WWII was caused by German and Japanese hyper-autism
Mixed-market capitalism has the best overall record for achieving a successful state
Multiculturalism only works if the cultures are brought together gradually over many centuries. If it is forced in one form or another, resentment is inevitable.
The great irony of racist anti-antisemitism is that Jews have probably become smarter through the centuries BECAUSE of persecution (dumb one were less likely to survive and prosper)
Trump will go down as a poor president. Regardless of whether you like him or not, or his positions are valid or not, enough of academia and pop culture have aligned against him that he will be written as poor in any case.
Obama will be remembered relatively positively, regardless or whether you like him or not, for the same reasons.
Ww1 Multiculturalism never "works" jews become smarter..... The rest is okay
Gabriel Watson
>Multiculturalism only works if the cultures are brought together gradually over many centuries. If it is forced in one form or another, resentment is inevitable. >Multiculturalism does not work. >Assimilate or get out. The United States became great because people identified as Americans, not as what ethnic background they came from. Multiculturalism can and had worked in America, but only works effectively and at it's best when people but America and being America foremost before ethnic background and where you came from. It's ok to love your culture but don't nutride it so hard at the expense of being American. Also keeping a sense of your culture and remembering where you can from is important though. You shouldn't want to conform so badly that you actively forget or deride things that make where you come from a great place. Bring the best of where you come from to America and what makes you American. On the flipside, people need to stop with all the actual racism/racialism bullshit and stop complaining about shit like racemixing. Every one on earth, including the posters in this thread have some level of different race/ethnicity to one degree or another and so all our ancestors did as well.
Eli Ward
I don't agree with multiculturalism working.
It's essentially balkanization.
Matthew Evans
>Birmingham, Alabama
Kayden Taylor
>WWI was caused by German autism >WWII was caused by German and Japanese hyper-autism No >Mixed-market capitalism has the best overall record for achieving a successful state No. Capitalism doesn't mean successful state, successful state is one thats governed successfully. The type of economy run in those long lived civilizations are not too important as long as its successful.
>The great irony of racist anti-antisemitism is that Jews have probably become smarter through the centuries BECAUSE of persecution (dumb one were less likely to survive and prosper) No.
Benjamin King
>The America Civil War was about slavery Agree. "It was about state's rights!!!" Yeah? Right to do what?
>WWI was caused by German autism Agree to an extent. But there was an awful olot of autism to go around in setting up a web of alliances that could plunge the world into war over a minor dust-up in an obscure corner of Europe.
>WWII was caused by German and Japanese hyper-autism Disagree -- Strike "hyper-autism" and insert "hyper-militarism and hyper-nationalism," which I guess you could argue as a form of autism.
>Mixed-market capitalism has the best overall record for achieving a successful state Sure, why not?
>Multiculturalism only works if the cultures are brought together gradually over many centuries. If it is forced in one form or another, resentment is inevitable. Multiculturalism does not work at all. Cultural cross-pollenization and absorbing new vigor into a culture (a melting pot) is possibly a good thing for a society. Trying to maintain multiple separate culture in one "society" is a Bad Thing.
>The great irony of racist anti-antisemitism is that Jews have probably become smarter through the centuries BECAUSE of persecution (dumb one were less likely to survive and prosper) Social Darwinist GTFO. In any case, all of humanity has been more likely to survive and reproduce and raise offspring to maturity so THEY can reproduce when they avoided doing stupid things. Stupidity always carries the death penalty.
>Trump will go down as a poor president. Regardless of whether you like him or not, or his positions are valid or not, enough of academia and pop culture have aligned against him that he will be written as poor in any case. Likely correct. But I note that his inexperience and unwillingness to listen to anybody who ahs experience is likely to mean his reputation as a bad president will be deserved.
>Obama will be remembered relatively positively, regardless or whether you like him or not, for the same reasons. Yes.
Isaac Hernandez
I don't know if I'd agree that multiculturalism doesn't work. It can work if cultures have significant overlap in their core values.
Xavier Hernandez
No? Multiculturalism means "ok we can have a chinatown here but you all consider yourselves American and uphold all American laws".
Brody Myers
I don't think Obama will be remembered fondly because of his policies, but the fact that he was the first Black president will put him in the "Untouchable figure" category along with George Washington and MLK.
Jose Wright
>Mixed-market capitalism has the best overall record for achieving a successful state >Trump will go down as a poor president. Regardless of whether you like him or not, or his positions are valid or not, enough of academia and pop culture have aligned against him that he will be written as poor in any case. These
Isaac Thompson
1. Disagree. Lincoln = Pol Pot 2. Disagree. Turkey is as usual to blame. 3. Disagree. Pope was in charge of Germany & Italy, and perpetrated the war and the holocaust. 4. Disagree. Free market capitalism does. 5. Disagree. Jews are blessed by God as his chosen people. 6. Disagree. Top 5. 7. Disagree. Obama is already forgotten.
Luis Evans
George Washington Carver maybe.
Samuel Cook
>Sort of
>Yes, along with Perfidious Albion
>No
>That's development of a monoculture dumbass
>Idk probably. Are you suggesting that scientific racism is correct?
>That really depends
>For the same reasons, that really depends.
Now go back to /pol/
Lincoln Phillips
1. It was. Anyone who believes in the "states' rights" cause aren't wrong, but they aren't accurate. The root issue nagging at the nation's core for the past 60 years which culminated into that bloody conflict was institutional slavery.
2. Sure, but not exclusively. Everyone in Europe was acting autistic.
3. Less autism and more simply expansionist and racial superiority ideology. More of a direct offshoot of the original World War.
4. I don't know what you mean by mixed-market, but capitalism with some government oversight is, I would agree, the best economic system.
5. Yeah, I'd agree with that.
6. I don't even know what to think of this one. I'm not going to comment on ethnic power.
7. This is very possible. It is unlikely, at least within the outset of his first year, that he will be remembered positively, if at all. However, I am hesitant to judge history that hasn't had some significant time passed on it. It's difficult to judge how important his term(s) will be because we still don't know what short and long-term influences they'll have later after he's done, or if they'll be good or bad. Unless he's truly exceptional, I predict that he'll be mostly a forgotten president, with middle and high school teachers and textbooks giving short, snarky meme comments about what dumb president he was. The more developed historiographical discussion will likely be less know to the public.
8. Kind of like 7., we still won't know for some time his influence. Like Trump, I think he'll be a mostly forgotten president, but exceptional in his racial identity and status.
Aiden Edwards
What do you mean by George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. being untouchable? I ask because you just listed two of some of the most important Americans in history but you refer to them like people give them too much credit, and you can't criticize them because of their iconic statuses.
Joseph Gray
Not all cultures are conducive to the state. Some populations could care less about their nation's well-being and consider themselves separate people despite citizenship or status. Some cultures are not compatible nor prone towards assimilation.
I.E. Some European gypsy communities.
Evan Brooks
I like this post.
Ethan Williams
>The America Civil War was about slavery Not *just* slavery, but yeah.
>WWI was caused by German autism >WWII was caused by German and Japanese hyper-autism Caused largely by those nations, yes, by autism, no. (Hell, the second, while it may have been started by Germany, it was more the fault of others who had placed them in such a position as to make it inevitable.)
>Mixed-market capitalism has the best overall record for achieving a successful state Best economic and military success rate, thus far, yes, but in other terms, and as to whether it will always be the case, that's another thing...
>Multiculturalism only works if the cultures are brought together gradually over many centuries. If it is forced in one form or another, resentment is inevitable. While undoubtedly easier that way, and preferably, the opposite has, on occasion, been done successfully.
>The great irony of racist anti-antisemitism is that Jews have probably become smarter through the centuries BECAUSE of persecution (dumb one were less likely to survive and prosper) Not large enough a time frame for that sorta evolution to take place. The artificial selection mechanism wasn't that thorough.
...The rest falls under the 25 year rule.
Levi Rodriguez
Yes and no. The dispute over slavery was an important factor which led to its occurrence, but to say that the American Civil War was ONLY about slavery is truly retarded.
Yes and no again. Austrian delusions of imperialism led to the web of alliances breaking down, and Germany bet on the wrong horse because they thought the Habsburgs were still relevant. However, the web of alliances and mistrust of Germans was also a prime factor to the cause of WWI, as well as WWII.
No, refer to the last sentence of my last post. Germans were mistrusted because of their rapid acceleration to military and economic prominence, so when they lost WWI, the terms of surrender were unreasonably hard on them. Germans lost their empire, Austria-Hungry was balkanized, and the depression happened. The main reason why the Germans and Hitler singled out the Jews as part of their 'Make Germany Great Again' project is because of that civil war in Bavaria which was led by a bunch of Jewish communist revolutionaries, which they saw as evidence for a 'global Jewish conspiracy' to undermine the German people. Meanwhile Japan was taking advantage of Chinese weakness and seeking to become an imperial power on par with the European nation-states, mainly in an effort to secure its own interests and prevent another Open Door Policy from coming to fruition (hence their salt towards the Americans).
Yes, in the modern world, however maintaining a successful state is another story.
Yes, refer to the post-modern western world and liberal policies favoring minority rights and refugee asylum opportunities over citizen welfare and safety.
Possible, though I'm not informed enough to give any coherent opinion on the matter.
Yes, unfortunately. However, just because the majority believes something doesn't mean it's right.
Yes, same as above.
Camden Cox
>>The America Civil War was about slavery Not just about slavery, but for the most part this is accurate.
>>WWI was caused by German autism No, absolutely not. WWI was caused by an idiotic system of alliances that may have made sense at the time but in retrospect was simply asking for trouble. That and Europe was essentially an armed military camp waiting for any excuse at all to go to war and we have the perfect breeding ground for large scale conflict.
WWII was caused by German and Japanese hyper-autism No. That conflict was caused by the outcome of WWI.
Samuel Watson
>The America Civil War was about slavery State's rights, to own slaves, that is. >WWI was caused by German autism No. >WWII was caused by German and Japanese hyper-autism No. >Mixed-market capitalism has the best overall record for achieving a successful state Yes. >Multiculturalism only works if the cultures are brought together gradually over many centuries. If it is forced in one form or another, resentment is inevitable. No. >The great irony of racist anti-antisemitism is that Jews have probably become smarter through the centuries BECAUSE of persecution (dumb one were less likely to survive and prosper) Pretty much, Hitler accelerated hundreds of years of natural selection when he gutted the dumb jews out of the gene pool. >Trump will go down as a poor president. Regardless of whether you like him or not, or his positions are valid or not, enough of academia and pop culture have aligned against him that he will be written as poor in any case. Maybe, however this election showed us that controlling the media isn't everything. >Obama will be remembered relatively positively, regardless or whether you like him or not, for the same reasons. Mostly because he was mediocre, and black, which shields him from all criticism.
Bentley Lopez
OP is basically right on every count.
Evan Young
Incorrect. It was because their children and grandchildren identified as Americans. And migrants in Europe and America are assimilating, except unlike the towns and districts that allowed them to engage in local and state politics in the past which helped them assimilate into the American entrepreneurial spirit and civic engagement, they're mostly pushed into assimilating into the meaningless, existential crisis of modern urban life where local business and finance can no longer compete with nationalized industries, let alone global ones.
