imagine you've just inherited this chunk of land, full of disparate people and cultures.
how is it best ruled and what should the government try to accomplish for its people?
what policies make for a successful nation?
>>390512
Immediately force an ultimatum upon Turkestan: be my cavalry or die.
Convert Buddhists and folk peoples in the south to Orthodox Christianity (that of Ukraine). Support Shia and Sufi Islam in favor of Sunni. Afterwards, make it clear that we Christians and Muslims descend from the same God. Fighting over it is useless.
Finally, unite the area based upon its steppe nomad history. Tell them they must relive the glory of their Scythian common ancestors. Basically, create a neo-Scythian nation-state.
Genocide all ethnic and religious minorities within my borders and declare war on all my neighbors.
Can you explain to a non-American how the Republican party went from having a slave-abolitionist platform to being liked mostly by Southern rednecks with overtly racist ideologies?
It's funny to see how the Red and Blue states pretty much switched places in as little as 100 years.
>>390426
yes the party that believes everyone should have equal access of opportunities is more racist than the party that believes minorities cant do anything without the white man giving them a hand out.
>>390426
Basically during the 60's you had the Civil Rights movement kicking off. At that time, the Democratic and Republican parties weren't quite as solidly "liberal" and "conservative" as they are today: they both contained a mix. However, with FDR and subsequently LBJ rising to the presidency, the Democrats set a new agenda for championing the civil rights movement. This alienated many conservative Southern Democrats (Dixicrats) who proceeded to switch en masse to the Republicans. Subsequently, the liberals of the Republican party realized they had effectively no representation left in that party and likewise jumped ship. There would be some back and forth movement of policy and politicians until the Reagan era, where the Republicans took up the neoconservative stances they do today, and party lines have effectively remained at a status quo since then.
In terms of policy as well, at least for the Democrats, you had the slow absorption of the New Left into the party's coalition, which further exacerbated the movement towards pushing social reforms.
>>390426
there's plenty of minority republicans though
how is the norman invasion of England relevant? Did it do anything major other than change the English dynasty?
>>390286
>the changing of a dynasty in the Feudal era was irrelevant
>>390291
i know its relevant, but what specifically changed, in terms of public policy for example
>>390311
Technologies, arts, and language from mainland Europe began to flood into Britain, since it was relatively isolated before then. It also set up French history through the High/Late Middle Ages, as well as England, because it allowed there to basically be two French dynasties, and two French kingdoms to challenge each other.
Or is everything determined?
Descartes, Spinoza, or Leibniz?
Can Existentialism still exist in a Deterministic universe?
Did I choose to post this?
Define "free will".
It's an illusion whether or not "everything" is determined. There's two possible states, causality, or true randomness. Neither constitutes for the "free will" we imagine. We can't even properly define free will, we just throw the term around like it means anything.
>Can Existentialism still exist in a Deterministic universe?
Albert Camus and Nietzsche didn't believe in free will. Only that idiot charlatan Sartre did. So yes, it obviously can.
How did the Muslims conquer so much territory so quickly?
>>390234
Through the power of Islam and determimation.
Christkeks are:
>Muh holy land
by being very peaceful and likeable
>>390234
>putting a historical nation over modern borders
This always triggers me so much
What is Sufi Islam?
>>390107
The definition for plebs is "muslim monks". A bit less pleb one is "muslim mystics".
It's not a branch like for example the sunnis, the shiites or the ibadis.
>>390122
What do they do?
Sufis are based as fuck, and I hate muslims
Other than George W. Bush, was there a more a failed president besides Richard "Wiretap my shit up" Nixon?
>>390006
Try Andrew Johnson, Hoover, Harding, Buchanan, and Grant.
>>390187
And Pierce... but yeah, this.
FDR
Why suicide isn't accepted in western society?
God ses no
Because it causes others grief.
>>389866
Because it's your mother's job to kill you. Assbortion for the win!
All I've seen on /his/ is arguments over what race Ethiopians are, or cool stuff about their previous empires, but no one ever mentions that it's literally the birthplace of humanity.
Why is that? Pic related, oldest Homo sapiens skull found in history.
Because people really don't care about us unless it suits their political agenda.
>>389856
It's because most people are not very interested in pre-historic history. As the name implies, it's not even really history. Humans weren't all that interesting until we started writing symphonies and building cathedrals. It doesn't really matter too much where we came from, except from a biological anthropological perspective.
>>389856
why would it deserve praise for that
Majabahit, Khmer Empire, Cham Empire, all vanished the 1500's. What happened?
>>389825
>Majapahit
Moluccas showed up and started a pirate empire of Sorts
>Khmers
Double teamed by Thailand and Vietnam.
>Cham
Ded by 1400's. Due to Vietnamese State doing unto others what China did to them.
By 1500's, the new kids on the block was Burma (well, not really that new), Thailand, Vietnam, Moluccas, and the Bruneian Empire.
>>389825
>islam
jews
Waffen SS: most dedicated soldiers you'll ever meet, or twisted fucking psychopaths?
these same threads every day
don't you get bored? i do
Exaggerating braggart paramilitaries. Not nearly as effective as they claimed they were.
>>389808
Not everyone browses 4chan 24/7 like you
Redpill me on Solzhenitsyn.
I am two thirds through The Gulag Archipelago.
What's true? What's exaggerated?
He is a terrible writer but everything he said is true.
Communism killed more people than capitalism and had overall worse results.
What can be said about the Olmec culture? Also no WE WUZ KONGZ, it derails threads and makes them go to shit.
Op you delusional fool. What do you think this is?
>>389649
no, all topics outside of European history get shitposted into oblivion
the bogeyman is real
>>389649
They were the forerunners for subsequent mesoamerican civilisations
Tell me about haile selassie.
What does he have to do with rastafarianism?
also what is rastafarainism besides dude weed lmao
>>389628
literally jeusus incarnate
>>389628
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01MMgG7bYBE
Dude it's like a serious way of life man, like you don't even know but if you just toke up you'll begin to see bro, shits crazy man but I swear I blaze every day and like you don't even know bro
I'm interested in evolutionary psychology and I want to study it and learn it to the fullest extent that I can.
Where should I start? Where should I go from there?
>>389561
Do you have a decent understanding of psychology to begin with? Do you know psychology's history as a field? I think that is the best place to start then move on studying research and theory you can apply.
Start with evolutionary game theory, where definite conclusions are at least possible, before entering the realms of pure guesswork.
>>389561
You can probably get into the field through either psychology, biology or ethology. I know there are doctorates in it, and there are probably masters' degrees (Bologna).
