Can you imagine being born in 1900 and dying in 2000? It always gives me the creeps whenever I think about it and it deeply spooks me that I will most likely experience the same thing throughout my life. Has there been any writings throughout history about how much the world has changed through someone's life?
Apart from TV, not that much changed unless if you lived in a major city or Europe
30 years can pass by in rural areas and not much will actually change.
The 19th has been pretty fast changing, too. Compare technology in the 1850 to technology on the 1900. Urbanism, for example, changed drastically, from normal human based towns to car-centered megalopolis.
If you felt like it's seems that you're a fag.
Can the entirety of politics merely be reduced to individuals competing for positions in which they are more and more above the law and immune to being arrested?
>>2901080
>in which they are more and more above the law and immune to being arrested?
Close, but not exactly.
I have theorized for a while now that politics are nothing more than a way for individuals to secure a future for themselves. We are all trying to forge our own path in this world and sometimes you just have to take the deck of cards you were dealt. This is why you see politicians advocating for seemingly lunatic policies or not taking a stance at all on things that they otherwise feel strongly about. It's a game - and if at the end of the day you want to provide for yourself and your family - you need to play it correctly.
>>2901080
No? The average person doesn't have a high chance of being arrested anyway unless they are blatantly breaking the law, and running for any kind of office just attracts a lot of intense scrutiny which any actual criminal would sorely want to avoid.
I'd say being a modern politician in the west puts you under more scrutiny than if you chose not to be one. It'd be harder, not easier, to get away with crimes when you're closely watched by people eager to see you fuck up.
Okay /his/ explain to me how North Vietnam was able to both outlast the French and the United States.
I'll dump some 'Nam wallpapers for now
>>2900973
1/?
We've had this thread 8 million times already.
The US never even invaded North Vietnam. They signed a cease fire and held off invading South Vietnam until they were sure the US wouldn't join the fight again.
>>2900973
Threat of Escalation.
Basically: if the USA invaded North Vietnam, China and USSR will turn the place into Korea 2.0.
Which religion/philosophy allows you to achieve the highest levels of smug?
The only way is to be the person with no position, as their illusory fortress is unassailable.
chim
Evola's brand of traditionalism
>larp as a hero-aristocrat with super sekrit knowlge
>everyone else is a filthy pleb
>look down up all devotional religion
>supercilious attitude toward everything modern
Do they accept any serious converts? The reason I ask this is because my soul says that its the only true religion, I've met jews that say they allow anybody who is serious at converting to convert, but I've seen people on here say they only allow outsiders with power to convert. Which is it, /his/?
>>2900535
>Do they accept any serious converts?
Yes. Read Ruth.
>>2900535
The current president's daughter converted, so I assume yes.
>>2900535
You probably should take things people say on 4chan with grain of salt.
MYTH: The 1970's were terrible time to be alive, severe pollution, severe crime, severe economic problems like high oil prices, unemployment, and stagflation
FACT: The 1970's were easily the best time to be alive in the western world, the music was great, the drugs were even better, despite the bad economy meme you could buy a house and a car while working at mcdonalds everybody was having a damn good time
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBh1869ayNg
>>2900410
>>>/pol/
https://youtu.be/6FKA-Y_g-2I
Black people certainly seemed a lot more friendlier and easy going back then
>>2900450
Their street gangs were more stylish too.
Austria Hungary=worst German ally
>>2900054
I didn't realise this was up for debate
>>2900054
>Marching into Serbia's artillery training field
pls let this be true
>>2900284
Yes I require sauce
When you do this are you literally eating God?
Yes Ahmed we are a vampire blood cult. We are going to eat you next.
>>2900011
it's just a continuation of the same practices that led Jephthah to eat his own daughter
No that's a Papist lie. Check these dubs of divine truth.
>no data available
What did they mean by this?
Is there a more fucked "nation"?
literally sand
Hope they genocide the moroccans desu
Blackbeard was a real nigga
carried like 20 pistols
just shot one and dropped it
like a fucking matrix movie or something
just dropping and drawing
imagine that shit
those old single shot pistols
just drawing them from all over his body
blaow, drop
blaow
>>2899334
Same honestly
>>2899334
lit af desu senpai
>>2899334
real nigga shit
one-hunna
Who's the patron saint of /his/?
Lenin or Robespierre?
>>2899159
Neither, you filthy, dumb leftist
>>2899159
elagabalus
we all secretly wish we could be him
In terms of production, how were armies outfitted and equipped in medieval times? A single weapon or armor could take days or even weeks to be finished, so how many smiths did it take to make the equipment? Were they spread out and particular businesses given the task of making it, or did a nation count with a big smithing "industry" to take care of it all in one place?
You're asking about dozens of different countries over a period of roughly 1000 years. You'll have to be a lot more specific about when and where you mean.
>>2899110
Spears.
Spears.
For much of the middle ages there were two distinct groups of fighters
>levies/milita
These were usually drafted peasants with little to zero training, used as auxiliary or garrison troops. They often used improvised tools from farming implements (this is how we got the halberd) and generally wore simple cloth/leather armor. Obviously these fighters required little blacksmithing work besides what they could do at home
>professional soldiers
These were normally the lesser percentage of fighters during the middle ages. This includes men-at-arms, knights, light cavalry, and sometimes crossbowmen (archers were often levied). These were the troops that needed lots of worked metal, but there weren't a lot of them until the late middle ages. This meant that making armor/weapons would just be a fraction of the blacksmiths work unless they were from a city that specialized in it, i.e. Toledo
This of course would change in the 15th to 16th centuries as plate armor became common and feudal lords amassed larger professional armies, leading to career soldiers
>tfw CIA destroyed soviet civilization
>>2899045
No, falling gas prices did that.
>>2899045
You can't destroy something that didn't exist in the first place
>>2899045
>soviet civilization
What if the USA sent all its free blacks into a newly created independent black nation after the civil war but made out of Mexico instead of Africa to make it logistically practical?
What if OP's mom went through with the abortion?
>>2898701
How to make Mexico even worse: The Post.
>>2898711
Mexico's violent crime rate is worse than most west African nations. It'd be an improvement.
Why is it that gender segregation doesn't exist in China? In the US and other Western countries, there is a fairly common sentiment that women are generally not as competent as men and this is reflected in wages, job titles, etc....
But in China, this doesn't really exist. Women are constantly taking on executive positions or other leadership roles which would typically be reserved for men in Western countries.
On a side note, does anyone know why the fuck so many CEOs of American defense companies are women?
>>2898677
Are we talking about modern China or ancient China. And are we talking about presents or upper classes.
>>2898677
It's because of the enlightened influence of the glorious Mongols. If only Europe was conquered by the Mongols. They would have set up fair institutions and there would have never been a feminist movement.
>>2898730
t. John Green