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>"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't." - Mao Tse-tung
How do you respond?
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>>306184
Ask if he wants to test that theory on his people.
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>>306184
Th fact that MacArthur came pretty damn close to using them on China I'd tell him to try his luck
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>>306221
He pretty much did that.
Could Germany have won WW2? Starting from the fall of France if the German leadership had made different decisions could they have kept control of Western Europe or at least avoid total defeat?
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>>306033
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, and this thread as already made tonns of times.
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>>306033
If they captured Moscow instead of pushing into Crimea that would have helped (would have brought Japan into the war).
declaring war on the United States was a mistake.
Making a better mass produced tank would have helped with their armor shortage.
It really depended on if Hitler could make peace with the West so he could attack Russia unimpeded.
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It could have easily ended in a ceasefire, but Germany could not have won. And even had they stopped at the Western front, the Russian probably would never have stopped.
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Has there ever been a crazier modern leader?
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Favourite historical quotes 2015-11-26 13:43:20 Post No.305941
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Favourite historical quotes
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'The attempt on my crown has left me battered and tired, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger. Henceforth, the Saxon Kingdoms shall be reorganised into the first unified English Kingdom, for a safe and secure Anglo-Saxon Hegemony.'
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>>305965
based quote is based.
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Why is it that Poland didn't get affected? 2015-11-26 13:07:51 Post No.305825
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Why is it that Poland didn't get affected?
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And also is it possible that Poles genetically don't have a resistance toward it? Because if I were to inject such a disease in your common Western European citizen and a Pole today, would they both hold out or would the Pole instantly die?
Very interested. Please comment.
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They closed their borders.
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They didn't have retarded medieval europe hygiene standards?
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>>305839
Plagues tend to spread even if you had good hygene. My best guess is people just didnt go there as much or not many big cities back then.
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Are Muslim caliphates the only examples of successful theocracies in history?
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is this a joke thread?
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>>305749
Technically, China and Japan were founded as theocracies, but their respective tribal shamans grew to something else (i.e. largely secular rulers such as the Chinese Huangdi and the Japanese Tenno.)
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Egypt was pretty damn successful, as theocracies go.
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While the field of fashion in itself is a social construct, dependant on the changes that occur societies, why aren't we undergoing a sudden surge of new ideas when we're at the eve of a war? There's nothing truly innovative in today's fashion and we are simply recycling ideas that were already there and the clothing which truly is innovative is not as accessible to the general populace or the bourgeois classes as it was post-WW2.
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>>305388
We're not on the eve of war?
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>when we're at the eve of a war?
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What's the verdict? Glorified dictator or liberator and saviour?
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Why not both?
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fascist
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/pol/ as fuck
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Are philosophers just pretentious twats? You really have a huge ego to call yourself a philosopher and write about how society sucks.
I'm reading Nietzsche right now and he sounds self-righteous. What the fuck is even the point of his stupid book?
The biggest pretentious asshole so far is Kant with his "enlightenment".
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Nietzsche is basically "Sociopathy the religion"
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>What the fuck is even the point of his stupid book
that is the point. you're getting it.
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>>304978
I'm sorry I quite literally pulled this out of my asshole and when the excrement hit the floor that's what it spelled out
I'm sorry
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What are your opinions on Christopher Columbus and the conquering of the Americas?
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Brilliant but very cruel
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I found his ploys of deception to take resources from the enemy and use them against them tactically brilliant.
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I think it is strange how Native US Americans are really upset about this guy when he didn't even touch their continent (He did fuck the US Virgin Isles though).
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how powerful was the ottoman empire at it's height?
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>>303874
FROM HERE TO THE SUN.
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>>303874
>still can't take vienna
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>>303874
enough so that the sultan could have ordered your mommy to court and seeded her and make you raise the child
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if you have zero experience with an actual foreign language you are completely retarded to think you can actually contribute to /his/ and you should gtfo.
>inb4 but i took a semester in spanish
spanish, french, german, etc are just english with a slightly different accent and grammar
>actual FOREIGN languages
- russian
- arabic
- chinese (shit-tier, tho)
irregardless of how busy you perceive yourself in your daily life, you should learn a new language at least every couple of years.
if trains your brain more than anything else. most real polyglots are also geniuses in other areas because their brains were subjected to merciless gains with every new language.
oh, did you know that russian.rt.com shows a completely different world than the english rt?
same for aljazeera
>inb4 google translate
what is video?
what are speeches by politicians?
what are non-translatable expressions?
what is reading between the lines, which gets lots in 95% of the translations?
what is real life with no google translate?
i never understood putin's speeches in the original (like 99% of all of /pol/), all i ever got were translations and press releases. until one day, i decided to learn russian. i deliberately stopped watching any of his public appearances. after a few months, when i felt solid in russian, i played one of his old speeches i once watched but never understood.
oh my
>tfw you will never know the feel of finally understand someone
>tfw you still believe the actual literal words matter, while in reality 90+% is the choice and placement of words in connection with body language
sry if my english sucks but for the past months i've been immersing myself in something you would consider "moonrunes" or some shit
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>>302319
Sei still und nerv nicht
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>>302319
And you made your shitty thread in English?
Ospa.
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>>302319
>spanish, french, german, etc are just english with a slightly different accent and grammar
?و وت میت
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When did you realize that humanity isn't special?
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Why haven't we found signs of intelligent alien life yet? According to some experts we would have found them by now.
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The capacity to think of ourselves as "not special" makes us pretty damn special.
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>>302055
What if we are the most intelligent species in whole space, and other species are behind us technologically. Scary isn't it.
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What people never invented Swords?
from my understanding everyone did, but is there an exception?
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Spears are better desu
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>>301586
Aboriginals and other people who never got around to metalworking. It doesn't matter since spears and pikes saw more use than swords in warfare.
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Lots of native peoples such as Maori.
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Do you guys believe in god? If yes, why? If no, why not?
When did you come out of the atheist closet?
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>>298967
I don't and I realized it when I was freshman in college filling out the religious part of my facebook profile. I honestly hadn't thought about it for years up until that point.
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No, I don't believe there is a god and I came out as an atheist about 9 years ago
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>Do you guys believe in god?
No
>why not?
I was never raised with religion. And when I studied it in school I just couldn't buy it. Most of my theology professors were atheists as well, and the one Catholic admitted it's most likely nonsense but he needs something to hang on to so he took the existentialist "leap of faith".
Felt a bit like watching a kid take santa seriously. No offense to believers.