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Why are Slavs so incompetent? Was Hitler right? Why are Germans so superior?
>stomp the fuck out of the Germans
>incompetent
Daily reminder that Germans literally lost half of a land to Poland and was destroyed by Russians in the end. So much for superiority.
Slavs were some of the least incompetent in the entirety of WWII. The logistical nightmare and planning required for the Red Army to push from Stalingrad to Berlin was nothing short of amazing.
Soldiers are molded by training and experience, your background will not matter. If Germans had Soviet-tier training and T34s with shitty gunsights, they would've suffered massive casualties, too.
Pop history belongs on /int/, not on a board dedicated to discussion of actual historical topics. Unless your topic is actually about debunking pop history.
Was Adam black?
No. Have you ever tired to steal a rib from a black man?
>>1321136
Yes.
>>1321136
Not black, racist. he was a sub-saharan african.
Is the internet(and even more chans) heroin tier drug?I mean it when you actually know how entertain yourself by it and just get the feeling that you might miss something really important if youre not online all the time youre awake.
Hell no, retard. If the internet was as addictive and destructive as heroin there would be worse things to deal with than shitposting constantly in an anonymous Internet image board because you have zero self control.
>>1321159
Do I really need to post all the pictures of people on masses using their phones/tablets to surf the internet outside of their houses?
>>1321189
Wow you mean people use mobile communication devices outside??
Its almost like that is the purpose or something
Why did the Chinese imperial system last for so long? Qin to Qing over two millenia.
>>1320900
Were other systems of government tried?
Maybe in the smaller states?
>>1320900
It was ahead of its time. There was no reason to change what isn't broken.
It was when the conservative elements of the Royal court became entrenched that made the system more of a detriment than an advantage.
>>1320900
Imperial China is like Madonna. It reinvents itself.
And by reinvent, I mean brutal civil wars.
So, recently I've been starting to read the Bible (kind of surprising that this is the first time, considering I went to a Catholic school) and I was wondering why Satan is even viewed as a bad person. Granted, I'm not very far into the book, but even in Genesis, God lies to Adam and Eve telling them that the fruit from the tree of knowledge will kill them. The serpent comes up and tells them that the fruit will make them know the difference between good and evil and be as gods. God pretty much confirms this when he kicks Adam and Eve out of the garden.
So,...
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I'm using the King James Version, by the way. Definitely open to recommendations, I'd like a version that's more difficult to criticize.
>>1320822
Because of the conflation most Christians use to attribute "qualities" to Satan. It's a convoluted mess, what they've made Satan to be, and it wraps into a nice little package which was never the intent.
I've seen the death argued from two perpective, one that they've experinced rpiritual death of being separated from god, which is what the original sin is and the only redemption is through faith in Jesus Christ, which repairs this connection with god and makes you enter the kingdom of heaven, if you don't put your faith into Jesus in this life, then it's too late for you and you will be seperated with god forever, thus hell.
The other kind of reasoning I've heard is that eating the apple introduced death into the world, so while they didn't...
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The German invasion of the Soviet Union is exactly 75 years ago today lads. ITT we discuss why anyone in their right mind would have believed this a good idea
Because in WW1, Russia crumpled politically when you had a bunch of Germans charging in and beating them in the field, and they assumed the same would happen again.
cuz dem mf commies needed to go lmoa
Because of Hitler's racist ideology. He wanted to genocide eastern lands and replace the populace with Germans.
He thought it was a good idea because he was a knuckle dragging racist.
How did prewar Jewish life differ between Germany and the Russian Empire?
>>1320603
Russian Jews were subject to Pogroms (violent persecution), whereas German (and most other western Jews) enjoyed equal rights in comparison to their gentile countrymen. Western Jews sometimes were subject to popular or institutionalized antisemitism (Dreyfuss affair) however they were rarely (if ever) subject to violent pogroms as those seen in Russia during the turn of the century.
>>1320983
How assimilated were German Jews in Bismarck's time? Did ghettos exist?
>>1320996
The Jews native to Germany were quite assimilated. However, as a consequence of Pogroms and famines in the east, huge numbers of Russian and Galician (Austrian) Jews (Ostjuden) migrated to the West, eventually reaching Germany, France, Denmark and the U.S. Those eastern Jews unlike their western counterparts, had their own unique culture based highly upon their local cultures. Around the time Bismarck unified Germany, Jews did not face any legal persecution and as such they were not required to live in Ghettos...
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What is neoplatonism
Please dont shitpost, i asked /pol/ and all i got was hurr durr jews
>>1320541
Neoplatonism was equivalent with Platonism, because they were both the same movement. Platon, Plotinos, and Gemistos Pletho, were the same person.
>>1320541
It has "neo" in front of it, so just think of Neo from The Matrix.
The Matrix is evil, because the machines who made it are evil and want to oppress The One. You need to take the redpill (gnosis) to leave the matrix and enter the real world.
Neoplatonism is basically the philosophy than continued the work of Platon, accepting the same principles and following the same method. It's not, however, just a repetition of Platon's work - like someone said earlier (And no, Plotinos, Prophyre and the Neoplatonician were not the same guy as Platon.) - it brought new ideas and reflexion.
>>1320530
stopped reading at national
>>1320548
>He thinks anarchism could work in a multicultural society.
Well, OP, I don't know how to break it to you, but how bout instead of name-calling, I'll point out why national anarchism is a joke. Where to even begin? It is ahistorical. All of the major branches of anarchism (-communism, -syndicalism, even the shitty ones like the -mutualists) have rich historical traditions behind them, and they address real, systemic problems with capitalism.
Throwing "national" in front of anarchism is a meme. Every national anarchist I've met and read about has been either a fascist in disguise, an edgy teenager, or someone...
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Who would win in a sword fight?
>>1320422
I dont know them. Nor do I see how can this be related to /his/
Lindy, he's autistic enough to pull out a surprise W
>>1320422
Is that a question,lindy has some proper autism strength.
Didn't knew where to put this, so here it is.
>>1320387
What do you mean by "for today"?
Dunno, but the worst one is clearly London
Read up on the Chicago School
Jane Jacobs - Death and Life of Great American Cities aka the sidewalk is important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjEg7tChDrk
Oscar Newman - Defensible Space --> C. Ray Jeffrey: CPTED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF_V2S6i30c
Clarke --> situational crime prevention
increase effort + increasing risk + reducing reward = less crime
http://www.popcenter.org/25techniques/
What are the best history books that can give me a description of the "big picture"? A good overview of world history?
Also, what are the essential History Philosophers?
>>1320380
the bible
>>1320380
I think you might need to consider historians are not necessarily philosophers and philosophers are not necessarily historians. We run into problems like this when we think Plato, for example, was discussing a historical atlantis when he was using a fictional bogeyman in an illustration, or if we try to understand some ancient world "meaning of life" through Herodotus. We can learn something "about history" by reading about Aristotle or Pythagorus, but their words, the concepts, were not intended...
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>>1320743
When you read philosophy you try to visualize what you read as if you were in the same room with that philosopher and try to see if you can think as he thinks.
When you read history you try to visualize an accurate picture of the events, that's why you ended to read many sources and see where they overlap or where they won't agree with each other and then study more why is that so.
Can someone please explain how anarcho communism works?
>>1320369
Think hippie commune
>>1320369
tldr: Anarcho-socialism is regular socialism but without an authoritarian vanguard party to seize the means of production.
Bakunin predicted that the vanguard would degenerate into a dictatorship of the proletariat, and present an obstacle to the goals of socialism where the "capitalists" are merely trading hands with Party cronies. See: USSR.
It doesn't.
Why did the Greeks only find what we would today call twinks and/or traps attractive, while bara men were considered repulsive?
The pederastic relationship ended when the younger male began to lose his prepubescent and androgynous features, and it was considered inappropriate and disgusting to hold a relationship with another male of the same age or older (despite bara being objectively superior).
Why is it, Anons?
>>1320338
Are you familiar with the Afghani "bacha bazi"? Same idea. Women are cunts and you have to beat them or cover them to keep them in line, so says the scriptures and your ancient cultural standards. However, your bros like Abdul are very cool and not for sexual, because sodomy is haram. So what is a sexually frustrated man to do? Explore the grey area and fuck boypucci, obviously. They don't look like men, so it's not sodomy, but because they have feminine penises they can't be women either,...
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>>1320361
Extremely misogynistic cultures will inevitably become homoerotic in this fashion. See also: Nazi Germany, or American gang phenomena of being on the "down low".
>>1320361
But bara men are objectively more attractive, though. Why not simply abolish or ignore the ancient cultural standards?
Why do Slavs have a bad reputation?
Every Slav I've ever met here in Florida has been bro tier. Idk how many other peoples can go through revolutions, wars, ethnic cleansings and communism and still keep it as real as they do. Their girls are gorgeous too. I wouldn't mind banging a Russian broad at all.
>>1320333
>Every Slav is Russian meme
Because they're poor and until recently were under the control of communists. Slavs only have bad reputations on online imageboards where there's too many Wehraboos who hate Russians for destroying their beloved German Reich. M-muh honor is loyalty, my furor!
>>1320333
>Why do Slavs have a bad reputation?
Old stereotypes and gaymanofaggism on the internet.
Nowadays it's mostly being the more straightforward people than average oversocialised mongrel.
