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>people still insist fins are descended from asian mongols
>it has been proven finnic tribes have been in europe for thousands of years
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>>591895
They share linguistic and genetic similarities to East Asians. Calling them Mongols is just a joke, no one thinks they're the ancestors of actual Mongols.
>>591895
It's a joke
>>591913
Not East-Asians, the furthest it goes is Siberia, with the vast majority of the Finno-Ugric people living on the European side of the Ural mountains.
>God issues a commandment not to kill
>people kill in His name
Humanity is pretty much retarded
>>591767
>God issues a commandment not to kill
But that's wrong you retard. It's
לא תרצח
not
לא תהרג
>>591783
Fuck off Jewnigger
Post good historical documentaries/series
Pawn Stars
Deadliest Warrior
Ancient Special Forces
Bettany Hughes did a series of great ones for Channel 4. They're on all4 if you're in the UK.
Also, dat thinking mans crumpet.
>>591753
You forgot Ancient Aliens!
Hello, /his.
Quick question:
Where can I find free resources in public domain to learn about history ? I'm tired of being a commoner and I want to partake in your patrician tastes. Is there any good youtube channel, for example? Or maybe a good blog or site?
how about a library you retard
>>591726
this
Fuck the public domain:
Bookzz.org
Why did America declare independence?
>Taxation without representation?
>GB choosing to appease their Native allies West of the Appalachians over their colonial subjects desire to colonize it?
>Enlightenment idealism and perception of Parliamentarian corruption?
>GB granting Catholics freedom of worship?
>Coercive acts?
>The American colonies were founded through private enterprise...
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>>591598
Heres a better question OP
america is a continent not a country
mexicans are americans in the same way chinese are asian and germans are european
So what are people from the US called? united statesians?
>>591598
Because ultimately, it's more efficient to be self governed, especially when you had a seperate "American" identity forming from the homeland "British" identity, and you live in a world without instantaneous communications.
>>593527
Shut up, butthurt South American.
Why is studying history and the humanities so comfy, yet job prospects and opportunites virtually nonexistent besides K-12 history and English teachers?
>>591559
>tfw history graduate and call centre worker
>tfw when straight A science and maths student at school
>tfw when I just had a cool history teacher that made it sound like fun
Never mind. I enjoyed it. And it was, indeed, comfy as fugg.
At the end of the day the choices I made have their causation from a chain of events going back to the Big Bang and maybe beyond and I also really like my job anyway.
The...
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Every discipline gets the job market it deserves.
Because marketable skills revolve around the services you can provide for others, that they'd be willing to pay for. Studying history and the humanities doesn't equip you with practical skills that are in-demand in this economy.
show me a better government
protip:
you can't.
>>591552
Sure, if the ruler is good. Most times they're not, and then what?
Every Nation gets the Government it deserves.
that's what I thought
OP how are you so awesome?
I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second or perhaps less; I don’t know how many birds I saw. Were they a definite or an indefinite number? This problem involves the question of the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because nobody was able to take count. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let’s say) and more than one; but I did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and...
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>I close my eyes and see a flock of birds
No, you see birds when your eyes are open. That's how vision works.
Existence precedes essence, and basing an argument on a subjective "mental image" visible only to you is pretty piss poor evidence. I also don't believe a lot of your conclusions are logically inferred from your premises, which can be rejected outright without much trouble anyway. It's telling that theists have to resort to these sort of ontological mind games.
>If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God.
Clearly you didn't see any. You vaguely imagined some of the properties...
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What if there was a half of a bird among them?
Who does /his/ think is better?
The West Clausewitz or the East Sun Tzu?
personally ive read all of Sun Tzu's Art of War but Calusewitz's On War seems to be the better book? Thoughts?
interesting article to go along with it
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158123
>>591411
Sun Tzu's teachings are very general guidelines. They're fundamentals you absolutely need to know if you have to even be near a command position but they're just guidelines. Also, some of it needs some conceptualization to be transposed into modern situations, particularly his teachings about supplies, intelligence, and the politics behind war.
Clausewitz on the other hand is more recent and introduces major points of modern military science like the fog of war or the idea that war is nothing but...
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>>594048
This. Sun Tzu keeps it very simple, and just about everyone can follow his tactics, from an American general to a Boko Haram warlord
>>594054
Its actually surprising how many modern commanders do not follow his simple guidelines.
What does love mean to you? What do you think about it? Does everyone deserve to love and be loved? Is it right or possible to love everybody?
>>591336
Love is the only thing that matters in my life. Love of one, of many, of all.
>>591336
It's just chemical reactions, it's as meaningless as everything else.
>>591355
Can you explain how does it work or something?
What does /his/ think of Epic Rap Battles of History?
I always thought they were yet another pleb mindless entertainment Youtube series, and I was right. But they honestly do a pretty good job of representing the historical figures, and the production values are pretty decent as well.
Also, the Eastern vs. Western Philosophers is pretty fucking awesome.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N_RO-jL-90
I think I feel nauseous
>>591362
explain
It made my cousin interested in history, so I guess it's good?
Why are we told that the nazis executed people for being disabled?
Are we meant to believe that Hitler killed cripples from WW1 and even soldiers who were injured during WW2?
Who told you that?
For some reason, whenever discussion of the Nazis comes about, there are a lot of allegations that "they" make a lot of outrageous and flagrantly untrue claims, and lots of anons blindly agree to this without ever actually questioning who "they" are and if "they" even actually said it.
Not to mention that "they" often end up being a lone kook whose words are taken to represent an entire viewpoint (e.g. "The Holocaust was a lie because some random Jewish guy claimed he saw lions and oven roller-coasters...
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>>591213
I think you're equivocating "disabled". They certainly meant different disabilities.
>>591237
Can you post the oven-coaster image? I wanna read that again
>jesus wasnt ACTUALLY magical, he was just a good man that wanted to spread a new set of principles. The bible is based on a true story, with a bunch of myth thrown in.
>LMAO CHRISTTARDS BTFO HAHAHAHAH LE DESERT MYTH LE FAIRY TALES SO TRUEEEE
>The gassing of 12 million didnt happen, sadly, there was a bunch of innocents killed in firing squads however. Of course the holocaust happened, just not on the scale as the common person believes.
>OY VEY!...
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You rely too much on strawmen, and get them confused sometimes.
Over a hundred thousand were gassed but not all. 6 million is the grand total.
>>591142
>>>/pol/
Ok, do you have any evidence for those two statements?
And seriously why? Because 1. most people are religious and Christianity is the most popular religion.
2. The holocaust did kill between 3-6 million people. The low-end is between 3-4, the high end is 5-6. Different people have different estimates. Most seem to gravitate to 5 million.
3. This type of rhetoric is commonly used by /pol/ and its rational to not want that type of environment...
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Would Portugal have become a minor power if the April revolution never happened? They had the situation in Angola and Mozambique sort of under control, the only scenario where they were truly losing was the Guinea.
How would they be faring if they had managed to retain the important colonies?
>inb4 t.
pls
Having your government collapse counts as "truly losing."
>>591084
Did you even read what I asked?
>>591090
Yes. Your question was stupid. What you wanted to ask was "If Portugal had defeated the Mozambican and Angolan revolutionaries..."
was Italy really bad at war or it is just a meme ?
>>590999
Are you dumb? They're always on the winning side.
Italy was bad at war in the late 19th to 20th centuries. Honestly, Italians themselves weren't bad at war per se, they were just in a slump. This is what faggots on the internet don't get, nations, civilizations, individuals all experience slump periods. This happened to be Italy's period to suck dick.
>>591005
He's talking about performance. No matter what, Italians were just too incompotent to make significant strides on their own. It's ironic now that their military today is very powerful.
