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OK, so we all know the question "what if the wrong side won World War II?" but I ask you, what if it's really that the wrong side won World War I?
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hitler was a nutter no doubt about it
but maybe it was a lesser evil compared to islam. we would be certainly less tolerant of it right now thats for sure
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IMO there was no real bad guys of WW1, there was just incompotence.
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>>1174029
Hitler was okay with Islam and we would probably be even more tolerant of it then today.
Why did the combined might of The British and French Empires even struggle slightly to defeat Germany? You have the population of Canada, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, and Morocco, against Germany and Austro Hungary. This isn't even mentioning Russia. The Ottomans struggled to hold back the revolt too.
Why wasn't this shit over in months?
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>>1173958
Because technology had rendered most strategy and tactics obsolete. They had to figure out how to fight a war no one had ever fought before on a continental scale
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>>1173958
They were up against Germans thats why..
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>>1173999
German war tactics are nothing against numbers like these though.
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What's /his/ opinion on Effective altruism?
>Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement that applies evidence and reason to determining the most effective ways to improve the world.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Effective_altruism
Basically, Effective altruism is the no bullshit-attitude toward charity. Doing volunteer work at a dog shelter, for example, may feel fluffy and fine and Instagram-friendly, but it's less reasonable than taking a job in finance, making the $$$ and donating it to well-thought-out causes if it's true altruism you're after.
Effective altruism can be considered from everything to choosing charity organizations, to choosing lifestyle and career (as the example above), or to even world politics.
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>>1173809
Isn't this just utilitarianism?
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The topic of effective altruism deserves a better OP than some young stalin meme.
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Could we get an old picture thread going?
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alri lads
can we get some pictures of old timey slags
Swords were utter dog shit and the fact that people wasted money on them proves that everyone pre 19th century was nothing more than an ape. Battles were all about spears, polearms, bows that sort of thing the shitty meme weapon was only a sidearm which was used maybe as a toothpick at most
>inb4 muh 1v1 combat
yeah because that's what warfare is all about right? Mortal Kombat tournaments. Swords were to weapons what Miley Cyrus is to music.
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At least you tried somewhat to make it subtle
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Nice bait. But we all know that katana was the real kind of the battlefield.
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>shh nothing personel, puer
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Switzerland is never invaded. Why? 2016-05-21 22:15:18 Post No.1173673
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Switzerland is never invaded. Why?
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Why does Switzerland get overlooked by the invasions of WWI and WWII?
Don't they have banks filled with gold to loot?
Switzerland is pretty small, easily overrun.
In the cold war, there was a special train that the Soviets took to do banking with them.
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>>1173673
because they are surrounded by mountainous terrain and a well trained alpine army with an incredibly sound defense strategy. Not much in terms of resources to gain from that country anyway, and they don't do sanctions either so they are pretty chill.
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>>1173673
The people who are in charge also has gold in those banks. Having a safe neutral ground is just too convenient, specially if there's no drawback.
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> Switzerland is pretty small, easily overrun.
Not worth it. They are basically country wide natural fortress without easy way to exploit it natural resources.
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I wanna decide for myself are or how shit slavs really are... Where to learn everything about slavs /his/
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Slavs are the master-race.
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>>1173654
Slavs are great.
The fenno-scandinavian peoples, the balts, the slavs, caucasians and meds are all great.
What you really need to watch out for are fucking smelly useless bog niggers AKA "germans" as well as brits and irish. Disgusting!
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>>1173654
Go to Slavorum, m8
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Tell me about the Christianization of Scandiviana. Was it successful because of blood and might or did it win by The Word?
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>>1173637
St. Olafr won because God willed it so, just like with Constantine. Our Kingdom was also its most prosperous and expansive at this time, after St. Olafr won by the hand of God.
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Depends on the country, my county was "baptised" by blood lmao
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There was a battle between christianized vikings and pagan ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Strangford_Lough
christian ones won which means Christ is da biggest 'n da strongest
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What is the worst of the seven deadly sins?
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>>1173546
All.
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Pride. How this even a question.
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>>1173546
Murder: Specifically Patricide.
Read multiple things on internet nut
how bad was apartheid in South Africa (1948-1990) share what u know
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no
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>>1173463
Its was so bad black south Africans look back at the era with nostalgia.
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>>1173498
They don't
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I heard that The Brothers Grimm invented nationalism. Is it true? Does it means that nationalism literally just a fairy tale?
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>>1173424
Rin's virginity is a fairytale lmao
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>>1173424
>I heard that The Brothers Grimm invented nationalism.
Whoever said that is a moronic idiot.
>Is it true?
No.
You are an ignorant idiot.
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>>1173424
ANIME GET OUT
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>>1173422
Mostly yes.
What he says is basically realpolitik ante litteram.
There are some details you might disagree with, but the overarching ideas are pretty much unassailable.
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I have such a hardon for marble sculptures. They look so immortal.
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>>1173422
His ideas are correct for his time, but can gradually be taken less seriously with the passing of each generation.
That is not to say they aren't still applicable, but that merely the violence of political circumstances is on the decline, in general, and that technological advancements allows us now to focus more on how things "ought to be" than we used to.
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Who would win in a fight between a 16th century Swiss cook with french kitchen knife wearing german clothes and 1000 samurai?
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>>1173288
>a skilled warrior with a better weapon vs a fucking gook
Guess who
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>>1173339
My money is on the cook.
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The cook obviously. The legendary French kitchen knife could cut trough steel.
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French Empire
Mongols
Swedish Empire
German Reich
Why have so many failed to conquer all of Russia despite generally smacking the Russian army around outside of the nation?
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Everyone undersestimates Russian leaderships lack of respect for the lives of their own people.
Russia 'beat' napoleon by burning down everything east of moscow and moscow itself. The peasants suffered greatly so the Czar could keep trading with enlgand. Its a fucking joke.
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>>1173223
It's big, it's cold.
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>>1173223
Commonwealth did it but the king didn't care because the boyars would only accept his son if he converted to Orthodox which he didn't want.
What the fuck does "Celtic" mean? I thought it meant "pre-English conquest Ireland", but now I keep learning that it was a shorthand for "European territory not conquered by Rome".
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What a dumb thread.
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>>1172809
Well fuck you too, jackass.
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>>1172804
It means whatever you think it means.