>Austria will never again be internationally relevant
;_;
Probably shouldn't have started World War I then huh
GRAVEYARD
>>835795
nigguh I cant read those little letters and as a succesor of one of those states I am greatly interested in what the fuck
it is saying about my glorious land..
Cant find it with google images or anyhow else.
pls halp :(
was Genghis Khan a force for good?
>>835635
>muh religious tolerance
>he killed about 20% of the world population but maybe he was a good guy?
Neutral, desu
How real is love? Should we seek it?
>>835584
If you want.
>>835584
I want to fuck a trebuchet
Love is a chemical reaction. Nothing more, nothing less.
Hey /his/ I'm struggling with how I should answer this question, and was hoping to get some of your thoughts on what you think it's asking for. It's for a 5000 word undergrad essay.
'Was the American Revolution really a revolution? Discuss in relations to the theories of Arendt and ----'
I've started to plan the essay around the consequences of the revolution, and evaluating the impact of it. But I think I'm reading the question wrong.
Am I right in thinking it's more of a discussion of what constitutes a revolution and discussing what features of the American Revolution fit in with the definitions?
>>835307
It sounds more like it's the second interpretation.
>>835307
Arendt and whom else?
You should read Arendt's theory of revolution, and —'s theory, and contrast them based on evidence from history.
>>835370
Neil Davidson, referring almost certainly to his book 'How Revolutinary were the Bourgeois Revolutions?'
And yeah that's exactly what I thought anon, thanks
Why do people on /his/ hate him?
>>835279
He doesn't update his routines often enough, and his rape jokes aren't funny enough.
>>835279
Man, I feel uncomfortable looking at old Luke. New Star Wars is gonna be weird.
>>835425
kek
Eastern Europe has been poor for more than since communism. It feel behind western Europe as early as the 14th century when in western Europe peasants were freed and allowed to trade and choose their profession while in eastern Europe the upper class was able to subdue the peasants even harder than before.
Then 100 years later western Europe started colonizing the world while eastern Europe stayed backwards as fuck and the inequality has only become wider since then (industrialisation in western Europe vs. ludite upperclass in Austria-Hungary and Russia preventing industrialization for more than 100 years) Communism didn't help but it's just the continuation of an older pattern in world history.
>>834931
Breaking the meme about communism preventing the east from being equal to the west
Like I mean if you take a poor country and it experiences a socialist revolution it's still going to be poor
>>834931
Russia did colonize the world tho.
But I agree with you. Uneducated people too readily bash communism, while in many cases it improved the country in question. Communism can work, if you practice it in consideration and know when to stop. Look at China.
Not a communist but "muh communism = bad" is a meme.
Reminder that Stalin's 5-year plans urbanized Russia faster than any country in recorded history
Why did polytheism fail?
>>834907
I want to say "It's all the Jews' fault" somehow.
>>834907
It didn't, there are still billions of polytheists.
>>834956
take off your trip pls
Was WWI the end , or dying gasp of Western Civilisation?
>>834535
Nah, you like you're still doing ok.
T. Non-Westerner.
>>834535
I know the earth resembles a ball, but isn't it possible that it might have been a cube some day?
>>834535
Define "Western Civilization".
REMINDER SAM HARRIS BTFO
https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse
He was btfo the second he tried to pretend to be an academic.
Chomsky is a silly contrarian unconcerned with debating seriously with a fellow intellectual.
>>834504
tl;dr
Who is Sam harris?
>evidence of absence is evidence of absence
Why do people do believe this?
>>834123
Because it's true Absence of evidence doesn't PROVE absence of the phenomena, but if you keep looking and never find anything then that is itself good evidence that perhaps there is nothing there at all.
>evidence of absence is evidence of absence
There's literally nothing possibly wrong with this statement.
>>834123
Sure you didn't mean absence of evidence is evidence of absence? Because what you wrote is a logical necessity.
What are the most villainous names in history?
Names whose mere appearance alone conjures visions of treachery, and evil.
Ivan the Terrible
>treachery
Alcibiades
>>833946
Muhammad.
Why did Mussolini make his HQ look so fucking creepy?
>>833438
Dadaism is a hell of a drug
>>833438
Cause he want it to be discussed in the decades to come.
>>833438
Because to Italians back then used to corruption and inefficiency, a sight like that would be very welcome. Plus the fact that this was before this aesthetic was reappropriated for comic book and movie supervillains, so it wouldn't have carried such connotations.
Were European and Japanese nobles the only cunts autistic about heraldry? Especially Europe (motherfucking Armigery) Seems that other civilizations' nobles did not bother with them.
Like, what about China? Indians? Muslims? Did Rome have heraldry?
>tfw this hangs on wall next to the Jack
>>833251
>Part 1
In China's case, their feudal aristocracy got BTFO when the Empire was established and the meritocratic aristocracy took its place.
That said, when China had feudal nobles prior the Imperial Age, the closest equivalent of a feudal coat of arms would be the character of the name of your state/duchy/march/county
Which makes sense: it's already a logographic Character system. Although State Names were in Seal-Script. That was in Ancient China.
Pic related: the State of Qin. Shit would be on the King's Seal: the primary symbol of state authority. Chinese flags tend to be mere signalling devices.
>>833272
>Part 2
During the Empire, the only heraldic symbol remaining was the Dragon, and was associated with just one guy, the last Chinese nobleman: the Emperor and his ilk.
By the late Imperial Age (1000 AD-1911 AD), it got formalized. The Emperor's dragon is to have five claws. His immediate relatives will have 4 claws, while the res can use 3 claws. Drawing a five clawed dragon for yourself is an act of sedition funnily enough.
This is the reason why non Chinese dragons like Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese/Bhutanese ones never use five fingered dragons. It's like copying the US Flag.
What were the biggest miscalculations or decisions based on fallacies in history in your opinion?
>>832999
Uh, Hannibal thought he could win a war against rome, even though Carthage couldn't pay their mercenaries?
>>832999
>decisions based on fallacies in history
Everyone who read Marx say "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" and took it to be literal truth and acted on it.
Hitler going to war with both the Allies and Soviet Russia.
If he had picked either of them, chances are the other would have joined him
What are some good 'Nam flicks?
It's really hard to filter out the anti-war propaganda horseshit from most of them, but I guess Platoon.
That one where "It Ain't Me" starts playing.
>>833084
Go back to /tv/
