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>anyone who thinks murder is abortion and should be outlawed should also think it's acceptable to assassinate abortion doctors
>the fall of the Soviet Union is the worst thing to happen since WWII; not because the USSR was better than the countries that succeeded it, but because now Islamism is the only serious threat to neoliberal hegemony
>Stirner is interesting but ultimately contributed little of value
>Taoism is just a contrarian Confucianism

>>975335
>it would be very convenient to the left if the right were that ideologically pure
>double-think and cognitive dissonance are actually incredibly important to thinking in a healthy way, and we would all be completely autistic and unfit to survive without them.

>Byzantium's fall was mostly their own fault
>The Balts had the crusade coming

>>965041
The rape of Belgium made them bad guys.

I didn't believe this but I once had a dream with a History book. It was in the style of an actual one I read as a kid.
It said the Saxon's first city was destroyed by a giant candy.
I didn't know much about Saxons and neither about the migration period, but I now guess it explains the migatrions

Let's get through the common ones first:
>rome fell due to lead poisoning from plumbing pipes
>civil war was about slavery
>medieval knights' armor was so heavy they needed help to mount their horse, and couldn't stand up if they fell over
>Ancient Egypt was the most advanced and sophisticated of all ancient civilizations
>"barbarian" european tribes who fought against the Romans were all the same, un-shaved savages who lived in mudhuts and drank babies' blood for fun
>Believed that Russia and Prussia were the same or very similar
>Thought that native americans and native africans didn' do nuffin until the evil Europeans showed up
>thought that caveman lived at the same time as dinosaurs
>believed in christian shit like the flood myth, Earth is a few thousand years old, adam and eve and the garden of eden was literally a historical place (probably believed this due to retarded "documentaries" on Histroy channel), Moses literally parted the Red Sea, etc.
>Believed that Hitler's goal in WW2 was to conquer the world because he was literally a comic book supervillain.

>>982068
Shouldn't have taken Alsace lorraine from us, Klaus

>>982068
The Battle of Marne was near the beginning of the War you dingus. If the French just upped and quit right at the beginning they would have lost so much face on the world scene that any chance at world political player pull would have gone straight out the window for the next century and a half with no one ever considering France an ally at all. Furthermore the impact on french territories world wide would have had severe back lashes as well.

It would have not been a slap on the wrist with Germany saying "Bad France, Bad" like the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

WW 1 had so much political smut and whorish snobbery that a humble Austrian Prince getting Serbed is just the tip of the shaft thrusting deep into a Hapsburg chamber maiden.

what a good feel that is OP

>>982218
Then what do you suggest?

>>982225
why French of course

>>982239 gotta to kidding me.
You should stop baiting people.
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>>982084
They did. "Moors" were mostly converted Iberians.

>>982084
They did

They did

What's wrong with the post-war period in Western Europe? Literally life on easy mode, and unlike Americans you aren't even really at risk to die in a war

>>981948
no internet

>>981978

You can live without Internet.. I did.

And let me tell you, it was the most boring month of my life. If you aren't addicted to it you're a babyboomer by default.

What op has the most dicks faggot

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>>981805
Obviously me, but that's besides the point.

Do you like the Greeks more?

>>981783
Hinduism.

>>981630
Why are good people raped and killed? Why do evil people die happy? No, karma does not exist. The universe does not care about you.

Karma is just implicit morality, so, I can't say I believe it is an actual phenomena.

>>981644

yeah that was a pure choice of words i should have said occurences

>>981640

>The universe does not care about you.

as I get older I'm learning this and it's really eye-opening and i don't know why people run away from this fact my upbringing was conservative christian so my whole life I've been led in the direction of mysticism and weird forces being at work to govern the universe but like you stated "why are good people raped and killed"

i feel as if people with limited life experience will just tailor their philosophies to be as cuddly and picturesque as possible

>>981333
Lib arts degrees are pretty garbage. Knew a chick with an art history major end up working at Christies AUctions of London. She basically researches and qualifies the provenance of various rare auction items.

I know another who used his army money to get a liberal arts degree. He was a former 75th Ranger. Ended up unemployed. Went into contracting and makes 6 figures defending nouns in foreign countries.

So pickings are slim.

>>981333
The left is 1 out 100 dropout persons become like the guy in the pic , the right are 40 out 60 persons become like the girl in the pic., not hard for a choice.

>>981363
yeah right, try 1 in 10000 for the left.

>>980473
The russians still used short pikes, but mostly because they didnt have enough guns, same goes for the odd civilian militia. Musket + bayonet completely outclasses pike

>>980473
>>980521
Also 30 years war was the most aesthetically pleasing period of military history ever

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>>980524
Nah bro, you're confusing the 30 Years war aesthetic with Spanish-American war era American aesthetic.

>>980331
bump

>>980331
Mind posting the start with the Greeks pic?

>>980331
>No Heather or Goldsworth
0/10

bump for interest

>>980582

Bump for disinterest

>>980614
Bump for possible but not yet manifest interest

>>980017
Democracy is generally a post requisite of greatness

Pretty much.
Having an ideology to expose helps to expand influence.
See USSR, Nazi Germany, and Freedom&Democracy.
Ideology should be seen more as a tool than as absolute dogma

The success of the Western model of government involves more than holding an election once and then everything working itself out.

What you need is a government that is conducive to economic growth.

The most dynamic Western governments (the Netherlands, the UK, the US) achieved this by creating parliaments which would then be dominated by businessmen, and would thus protect the interests of the business class from the monarchy, the nobility, or the rabble.

Until recently, it was assumed that the best development model was democracy, followed by the growth of corporations and gradual economic change.

What Westerners failed to realize is that a democratic system of government is only as strong as the actual practical adherence of society to the rule of law. In many places, corruption is so common, and the rule of law so weak, that merely holding elections doesn't change the actual power structure, or the actual system of law, enough to protect free enterprise, reduce government corruption, or encourage development.

The Asian Tigers went with the model of having the government dominated by large corporations which would create exports to sell in the developed world. This proved to work very well for development, as the corporations still had to be efficient in order to compete in global markets, and the government had an incentive to keep the economy competitive, so as to make more moni.

However, the more Confucian model of development followed by East Asia comes with serious drawbacks. Working conditions in East Asia are shit. The Asian Tigers tend to have lower life satisfaction, higher suicide rates, and lower birth rates, because every aspect of society is structured to serve the needs of multi-national corporations, even more than in the West. Finally, corruption persists in most of East Asia in a way that simply wouldn't be acceptable in Europe or the Anglosphere.


TL;DR Countries develop when the government has an incentive to see the country develop.

No.

He's literally a medieval meme.

>>979707
Define "real".

>>979707
Yes

>>979485
Ask the market. Phosphenes.

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both at the same time.

>>979496
The market prices for modern art are just due to it being used for money laundering.