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It's exactly true. The US State Department was full of communist sympathizers at the time. In 1946 when the Nationalist Chinese were close to pushing the commies up and out of Manchuria, Truman sent Marshall to China to force them to sign a cease fire and make a "power-sharing" agreement with the commies. This saved Mao, who used the year of peace to reaarm with Soviet weapons from the North as well as Japanese weapons from Manchukuo, which they consolidated under their control. Of course the commies had no interest in power sharing and when the fighting broke out again in 1947, the US government placed an ARMS EMBARGO on the Nationalist government! Which was dependent since WW2 on American weapons and vehicles. The embargo went as far as small arms ammunition and spare parts for trucks. It was a disgusting backstabbing by piece of shit Truman and nothing else.

>>679624
fucking commies not even once

>>679624
Sauce on that one? Especially the arms embargo part.

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>>679475

>muh heritage

They still exist in Northern Ireland, they were mostly forcefully relocated there from Dumfries and Galloway which was the most hardcore presbytarian region at the time and also pretty distant from the rest of Scotland, so they were probably culturally distinct already.

>>679475
Well, there's Scots and there's Scots, y'see, and some of the Scots are Scottish and some are Irish, but some are Irish and some are also Scots, and there's the Irish Scots who are Irish and the Scots Irish who are Scots, not mention the Irish Scots Scots who are Scots Irish and the Scots Irish Scots who are Scots, except when they're Irish, in which case they're also Scots.

>>679355
Yes, unless one of them is correct, then it's all but that one.

A cult has a central structure that exists to profit the leaders of it, and practices designed to extact profit for the leaders of it, ala Mormonism and Scientology.

A religion has either never had such structure or it has atrophied to the point where no single group of people can profit directly from it, and there are no practices that exist solely to generate profit for the cult leader(s), ala Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam.

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>>679391
>Christianity isn't just a bunch of cults

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>holy
neither holy
>roman
neither roman
>empire
nor an empire

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>>679326
Why Voltaire always looks smug as f*ck ?

>>679316
>Greeks
>Roman

>Franks
>Roman

Neither

Fritz talked shit, got hit.

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Not enough arty support; Haig had been forced into supporting the French attack with a good portion of his guns.

Comms and timing problems: the Newfoundlanders started late, and wound up crossing over their own trench lines instead of taking the long way round by staying in the trenches; they were skylined for the Germans, some of whom sat on top of their parapets and shot them like so many grouse. (This was at Beaumont-Hamel, Y Ravine).

>>679264
>Haig had been forced into supporting the French attack with a good portion of his guns.
Has he? The French had roughly the same number of guns as the British (1500 give or take) AND more heavy guns than them AND better crews AND better ammunition AND better observers (and better observing positions) at the Somme - I suspect a big part in their unqualified success in the opening stages of the battle - remember that despit the lack of traction north of the river by the British the French had mane great and steady gains and in the end the outcome of the entire campaign while not decisive by any means did favor the allies.

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>>679068

I prefer documentary series. Unless the topic is pretty specialized audio books are generally better.

Ken Burns makes good shit. American Civil War, WW2, The Dust Bowl.

The BBC 'Battlefield' series is great. WW2 and Vietnam.

www.europefromitsorigins.com

By far the most objective, non-revisionist documentary of European history spanning from 300AD to 1460AD.

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>>679050
Doesn't matter, because Yahweh has a greater capacity for fucking you up. It's about fear of God, more than love. That came later.

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>>679066

Are you saying fear is greater than love?

>>679050
On a literal understanding of the OT, the serpent isn't Satan. And if he was, as you point out, he's God's errand boy anyway, so ultimately, his boons are from God.

rip the veil, pleb

>>678989
<2016
<not reading Thomas daily

>>679092
>muh demiurge

>>678798
Supportive? No

Less judgemental and more forgiving? Yeah

>>678814
>forgiving

Who gives a flying fuck whether you forgive a dead person. He/she sure doesn't.

>>678843
Geez calm down mister

Please forgive me

>implying it wasn't the ghost of Nero

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>>678793
When will the plebs learn that the Hebrews control our ampitheatres? I was at a reenactment of Cannae the other day and there was a Nubian playing Varro!

Sum Gallus

Ego bonum latinum dico

Ubi Romanae feminae

>>678786
>Also, what do you guys think about HEMA?
pretty neat, is it more sword based combat?
are there aspects of physical unarmed combat included?

>>678786
Why don't you go live in the black forests of Germany while worshiping the old gods of the forest and attack any unsuspecting Mediterranean scum that dare trespass into the dark sacred realm of Woden?

>>678786
There was a time befroe christianity when people worshiped old gods and goddesses but not anymore but why do they worship a middle eastern god but make him look white? why do people go to meachuurches designed ike theteres and wave their arms and blindly support the corporate elite?

>>678534
The third reich.

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Probably the Victorian Era.

Middle ages could be justified as non autistic because "I like Knights n shiet" wich are pretty cool.

Victorian Era is just fully fledged autism

>>678536

Agreed. The Third Reich is literally what happens when autists are given unlimited power.

It never happened outside of exploitation movies.

And a white woman who willingly fucked a black guy would commit social suicide, the black would be killed. Failing that she could cry rape and have him killed to save her status.

>>678527
Back then, her social status would be ruined - rape or no rape.
The idea of "cry rape" is a modern concept concocted by insecure males who need to justify to themselves why rape is more prevalent than they are willing to admit.

>>678541
>the idea of "cry rape" is a modern concept

lol retard

>>678032
If I don't believe in a higher metaphysical meaning to this universe and actively search for one by whatever means of devotion I choose, I might as well be dead. I see no difference between accepting nihilism and committing suicide.

>>678032
Ideas are non-physical.
Natural laws are ideas manifested in the physical.
It takes a mind to comprehend mind.

>>678114
By the metaphysical and immaterial, I mean that which doesn't originate in the mind