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Was there ever a time when the Irish were capable of pushing the english's shit in? Is there any possible alt history where Ireland today could realistically be independent?
I'm Scottish but I've heard every "we don't need the brits" story a million times and wonder if there's a similar attitude toward Ireland in history.
In the early medieval era the Irish were comparable to the Anglo-Saxons in population, not enough to subjugate them but surely enough to defend their land. Unfortunately the Irish were pretty awful at uniting their land so it was a little easier for the Norman-led English to establish a foothold in Ireland, which leads to everything else.
I don't know the specifics of Irish history but i'd argue the one shot of the Irish uniting would be due to defending against the Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons did. I don't know much about Irish history but i'd say...
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>>277158
I always imagined if an anti-brit leader would come from anywhere it'd have been in the Northern Counties, seeing as how poorly the irish up there were treated.
It's just a fun autist fantasy to imagine one of the families getting following and uniting ireland under a desire to be independent. Interesting to think how things would be today.
>>277139
>Was there ever a time when the Irish were capable of pushing the english's shit in?
Pretty much sixth to tenth century.
>Is there any possible alt history where Ireland today could realistically be independent?
Sure, just think of an althis in which an ard ri actually manages to create a stable monarchy and state for the whole island. A united front combined with well picked alliances (like Scotland and France) would probably be well enough to carry an island nation to the present day independent.
Two questions:
Why do the Russian people love Stalin? Of course, in the West, he is portrayed as an evil dictator, who killed millions. However, by his own people, we are seeing more and more admiration of the man.
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/stalin_puzzle.pdf
Second, can we assume that all "evil dictators" were actually evil? After having watched The Greatest Story Never Told, it seems we cannot make even basic assumptions about the character of someone like Hitler. Think about it, why would such a powerful man partake in the wanton murder...
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>>277076
People in Russia admire Stalin because he saved the USSR from the nazis who planned on enslaving half the slavs and starving to death the other half, this was after the butchery they inflicted in the territories they overran.
Only poor russians love Stalin. Rest know that he was a murdering psychopath.
>>277076
You're right, it's very complex. I think the main reasons they love him are that he won the war and that he was able to bring the Soviet Union onto the world stage as a major player. I also kind of think that as people who actually remember how shitty he was die off, more people will just remember what they are told. Stalin is a symbolic figure in their history and was in charge during one of the most tumultuous events in Russian history.
As for the moral character of dictators, it's hard to tell....
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What was crucial for a successful coup d'état?
>>277028
off the top of my head: political leverage; support of the military
>>277028
disarmament of the civil population
>>277051
Or support of a large part of the civil population.
Why do people not treat the symbol of the rising sun with the same revulsion as they would with the Nazi Swastika?
Why does everyone treat the Pacific theater as a none issue?
>>276960
If you were Korean, or Chinese, or Vietnamese you probably would. Likewise I'm sure those cultures don't give a fuck about the swastika.
>>276969
This
>>276969
I'm on Guam.
I can walk around with a Japanese imperial seal on my bag, and no one bats an eye.
So is the spookmaster actually taken seriously here or is he just a meme-tier philosopher
>edgy, irrefutable philosophy
>made Marx so butthurt he wrote 500 pages of ad hominem
>all those drawings of him
>the very word 'spook'
Perfect alchemy for a meme.
>>276957
>made Marx so butthurt he wrote 500 pages of ad hominem
Huh-wha?
>>276963
>Later, Marx and Engels wrote a major criticism of Stirner's work. The number of pages Marx and Engels devote to attacking Stirner in (the unexpurgated text of) The German Ideology, in which they derided him as "Sankt Max" (Saint Max), exceeds the total of Stirner's written works.[35] As Isaiah Berlin has described it, Stirner "is pursued through five hundred pages of heavy-handed mockery and insult".[36] The book was written in 1845–1846, but not published until...
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Were the Romans unique in having a public entertainment system devoted to fatal combat?
Seriously its like a gorier WWE except you actually own the people in it.
>>276722
Romans were degenerated psychopaths and the Greeks are the real Jews of the world.
Both of them should be annihilated and erased from history forever.
>>276722
No. For one thing the Greeks have a Monomakos: which is a boxing/wrestling match that can be deadly.
For another, the guys that came after them: the Medieval Europeans, had Tournaments. Early medieval tournaments were pretty deadly, especially the Melee.
I'm pretty sure that contrary to popular beliefs most of these fights weren't to the death. I have no sources though so completely ignore this comment.
What is the impact of writing systems on history? Not the existence of writing, but the merits of one system versus another.
Is it possible the part of the reason the West came to dominate the world is that it's (latin alphabetic) writing system was superior?
For one, I'd imagine it's massively faster to learn to read and write with an alphabet vs. something logographic like Chinese in particular. Back in the day where people mostly would have just had a few years of schooling (if any) that would have given the West a big leg up (having a literate population).
It's also difficult (to the point of impossibility?) to print using movable type in many writing systems. How many hundreds/thousands of different 'blocks' would you need to print a Japanese book? Is it even possible to print something like Arabic?...
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>>276486
>Is it possible the part of the reason the West came to dominate the world is that it's (latin alphabetic) writing system was superior?
1) What makes a writing system superior? I can flat out state that Chinese Characters are superior because they are logographic as opposed to a phonetic representation of a word. Meaning two foreigners who can not speak the same language but when they write in Chinese characters, they'd understand each other.
So what is superiority...
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The Latin alphabet is just a script. In English, it has mixed advantages and disadvantages. For one, English spelling is horribly irregular due to mixed linguistic influences, but this also allows the history of a word to be easily traced to its linguistic roots. Logograms like Chinese Hanzi seem really perplexing to a Latin alphabet writer, but children seem to learn it by rote quite easily, however, for a country like China with many dialects it makes communication much easier between them than a phonetic script would, and also makes written language slower to change over...
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>No french-speaking first world South Vietnam
It hurts to live.
>No French-speaking first world united Indochina
It hurts to just be
>>277145
have france devolve its empire like the british did after ww2
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not lose to the commies at dienbienphu
So what did he get wrong this time?
>>276429
Is this that history pod everyone listens to?
I never figured why people are so hot on history podcasts when there's audiobooks lying all around written by scholars and researchers who took like 3-5 years to research the subject.
I have listened to Mike Duncan's stuff but he takes 3-5 years just covering a fucking subject.
>>276434
recommend any audiobooks? or sites for that matter
>>276429
He's very, very, very good at making history interesting.
As a popularizer, he's educated enough to have a decent grasp on what he's talking about, and is an excellent place to start on almost any topic.
A great example would be the episode American Peril, which covers the Spanish American War and the reconciliation and contradictions of the United States as a colonial power.
Podcasts like Stuff You Missed In History are hot garbage though.
If you want a better explanation,...
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Where do Kurds come from?
What were they up to 100 years ago?
I hear that they're the most victimised group in Iraq and that they're not Arab, meaning that they're native Mesopotamian, is this true?
I support a Kurdish state over al historically Kurdish land such as Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Biji Kurdistan, truly the most promising and liberal group in the Middle East. Christians are irrelevant in the Middle East I'm guessing ever since Islam took over.
I understand that they've struggled for independence for centuries and were...
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>>276354
They come from Iran.
100 years ago they all either lived in the Ottoman Empire or in Persia.
They're not native Mesopotamian, they're Iranian.
>>276362
Then why do they live not in Iran? The're the only real ethnic group living in Mesopotomia that I know of, everyone else is part of some fake extinct minority.
>>276354
Poo in Loo
Post information or images relating to Egyptian and Sumerian/Akkadian Art.
pic related is from the Tomb of Ramses VI of the New Kingdom of Egypt
>>276281
>Tomb of Ramses VI
2 headed figure
>>276284
Hey /his/
Let's play Battleground God
http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/god/
Post your results in the comments, we can debate or find like-minded peers.
manjaw
>refers to God as "She"
D R O P P E D
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Is it even possible to drop something any harder?
Did Carthage really sacrifice babies, or was this just something the Romans said to make them seem worse than they were?
We already had this thread earlier you Carthage apologists
>>276178
I'm just trying to be certain. Can you point me to non-Roman accounts of baby sacrifice?
>>276185
No, because there werent any.
Sacrificing babies is a stupid tradition, it goes against very basic human instincts and results in negative growth.
Most rituals and traditions of the time would be the exact opposite.
Post your favorite stories about based Diogenes of Sinope ITT.
I liked the story where he fucked your mum
DUDE SUNLIGHT LMAO
I think people often make the mistake of thinking that the Roman Empire was far too "civil". From the early Republic until the fall of the Empire Rome was a extremely war like and hostile society and civilization. Constant war, uncontested and unregulated patrician violence, blood sport and the gladiatorial games, tens of thousands of slaves, rampant xenophobia, and corruption unparalleled even maybe by modern standards. It certainly was no "beacon of light" to the rest of the world, in fact it was a constant enemy and threat to the rest of Humanity.
>>276063
Fun Fact: That Empire of theirs? Not all of it was conquered by the Legions. Greece, Syria, Judaea were pretty much sweet-talked into it.
>>276063
using todays standard of civilization to judge ancient empires is a whole heap of logical fallacy
get your hippie shit out of here
>>276063
civilization by definition:
>A civilization (US) or civilisation (UK) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, symbolic communication forms (typically, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment.
>urban development
yep, Rome.
>social stratification
check, you had all sorts of classes within Roman society.
>writing
big...
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