What is your favourite part of the HRE and why?
Hardmode: No Brandenburg or Prussia
>>3092201
>What is your favourite part of the HRE
When it dissolved
>>3092219
Why though?
HRE was comfy
>what's your favorite part of the square circle
The midpoint of the line connecting the third vertex (counting clockwise) to its opposite side.
>"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
What did he mean by this?
>>3092083
>I'm a shallow, trivial cunt
>>3092083
so... everything is about power then
he was a sexual deviant, his understanding of sex is flawed and can be disregarded
At what point in WW2 was the Wehrmacht broken?
>>3091941
How are you defining "The Wehrmacht broken"
>>3091941
Kursk tbfh
>>3091941
The breakpoints in the East.
After December 41, the Heer was no longer capable of conducting multiple strategic offensives simultaneously.
After Kursk, the Heer could not conduct strategic offensives period.
After Bagration, the Heer no longer had the mobile reserve to fight a mobile defense, and had to resort to holding the line at the front.
What did Europeans think was across the Atlantic before Columbus? Bonus points for what the Asians thought was across the pacific.
>>3091860
To answer both questions
Mythical lands of faerie and immortality
>>3091860
>What did Europeans think was across the Atlantic before Columbus?
India
>Bonus points for what the Asians thought was across the pacific.
Barbarians.
>>3091883
>India
Fucking retarded meme. They thought that the INDIES were across the Pacific. Even the most bumfuck retard of the era would have known that China is farther east than India.
Why did the practice of boarding enemy ships to capture them (instead of just sinking them) die out? Newer warships can cost upwards of several million dollars. That would fetch a hefty prize if you captured one reasonable intact.
>>3091816
Super cannons got invented nigga
>>3091822
This along with the fact that a ship from a different nation would have controls and buttons n shit in a different language.
>>3091816
>try to board ship
>get btfo by machine guns and rifle fire
Are there any good American explorers? Even Stanley was really Welsh and only emigrated to the USA for work.
I mean I guess you could count the astronauts.
>>3091768
lewis and clark. mountain men in the west. why would there be american explorers in regions that weren't in the sights of american imperial ambitions? americans explored the west because the western part of north america was the subject of american expansion. """exploration""" is nothing more than imperialist scouting.
>>3092218
Why nobody cared about Lewis and Clark? They were instantly forgotten and then something happened and then they became more popular. Was it a Disney movie or what? It's usually something like that.
>Anatolia gets conquered by Mudslimes
>Call Catholics for help
>They invaded Palestine instead
Are Catholics retarded?
>Europe gets invaded by the entire third world
>Pope licks their feet
Yes
>>3091707
Let's dispel once and for all with the fiction that Catholics don't know what they are doing, they knows exactly what they are doing.
>>3091707
When World War II broke out, Rabbi Wasserman fled to Vilnius and in 1941, while on a visit to Kaunas, he was arrested by the Nazis with twelve other rabbis and sent to his death. Rabbi Wasserman was taken and murdered by Lithuanian collaborators on the 12th of Tammuz, 1941, in the Seventh Fort of Kaunas Fortress. Before he was taken he gave this statement:
>"In Heaven it appears that they deem us to be righteous because our bodies have been chosen to atone for the Jewish people. Therefore, we must repent now, immediately. There is not much time. We must keep in mind that we will be better offerings if we repent. In this way we will save the lives of our brethren overseas. Let no thought enter our minds, God forbid, which is abominable and which renders an offering unfit. We are now fulfilling the greatest mitzvah. With fire she (Jerusalem) was destroyed and with fire she will be rebuilt. The very fire which consumes our bodies will one day rebuild the Jewish people."
Why are Jews so eager to sacrifice themselves for the Jewish people? Is it Judaism?
>>3091665
He was also an Anti-Zionist
"Anti-Semites want to kill the body, but Zionists kill the soul. Better to die than consort with the Zionists." - Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman
>>3091667
>He was also an Anti-Zionist
My guess is a lot of Jews became more Zionistic after the Holocaust. I don't have a source, just a hunch.
religious jews are pretty dogmatic
What would be the effect of all humans suddenly turning into lizards, but retaining their intelligence and ability to communicate? Would civilization eventually recover?
>>3091542
literal lizardmen conspiracy
>>3091542
I wonder what cognitive changes would arise as a consequence? Would cannibalism rise?
Stage one: 90-95% of people die
Stage two: the handful that haven't died learn how to practice agriculture
Stage three: Mesopotamia-tier lizard agricultural societies manage to access some old books, and rapidly tech up to electricity, BOS steelmaking, machine tools, and eventually microchips
Stage four: Lizards exceed humans, because they started out their global civilization with much better technology, and because you can fit more lizards on earth before you start to run into resource shortages.
Stage five: adorable little lizard hats
Why do Indo-Aryans have more cold adapted noses than western Europeans?
Is it more of a low humidity adaptation? Western Europeans seem to consistently have a very wide nasal bridge, which is more hot/humidity adapted.
>>3091362
Very, very odd choice of marketing my friend.
>>3091370
lolwut
>posts a pic of a recent movie somewhat related to the topic
>must be marketing
>>3091370
The guy could perfectly be a Southern Italian/Sicilian
Did the Catholic Church shoot itself in the foot by accepting evolution?
No, if anything it probably helped Catholics who are having a hard time reconciling their faith with modern science remain Catholic. Modern knowledge is killing literal interpretations of the Bible, so the best way to survive is to adapt.
When you think about it, evolution pretty much invalidates Christianity:
Evolution = no Adam & Eve = no original sin = no point in Jesus dying and resurrecting.
Treating the Bible as a mostly allegorical or meta-narrative pathway to The Truth is the only way to both be smart and be a Christian
Hi /his/, I have a question for you, and I apologize in advance if it's stupid. I was wondering how in old ships they managed to stay warm? Like, if you were in a battleship and were in the Northern Atlantic, how did they manage to keep themselves warm at night. I assumed the crew mainly slept in hammocks or make-shift sleeping areas below deck, and maybe they could close portholes to stop heat from escaping, but unless they had large blankets, I assume they couldn't have fire aboard a wooden ship? Can anyone explain?
>>3091016
welll they did actually have fireplaces on wooden ships, bizarre as it may sound, you gotta cook the food somehow, and yeah basically lots of warm cothes and blankets
The actual stove on HMS Victory
Who do you think was right, Octavian or Mark Antony?
Who would you have sided with in their war?
How would things have played out if Antony had won at Actium?
How different would things be if Antony had won the entire war?
>>3091013
Octavian
Fun fact the first romans was ruled by kings who was black. Tarquinius superbus the last black king of rome was overthrown by the whiteys who ruled rome for a couple of centuries. Until sulla the great black general overthrew the whiteys and exterminated them in the social war. Now blacks was running rome again and a whitey wasnt seen in the region again until it was sacked by alaric and the whiteys eventually killed or sent the black romans to africa. Julius caesar was black
>>3091013
>Who do you think was right, Octavian or Mark Antony?
They both wanted literally the exact same thing.
>Who would you have sided with in their war?
Whoever is more likely to win.
>How different would things be if Antony had won the entire war?
The first emperor of Rome would be named Antony instead of Augustus.
During the Hungarian–Czechoslovak War, Czechoslovak commander Josef Šnajdárek ordered 100 soldiers to camouflage themselves with soot and to wear white rags as turbans to look like Africans, ordered them to march on railway stations near the borders and to mumble random sounds and to say "Senegal".
Hungarian spies informed their army that d'Espèrey sent 6000 colonial soldiers to help Czechoslovaks. Out of the fear of "negro canibals" dozens of Hungarian soldiers drowned in rivers because they feared to get captured.
>>3090939
They literally and unironically feared the black warrior.
>>3090939
When the US invaded Panama. Noriega took refuge in an embassy. The US military decided to use psychological warfare. They blasted rock music 24/7, where Van Halen's song Panama was played many times. After 10 days Noriega gave up.
So I've dedicated my mind to some thought for a change, instead of just endlessly mulling over everyday /pol/ regurgitations, and without trying to sound pretentious, but also admitting that there are inherent differences between races - both physical and psychological in nature - I can't help but wonder whether or not what blacks refer to as "the great steal of history" has something to do with the evident cultural, moral, intellectual, etc. gap between whites and blacks we bear witness to today.
While it's safe to assume Africans would have amounted to little had colonisation not taken place, it's also safe to suggest that the events which would follow as direct consequence of colonisation shape the modern black mentality of victimisation - for one often plays the victim for the sole purpose of being recognised as a martyr. Or in non-biblical terms, of appearing as an underdog, whose achievements - no matter how moderate in scope - always make them appear greater than for what they really are due to their oppressed lifestyle etc.
When people think revolutionaries, they almost instinctively go to praise MLK, Mandela, Gandhi - not black, but a classic example of playing the victim by degrading oneself to the apparent 'inability to act' in order to garner sympathy - and even Malcolm X, the latter being an exception, although people still attribute victim status to him because of his race.
These people spring to mind both because of the perpetuated media support their characters have gotten throughout the years, but also because the notion of playing the underdog is just that more appealing to the common man.
Or, as Dylann Roof put it:
>Say you were to witness a dog being beat by a man. You are almost surely going to feel very sorry for that dog. But then say you were to witness a dog biting a man. You will most likely not feel the same pity you felt for the dog for the man. Why? Because dogs are lower than men.
>>3090891
And it's true. Be it sympathy or mere pity, we're more likely to root for the underdog than someone who was privileged to a life of comfort and without need. And it's these types of figures African history is littered with, and in which black youth seek inspiration, as well as motivation.
While white history is comprised of an array of versatile characters, reaching from benign to cunning, black history, and its people, are left with the pitiful, the malnourished, yet who are so beloved and praised by the masses because of their seeming martyr status.
Now, I also load this 8 paragraph post with a question - or two:
How much of what I just wrote about is actually accurate, as in do black people in general have any interest in their history?
How - if at all - can it be remedied?
>>3090891
Get off the internet, go outside, talk to real human beings.
>>3090901
But there are no black people where I am.