Here's an ALTERNATIVE HISTORY question, how much better or worse would Russia have performed militarily in WW2 if it was still under Tsar rule?
inb4 >falling for the alt history meme
you want us to magically extrapolate 20+ years of social, military, economic, technological, industrial, whatever you can name development
>>>>>>>>/x/
>>862802
No, because Nicholas was just on a downhill. Give him 20 years Russia would have been stronk as fuck. 10/10 best leader
>>862802
Haha, I know right? Loads of interesting questions to make you think of how and why things occurred the way they did.
Why is it okay for Americans to carve George Washington into a mountain, but Russians having a statue of Lenin in every major city is not?
>>862603
While you have to walk by Lenin every day, nobody is forcing you to go out to rural South Dakota.
>>862607
Mount Rushmore is not the only monument to American statesmen, it is only one of the most iconic. I'm sure if I went to America, I would find more local monuments that tell me to worship the dear leader.
>>862603
Finland still has a statue of Lenin. Is there something wrong with having them?
>eternal anglo
>eternal germano
>jews
>mongols
So, who is the true villain of history?
I think that picture is going somewhere hot.
Jews actually emulated the Anglos by the end of 19th century.
>controlling the banks, controlling the media, controlling the industry, pitting workers against one another, divide & conquer tactics, surreal levels of nepotism and elitism
All of these are originally memes about Anglos that got applied to Jews over time. Back in the day Jews weren't "shady elites ruling the world" but just "greedy Christ killers".
>>861895
Turks.
So /his/ i have been wondering are Ukrainians a meme? I have seen a lot of people claim they are Russians or that they are a mix of Poles,Tatars and Russians is there any truth to what they say or is it just nationalists spouting bullshit?
They are very real aside of memes about we wuz ancient ukres and shit.
>>860171
Ukraine LITERALLY means frontier/borderland.
It's actually pretty easy to explain. There was Kievan Rus full of East Slavic Ruthenians, which got essentially destroyed by the Mongols and then rebuilt from the ground up by the Muscovites, who got wealthy by being tax collectors for the Mongol khan. These people created the Tsardom of Russia and those Ruthenians who didn't adopt this new "Russian" identity gradually became the people we now know as Ukrainians and Belarusians.
Let's talk about the faction that saved Spain from communism.
>tfw you'll never fight for Jose Antonio's Blue Shirts
>>859116
>>859116
You should return to /pol/ if you just wanna fap to your "anticomunism"
>>859122
Dali's painting of Franco's granddaughter
Do religious people unironically believe that persons with different beliefs with whome they interact on daily basis are gonna be tortured in hellfire for all eternity?
Or is hell some sort of metaphor?
>>859095
Protestants do so.
One of their more cancerous qualities.
>>859095
It's real to them until you explain how retarded it is, at which point they'll happily exclaim how it was all just a metaphor all along and you're the dumb one for taking it seriously, just like they do with all the other stupid shit in religion.
>>859111
Thank you for your profound theological analysis.
Are older generations too harsh on millennials? The common trope is that millennials are entitled and have unrealistic expectations for their own success, even when they grew up in a very different, and much less smooth sailing socioeconomic world than that of Baby Boomers.
Furthermore, millennials are facing a planet that is literally dying, with mass extinction, habitat loss and climate change threatening the survival of most life on the planet. On top of that, the status quo is arguably in a period of interregnum--defined as the phase in civilizational development when the old paradigms have lost credibility and have yet to be replaced by new ones.
Has there been an unspoken generational class war against millennials, who could, if adequetly empowered, transform the world that has been completely crashed by baby boomers?
So, in short, is the shit-talking about millennial substantiated, or should they be given a break?
I doubt any generation is satisfied with the succeeding generation simply because it's acting different than they used to. Millennials did nothing wrong
>>858662
This. Every generation hacks the following. Millennials will do the same with whatever the next one gets labelled, complaining about their riding pennyfarthings around and walking their pet chinchillas on leashes, etc.
How insanely bloodthirsty Vikings turned into tolerant social democratic Sweden? What was the reason behind such change of character?
About 1000 years of history.
Scandis are animals, and they got domesticated.
>>857627
Because of where they live. You can't easily sustain a large population when half your country is mountains or frozen.
So they used to go out and raid and shit to get stuff whenever they got hungry or w/e. When that stopped being possible they went socialist to try to make the best use of their resources for the most people. Well after a few centuries of sucking and starving that is.
What happened to Mongolia after the fall of the Mongol Empire? It appears completely unmentioned by anybody after it's fall and from looking up video's of modern day Mongolia it seems to have just avoided all the bullshit that fucked up the rest of east Asia.
China got commie fucked, Japan went all Imperial and then went kawai, Vietnam keked the USA. But Mongolia is just kinda steppe bros with a biggish capital city who idolize Genghis Khan to an insane degree.
They got fucked hard by the USSR, they're basically Mexican Asians now.
>>857106
I want that video to have English lyrics, damnit.
>>857121
Don't know if trustworthy
Rommel is the greatest general ever
Stalin was a morally neutral guy, as far as I can reasonably say; in fact, even that is probably going too far, methodologically.
Hitler did nothing wrong.
>The boy who cried 'Positivism!'
Why is the American pop-sci scene riddle with pseudo-intellectuals? Is it he fault of the american education system?
>>855904
Because you're the true intellectual, right
>>855904
Celebrity culture
>>855932
I'm by no means a pseudo-intellectual. My novel is nearing completion and the three chapters I sent out to prospective agents were received with great enthusiasm. After a brief contest between three competing agents I signed with one who immediately found a large publishers to sign my book, despite my informing him that I still have a few chapters to go. As you can imagine this has made my mommy very proud indeed, and any anxiety she might have otherwise experienced for allowing her little cherub to live with her for so long as been relieved and her decision vindicated. It's very entertaining indeed to see so many people on this board discussing their literary ambitions while simultaneously defending the demands made on us all by a corrupt and callous economic system. Having chosen to opt out of such a dystopian existence, my work has benefited from the amount of time I have been able to spend researching, writing and editing what will no-doubt be among next year's most recommended literary achievements. And what's more I have achieved this all at (what will be described as) the "tender age" of 24. I see no reason to sacrifice my existence for the sake of those who see only monetary value and the opportunity for personal gain in this world.
Have we made any progress on the hard problem of /his/ memes?
>>854386
A board full of facebook normalfags can only make facebook normalfag memes.
Go to the weeb or the edgelord-tumbr boards(v/co/mu/r9k/pol/) if you want dankness.
>>854417
actually he should go to [s4s]
>holy
>roman
>empire
Anyone ever been to Egypt?
Are you allowed to climb the pyramids and if not then why?
What about stealing a ~5000 year old piece of stone?
Just pick up any damn rock
>>854346
No, you are not allowed. Because they are world heritage sites, dumbass.
Having said that, there is something called Baksheesh which you may find useful. If you do climb one, be respectful.
Was not impressed. The valley of kings is much more supreme.
Has anyone properly overcome Nietzsche yet? Can he even be overcome? Can the labyrinth he set forth for the world be escaped?
So far it doesn't seem like it. Academics, analytics, and other unphilosophical people have tried, but don't seem to come close to even understanding him. And he himself foresaw the end of philosophy with his own; he knew that what he was bringing to the table was going to end in tragedy for philosophy.
>>854173
Sanity overcame Nietzsche.
Why has Nietzsche replaced Stirner as meme supreme?
>>854173
100% guarantee you Nietzsche now believes there very much is a God.
100% guarantee.
ITT: Shit-tier 'intellectuals'
>>854031
pic unrelated
>>854031
You accidentally posted Christopher Hitchens. Even if you're some butthurt Christfag annoyed by the anti-religion stuff he is widely recognised as top journalist.
>>854031
Kaku
Dawkins
Tyson