Was Napoleon III an actual good leader?
Was he a good politician?
Did his election campaign actually speak to the people, or did everyone just jerk off to the name Bonaparte?
How exactly did he transition to Emperor from President?
And finally was France in a better position after he'd left, ignoring the whole beaten up by the Germans thing?
French socialism be like
Up until 1870 he was pretty good. France gained new clay, it was rather prosperous and stable, and he brought some social progress. Of course Sedan was a pretty gigantic fuckup.
His election is rather interesting. It was the first presidential election by universal suffrage (after Napoleon I's, which wasn't really contentious). In Paris nobody believed he stood a chance, Cavaignac seemed like the obvious winner, and Bonaparte was just some adventurer with nothing but a name. But Bonaparte realised that most French people weren't Parisian, so he was the first to campaign (in the original sense of the word, from campagne = countryside). He'd go all over France and organise banquets with saucisson and wine where he'd make his speeches. Of course the people looked at him and saw his uncle. And in a time without opinion polls, it came as a complete shock in Paris when Bonaparte won with 75% of the vote.
He made Paris great again. Destroyed all the old buildings, made the most beautiful city in the west.
How he would roll in his grave if he saw the African ghetto they call Paris today.
how and why did manicheism spread out more than Christianity and Islam, coming from the same region?
don´t know the reason, but looking at the map it´s easy to guess it was the Silk Road
Also support of Persian nobles
Because it's basically an idea that boils down to "there's good and bad, be good for god and avoid evil from the devil".
It's just basically a blank dualism that you can insert anything into and fits into the human desire to figure out what's right or wrong and doesn't require believing in these clearly fictional stories as actual fact.
So, with something that vague, it's bound to grow larger because it's also easier to adapt to various cultures.
>Were there any major battles in WW2 in Europe where American troops were outnumbered the entirety of the battle?
I know they were in the early stages of the Bulge however rather quickly they gained a numerical advantage.
>Pic is German Soldier with an american Weapon (M1 carbine)
>>1116696
A lot of naval battles.
>>1116713
>europe
>naval battles
wat
Not really. When you attack, you attack with a superior force. With the exceptions of the initial counterattacks at the D-Day beachead and the Battle of the Bulge the US was always on the offensive.
US playground.
Batista a shit. USA really fucked up Cuba. The Cold War really fucked a lot of things up. And who's to blame for the Cold War?
That's right, you guessed it, Churchill. Eternal Anglo strikes again.
Worse
>>1115353
Daily reminder that Russia was founded by a Finnish man.
>Rurik was a Finnic Kven, i.e. he was "Finnish", in similar way an average Savonian, Tavastian or a member of some other Finnish tribe is Finnish. Rurik was the founder of the early stage of what gradually became Russia, and his descendants ruled what today is known as "Russia" well beyond the Middle Ages.
>The results of the Rurikid DNA study referred to below are not surprising, considering that other DNA studies and other evidence point to Finnic people having inhabited the modern area of Sweden for thousands of years, including the modern-day area of Southern Sweden:
>• "The hunter-gatherers show the greatest similarity to the modern-day Finns", says Pontus Skoglund, an evolutionary geneticist at Uppsala University in Sweden, about ancient skeletal remains excavated in Gotland: http://gotland.3000.BC.kvenland.org
>This DNA study is consistent with Roslagen in the northeastern corner of Uppland, a suggested birthplace of Rurik, having represented the southern border region of the land inhabited by Finno-Ugric people at the time of Rurik's birth.
>The DNA study also supports the view that Rurik descended from the Finnish-Kven royal ancestry introduced in many medieval accounts, similarly to many other members of the Scandinavian-Fennoscandian royal Yngling Dynasty, a.k.a. the Fairhair Dynasty.
>>1115279
That explains why He looks asian despite officially being "Nordic"
>>1115279
Daily reminder that Norway was founded by a Finnish man too.
>It is stated in Norse sources that Nór was the founder of Norway, from whom the land supposedly got its name.
>Parallel but not quite identical accounts of Nór the eponym of Norway appear in “Fundinn Nóregr” (‘Norway Found’), hereafter called F, which begins the Orkneyinga saga, and in Hversu Noregr byggðist (‘How Norway was Settled’), hereafter called B, both found in the Flatey Book.
>Both accounts state that great sacrifice was made yearly at mid-winter, either offered by Thorri (F) or offered by the Kvens to Thorri (B), whence was derived both the name of the mid-winter sacrifice and the name of the winter month Thorri corresponding to late January and early February in the Roman calendar.
>Thorri was father of two sons named Nór and Gór (Górr) and a daughter named Gói ('thin snow, track-snow').
>One year, at the time of Thorri's Sacrifice, Gói the daughter of King Thorri suddenly vanished. Thorri held a second feast the following month hoping to learn what had become of Gói. That sacrifice was afterward also observed regularly and known as Gói's Sacrifice and the name of the month was thence named Gói.
>When Gói was still not found after three years, her brothers Nór and Gór set out separately in search of her with many folk in their following, Nór and his folk going by land on skis while Gór went by ship and searched the islands and skerries.
>Eventually Nór and his following came to the Kjölen Mountains and passed into was later to be called Norway, defeating any who opposed him. F relates in particular that Nór defeated the folk around what as later called the Trondheimsfjord, that Nór also took possession of the eastern lands near Lake Mjors, then slew King Sokni, the eponym of Sokna Dale and Sognefjörd and took possession of his kingdom. But B mentions instead the defeat of four kings named Véi, Vei, Hunding, and Heming.
>>1115508
>Both accounts relate that Gór eventually joined Nór and the two brothers made an agreement that Nór would rule all the mainland but Gór would rule all islands around the mainland, that he would be lord over any island that was separated from the mainland by a channel through which a ship with a fixed rudder was able to pass. The mainland was then named Norway (Noregr) after Nór. Nór's new kingdom is now said to have been what is south-eastern Norway today, as it extended from Jötunheim mountains in the north to what was later known as Álfheim (roughly the modern Swedish Bohuslän) in the south, the southern border of Nór's land being what is now the Glomma river whose southwestern course is not very far inside the southeastern border of modern Norway.
>The sons and grandsons and later descendants of Nór continually divided their inheritances among themselves so that Norway became filled with many small kingdoms and lordships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B3r
Serious question:
Is there anything wrong with this country that can't be directly tied to government meddling and mistakes?
Crime? Government
Poverty? Government
Unemployment? Government
Obesity? Government
Stupidity? Government
Terrorism? Government
National debt? Government
Inflation? Take a wild guess
No. Government intervention is a wildly destructive force.
Is there anything good in this country that can't be directly tied to government meddling?
>>1126059
Name one good thing government has done pham
tell me what exactly is wrong with the ontological argument for the existence of god /his/
It's a pointless word game
>>1125625
It appeals to the head, and the heart is the problem. Unbelief is in the heart, not in the head.
Some would argue that Existence is not necessarily superior to Non-Existence, but they do not do so from the perspective of God.
>>1125641
No it points to God.
Were the Soviets the good guys?
>>1124634
They did a lot of wrongs.
>>1124634
Thats a sweet ad, for sure.
>>1124634
>Revisionists
>Good guys
What historic events give you feels?
The fall of the Byzantine empire desu
>>1085879
> It's a Mexican-American War episode
>>1085879
Crusades
The industrial revolution destroyed beauty and kindness
We had a nice thread before with >>1074490
Just wondering if anyone has anymore stuff to share? Also forgive my doodle I just needed something to start the thread with
>>1104383
I don't have anything to share, but that is breddy good
>>1104455
Thanks, I'm not very good at drawing but I'm practicing. I'd love to try out making some small-time comics or something in the future.
>>1104383
Nice pic! (I can never say no to anything from the high middle ages.)
Also I am still working on requested image from last thread.
ITT: We conclusively decide what is and is not a spook.
Religion
>>1117889
I still haven't gotten myself around to reading chapter 2.
What motivation do you have
>>1117889
Are spooks spooks?
What made Europeans so successful? What caused the shift in importance from the east to the west? Since the 14th century there has been an unprecedented value the West has accumulated that was never matched.
What made others lag so far behind when many thousands of years ago the middle east and Asia were the birthplace of civilization as well as constant innovators in their time? Even then their achievements simply couldn't match what Europeans have done.
Even better, you can argue that this has been happening since the Ancient Romans and Greeks. How was it that the Greeks who were influence by their near east neighbors couldn't do the same back? Is it in the European spirit?
Sorry for the many questions I'm just genuinely wondering why.
they used their racism to exploit and murder the rest of the world, that's why they hold so much white privilege today.
>>1123436
>>1123438
As a forewarning, I want to avoid /pol/ stuff and stormfaggotry. Keep things civil.
Colonialism is to wealth accumulation what methamphetamine is to drugs.
Remember, Europe mattered just about zero between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. It wasn't until the New World was discovered that old trade routes shifted and Yuros were well situated to become mercantile and later on industrial.
Who was objectively the best US president and why was it Andrew Jackson?
>>1121625
-Lincoln Tier-
Lincoln
-GOD TIER-
Jackson
Roosevelt (I Fight Bears)
Roosevelt (Horny Cripple)
Jefferson
Washington
POWER GAP
-Meh Tier-
Everyone else
-A monkey throwing shit tier-
Carter
The Dubya
Harrison (B.)
-Zimbabwe trier-
Regan
Nixon
Bush junior
ETERNAL GOAT, TRUST BUSTER, CONSERVATIONALIST, INTERVENTIONIST: TR
>POWER GAP
2. Jefferson
3. Jackson
4. Lincoln
5. FDR
6. Washington
7. Polk
8. Adams
9. Truman
10. Wilson
> POWER GAP
11. Kennedy
12. Monroe
13. Madison
14. Lyndon "Big" Johnson
15. John Quincy Adams
16a. Bill "Surplus" Clinton
16b. Bill "Stroke Shaft, Presidential Nutsack" Clinton
16c. Bill "Bomb em" Clinton
17. Van Buren
18. H to the Dub
19. Hoover
20. Coolidge
21. Carter
> POWER GAP
22 - onwards: irrelevant
>POWER GAP
9040. James "I accidentally the union" Buchanan
9041. Andrew "JUST" Johnson
9042. Ronald "we promise, the wealth will trickle down" Reagan
9043. Richard "Edgelord" Nixon
9044. George Dubya Bush
> POWER GAP
9000000044. George "I accidentally the economy" Bush
>POWER GAP
900000000000000000044. George "I accidentally the entire nation" Bush
I am familiar with almost all European countries, I know where their languages come from, cultures, what sorts of people settled there and when. The only country I will never understand is Albania.
Who exactly are the Albanians, where does their language come from, when did they settle these areas?
Now, the official version is that they are the descendants of ancient Illyrians, but this theory just doesn't make any sense to me.
Firstly, 90% of ancient Illyria isn't even in Albania. Albanians are totally different in culture from their neighbors: The only people to fully embrace Islam on the Balkans, which is very odd. Secondly, their language is classed as Indo-European but completely unrelated to every other IE language, it even has similarities with Chechen. And thirdly, the genetics don't match at all, more on that in the next post.
>>1117199
So, this is the map of the Illyrian tribes, it only partially overlaps modern Albania, but it looks more like former Yugoslavia.
>>1117214
And this is the map of the Haplogroup I2, belonging the original Cro Magnon settler of Europe 13,000 - 15,000 years ago. So this Haplogroup predates even IE migration, and must therefore belong to the Illyrians.
However, in Albania it's almost absent. It Kosovo, also an Albanian country, it's even below 1%.
Would satan advocate for atheism?
Would he be that lazy?
>>1109055
Wow, I haven't seen that picture since like 2007
Also I think canonically yes he does
Isn't satan a supernatural entity himself?