Why do reductionists exist /his/?
>he says while posting a reductionist comic
>>879344
Complexity is terrifying. Easy answers are comforting.
It requires a lesser mental effort while making you feel equally as smart.
Hello, /his/. I recently came across an old photo album in storage and thought I'd share it. Anyone who has an interest in historical photos from WW2 and the Korean War are getting 100% OC out of this.
I can't post them here because the files are over 4MB each. I don't want to resize the scans since it would remove a lot of the little details in the backgrounds like on the planes, and some of the photos are nsfw anyway. I posted them on a file hosting site just for personal ease of batch uploading. If you are interested by all means have a look before they expire.
The man who took these photos never saw the digital age, but I'm sure he'd have been delighted to share them with you all. The photos were property of M.Sgt. David T. (Mutzy) Mutzabaugh Sr., 23rd Aviation Depot Squadron.
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My father's dying wish was for his old war photos to never again see the light of day.
>>878851
Why was that?
>>878908
That's not the OP. He's making a joke as if to say the soldier's son was told to never show anyone the photos.
History gives us many good kings, and good emperors, so where are (were?) the good military dictators and good fascists?
Josip Tito wasn't so bad, unless you happened to be German.
>>878805
Good? You mean like ethical? These days most consider any authoritarian regime to be unethical, you can even ask the average Trump supporter if they support fascism, and they will still say no.
If you mean succesful, easy; Genghis Khan and Alexander come to mind.
Harder to find modern examples since a key part of effective long-term fascism (I mean something that bridges generations) is controlling information, which is of course become much harder to do.
Pisistratus
Click here to shitpost about the middle ages.
Look for sources, h8, r8 and deb8.
I'll start us off:
Does anyone know of a book/website with letters (in English) written in the middle ages?
Especially letters written during wartime.
(hurr durr I'm a writer writing some shitty ass short story and didn't want to make another "I'm a writer" thread).
Bump
Jeez when did this board get fast?
>>878757
I found these. Browsed them a little. Kind of interesting. I'm going to look for other sources and post them here. There was an anon who posted not too long ago a letter that was a list of things required for a military campaign during the middle ages, and I was wondering if anyone had that. I think it was a translation from Italian, though.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/Paston?rgn=main;view=toc
>Forming two Concordats gave the Vatican full control over two Modern dictators
>Crowning the various kings of Europe gave the Vatican full and undisputed control over them
>>878568
>Crowning the various kings of Europe gave the Vatican full and undisputed control over them
Which various kings?
The Carolingian ones, and then a fair bunch Emperors.
Other than that Papal Crownings have been the exception, not the rule.
>>878568
I luff the fluff
Isn't that second option as much of a reason for protestantism as anything else
Was Pompey right to oppose Caesar?
>"Right"
What do you mean by this? Right depends on what position you support.
>>878072
Caesar was right. Caesar is Rome
>>878072
he wasn't wrong but he was a flip flopping pansy who waited to long and missed his chance to actually pose a legitimate challenge to Caesar.
Roman Kingdom: 753 BC–509 BC
Roman Republic: 509 BC–27 BC
Imperial Rome: 27BC - 641 AD
Medieval Rome: 641 AD - 1261 AD
Feudal Rome: 1261 AD - 1453 AD
Thoughts? I'm torn between swapping the places of "Feudal Rome" and "Medieval Rome" but i think ERE truly adopted feudalism when Pronoia was made inheritable
>Medieval """"Rome""""
>E"R"E
>>877944
>not having separate sections for the Principate (30 B.C. to 284 A.D. and the Dominate (284 onwards)
What is the nature of power? How does one obtain it? Why do some men go to any lengths to acquire it, even murder and betrayal? Is power simply the ability to sway people to do what you want, or does it reflect more elaborate institutions and organizational structures such as the ability to enforce laws or mobilize military might?
>>877782
Power is the possibility of obtaining desired objects.
>>877782
power is the belief of others that you have power
>>877825
So King really is the strongest in S-class?
I need some /his/ approved music for my studies
>>877158
/his/-music is terrible for studying, you'll most likely get too distracted end up either going on Wikipedia to look up some historical even that randomly piqued your interest or turning on your historical strategy games
>>877158
Samples of comfy rain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_SINw2QTms
Who is this guy and why do people on /his/ worship him?
>>877146
>implying anyone on /his/ has read baby-Hegel and baby-Schleiermacher
Is he even translated in English?
>>877146
Cause his is full of whiggers and the notion that history proceeds like the Europa Universalis tech "tree" is comforting to them.
>>877261
>Ranke
>whigger
Linear history doesn't mean progressive linear history.
So /pol/ told me to come here. About to have a debate in a few hours and my side of the debate is to list ways in which the organizations at the time (hegemons or international institutions) could have prevented the World Wars while at the same time using the economic interconnectitveness of the nations at the time to grow more wealthy/powerful themselves.
The other guy is going to debate reasons why the war war inevitable no matter what the organizations did. My friend will record the debate. I hope you help and enjoy the results.
>war war
Sorry I meant world wars
If everyone had just decided to bomb Prussia when they started to make a fuzz with Denmark everything would have been fine.
You're definitely on the harder side of the debate.
If the great powers of the time could have somehow formed a proto league of nations, passed SUCCESSFUL arms reduction treaties to stop the arms race, not had the big alliances which ended up dragging everyone into the war, signed free trade deals...
Basically what kept peace after WW2 was the Bretton Woods economic system, the european economic community (proto-EU) + nukes, and none of that was really possible pre-war, there just wasn't any intellectual support, or public awareness or anything of that nature. Neither did any of the powers realise how bad the war would be in terms of casualties and the massive destruction of accumulated wealth of Europe.
Which events, people, time periods are most crucial to understanding the modern middle east and its problems? What materials would you recommend? Especially for someone without a foundation.
All I've read so far is The Looming Tower and some other books on terror. Looking into Robert Fisk's Great War for Civilisation but have heard mixed things.
Anything covering the fall of the ottoman empire(as well as western interaction with it), the effects of the first world war on the region and then the influence of ideology and the cold war.
British colonization of Iraq and subsequent influence on ex-colonial regimes by the British after the 8 February revolution left more scars than anything else
>>876894
Gulf and Iraq wars are also very relevant
What did Diogenes of Sinope think of Socrates? Did he even have an opinion of him?
He apparently thought Socrates was mad, thats all ever mentioned between the two.
Specifically the story goes something like "Plato once described Diogenes as a Socrates gone mad, but Diogenes scolded him for being redundant"
>>876854
Isn't he one of Socrates' disciples?
>>876864
>Diogenes
>a disciple of Socrates
How did Scientology get so widespread and powerful?
>>876808
I mean people paint it as crazy but their initial practices and meditations are actually quite useful and when you start out it's almost a nice little religion. So it's quite easy to get wrapped up in it and forget about Jesus and succumb the The devil's trick. See any religion that doesn't explicit state the Jesus Christ is Lord is a false religion and is spread by evil.
>>876808
I would assume predatory recruiting plays a significant part in securing new members.
Sunk cost fallacy.
Attachment to others in the cult.
Their openly antagonistic behavior towards apostasy.
Their hostile bullying of members.
I can't explain how it got powerful because I have no idea how this "Religion" hasn't been shut down yet.
I assume nepotism and outright infiltration of government plays a role.
>>876808
Tom Cruise.
Their members literally increased 10+ fold after he endorsed it.
It's not very powerful or widespread now nor was it in the pre-Cruise era, it always exagerates it's numbers.
Serious thread:
How did the Nationalists win the Spanish Civil War? Most of the historiography I've seen is from various leftist perspectives which want to exonerate their faction for the Republic's ultimate fall (eg, 'Stalin a good boy, he dindu nuffin, fuck POUM'), and the Nationalists are almost a secondary force. How did they win? What was their support base in the population? Were they a genuinely popular or elite movement?
Thanks /his/
>>876669
Franco had like 90% of the Regular Army, the entire Colonial Army and the active support of Italians and Germans.
The Republic had enthusiatic common people grouped around a variety of, often clashing, political factions and Ruskys selling them crap war material for literal gold.
The wonder is they managed to last 3 years.
>>876669
>How did the Nationalists win the Spanish Civil War?
Nazi Germany and Italy, specially Italy considering his relative size in Europe, spent a shit ton of money and don't get me started in the Condor legion and the CVT.
Also the nationalist side was far more concentrated into winning than killing each other, I can't say the same about the republican side...
>>876753
Franco was a sneaky bastard.
