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>>518976
Fable was shit, getting into philosophy is just another edgy crap he is trying to pull

>>518983
He'll deliver this time.

idgaf about "natural rights" so i don't know what i'm supposed to get out of him.

>>518575
Define crazy.

>>518638
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

>>518673
That's just dumb as hell

No, but neither is the hellish 24/7 bombardment eat shit live in shit breathe shit drown in shit & run into machineguns and die all day erryday portrayal.

However it is true that "popular" history and art and media and the like have done a number on WW1. It's quite probably the worst victim in terms of combining the sheer importance and scope of the event - and its awfully twisted and incorrect popular perception.

Any sentence that starts with "The fact is" most likely isn't fact. It's like searching porn which has the tag "REAL INCEST" or "REAL TEENS" you can be sure it is 2 famous pornstarts moaning in their usual voice and 30+ washed up pornstars with pigtails to make them look young.

Wars aren't fun, at least not for the soldiers.

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>>517379
>The concentration of so much fighting in such a small area devastated the land, resulting in miserable conditions for troops on both sides. Rain combined with the constant tearing up of the ground turned the clay of the area to a wasteland of mud full of human remains. Shell craters became filled with a liquid ooze, becoming so slippery that troops who fell into them or took cover in them could drown. Forests were reduced to tangled piles of wood by constant artillery-fire and eventually obliterated.[89] The effect on soldiers in the battle was devastating, many broke down with shell-shock.

>A French lieutenant at Verdun who was later killed by a shell, wrote in his diary on 23 May 1916, "Humanity is mad. It must be mad to do what it is doing. What a massacre! What scenes of horror and carnage! I cannot find words to translate my impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible. Men are mad!"[112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun

Very fun indeed

>>517063
Okay
No
Napoleon

The HRE is a perfect example as to why centralized power is a good thing

>>517067
The topic of this thread is medieval. I was asking in terms of the medieval HRE

>>515569
No. The creation of social specialisation largely in the 19th century prevents this.

>>515569
Depends on how you define "master" and "all trades". It's perfectly possible to be skilled in various different fields, but to be a master of everything?

>>515586
>prevent this

>>512037
He had a lot more to do with the war then they let on. They refused to surrender unless "the nation's continued existance was guaranteed", "the nation" meaning the royal family... the rest of Japan was still just property of the royals...

Anyway after the war they worked hard to make it seem like the Emperor and Imperial family were just innocent tools of the militarists and made sure they stayed in control... the US decided to help them with this charade because they needed Japan because they were worried about the USSR.

Sidenote: The Aussies wanted him killed and the cities of Japan removed, they wanted the whole of Japan just to be a big farm.. they were pretty pissed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#Supreme_Council_for_the_Direction_of_the_War

Some light reading 4 u

>>512235
Did Japan have any hopes of restoring the royal family to its former status? I mean what's the point of keeping the royal family alive if in the end they aren't going to be in charge anymore except in name?

Also based Australians when it comes to having Hirohito hung.

>>512037
>Was this guy a decent to okay leader with his domestic policy and control of the military?
Good lord, no. Hirohito might be the worst ruler in Japanese history.

>Should he had let his younger brother take the throne?
Absolutely. Hirohito's refusal to abdicate was the central act that deformed post-war Japanese political culture. Because of that, anything goes, and anything has gone, for 70 years.

>Why was Japan dead set on having their emperor still in charge/royal family not touched o during the Allies call of unconditional surrender?
Eh. It wasn't so much Japan, as a relatively small ruling group, which had invested in the institution (rather than the person) of the Emperor, the abstract qualities that they didn't find in the actual society around them. The Emperor WAS Japan, as far as they thought.

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1930s were classy af

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AESTHETIC

>>510755
>art deco/streamline modern will never return

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>What are /his/torians opinion about its potential reconstruction of this lost Wonder of the Ancient World?

>>521226
> The Prophets of Delphi discouraged the statues reconstruction.
Maybe there was a reason for this? Enjoy killing your father and bedding your mother just because you want to build a statue with a giant 50 foot dong.

>>521226
>... this awe inspiring lost wonder of the world [THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES] was just brought up to my attention as of recently.

HOW IGNORANT, AND/OR HOW YOUNG ARE YOU?

>>520966
Scientism is a tough shell to crack desu senpai

>>520966
because no one cares

>>520966
How can a philosopher prove evolution and the Big Bang wrong?

>>520439
>Convince me that it works using history and philosophy.
History doesn't "prove" things.

You want >>>/pol/ for normative shit.

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It works...for what it's intended to do.

>>520439
Politics is the art of bribing powerful people. No matter the system of governance, this is the form it will take. Jobs, resources, money, armies, all of it needs to be distributed to certain ends. A good ruler (even and abstract one) effectively appeals to their interests most accurately. A bad one grossly misunderstands where interests and power actually lie in society.

Democracies are effective because they are the most organized, direct and quickly responsive systems of dealing with shifting power and interests. They keep everyone invested in the system being maintained. And while an autocratic system can take decades to 'understand' changes in interest and power, a democracy can do it quite quickly. This is also why they are so difficult to implement in some societies: it is a complex, and advanced system, and some societies lack the organizational capabilities for it.

>>519353
Art becomes Art in retrospect all the time. Though it doesn't usually hinge on the intentionality of the object's creator.

There are, obviously, lots of competing views on what "Art" is but it is a consistently fluid category. At the very least it is expansive, such that non-Art objects can become Art objects.

>>519383
>Art becomes Art in retrospect all the time.
Explain.

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This is art

>>519255
Because that button kills everything

>>519259
Realistically speaking it does not

Also there was a bunch of bunkers and im sure there was plans to preserve forces to countinue the fight after a MAD scenario

>>519267
>preserve forces to countinue the fight after a MAD scenario
for what purpose? You really after MAD the countries would even care about eachother?

>>519220

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deadliest_Warrior_episodes#Episode_2:_Viking_vs._Samurai

>>519220
>Viking's horned helmet

Into the trash.

>>519224

> falling for the horned helmet bait

>>519220
What is this? Some JRPG?

>>518559
how would society be different if animals and humans could communicate and animals would beg for mercy before being slaughtered for food? how would gender roles be affected by this?

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>>518620
Uhh What?

>>518637
i mean its a pretty straightforward question..