Has excessive altruism toward groups of foreigners in a civilization ever been a determinant factor in the collapse of said civilization?
How is it altruistic if it's benefiting the economy?
>>1119250
Benefiting the economy =/= Benefiting the people of a nation
>>1119276
>Premodern states.
>Nations
See, this is why it was even more possible back then.
>Be Nation state
>Acquire shitload of foreigners
>MUH-MUH CULTURE
>Citizens do have a point.
>Be Empire/Kingdom/Hegemony.
>Acquire foreigners.
>Good. More subjects.
I find history interesting, but I know fuck all about any of it. Are there any good youtube channels that explain history in a way so that pleb like me with very little context can understand it?
>>1119220
John Green
>>1119220
John Green Crash Course History of course
John Oliver
Let's talk about World War I
To start
The causes of the war
The effects of the war on the people
Was it truly a Great War
Who do you think should have won
Who is to blame for the war
The Treaty of Versailles: was it fair, harsh or just flat out wrong.
>>1119014
Shouldn't have cucked Japan out of the treaty of Versailles and Australia should've gotten rid of their white Australia policy.
The result would have left Japan in a less economic shit hole than it was, as it was suffering from overpopulation and had to rely on racist means to secure its economy which, predictably, failed.
i blame Wilhelm the II as based Bismarck knew his strategies well and factored that a fight with Britain would be suicide.
There were elements to the treaty that were necessary, but proved detrimental, and gave rise to Hitlers 3rd Reich.
It was a Great War. But it's sequel was far more horrendous.
>>1119033
Wilhelm was a fool to go against Bismarck.
A strong alliance with Russia was better than a dying empire like Austria.
Germany could have oversaw the death of the Austrian Empire and quickly absorbed it through cultural annex.
A strong alliance with Russia means no fear of being attacked from the back because France was still bitter from the Franco-Prussian War.
World War I would play out just like the 1871 war if Germany had the entire army march down on Paris in 1914 if a hypothetical war were to break out.
If Wilhelm didn't want to build a navy to foolishly challenge his cousin, England wouldn't have cared.
Wilhelm made so many foolish decisions that costed an Empire that was becoming number 1 in the world by doing nothing.
>>1119060
>wilhelm is personally responsible for every decision of the German government since his ascension.
He was right to sack Bismarck. The guy was trying to instigate the liberal elements of Germany into protests so he could have a pretext to ruthlessly clamp down on them.
Alright, thought experiment.
Let's say we have managed to travel intergalactically and that we found a planet with complex life on it. A real civilization has developed there and these guys also have some kind of religion.
If we were able to study their religious texts would we be able to convince them that we created them and get them to worship us?
Enjoy eventually getting murdered by them.
>>1118841
What makes you think they'd do that?
>>1118894
Because it's what always happens to gods. Because that's what gods are in the beginning: sacrificial victims, later deified by mythology, but whose only real power comes from dying.
Give me some other "wait, what?" historical articles like pic related
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism
Link the best history video or documentary you've ever seen.
>>1118660
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5jGMVZi1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpPNbI6GcxI
You can't not have seen this.
>>1118660
Crash Course World History with John Green
Was 1968 really that important, historic, or history changing? Or is it just a year that's become overhyped by the Baby Boomers?
>>1118608
It's just boomers being self-obsessed.
Hippies didn't accomplish anything until they grew up and infested the formal power structure. Ironically, instead of creating a world if freedom and love they've become just as oppressive as their parents. Only this time in the name of liberalism.
>>1118608
1966 is the bigger year because it's when The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds, the first modern album.
>>1118608
>>social revolts across the globe, even in the COMBLOC
>counter-culture shits the bed after having several years of success
>conservative reaction creates a status quo
>ultimately signified that the post-war dream was over and reality had to snap back
I don't know about history "changing," but it was certainly a historic year.
Scariest tribe to live in? So many to choose.
Any with niggers
>>1118570
African Tribes are crazy scary.
>>1118570
>this scared of black people
Besides cucks who think blacks are some sort of big dicked ubermensch, African tribes would probably be a lot safer than most of the tribes you'd find in South America, Asia, or even the Middle East. Aside from a few crazy tribes, your odds are better off there. And they won't have thousands of years of "my god said to brutally kill and torture you!" to justify it.
What does /his/ think of this film? I hace heard bad opinions but mostly from butthurt christians.
>>1118560
I remember seeing like 20 minutes of it on TV once. Beautiful sets iirc.
I can see Christcucks getting assanguished about it, yeah.
I enjoyed watching it. It is a decent movie but with some false information about the parabolani and the Christians. Overall rating 6-7/10.
>>1118560
Roman Catholic here, it was alright I suppose.
+ Why the fuck would I care? It's just a fucking movie.
>>1118322
If we used the Roman alphabet only as the Romans used it, and if the continents were named Vespuca instead of America, the USA would be the VSV
>>1118333
If the Greeks met a tribe of Britons first, the Krytani (sp?), instead of Pretani, VSV would have been settled by the Kritish.
>Maine (Mass)
Is there any criticism of Marx that doesn't amount to hysterical slander and outrage by right-wing ideologues no less ideological than Marx himself?
Any and all attacks I've ever read border on nonsense by make statements far too bold (I.E. I believe Marx is wrong about one detail, ergo EVERYTHING HE DID WAS FALSE), or are so utterly ignorant of his stances that they don't even bear consideration.
Is there any systematic, coherent and calm criticism of Marx by people without an ideological slant?
>>1118072
>without
>an
>ideological
>slant
Good joke, OP.
First rate comedy.
aren't you tired of making the same threads every day?
>>1118088
Are you implying that's impossible?
why the fuck are people obsessed over what his genitals looked like?
Why the fuck are you so butthurt?
because he was just insecure like all white racists
>>1117792
I don't think OP can handle being told his Führer has small and deformed genitalia
Why so popular, /his/? How do so many people not realize the value of a moderately powerful state to regulate private economic interests?
Mental retardation.
>>1117765
There are no private economic interests that aren't fulfilled by the free market.
>>1117765
>as anarchists we oppose coercive hierarchy
>but as capitalists we want our economic system to be a coercive hierarchy
It's an ideology for wealthy people who like weed and are ok with homosexuality
Tell me about the 2nd Mexican Empire.
>>1117745
>Second
>Mexican
>Empire
>>1118134
lmao I swear I didn't have to open up the thread to know what the first reply was going to be
>>1117745
Benito Juarez was an asshole! A native mexican full of hatred and resentment towards white people.
Nowadays everyone gives him hero status but he was just a very angry little man.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. 50 years ago the Chinese youth went absolutely insane. But what was it all about, in the end?
Was it just a way for Mao to purge his political enemies inside the Communist Party. Was it actually a popular movement that got out of control.
How does the people of China see the whole thing? I'd guess that, no matter how much the government condemns it, most people probably miss their days of carefree roaming around the countryside doing revolution, subjecting teachers and other figures of authority to "struggle sessions", joining Red Guard groups with your friends.
It seemed to be a great time to be alive. It's basically what everyone in the whole countercultural movement across the Western world wanted during the 1960s, but only the Chinese got it.
>>1117617
Why would the Chinese willingly kill their own culture?
>>1117651
because it was a shit culture
>>1117653
Bullshit, the culture was fine. The fact that they willingly killed it is disgraceful. At least the women are cute, most of the time, on the occasion.
