some become eunuchs for the glory of Heaven.

Also I would look up Constantine the eunuch's story. He was a big player on the Byzantine side during the Fourth Crusade. He help depose quite a few emperors. I would also look up the castrati who were castrated male singers and the last one that lived actually made some recordings. They were a big thing in Italy back in the day. Origen is also interesting.

Typically they could continue to be popular because they didn't have their own family loyalties and could serve as bureaucrats. This is kind of like priests (see first semi-quotation I posted) who ideally didn't have children to advance. Nobility disliked them because they wanted to influence the ruler instead of these people without connections or even families.

>>1292194
The point of a eunuch, and really most slave/foreign courtier positions, was to have a political faction theoretically loyal to the ruler and not a local aristocracy or interest. Thus they were set up from the very beginning as antagonists to native elites and commoners since they, as lifelong bureaucrats with no personal relationships outside of the court, would mostly care about and promote the bureaucracy that empowers and enriches them.

They kept getting used because as untrustworthy as they seemed to the locals, the ruler usually thought the same thing about local power bases and desired a way to counter balance their influence at court (or even his own household if he took noblewomen for wives and concubines instead of slaves).

>>1292234
Also they don't fuck ur wife

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>>1292183
Only correct answer

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

Literally the best

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The absolutely mad fat fuck Feng Yuxiang, literally had what are translated as 'Big Sword' units armed with large swords, and managed briefly to establish himself as Vice Premier.


Honourable mention to Wu Peifu, and also Zhang Xun too; for being an absolute idiot

inb4 frustrated theists

thread over

>>1292116
Humans have to be right. So humans argue and fight over who's "right"

>>1292124
Fair enough. It's just weird that it's going on today.

>>1291656
Saxons, clearly.

>>1291660
what about york?

Normans (vikings)

China will lurch it along and it will have to be invoked westernly due to the arms race

How did the NSDAP tainted it?

>>1291432
By being the NSDAP

>>1291409

Culturally? Norman.
Ethnically Briton with a large Saxon minority.

>>1291409
Saxon. If they were Briton they would be Catholic like the Irish and would not be speaking English.

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>>1291409
What language are we speaking?

>>1291230
It's a book for edgy teens and autists written by a deviant hypocrite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZmVRI8Ptv4

Fucking love this episode.

Long. Boring. Worthless as a novel.

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This is the back side. It looks like it says "Tcarisus" or something.

>>1291133
Nevermind I found out it's a Roman T Carisius Denarius coin of Juno Moneta from 46 BC.

>>1291133
I think it's a Roman T Carisius Denarius coin of Juno Moneta from 46 BC.

aka one day's wages

>>1290989

Not red enough! Make it eviler!

>>1290989
Literally who?

>>1290989
nowadays, his ideas are bound to be a lot more useful to those same reactionaries than anyone in the left, funnily enough

>>1290661
There are two major theories

>Demise theory

This theory is that the Ottoman Empire was at its prime up until WW 1 and was cut down after its defeat in WW 1 and subsequent division and breaking up.

>Decline theory

This theory is based around the concept that the Sultanate had slowly eroding power and because of it's halt on serious expansionism after the 1600's (whether stopped by outside forces or inside forces). The empire started to Stagnate and erode from Economic to Political power with in its boundaries.

Some minor theories are also present.

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Here's the unedited version

Can't help but wonder how the middle east would've turned out if the ottoman empire hadn't been gutted.

>this nigger in sneakers

Unbelievable.

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>What is this bullshit?
>My feet hurt
>I wish I was at home playing wow

Neat

>>1290492
I thought that French was only for the French and upper class English who were descendents from Norman conquerors.

>>1290492
Nice photoshop.

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>>1290492

BANE?

>>1290373
I guess you can say Us bases is sort of a conquest but its not really. There is and was no unified government with the US at its top..

>>1290373
Because that's stupid you fucking moron

>>1290373
The US' entire argument against Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe was grounded on the principle of national self-determination. They couldn't just annex Western Europe on a whim, even if they had the means to do it (which they didn't).

>>1290279
On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take.

On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones, who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphans' bus will be crossing later that night). One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become G.E.M. Anscombe, while a third would invent the pop-top can.

If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, "Leftie" and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts. These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, "Leftie" will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men: he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of "Leftie's" act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example. If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney-transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler. There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available, however the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor.

Assume that the brain's choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains-in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived.

QUESTION: What should the brain do?

What do you do? You're a brain in a jar. Just you have a real body around the jar instead of an imaginary one.

>>1290173
The cancer in human form that is the German must be exterminated from the face of this earth once and for all.

>>1290173

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks.

Blacks have contributed nothing at all to humanity