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If the Nazis waited 2 of 3 years would they have been in a better situation. I know Italy would have been more ready for war and not sure on the Japanese.
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>>753646
If the Nazis waited, their economy would collapse under the debt that Hitler made.
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>>753646
The Soviet Union was growing unbelievably fast pre world war, the five years plans really worked, in contrast to hitlers four year plan. Nazi Germany only grew because they borrowed super vast amounts of money, and basically they would have been fucked.
Is Slavic military history underrated?
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>>753545
No, it's right where it needs to be: irrelevance
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>>753545
Slavs where once from the same family as Germans,. From that same family that left Africa and eventually came together to form the indo Euopeans. For centuries our ancestors sat together> Lived,love with each other. Some of us were brothers and sisters, inevitably at some time and felt mutual kinship.one day perhaps two of our loving relatives split way. You became Germans, we became slavs. Than thousands of years later our once Germanic brothers wanted to slaughter us. Our ancestors kinship meant nothing to them. They say we were inferior to them, not worthy of living. Why is this? Is there not enough to share or is it that they didn't care, we are just here for a day or two.Let me show me way...Salaaamulaikum salaaaamaliukum ehehehehehehe
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>>753545
I'd be interested in more if you had any knowledge of it,
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What does /his/ think of the creation of a new 4chan, with an emphasis on SFW educational boards and an enforced disgust for shitposting? No /pol/, no reddit.
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No. I like board cultures and am okay with shitposting, as are you apparently.
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>>753451
Shitposting is funny, just don't let it get in the way of interesting discussions
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This board just came into existence, why would we ever want a schism?
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Why were the Brits (apparently) the best code breakers and spies?
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WE WUZ ULTRA UN SHEEEEEEEEEIT
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>>752136
>Enigma
>decoded by Britbongs
Every fucking time
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>>752136
>best code breakers
USA
>spies
USa
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Why was he so strategically retarded, /his/? Was it autism?
>lets devote valuable resources and men to rounding up people we don't like and shooting them when we are outnumbered 11-1
>lets decree "fortified areas" in the Eastern Front where no one is allowed to tactically retreat unless I say it's ok
>let's not allow Hoth to break out so I can save some troops in Stalingrad
>let's make the tanks completely change direction and move south to help out Army Group South when I'm knocking on Moscow's door
>let's victimize the people who were all too happy to be free from the Soviet yoke
>let's put Himmler, a man with zero military experience in charge of the troops in East Prussia
>let's declare war on America
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he was an artist, what do you expect
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>Why was Hitler so bad
Because of propaganda and blame-shifting
This is a shit thread
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>>751201
See that fat fuck behind Hitler?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell
There's your reason why.
As for Himmler being placed in command of Army Group Vistula, that was a very short command. Even Hitler saw he was a fuck up and assigned to Gotthard Heinrici, an ingenious old defensive oriented general (and von Rundstedt's cousin) in under two months.
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idk why but I really love trade people and civilizations. Like anything from the Italians to the Somalis. I think that honestly trade people civ's are often forgotten throughout history, although trade is one of the biggest drivers of diversity and cultural exchange.
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>>750339
>biggest drivers of diversity
>drivers of diversity
>of diversity
>diversity
triggered
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>>750357
I know "Diversity" is a bad word here but I don't mean it like that. I mean cultural exchange which is actually a healthy way to do it.
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Celtic language used to be everywhere in Europe, what went wrong /his/?
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They got Romanticized.
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>tfw born too late sacking Rome
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>>749307
Fucking Italians rolled through.
It was the last time anything nice happened for Italy so we constantly have to hear about it.
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Was Mao theDong actually evil or is that just another meme?
Sure, many millions of people in China died, but he also did good things like: educational reforms, cleaning up the agriculture, building factories and schools, giving free meals for the poor, starting an extensive space program and other stuff too. Today China is the biggest country in the world, with a strong economy, very advanced infrastructure and trains. Would China really be in the same position today without Mao?
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>>748413
Mao dindu nuffin except make his regional overseers scared of him and thus they over-represented the success of like having iron smelters in regular peoples' houses or moving all the intellectuals out to the boonies to farm
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The real meme is the thought that he was competent in anything that wasn't military oriented.
But, overall, he did what any other competent Chinese leader should have done, which is unite China in one single nation-state.
Economically, there's a reason why the Dengists are the majority in the CCP right now, and Mao is shunned and kept as some sorta "father of the nation" figure.
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>>748434
>moving all the intellectuals out to the boonies to farm
You do realize that did not actually happen, do you?
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Wasn't the whole impaling thing kind of overkill?
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>implying
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>>746070
it was psychological, the turks kidnapped him when he was young and did things to him
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>>746070
Your mother didn't think so.
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What are the most savage, brutal, merciless, and overall terrifying civilizations to have existed? Why?
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The British.
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>>756018
how are we defining civilization?
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The Assyrians no doubt
they were easily the most metal civilization ever
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Do words only have meaning in a sense of falsifaction? That is we only know what a word means once we know what it does NOT mean?
Or is Derrida correct that a word only has meaning by referring it yet another word, which itself only has meaning by referring to yet another word, unto infinity rendering the concept of meaning shallow.
Or is Wittgenstein correct in his Philosophical investigation?
What is the correct linguistic theory about how words come come to have meaning (if they do at all)?
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What a stupid thread.
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Words have meaning through association and function.
That is, either a word represents something tangible, or it conjoins/distinguishes words that represent something tangible, or it is in some way related to words that represent something tangible.
You should do gender studies, even that's more valuable to the world than philosophy of language.
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>>755555
>That is, either a word represents something tangible
So "word" "philosophy" "value" "way" must have no meaning than, since they are not tangeable.
Your explanation is self-contradicting.
Did Japs really make the best firearms of their era?
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>>753131
what if they did anon? what would it mean to you? or how would you define 'best firearm'?
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uh what is 'their era'
because the production techniques and weapons were necessarily based on european firearms, so almost definitely not
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>>753131
Rocking those 2k17 Yeezys
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Thoughts on moral relativism?
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>>755004
No.
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>>755011
Oh.
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>>755004
Just as true and meaningless as Nihilism. It sucks but fuck my titties
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Most overrated philosophers in history?
>inb4 heidegger cause nazi
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>>751669
I dunno, probably Kant. Descartes is also a little overrated.
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>>751669
Bertrand Russell and Nietzsche.
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Aquinas. Not because he's overrated, but because Catholics wont shut the fuck about his five >proofs.
Genesis implies structure. Structure implies genesis. Outside creation lies either God or Sunyata or Ein Sof. If such energies are responsible for creation, they must be within creation as well. Tell me then, is it possible to achieve (re)union with the divine self? Figures from Christ to Buddha have made such claims but modern scholarship lays doubt to the existence of said people. What is your take?
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Of course, but there's a limit to how far the human form can take you, although it's still very far and unimaginable to most people
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>>754919
>Outside creation lies either God or Sunyata or Ein Sof
Based Chaos coming through.
>being monotheistic
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Forgot image.