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By designing some really cool shit

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>>348387

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>>348324
A true nihilistic wouldn't be bothered obviously.

>>348326
And how does he choose to do something like eat, talk, make love etc.?

Well a reaction is just that
Not a long thought out moral philosophy
You think nihilists wouldn't feel feelings?

Pompey wasn't really a good general, he was good at utilizing the superior resources of Rome against weak enemies, see Quintus Sertorius. Caesar however was a very good general, from a start point in Gaul he pretty much reconquered Rome.
So to answer your question, yes, he was fucked from the start.

>>348182
Also, if he had won the republic would have lasted a little longer, although as Brutus put it, some other ambitious man would take Caesar place eventually, the republic, excluding based Cato, was corrupt as hell and bound to fall apart

>>348182
>Sertorius
>weak

Man Sertorius was so good that even the god-on-Earth we call Sulla didn't want to deal with him. Sertorius was eventually done in only by trickery and treason from within. Otherwise the war would've dragged on another decade or two.

We had a Pompey thread a few days back anyway.

I'll bump once and then move on if nobody replies, it's not a really common religion I get it

>>348034
its also pretty late, maybe try again in around 8 hours

Here's a bump.
Hopefully someone knows.

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>>347922
Can't top Schweik. Don't even try, you'll fail miserably.

>>347938
I remember seeing this some years ago, and it was mostly pictures. Maybe I missremember?
Is there actually good prose, or is it more like a comic book?

>>347922
Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin series is GOAT

>>347610
In a way I suppose they were, the enlightenment was parasitic to Christianity because it questioned their dogma. But honestly you could write a book on your topic OP

Given churchmen were the only carriers of culture during centuries, really not.

>>347610
Yeah they hated intellectuals.

That's why they translated all those Greek works of philosophy and science into different languages. Also funded and supported the whole Renaissance movement.

Fucking anti-intellectuals am I right?

>>347562
See, they tried to be all sneaky about it. The Hutu just didn't give a shit who knew.

Rwanda was and still is a small, densely populated country, Germany is not.

The Rwandan genocide was undertaken during a period when the only thing the government was doing was killing Tutsi, helped out by the earlier introduction of ID cards that classified your tribe on them, the German government was doing quite a lot more than just killing undesirables.

I'm sure if Germany was a very small country with a very dense population and had decided to carry out the holocaust during a period when they had no other responsibilities it would've been a lot quicker and had an even higher death rate

>Holy shit Germans are actually borderline retarded
That's honestly all you needed to say.

But it is a nice reminded for the /pol/lacks who insist it would be IMPOSSIBLE to kill that many people.

>>347482
>When discussing history, please reference credible source material, and provide as much supporting information as possible in your posts.

Great post-OP. Fuck off with your "generals" shit.

Never posted on this board. Idk what your generals comment means

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>>347482

The Combined Action Program was implemented by the USMC in 1965. The idea was that a relatively small unit of marines along with a unit of South Vietnamese soldiers and they would be stationed at a specific village and given the responsibility of holding that area. CAP marines would live amongst the Vietnamese and fight against communist guerillas in a way similar to how gangs in the US might fight over territory in a city. The program was considered a resounding success: CAP units were cheap to set up, had high kill ratios, and improved US/Vietnamese relations. Villages with CAP units were much more likely to view Americans as protectors rather than invaders. Of course, CAP marines also had higher than average casualty rates, but they still were more likely have a positive outlook on their experiences in Vietnam.

The program represented the kind of human intelligence that the US should have been doing on a wider scale. Had CAP been implemented on a wider basis, it could have been a much different war. Unfortunately, many higher ups did not understand the value of the program, so it was chronically under-supplied and eventually canceled altogether.

>>347272
First question: No.

Second question: it would have to be along ethnic as well as sectarian lines.

Your picture: >>>/pol/

>>347272
Of course it would be. Arab violence isn't caused by Israel, it is caused by Arabs being backwards.

>>347272
>Would the middle east still be the shit show it is today?


Yes but for different reasons. Even if you take the jews out of the equation you still have shia and sunnis wanting to kill each other.

frencher

>>347043
Well the franco-prussian war and WWI may not have happened.

The British Empire would not have had as much sway in matters in the late 19th century.

Secularism may have happened sooner.

No one knows, it's stupid to speculate.

>>346953
Hey if anyone tells u an axe is a shitty wepon they're probably too pussy to use one

>>346953

First know that an axe used for war is not the same thing as an axe used for utility purposes. The blade has a much thinner profile and will break if used to chop wood.

The reason the axe was the signature weapon of vikings/raiders was due to the nature of their fighting style. The hit and run tactics used by barbarians do not favor a weapon such as the spear because it isn't as handy and formations weren't utilized in these raids. Swords weren't utilized because they were generally too costly due to the amount of metal they required.

Pros
>easy to use
>cheap
>good penetration
>handle can be repaired in the field

Cons
>unbalanced when compared to a sword
>handle has chance to break
>generally shorter than a sword

tldr
Great for raiding against peasants/unsuspecting militia, cheap.

>>347061
Nice bait.
>>347457
This except for the penetration bit. Axes aren't that great against armour.

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>>346909
Why don't you tell me what you think, Hans?

>>346909
Dresden was designated a Fortress by Hitler, thus it was not a war crime.

>Should

Fuck off to /pol/

"War crimes" are a social construct.

>>346665
I read somewhere that Diogenes of Sinope was in the process of writing a satire of The Republic when he died.

>tfw you will never read 200 pages of Plato getting BTFO by a man who lived in a jar.

>ywn fight in Le Grande Armee

Presocratic writings, specially Heraclitus' and Eleatics.

He causes a lot of butthurt, which is reason enough for me to like him.

He is the rightwing Jared Diamond. He should keep out of politics, the fucking homo

>>348465
>the rightwing Jared Diamond
In his personal views or the way it translates to his work? Diamond seems to rile all sides with his focus on geographic and environmental determinism.

The "East" is a pretty big place?
To which civilisation or country are you referring to specifically?

>>346405
>What are the Crusades?

>>346439
Defensive wars against Islam expansion into christian territories.