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>in 2000 years from now people will shitpost about who was the true successor to the American empire
>yfw
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>successor to the American empire
>anyone but Texas
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America thread?
America thread.
Commies, leafs, and Southerners need not post.
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>>1246490
>communists can't be American
>southerners can't be American
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Why did the Argentines think they could pull this shit off? Was there any possible scenario where they could win this war?
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>>1246256
>was there any possible scenario where they could win
Maybe if Iron Maggie wasn't in charge.
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>>1246256
They thought international pressure would keep the Brits away.
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>>1246256
>Why did the Argentines think they could pull this shit off?
Because Britain had been declining since Suez and possibly before. Britain had just cucked out Rhodesia. Britain was a declining power while Argentina perceived herself as a rising power.
Fuck me, Britain was even going to sell them Vulcan bombers [sale of 1 was approved just before the war began.]
There was a strong perception Britain wouldn't bother coming down to reclaim the islands. Their success in doing so wasn't entirely guaranteed either.
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Was he a hero or a villain?
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He was a hillain
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>>1244378
It's hard to know because he got assassinated before he really got a chance to do anything.
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he won and made the bed we have to sleep in today, so it doesn't really matter what we think, does it?
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How much blood did she personally spill?
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menstruation joke here
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>>1241335
About 100ml per month
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I thought she was more of a mascot. Was a little disappointed the last time I looked into it, actually. Thought she was more of a warrior in her own right.
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What do you think of Maximillien Robespierre aka "The Incorruptible", /his/ ?
>held France together in the middle of invasions, internal revolts, foreign backed plots to put the people back under the chains of monarchy
>Always stayed true to his convinctions, not hesitating to get rid of even his closest friends when they turned out to be corrupt
>BTFO both the far left radicals and the ones not committed enough to the revolution
>wanted to instore a Republic of Virtue, a truly moral state, only to be killed by corrupt degenerates
>opposed dechristianization and understood the important role of religion for the people, promoting the Cult of the Supreme Being
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>>1239638
>went batshit crazy at the end of his ''reign'', leading a cult tat basically made him a new god.
>''La terreur'' =killing almost all the french elite, including thinkers and authors.
>Rise of the bourgeiosie, since the nobility is BTFO
Nope, Robespierre shows that every revolution is often paid by blood, drastic changes of which groups are in power.
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The anglos gave him a bad reputation.
But he was okay. Probably one of the best among all the contenders for power of the period.
I blame him more for his mistakes (Danton, Fouché, the whole thermidor affair) than for his faults.
The terror was useful and the excesses not so widespread. The really bad stuff happened in the course of the civil war, and largely out of Robespierre's control.
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>>1239638
He was a nutjob whacko who was a danger to everyone around him. It's amazing that France is still even a thing after having him in charge. He's like Caligula but ten times worse.
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Did the commies and anarchists on here enjoy this?
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>>1252345
Everyone did. We had a grand time laughing at it on /int/
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>>1252351
This. Even fascists and reactionaries enjoyed it, because it basically proved their point.
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>>1252345
Such scum. We should imprison them on the Falklands, or maybe just drop them off at Argentina. Both like to attack things that aren't theirs.
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I just saw something on Facebook that made me a bit confused, /his/ can you help me understand it? I saw a post slandering politicians and in the comment section there was a feeble attempt from one side that tried to present itself as an actual argument. What really got me about this was that they said and I quote, "We are headed to a true civil war where blood will run in the streets over bullshit arguments like where this could be heading." By saying that we're heading to a "true civil war" are you saying the one that happened two whole centuries ago didn't matter? I mean, why say that at all if there was a true civil war that happened where actual people died and suffered as a result? Did you not pay attention in U.S. history when you were school, did you not care, why say something like that if you went through a public education system that required students to learn about american history and events of the past in our nation that include such topics? It doesn't make sense, unless you somehow forgot that such a thing happened, you weren't paying attention to what you typed as you were fighting the democractic party because we aren't a democracy, you really believe that Trump will save us from this "impending societal destruction" that either Hillary or Snaders will cause, or if you wanted to deny the events of the past. Just super saiyan.
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Who knows what goes on in the head of some average bozo, as if everyone on Facebook has some real, legitimate point? I will tell you this, the USA is fine as it is and if some stupid redneck revolution starts, or dindu or whoever else, I'll be on the side happily restoring order, so intelligent people can make appropriate decisions and changes while cooler heads prevail. You don't fix shit by killing people. You fix shit by talking things over and dealing with the results.
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Shit, if that's all it takes, then might as well do something about it when possible.
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>>1252332
The US civil war had standing armies and only two of them
Many other civil wars have multiple factions and more irregulars hiding in mountains and forests than actual soldiers in uniforms
so I recently watched a documentary about WW1 and I realized the germans were basically alone against every major nation, they killed like 2 million russians in the east while fighting the brits and the french in the west, then they managed to stir up a revolution in russia to concentrate their forces in the west and would have won the war if the americans hadn't joined. how did they do it? are they really the master race or something?
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Nah, they wuz just big country n shieet
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>Eternal kraut fucked up everything
No one is surprised
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>>1252323
I remember this kid in middle school who randomly sperged out and managed to trip up another boy and from then on reckoned he was a hardcore gangster or something, but from then on everyone was wary of him so next time he tried it he ended up on the floor with grazed hands going "you fucking asshole" over and over. Whenever I read about Germany and Austria in ww1 for some reason I am reminded of him.
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A history of the color black
How come that so many religions (at least the monotheistic religions) are so fond of the color black?
While today (only today?) it's seen as a color that is appropriate for funerals or for "goths"?
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>>1251913
It's unassuming, plain and humble. For similar reasons Abrahamic religions (particularly Muslims) are also quite fond of white, because they're the two plainest colours possible.
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It's a morning color, it's worn by monks in Orthodoxy because it represents that are dead to the world, they have crucified themselves to it for Christ. Becoming a monk is a kind of martyrdom.
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>>1251929
*mourning
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Historic photos
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Handsome Russian wrestler
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On a whim, I started sifting through the Wikipedia article on Erwin Rommel. This of course alerted me to the existence of the 'Rommel myth', something I was unaware of.
Was Rommel really as much of a magnificent bastard as he's made out to be, or was he just overrated for propaganda purposes? Additionally, does anyone know some good books or articles on Rommel?
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>>1251735
Did he win in North Africa? If no then no he is just a meme. If yes you need to back to kiddie school.
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>>1251750
Nah, you're just retarded.
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How do I philosophically deal with tfw no gf?
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>>1251609
Read the Metaphysics of Love by Schopenhauer. It's pretty dated but a lot of the ideas are still interesting and his central idea is still applicable (that "love" is a primal instinct that stems from the preservation of the species)
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Disregard females, acquire currency.
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Read some of these
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>mfw my professor says the romans were white
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>>1251603
everybody in europe was black
white people are a social construct
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Hol up
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>Charlemagne
>not black
There are literally photographs of him!
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Is the Roman Empire better than the Byzantine? 2016-06-07 04:17:15 Post No.1251404
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Is the Roman Empire better than the Byzantine?
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this question is stupid, so I will phrase it better,
The Roman Empire ruled from Rome compared to the Eastern Roman Empire ruled from Constantinople. Who was better?
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You're right, that is a stupid question. Quot homines, tot sententiae.
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>>1251417
constructive criticism is appreciated
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>>1251404
Basically your asking classical Rome vs Late Antiquity ERE.
I would much rather live during Pax Romans, back when the Empire was unchallenged and highly urbanized.
>"You are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
- YHWH
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>>1251400
No surprise that the Jew Saul-Paul (the actual founder of Christianity) didn't want the goyim to think like that and instead preached that masochist, self-destructive and cucked "Love thy enemies and turn the other cheek" BS to them.
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Old covenant was carnal, new covenant is spiritual. Hence cleanliness is not longer clinical, but spiritual, and initiation is no longer carnal, but spiritual.
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Well, you can't get fair than that, can you? Out of all the things God's supposed to have said this is probably one of the more reasonable ones tbqh.