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What does /his/ think of Mao Zedong?
That leap didn't really go as planned, did it?
>>395237
he was a pretty good revolutionary leader
except when it came to economic development, industrialism, and non oppressive communism
>>395237
Knew his way around guerrilla warfare. Everything else? Not so much.
Xiaoping unfucked China.
Was the Sator Square the first meme?
>>395206
Are you sure you actually know what a meme is?
More like the first shitpost desu senpai kek
>>395213
The Sator Square can be found in various roman ruins throughout Europe. Seems like a meme to me
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/03/pixar-virtual-reality-storytelling-ed-catmull
>Pixar Animation co-founder Ed Catmull has warned that virtual reality technology may not be the revolution in storytelling that some of its evangelists have claimed.
>“It’s not storytelling. People have been trying to do [virtual reality] storytelling for 40 years. They haven’t succeeded. Why is that? Because we know that if they succeed then people would jump on it.”
Is it jsut me, or is offhand...
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Before anything else, you ought to know that the theory of social degeneration is deeply flawed and have pretty much been abandoned in all fields of the social sciences for well over a hundred years, for several reasons; these days it's because there's so many sub-cultures popping up everywhere, more than ever before, so it's just plain false to claim civilization is degenerating.
You may want to check up on the wikipedia article. Talking about degeneration is like talking about lamarckism instead of darwinism on /sci/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneration_theory
You...
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>>395171
>2015/dec/03/
>less than 25 years old
>mention the greeks to try to shoehorn it into something historically related
>degeneracy
Are you quite sure you're on the right board, family?
>virtual reality
>storytelling
Here is the only story I need for the purposes of my VR use: She is my waifu and loves me dearly.
Now piss off, Ed.
Where Europeans in the Middle Ages really dirty, superstitious idiots or is there more to the story?
Well, of course theirs more to the story. But do you think the reputation of the "Dark Ages" is justifiable?
>le dumb pig farmers who think the earth is flat and don't know about evolution :^) maymay
The actual archaeological evidence suggests a downward trend in the population of Western Europe from 200 AD to 700 AD and a vast decrease in metalworking from 200 to about 1600 AD.
At the same time, the number of people that were literate decreased until it was essentially an exclusively religious thing.
So yeah, when you get fucked that hard, it's hard to go around doing quantum physics and shit.
>>394721
Kill yourself.
>>394716
The society of continental, manorial Europe was comparably different to the commercial, urbanized Europe near the Mediterranean Sea in around the 11th century A.D..
Napoleonic France was/is the most aesthetic nation of the modern age. Prove me wrong
Hard mode: you're not allowed to use NatSoc Germany
Reminder that Anglos can fully understand what's written on that flag thank to this guy
English, a Germanic language? Lmao
>>394727
I know who to blame for ruining a beautiful, Germanic language in which everything was pronounced as it was written.
French, not even once.
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>>394694
I don't disagree. But the Brits achieved great things in India and the Far East. Interestingly the redesigned Lahore was modelled after Napoleonic Paris.
Caesar did nothing wrong.
The Senate's refusal to take firm action and internal corruption brought about the end of the Republic. The Empire was created to only ensure the longevity of Rome, not its destruction. Brutus and his ilk are murderers who deserved to die. Pompey was a good man, but was pressured by the Senate to stand against his former friend. The status of Sulla's honor is questionable.
>t. Bello Gallico
>>394320
Trve
Catilina did nothing wrong
>>394320
"it's treason, then"
Was Gentrification the worst thing to happen to cities in the U.S. during the 80's? Should the white flight mentality have stayed to improve the cities?
>white flight ends
>Yuppies gentrify all the cheap places
>Everyone but yuppies are stuck in high-crime areas, paying 1000 dollars a month and have yuppies make fun of their car
Or were the Yuppies the best thing to happen in minority-concentrated/high-crime areas of cities across the country? Would cities have actually...
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>>394301
To add to this are many cities across the country even today still suffer from the effects of Gentrification? Was the Yuppie culture really to blame or is the lower-working class simply shouldn't be in the city anymore?
>tfw live in Baltimore
>tfw like ten colleges all full of SJW rich white kids
>tfw these kids settle here when they graduate and then cry about the gentrification they're enacting
You fuckers are gonna raise my damn rent with your hypocrisy, and I'm not even a ghetto trog.
>>394319
>To add to this are many cities across the country even today still suffer from the effects of Gentrification?
Yes.
Was the Yuppie culture really to blame or is the lower-working class simply shouldn't be in the city anymore?
Yuppie culture caused the working class to move as no one wants to live in and near utter shit. The city might have kicked them out anyway as the yuppies brought in more money, until they needed the lower class to do the hard shit nobody wanted to do...
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Did the Latin empire manage to achieve anything? And would there be any difference if Epirus got there first instead of Nicea.
Yep, sent the Byzantine Empire into a death spiral that it could not recover from
If they hadn't rebelled against the Latin emperor the empire would have been fine.
I feel like the crusaders on the 4th crusade get a horrible rep on 4chan, if you read Villehardouin's account of the events you can see they just participated in a succession struggle and the dude they put on the throne reneged on their deal because he was such a shitty ruler and couldn't pay what he owed.
Why were white people so successful?
Why were black people so unsuccessful?
Why were east-Asians successful?
Why were the native Americans (both continents) only partially successful?
Define white people.
>>393775
Empire is only successful under an incredibly nihilistic, psychotic lens.
>>393775
I am of the opinion that a high value in culture and social cohesion leads to the strongest civilizations. When everyone is on the same page, you care more about your neighbors and community, and it leads to everyone taking care of each other naturally without the government forcing us to pay for welfare programs for people we are indifferent to. This is why the suburb communities in the U.S. are so successful despite the cultural shortcomings.
Again, just an opinion.
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Hey can we have a book suggestions thread? I'm looking for material about the development of military retinues through european history, particularly in the roman/byzantine period (bucellarii and shit) and during the renaissance.
Pic unrelated, just a good book about Venice if someone is interested.
bump for interest
Bump, I need something to read.
How do I into history?
>>393718
read the Private Life of Chairman Mao written by his doctor Li Zhisui
Was he the noblest Roman of them all?
Brutus was a loan shark who charged 40+% interest rate on his loans
>>393680
An old Roman custom.
>>393665
now thats an emperor I can get behind
Gonna be posting some wonderful quotes form Aquinas's works ITT for the enjoyment of those studying history, philosophy, or religion.
Let's start with Summa Theologica:
>It is to be noted, however, that although these works of demons which appear marvelous to us are not real miracles, they are sometimes nevertheless something real. Thus the magicians of Pharaoh by the demons' power produced real serpents and frogs. And "when fire came down from heaven and at one blow consumed Job's servants and sheep; when the storm...
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Apparently he also thought fortune-tellers and astrologers predicting droughts were the same as physicians predicting health and death.
>Divination denotes a foretelling of the future. The future may be foreknown in two ways: first in its causes, secondly in itself. Now the causes of the future are threefold: for some produce their effects, of necessity and always; and such like future effects can be foreknown and foretold with certainty, from considering their causes, even as astrologers foretell a coming eclipse. Other causes produce their effects,...
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Having a bad marriage? It's probably a wizard's spell. But don't worry, there are solutions and procedures for dealing with it
> Wherefore others have maintained that witchcraft can set up an impediment to carnal copulation, but that no such impediment is perpetual: hence it does not void the marriage contract, and they say that the laws asserting this have been revoked. But this is contrary to actual facts and to the new legislation which agrees with the old.
>We must therefore draw a distinction:...
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I hope you find this stuff convincing, otherwise you might be a heretic.
>Now a heretic is one who devises or follows false or new opinions. Therefore heresy is opposed to the truth, on which faith is founded; and consequently it is a species of unbelief.
What Aquinas think of heretics?
>With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication,...
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Hello fellow /his/torians, this thread is opened for discussion about the Commonwealth which (except for the partitions) always seems to get forgotten.
>>392985
Because both the Poles and the Lithuanians want to forget it, I made a joking post on /int/ asking when reunification would occur and it ended up in a huge internet fight between them.
>>393057
There are two factors actually.
1. Only Poles and Baltics care about it.
2. The only people who care about it hate it.
Those two combine to answer your question, OP.
>>393057
Just uttering the word "Vilno" is enough to create tremendous Polish butthurt.
>Tudors were the last native dynasty
>Anglos have been ruled by German and French royalty ever since
Why are Anglos such eager kucks?
>>392781
>Why are Anglos such eager kucks?
Whatever else would you expect when their legendary King, Arthur, is one?
>>392781
>and French
What French dynasties have ruled England since the Tudors?
What would have realistically happened if Hitler had successfully taken over Russia. Would he have taken over the world?
your scenario is so wildly unlikely that any answer to your question could be seen as plausible
>>392563
It must not have been that unlikely if Hitler thought highly enough of the plan to actually go through with it, right?
>>392560
Assuming he takes control of the russian oil and industry, I'd imagine there's nowhere else to go but stalemate.
He'd expect a surrender from the british, which he did not get.
Japan wanted him to attack India from the west. Maybe that would be his next option to force the Brits to surrender.
Eventually, A-Bomb blows Japan up and is poised to be used against Germany.
