I'm classing this economics question as humanities.
>Right wing person says that the government debt must be lowered
>Left wing person scoffs.
So who is in the right? And this doesn't seem like an assertion from the left wing person that public services are valuable / we need investment now that will pay off later. It literally seems like they laugh at the idea that government debt could matter. Who is right?
And treating America as a separate case due to its magical dollar.
Go ask Greece if government debt matters
It depends on the level of debt and the interest rates.
>It literally seems like they laugh at the idea that government debt could matter
You should ignore someone that does this.
The only time you should be worrying about paying debt is when the economy is booming, and that will happen naturally since more people working = more people paying more taxes etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r641gMu45zI
>>999552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHRWe_b3v8
>>999562
Beautiful, got more like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_n8kOhQ88
So were fat women ever regarded as attractive or was it just seen as a sign of wealth? What bodily ideals have we had in times past and was obesity ever one of them?
>tfw you have 100 gigs of fat porn
>>997424
anon, please. I'm worried for you
>>997394
dude's face on the left says it all
I like seeing patent sketches, speculative technology, and experimental prototyping that just ended up being really terrible ideas.
Basically a thread for predictions and inventors who took a left turn while history took a right.
Even the most obvious designs must go through a period of trying everything else out JUST IN CASE
>>996525
I got one of those
>>997565
Is the cone gun supposed to double as a helmet?
Are there any recorded jokes from antiquity? I don't mean some witty one liner or observation, I mean a common sort of joke that many people would have heard or known of.
Not exactly a joke, but a popular/recurring character in stories was "the absent-minded professor" who is so distracted by his studies that he forgets his surroundings.
It's been recorded as early as ~600 BC when the philosopher Thales was said to have been too busy gazing at the heavens to notice that he was about to fall into a well.
Basically, people have always liked making fun of nerds.
>>970687
I'm not sure if what is contained in "The Clouds" by Aristophanes would count under your definition, but it mocked the practice of philosophy and philosophers in silly ways that must have resonated with the audience. Basically repeatedly portrayed them as detached, comical hippies with crackpot theories.
Read anything by Aristophanes, actually. You'll probably find something along those lines.
>>970687
There was a trope that Heracles was hungry that was used in a lot of Athenian comedy. Apparently it was used so often, that Aristophanes makes fun of the fact that it's a trope.
ITT: battles which can be summarized by one word - JUST
How about a whole campaign?
>Ayo Todo what kind of navy do you want?
JUST
What was that one battle in which several thousand were eaten?
Do Christians, Muslims and Jews Worship the Same God?
>>1007568
According to muslims and catholics at least, yes. Can't speak for the jews and protecucks, but the cathechism and quran are clear on this.
>>1007568
Yes
>>1007568
what about Sikhs?
I'm a Christian (Biblical Unitarian) and my girlfriend is agnostic.
I've never been the best evangelist. We've had good, long talks about God and faith and all that. She'd love to have the faith I have, but she's a hard sell and the crux of her skepticism makes for an interesting discussion topic:
Aside from the notion of eternal life, what does Christianity offer someone who is content with the life they're currently living?
>>1006438
Nothing.
Eternal life, for starters.
>>1006438
Muslim here: it's not about benefits like that. Either she believes that God is the truth, and everything it comes with, or she doesn't. Start there: does she believe in God, simple yes or no.
ITT people who should've won
inb4 Hitler
>>1004937
;_;
Can you educate me on infamous Wehrmacht tactics in WW2, /his/?
I mean I know 'Blitzkrieg' which is striking the enemy unexpectedly very hard and to rush in as fast as possible to avoid getting into a trench war like Europeans did in WW1 (correct me if I'm wrong).
But besides that is there anything else?
None of their manuals or handbooks contained the word Blitzkrieg and there's really no coherent doctrine of it. Guderian said it was the Allies that came up with it.
What was called Blitzkrieg was the latest in combined arms.
Infantry, tanks and aircraft were coordinated and deployed all together.
Only the Germans began the war with radios in every tank. They needed this technology to actually support all of this theoretical stuff.
>>1003973
Heavy tanks like the tiger along with motor infantry like the waffen ss allowed for extremely concintrated force, the best strategy of the Germans was to punch through two points in a line then encircle a pocket of men who would surrender or starve.
Play hearts of iron 3 or watch sone videos of it.
Ask more direct questions and I'll try to answer
>>1004079
Except that the heavy tanks like the Tigers didn't exist when the Germans were on the offensive and their actual offensives were done by using their armor and motorized elements as exploitation forces, not breakthrough forces.
You might not want to get your idea of tactics and operations from video games.
Why does no one mention the British Empire?
How can something that happened so recently have been totally forgotten?
Do Americans not mention it because of the fall, meaning that they will also one day fall out of power and become unimportant?
Do British not mention it because it would hurt too much to acknowledge what they were then and what they are now?
It seems so strange for something so huge to have totally fallen out of the picture. It's like if in 100 years no one will know that America went to the moon. Not that "it was faked!" just that no one will even mention it. Like it never even happened.
I suppose the same applies to the other European imperial powers.
>>1002913
we aren't taught about the empire in school really.
we're told we had one, all we learn about in school is why the nazis were evil, 2 roman emperors and stuff about communism. GCSE history was a huge mistake
>>1000794
>The
>British
>Empire
The agglomeration which was called The British empire was neither "the", nor British, nor an Empire.
>>1002913
>Why does no one mention the British Empire?
who do you talk to? I grew up hearing people laugh about the sun never setting on TBE. I forget the comedian who has a skit about the Falklands being the 'strategic sheep raising island.
makes you think
>Almost 19th century
>Still didn't group up from realism
Yeah, the west was pretty retarded.
>>1001997
Different place, different time.
>be a philosopher
>make up a completely unfalsifiable but humorous possibility
>get paid for it
Pic related
>Pretend to be objective
>Bart philosophy
>really just dogmatically follow capitalist ideals of use, purpose, and value
Your pic: actually related.
>>1001370
>"How DARE you insult the philosophical GODS? Are you trying to make this board a CYBER NORTH KOREA?!"
Wew lad, philosophy will be seen as a sham (inb4 "but science iz philosophy"). And that's not me making a lofty claim. That's me refuting the much loftier claim that the common man cannot reason and has not reasoned and has not perfectly figured out everything that has passed through the journals of philosophy
>>1001370
Prove it
Was the Sasanian Empire (Pre-Islam) really as evil as the Romans made them out to be?
>>999530
Define """"Evil""""
>>999535
Not letting me conquer you
>>999535
Barbaric. And not just in the "Olives don't grow there" definition.
Post your rare Mcbrides
why do people always describe barbarian warriors either completely clad in metal or almost naked?
>>995701
I have a few. Was there an earlier thread I can see?
>>995790