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>dude USA totally won that war lmao
>>1648845Objective was to keep vietnam from getting conquered by commiesVietnam was conquered by commies>but we killed more of them than they killed of usHow do amerifats clothe themselves daily
>>1648960Ok lets disregard the countless massacres and Napalm bombs.Please remind me what was Agent Orange again?
>America won WW2>America won the Vietnam War>America won the Space Race
>>1648817I don't think anyone thinks that. They definitely teach us the opposite in school.
>>1649053>America won WW2This is true depending on what you mean by won.If by won you mean that they were the sole or main combatant then that's debatable, but if you mean they were on the winning side then that's objectively true.>America won the Space RaceHow is this not true?
This monumental event in true crime history took place a little over 25 years ago. Can we talk about Jeffrey Dahmer and how he changed the way we view evil?
Bump
He introduced the idea of there are ticking time bomb, everyday people in our midst. No one suspected anything. Everyone thought he was just a loner guy. This and Columbine were monumental in shaping this paradigm.
Extreme paraphilia with personality disorder. Is this the formula for evil?
>>1648172Not Ted Bundy? Everyone thought Dahmer was a weirdo, and he was even kicked out of the army for it. Bundy was seen as a great guy with a bright successful future in front of him; he worked at a suicide hotline, went to law school, and was consider to be a potential future governor.
>fight each other for a thousand years>become strong allies in 1914What happened?
>>1649034>WilhelmI feel sorry for the guy in an odd way>Wilhelm had seen the interview as an opportunity to promote his views and ideas on Anglo-German friendship, but due to his emotional outbursts during the course of the interview, he ended up further alienating not only the British, but also the French, Russians, and Japanese.>The Daily Telegraph crisis deeply wounded Wilhelm's previously unimpaired self-confidence, and he soon suffered a severe bout of depression from which he never fully recovered.
>pic relatedI cringed
>>1649007They built up a degree of mutual respect that blossomed into firm friendship in the crucibles of ww1 and ww2. Quite a rare outcome for such a fierce rivalry, imo.
>>1649056>I told the Kaiser to violate Belgium's neutrality and start a world war to fight France and he actually did it>the absolute madman!
>>1649056To be fair, both those blocs formed to oppose Germany, he really didn't have the option of joining one of them.
How would the society and religions react to an actual alien contact?
>>1648999I mean, humans will be incapable of spacefaring until such time as the Mohammedans are dealt with.
>>1647149>4chan would certainly call them spaceniggers that's for sure
>>1648903http://g.e-hentai.org/g/754978/43161c7a0f/Not sfw obviously
>>1647127>societyThere will be idiots that worship them, like gods, and expect them to solve all their problems. There will also be idiots that view them as a threat, rightly so, as they will change human culture the same way advanced societies change primitive cultures here already. There will also be idiots that STILL won't believe in them and view them as little more than a hoax perpetuated by governments/illuminati/Jews/whitey to take advantage of people.>religionSome will view them as "demons", just like morons do already. Some will try to introduce them to their savior Jesus, or their prophet Muhammad, and try to convert them.
>>1648965This. Pope Benedich XVI said that since Jesus died for "Our sins" that the aliens would be included, since the "Our" means children of God and not techinically humans. He offered to give bapthism and such if they choose to join.
What would Jesus think of what European Christians did to Native Americans?
>>1645082Is this question aimed at the /pol/babbies on this board? If so, I'll say it for them:>White European Christians are good boys who dindu nuffin any account of them being violent is just Marxist revisionist propaganda and Jewish lies waaah waaah
>>1647834They got scalping from the French
>>1645132This argument literally never made sense to me>the Indians waged war, therefore us invading their homeland and killing off a shitload of them is okay!Nah nigga, neither action is okay, one just happens to be worse than the other you fucking dipshit.
>>1645266kek
>>1645082It was mostly through disease but I'll bite.He would've thought it deplorable.
What university are you at /his/?What course - Humanities or other?Any fellow /oxbridge/ bros here?
Tax lawAll I wanted was to study historyfeels yang wenli man
>>1631631How's the job market for archeologists in Scandinavia?
>>1640215Is it hard to get in?
>>1648829I'm in the same dilemma although I haven't applied yet. I really wanna study history but there's barely any money in that field. What's the chances of getting a job with a marketing degree?
>>1648640Cheers. What Unis do the civil service favour? Other than oxbridge of course
>number of famines in the Russian empire between 1800 and 1917: 2 >number of famines in the USSR between 1917 and 1950: 6 How do commies always fuck up this bad?
>>1648894>shortages that always suddenly disappeared after the ending of total collectivization.not collectivising food makes more food suddenly appear?really got my noggin' coggin'
>>1648942No, you don't understand. Collectivization of agriculture CAUSES food shortages. Jamestown in America relied on communal growing of food; add that to the lazy shits out looking for gold all day they didn't get much else done and starvation was common. After each colonist was forced to supply their own food, rates of food shortages dropped dramatically.In Massachusetts, the Pilgrims had communal farms that could never seem to feed their incredibly small population, and they had to rely heavily on the native tribes for help. After the communal farms were dismantled and land worked privately, the threat of famine never reappeared.Famine and starvation were major problems in the USSR until the authorities allowed people to tend to their own small plots of land where they were allowed to grow their own food. These dachas became a major part of their owners' lives because they were so damn necessary. Dachas were islands of private ownership in a sea of collectivist bullshit that kept ordinary people alive.So if you cannot get small groups of people to work hard to produce more for collective goals (as in early America and in localized spots in the USSR like Ukraine), then how the fuck do you expect entire countries to do so? This shit fails every time it is tried, and you flippantly say "oh well?"You're an idiot.
>>1648972No smartass, it removes the problem that caused the shortages in the first place.
>>1649028So the USSR didn't have native Americans that's why they had famines unlike USA?
>>1648828>No. The grain was appropriated and distributed centrally.The famine was for two reasons:1. The state took from peasants too much food.2. The logistic distribution system failed and much of grain simply rotted away.In a sane society the peasants are simply allowed to sell their surplus grain which is then distributed either by merchants of some sort of public enterprise. But communism does not leave place for a sane society.
Is Catholicism a continuation of the Roman Empire?Instead of colonising territory physically, it has morphed to colonise the world in faith and soft power The Pope is Roman EmperorThe Vatican is RomeIs this possible?
>>1647272crete/minoangreece/mycenaeitaly/romanfrance/frankgermany/hreengland/imperial federationthis is SPQR the rest is nigger we're still in 6th epoc of western civilisationthe fuck religion has to do with it
>>1647574The RCC started existing as an organization in 1054But it's beliefs as we know it appeared at the mid 16th century Council of Trent
>>1647272>a continuation of the Roman Empire?No. It's dead mang. Even the stretch-arguments for its survival are gone. Stop trying to find it under every sofa.
No.It was the Eastern Roman Empire that was the continuation of the Roman Empire, and it ceased to exist in 1453. The Catholic Church is in no way 'Roman', save for its location in the city of Rome, and as any historian can tell you, that alone is not enough to classify it as being "Imperial Roman".
>>1647272Yes,the christians built their temple at the Vatican which belonged to Mithra until 376 A.D., when a city prefect suppressed the cult of the rival Savior and seized the shrine in the name of Christ, on the very birthday of that pagan god, December 25.
Whom do Jews think this is:>The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.Clearly not just an "aspect" of God, yet existed from before all things, always with God? *Always* having been?
>>1648920Read the rest of Proverbs 7 and 8 from the start.It's Wisdom, the Wisdom (חָכְמָ֑ה) of God, a she, whom you should call sister (7:4) and that speaks in the first person before what you quoted (8:12).
>>1648980I know, Wisdom is the Word of God in Christianity.Do Jews see her (or "him", when referred to as the Word--Wisdom is just called "she" because it's a feminine noun in Hebrew), as merely an "aspect" of God? If so, this would be a really weird way to talk about her.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10407759/Also, how devoted are you?
So we have 409 fedorians, 172 Catholics, and 104 Christians
>>1649055>Nope, he was Catholic, just like me, sorry nu-male.Check here, you stupid piece of shit:>>1649050He called himself a "Christian atheist". He was a LAPSED Catholic, you goddamn stupid piece of shit.
>>1649049>supposedly don't manifest itself in our world.Supposed by who?
>>1649062>He called himself a "Christian atheist".[citation needed with original text in french]
>>1649058But anon, proddies aren't Christian.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bWHSpmXEJs
/his/ approved movies
>>1647251>>>/pol/Seriously, just fuck off. Your retarded opinion is not appreciated.
I liked this one
>>1645675>Come and Seegreat film desu
>>1647351not realistic trainingnot realistic combat
>>1648391I'm currently writing a paper to explain why this movie is horseshit.It's pretty cool, but historically fucked.
> You will never become king at age 20> You will never lead a band of your friends with an army on an adventure to reach the end of the world> You will never lead your people to an impossible victory at Gaugamela> You will never bring down the greatest empire the world has ever seen> You will never be proclaimed king of the known world> You will never see the heights of the Hindu Kush> You will never lead your army into exotic locations and see things people at home didn't believe existed> You will never be known as one of the greatest strategists/generals of all time> You will never be revered as the greatest and most accomplished men of all time> You will never be idolized and emulated by other Great men in history> You will never be remembered for all time> You will never be Alexander the GreatWhat historical feels do you have?
>I will never row my longboat up the amazonas and plunder and rape every native settlement I come across
>>1647431>H>R>E
>>1647372>You will never see the heights of the Hindukush Man just step in an airplane and fly to Afghanistan. I Heard it's a save place since Nato left.
>>1647372why is feelus fourth declension
>ywn make a last stand against ottomans in constantinople:'(
>tfw you will never be a black man in ancient rome
>>1648538fake and gay
>>1648642read Juvenal
>>1648642Romans didnt talk shit on others because they were blackThey talked shit on anyone that wasn't roman
>>1648367That is a big cock. I'd probably suck it given the opportunity.
>>1648991So? As I said before discrimination on base of ethnicity was considered normal both in and outside the Roman world. Thus clearly OPs mosaic was meant in a degrading sense.
Did communism prove once and for all the elite class can never be gone?
>>1643223Stop this. The OP was clearly meant "communism" as in the ideaology that pursues the communist ideal, not the communist ideal itself. I don't know why I keep taking this bait.
>>1643177Not real communism mein comrade.
>>1643223>>1645090I know this is bait but cmon now.
>>1645667The soviet union wasn't communist and never claimed to be. It was socialist, with communism being it's end goal. Socialism does not pretend to be democratic, that is not it's purpose. Educate yourself.
>>1643177Holy shit, how'd they manage to find someone shorter than that manlet?