Who's the most famous figure from your country?
As a shitposter, it pains me to say it but probably someone like Paul Hogan or Hugh Jackman. Our military leaders, politicians, etc. are really only well known by us (and maybe the kiwis), so really we don't have any "grand historical figures" that are recognisable everywhere.
I'm from Finland.
You tell me.
Probably big Winston intentionally
>>866975
Genghis Khan?
Has the drug war historically been used as way for the ruling class to oppress people of color? Did a Southern conservative coalition influence Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton to impose more draconian drug laws? Were politicians just ignorant of the negative economic and social effects of prohibition such as incentivizing crime? Or is /pol/ right and people of color are just more predisposed to crime on a genetic level? Are white people who get caught up in the War on Drugs just casualties?
>>866708
>Clinton
He meant well but Republicans turned it into something evil like they always do.
Clinton ended the crack epidemic that Re*gan started in order to "Cull" the fact that African Americans were getting ahead.
>>866708
yes. gotta prevent a malthusian dilemma
no. draconian drug laws exist to keep blacks off the streets, south america unstable and firearm sales high
no. the intention was never to reduce drug use
no. there are no meaningful differences in intelligence between the west and the rest, but because of historical circumstances its proved easier to control problem populations than uplift them out of poverty. thanks, lbj!
yes
TNJC is recuperative claptrap by the way
>>866720
>gotta prevent a malthusian dilemma
explain
How are they not a superpower? You would think with their population and etc. they would be. What went wrong in their history?
What even would make them a superpower in the first place? They're not bloodthirsty like anglos, the only people to make actual superpower nations in the modern age
>>866512
le Brits
India is hamstrung by quite a few things not the least of which is cucking themselves to global capitalism and tieing themselves with a shifty old social structure that makes the economic activity retarded
Who was the most insane ruler in history?
Wasn't there some roman emperor who was pants on head retarded and crazy?
>>866491
>Caligula
>Tiberius
>Nero
The list could go on.
Trump
How do I support the truth of this proposition in an argument with a theist?
>>866210
Call him a Mexican.
You can't prove that God doesn't exist, you can state that you lack a belief in God.
>>866219
This.
You can state why one should not believe in God's existence but you can't prove or disprove it, and neither can they.
>that greco-roman Chinese legislative building
How can one say that Rome fell when every fucking nation on Earth is a Roman wannabe?
Rome won, and we all are her citizens.
Except we're not unified under a Roman state, and nobody speaks their language, observes their religion, or practices their culture. At best, we're barbarians trying to imitate them, more probably we just like how their shit looks.
>>866192
>nobody practices their culture
European culture is their culture and everyone is obsessed with the culture of Europe and it's offshoots.
>>866195
>European culture is their culture
WE
What are examples of effective, objectively good dictatorships or autocrats in history?
Alexander the Great
Napoleon Bonaparte
Augustus Caesar
Napoleon, whom Reinhard was partially based on
Muammar Gaddafi
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How did they do it? I get that the Romans and Sassanids were severely weakend but still. One day they they invent a religion, go out of the desert and next they conquer an immense territory.
>>863380
>invent a religion
It's a reformation of old Abrahamic faith, removing all the shit added by the Roman nigger
>>863380
Good military with high morale, and great leaders (Umar, Khalid, etc.)
Also, it was quite strategic in that the Romans and Persians were weakened from fighting. Plus, the plague.
>>863380
Look at a map of Semitic people before Rome and then at that map
It was a liberation of Semites from the Yoke of Rum
ITT: describe all world history in 5 words or less
pic related
Where are you my father?
And then it got worse...
A series of unfortunate events.
>you will never be the emperor of rome
>rome fell
>you will never be a praetorian guardsman
>you will never be a legate
>a centurion
>a gladiator
>a legionnaire
>a priest of jupiter
>a conqueror in rome's name
>a slave to any of the above
Genuinely why live?
idk desu senpai. maybe you should just kill yourself and you'll be reborn as a roman patrician
>>854254
maybe I should desu
or I could wait for tensions from ISIS and the migrant crisis to rise and try to start a revolution, mould society in the image of rome after the fighting
>>854291
isn't ISIS trying to bring about an end times prophecy by fighting the army of Rome at some city in the middle east
>It says here that your studies specialized on the "Holy Roman Empire"- Care to explain?
>The Eternal French
>>851788
That smug face
Hi /gsg/
Was there ever a worse scourge of Christianity than the Roman Catholic Church?
>muh Vicar of Christ
>muh whatever you do is Christian, as long as you're with us
No wonder the worst mass murderers and pedophiles are Catholics.
>>877709
Televangelists.
Why do Protestards care so much about Catholicism? Like, they always go 'waaah da Catholics have false teachings!' but the Catholic Church's teachings are pretty much all in accordance with other churches like the Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, Ethiopian, etc...
Protestants are clearly the odd ones out.
>>877709
t. Butthurt Protestant
As a southerner, I understand that the Civil War was mostly about slavery. But I've noticed many people, not just in the south, but internationally, still support the idea of the CSA today, or that the south should have won the war. Why is that?
>>871481
There are a lot of people who are white supremacists or find the personal freedoms of White people to be above those of blacks.
Romanticising rebels?
>>871492
Nobody has ever thought that except for cartoon characters.
What events from history make you feel legitimately depressed?
For me it's the fall of the Commune
>>866389
For me it's the fall of Western Civilization by Cultural Marxism
Mussolini joining in on World War II
>>866389
what about the commune's fall makes you depressed?