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Did Hitler really pursue homosexuals or is it just jewish lies? I can understand him wanting to repress effeminant gays, but would he really kill a manly aryan man just because he's not attracted to vaginas?
He looked like the kind of guy who would defend a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
>>289347
>Did Hitler really pursue homosexuals or is it just jewish lies?
ZIONIST/JEWISH SLANDER.
>I can understand him wanting to repress effeminant gays, but would he really kill a manly aryan man just because he's not attracted to vaginas?
>effeminant
THAT IS NOT EVEN A WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; YOU MOST PROBABLY MEANT "EFFEMINATE", BUT EVEN THUS THE TERM "EFFEMINATE GAYS" IS UNNECESSARILY...
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>>289347
Yeah, he want after gays, the disabled, gypsies, Slavs, and especially Jews. This is undisputed fact.
>>289347
There's absolutely nothing to indicate that he was a fag.
How do i become less Eurocentric? Or is Eurocentric the right thing to be and other cultures simply don't matter as much to human progress as Europeans do?
>Or is Eurocentric the right thing to be and other cultures simply don't matter as much to human progress as Europeans do?
For the past 400 years or so, yes. It'll probably stay that way for another hundred.
>>289244
Don't try to be the "not eurocentric" insufferable faggot.
Just don't be ignorant about non-European countries.
>>289259
This
Just shut the fuck about it and be well rounded
What would happen if Western Allies and Soviet Union clashed in 1945? Who would come out victorious? No nukes.
>>289242
You can't say No Nukes because the USA had nukes and probably would have used one to put the USSR in her place. That's effectively what the nukes on Japan did anyway. Except if they were used on the USSR she may have retaliated once she developed them, as a revenge act, leading to MAD.
Soviets had more manpower, vehicles, etc. in the region than all the other allied armies combined. They would have steamrolled the continent only stopping at the Alps and Pyrenees respectively.
>>289242
Britain.
Youtube's CGP Grey just made a video using this book, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
Opinions on him and his theories seem mixed, so I'd like to see a discussion.
I think he is part correct (the suitable for domestication animals spread part) at least, even if he tries to expand this one point too far and too wide.
Whats your opinion? How would you explain the Middle East's current situation, since they had the best possible starting location according to Jared Diamond. Afghanistan in particular, natural barriers, horses, goats, grasses, wheat, pigs, everything.
Video link:
https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
Map in image is a gag on Civilization V, where starting location is important for the whole course of the game.
The problem with this book isn't that it's wrong but that people try to use it explain away all of human history.
All it really does is show the advantages Eurasia had over the Americas/Australia, and to a lesser extent Africa. That's extremely important, and it does a good job of explaining that.
It does not explain why Europe came to dominate instead of other parts of Eurasia, nor does it explain why some parts of the world developed civilizations while others didn't). That would require reading other books.
Stormfags of course just...
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How is it even relevant to the Middle East current situation? You can't apply his theory after 1500s when the whole world was connected by trade routes.
How accurate is this image?
Archimedes was on the same level as Newton in mathematics.
>scientific advancement
How is this measured?
>preserved by catholics and byzantines instead of muslims
Dear Historians and Humanitarians!
Lets discuss free will and determinism.
I strongly believe that the modern society limits free will, and that you will always be 'poked' by external factos when you do things seemingly at your own free will.
What factors do you guys believe affects your daily life and do you think anyone "is in charge?" (Third world order)
I don't really have a strong argument against it, but I still having a nagging feeling that free will doesn't really exist.
I think that people, for the most part, are simply predictable input->output machines with a randomization component thrown in at the end. I don't really think the randomization component qualifies as free will.
There is no free will. Schopenhauer settled this shit ages ago, Spinoza even earlier actually. There is no refutation to their arguments.
Fuck off with the Sartrean make-believe please.
>>288954
You mean freedom as in liberty and positive and negative freedom or what goes on inside the skull?
>best
Jefferson
>runner-up
JFK
>worst
Johnson
>overrated (but still good)
Lincoln
>underrated
Arthur
>wewlad
Harrison
>>288789
>los presidentes de los estados unidos de america
>THE BEST
Andrew "It Ain't a Sin to Kill Every Redskin" Jackson
>RUNNER-UP
JFK
>WORST
Nixon
>OVERRATED (but still good)
FDR
>UNDERRATED
LBJ
>WEWLAD
Woodrow Wilson
>best
Theodore Roosevelt
>runner-up
Washington
>worst
FDR
>overrated (but still good)
Lincoln
>underrated
Nixon
>wewlad
Andrew Jackson
Do you agree with this basic timeline of history?
What would you change?
needs more memes
arbitrary boundaries
i would stop thinking in epochs altogether
Also, shouldn't Prehistory say 3 million / 3000 AC in fact say 3 million / 3000 BC?
What the hell happened to make the Middle East the way it is today?
Islam happened
>>288726
Ataturk
The Mongols.
>Alows Indian, Muslim, African soldiers into his Army.
>Allies with the Japanese (honorary aryans)
>people still think Hitler was a staunch racist.
>>288671
>Allows blacks to be slaves on cotton plantation
>people still think whites were staunch racists
I can do it too OP.
>>288682
Volunteer soldiers aren't exactly slaves
>Lorded over "untermenschen" until they needed them as cannon fodder.
Fixed it for you
Why do Abrahamic religions like covering women's hair so much?
>>288635
Because they are all sexually repressive, which just makes them more horny. A woman looks a lot more attractive with her hair flowing, i think it's a sign of healthiness and youth in a way, so covering it makes them look less attractive so the Pastor wont get a boner.
>>288635
Strangely enough, some of them conversely, or even simultaneously in more fundamentalist veins, demand that her hair never be cut.
>>288651
Examples? Never heard of that but it sounds interesting.
Was Lenin evil?
You'd have to answer the considerably more difficult question "what is evil?" Under most definitions, yes he was. He was a tyrant who killed people and stole property all for the sake of his morally bankrupt ideology. There's some argument to be made that he wasn't very evil by communist standards, but that's only because most communists were extremely evil.
>>288519
A bit.
>>288519
He consciously chose to efface the distinction between good and evil, which is the very definition of evil. For him there was not morality, only historical progress which would completely vindicate his deeds and misdeeds. He is the very archetype of modern totalitarian tyranny and its sense of self-validation through history, as opposed to mere brutal despotism that doesn't give a fuck.
I remember coming across a selection of Lenin's written orders and letters. I don't think there was a leader in...
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daily reminder that the incoming Pan-Orthodox Council will be the Second Vatican Council of the Orthodox world
lmao, just read the agenda..
say goodbye to your retrogade and bigoted religion.. prepare to embrace "modernity"
it's 2015 for God's sake! :^)
>inlying there is a united Orthodox church and not ~20 de-facto independent patriarchates
Like, who gives a shit about Constantinople patriarch? I wish Stalin succeeded in late 40s in establishing Moscow Patriarch as the leader of Orthodox church.
>>288536
how does councils work.
>>288594
Badly. Considering Russian Church is, like, 60% of world's Orthodox population, and very conservative at the same time, it will either block any second-vaticanish proposals, or demonstrative ignore it.
>It is true that according to critical theory, the good as such, the absolute positive cannot be represented. On the other hand, we - I mean Adorno and myself - have always explained that in the most diverse fields, that which is to be changed for the better in a particular field can be designated. Furthermore, I have often emphasized that doing the right thing would not only include change, but also the conservation of certain cultural moments, yes, that the true conservative has more in common with the true revolutionary than he does with the fascist,...
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>What is the legacy of the founders of critical theory?
Ultimate self-hatred and cultural marxism.
Reminder that Habermaß fucked off from the Frankfurt school because their fanatical hatred for western culture went too far even for him
>>288543
>their fanatical hatred for western culture
Now explain how that assertion is in any way compatible with what Horkheimer just told you.
Also, Habermas didn't so much fuck off, as he did take over and give the institute a new direction, mostly because he couldn't see where the original project could be going from there.
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ITT: redflags that turn you off from debating with someone
For me it is
>strawmen
>ad hominem
>goalpost moving
>using personal feelings and experiences as evidence
anybody who disagrees with me is basically wrong and should be jailed
For me its people who have debate red flags.
>>288441
>experiences as evidence
Yeah, fuck science
