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Aside from the language what other impact did the Normans have on English identity? Also what is the modern English opinion of the Normans? Do they see them as their ancestors or just medieval oppressors?
>>296520
Normans (Danes, aktschully) btfo the english when they first arrived on the islands. The english where so terribly afraid of them they gifted Rou countless shit as to appease him and avoid butcheries.
I'm not english myself but for what I've read and know they should see them more as "oppressors" of sorts.
>>296557
>Normans (Danes, aktschully)
Do you really wanna start it again?
>>296606
Start what?
Normans where originally Danes that raided england under the command of Rou
I have a question for people who live in any country with a halfway decent education system: how do we get our technocrat overloads to educate us?
I'm not really taking about the university system, even though what I mean most definitely affects it. General education requirements taught me what I should have learned at some point during my K-12 education. I could have saved two years if someone had only taught me that history didn't start with the Revolutionary War, or that we actually have explanations of how our natural world operates, or that English isn't...
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>>296384
>how do we fix it?
You can't, it's too late.
>>296404
>this is what some people think actualisation is
>>296404
I don't think so. Europeans used to be a bunch of ignorant serfs getting their land wrecked by nobles. Eventually they got educated so much that they realised its better to work together than to set the continent on fire every time some dipshit with a silly title dies. Something was fixed in between this time.
>historical film/show
>two rich native speakers of a nonenglish language speaking in private
>Theyre using heavily accented english instead
Stop doing this
Takes too much time and money to teach actors lines in foreign languages. Should just suspend disbelief desu
Blame Shakespeare
>>296017
Children hate subtitles with a passion.
Why were nomadic peoples even a threat when sedentary agriculture based civilizations could feed and field much larger armies?
>>295954
Mobility, hit-and-run tactics and the fact that they could come from anywhere. Take Ukraine, for example, it's got a huge border with steppes, and neither Ruthenian princes nor Lithuanian dukes could actually stop the influx of different nomads. Only after people started becoming cossacks and settling almost aggressively while taking the fight back to them had farmers prevailed.
>>296011
Perhaps a naive observation/question, but sedentary civilizations could surely support a larger mounted army and keep them just as well trained.
>>295954
In theory every male tribe member that was physically capable could fight to some degree and there were a lot of them. There is going to be a constant drive for steppe people to move out and plunder settled societies if the population grows.
Was Jesus a Zealot?
>>295920
He is the Son of God.
>>295934
Ok but was he a Zealot?
>>295920
Essene
Is there such thing as Dark Utilitarianism? An ethical framework that tries to maximize the amount of human suffering?
Such an ethical system would end up promoting economic growth (desire leads to suffering), increasing the human lifespan (people can suffer longer), and increasing the population in a sustainable manner. (more people to suffer)
Either that or they would just find one really miserable person and focus on making their life worse while ignoring everyone else.
Either way that's better than Utilitarianism, the logical conclusions of which are...
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>An ethical framework that tries to maximize the amount of human suffering
Ow the edge
>>295895
Yes but the consequences of such a system would be all the things our society considers good.
Edge only matters if you believe intent matters.
>>295884
It's called salaf
Can /his/ suggest a good, impartial book on the history of the Soviet Union? I'm looking for something that explains its government and economy system, but the October Revolution/industrialization/Cold War books are also welcome.
Picture unrelated, Chelyabinsk tractor factory.
>>295779
Collapse of an Empire, Yegor Gaidar.
Yeah, Gaidar wasn't exactly the most popular person ever but it's actually really well-written.
>>295802
He doesn't really seem without bias, given his economic policy. I could be wrong, though.
>>295779
>I'm looking for something that explains its government and economy system, but the October Revolution
Richard Pipes and Orlando Figes.
What went wrong?
Define "wrong".
btw does anyone else hate the rule that you are supposed to place punctuation inside quotation marks at the end of a sentence?
>>295649
We discovered the truth about the ayylmaos
>>295649
Americans are a big portion of the consumers.
![2834017-ubermensch[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/DpO1qPA.jpg "2834017-ubermensch[1].jpg")
What is nietzsches definition of the Übermensch?
Is a nihilistic anon who disregards all social norms and spends all his time improving his Osu! skill an Übermensch ?
The pure blood aryan race
>>295643
Nietzsche's definition of nihilist was the opposite of his definition of Übermensch.
Nihilist is one who believes in nothing and has no meaning in life.
Übermensch is one who has the ability to create value and meaning in his life, and enjoy life's pleasures.
>>295791
Ya that's what I meant by an anon who keeps on trying to improve his Osu! skills
Which constitution is the best?
Kawaii
>>295572
I personally enjoy Swiss and Austrian ones, and not just because I fucking had to analyze them for coursework.
Well that too, but they're actually very well worded and they feel almost impeccable judicially with everything covered.
>>295572
I'll probably be memed, but if you take the U.S. constitution it isn't so bad.
Art thread?
Art thread.
I don't understand whats going on in pic related, but it looks cool.
How does the Hadith of the pond of Khumm not prove Shia Islam to be correct?
> "...and he is Ali Ibn Abi Talib, my brother, the executor of my will, whose appointment as your guardian and leader has been sent down to me from Allah, the mighty and the majestic."
> Then he said, 'O people, Allah is my Lord and I am the lord of the believers. I am worthier of believers than themselves. Of whomsoever I had been Master, Ali here is to be his Master. O Allah, be a supporter of whoever supports him (Ali)...
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>>295405
Who reported these? Because I can't imagine Sunnis accepting this.
>>295506
Sunnis do accept it and I find it difficult to interpret as meaning anything other than a official declaration but apparently Sunnis can.
The Iranians got it right.
Itt: post historical groups or people who makes you proud of your heritage. Pic related. I wish people now cared as much about preserving their culture as the vikings did.
>being proud of robbers who didn't have running water and sacrificed human beings
Wow, such culture
>>295333
talking out of my ass here but i'm guessing that's not actually their traditional armor. looks like something out of warcraft
Vikings looked nothing like the you fag
I'm not even Marxist but 95% of "critiques" of Marx on 4chan don't even touch any of his arguments. No one can even state Marx's basic arguments.
Embarrassing.
>>295312
no argument is even necessary, since every example of it being implemented is sufficient.
No shit. That's because all of the "critiques" of leftism on 4chan boil down to shouting "leftism is a mental illness," and using "leftist" or "liberal" as if they're insults and not schools of thought. I'm not a Marxist either, but this board's turned into too much of an echo chamber in the past 5 years to expect any good political discussion.
>>295320
>/his/
>past 5 years
also when the left uses right wing as an insult for years it would be odd if it's not turned back on them
Who was the most cruel person in history or at least in top 5?
>>295279
Genghis Khan
Dracula was just a meme tier kek
>>295279
Dracula
Genghis Khan was just a meme tier kek
>>295378
He had a surrender or die policy and was tolerant of other religions so he wasn't that cruel plenty of people went straight to ''die'' part.
