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>>2993950
Britain had large resources of tin and gold, and huge woodlands to provide oak and whatnot, but its resources barely covered the costs of maintaining Roman presence there.

It was only really conquered for the sake of being conquered. Once it had been, Emperors invested a great deal of time and effort in enforcing their rule so as to avoid the ignominy of losing the province. This was costly as rebellions were almost perpetual in Britannia, as evidenced by the huge number of forts there.

I recall reading a book on Roman Britain by Guy de la Bédoyère, who claimed that for many in Rome (pre-conquest of Britain), the very existence of the island was questionable. He claims that even the tribes of Northern Gaul, despite trading with the Britons, knew only minor details about them. I find this hard to believe, especially as Iron Age Britons from SE England typically had more in common (culturally) with those in Northern Gaul than Northern England, Scotland or the Highlands. I find it even harder to believe when you consider the importance of the Druids to these societies, and the fact that Caesar records pilgrimages of Gaulish leaders and priests to Anglesey.

However, his point does have a kernel of truth in it. Some think that the famous 'seashell collection' on the shores of the Channel, under Caligula, was his response to mutiny by soldiers reluctant to cross into a land as alien to them as Mars is to us.

Britain was also harder to integrate culturally than, say, Gaul or Hispania, as its large population and small size meant few tribal leaders had the resources to qualify for entry to the Senate (i.e. no properties worth one million sesterces)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czF8okZRyPc

>>2993950
No, invading a major shithole doesn't cost much, just a waste of resources

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>>2994169
Thank you for your reasoned contribution, Cletus

>>2993938
Communist revolutionaries in the Central Powers or Western Europe to be honest

>>2993938
Probably Sweden, or Portugal.

>>2993957
Maroc spagnol.

>>2993935
How many performance Artists join the military (and fight successfully in a combat position) and are proud of their countries history?

It seems like you are just trying to fluster a few people with your cheery picked facts

>>2993951
Basically all of them who fought in WW1

>>2993935
>2017
>still thinking Hitler was the bad guy

>>2993916
>cancerous, Liberal, Hedonistic, Materialist culture
You mean consumerist capitalism?

FULLY AUTOMATED QUEER LUXURY SPACE ANARCHO-COMMUNISM

>>2993916
>cancerous, Liberal, Hedonistic, Materialist culture of the West
So capitalism?
Also we won't live to see that happen, maybe in 200 years or so.

>>2993927
We can work towards that goal together, comrade

>>2993792
why is Iceland there?

>>2993792
>spanish coast
>otomman

>>2993792
Because they attack the west

>>2993712
Culturally yes.
Racially no.

>>2994865
Culturally I'd say they're already gone. The only ones who still do anything pre-colombian are in the Pacific Northwest, and even then its mostly just larping to get money from white people; selling totem poles and Chilcat blankets and such.

There are american indians left?

I'm a native American

>German
>Democratic
>Republic

East German marching song, arguably the best thing that came from communism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mG3BvkT6YQ

I'd like to see you try to disassemble the pyramids

>>2993578
Show me.

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>>2993578
Some muslims do advocate for it (like the guy in pic related in fact) but the tourist money, Egyptian cultural concern, and the cost involved in destroying them. There are other places where monuments on a similar scale were destroyed by iconoclastic kebabs though, like the Buddhist temples in Afghanistan.

Israel.

Mongols were incredible, especially when they took on the shitskin muslims.

>>2993510
Mongols are the real gangsters, if any group ever deserved that title.

Being nomadic and raping ancient civilizations which date back thousands of years and shit.

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Simulacra and Simulation identifies three types of simulacra and identifies each with a historical period:

First order, associated with the premodern period, where representation is clearly an artificial placemarker for the real item. The uniqueness of objects and situations marks them as irreproducibly real and signification obviously gropes towards this reality.
Second order, associated with the modernity of the Industrial Revolution, where distinctions between representation and reality break down due to the proliferation of mass-reproducible copies of items, turning them into commodities. The commodity's ability to imitate reality threatens to replace the authority of the original version, because the copy is just as "real" as its prototype.
Third order, associated with the postmodernity of Late Capitalism, where the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation vanishes. There is only the simulation, and originality becomes a totally meaningless concept

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Baudrillard theorizes that the lack of distinctions between reality and simulacra originates in several phenomena.

Contemporary media including television, film, print, and the Internet, which are responsible for blurring the line between products that are needed (in order to live a life) and products for which a need is created by commercial images.

Exchange value, in which the value of goods is based on money (literally denominated fiat currency) rather than usefulness, and moreover usefulness comes to be quantified and defined in monetary terms in order to assist exchange.

Multinational capitalism, which separates produced goods from the plants, minerals and other original materials and the processes (including the people and their cultural context) used to create them.

Urbanization, which separates humans from the nonhuman world, and re-centres culture around productive throughput systems so large they cause alienation.

Language and ideology, in which language increasingly becomes caught up in the production of power relations between social groups, especially when powerful groups institute themselves at least partly in monetary terms.

>take the final redpill

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bumping an interesting thread

Can you say anything about how Baudrillard's concepts relate to photography?

>>2993405
The western Franks were Germans, too.

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>>2993412
Sorry but we aren't

Also, why did Germans claim that Charlemagne had blond hair while they were gray ?

Franks, Gauls, Germanics, Visigoths, etc. are pretty much the same barbarian shit at this era

Dindu nuffin

>redpill me on _____
stop using this word it makes you look like a newfag from /pol/, which you almost certainly are

Let me put Columbus into perspective, he was a man who lived during the time of the Spanish Inquisition and was arrested by Spain for cruelty, that's how fucked up he was. The precedent he set by exploiting (read mass enslavement, rape, and murder) the taino was actually far more important than his discovery of the Caribbean.

>>2993292
literally 0 evidence to support this, though some of his officers were indeed jews who had fled to portugal during the inquisition

Cinematographic masterpiece. Only butthurt nazifags bitch about it.

>>2993259

NO.

>>2993259
If anything Oskar Dirlewanger was even edgier irl. Probably not a bad representation of how partisan warfare works.

>>2993084
being clean shaven was civilized

>>2993084
Beards were barbaric, only Germans and Greek philisophers (ancient NEETS) wore such things

>>2993084
>How did the ancient romans shave
They had razors i imagine

Which modern men?

>>2993045
because our public educational systems are shit

>>2993045
Your statement is incorrect, but I'll stick around to see the roleplaying posts