It's the Joooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz innit! Bad Joooozzzzzzz, always controlling the media to cover up their nefarious Jooooooishness.
In a timespan including things like 9/11, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, etc. based simply on how news journalism works, even if journalists were perfectly...
The HRE was very different.
The BE was just the Roman Empire, centred in the capital established by the Roman Emperor Constantine, comprising many core parts of the Roman Empire. No one living at that time would have seen it as anything other than the Roman Empire.
This is what it looked like...
The Roman Empire lasted until the 15th c, and the Eastern bit was, if anything, more Christian. This kind of ruins the theory completely.
The theory was created by Gibbon who hated Christianity and had a Eurocentric bias typical of the age. A lot of terrible historiography (particularly...
When you have the world’s most powerful military the main threat is yourself.
When you have no military the main threat is anyone with a powerful military.
Advantages basically relate to the idea the hegemon can’t throw their weight around.
Disadvantages are that in a multipolar system it becomes easier for others to throw their weight around destabilising the system.
The hegemony tends not to benevolent and certainly takes advantage of its...
No doubt some Germanic tribes might be willing to secure the frontiers in exchange for 2000 swords and shields and a couple of chests of gold.
It’s great value and I can’t imagine that it could lead to any problems down the line…
Try explaining, with direct quotes, anything that would support your claims.
Just repeating baseless ad hominem is your MO though as you obviously can’t rationally defend what you say.
Put up, or shut up as your schtick is getting very boring.
I’d get more sense out of conversing with a...
My previous assessment that you struggle mightily with basic comprehension and that this is compounded by your hallucinations and irrational biases resulting in the quite remarkable ability to get every single post you reply to wrong still stands.
How can you manage to be so wrong so often...
Because having 50 states organising their own defences with differing degrees of commitment, free riding, duplication etc. makes little sense.
Doubly so when you add in for profit companies aiming to make a quick buck.
Unless you have people working for 50c an hour, it costs more money for...
Seems far less accountable, efficient and effective than just paying for a traditional military focused purely on defence.
It's cheaper to buy many things from overseas and true self-sufficiency requires a lot of redundancy and excess capacity in the system.
From other countries with militaries and powerful weapons.
Not quite what I meant. Ok, you can't rely on the benevolence of other countries respecting your sovereignty and desire to live peacefully to keep you safe.
A citizen militia is not much match for a modern advanced military force...
It needs a military to protect itself. You can't rely on the benevolence of others to keep you safe.
Whether it needs such a large military depends on your view of international relations and geo-politics.
I imagine, over the next decade or so, you will get to see the consequences of the...
The jihadi ideology is what motivated the violence.
The “more belief in the existence of a god” didn’t make them kill anyone.
It was the idea that god exists and this god thinks killing infidels is virtuous therefore…
Similar to “no gods exist and god beliefs are false and harmful therefore…”...
You are comparing apples to oranges.
Atheism is not an ideology, but all atheists have an ideology.
Being irreligious just means you have an irreligious ideology instead of a religious one.
There is no intrinsic benefit to this, it entirely depends on the ideology you adopt.
Plenty of...
God doesn’t exist.
People believing in god causes immeasurable social harm.
Therefore eradicating god beliefs by any means necessary is morally desirable.
That is a perfectly logical pathway. 99.99% of atheists don’t follow that path, but 99.99% of theists don’t become jihadis.
Beliefs don’t...
The Soviets pretty much did.
If you have a state ideology that demands you eradicate religion and replace it with “scientific materialism”, you create a League of Militant Atheists and you also Implement Atheist 5 Year Plans, you kind of are killing people in the name of atheism.
I’ve no idea...
People did sometimes fight in single combat before battles, for example knights in medieval Europe during the age of chivalry. Even though it is somewhat mythologised, it does appear to have actually been something that happened.
It was a way for warriors to show off their bravery and skill...
What people often miss is that Pascal also thought that you would benefit even if you are wrong as you would gain from living a humble and moral life according to Christian values. For him, it was a no lose gamble. Many will disagree with him on this of course, but when looking at his argument...