How did socialist governments and economies actually work? Like, what where the specifics?
>>9935547>Germany is a socialist country>Just ignore all those private megacorps like BASF, Siemens, Bayer, ThyssenKrupp, Volkswagen, Allianz, etc.Do retards forget that the USA and western Europe were literally allies in the Cold War? The EU's predecessors had CIA backing because the Americans wanted a strong European economic bloc to resist the Warsaw Pact.
>>9937100Germany also gets to be so prosperous from its military being subsidized by the US.
>>9936891>Shouldn't they attempt to only work with other countries who share their socialist valuesThat'd literally be a self imposed blockade, they'd strangle themselves from a lack of trade.Globalization has made it impossible for anyone to be an Autarky these days. Even a "closed economic bloc" like the EU still negotiates big trade deals with other countries, because they need their stuff to make more stuff
>>9937104>This dimwitted take againThe German army, during the Cold War, was actually the biggest in Europe, and the German government kept it well funded because it was literally the first line of defence against the Soviet Union. Not to mention that Germany was already prospering during the Kaiserreich period, when they had the world's most bloated military budget. German economic dominance has more to do with their central location in Europe, good governance, and well educated/skilled working population.
>>9937104Also forgot to add that France is also relatively prosperous, and they fund their own military endeavors and reject American support as a matter of policy. France paid for its own nukes, its own MBTs, its own nuclear aircraft carrier, its own jets, etc. While also being able to fund its big welfare state and having French companies like Renault or Carrefour thrive in the market
What was life like in Sparta?
>>9935820For the average person? Daily beatings and fear of being killed for arbitrary reasons while you preformed back breaking labor for no pay.For citizens? Autistic military worship and your wife has all the money.
>>9935820Triggering to thin-skinned jannies
>>9935875>shortEspecially by anal cancer
>>9935820Spiritually moved to Brazil
>>9936029Even shorter if you got tossed off a cliff right after birth for even the most minor of defects
I’m going to post this every day until you remember it
>>9936984lies
remember what
Too many pussy-ass philosophies are focused on the minimization of pain and suffering at all costs. To be human is to suffer, motherfucker. Learn to live with the pain and carve out a noble existence based of perseverance and overcoming of challenges you fucking pussy faggots.
>>9936497Good things are good, actually. And bad things bad.
>>9936547Then why don't you be a good little faggot and choke on this dick retard. Too much of anything is bad, and too much fucking leisure and lack of challenge or pain is a violation of the god damn human experience pussy
>>9936497So, how many times have you listened to Godsmack today?
>>9936497There is no light without darkness. There is no pleasure without pain.
>>9936497wish libshit sites took this into account.
What were his views on race?
>>9935540>Polish POWs were not sent to death camps, they were treated fairly and properly.source?
>>9935425>Black exteeminate
>>9932765Read Mein Kampf, he viewed everything through the lens of race and wanted to genocide the Slavs to create a German autarky.
>>9932765might as well ask what were jesus's view on godfucking hell this is some low level bait
>>9935540Read Mein Kampf. The entire genesis of his beliefs was wanting a pan German nation state without any slavs
>>9935293Still waiting on the verse where it says to eat rat feces, schizo.
Why are c*tholicux STILL assblasted after half a millennium?
>another religious thread where people don't actually discuss anything beyond calling each other devils Humanities doomed this board to permanent low quality posting
>>9935274If we consider History,There is a long tradition in Europe of the faith inspiring people to believe they could be healed by revering the remains of saints, for example, or that miracles could occur by for example, praying to a saints bones or even their breast milk. Well Im not sure they prayed to breast milk, but Breast milk was considered a Christian relic, this is a fact. My opinion on the whole matter is that it actually speaks on the tendecies of Europeans to worship particular sites or objects, and then suddenly feel like, or believe they are "healed", or a Miracle occurs. Consider pre-Christian worship for example at the Temple of Venus, if Im not mistaken. there was one found in France, and according to the account, the waters healed them, but you know what I mean, it was quite common for people to worship Gods and Goddesses, expecting to be healed, and so it makes sense that tradition continued on in Christianity
>>9936892All correct. Now how does this relate to consuming rat shit, or are you just going to keep ranting like a schizo?
> only 40% had a weapon> 1 rifle for 5 men
>>9937007the other ones got antique matchlock muskets
Who was in the wrong?
Based
>>9935864>There lived a certain man
>>9935864He was Russias greatest love machine
>>9935864>>9937024He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow.
>>9935864the og schizzo poster
>immigrants from North Africa, the Levant, Asia Minor, etc. arrive en masse into Rome starting in the late republican era>Rome becomes one of the greatest civilizations in history>immigrants from Germanic lands flood into Rome later on>Rome collapsesCan a pattern be drawn from this?
>>9936980That urban centers cannot sustain their own populations and depend on constant and massive influxes of foreign laborers that are shunned by the native elites even as they are worked to the bone?
MENA people were considered to be effeminate nerds while Nords were considered to be masculine idiots in antiquity. It’s funny how the stereotypes have completely reversed in modern times.
What makes him so special? The only trait that distinguishes him from his contemporaries is that he seemed to be a nice guy
>>9936888Is this Ali?
>>9936893Yes
>>9936888He was the first caliph who started civil wars and stopped the expansion of the caliphate.>niceArguable
>>9936888Ali? Strong as ten regular men, definitely. He faced the galloping hordes - a hundred bad guys with swords. Who sent those goons to their lords? Why, Ali.
>>9936993>He was the first caliph who started civil warsHe didn't start them. Other people rose up against him because the juvenile excuse of avenging Uthman >stopped the expansion of the caliphateHe was preoccupied by the civil war. Anyway it's not like constant expansion is a good thing. Better to consolidate your gains than to blob the map. The Umayyads dealt with constant rebellion and successful revolts like the Berber revolts and the Abbasid revolution in their short lived dynasty. The Abbasids managed to turn the eastern caliphate into their home base. The Abbasids managed to maintain power far longer than their predecessors. We've gone off topic though the thread is about Ali
When I was younger I used to not take fundies seriously but now I have been listening to them and I'm actually worried about being lukewarm in faith and that I'm constantly sinning. What should I do about this?
>>9936889>now I have been listening to them and I'm actually worried aboutlmao bro they are like flat earthers
>>9936929not believing
>>9936929blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, it includes suicide and betraying true friends
>>9936889>plays kenshii'm afraid you're damned to hell, anon
>>9937015I don't I just found the pic comfy.
I've read somewhere that without France as an ally the Ottomans would've been kicked out of the Balkans much sooner.Does this position have any merit?
bump
>>9935156Yes.France went from the most faithful daughter of the Church to Satan's whore in a matter of few generations.
damn the ottotan empire really was big
Can someone explain to me what I should think about this?In certain spaces, trotsky is some hero who did nothing wrong and was ousted by Stalin with a fake conspiracy and that the world would have been a better place if trotsky gained power, meanwhile other spaces, he was an idiot, who conspired against the soviet state, who deserved it etc.
Why are so many socialist organisations today trotskyists if he was so unpopular/crazy?
>>9936950Because he lost and didn't get the chance to implement is crazy ideas.
>>9936950Because they're pussies and idiots who are afraid of being called "tankies" for defending the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela against American imperialist aggression. So because they're pussies, they side with American imperialism and delude themselves into thinking that after the American Empire grinds all currently existing socialist regimes into dust it can be reformed into a peaceful Trotskyist paradise.
>>9936791Why were Trotskyites so violent among other commie groups?
>>9936950rampant anti-Stalin propaganda in the western world. Trotsky wasn't relevant for long enough to have autists like George Orwell writing CIA-funded screeds against him
>lose war >women betray their men and sleep with victorious side >despite the men sacrificing thier lives to protect wife, child and countryWhy are women like this? Is it a genetic thing found in apes too?
>>9936844This happens even if you win wars. See Bongoids and Aussies being cucked by Americans stationed there while they themselves were out fighting.
(Wo)man's gotta eat Mr.Lahey
>>9936844Because women have no sense of loyalty
>>9936844>Why are women like this?should be a pretty easy thing to logic out, a more interesting question would be why wouldn't they.
>>9936886You don’t need to go that back. Jodies are still a thing.
