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Was the Sicilian Expedition the biggest idiocy in history?
>>1365800
It doesn't even compare to Barbarossa.
Calling off the main nigger Alcibiades was the mistake.
The biggest idiocy in history was the battle of the thames 2016. Remain fleet was absolute destroyed by admiral Farage's flotilla.
What's the deal with Reddit Bad Philosophy? If someone says murder is good, they laugh at them. If someone says murder is bad, they laugh at them. They laugh at anyone who says that morality is invented.
Are they just trying to claim a monopoly over the ability to make unfalsifiable statements?
This isn't reddit.
>they dont think morality is invented
Source?
>they dont think morality is invented
Source?
/his/
What's your favorite Military Order?
Knights Hospitaller, just because of the way they held out against the T*rk at Rhodes, and then fucked Suleiman at Malta
>>1365457
Fuck them and all the rest of the fundie nut jobs.
Non nobis, Domine, sed nomine tuo da gloriam.
What does /his/ think of the idea that life is nothing but a preperation for death? Where do we find this belief historically?
>>1365449
Ancient Egypt, Christianity and Islam
>>1365449
religion
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So after Napoleon I's fall, this is moer or less what happened to France:
>Bourbons restored, Ancien Regime put back into place
>They're unpopular
>July Revolution, Louis-Philippe (a side-branch Bourbon) takes the throne
>Makes some liberal reforms while maintaining the monarchy
>Somehow the people are upset and revolt once more
>Second Republic
>Lol...
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>>1365366
Louis-Philippe is correctly described as the "bourgeois king" because his policies were largely in the interest of the new elite that emerged along with the Industrial Revolution. He even failed to deliver the voting right to everyone.
Napoleon III, aside from his flashy family name, had a program that reached out to the proles - peasants and workers and aimed to improve their lot. In general - helping all those whom the Industrial Revolution was fucking in the ass. He was thus quite popular and would...
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>>1365366
Napoleon III rused everyone with his authoritarian rule, it allowed him to get liberal reforms through with popular support after letting his ministers get the flak for the authoritarian stages. It also taught them a lesson about the shortcoming of authoritarian rule, and thus got them out of the way too.
So basically, he got the liberals on his side, he showed the conservatives that excessive authority would backfire against them, and he was left with the matter of socialists and republicans, whom he kept...
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In my opinion the world would have been a better place if the German emperors had acted a bit more like Napoleon the third.
What was this guys problem?
>>1365299
Probably narcissism, possibly comorbid with psychopathy.
>>1365299
He just wanted to make Mongolia great again
Aristocratic upbringing plus slight build plus racism plus mystical pretensions.
>"dude desert fox lmao"
>loses against WW1-tier British tactics
Rommel is overrated as fuck
>>1365001
Uh, what? Rommel only started losing when the British adopted modern tactics. Crusader was a serious armor and air based operation, and the 1st El Alamein was a draw, it was the second battle where he got crushed, and that again focused on Monty accurately predicting where Rommel would make his armored break and concentrating anti-tank guns there.
Have you studied the North African theater? Like, at all?
>>1365001
He was also outnumbered like, 3 to 1, and half of his forces were shitty Italians. He was so strapped for firepower that he had to modify his anti-aircraft cannons so that they could fire at tanks.
>>1365001
>"Dude rommel sucks."
>being this unaware that the Germans only devoted a handful of divisions because it was just a sideshow campaign compared to the Eastern Front, while to the British this was the only place they could concentrate their Europe based army at.
hi /his/, what are some good war documentaries I should watch? I'd like some about WW1, WW2, or the Vietnam war, but I'm open to pretty much anything as long as it's good.
>>1364995
Ken Burns Civil war
>>1364995
The World at War series is really good. It's an older British made series from the79's, but they have interviews with so many amazing generals and politicians who are dead now. Curtis Lemay, Admiral Donitz, and Albert Speer to name a few. It's kinda long though, like 22 episodes, each an hour long. Totally worth if though if you have the time.
>>1365073
This for WWII
Watch pic related for the Great War.
Guys remember that one time when 300 Spartans forgot their armor and fought persian mutants led by BDSM enthusiast?
>complaining about a capeshit movie not being accurate
yo das autistic breh
>>1364960
>Spartans are superheroes
>breh
I certainly see one autist.
>>1364960
Filmakers are autistic
If you could offer a piece of advice to anyone throughout history, who would it be and what would you say?
To:Varus
Don't trust Arminius, he is a dirty german that want's to see our destruction.
Sincerely anon.
dont drust venishuns x-DDDDd
t. future
Stop Yakub
/his/, can you name a statesman who's greater than Bismarck?
[spoiler]You can't.[/spoiler]
Who is Waldo.
>>1364782
What a very bizarre statement!
By starting three wars following fifty years of peace (1815-64), and that helped turned Euorpe into the powder keg of rival blocks, and left an embittered and humilated France set on revenge that led to WWI?
>>1364795
>embittered and humilated France
>implying that's a bad thing
Online piracy is a perfect proof you shouldn't blindly follow all laws.
Most of my used content is either free or pirated. That's because I simply wouldn't buy 95% of my pirated content. In my case piracy isn't same lost sales. In my case piracy is growing popularity and possible promotion. Therefore I'm doing a favor for content creators by pirating their stuff.
Discuss.
I agree with everything you're saying, but to play devil's advocate for the other side, it does cost money to produce the stuff. With low quality pleb bait, usually not out of the creators' pockets, but their production/record company, which is why no one cares about stealing from them. When artists have to pay out of pocket to create something, it means less crap, higher quality, but there is no way to predict that people will like it, so it's more cost effective to make garbage that COULD turn a profit than let the market run itself.
>>1364753
> That's because I simply wouldn't buy 95% of my pirated content.
Except this isn’t true and you know it.
Prior to easy and practical on-line pirating, everybody paid for cable tv, everybody was buying CDs and DVDs and everybody was paying to rent movies from video rental stores and later, Netflix.
But as technology improved and anyone could quickly and easily pirate content, everyone did, as there is no way you can sell something for less then free.
It...
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intellectual property laws are literally thought policing
Did Atlantis exist?
Plato himself wrote that Atlantis is a thought experiment.
The whole legend of Atlantis is a meme spread by retards who never bothered to read the original source.
>>1364393
Does thought experiment mean real?
>>1364401
Jeez!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment
Does the bible make more sense if you take the old and new testament to be about different gods?
Old testament god, the creator, seems to be vengeful and obsessed with evil. New testament god is more about salvation and redemption, the purity of things.
It resolves the dramatically different personalities between the two books and solves the problem of evil.
>>1364322
That's what the Cathars thought, but apparently god didn't love them enough to let them survive a good heretical burning.
>>1364322
Take the Bible as it is.
The chronicles and message of a turn of the millennium Jewish preacher and the much older folklore of his people originating from their nomadic past.
The only reason they were put together in a single book is because they wanted the Jewish converts to their religion to have a continuity of faith to ease their mind.
Old Testament Yahweh will kill you and everyone in your tribe, but that's about it, then you go down to sheol like everyone else.
New Testament the Father will literally burn you for all of eternity.
I know which one I would be more afraid of.
