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Would the South ever emancipate slaves and give them rights on its own?
The trend in the western world for the last couple centuries was to do so. I'd imagine the southern states would have done so eventually.
It would have happened eventually
shit, even share-cropping was basically just one meager step above slavery and just about as profitable for landowners
Yes. Industrialisation and the development of modern farming equipment rendered the work done by slaves obsolete. It would be more economically beneficial (at least, in theory) to emancipate slaves to become consumers in a capitalist society instead of having them live off their masters.
can some ww2 fags tell me about hitlers peace offering to the allied powers? Why were they turned down?
peace for the polish problem, that is
>>426048
Hitler broke several treaties, and why should the Europeans have thus continued a diplomatic course that was obviously unfavorable in strategic terms for the "liberal" powers of Europe?
How do I deal with mortality?
>>426031
Kill yourself
Livestream it
>>426031
in an historical sense?
You're just a expression of a cosmic process. There's no cartoony shit waiting for you in death. Death is a process of nature, and when is nature anything solemn and austere? Your elements dissipate and if religion and are NDEs describe something true, the eternal part of you goes someplace else beautiful where you review your life and go from there
Death doesn't scare me, just when it hits me that I know I'm about to die no matter what, that's what is gonna really freak me the fuck out
>when you realize Locke is the reason America sucks
Also propriety in general. The Indians had some good ideas, apparently.
>America sucks
Except it doesn't.
>not liking life
>not liking liberty
>not liking property
Enjoy your Brave New World
>>425919
The Brave New World is literally the world we are living in at present.
I hear people claim that famines in china and russia were completely out of the government's control and not the fault of the failure of communism. Is there any truth to this?
>>423487
No.
>>423487
Yes.
>>423488
The guy I was talking to said that China's famine was due to a drought in the 60s. Another guy said that the tech to circumvent this was widely available and China has no excuse for letting people starve like that.
What would have happened if Franco joined the Axis?
>>422994
Get rekt by 1945. Social Democrats and surviving commies set up a government similar to post war Italy.
>>422996
>Social Democrats and surviving commies set up a government similar to post war Italy.
That's really unlikely given that the Italian government was set up by conservatives and the US.
Capture Gibraltar from the English. Spain and Italy block the Royal Navy from the Med.
British holdings in north africa and middle east are now even more cut off from the UK.
Spain and Italy screw things up. UK and USA invade Spain. Spain surrenders quickly. North Africa and Italy campaigns set back 6-8 months.
>expect to be punished for all eternity in hell for a crime commited in a finite lifetime
>literally saying 2+2=9000000000000000
>Billions of Christians and Muslims actually believe this
>>420745
Seems to be mostly a problem of 3rd world nations and the US. See it positive, religion is dying in developed countries. In a couple decades it will be a mere memory.
>>420745
Well god is infinitly cruel so what do you expect?
>>420745
If you actually look at what these religions teach, both of them have basically infinite options for redemption. Especially Islam has like a billion things you can do which, according to the texts, guarantees you paradise. One of which is merely wishing for your brother that which you wish for yourself.
So, for the same token as yours:
>expect to be praised for all eternity in Paradise for a good deed commited in a finite lifetime
>relatively speaking...
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Did prima noctis or some sort of equivalent ever really exist?
Not in medieval Europe. Maybe in Russia.
I found a paper written on it. Will dig it up when get chance.
>IF YOU SUPPORT THE MONARCHY YOU ARE A KEKOLD
Yet another trash republican propaganda.
>>420163
What?
So, was this guy a redhead? Apparently the only source is a Muslim guy that didn't even see him.
Wasnt Guan Yu described as having a magnificent red beard or was that some other Dynasty warrior?
>>418674
>completely Asiatic
>Mongoloid
If he had red hair, it'd be through some genetic lottery ticket freaky 1 in 1 million odds if actually true.
Why do these guy's portraits look so adorable?
How do the people of modern France view Phillipe Pétain?
>>416832
Fascist vermin like the rest of Vichy scum.
>>416841
There is literally nothing wrong with fascism
>>416832
Fasciste scum.
What does /his/ think of /sci/?
Does /his/ like /sci/?
Do you think /his/ would be better with more /sci/?
>>>/sci/
>>425555
>Do you think /his/ would be better with more /sci/?
Yes desu., i'd rather have scifaggots than cunts posting religious & philosophical threads on /his/
I wish they took their religious/fedora shitposting back
I used to post a lot on /sci/ curing it's first year and a half as a board. It was great back then. But the constant flow of stuck up freshman science majors killed the board. They thought the fact that they were pursuing a hard science degree meant they were big shit so they poo-pood all speculative discussion. A board of nothing but discussion with actual scientific merit would have been something of value, but by getting rid of the anons taking part in speculative threads they killed /sci/'s post frequency. They lost the heart the the board used to have along with...
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>mfw people still worship this sack of shit
great man. probably the humblest and most noble of all the business tycoons.
The financiers of invention deserve credit too.
>>425323
I actually think Edison is underrated in most circumstances. He's responsible for driving a lot of the experimentation that happened in Menlo Park. The pioneering of the organized research lab, arguably the sole catalyst for the huge leap in technology of the 20th century, allowed people like Tesla who would otherwise go unnoticed to thrive in an organized enviornment.
He made science profitable. Inventions that were used as parlor tricks in the past became the backbone of the modern day economy.
The people who demonize Edison often underestimate the impact, as well as the innovation, of his achievements. Was he wrong about AC? Absolutely. But his accomplishments extend beyond that.
Ancient people sure knew what was up.
>>424355
Finding fertility beautiful is inferior to finding good health beautiful. I'm glad we grew.
>>424355
Literal fakes made by a german turnip farmer looking to play a prank on his fellow krauts.
>inb4 fertility goddesses
That's only speculation.
You could look at the Holstein-Stadel and say that they were all furries.
did bolshevism and communism have anything to do with the civil rights movements in america?
The KGB funded both white supremacist grounps and civil rights groups in an effort to create a race war.
Other than that, it was the continuation of a historical process that had been going on since reconstruction.
>>424347
>The KGB funded both white supremacist grounps and civil rights groups in an effort to create a race war.
sauce
>>424316
No, they were detrimental to civil rights by inflaming extremist elements among the black community.
>Julius Caesar reported (in De Bello Gallico) that the Britanni used to colour their bodies blue with vitrum, a word that roughly translates to "glass". Many have assumed that vitrum refers to woad, but other modern authors regard this as a misconception, possibly repeated for political reasons; Caesar may have been describing some form of copper- or iron-based pigment.[8][9][unreliable source?] The northern inhabitants of Britain came to be known as Picts (Picti), meaning "painted ones" in Latin, which was due to accounts of them painting...
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Copper would be green, wouldn't it?
Also, for all we know they had some mixture that counteracted the skin irritation.
>>423629
green and blue can be quite problematic colours. People often mix them up and many cultures don't distinguish between them, we obviously don't know much about the picts but in Irish, green and blue usually weren't distinguished until medieval times. Also the same word "glas" means green in Irish and blue in welsh
The construction of Stonehenge has been attributed to giants who sailed from Africa bringing their skills with them. The presence of giants may not necessarily be a figment of the imagination. Giants have been mentioned in the Bible. They was a Black Canaanite race called Anakim.
The Roman historian, Tacitus, mentioned "the dark complexion and unusually curly hair" of the Silures, or Black Celts who he believed migrated there from Spain. When Julius Caesar invaded Britain he met these Blacks. Julius Caesar's army was itself composed of prominent Blacks....
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