First time posting here.
Hopefully this is relevant to this board - I have a question.
What if the U.S won the Vietnam war?
Ignoring how the U.S would win the war first...
Would the bitter past of Vietnam be more happy much-like WWII? Celebrated liberators in awful places and times? Or would people still spit at the thought and reason as to why they went to Vietnam in the first place? How would the public opinion shift?
Its an odd war. Right now only lefties and morons scoff at its existance, and there wouldnt be less morons if we won.
>>1266271
If the u.s won vietnam war?
The price of rubber would be set by bridgestone instead of the brppa
>>1266271
Would probably be viewed like Iraq is today
Why did people just go full retard?
Capitalism
>>1266237
a e s t h e t i c s
>>1266237
ask /fa/
Battle of Fontenoy,
May 11th, The Year of Our Lord, 1775.
Why are there so many paintings of it?
Bumping with pics of this battle
Cap for very lazy people
Who would win in a street fight?
Smith would kick Marx's fat ass back to Germany!
Adam Smith, he was an expert at destroying working class people.
Marx was a bearmode neet philospher and Smith was a nancy fuckboy in some book club
What is your home country's stance on various war crimes committed by it throughout history?
Does it outright dismiss them?
Admit and glorify them?
Admit and indulge in self-hate because of them?
Admit but couldn't give less of a shit about them?
Depends on who the crimes were against. We paid reparations to the Indians and Japanese because they're not white. You never hear the end of the Indian thing especially. Metis rebels are considered heroes. The few massacres of German troops and the post-war ethnic cleansing of Germans that our soldiers participated in gets totally ignored, and when it is brought up it's considered justified because "they were Nazis." (I only know about it because my grandpa was a zombie who didn't want to fight so the army used him as a guard in a concentration camp after the war, and he told me about Germans being arbitrarily beaten and killed and the starvation and disease.) I'm sure there are atrocities Canadian troops have hand in since WWII but you don't hear about them.
>'''''''''''crimes''''''''''''
Fucking arbitrary laws, only ever imposed on the losing side
>>1266224
Didn't even talk about it.
Is there a more satisfying moment in history?
Cannae, Carrhae and Teutoburg Forest you damn Roman
>>1266194
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Watling_Street
>The destruction of the last bastion of intelectual development and its replacement by idiocracy that persists to this day
>Good
What was this guy's problem ?
>Surrounded on all sides
>No established identity
>Massive power
It'd be a wonder if they didn't fuck some shit up
>>1266046
South Schleswig is rightful Danish clay
>>1266081
shouldn't have lost the war then
What does /his/ make of this guy? I can't decide whether he's one of those one-in-a-million geniuses that normal people simply cannot comprehend, or if he's just a raving lunatic that somehow managed to get a PhD
he's really funny and entertaining whether he's right or wrong
It's time to stop posting, Zizek.
>>1266030
Communist. So trash.
let's assume the americans develop the a-bomb before the war in Europe ends
would they drop it over Berlin?
If anything countries like Britain and Japan might come together and lynch America if they had such a weapon.
>>1266024
The Manhattan project was expressly aimed at Germany.
It might not have been Berlin itself, but certainly some German city.
The planned using IT on Mannheim/Ludwigshafen befasse easyJet to am (Neckar flows into Rhine ) alot importent industry and a shit ton of people
Does Satanism hold any merit or is it just a religion for edgelords?
It's mostly just for the edge lords.
They have a "le believe in yourself" shonen animu moral lesson. The Satan thing is just for marketing.
Actual Satanist here.
Obviously as a rational, atheistic religion with a focus on empowering individuals to live fulfilling lives, it has far more merit than any theistic religion.
Godfags use 'edgelord' as an insult, but what they are really saying when they use the term is that 'these people make fun of me so I don't like them."
The truth is that godfags are the biggest edgelords that have ever existed. Godfags literally claim that you are inherently evil and will suffer eternal torment unless you live by their life-denying rules. Godfags came into power through the sword and are still up to that same old shit (see: IS destroying ancient artefacts) but they will not even tolerate verbal criticism against them: just calling them on their bullshit is called 'hate' or 'phobia' by them, and demand 'tolerance' from you... tolerance of *them*, while they live and breathe hatred and tolerance.
Their entire religions are based on fear and oppression and subjugation, and yet they claim they are working on principles of 'love' and 'peace'. That is why we mock and satirise them.
Hail Satan.
Why do priests often been portrayed as pervert, evil and corrupt guys in literature, movies and games ?
Realism
Protestants and Gothic horror
The Catholic Church is literally the closest thing we have to a comic-book tier international evil order bent on world domination.
Why was Japan so willing to industrialize while many other non-western countries were not? Not only did China refuse, but pretty much every other regional powers expelled westerners out.
>>1265662
Because they were being helped along.
>>1265662
Kuso sure sageru
>>1265662
Japan feard western countries because China was defeated in The Opium War
Seriously, you look at these pics of ancient warriors and it makes you wonder how people managed to fight with hair like this.
It gets sweaty, hangs in your face and eyes at the worst moments, the foe can grap it and if you sleep in bad conditions with your squad it surely has a hygenic drawback too.
>>1265532
because they didn't... it was most likely dreadlocked/ braided or very short cut...
Your just gay
>>1265532
Long hair > short hair.
Short hair is for degenerates while long hair is for superior men. If you cut your hair you are doing what the army wanted you to do prior to WWI. Long hair is a much more ancient ideology then some shitty swag fuckbois fresh trim.
>kesselring
>macarthur
>rommel
>patton
>gorbachev
Who would win in a street fight?
>>1265442
As much as I hate to say it, probably Patton. He actually did have dedicated hand to hand combat training as part of his stint in the cavalry, and as far as I know, none of the others did, although I could easily be wrong.
>another player has entered the game
This guy, he has a mouth full of metal teeth, after being torutered by the NKVD and was a key figure in the Russians winning Stalingrad. Plus he just looks like a bear, man.
>>1265442
Rommel managed to stay high fit throughout his life, depends which year you're taking him from.
I know this isn't the standard thread in /his/, but I recently started studying philosophy and have the opportunity to study a language on the side. Which would be useful for philosophy? I hear German is neat because you can read many western philosophers in their native tongue, but I also have thought chinese would be cool to be able to read all the ancient chinese things (i.e. Art of War) untranslated. What does /his/ think?
Greek and German are only languages you need to read philosophy, fuck everyone else
Chinese is overly complicated, plus German isn't that hard if you already know English. You might want to take a look at French and Italian too.
Could also learn Latin since it's easy and there's some cool stuff in it but it's, well, a dead tongue.
>>1265448
Is there an argument against Chinese other than it's hard? Learning languages is pretty easy for me.