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Was Mao running camps like Hitler and Stalin or did his people just starve to death?
most of the deaths were just people starving to death but yeah, there were camps too
>>316710
They literally starved to death. Mao was basically have this unrealistic expectations where everyone has to meet, and everyone is scared to report bad news since he'll punish them severely, so they made shit up.
So Mao, being pleased that his unrealistic expectations were met, made even more unrealistic expectations.
Then everyone died. The end.
>>316724
By camps, you meant "collectivization" where people have to work for X thing they have no idea about right?
But the real heinous shit is in the Cultural Revolution, not the Great Leap Forward.
Why did you Julio-Claudian line fall to pieces after Augustus? Two of the worst emperors came from the line alone
>>316708
>Why did you Julio-Claudian line fall to pieces after Augustus?
It didn't "fall to pieces". The principate had only just been established and was still in its formative period.
>Two of the worst emperors came from the line alone
But were they actually that bad?
>>316708
Because they weren't Augustus.
>>316734
>were Nero and Caligula really that bad
How come post JFK and up until J.W. Bush's second term american foreign policy was always against republic of India's geopolitical interests.
I've only seen americans say "yeah Nixon messed up partnering with PRC but Nehru fucked up first with his non aligned but pro socialist policies"
umm pro socialist values republic with a multi party democracy India is somehow more against american capitalistic interest than an outright Communist one party and at that point dictatorship China?
US gov. shot itself in the foot by underspending...
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bumping with some american abetted war crimes.
photographed immediately after the war started, showing bodies of Bengali nationalist intellectuals.
Hitler dies in a gas attack in 1917. Stalin falls from a horse and breaks his neck in 1920.
What changes?
>>316255
OP's parents never meet and this thread doesn't happen.
>>316255
>>316270
Man i wish i was in that world ):
Is this guy's proof for the one'ness of the universe legit or is it just cleverly disguised language games?
>>316150
All philosophy is just cleverly disguised language games desu
>>316209
Kind of this really
>>316150
It's legit actually, what Spinoza is doing is actually deconstructing Descartes and all the rest of those fucks in a way even Wittgenstein would've approved of.
Really it all comes down to the definition and application of the concept of "substance". And Spinoza is the only philosopher of his time to have a coherent one that is still relevant today.
How golden was really the "Islamic Golden Age"?
>>316026
Fairly golden.
>>316026
It was pretty good. Mostly confined to math, astronomy, and medicine, but you could just as easily call it a Persian golden age since they did most of the work.
>>316026
It was alright. Basically Persians continued to have the same rate of advancement that they'd had for centuries, and also happened to be ruled by muslims.
Do those in a democracy have more freedom than those in a republic?
got anymore pictures like that?
Does a man chained to a wooden post have more freedom than one chained to a stone post?
>>315927
Theoretically one is led by a select group of men, and the other is led by majority of its citizens.
So I guess it depends whichever has the least amount of prudes in its voting bloc.
What were Hitlers views on the United States?
"Half niggers and half Jews" pretty much.
>I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance… everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
>>315644
Scary
>>315651
My God he was right.
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What is the origin of the Kurdish people? I have a friend who is a Kurd and she claims they are descendants from ancient Babylonians, but I think that is just fabricated nationalist bullshit.
>>315618
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Kurds
Iranian Mercenary people.
Still better than Armenians tho.
Iranian IEs.
Why is discrimination on the basis of religious belief often considered on-par with discrimination on the basis on race or cultural background or gender in terms of 'unfairness'?
You can't reasonably help any of the latter, so if someone doesn't consider you upon your individual merits and instead makes judgements upon you based upon considering you a typical _____ (black/white, man/woman, french/german) without knowing any better, then that's unfair.
But you can help which religious community your a member of, considering all the major...
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I've always wondered this, but I usually end up being called either a fedora-tiper or a Nazi when I ask people this
It deals with transcendental issues such as the ultimate meaning of one's life and reality so it's a bit more sancrosanct than 'democracy lmfao'
>>315557
>>Moreover, if religion is at some level a particular set of beliefs, and if you can't discriminate against someone for their knowledge and what they profess to believe in, then how can you have a meritocracy?
it is choice also to not discriminate on the colour of the skin.
you are obviously non-religious, and yet you cast judgements on religionS by through clichés
you talk about knowledge without even having taken an epistemology class
you talk about...
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Why can't postmodernist define postmodernism?
Is it because they would be outed as nonsense?
Because post-structuralism is by definition beyond definition. Same thing with the cultural and philosophical branch of postmodernism.
Philosophy has reached homeostasis.
Now we wait for AI.
it's just some banter family
Immediately before its dissolution in 1806 was the HRE even important? I mean did it really serve any important function at that time or was it just an artifact of the medieval era?
>Austrian Netherlands
gets me errytime
>>315255
It was part of Austria, the most powerful country of Europe
>>315280
This map intrigues me every time I look at it.
Why didn't euros convert their northern African colonies? Turning Algeria into French speaking Catholics and Egypt into English speaking protestants etc
They tried.
As it turns out, not that many people care what the missionaries have to say.
In the rare situations that they did, it usually caused more harm than good.
>>315202
Because 90% of their populations didn't die to plague.
>>315202
Maybe Muslims are not keks?
What makes the Jewish faith and history unique?
I know its a huge topic. There are many branches of Judaism including esoteric and occult branches like kabbalah but none the less.
What traits of judaism make it distinct from all other world views/ways of conduct/ways of constructing and thinking of society?
How does Judaism think about beauty and aesthetics?
>>315059
>What makes the Jewish faith and history unique?
Being persecuted by just about everyone.
Also being both an ethnicity and a religion.
>How does Judaism think about beauty and aesthetics?
All about the shape, feel and metals that make up the shekel, ahi.
>>315059
>What makes Judaism special?
Christianity and islam
crossbows are superior to longbows
if you disagree you are literally perfidious Albion
>>315000
checking those numbers m8
anyway
crossbow useful for short range combat
longbow - useful for long range combat
Crossbows are better if you have more money than labor.
Longbows are better if you have more labor than money.
England happened to be a poorfag nation that had to use a peasant levy instead of mercenaries.
>>315030
It's not that expensive to build a crossbow
