what are some well functioning dictatorships of the 20th century and after?
>>512360
If it fell or was oustered, its not well functioning.
Francisco Franco's falange dictatorship was reasonably successful.
Spain was ruled by fascists for almost 70 years and all nobody cared much to interviene.
>>512378
>falanga = fascism
Triggered t b h
Was he really that bad? What about all the good things he did?
I don't know, perhaps because he killed more than ten million people and left central asia a smouldering ash heap?
ok you got me to reply. Name ONE good thing Timur the Lame did.
>>508746
Genghis killed 30+ million people, and /his/ loves him.
Timur was one of the greatest military leaders ever, right in the same league with Alexander, yet you never hear from him.
Could the western powers have fended off a Soviet invasion in 1945?
Nope
>>508470
Sure, drop a plutonium bomb on Leningrad and watch how quick Stalin changes his tune
Not by using traditional military forces, no. Even in '45, the States had too few nuclear bombs to just eliminate the Soviet war machine through bombings alone.
All of them except Carthage.
Fuck gay-ass Carthage.
>>505268
Modern Western Civilization is the GOAT civilization and you know it.
Which "The Great" was most worthy of the title?
Which one was least deserving?
Cyrus. He accomplished so much
>Least deserving
Antiochius.
>Most deserving
Napoleon.
Post your favorite philosopher and critisize him briefly.
>infinitely biased
>intolerant
>often tries to legitmize his own way of life
Not really a serious criticism because all of those characteristics apply to any philosopher.
>British
>Scottish
>Kinda fat
>thought the Binding of Isaac was about Abraham's faith, when it was about Isaac's
>Quaker
Why didn't Luther consider Orthodoxy? Why didn't the Reformation in general not consider it? Was Fasting really too much to ask?
>>509077
IIRC, it was considered at one point early on, but rejected for some reason.
>>509086
Why? I know Protestants hate fasting, but that doesn't seem like the substance of their faith.
>>509086
The protestants contacted the Orthodox Church in order to determine whether they might merge together, but the Orthodox felt the need to "correct" the protestants on some of their theology, which the protestants didn't take too kindly to.
Why weren't Dresden/Hamburg bombings considered as war crimes?
You already know the answer
>>507194
Because Germany lost.
>le france has le white flag and always loses wars XD
>in actuality, france kicks ass and has been kicking ass since years fucking 800
how do we stop this meme
>>506276
Losing, not once, not twice, but thrice against heavily outnumbered peasants with longbows and getting overran by Germany twice are just too embarrassing for people to forget.
>>506280
they won the 100 years war
>germany
getting stomped by the most ridiculously powerful country isnt that embarrassing
>>506291
>getting stomped by the most ridiculously powerful country isnt that embarrassing
So powerfull they lost all world wars. But I guess that's pretty impressive by French standards.
>go to youtube
>search "History project"
>post results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2mwKXksNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5NwkBGk8iU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PySxbvotzH8
>lawnmower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVG3BuO6Qnk
Why do they always try to be funny
>>509753
Cringe
How frequent are germanic threads on this board? Are they completely butthurt and shitposting-infested?
Fairly and yes.
/pol/ has been so fucking annoying during their existence they've created a large animosity for whatever they preach about, leading to a large amount of people shitting on /pol/tards just in reaction to how annoying they are
Why is it that throughout history no matter how great an evil was whether they were the Huns, Napoleon, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union etc there are always good people that stand up against evil and no matter how few there are the good people almost always succeed?
Is it human nature to rise up to a challenge and fight evil or is it just survival instinct?
no john
you are the demons
Franco? Genghis Khan? Mao? Andrew Jackson?
>>506847
These are just examples I know there are many more such as those you listed so can you answer my question anon?
There's been lots of debate over this topic, and I've yet to find satisfying answers.
What, really, were the top Nazi official's views on religion?
Was there really an effort to resurrect some sort of neo-pagan religion in Germany? I know Himmler implemented a lot of pseudo-pagan and occult aesthetics in the SS but was it all aesthetic, or was he really attempting to bring back pagan beliefs?
>>506463
As long as you weren't an jew or atheist you where OK. You would preferable been a Christian.
>>506463
>Was there really an effort to resurrect some sort of neo-pagan religion in Germany?
No. Hitler considered the neopaganists to be cranks, and said as much. There were a few members of the elite that were into it, but it was basically religious hipsterism and wasn't going anywhere, not the least because most Germans considered themselves to be at least nominally Christian. Being ambivalent about your Christianity is one thing, but going from that to "hail Wotan" would have been entirely beyond the pale.
>>506564
>Hitler considered the neopaganists to be cranks, and said as much.
That's because he was a megalomaniacal psychopath who wanted everyone to worship him.
>watch 300
>pretty good movie I thought
>it actually happened
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
What the fuck
This is bait.
Anyway, Frank Miller probably invented less horseshit than Herodotos about that battle.
good threab! :o)
>>505883
>reading the wiki article
>then reaching the conclusion that 300 the movie is an accurate depiction of the battle
Yeah, there's no way in hell this isn't a bait thread.
Why is Christianity in America so shit tier?
I live in a secular family, but /pol/ convinced me to go attend church, so I went to church for the first time, a Lutheran Church
The building was nice ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Lutheran_Church_(Portland,_Oregon ), and it was traditional and cultural, with people talking about Nordic heritage after the service was over, it was epic
I checked out if church was like this all along, and a good portion of Americans are Baptists and Evangelicals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptists_in_the_United_States
Why can't they all be Lutheran and Catholic? To me, those are the more traditional ones with culture
Am I right?
I'd like to think this is le ruse, but I have a feeling it isn't.
> /pol/ convinced me
well there's your problem
>/pol/ convinced me to go attend church
>people talking about Nordic heritage after the service was over
>epic
This is too much.
