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I was born "jewish" although I hate judaism and all other religions.
I believe there is no such thing as "god", and that we like Charles Darwin proved evolved from ape like ancestors through millions of years of evolution.
It has always boiled my blood to know what the germans did to us the so called "jews".
But I take solace in knowing that at least some german civilians got killed in the allied bombings of dresden and other german cities.

Rest in peace Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, GCB, OBE, AFC (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984).
I admire and love you.
" The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind".

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I was born "jewish" although I hate judaism and all other religions.
I am 100% atheist.
I believe there is no such thing as "god", and that we, like Charles Darwin proved evolved from ape like ancestors through millions of years of evolution.

It has always boiled my blood to know what the germans did to us the so called "jews".
But you know what?
I take solace in knowing that at least some german civilians were killed by the allied bombings of dresden and other german cities.

Rest in peace Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, GCB, OBE, AFC (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984).
I admire and love you.
" The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind".

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From a Republican perspective, did Reagan or Bush Senior get the shit from the media that Trump and Bush Jr did?

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What would you say related to Julius Caesar deserves the bigger spotlight of examination, his campaigns/battles or the politics surrounding and involving him?

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What's the morality behind immigration? Should they be let in? Should they be kept out? Are open borders right or wrong?

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Be honest.
Regardless of how clever or wise you consider yourself to be. Do you think you'd be anywhere near that level had you been born in ancient times, and had never been exposed to the toughs of the great philosophers?

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"What if we gave the weird kid in class all the power of ancient Rome?"


Who the fuck thought this kid was fit to rule as Emperor? Who even was this guy?
Shit's fucking hilarious.

>married a Vestal Virgin
>forced Senators to watch while he danced at some altar
>offered vast sums of money to any doctor who could attach a vagina to him
>as a show or power, he had naked women pull his chariot, himself also being naked
>would have fucking lions just roll up into the dining room while people ate for his amusement
>he personally shaved the groins and pubic hair of his minions
>presented himself as a prostitute while he was emperor, like holy shit he went through with it too for fun

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What concepts or actions were considered taboo in Ancient Greece?

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Can we have a thread about Napoleon's Marshals? Who's the one that interest's you the most? The one you dislike the most? General discussion really
>Favorite is Berthier. Unassuming man who was always by Napoleon's side, and when he sided with the Bourbons, he killed himself when Napoleon returned
>Victor is definitely the most hated. The guy, unlike most marshal's after the Seventh Coalition, sucked the Bourbon dick hard. He hunted down Bonapartists and wanted Ney and other Marshal's dead. He didn't even attend Napoleon's reburial and when he died no one really cared.

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Bad history sucks.

The myth that the French, should've (1) extended the Maginot Line to the Channel Coast or (2) used combined arms warfare, would have held in 1940 is bad history.

Myth number (1) France was using outdated tactics:

The French knew all about armoured warfare, their doctrine from the period, "Methodical Battle" it is combined arms. The theories proposed by Guderian etc. were examined thoroughly by the French, and German doctrine was examined in depth. Many French observers further saw the German use of coordinated infantry, artillery, tanks, aircraft and paratroopers in the breakthrough phase of the modern battle as so doctrinally similar to 'Methodical Battle' that they "would have passed muster at the Ecole Superieure de Guerre".

Looking at the French Army's DLM / DCR divisions, these are equivalent of the German Panzer Corps. In Gembloux, Belgium, The French conducted a classic combined arms manoeuvre warfare advance into Belgium. They fought the Germans to a draw here.

Myth number (2): the Germans just went around the Maginot Line:

(A) the terrain on the Franco-Belgian border was completely unsuited to defence and is largely open fields intersected by rivers making it difficult to fortify.

(B) The main industrial and population centres of France are in the northeast of the country. The French needed to move the battle into Belgium if they were to have any chance in holding until their allies could come to their aid, Germany had more population and industry.

(C) The French command was fully aware that any "line", attacked with enough strength, could be breached. Gamelin wrote “from 1915… whenever the necessary means were employed, one always broke a front.”

(D) Defending the border would be a longer front to defend than moving into Belgium. France was at a disadvantage in terms of manpower compared to the Germans. Besides a shorter front, the French needed the extra 22 divisions of the Belgian Army.

Not French, I am Australian.

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I know its a meme to hate modern art.
[spoiler]but I hate modern art[/spoiler]

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>do what I say or I'll hurt you
Wow... so this is the power of eastern philosophy

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So how did this work? Were the other countries nominally independent and took orders from the Kremlin, or was it an almost super state that had members from each country as part of the Communist Party in Moscow? Was Russia the only part of the Soviet Union, or were countries like Poland and East Germany part of it as well? Or were they just client states that got told what to do?

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Why is the Mona Lisa important?

[spoiler]it's not[/spoiler]

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why does he win every single debate if atheism is true ?