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Why do monarchs and monarchists still exist? I can't possibly imagine a justification for this.
If god is obsolete, then so are monarchs. Nobility is a waste of space.
We don't like you Whiggish faggots on /his/, please go back to whichever board spawned you.
>>935416
Why don't you argue your case for monarchy instead of calling me names?
>>935409
>Implying the world is completely logical
>Implying modern western forms of government are so much better
Power will rest in the hands of those who can seize it from someone else and then hold onto it. In some cases those people are feudal nobles.
Why didn't christian monks develop a unique fighting style after fending off countless viking raids? Y'know, like the Shaolin monks did?
They developed turn the other cheek style of fighting aka cuck fu.
They were probably glad to get killed since christianity is a death cult anyway
>>926681
Shaolin monasteries relied on themselves for protection of their lands since Chinese secular, bureaucratic patrons would come and go without much guarantee of continuity or a supranational organization that can administer and defend it from afar with top-down political influence.
Christian monks however could reasonably rely on aristocratic patrons, landed families, and generations of knightly houses or free city militiamen to protect its interests. And if they couldn't, there was the network of bishops and...
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Opinions of those who've finished it?
I just finished the second essay, and I'm quite impressed with it.
>>934835
It displays the thirst for unearned power that animated all sides of America, left or right.
Tldr Bullshit.
>>934835
Hoppe is neat.
>>934844
>unearned power
What do you mean?
Where do I start learning Latin? I''m looking into Wheelock atm, but I've heard it's bad for reading more than paragraph-long passages
I've heard lingua latina per se illustrata is a good way to get reading experience.
>>930207
You are not supposed to start out by reading all of Cicero. You start out with small building blocks, for which Wheelock's is good enough.
I would recommend Cambridge though.
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/787183/#787522
https://desustorage.org/his/thread/787183/#787586
Why doesn't the US use the metric system?
>>929582
Fahrenheit is a much more specific way to measure temperature which is deemed necessary due to the wide diversity of extreme and moderate climates within America.
This problem could be solved if Americans just learned to use decimals, but let's leave it at that.
For other measurements, America was already too accustomed to the pound/inch/whatever system to change it and unlike other countries, wasn't pressured to change for trading purposes for whatever reason.
>>929582
No reason to
Fuck every other country
>>929681
Considering most of the civilized world understands ice, Celsius is better.
No competition.
He is the most influential figure of the 20th century by a mile. Defined essentially all politics of the 20th century.
t. American
When did Egypt stop being a great civilisation?
Is it just one guy who posts these kinds of questions alongside hot chicks?
>>925698
When the Mamluks fell.
>>925698
Aguate Boca Juniors papu
What are some of the greatest political slogans?
Make America Great Again desu
Arbeit Macht Frei
>>925384
Reminder that "Let's Make America Great Again" was first used by Ronald Reagan
What's your favorite historical weapon in terms of aesthetics?
I'm a big fan of the matchlock arquebus personally. I like the whole pike+gunpowder era. Any transitional period where new weapons are being introduced but some of the old ones retain their usefulness for awhile is cool
I agree.
Reiters are also cool.
The kopis or falcata. Those are aesthetic as fuck
Gotta be the Bec De Corbin
ITT: Little-known military engagements
>Jew in-fighting
Europa Universalis 4 thread!
Also seen another thread about Teutonic Order. Anybody ever play as them? Wanna give them a try.
>>880584
Playing at the Teutonic Order is the best way to form Prussia senpai.
>>880584
Take it to /gsg/ m8.
In the event this thread doesn't get deleted, as TO you just have to lick Austrian balls until you can join the
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
Once you're in, you're set. When Poland declares war on you, gang rape them until you can destroy their union with Lithuania, and spend the next two centuries making them your bitch.
>>880620
Oh, and take any ideology that gives discipline, so you can get 125% and beat the hell out of armies three times your size
What historical events can we learn the most from?
WW1 desu fampai
holocaust
>>935508
Not/pol/ pls go.
![ThomasSowell[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KlIkE1q.jpg "ThomasSowell[1].jpg")
why do people love this guy so much?
>>934215
he validates their already held beliefs
We wuz philosophers n shit
>>934215
He's proof blacks aren't necessarily inferior intellectually.
Philosopher or sophist? What's /his/'s opinion on this guy?
He strikes me as someone who wants to live in fairyland. Although he's a good speaker and has some pretty good ideas, what he says doesn't seem to reflect real world plausibility - a bit similar to communism in that one respect.
Do you support ME getting SHOT??!
He is a philosopher, but tbqh, that's not saying much these days, because very few philosophers bring anything new to the table, and he's no exception.
>>934059
ONE DOLLAR
So Communism gets the old adage treatment of being good in theory but awful in practise. Now perhaps this is correct, but that isn't my point.
My point concerns how Laissez-Faire Capitalism is treated. Why is it not treated in a similar manner to Communism amongst the minds of the tortured masses? It is a good theory, but in practise it doesn't work (see: C19th United Kingdom).
>>932789
It works, just not the way you'd want it to.
That is true of most systems, anyway.
Communism has always ended in far nastier ways than Laissez-Fareie has.
ALso Cold war propaganda.
>>932789
>it didn't work in the 19th century United Kingdom
You mean like when they repealed the Corn Laws and Irish people weren't dying in a famine because they could import food?
Or do you mean how quality of life changed dramatically from the beginning of the century to the end of the century?
