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>>1163051
Since inception.
When you have to defend your right to rule it's because people already call you a useless idiot and contest your competence. See also: divine right.

When the "rule by the best" generations started todie off and only people born to the title remained.

>>1163051

It was never rule by the best.

Also when Louis XIV built Versailles and removed nobles from their lands and obligations and had them play court intrigues instead.

>>1162782
>Gather political influence.
>Declare yourself king.

Like that.

>>1162791
If you create a House, what direction should you go?

Should you create a lineage directly like Osman I in the House of Osman or should you create a House of Bonaparte for the entire family like Napoleon?

Are you asking where babies come from?

>>1162597
Do you see historical accuracy as a gliding scale or an either or thing?

If you mean the latter than there simply is none.

>>1162597
Well, Generation Kill is very authentic

Boardwalk empire.

>>1162273
Any meme question like that; what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. The answer is that the premise makes no sense.

Also
>Calvin doesn't understand angular velocity

>>1162291
The answer is simple : omnipotence is impossible.

>>1162301
Shit I meant to reply to the OP

It's interesting that commies managed to kill more people during peacetime than Hitler did during a fucking war.

>>1162271
Because you (almost certainly) live in a capitalist country, so those atrocities are either ignored or blamed on something beside the economic system in place.

>>1162298

Pretty obvious desu.

Technically, Genghis khan was homeless

>>1162233
His home was whatever piece of ass he could find.

>>1162268
>Genghis Khan lived in ass

You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Any attempts by America to democratize the reason has been met with an emphatic "Nah" by the countries we did it to

>>1162014
It failed in Yugoslavia. It's just that Yugoslavia could, after civil war, re-organise themselves, draw new borders etc.

In Germany, Japan, Korea and Panama, stable strong countries with modern economy. Therefore America invested into those countries so they could develop their own economy(and in case of SK - military).

In Afghanistan the US wanted to support their Opium-producing friends, the development of the country would only make things worse for those(as it would need that the labour would get more expensive and the government more able to go in and fuck them up for producing drugs). Other than that it was to piss off the Russians. Saudi Arabia exploited that and placed their wahabbi plants inside.
In Iraq and Libya the point was to remove all oil producers in the region that didn't want to be dominated by Saudis.

In Somalia they went in for the image but after they took first serious casualties they've pulled out because lol - what's the point of meddling there.

In Vietnam it was all because they wanted to stop teh communism. To do so they've supported retarded, uber-religious dictator who was religious minority(Christian) and absolutely hated the majority(Buddhists).
That they've failed to the point where they were supporting the Red Khmers who were attacked by NV is another thing.

>>1162014

Because only brutal dictators can make those countries work.

>>1161861
they are atheist in the sense that they do not subscribe the any theological doctrine whatsoever.

However, depending on what kind of Buddhism we are talking about, they do believe in gods, but these gods trapped in samsara.

Again depending on the sect of Taoism, they do believe in gods.

Confucianism is more of a cultural/political ideology, but even this doctrine believes in what is called the mandate of heaven.

Atheism is defined as a belief there is no god. Those religions do not believe in a god. Therefore they are atheistic in nature

>>1161861
>Buddhism
It's a heterodox, nastika current of Hinduism that rejects the Ishvara.

>Taoism
At least originally, the Daodejing puts the Dao at the center of the cosmos without anthopomorphizing it.

Daoism is polytheistic as fuck now.

>Confucianism
Confucius goes out of his way not to speak of Heaven to his disciples.
>If you can't serve man, how can you serve Heaven?

>>1161718
Hedonists don't like acknowledging things that don't bring them pleasure. That's the nature of it.

Because Americans are stupid

BECAUSE IT PRINTS MONEY, BIIIIIIIIIIITCH

But seriously, it makes the money and they fill a demand that the consumer makes of them.

Yeah. And?

>None philosophy shows misunderstanding of philosophy and passes this misunderstanding onto others.

Shocker.

Searle is a hack, it is known, this isn't an indictment of philosophy.

Underestimation of the enemy, poor to non-existent intelligence, confusion and rivalries within the chain of command, the shitshow that was Tsushima, the comparative discipline, training, organisation and intelligence of the Japanese forces and a reliance by the Russians on obsolete equipment and units (e.g. Cossack cavalry units).

>>1161633
All of this.

It's worth being said however, that by the end of the conflict Japan itself was strained to its limits. The peace that concluded the war was not one of the victor dictating terms to the defeated, Japan (somewhat begrudgingly) forfeited a fair amount of the concessions they had hoped to gain from the war for the purpose of reaching a hasty conclusion. They were aware that the full weight of Russian manpower was never brought to bear.

>>1161621
They had their fleet in the Baltic when the enemy was in the pacific

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I dunno why but to me there's something beautifully simplistic about tying a person to a stick and just fucking setting them on fire.

>>1161611

Celine Dion, Justin Bieber amd looping the Barney song until the detainee is driven insane.

I know the rules of this board, but BARNEY SONG TORTURE.

>>1161618
Kek

Oh my fucking god it was awful.
One of the darker periods in lithuanian history, rivaled only by the nazi and soviet occupations

>>1161552
Oh dear. That so?

>>1161535
Comparatively sparsely populated except for the Polish core lands.

Harsher serfdom instituted than was common during the Middle Ages

Elective monarchy which meant strong nobles/magnates
All in all live as gentry or noble was probably quite a bit of fun and rich city merchants or craftsman didn't have it bad either, but for your average rural fuck it was quite a bit shittier than being a farmer in Western European countries. Side effect of the serfdom was that urbanization never really took off which hurted Poland in the long run.

>>1161492
The quote is debatable, but I hardly see how it applies to France anyway.

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all states all fascisms all nations are a tyranny

>tyranny
>bad

Capitalism a shit

>>1161270
Wrong son, objectivism is wrong for other reasons though.

>>1161331
>>1161270
obviously it's because of le spooks maymay