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>Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan had millions of women and children hunted down and killed, deliberately and with a gay heart. History sees in him only the great founder of States. What the weak Western European civilization alleges about me, does not matter. I have given the order—and will have everyone shot who utters but one word of criticism—that the aim of this war does not consist in reaching certain geographical lines, but in the enemies' physical elimination. Thus, for the time being only in the east, I put ready my Death's Head units, with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only thus will we gain the living space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?
How could Hitler be so ruthless? Or is Western civilization weak and capricious? Did he have a point about Genghis Khan and the Armenian genocide?
I don't know, this man just seems like the supervillain of history.
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Chinggis Khan won. If you're gonna be ruthless in conquest you better fucking win.
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Fake quote
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Bum
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What's so bad about John Green?
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>>2943010
He's a normie.
Heis history videos are not entirely wrong, but some of them are.
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>>2943010
He is based.
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Nothing.
All his videos are historically accurate and have proper sources.
The only thing objectionable is his argument that women are cereal.
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When did looting and raping stop being perks of joining up with an Army?
Once that was the main reason you joined up, to loot the enemy of his stuff and rape his women.
Now you can't do either without being prosecuted by your own country.
When did that change?
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>>2942873
>Now you can't do either without being prosecuted by your own country.
You can if the platoon doesnt say shit.
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>>2942873
>When did that change?
I would say when propaganda became so powerful and all-reaching
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>>2942905
its not like you can take a gun home unless your an officer
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>testifying under oath
Is this the most useless measure to ensure somebody tells the truth in court?
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>>2942823
if even 20% of the population fears got still then I guess its worth it
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Most people understand that if you lie under oath it's a serious criminal offense. That's the end of it, it's pure ritual.
Not even very many Ameriburgers genuinely fear going to hell if they fib after swearing on the local court's Gideon's Bible.
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>>2942823
Lying under oath is perjury which is a very serious crime. Whether the person actually believes in the Bible that they're swearing on is kind of irrelevant.
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How did various countries in the late 15th century develop unique 'fashions' in armour? Why did lords and wealthy knights who could afford personal harnesses get a sense of taste in how they fluted and embellished their plate? Was there 'bad taste'?
Italians = flat, smooth, various idiosyncrasies like large left-sided pauldron and couter, preference for armets, barbutes
Germans = gothic, heavily fluted, more lithe, smaller pauldrons, long sabatons, sallets have far longer tails, 100% sallets
English/Northwestern European = a compromise between the two styles, English preferred sallets but had a lot of armets mixed in, Burgundians had a few interesting fluted chapel-de-fers with bevors
Is their objective superiority to be found between the various styles?
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Can u pls post some examples of each bb
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>>2942625
There* not their, I'm getting worse as I get older
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>>2942627
This is Germanic
OP image is Earl Warwick's (allegedly) reproduction suit, so English styled Italian armour (there's fluting added)
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I'm genuinely curious about what I'm about to say, so hear me out. Why do people feel like they need to represent what their country or race or whatever has done in the past? Consequently, why do people look at citizens from said countries and attribute whatever that country has done in the past with them?
For example, I'm a dude from America so if I walked up to a guy from Mexico and said "remember when WE beat YOU in a war and took California?" why do people find it ok to word things like that? Like he and I had literally no influence whatsoever on the war and now I've just ruined his day for no reason.
I guess it's being nationalistic but what's even the point of that if all you're doing is making yourself look retarded instead of actually doing something to better your country? Is the sense of nationalism developed here similar to the good people feel when they #prayforparis?
I do feel like I'm missing something here though because everyone does it and instead of finding fault in each other's sentences they all kind of just agree that yes I am from this country and I did all these horrible things to yours.
Not sure if /his/ really would be the board for this but I lurk here pretty frequently and I feel like I've seen more off topic threads permitted so I guess this falls under the humanities category.
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have you ever heard the saying that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel?
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Because people who aren't rootless mongrels have a biological, mental and spiritual connection to their ancestors.
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Is group mentality "haha my team is better than yours! that means I'm better than you too!"
What caused Christianity to get popular in the Roman Empire?
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>>2940267
Effective preaching.
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>>2940267
The fact that it's true.
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>>2940289
Also this.
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>tfw reading about random U-Boats in WW2, their patrol logs and sank ships
>80% of them end up being sunk with all crew members lost
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>>2939809
If you stop and think about it, u-boats are basically the terrorists/insurgents of naval warfare in the world wars.
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>>2939816
Battle of the Atlantic is terrifying desu for all sides
>be merchant ship crew member
>always have to worry 24/7 about being torpedoed by an U-Boat with no warning
>even being in a convoy, you're not 100% safe and shit can hit the fan any minute
>if you get hit, you have basically no chance of survival because no one is going to stop and rescue you because of the fear of getting torpedoed themselves
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>be u-boat crewman
>spend weeks and even months in a cramped tin can which reeks of sweat, diesel and rotten food
>have to worry about constant air attacks
>even if you manage to spot a convoy and sink a ship, be prepared to get depth charged for hours until the escorts give up on you
>if you get sunk then no one will ever find you and your boat gets reported missing weeks after you die
>75% mortality rate
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>>2939850
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic#Catapult_Aircraft_Merchantmen
>fleet can't spare aircraft carriers to protect the convoys from air attack
>they end up putting a single fighter on top of a giant rocket
>if enemy fighters are spotted, the rocket launches the fighter into the air
>there is no landing, so you have to ditch and hope somebody picks you up
>technically you're not even part of the military, it's just another job on the cargo ship
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Why wasn't penis removal a more common torture method done to important enemies throughout history? Seems to me the benefits to the captor in terms of damage an enemy are enormous.
>that man can likely no longer be in any leadership position, as nobody would respect them
>they can no longer project masculinity so their strength is diminished
>killing/torturing someone can add to their legend, but emasculating them will humiliate their legacy
>they likely can't father offspring any more so they're worthless in terms of extending family lines
>If you want to see your enemy suffer this is probably the greatest permanent long-term emotional suffering you could inflict on a man
Yet I almost never hear of it in historic literature. If it does occasionally happen it's usually just castration of the balls.
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Same reason regicide wasn't common, what goes around comes around
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Humans feel empathy, killing someone is a thing but cutting of his dick is too difficult for a man (on average)
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>>2933439
>Yet I almost never hear of it in historic literature.
Literally what the Chinese do to every son of rebel leaders or captured Nomadic barbarians.
Pic related. Good example
>Daddy was a Muslim Chinese general who sided with the Yuan Dynasty when the Ming Dynasty was in REMOVE MONGOL mode.
>Punished the family by Eunuching the sons.
>that man can likely no longer be in any leadership position, as nobody would respect them
>they can no longer project masculinity so their strength is diminished
Looks like you have never heard of the history of influential Chinese Eunuchs. Or Mamluk Eunuchs who founded some of the first Mamluk Dynasties. Or how the Ostrogoths were defeated in Italy by Justinian's Chief Eunuch, the then 80 year old Narses.
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Lost Cultures/Languages/Ethnicites/Races
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Post Peoples or Cultures that have been effectively lost to time for whatever reason be it disease or conquest
Pic Related, the Guanche People were a group of Proto-Berber people indigenous to the Canary Islands. Are there any of them left? What did they look like? Where did they come from?
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>>2932626
The Tocharian people of China.
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Swedes.
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>>2932635
What happened to them?
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Can we have a Robespierre appreciation thread?
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>>2945451
Is that his death mask?
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>>2945451
Robespierre is the autistic version of the libertarians
He is the Hitler of /pol/
he is the Stalin of lefty /pol/
ole Robespierre behaved just like if one of you shit heads came to power
full of lofty ideas then the realism and paranoia sets in and you start killing everyone
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>>2945478
iam sure that /leftypol/ are huge fans of him, after all their saint zizek (peace be upon him) loved the guy... and they have such threads about him...
60% of my robespierre memes comes from there
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>tfw emperor of /his/
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>>2944965
Can you at least get rid of the /pol/ threads?
Do we even have mods and janitors on here?
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oh really, and what makes you emperor of his
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>>2944965
LONG
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Is christianity still spiritually satisfying for the average westerner?
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The average Westerner doesn't want to be spiritually satisfied. Instead he'd rather indulge in materialism and Hedonism.
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>>2944756
I guess it would be more enjoyable to sit in a building at 9am surrounded by the elderly listening to a pedophile tell me how 2 millenia old inconsistent fanfiction is fact and that anyone who disagrees is going to suffer for ever and ever.
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>>2944756
>the average human throughout all history
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Is Allah a Canaanite god or Arabian god?
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>>2944721
Allah is cognate with El/Elohi.
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>>2944721
>Cannanite
Fuck no. Allah is just the Arabic word for god.
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Okay so it seems like Abraham worshiped a god called El but over time the Jews decided to merge him with the god Yahweh- So is this correct ?
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>All those books, treatises, plays, poems, histories, biographies etc that are lost forever
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_work
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>>2944670
Don't remind me...
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>>2944670
>ywn see all of the greek tragedies that were lost to time
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>>2944670
>cato
>cicero
>claudius
>motherfucking Homer