>mfw when rome conquers gaulic dipshits
>>795265
>you'll never know what it feels like to be celebrated for committing genocide
>>795265
>THATFEELVHENIGNORANTBARBARIANSVSEDEGENERATETHINGSLIKELOVERCASELETTERSANDPVNCTVATIONANDSPACING.
Ayo where da roman wimmin at
who was the first king and how did they get to power? How did some say ok I'm king now every listen to my every command
people were just like, "holy shit guys muh kings and the state of nature" and eventually kings started to come around
also hobbes
>>795157
Go read Kropotkin's Mutual Aid and Engel's Family, Private Property and the State
I mean, real peace, not some sort of treaty or whatever you call it.
>>794301
The first few centuries after the Islamic conquest weren't too awful.
>>794301
Depends if you call dhimmitude "peace". But no, not really: Even tho Muslims are supposedly forbidden from harming Jews and Christians, so long as those Jews and Christians are properly submissive to Muslim rule, there were still periodic massacres of non-Muslims throughout the Islamic dominions.
In Muslim Spain, mandatory conversion of Christian and Jewish minorities were outlawed and persecution was unheard of.
Compare that to what Christians were doing towards their religious minorities at the time.
We have loads of pic everywhere.
What do they mean? I'm in Northern England on the border with Scotland. There are loads of these stones. And they're ancient. Dated to Iron Age.
>>793926
What do you mean by "these stones"?
Stones with spirals'
>>793926
What do you mean by "these stones"?
Stones with spirals?
They are what's called Pictish cup and ring markings and they are all over the UK.
As to what they mean, I'm sure your guess is as good as anyone elses
What's the best estimation for the death toll of the Inquisition?
idk not very high
one is too many though given that it was a totally pointless exercise
>>793839
In what numbers though?
The protestants on this board usually say up along the seven digits.
2000-5000
Gulf War was unfair.
>>793600
talk shit get hit
>>793600
Chat shit get banged
Invade Kuwait get raped.
I don't understand Africa. If it was the cradle of life, why did people leave, why did people outside of Africa make amazing cities and art? Why is Africa still hundreds of years behind everyone else? Tell me because I am uninformed.
>>793395
Someone sure takes their /pol/ infographics seriously.
>>793395
>Why is Africa still hundreds of years behind everyone else?
>>793395
>why did people leave
Because they could.
>why did people outside of Africa make amazing cities and art?
Because the conditions were good and they invented and adopted farming, which allowed them to build civilization.
>Why is Africa still hundreds of years behind everyone else?
They were never civilized, only portions of the populace were and once the colonial powers went away, the savage parts of society quickly overwhelmed the civilized natives and it turned into pseudo-tribalism full of nepotism and corruption.
Whitey did a lot more damage by leaving than they did via exploitation.
Why is Platonic idealism wrong, exactly?
I understand the additions to the concept by the Neoplatonists were what a lot of people really had a problem with, but the original idea, as presented in the Republic and the other dialogues, seems to be an interesting alternative to materialism and nominalism. It solves the Problem of Universals better than any competing idea, at least.
All it really needs is a little organization. Secretary work, essentially, to classify and code the Forms.
See Diogenes's rebuttal.
>>793130
"To be attracted to the Platonic dialogue, this horribly self-satisfied and childish kind of dialectic, one must never have read good French writers — Fontenelle, for example. Plato is boring. In the end, my mistrust of Plato goes deep: he represents such an aberration from all the basic Greek instincts, is so moralistic, so pseudo-Christian (he already takes the concept of "the good" as the highest concept) that I would prefer the harsh phrase "higher swindle" or, if it sounds better, "idealism" for the whole phenomenon of Plato."
-nietzche
>>793185
This is just Nietzsche throwing a shit fit because some writer rubbed him the wrong way. As usual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8raDPASvq0
Conversation between Hitler and Mannerheim, where Hitler tells about the biggest failures of Barbarossa and how Germany (and almost everybody else) had no ideas what kind of armament Soviet Union was capable of produce.
I think it is one of the more interesting conversation because it was recorded in secret and even Hitler seems absolutely amazed on the Soviet armaments and their capability of mobilizing their citizens.
>>793107
Hitler: ...a very serious danger, perhaps the most serious one - it's whole extent we can only now judge. We did not ourselves understand - just how strong this state [the USSR] was armed.
Mannerheim: No, we hadn't thought of this.
Hitler: No, I too, no.
Mannerheim: During the Winter War - during the Winter War we had not even thought of this. Of course...
Hitler: (Interrupting) Yes.
Mannerheim: But so, how they - in reality - and now there is no doubt all they had - what they had in their stocks!
Hitler: Absolutely, This is - they had the most immense armaments that, uh, people could imagine. Well - if somebody had told me that a country - with...(Hitler is interrupted by the sound of a door opening and closing.) If somebody had told me a nation could start with 35,000 tanks, then I'd have said: "You are crazy!"
Mannerheim: Thirty-five?
Hitler: Thirty-five thousand tanks.
Another Voice In Background: Thirty-five thousand! Yes!
Hitler: We have destroyed - right now - more than 34,000 tanks. If someone had told me this, I'd have said: "You!" If you are one of my generals had stated that any nation has 35,000 tanks I'd have said: "You, my good sir, you see everything twice or ten times. You are crazy; you see ghosts." This I would have deemed possible. I told you earlier we found factories, one of them at Kramatorskaja, for example, Two years ago there were just a couple hundred [tanks]. We didn't know anything. Today, there is a tank plant, where - during the first shift a little more than 30,000, and 'round the clock a little more than 60,000, workers would have labored - a single tank plant! A gigantic factory! Masses of workers who certainly, lived like animals and...
>>793107
>>793110
Hitler: Already in the fall of 1940 we continuously faced the question, uh: shall we, consider a break up [in relations with the USSR]? At that time, I advised the Finnish government, to - negotiate and, to gain time and, to act dilatory in this matter - because I always feared - that Russia suddenly would attack Romania in the late fall - and occupy the petroleum wells, and we would have not been ready in the late fall of 1940. If Russia indeed had taken Romanian petroleum wells, than Germany would have been lost. It would have required - just 60 Russian divisions to handle that matter.
In Romania we had of course - at that time - no major units. The Romanian government had turned to us only recently - and what we did have there was laughable. They only had to occupy the petroleum wells. Of course, with our weapons I could not start a, war in September or October. That was out of the question. Naturally, the transfer to the east wasn't that far advanced yet. Of course, the units first had to reconsolidate in the west. First the armaments had to be taken care of because we too had - yes, we also had losses in our campaign in the west. It would have been impossible to attack - before the spring of 19, 41. And if the Russians at that time - in the fall of 1940 - had occupied Romania - taken the petroleum wells, then we would have been, helpless in 1941.
kek. Big A is basically whining that the russians have a billion tanks. "How was i supposed to know!?" Well maybe you shouldn't have invaded in the first place, tard.
how have we divorced nature?
Annulment.
is there a way to undo this ache. that the truth is unattainable in both part and parcel as long as what remains is a product of the self divorcing from nature.
Everything is nature.
My friend and I are having an agument, he says that the best way to deal with elephants wearing this sort of armour in ancient warfare would be to tell all your archers to specifically aim at the unprotected eyes. I said that that is unrealistic and you can't tell a company of archers to specifically aim for the eyes, considering they'd be in formation and volley fire and whatnot.
Can you guys weigh in on this at all? For discussion's sake, how would you deal with elephants wearing this armour?
>>792967
Your friend is right.
One way that Timur seems to have done was light animals on fire and send them running into the elephants.
If they are fairly close, artillery could also be an option.
The best way to deal with armored elephants is to coat some livestock in burning pitch and let them loose into the enemy ranks. The elephants will be spooked and they will break.
>>792967
I'm pretty sure the traditional method of dealing with armored elephants was to use fire if you were trying to take them out or frigthen them off.
Well-disciplined armies could actually just maneuver around them. Elephants aren't particularly aggressive animals, and at battles like Zama, the Romans opened up gaps in their line, and the elephants charged to there, not eager to fight a bunch of strangers. They're not easy to turn around once they start running, so once they're through your lines, you stand a decent chance of winning the battle before they can be turned around and sent back at you again.
so i've been reading up on this period of time while bored at work a lot recently. it was always something i kind of knew existed but never paid much attention to, and it's really fascinating. but who exactly were the sea people. were they greeks? combination of ethnicities? were the philistines greek? what about the israelites - some kind of combination of hyksos remnants/habiru/shasu/canaanites?
and the mitanni seemed pretty baller
>>792964
We don't know much about them. They seem to have been a various group of raiders, consisted with Sumerians, Philistines, Mycenaeans, Sardinian and other Greek-like populations
>hyksos remnants/habiru/shasu/canaanites?
Hyksos existed only around a thousand years before the raiders showed up, and the sea peoples attacked Canaanites. So, no.
>>792964
>were the philistines greek?
Just going by the Bible, (and I realize the flaws in this methodology) they were probably an Indo-European group of some sort. The few Philistine words that the Bible records are a mix of IE stuff (Goliath) and Semetic stuff (Dagon), and given that by this time they were living right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of semites, it makes more sense for them to originally be of Indo-European stock who picked up a bit of the local languages rather than Semites who would have gotten Indo-European words from somewhere.
That's about all I know offhand though.
>>793006
i thought some of the sea peoples may have been semites though, like the weshesh = tribe of asher? or is that just a bunch of gobbledygook made up by looking at words and saying "that looks right"
>betrays proletarian internationalism
>"muh socialism in one country"
>makes deals with Fascists
>persecutes ethnic minorities
>criminalizes homosexuality
>betrays workers' movements around the world in favor of western capitalists
>dissolves ComIntern
>encourages nationalism
How did such a shit-tier communist command the loyalties of so many socialists around the world?
Post WWII indentarian politics. Bourgeois is obsessed with ideology and subscribing to one.
>>792937
Because he seemed like the only viable option. Imagine you're a socialist during the Cold War; do you throw your support behind the largest state that claims to be advancing socialism or some exile who got icepicked in Mexico? It's the same opportunism that makes would-be socialists vote for the Democrats/Labour.
Fuck off, Based Joe helped his country fight off the counterrevolutionary fascists who were attempting to dismember the socialist Soviet Union and exterminate the Slavs.
What did he mean by this?
That's a shit-tier translation.
It meant that it is itself having become itself; It is because it selfmade into what it essentially is.
>>792782
How would you translate it?
Are you the kind of person that would take up the mantel of doing something very bad for a good cause? For example, could you push the button? I mean if it really came down to it, and no one else was going to because they were afraid of killing millions of people, could you bring yourself to do it?
I feel like the normal thing is to not push the button, I feel like I would be the guy who pushes the button because someone has to and I don't want that to be on anyone else. What kind of person are you anon?
>>792724
>I take everything I know about nuclear warfare from movies and videogames
>>792728
It's only an example anon. I can come up with another one if this one bothers you so much.
Yes.
MAD isn't worth anything if one side decides to just roll over and die.
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