How did gypsies come to settle in Europe? Aren't they descended from some "untouchables" caste in India?
India has a shitload of nomadic peoples.
Being nomads, they go everywhere.
Europe has a lot of shit for them to steal.
>>1140539
The same way Jews did.
They migrated thousands of miles after being expelled and kicked out of every city that harboured them. Except unlike Jews, they never progressed past the nomadic lifestyle.
Most likely refugees from some old war and moved from city to city.
Looking for a good biography on Joseph Stalin. More detail is better.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Another view of Stalin
by Ludo Martens
Khrushchev Lied by grover furr
Stalin A Good Boy He Dindu Nuffin
by Comrade McTankie
ITT: post any information, opinions, memes, or really anything you find interesting related to the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIdUSqsz0Io
>>1140137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG225dz89TY
>>1140143
Keep in mind that this guy is a huge Ruskiboo (someone correct me if I'm wrong, because I might be mixing him up with someone else).
Why are fantasy books more popular than historical novels?
My autism certainly gets more involved if I know these things kinda happened.
>>1139967
Because they're far easier to write than historical novels, because you have to do research and shit
>>1139967
Please, let them remain popular.
Almost all historical fiction I've read is fuck awful and pushes an agenda.
Are they really though?
>if 51% vote to genocide the remaining 49% then that's a perfectly moral decision
This is what utilitarianists actually believe. How the fuck does anyone in ethics philosophy still take that bullshit stance seriously?
>>1139721
You don't understand utilitarianism.
In utilitarianism the moral thing is the alternative, out of ALL alternatives, that has the highest total utility.
Killing 49% of the population clearly is NOT the alternative with the highest total utility.
Retard.
Utilitarians don't generally believe in tyranny of 50%+1 majority. Hardly anybody does.
>>1139727
How is it not?
Was it the greatest friendship in history?
>>1139572
Gilgamesh and Enkidu is the greatest friendship in history.
Nothing beats the one between Brutus and Caesar.
Gaius and Aulus have no equal.
Postin
Barbarian thread?
Which tribe would scare your average legionary the most?
Huns probably. They had good pr
>>1139468
Scare as in "holy fuck these people are pure savages"? Probably the Caledonians, that far north was foreign land even to the other Celtic Britons.
WE WUZU PIRATESU DESU!
Let's face it, China is pretty much known as the slave-camp of modern capitalism. They work for very little in poor conditions so we can enjoy our cheap toys. What once was a great empire that the west was dying to trade with is now divided into a capitalistic parasite state (hong kong) and a communist dictatorship (mainland china). Their culture and society is in a terrible state, it is said that they are rude, cold hearted, uncivilized and egoistic and therefore unable to form any sort of functioning system. Example for this would be the non-existent police force (there are policemen, but nobody respects or listens to them). My question: was china always going to be the gimp of a global economy or was it the english and their opium who broke them? If so, why does nobody point that out.
>>1139396
>Muh considering only one variable in a very dimensional and loaded multifarious question
Why not suicide? After all u r gonna die anyway xd
>>1139396
>i'm so fucking dumb: the paragraph
>non-existent police force
china is a country that sells the organs of political dissidents it has killed
Disregarding his retarded proposition for now, is the professor right about the left/liberals winning the cultural war?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/10/harvard-professor-start-treating-christians-nazis/
>In a Friday blog post at Balkinization, Mark Tushnet said conservatives and Christians have lost the culture wars, and now the question is “how to deal with the losers.”
I'd say he's wrong. Look at the growing alt-right movement for example. Or the how popular Trump has generally been in the US elections.
Also,
>“And taking a hard line seemed to work reasonably well in Germany and Japan after 1945.”
Yeah, it made Germany into a baby back bitch. Japan is arguable, but all of Germany's problem stem from the aftermath of WWII.
I'd say so. It is the hugely dominant ideology of the ruling classes of the western world. People who quibble with that are only really making a semantic point about what this broad established consensus should be called.
I mean, it's not completely won, but it's in a position many times stronger than the next best thing.
How about you stop misusing the term liberal or thinking 'leftism' is some kind of single ideology.
Start with that then we can start talking. (Not directed at you OP, but in general)
The fuck was his problem?
Last statesman to confront the Eternal Anglo.
>>1139198
Gave himself near-dictatorial powers as president
>>1139361
Only way to rule the Gaulois. Look at what a mess the 3rd Republic was.
DMT: Christianity
Acid: Gnosticism
PCP: Islam
Meth: Fascism
Huffing petrol: Marxism
>>1139139
The psychedelic experience is a doorway which leads to a hallway which leads to only what you want to find within yourself.
In other terms, a drug is nothing but a high-yield (fast but not perfect) technique to reach partly what your reason and heart cannot achieve fully in your opinion. If anything, it is a total lack of confidence in your reason and in your abilities to philosophy to be at ease with life; ease which remains unlikely, given that the choice of doing these drugs with the goal of opening your awareness and opening your mind is already a sign of close-mindedness and poor ability to reflect.
>>1139143
Wow do you even know what DMT is?
You would have to live a 1 million lifetimes to scratch the surface of its wonders my normie anon friend.
I want to do applied epistemology/philosophy of science I have a BA but doing EE for the money. Should I go into Engineering for a bit then go into philosophy?
>>1139036
Why do you need to study philosophy at university?
>>1139070
This. Total waste of money, just find a syllabus online and study it by yourself.
>>1139070
already majored in Japanese/Philosophy in my BA, doing EE as graduate study.
what are reasons to go/not go into academia?
Why do many ancient religions feature a snake god?
>>1138745
proof the demiurge is real
>>1138745
WE WUZ GODS N SHEEIT BUT THE MONOTEIST RELIGIONS TOOK IT AWAY FROM US
Has /his/ ever made a significant life change due to an inexplicable guiding "feeling"? Call it God or intuition or whatever, but how did it turn out?
Conversely, have you ever ignored a strong urge and regretted it?
>>1138436
Yeah, I had the epiphany that work fucking sucks so I stood up to the call of greatness and became a NEET.
>>1138436
I had a dream once where a girl I liked violently murdered me, and I took it as a sign that I should stop talking to her. Unfortunately I ignored this and four years later she is still attracting me/breaking my heart.
Always listen to intuition else you'll end up in trouble like I am.
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