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>>592435
When there is very easy access to food, abstention is attractive.

When there is little access to food, plumpness is attractive.

Only in modern times is being skinny considered attractive.

>>592450
Physical fitness is always attractive.

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>yfw you realize that tumblr landwhales actually would be better suited for wild west prostitute movie roles

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>>592270

>>592270
Yes. You can even join if you're a German noble.

>>592400
What if you're a direct descendant of a German noble that had to flee East Germany after the war?

>>592218
would have pissed people off more

>Why doesn't Israel just genocide the palestinians?

> Why didn't Stalin just kill all his enemies?

>>592051
The UK and the US are the reason for WW2 of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_Naval_Agreement
>Signed the day of the battle of Waterloo

And then the Anglos will complain about the fall of France.

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>>592051
>That result
I still cry at night

>>592051
You have to consider the appeasement policy through the lenses of European balance of power diplomatic policy to answer that question anon.

>>591969
>person with agency has the means to provide agency to others in the set of folks related to that person
>repeat ad infinitum
>another dimension to the feedback cycles that produce power hierarchies

its not that tough just give your shit to who you fuck with

>>591969
>>593179
This

On a totally unrelated note, I often see stormfags whining about Jewish nepotism, when literally all groups exhibit this, their WASP ancestors included.

>>593181
Jews actually just flat out copied the WASPs. Read any of the sources criticizing the Anglo-American upper class:

>nepotistic
>rich & parasitic
>controlling the banks
>controlling the media
>exploiting the workers
>sowing conflict

You know how the SJWs chimp out over everything white, that's just a remnant from the late 19th century.

>>591895
They share linguistic and genetic similarities to East Asians. Calling them Mongols is just a joke, no one thinks they're the ancestors of actual Mongols.

>>591895
It's a joke

>>591913
Not East-Asians, the furthest it goes is Siberia, with the vast majority of the Finno-Ugric people living on the European side of the Ural mountains.

>>591767

>God issues a commandment not to kill

But that's wrong you retard. It's

לא תרצח

not

לא תהרג

>>591783
Fuck off Jewnigger

>>591767
>>591783
This so hard

>thou shalt not murder

Is very, very different from

>thou shalt not kill

Pawn Stars
Deadliest Warrior
Ancient Special Forces

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Bettany Hughes did a series of great ones for Channel 4. They're on all4 if you're in the UK.

Also, dat thinking mans crumpet.

>>591753
You forgot Ancient Aliens!

how about a library you retard

>>591726
this

Fuck the public domain:

Bookzz.org

>>591598
Heres a better question OP

america is a continent not a country


mexicans are americans in the same way chinese are asian and germans are european

So what are people from the US called? united statesians?

>>591598

Because ultimately, it's more efficient to be self governed, especially when you had a seperate "American" identity forming from the homeland "British" identity, and you live in a world without instantaneous communications.

>>593527

Shut up, butthurt South American.

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>>591559

>tfw history graduate and call centre worker
>tfw when straight A science and maths student at school
>tfw when I just had a cool history teacher that made it sound like fun

Never mind. I enjoyed it. And it was, indeed, comfy as fugg.

At the end of the day the choices I made have their causation from a chain of events going back to the Big Bang and maybe beyond and I also really like my job anyway.

The one choice in life is between, suicide, philosophical suicide and accepting the absurd and finding meaning and happiness in life anyway.

Every discipline gets the job market it deserves.

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Because marketable skills revolve around the services you can provide for others, that they'd be willing to pay for. Studying history and the humanities doesn't equip you with practical skills that are in-demand in this economy.

>>591552
Sure, if the ruler is good. Most times they're not, and then what?

Every Nation gets the Government it deserves.

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that's what I thought

OP how are you so awesome?

>I close my eyes and see a flock of birds
No, you see birds when your eyes are open. That's how vision works.

Existence precedes essence, and basing an argument on a subjective "mental image" visible only to you is pretty piss poor evidence. I also don't believe a lot of your conclusions are logically inferred from your premises, which can be rejected outright without much trouble anyway. It's telling that theists have to resort to these sort of ontological mind games.

>If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God.

Clearly you didn't see any. You vaguely imagined some of the properties a flock of birds has. God could also care and not choose to watch; the idea that God has to be omnipotent and omniscient is a Christian concept that historically didn't apply to deities as a whole.

>That number, as a whole number, is inconceivable; ergo, God exists.

There's no logical reason inconceivable things couldn't exist in an atheistic universe. All it requires is that all the workings of the unconscious mind do not occupy our immediate conscious experience, or that our sensory organs are unable to detect something.

What if there was a half of a bird among them?

>>591411
Sun Tzu's teachings are very general guidelines. They're fundamentals you absolutely need to know if you have to even be near a command position but they're just guidelines. Also, some of it needs some conceptualization to be transposed into modern situations, particularly his teachings about supplies, intelligence, and the politics behind war.

Clausewitz on the other hand is more recent and introduces major points of modern military science like the fog of war or the idea that war is nothing but an extension of politics.

Both are classics and need to be read, but if I absolutely had to choose one at gunpoint, I'd pick Sun Tzu for his more universal character. Just be sure not to take every single word at face value, shit gets almost esoteric at times.

>>594048

This. Sun Tzu keeps it very simple, and just about everyone can follow his tactics, from an American general to a Boko Haram warlord

>>594054
Its actually surprising how many modern commanders do not follow his simple guidelines.

>>591336
Love is the only thing that matters in my life. Love of one, of many, of all.

>>591336
It's just chemical reactions, it's as meaningless as everything else.

>>591355
Can you explain how does it work or something?