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>>386895
I dont know if its true but I heard that the detroit motor companies deliberately sabotaged plans for streetcars, trams etc

>>386895
Because look at a map, you stupid fucking yuropoor. You guys have five cities within 200 miles.

We have two cities within 500 miles. Our public passenger train system constantly operates at a loss because it can't compete with the airlines. Just, Jesus Fuck, stop thinking that we're like you.

>>386931
What about high density areas like the northeast?

>>386606
Not go to war

>>386606

not invade Russia

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>>386606
>take mainland Europe and quit while you're ahead
>do not blitz Britain, make it clear you have no interest in attacking their colonies
>keep strong defences on the Soviet border but do not attack (this was their biggest miscalculation, Germany actually ended up with less food imports than they'd been getting via trade, when a major reason for attacking was to improve Germany's food supply)
>stay neutral with regards to America, why the fuck are you teaming up with Japan, holy shit they're nowhere near your precious living space

>>382167
It was cold

Not my mother, but one of her friends lived in Ukraine during Soviet rule. Said it was awful, crime ridden and never enough food to go around. They eventually moved to East Germany and escaped from there, how they did it I have no idea because it's not a topic I bring up.

No because the only connection between my family and USSR is that my grandfather was in the war keeping those fuckers out of our country

>>385428

yes

>that sweet Georgian accent

>>385440
I still laugh thinking about his rebel yell impression in the Ken Burns doc

>>385440
He's from Mississippi

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>using a poorly-defined folk saying as an example
>using Trump being similar to Hitler as an example
when you do this, you are practically inviting someone to pick at your examples. Those aren't commonly held facts, they are your opinions and the first things that come to your mind. You may want to find something that is more firmly accepted to base your arguments around

>there are so many differing ideas of what truth is, which shows that truth is subjective
that's just a bad argument.

>truth doesn't even exist, following Descartes
...you should probably choose whether truth is subjective or doesn't exist. These two points seem to contradict each other.
Also, Descartes clearly goes on after 'I think, therefore I am" to assert that absolute truth exists and that any well-adjusted human can discern what is true and what is uncertain. Using him as your main example is a strange choice to me.

>>385041
Thanks for the input.

>>385041
Pespective is making me dizzy

>>384429
Rhymes with beagle

DUDE THESIS AND ANTITHESIS LMAO

Atheists ride his dick yet he assures that everything he says goes with Christianity

>>384148
>Why was/is public housing such a spectacular failure in the United States?
Americans.

More seriously, in Europe (both Western and Eastern capitalism), public housing was the triumph of the proletariat in capitalism over the private interests in land. Manufacturing capital was quite willing to discipline rentier land capital over the issue of rent super-profits, in part to shift working class consumption towards the manufacturing industries.

Public housing in Europe was a triumph of the 1930s over the war, experienced in the 1950s. It was a triumph of "the nation" as embodied in the social democratic-esque state, or in Sweden of the co-operative spirit.

In contrast, US public housing was largely charity.

>>384148
If you give everyone housing but don't give everyone a job, then people have a place to call their own but they have no way of surviving. Combine this with the drug habits of the middle class and antagonism from mostly white police forces, and you quickly have a lot of cynics with a lot of opportunity to make money illegally in a very small space. The illegal job market is just like the legal job market, it has competition. Politicians pass harsh drug laws. If you're a drug dealer then you are always carrying enough evidence on you to be convicted of crime requiring multiple decades of prison time, so killing a rival becomes trivial in terms of relative legal risk. Police forces in the 70s and 80s were not equipped to handle the increasing amounts of crime, so public housing essentially became ungoverned territory within the US. If you have even a small amount of people acting in accordance with what I have described above, then you end up having a lot of lethal antagonism in communities that are large in population but small in area. We are social creatures and we take things personally, we seek revenge and we take sides. Gangs start as ways to protect yourself from others but quickly become corporate structures for organized crime.

Being the United States, political power is held by those with wealth, and those with wealth in this country are overwhelmingly white. Setting aside the possibility of racism, if you are a politician you are wealthy, and if you are wealthy you don't live in public housing. People naturally take care of their community first, so even if a politician were to draft legislation to help the people in public housing, they likely lack the experience or intimate knowledge of the issues to combat them effectively.

>>385051
Policies such as increasing time served for drug and gun offenses, making guns more difficult to acquire, aggressive police tactics, lowering taxes (this concentrates wealth in the hands of the already wealthy), recklessly spending money on "dem programs", the list goes on, and it was all simply misguided. One of the worst things that happened was the destruction of the public housing. In Chicago, this lead to gangs dispersing through out the city, increasing the extent of their territory and rapidly increasing the number of border conflicts.

Eventually, even if the problems that lead to the creation of all this poverty and violence are alleviated, being a man of the streets or a gangster becomes a cultural institution. This problem is compounded by the massive number of poor people who are incarcerated and who are incapable of raising their children. When kids grow up without parents or a warm and supportive family, they can only identify with the environment around them. The physical isolation of public housing also leads to cultural isolation. Rich people don't want savage gangsters in their neighborhoods, so they segregate.

To answer your question
>What went wrong?
Everything. The consistency and enormity of the mistakes made in terms of policy regarding poor people and public housing is really amazing. There is literally nothing good that came out of public housing in itself. Practically all of the domestic antagonism in the US today can trace its roots back to public housing and how politicians treated poor people in general 50 years ago. It's really astounding.

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>>381130

>>381130
Jews invented Solomon just to say WE WUZ KINGZ

The only thing moses spread was his 90 y/o wifes legs

Why is OP such a cunt?

That's just the inevitable consequence of centralizing the divine

Religious figures are often cunts
See: Zeus, Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, list goes on and on

Probably the 1800's in general

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10 AM, June 28th, 1914.

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>>369518
>>369518
Industrial revolution era was the first peak of western civilization.

Then it peaked again in the 1900s, with the second stage of the industrialization.

And then the Roaring Twenties, 1930s, 1940s, were next next peak.

And finally it peaked again, for the last time and at the height of it's power in the 1960s.

The whole idea of a second coming itself is pretty much bunk. The Messiah, as prophecized in the Old Testament will be a human religious leader and a warrior king born of a young woman. He will not die and come back, he will live a mortal life within which he fulfill the prophetic expectations.

no, in the bible 'generation' doesn't refer to the same thing we call a generation i.e. a lifespan

I think Jesus would flip the fuck out if he discovered that 300 years later the Emperor himself becomes a Christian. To early Christians that would be like Hitler enrolling in a Yeshiva and becoming a rabbi.

Christianity focuses SO MUCH on the fact that's it's a religion of the marginal, the poor, the oppressed that it didn't cross their mind at all that a rich and powerful guy in charge of literal armies would join it without giving away any of his wealth and power. That's why Augustine had to retcon the ever loving fuck out of it.

>This time without Italy

>>395160
You think Italy alone made all the difference?

>>395165
They locked up quite a few German divisions fixing their fiasco in Greece in the critical months before Barbarossa, It was also the catalyst for the German invasion of Yugoslavia which unnecessarily keep for German units out of Russia. The failure to take Moscow and thus Barbarossa is what ultimately ended any hope of the Germans breaking the Soviets and those divisions in Greece and the Balkans would have otherwise been used in support of operations in Russia.

Not to mention their North African shenanigans.

Carl Schmitt

>>394554
What should I read?

>>394530
Oh, and I already read Leviathan.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, anything that lead to WW1

The foundation of Judaism by Abraham

Israel was a mistake.

>>394150
The world would be a much better place. Not even because
>Muh muslims
but because the loss or damage of Coptic, berber, Aramaic, zoroastrian, yemenite and byzantine cultures were all tragic.

>>394150
Islam had already spread to east africa and north africa through dawah

>>394162
A lot of the philosophical and scientific contributions of those cultures were preserved (and even built upon) by both Muslim and Catholic scholars during the middle ages, so I wouldn't go that far - and even if Byzantium somehow survived until present day, its culture would have changed greatly, as all cultures do over time.

Also keep in mind that the Ottomans, Seljuks, and many other Muslim empires were in fact Turkic nomads who half-heartedly embraced Islam as they conquered into the Muslim world. Those same peoples would have likely attempted the same conquests regardless of religion; if anything, Islam was a vehicle through which turks could acculturate themselves toward the west.