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>>9077167
Ze Joooooooooos!!!1!!1!

t. German conservatives pre-1960z.

>>9077167
my diary desu (i am stalin)

>>9077177
>germany post-1945
>not being completely and utterly subservient to their jewish overlords

Knowledge of algebra is not sufficient to write a book on banks

Should have had at least a macroeconomics degree

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>>9077142
It only works if you post a book as your image. Here's some easy stuff to get things rolling.

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>>9077161
The worst book in a young adult series. Excellent bait. Well reasoned.

I see your waifu and raise you rid related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLWcpwBtwk

>>9077103
>implying she wouldn't cuck you for a fucking dagger

Ophelia you fucking Mong

DE

(SAY IT WITH A NIGGA NOW!)

DE-MUTHA PHUCKIN' COLONIZATION!111!!!!111

>'Small minority' is not a tautology, but it is still wrong. 'Smaller minority' is no exception either( take note OP). Small and smaller are both adjectives, and small is greater than smaller.
'Why is it wrong?' You ask. Well simple.
By saying 'small minority,' you are implying that there's such a thing as 'big minority,' and by saying 'smaller minority,' you're also implying that there's such a thing as 'small minority.' A more appropriate term would be ' a minority inside what is already a minority.'
There is either a majority or a minority - no such thing as 'big majority' or 'small minority.' So in a minority, you could have a majority and another minority, not a small minority - just as you do in a majority.
This is exactly why I think the OP was being a tad pedantic, and that became justified the moment she said it should be 'smaller minority,' instead of 'small minority,' when in truth, it should be neither. Its just outright crap (sorry)!

Jesus christ. Just browsing those recent replies is like watching retards bicker over word usage in the most arbitrary and pointless way. this is painful.

MONEY CAN'T BUY US HAPPINESS

-Jessi J, 2011

>>9077016

This belongs on >>>/biz/

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>>9077031
A phoneposting janny?
lol

Any good books about giant girls?

Reminder that Stephen king wrote about ~10 year old kids having an orgy in "It"

>>9077017
Why don't we like him again?

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>>9076975

What's a good torrent site? I'm trying to get into MA cos Bibliotik is too autistic for me.

>>9077030
Sour grapes, my friend. Bibliotik is fantastic.

>>9076892
>2017
>asking for basic gestalt or quick rundown
>not the skibby-dibby
>not the rapid pizzazz
>not the micro-gromule
>not the hot studebaker
>not the twirling surfer
>not the howling peanut
>not the frisky kazoo

kids these days don't even know the lingo for getting information in a hurry

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can I get a high velocity knowledge bomb?

>>9077260
pizzagate is real!

>>9076870

I know you don't want actual answers and just want an edgy /pol/ thread, but I like autobiographies of freed slaves, such as those by Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass.

>>9076870
god i love alek wek so hard

>>9076870
>black african-american negroes

Hokay

dude zits lmao

>>9076662
I'm juggling like 7 books right now. Fuck off.

>>9076662
ain't reading nothin about no racis crackers

>>9076645
Habermas got BTFO by 2016, if he has any dignity left, he should commit seppuku

>>9076652
can you explain a little more, I'm unfamiliar with his work.

>>9076645

Habermas is part of a tradition of German continental leftists whose project has had as one element, to pathologize the right in a general way (one dimensional man, the authoritarian personality), and instead proffer a version of what we now think of as "old" European socialism as the best possible solution. Now that this type of Statemetastate is being actively rejected, it is becoming easier to concretely critique the Adornos and the Habermases of the world.

seriously? yall gay for this.

Roman history is kind of split up because it's a lot of history to cover. As long as what you're reading interests you, you're working toward an eventual wider understanding. Rubicon is pretty good and I think universally liked, but I don't know much about it.

If you want to read some classic Rome fanfiction, try Robert Graves' I Claudius and Claudius the God, and even Count Belisarius if you get into Late Antiquity at all.

Once you've read those, I find it's really easy to jump to reading Suetonius and Tacitus, because Graves based his stories heavily off them, and even did a major translation of Suetonius.

You could also try torrenting Garret Fagan's History of Rome series with the Teaching Company. It's 45~ 30minute lectures. It picks up as you go along - I think he spends too long in the earlier lectures dwelling on the more obscure prehistory. Once you've done something like that, it's easy to start reading Livy or whatever.

There is a really good series of detective novels set in Rome that my Latin teacher loved, the Falco novels. And he also recommended Lavinia to me, by Ursula le Guin, which is like a fanfiction of the Aeneid (which is itself fanfiction of Homer) based on the perspetive of Aeneas' wife and the war and turmoil Aeneas' arrival brings to Italy. I really liked it.

>>9076609
As far as television series are concerned, HBO's Rome is a fantastic companion to what you're reading- season 1 follows the fall of the republic through the eyes of two regular soldiers until Caesar's assassination, and season 2 concludes with Actium. I, Claudius is probably the most famous show about Rome, focusing on the Julio-Claudian dynasty, but its also a 70's BBC mini-series so its PRETTY fucking dry. I can't think of any other series that even try to be historical (unless you want to try the likes of Spartacus.)

Besides Gladiator, which isn't really based in fact (Commodus *was* a shitty emperor and irreparably damaged the empire, but there are so many facets to his incompetency that a rivalry with Russel Crowe alone doesn't do it justice) almost every notable film about Rome came out over 50 plus years ago. The original Spartacus is a classic, of course, and I hear Cleropatra is pretty based too.

not having faith in the national debt is blasphemy against the Hidden Hand

>>9076605
Just a rhetorical analogy
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is basically not having faith in god

>>9076919
*not having faith in god's divinity I should say

>>9076524
>We were all aboard a weathered ship that night, looking for a great white whale, with me as captain.

this is a pretty good sentence right here. this is a novel or short story i'm guessing? what's it about?

this is probably mine, and it comes from a novel. the context is that it's a memorial plaque for a dead junkie

“Don’t panic – the world is still mostly empty space. No matter how much we’ve cluttered this ground, there’s always a sky to be found. And the heavens are beyond that, too. And who-knows-what is beyond that, if you know where to look.”

>>9076563
is still a*

I'm not even close to done with it, but these first two parts of an assembly that I've got in progress are probably my favorite thing I've written:

I. GRAUHESCH
Grauhesch leers from his chamber, unbidden,
as we slink the shade of his view, unseen.
Grey king abed in his prison, unchained—
as our fear far stricter bids us silent.
That courtly mock: a wrinkled brow in thought,
repeated in bulbous and reaching flesh,
scornful wet facsimile of our own.
What hubris took hold and drove us here—
to cower before the insensate?
Long severed and silenced and bound but still,
the echo remains and shackles in turn.
Foul prophet those mouthless lines to lay,
not in mist and shadow but statute and stone.
What fault is this but ours, and ours alone?

II. What Befell
The Faceless rose, spoke, and so came forth this:
"There lies a land, near, past reach nonetheless,
where mournful peaks glance to ley below,
and roads no feet have tread nor builders kept,
to memory of page or scribe. Yet said,
’tis no empty land, though stirs naught within.
Scribes, it has, and carpenters, fathers and sons.
A King, it had, and courtiers, pipers and drums.
Tables, there are, set beneath still faces,
and no food, though untouched by wand’ring beast,
but mouldered and rotted to stain.
Those scribes, they hunch, over parchment gone to dust,
their hands stayed, in monument unwilling,
of those deepest crimes for greatest cause
wrought in vain, and none left to lament."

Have you read it anon?

Can you read?

>>9076472
>reads books about art college angst
jesus anon, I know some anons read shit with gay porn or sci-fi, but you've stepped far into chick-lit territory. i bet your bookcase is organised by colour

>>9076472

anon we'll keep making fun of you till you quote it, just like at the family reunion.