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Why did Britain perform so atrociously during WW1? Was it late forced conscription? Manpower issues? Deployment issues? Terrible leadership? Pride? All of the above?
They didn't. In fact their overall performance by 1918 was pretty remarkable and easily the best.
>>776085
Early in the war they did not perform well. Failing to defend Belgium, the earlier stages of the Mesepotamian campaign (like the seige of Kut) and barely being able to halt the Germans into a stalemate in France.
>>776140
Crap, I worded that terribly.
>actually blaming the ideology for what people did in its name
I thought this board was supposed to be full of historicians who can recognize the geopolitical circumstances and historical evolution, while in every other thread i see people blaming everything on Islam/communism/christianity/god knows what else.
I argued about it shitload of times, but my time is better spent on somebody else who isn't a literal plebian who can't see past what the government says
Just wanted to say to you that you are retards one last...
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>>775840
It's a shorthand you autistic fucktard. No-one actually thinks "Communism" murdered millions, normal people understand that they mean "people claiming to be Communists" murdered millions.
Gas yourself my friend.
Well when the phrase "you may take slaves in the name of Islam" is in the Quran yes it is the ideology that is the issue.
>>775849
And yet Communists blame death under capitalism to the institutional framework of capitalism, not individual capitalists
Is autism a modern phenomenon or did it exist throughout history? It seems kind of overdiagnosed and that makes me wonder wether our modern lifestyle somehow causes it. Maybe some other condition is mislabeled as autism nowadays.
t. diagnosed assburger
I heard it was created by Finns as biological weapon of some sort.
>>775486
It existed through history but assburger was often distinguished as "different" thing. Dunno how it is today but it changes every 3 decades or so.
Either way it existed but obviously nowadays we over-diagnose it just like we do with ADD.
>>775486
No reason for it to be recent, if there are no records of it it's because nobody really cared about studying and identifying mental disorders before two centuries ago.
I'll preface this by saying I am a very traditional Catholic.
Is there something in particular about the Catholic Church and its structure that has caused its hierarchy to be so corrupted and shitty throughout the ages?
For a long time I assumed clergy misbehavior was a thing of the past, a Renaissance relic. But officials all the way up to Cardinals have admitted 30%+ homosexuals in their ranks, and estimates have been made that HALF of all clergy don't follow the vows of celibacy. HALF. This isn't a few renegade priests struggling to follow the...
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>>775193
>Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison has confronted his father about the issues of sexual molestation, however, the issue was not that his dad had molested him, but rather that he felt neglected because his father had not touched him. When Mr. Mackey finds out about this, he fears Mr. Garrison is so distraught about the issue that he could actually die if Mr. Garrison Sr. does not molest him. Afterwards, Mr. Garrison is assaulted in the middle of the night by a mysterious stranger, and he sets off for the...
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>>775193
It's very simple really.
There's no real policing of the clergy, the church won't do it since it damages its image of being virtuous. When there's corruption the church really just doesn't know what to do because they are damned if they act and they are damned if they don't, so they just try to pretend they don't know about it.
>>775193
Most of this would be avoided if the pope just made it ok for priest to get married, like they were able to in the past. You're obviously going to attract odd people when you make "no sex, no relationships, no marriage, no children" your requirement.
redpill me on anarchy pls.
why is it good?why is it bad?
can it work?
Yes it can work.
in small scale at least
or in mountains
>>775158
>why is it good?
It treats people as adults, suggesting that every man and woman has the moral agency to treat one other well.
>why is it bad?
Because it's not true. Some people are moral imbeciles. Others are sociopaths, yet others are free riders (lazy cunts). Anarchism would work for Angels or robots, but not for humans.
>>775166
Indeed, families are often run on analogous...
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Have looked up the definition of socialism, but still am not clear on it's meaning or effect on U.S affair, or future affairs. Can someone help a brother out?
The "socialism" talked about in modern Western countries is actually closer to "social democracy," which is a system of government that still allows the market to determine the allocation of resources, but has strong government oversight to correct "undesirable" outcomes of natural market mechanics and supports a strong safety net so that the neediest citizens of a state don't go unprotected.
"Socialism" in its historical context is more radical than that, as it was the idea that there should be a central body that controls...
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>>774876
Thank you!
>>774876
Socialism and communism were used interchangeably in the 19th century, a different word for a different context. Anarchists are socialists too but they obviously don't advocate for a state. Upper-phase communism as described by Marx is just anarchy.
How do you guys think about reparations for historical injustices?
Do the Italians(Romans) one us all a bit of money?
>>774637
Reparations to the living = makes sense.
Reparations to descendants = go fuck yourself
(but shouldn't this thread be in /pol/? not even memeing, but it's politics not history)
>>774637
We're not black so no. Also this thread doesn't really belong here.
>>774637
War and politics is beyond the scope of good and evil. Machiavelli covered this 500 years ago.
And in the present day when most philosophy see good and evil as a relative thing it's even more nutty.
Who was the best Sassanid Emperor, /hist/? Who is your favorite? And who came closest to destroying Rome/Byzantine in your eyes? Who do you think is the most overrated or underrated members of the dynasty?
Leto Atreides II
>>774414
No shitposting pls
>>774401
Was Cyrus the Great more of a politician or military general/leader?
What was the point of the Zimmerman telegram? I mean, even if they could convince Mexico to attack the U.S. in case of U.S. entrance into WW1, what could the Mexicans possibly do? They got crushed back in the last war, and the power disparity between the two countries had grown, hugely, in the years since.
I would almost believe it was a British plot, if not for Zimmerman's affirmation of it. The whole thing makes no sense. Why make such a stupid offer with such disastrous possible repercussions?
All the european powers were pretty much making requests and promises out of their ass during the war.
>>774383
I'm not even talking about the impossibility of the Germans offering meaningful aid; I'm talking about the fact that from the German point of view, Mexico's aid is worth less than the likely cost in terms of angering the U.S. you have in obtaining it.
Why even ask at this point?
>>774375
If the US gets involved in the war Mexico can distract them in North America so Germany doesn't need to deal with ten million American troops on the front lines and can still potentially kick France and Britain's shit in
Was the SS any good as a fighting force or just murderers in uniform?
SS tank division were pretty based afaik, such as das reich and so on
i don't know about infantry divisions
>>773815
>murderers in uniform
i think thats what the allies thought, thats why they would never take ss prisoners
>>773822
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEkPEj6eOH4
Not from 'Murica, what extent is creationism actually still taught in school?
I live in the deep south and none of my teachers have ever mentioned it in any context but a mocking one.
>>773734
Not at all in public education on the west coast at least
That teacher would be fired right away
>>773734
It's not on any official state curricula, that doesn't stop it from being taught in private schools, or, on occasion, in some extreme backwaters.
Were the founding fathers really just ungrateful little bitches?
people are greedy by nature.
imagine an american colony in mars and make it self sufficient. How long we will have to wait till it fights for their "muh freedom"
>>773086
Nope. Taxation without representation is tyranny and indistinguishable from a foreign army demanding tribute from a subjugated people.
>>773226
The problem with that though is there was some representation, just not by population. Plus, if they really wanted to be completely represented things would've taken months to even reach Britain as it is.
As someone who likes America and freedom and all that, I would say the founding fathers were good at manipulation and covering their own asses. The majority population didn't care and mostly sided with the British.
How Aztecs was being able to predict that some white guy will come from the sea to mess things up in America?! Was it because Aztec faith was the true one? I fail to see any other explanation.
>>772926
No wonder the spanish bred with the local women
Bloodmagic
>>773437
White people are very exogamous compared to Asians
Even the miscegenation law couldn't prevent it
Let's have a philosophical discussion on the origins of probability. Are you a frequentist? Objective (Jaynes, Jeffreys) or subjective (De Finetti) Bayesian?
How would you calculate something like P(Sun Rises Tomorrow)?
>>772829
>Sun Rises Tomorrow
There is no empirical reason to believe this.
>sun rising tommorow
Not without the required blood sacrifice buddy.
>>772829
More like p(if tomorrow, sun has risen)
>Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization. The wonderful culture of the Moors in Spain, which was fundamentally nearer to us and appealed more to our senses and tastes than that of Rome and Greece, was trampled down (—I do not say by what sort of feet—) Why? Because it had to thank noble and manly instincts for its origin—because it said yes to life, even to the rare and refined luxuriousness of Moorish life!… The crusaders later made...
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>>772260
He's saying the Germans never had a higher society, and they only entered Christian society on promises of vulgar looting.
He's also a fan of the Islamic "golden age", probably because a bunch of ancient Greek writings actually only exist in the ancient Arabic, because they spent the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars to translate and preserve the ancients, whereas the Germans just wanted to loot some shit.
Was Islam a hipster religion for people to take affection to in the western world pre ww2? Or has our view of it just been skewed by its current state and events?
>>772284
>Or has our view of it just been skewed by its current state and events?
Mostly this.
