Do you think he got away with it?
>>832803
Ted Cruz has gotten away with too much desu
>>832803
Jew tricks
This is still my favourite gif on Wikipedia
Is it fair to call the Black Panthers a terrorist organization? I've heard black youth claim they don't have a history of violence, at least not of murder. This isn't supposed to be a "we wuz"-tier question, I'm genuinely curious. I don't know where to find documents pertaining to their history. You people seem more capable of answering than /pol/.
>>832739
I dont think the black panthers where very violent, but the bloods and crips have done some horrible shit
The feds really did a number on the black panthers
>>832739
At least historically, yes. The black panther party was a Marxist subversive hate-group comparable to the KKK of the era, and was dismembered appropriately by the dubiously ethical but very effective FBI's Counter Intelligence program.
https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/cointel-pro-black-extremists
>>832739
>>832752
Didn't panthers almost exclusively attack police though? Do police count as noncombatants? Considering the stuff that was happening at the time, it's kinda hard to say they weren't.
On top of that, hateful as they were, their hatred was completely different form that of the KKK. They aren't just black people in hoods (well, not that kind of hood) tying little white boys to crosses and burning them. In recent history the hatred of blacks has been proactive (where white people claim to be superior), wheras the hatred of white people by minorities has been reactive (in response to an atrocity or affront of some sort).
>be me
>study History degree
>Contemporanean history
>spend every fucking class talking bullshit about how the media (owned by an elite) manipulates the masses in order to convince them not to be leftists
>Sociology
>must write an essay on how african tribes have a better life than those who live in a capitalist system since they ain't that obsessed with consumption
If I was 15 I would be in my element.
I know that feel, OP
What exactly is the point of this thread..
>>832682
Blog/humblebrag.
Also OP writing devil advocate's essays is part of life, enjoy the challenge/bullshit.
America's - Manifest Destiny, Empire of Liberty and Frontier Thesis
Germany's - Lebensraum (influenced by Frontier Thesis) and Blut und Eisen
Britain's - White Man's Burden (shared with America)
Japan's -- Hakkō ichiu and Shinmin no Michi
Italy's -- Spazio vitale ( influenced by Lebensraum), Mare Nostrum and Manifesto della razza
Russia's -- Communist revolution and League of Militant Atheists
France's -- Cult of Reason
If you can think of others let's hear it
I'd say islamic caliphate but that's not a countries concept
the other countries are too dumb for concepts
>>832656
>Hakkō ichiu
Always found it funny that a Nationalist Japanese Concept utilizes Chinese Imperial Rhetoric.
>>832656
>I'd say islamic caliphate but that's not a countries concept
Jesus, that's easy
>Dar-Al Islam, Dar-Al Harb.
What does /his/ think of Nick Land, University of Warwick's Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Urbanomics and accelerationism? Is Land the most interesting recent contributor to Continental Philosophy writing in English? Considering a lot of his work is positioned as "theory-fiction", can you even call him a philosopher?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
>>832564
He's a meme, for sure.
>>832574
Do you mean "meme" in the sense that that word usually has on 4chan, i.e., "popular on the Internet"? Because that doesn't seem to be the case.
>>832564
His reading of Kant is pretty interesting.
I'd say he's more of a journalist than a philosopher as such though.
I've gotten replies to emails to him asking for book recommendations etc, and he's always been gracious and polite.
How long did it take for medieval ironwork to surpass the Roman one?
China had a bunch of innovations that weren't present in the early Middle Ages, for example in the 5th century BCE they already had muh cast iron
9th century Europe for muh Ulfberht swords
13th century for muh full suits of steel
when guys like vikings or arabs started to discover pic related
>>832190
No time at all, the only knowledge actually lost with the fall of the Roman empire was stuff too expensive and large-scale for the smaller successor states to keep doing, like the roman roads.
What is the Shroud of Turin, /his/?
>>832004
A mystery.
False relics was an industry during the crusades.
Any big european cathedral had a splinter of the cross, the head of John the Baptist, Jesus foreskin or whatever
>>832016
Can you explain how the shroud was made?
Was Bruce Ismay wrong for getting on the lifeboat?
I'll share first: I don't think he was wrong for getting on a lifeboat. I think he was wrong for claiming for afterward saying that everything was calm, when multiple eyewitness accounts suggest it was not at this point--that this was a boat where crewmen had to fire warning shots into the air, and passengers were trying to rush the boat in a fit of panic. He was wrong for signing off on the White Star Line policies for charging the families of dead crew members whose bodies were retrieved from the ocean. He was wrong for signing off on the reduction of the lifeboats from 32 to 20 because it made the 'first class deck look cluttered.'
I don't suppose we'll ever know the entire truth, though. Were there really no women or children around, despite 1500+ people still being left on the ship, including hundreds of women and dozens of children? Or was this something created in survivor memories afterward, to help justify their own survival? Did people rush and panic, as some eyewitnesses say, or was there no rush and calm, as Ismay said? After all right after launching this boat, crew members had to form a protective linked arm circle around the next launched boat so that women and children could get through first because of the great crush of people panicking on deck.
hey at least he didn´t crossdressed to get in a boat
>>831954
To be fair, he didn't crossdress to get in the boat. He jumped into the boat along with a group of other men. Officers then arrived with a group of male and female 3rd class passengers and ordered the men out so they could get the women in, then fired shots into the air and warned them since a few weren't moving. All of the men but Buckley started to climb out. From his inquiry:
>I was crying. There was a woman in the boat, and she had thrown her shawl over me, and she told me to stay in there. I believe she was Mrs. Astor. Then they did not see me, and the boat was lowered down into the water, and we rowed away out from the steamer.
>believing in god or anything "spiritual" when it has been proven beyond a doubt that humans have evolved from more primitive life forms by chance, when technology is changing man into something else, and when AI is being improved exponentially
How can anybody justify any primitive religious thought? The only way to keep religion around logically is to alter major teachings; this in turn basically nullifies the religion since it then becomes something new. Explain yourselves, anti-science cucks.
>AI improving exponentially meme
>People still haven't realized that Moore's Law has been dead for many years
>>831674
>le evolution booty bothers you maymay
>le primitive thought maymay
Nope
>>831678
Not that guy, but that's an interesting claim and I'd like to see some validation for it.
Who were the "Original" Europeans?
Stone age hunters
Some nards that followed some migrating animals north and didn't stop when fucking frozen water fell from the sky for half the year. Some were even so fucking stupid they kept going till the sun wouldn't rise for months
>>831363
W-were they white?
Can we get a /his/ approved documentary thread?
Anything available on YouTube and Netflix is much appreciated.
pic somewhat related, I remember watching ones about Egypt on the History channel years ago
>>831039
Not a documentary but In Our Time is a good radio program to listen to.
>>831039
Zeitgeist the Movie.
WWII in Colour is a really good one on Netflix
About a dozen or so episodes each an hour long focusing on a certain front/time
![Sapiens_neanderthal_comparison[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/uKSN9hJ.jpg "Sapiens neanderthal comparison[1]")
What would modern society be like if we still had neanderthal societies around?(or another hominid species for that matter)
and no I don't think australian aborigines count
>>830390
why would abos count? they have denisovan admixture, not neanderthal
We would probably be super duper racist against all of them.
>>830390
Physically they're basically humans+ so far as I can tell, and we don't know much about them mentally. So in our early history they might have just ruled over us through force.
If the Vietnam War was fought with an all-volunteer US military instead of being composed of draftees would opposition to the war be as high as it was? Would we still be there like we are still in Afghanistan if that was the case?
I mean I have a hard time imagining draft-age college students caring much about the war if they weren't at risk of being sent overseas and forced to participate in it. When was the last time you saw a major protest against US involvement in Afghanistan, for instance?
This is a good anti-Vietnam war song I just recently found btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4iw3_Hnyho
>>829097
1. the USA didn't lose the war because of protestors. they lost it because the vietnamese didn't mind a communist state. the only reason the USA was in vietnam in the first place was to fight charlie.
2. 9/11 was the reason why americans don't give a crap about dying afghans. not because they volunteered
>>829097
WWII had more drafting and draft dodgers than Vietnam. The protests became obvious because of the media during the Vietnam era but the sons of wwii heroes marched to Vietnam mostly of their own accord. They had the greatest generation to live up to and many of them volunteered.
![article-2345454-1A6A53C4000005DC-358_964x645[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rHC1FNz.jpg "article-2345454-1A6A53C4000005DC-358 964x645[1]")
>>829147
>WWII had more drafting and draft dodgers than Vietnam.
It was also a total war, much more justified in the minds of the vast majority of Americans, and public anti-war protests against such a moral, just, and popular war would have been extremely risky. Completely different situations.
There may have been more draft dodgers during WWII (source on that?) but they would have been completely quiet about it, they weren't burning their draft cards in the streets with public approval. During Vietnam that kind of behavior was seen as understandable by sympathetic audiences.
So if language is broken
and truth can't be obtained, only perspectives
How does one tackle a philosophical problem /his/?
nihilism general
>>828612
>nihilists attempting to come to positive conclusions from nihilism
wew
>>828612
My friend, you are commiting the common error of equivocating the failure of the 'enlightenment' project with the failure of, thinking? In general.
Naturally they were doomed from the start due to autistic standards of evidence that make knowledge appear impossible (which the mid twentieth century post-moderns, while posing themselves as 'overturning' the enlightenment project, ironically retained their same standards of evidence, which they used in a selective, tactical manner to dismiss things which hurt their feels, but never turned on their own conceits).
If you can grok the phrase: ' the exception that proves the rule', you are on the way to recovery.
>>828612
>>827856
>>827510
What was the beef between Rome and Judea? Why did both Caligula and Claudius put idols in their synagogues?
that was a dick move
romans couldn´t into hearts and minds policy
>>825340
Who cares when you can wipe out their culture and civilization
>>825331
>What was the beef between Rome and Judea?
Because Israelites don't being under the rule of others. Muh exile of Babylon.
>Why did both Caligula and Claudius put idols in their synagogues?
To display their power, they saw themselves as gods and they're dicks.
![Vietnamdem[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/or5JHWy.jpg "Vietnamdem[1]")
