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what are the best forums for discussing history? I'm genuinely curious. /his/ is ok but sometimes I could do without the /pol/ memes and anonymity. I found Historum after googling, but it looks a bit shit.
>>1370348
Reddit. You should also consider staying there.
>>1370372
redditors are retarded. Also a voting system is fucking terrible for historical debates.
>>1370480
The equivalent of that here is the amount of (You)'s somebody gets
please explain me how the french army lose against indigenous with machetes and rocks.
the french army used to be the best army of the world right ? RIGHT ?
>>1370261
You know that Mexicans in Mexico don't even celebrate this, right? It's mostly a thing for Chicanos.
The actual Mexicans realized that there were two battles on the 5th of may. One the French lost, and exactly one year later another the French won. And entirely militarily speaking the French won the war. They achieved their wargoal of installing Maximillian as Emperor of Mexico. The problem was that in the North, the Civil War in the USA had ended and a unified America could start waving around their...
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Because the french were overconfident and far from supply centers
>>1370420
>saved
/his/
Did the the Italian Mafia stop operating on US soil?, Why?
They got fucked in the ass by RICO
But organized crime isn't done, just operates on a much smaller and less profitable/influential scale
Because Spics and Blacks now control the crime
2bh, organized crime was better under white rule
>>1370080
They are still to this day one of the most powerful organized criminals in the Northeast U.S and Chicago. They receive up to more than $50 Billion a year according to FBI.
Murders still occur but they make it harder to trace it back to the murderer.
Bodies that were murdered secretly in Chicago will often be transferred and dumped in Indiana or nearby states.
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>not building nothing but mudhuts all over africa
lmaoing at your life rn my man
>>1370169
I built mudhuts in Paris :^)
people from /his/ that remind you of yourself
Hey, I'm retarded; what is the difference between ethics and morals?
ethics is based on functionality or whatever. morals is literally "because i said so"
source: my ass
>>1370057
Thank your ass for me
>>1370029
They're the same thing, but for historical reasons which I don't care to explain in detail here, the word ethics became associated with the public sphere and morals with the private. So you could say that ethics = public morals; morals = private ethics.
He became an ethnic activist not out of loathing white supremacy but rather forced integration and equality with blacks.
Probably. He also supported Hitler and Mussolini, said Jews were the scourge of the world and so on. Those are the type of stuff swept under the rug in western education.
>>1369892
When he was young and living in Africa, he realised he hated niggers. But by the time of his death it's safe to say he had gotten over his racism. It's called a "character arc", google it.
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Assume we live in a world where we either have
-Devices which by reading brain-waves can predict when a man is going to commit a crime
or
-Magical spheres that can do the same thing
And let's assume they're correct 90% of cases.
Is it ethically or morally sound to arrest a man before he commits that crime?
What if the success rate was 100%?
>>1369849
What a stupid question. No, obviously.
>>1369849
It isnt ethical to arrest a person for a crime they have not yet commited, but it is ethical to prevent the crime from occuring. For example,
>Billy works for a business
>Crimebot reads the future and sees that Billy will commit tax fraud in the future
>Crimebot representative tells Bill not to cheat on his taxes because it will be caught
>Bill decides not to commit the fraud
However,...
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If your into anime, you should check out Psycho-Pass. It deals with this exact issue.
In the show, people have a "crime coefficient". This number reflects how likely it is someone will commit a crime. If it's high enough, police are permitted to kill on site.
Obviously, this is NOT a good idea. As one can see in the show, people fucking obsess over their crime coefficient. It simply adds to the stresses of everyday life, knowing that at any time you could be imprisoned or even killed just because your number rose, even if you really never wanted to hurt anyone.
I hear some shit about germany being in the middle of other powers causing the events of ww1&2 to be somehow predetermined. how far is that true?
if you had to make a plan to avoid them, how'd you have done it?
someone
>>1369723
>I hear some shit about germany being in the middle of other powers causing the events of ww1&2 to be somehow predetermined. how far is that true?
It's somewhat true. The entire problem goes as far back as 1871, and from there on Germany made more and more stupid decisions that would make war inevitable. By the time the year 1905 had rolled around, the question wasn't "if" but "when". Let me give you a tl;dr (though if I make a mistake others are free to correct me).
>1871
>France is defeated, German empire declared
>Bismarck favors a gentle treatment of France as to not make them permanent allies, but the rest of the German high command wants to humiliate them and take their territory (Alsace-Lorraine)
>France is now furious and its entire politics is now centered on one goal: taking back Alsace-Lorraine
>Bismarck is now forced to ensure France is diplomatically isolated because France + strong ally = dead Germany
>They ensure the British that this new Germany is no threat to them, buddy up with Italy (muh 1866) and make mutually contradictory promises to Russia and Austria to keep both on their good side
>Status: France pissed off, everyone else ok
>Wilhelm II becomes emperor, fires Bismarck
>Does not renew diplomatic relations with Russia in favor of focusing on Austria
>An insulted Russia joins France in an alliance
>Wilhelm also goes full retard demanding colonies Germany does not need and a gigantic navy Germany does not need
>The British see this as a provocation
>Status: France pissed off, Russia pissed, Britain pissed off
>Early 20th century
>Morocco crisis rolls about: France wants to colonize Morocco to cement its influence in North Africa while Germany wants Morocco purely to piss off France
>Germany thinks this would be a perfect opportunity to play out the French and British against eachother, but Germany goes full retard and presents itself as the villain
>France and Britain ally (entente cordiale)
And then the Daily Mail scandal
cont.
>>1370216
Correction: Daily TELEGRAPH Affair
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Daily_Telegraph_Affair
Basically Wilhelm II had an interview with a British newspaper and some political questions were asked. He gave the dumbest answers possible, including but not limited to:
>The British must be MAD, INSANE, STUPID if they think we're a threat
>France and Russia? Yeah, they're totally involved in the Boer War
>Japan?...
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Is there any proof of anything after life?
Even if there is no God, do you get to be a ghost after you die?
Does all you energy go into the ground?
Do we have a soul?
What if the Americans lost the war for independence? Would they have just tried another war or gone the Canada approach?
>>1369609
The world would never see or experience freedom like today ...God bless America!
>>1369609
It's hard to figure how they'd lose without securing at least some privileges. Even if the continental army gets crushed, Washington gets hanged, etc. you're still talking about trying to occupy a country that's some 30 times the size of England at least. Just the cost of sending a thin leaven of troops to keep an eye on everything would be much more than the 13 colonies were worth.
>>1369609
Two ways this could happen
1. Parliament issues an apology and gives the colonists representation in parliament.
2. The colonies, now devastated from an exceedingly long war, concede defeat and become easy prey in their weakened state to Indian raids. British North America becomes an economic backwater as it never expands past the Appalachians.
How can a country go from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJHTk-lgdtk
To this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6-2P8RgT0A
A nuke.
>>1369574
>How can a country go from [military propaganda at the height of war] to [entertainment product during times of peace]?
I FUCKING WONDER
>>>/int/
>>>/pol/
>>>/reddit/
>>>/anywherebuthere/
The firstbvideo is warrior culture, which is for niggers.
The bottom is a product from an advanced capitalist nation
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Post proof that the Earth is not flat.
We cant find the edge
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>>1369207
Approaching ships on the horizon. They don't magically appear. It's always like they're emerging from the sea.
Were the conspirators justified?
For what reasons did Brutus, Cassius, Cicero, etc., so adamantly oppose Caesar?
Were the Roman people on the side of Caesar before his assassination?
Was Caesar are better ruler than the SPQR?
Also, what right did Caesar have to cross the Rubicon and impose himself on Rome?
Were the people better off under the Republic or the Empire?
What were public morals like immediately before the collapse of the Republic? Did the Empire increase Roman civic virtue or decrease it?
>>1369062
>>1369073
>For what reasons did Brutus, Cassius, Cicero, etc., so adamantly oppose Caesar?
The general opinion at the time was that Caesar fancied himself as king, although whenever he had a chance he denied such claims (usually because the crowd was always silent when the idea of a king was brought up)
The Republic always had great disdain for monarchy.
>Were the Roman people on the side of Caesar...
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>>1369073
>Also, what right did Caesar have to cross the Rubicon and impose himself on Rome?
>right
What right does anyone have to lead? He wanted the role and he took it.
Has it ever been different? Whether by social or political graces or by physical and martial intimidation someone always uses their resources to dominate. There is no justice in it past the pragmatic view of which leader would best promote the prosperity and longevity of his people. Plenty...
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Historically speaking, what makes these two nations such great friends and allies?
>>1368999
mutual genocide campaigns and fucking up europe
>>1368999
They fought against a common enemy: Austria.
>>1369005
