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How come the USSR banned marital rape so early, in 1922, 70 years before most of Europe did it? I thought Russia were socially primitive and far behind the West?
>>16407749Then why do you think most couples divorce? Do you think most people just rush to divorce without trying to work things out? It's not a decision most people make lightly.
>>16407757Most couples divorce because they rushed to divorce or because they made a very poor attempt at working things out or because one of them did something unforgivable, like cheating which people often do because their spouse didn't want to have sex often enough.
>>16407775What about the fundamental issue that men tend to have stronger libidos on average?
>>16407776And that's exactly why women should please their men.
>>16407779But having sex that you don't want to have can in many cases be traumatizing. It isn't necessarily in every single case, but often enough that it's a concern.
You ARE interested in history that isn't just Rome or WW2 right anon?
>>16407402Liu Bang is one of my favorite historical figures:>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlVXwef66bA&t=4sI dont know if he is considered "obscure", but he is not that much talked about, so i feel it counts.
>>16407402I like World War One more than World War Two, so The Great War kicks ass
>>16407402Voices of the Past is really cool if you're into individual memoirs instead of broader analysis styles of history, which I am, so I love it
>>16407402I found this YouTube channel of a boomer who covers early New Zealand history like the New Zealand Wars which is a seriously underrated topic desu.I think he's also trying to learn Blender because he's been introducing some (really shitty but also really charming) 3d models into his recent videos.https://www.youtube.com/@kiwicodger/videos
Has multiculturalism actually ever worked?
>>16407491> (who were nearly genetically identical to the romans in most cases),Yes, you fucking are! Sure, the ROmans considered the Sabines different people. Their contemporieis outside the Roman political unit considered all these other Italics different people, but ANON here, who is too fucking stupid to understand how the Roman Republic actually worked and what sort of revenue raising setup it had, well, he thinks they're the same, so he's obviously right and all the people who were actually there were wrong!>rome was in fact a multicultural civilization. am i getting that right?Rome was in fact a multicultural civilization because they said they were, often people complaining about how many new people were coming in, and because their contemporaries noticed how weird the Romans were accepting in all these foriegners and granting them citizenship, a concept completely alien to say, the Greek world or Carthage. And that your decision to lump them all together as the same is precisely because centuries of Roman multiculturalism and their blending homogenized Italy, creating "Italians' that you're familiar with.
>>16407715>AmericansWho is that? The term is basically banned now.Young """Americans""" who are the only important people in this conversation fall into three basic groups: You have the third worldists who are everything from Somalis to Jihadis to Han supremacists, then you have "ultra-right wing" young White Americans who are the old patriot families that still care about the country, but don't have any representation in government, finally you have the the Hispanics essentially have not decided yet who they are going to support yet. What is clear is that non of these people will be able to live together.The only group who is not important to this conversation concerning the inheritance of the economic zone formerly known as the nation of America is DNC voting leftists who forgot to have any kids at all to inherit anything and therefore rely on importing all these Jew and White hating ultra conservative fundamentalists from the third world.
>>16407736>Who is that? People born in America>The term is basically banned now.Incorrect >everything elseWrong as usual
>>16407741>People born in AmericaExactly, not Americans.>[Other stuff that's more obvious cope]Cope.
>>16407712>Something not done among the sociinice retcon. do you keep a straight face while you contradict your own posts or are you just incapable of remembering what you posted 12 hours ago?>There is absolutely zero evidence of Rome ever laying a tax upon the Italic communities they conqueredbut theres ample evidence of them doing so on every single other province they conquered, both during the republic and the empire.again, nice retcon retard.>I am not so idiotically ignorant that I think the late imperial period, when foederati were a thingthe foederati saw widespread use during the conquest of hispania, during the late republic. again, youre too stupid to even acknowledge your ignorance.>From Day 1name me 5 provinces that you consider multicultural, that were populated by various significant minority groups. youre just applying the term to the entirety of the empire because you think the fact it ruled over different cultures automatically made it multicultural, when thats not the correct use of the term.by your logic the the kingdom of england was multicultural in the xvi century, when evidently thats not the case nor the correct use of the term. youre reverse engineering an argument because youre in love with your conclusion to the question, even if said conclusion is pants-on-head retarded by all accounts.>Sure, the ROmans considered the Sabines different people.the same way the athenians were different from the spartans. all still identified with a broader greek/italian "linked identity" when an outside threat presented.almost as if they realized that they were all GENETICALLY IDENTICAL TO EACH OTHER. but i bet youre of the idea that the classical peoples were all too stupid to understand lineages and races. im sure its just a coincidence that all the imperial provinces safe for egypt (the breadbasket) were located in provinces that were genetic cousins of the italians. i bet thats just another coincidence.
They speak a latin language, draw a large part of their culture and habits from Rome, drink wine and more often than not are brown or dark haired except in some regionsEven the muh celts cope doesnt work because La Tene Celt where celtic gauls stemmed from clustered with southern french, north Italians and IberiansThe truth is that Gaul has always been part of the mediterranean world in fact even before the roman conquest.French who seethe on southern europeans at this point are no better than Mexican who do so except that at least the latter have the excuse of not looking entirely similar to the people that give them their culture and language
>>16407656>>16407639shut up you fucking retardgo back to twitter with your meaningless art spam
>>16407666>There were even blond ancient meds who still resembled their dark counterparts.That's because Sicilians like every other continental southern European is admixed with Northern Euro DNA. Sardinians are what pure meds look like
>>16407681Sardinian blonds exist
>>16407681There were blond anatolian farmers.
>>16407708They are not pure Med either but they are close so it is rare amongst them to be blonde. >>16407752>There were blond anatolian farmers.Southern Europeans do not descend primarily from GAC
SatanistHow do you cope with being destined to fail? Is it some sort of humiliation ritual?
>>16407695>Satan will be defeatedSatan is defined as the accuser.It is a word that means accusation.Accusation is needed in a state of utter shit, where everything is fucked up. Accusation and rebellion are needed in a place of pain and suffering. In that place, you are justified in accusing and rebelling.In a place of utopia, there is no need for rebellion.Rebellion is destined to go away (fall), because we will be victorious, and in a place of victory, there is no need for rebellion.
>>16407711>more Christcope These are all just opinions based on your Christian biases and don't support anything except your own rhetoric.
>fetish aislopThe absolute state of Christian art.
>>16407559you know that satanists don't believe in a literal satan, seeing it as a symbol and an archetype, nor they believe in the jewish and christian god or mythologies, right ?
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How did online porn even become normalized, psychologically speaking? You search for a chick you want to fuck, watch her getting railed by another guy and jerk off to it. Isn't that weird?
>>16407729I read most of my porn because I like a story
>>16407721>HANDS of DEATH>Blood Fingers!
>>16407753still pretty much the same thing. guys who go to these places scream pathetic desperation
>>16407704Such is human nature, alas. Our species is easily tempted.
>>16407704Used to be you could put "lolitas" into Google and you'd get dozens of naked blonde girl pics. If only I could have hit puberty three or four years earlier...
The victor returns home in triumph!From a homeless man on the streets of Vienna to now the near invincible supreme warlord and the sole ruler of the entire Europe, a country in front of which he fought in the trenches for four long grueling years in WW1 only to lose, and now he and his armies went there and stunned the world in defeating that very country in a matter of a mere six weeks (May-June 1940). He now returns home to his soil, a man in sheer triumph, a nation in ecstasy.
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>>16406072Nigga was the reincarnation of Heraclius.
>>16407475Mercedes-Benz 770 Series I - W07 (1930–1938)The 770 was introduced in 1930 as the successor to the Mercedes-Benz Typ 630, with the internal code W07. These high-priced cars were mainly used by governments as state vehicles. Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, Emperor Hirohito and Pope Pius XI were among the customers, and Adolf Hitler used a 770 from 1931 onwards. 117 W07-series cars were built until 1938. The W07 version of the 770 was powered by an inline eight-cylinder engine of 7,665 cc (467.7 cu in) capacity with an overhead camshaft and aluminium pistons. This engine produced 150 bhp (112 kW) at 2800 rpm without supercharging. An optional Roots type supercharger, which was engaged at full throttle, would raise the output to 200 bhp (149 kW) at 2800 rpm, which could propel the car to 160 km/h (99 mph). The transmission had four forward ratios, of which third was direct and fourth was an overdrive. The W07 had a contemporary boxed chassis suspended by semi-elliptic leaf springs onto beam axles front and rear. Dimensions would vary with coachwork, but the chassis had a wheelbase of 3,750 mm (147.6 in) and a front track equal to the rear track of 1,500 mm (59.1 in).The Mercedes-Benz 770 was known as the Großer Mercedes (German for "Great Mercedes" or "Grand Mercedes").
>>16406072There was once a dream...
Here's what I've come to realise:>Europe is addicted to nostalgia because they have no future. They celebrate their rich history, culture and traditions but modern Europe is bleak, soulless and lacks character. Europeans are obsessed with their former Imperial history because never again will a European country be an empire or a world power. Europeans are terrified of the future because they have nothing but gradual decline and irrelevance ahead of them. Meanwhile>Settler-colonial countries like Australia, the US and Canada are future facing. Our nations were created in great periods of upheaval and change and we embraced it. Our countries are innovative, successful and bright because we look to instigate change. We have a great future ahead of ourselves and we embrace it wholeheartedly. We reject archaic traditions because they do nothing but drag us down. European countries took millennia to get where they were, it's taken Australia, the US and Canada ~300 years to completely overtake them in every aspect while shaking off the yoke of feeling like we owe Europe or the people of the past anything.In contrast to Europe, settler colonial countries have always been at the forefront of world politics and change. Our countries have defined the modern world while Europe was collapsing into dictatorships, war and tyranny. Europe is continuing to sink into irrelevance while the US is arguably more powerful than ever.It feels good to not have the European stain, to not be shackled by archaic and worthless languages, cultures and traditions, and to be from a country where the future is bright.
>>16407288>Europeans are obsessed with their pastAmericans, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders are more obsessed with European culture and history than any European is, Europeans hate their culture and history.
>>16407288See >>16407377This is a sign that the entire post-colonial sphere is in decline; I don't know how, but the next culture wave will come from countries with an actual progressive (not faggot, but accelerationist) outlook, i.e china and post-soviet states
>>16407705>an actual progressive (not faggot, but accelerationist) outlook, i.e china and post-soviet states>post-soviet states>an actual progressive
>>16407746>industrial and technological advancementsDont make me meme arrow you chud>gay tranny pozzed faggotNow THAT'S progress
>>16407288>my Honours thesisyou need to make it more hateful and racist against white people while including a focus on the benefits of homosexuality and mass immigration. What you came up with so far is still holding back and if you really want to make sure to get top marks then also tie into it the oppression of Jews for their excellent contributions to society.
How were they able to brand themselves as anti-imperialist while directly imperializing Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia, etc, and indirectly imperializing other places through proxy wars and such?
>>16406275Yes but you could say the same about most countries... they weren't created in a whim with their current territorial configuration.The point is, as long as it is territorially contiguous it's deemed as ok, wheras if there isn't such (overseas lands) then that's colonialism.
>>16407320That's an incredibly pedantic and pointless distinction for what is effectively the same act of subjugating other people and taking their shit, which is older than human history
>>16406247The definition you just made up for (You)s?
>>16400316>brand themselves as anti-imperialistThat was all bullshit anonNo one in Soviet controlled Europe believed tharNo one in the West believed tharOnly third world South American, Africans and other assorted brown people who were too far removed from the reality in Eastern Europe or too retarded actually bought that nonsenseThe Russian is not European but Asiatic and thus it's in his nature to deceive, rape, plunder and enslave
>>16401623Yes anon they look downright extravagant in the top pics.
Can Nietzsche's thought be interpreted as the last stand of European aristocracy before the arrival of socialist movements and mass democracy?
>>16405753he wasn't an aristocrat
>>16405753Nietzche was mentally ill and was seeing something no one else was. Aristocracy in the classical sense meant nothing to him.
Anybody who takes Evola or Nietzche seriously is permanently braindead by atheism...nietzche was a nihilist atheist so he tried to turn ''nihilism'' into ''optimistic nihilism'' by doing 2 things-first by being a deceitful bitch, like any atheist, by redefining nihilism to mean ''christianity''nihilism according to women, atheists and NPCs like nietzche mean ''thinking long term''. So according to them, when christians think what will happen after death and focus on that, that's ''nihilism''. According to atheists, ''non-nihilism'' is ''living in the present moment like Dionysus''-second, by saying that since there is no truth and only subjective values, people should fight for their personal values. So for instance, trannies, BLM, feminists are the ubermen according to nietzche because--they fight for their own values--they are subversive of the ''old values'', ie the values of the british judean dutch french bourgeois merchant rats who started liberalism 300 years ago, in order to kill kings and priests and make the bureaucrats and merchants the ruling caste in their ''nationalist democratic republics''there that's all there is nietzche . Optimistic nihilism is retarded and a huge cope by atheists to justify hedonism lol. But bitches like nietzche dont call hedonism ''hedonism'', they call it 'vitalism''.nietzche is an hedonism, like any atheist, but atheists are desperate to earn atheist karma points, after saying objective morality and truth doesnt exist lol, and they embark on a self-made self-aggrandizing narratives wherein they are cooming like Dionysus and at the same time ''fighting for values''.The other cope by atheists is ''traditionalism'', ie ''everyday I want a bureaucratic daddy to tell me what do to in his fascist republic while I am pretending to be wicca witch doing magic in my sparetime like Evola''
>>16407601No one cares about your dumb uninformed opinions, go worship yisos while masturbating to your own piety, Faggot.
>>16407601>Incoherent life-hating copeWhy can't Christians admit that they hate life and being human? Nietzsche opposed Hedonism, he supported the middle ground, enjoying life's pleasures while at the same time having enough discipline to not be ruled by base impulses.
Historically speaking who was the most prominent black woman?
eve
Adolf Hitler proposed peace to England 16 times and he was rejected each time. In hindsight, should he have formed a coalition with the Soviet Union against England and Americans when he had the chance during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
>>16407301But where are the bomes? Also, this is pretty funny. Investigation of 5437 murders, but then they talk about 58,000 murdered and mutilated? Where this number even came from? Cool references. Not even a Nazi report, just 'Third German Official Statement', lol.
>>16407454Nope, Germans bombed countless Polish civilians and murdered even more in the first month of the war. It's really rich crying about the Allies bombing few hundred thousand of German civilians and basically ignoring millions of civilians and non-combatants murdered by the Nazi regime.
>>16407366>if you don't believe me, you're a jew!It's all so tiresome.
>>16407465> Germans bombed countless Polish civilians and murdered even more in the first month of the war.So did the Soviet Union. Where was Britain to their aid?
>>16406518The British had been in India for centuries, Germany was killing its neighbors right then. It would be a pretty a weak excuse to declare on the Brits for that
In literally two weeks I will be retired. I wasted my life pursuing science and technical subjects and now I find myself in a world in which other subjects are a mystery to me.Long story short: seeking recommendations for short works on european history and western civilization, preferably from a based / non-shitlib perspective. Even a long article with some time lines and infographics would be a good start.Any suggestions?
>>16406204History of Rome and History of England podcast, download them on your phone and listen while you drive or go for walks down to the shuffleboard.
>>16406204Too late mr. bus driver, you'll never catch up by conventional means. Eat some magic mushrooms and you'll be ready to see the world our way. Then every book will tell the truth. Probably best to start with the bible though.
Why did God create darkness before He created light?
>>16407624Death does not need a religion, or a god. If you seek death, it's easy to find. Religions and gods are for the living, who seek life.
>>16407608>created light, and formed darknessFormed light and created darkness
>>16407646You seem to lack understanding. Take for instance thought, what is a thought anon? Let me help you with the question: picture in your mind the most tangible of energy balls, put your hands in front of you, and as if by frolic, see the ball bouncing from hand to hand. Initially, you will feel nothing, but with practice, you Will feel the gentle bouncing. This, some call energy work, but it's just a thought you're touching. So, ex-nihilo, you made something, a thought, and you can eventually touch it, dispassionately, consider if these thoughts of yours are private now.So, God created by demanding, you create by just thinking, is the human not superior? You're just not trained, but this is, hopefully, the beginning of Magic.
>>16407692What you're describing is a lesser divinity. The book of psalms is a great book of magic that will help you become much more powerful. The cosmos is real, and it's all around you, and there are greater divinties that are evoking and invoking all around you. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of these greater divination, because they can overpower you if you are too self indulgent. God creates the same way you do, because we are gods (psalm 82). Our combined power is YHWH. This "LORD" represents our shared power, like a choir of wizards all working together. If you want to learn more about shared magic, read the book of psalms. It's a book of magic.
>>16406439>Average Christcucks understanding of "nothing"