By the invitation of EQG chads
>no hooves<War of all against all edition<Gunpowder Treason DayKing James VI & I movie:https://www.bitchute.com/video/PPRUFSGdI22n/Who even reads this thread?
>>749683This.
The whole point of being a king or queen is to be a firm but gentle parent for thousands of people.
>>749735Not only the ruler, but the subjects themselves must see themselves as a family.
& not be divided in seeing themselves as Republican/Democrat, Tory/Labour, Conservative/Liberal, Catholic/Protestant, but as brothers and sisters in their own kingdom by the personhood of the king, and by the familial bond that comes generation to generation as the next king comes and preserves the last king by hereditary succession (as another self and continuation of this cult of personality).
>>749804Irony is, nationhood used to be determined by if you and your fellow tribe shared ancestry.
>>749925The dad looks hot.
I wonder what he looks like under that suit
>"Death is better than slavery, say the old Frisian peasants. Reverse this aphorism and you have the formula of all late civilizations."
—Oswald Spengler
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I see this Spengler quote floating around:
I'll be Devil's Advocate & invoke Hobbes:
Life/self preservation is infinitely precious to us than Death.
If there are martyrs who die, it is in pursuit of eternal life.
Timor makes a tower of skulls, so the rest kneel; USA nukes two cities, the most resilient Japanese people surrender.
There are many people who say that they'll give their lives away and that it is easy to die and life means nothing to them; yet, here they are, dissidents who are not revolting, but complying–they should be revolting, for all they say & faced with everything we see, but they don't revolt.
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>For it ought to obey him by whom it is preserved, because the preservation of life being the end for which one man becomes subject to another, every man is supposed to promise obedience to him in whose power it is to save or destroy him
–Thomas Hobbes
Thucydides is praised as the father of political realism / Realpolitik and Hobbes praised as
>the most politic historiographer that ever writ
The Melian Dialogue is a sample.
Athenians:
>For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences–either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us–and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Melians:
>And how, pray, could it turn out as good for us to serve as for you to rule?
Athenians:
>Because you would have the advantage of submitting before suffering the worst, and we should gain by not destroying you.
Melians:
>But we know that the fortune of war is sometimes more impartial than the disproportion of numbers might lead one to suppose; to submit is to give ourselves over to despair, while action still preserves for us a hope that we may stand erect.
Athenians:
>Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources, if not without loss at all events without ruin; but its nature is to be extravagant, and those who go so far as to put their all upon the venture see it in its true colours only when they are ruined; but so long as the discovery would enable them to guard against it, it is never found wanting. Let not this be the case with you, who are weak and hang on a single turn of the scale; nor be like the vulgar, who, abandoning such security as human means may still afford, when visible hopes fail them in extremity, turn to invisible, to prophecies and oracles, and other such inventions that delude men with hopes to their destruction.
I lean towards realpolitik for geopolitics.
The borders of empires or nations are drawn by bayonets, not convention.
Some rightwingers don't like Western invention and wars for democracy/human rights and invading dictators, but nevertheless make a pretense of just war–the difference being, they would prefer it if a crusade were called by the Pope or some long speech about a tyrant or oppressor before invading a country–I think for the most part they're the same (but the optics are slightly different).
I think invading another country because it is the right thing to do is laughable. The cost of war almost always outweighs any pretense of the good they intend to bring and invariably will be a blood bath. –I don't think of it in terms of righteous, free world democracies versus despotic third world dictatorships–or in traditionalist terms, righteous Christians versus bad evil heathens/wholly depraved bad guys/tyrants. People will contrive any justification or pretense to invade another country if they wanted to–they will do it to strengthen their honor, their empire, their dominance, their foothold, to acquire resources, for profit, for overall strategy and influence, or because they needed a foreign enemy to unite people for internal strength, because fear of an enemy unites people and nothing brings people together like fear of a foreign invasion–geopolitics is pretty much like an RTS/strategy video game from an eagle's eye, nobody thinks about the optics, but conquering the enemy or utilizing the threat of an enemy to bolster their domestic strength, because fear of an enemy is just as valuable in the homefront.
When it comes to the cost of human life and the spoils of war, while most people like to shoulder the blame on the elites, I think the lay people are just as compliant in it, but indirectly. People in the imperial core might protest and appeal to humanity, but they for the most part profit from it and would erupt much more violently if the flow of treats were taken away from the advantages of foreign conquest, so in a way conquerors take the spoils of war to appease their people and indirectly the people are compliant and enjoy it. They are for the most part apathetic to what horrible atrocities happen and will gladly eat the meat of prey like hatchlings opening their mouths for nourishment from their parent bird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_III_of_Sweden%27s_coffee_experiment…
>Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a purported twin study ordered by Gustav III to study the health effects of coffee. The authenticity of the event has been questioned. The primitive medical study, supposedly conducted in the second half of the 18th century, failed to prove that coffee was a dangerous beverage.
>In Sweden, coffee was banned by royal decree across three different reigns, in five separate periods between the 1750s and the 1820s: 1756–61, 1766–69, 1794–6, 1799–1802 and 1817–1823.
>Coffee first arrived in Sweden around 1674, but was little used until the turn of the 18th century when it became fashionable among the wealthy. In 1746, a royal edict was issued against coffee and tea due to "the misuse and excesses of tea and coffee drinking". Heavy taxes were levied on consumption, and failure to pay the tax on the substance resulted in fines and confiscation of cups and dishes. Later, coffee was banned completely; despite the ban, consumption continued.
>Gustav's father, Adolph Frederick, had also been an opponent of stimulating drinks, signing the Misuse and Excesses Tea and Coffee Drinking Edict in 1760. Both Gustav III and his father had read and been strongly influenced by a 1715 treatise from a French physician on the dangers of what would later be identified as caffeine in tea and coffee.
>The king ordered the experiment to be conducted using a pair of identical twins. Both of the twins had been tried for the crimes they had committed and condemned to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment on the condition that one of the twins drink three pots of coffee, and the other drink the same amount of tea, every day for the rest of their lives. >>750603>When it comes to the cost of human life and the spoils of war, while most people like to shoulder the blame on the elites, I think the lay people are just as compliant in it, but indirectly. People in the imperial core might protest and appeal to humanity, but they for the most part profit from it and would erupt much more violently if the flow of treats were taken away from the advantages of foreign conquest, so in a way conquerors take the spoils of war to appease their people and indirectly the people are compliant and enjoy it. They are for the most part apathetic to what horrible atrocities happen and will gladly eat the meat of prey like hatchlings opening their mouths for nourishment from their parent bird.Very true. In a way the performative protests in the imperial core even serve to help the war effort because it lends legitimacy to imperial core common people being noncompliant and separated from imperial crimes, which lets them cry of atrocity against the innocent when the invaded strike back(e.g. 9/11, Lod Airport attack), which provides further justification and moral highground for the war. Not saying that all Americans deserve to die or something, but they can't very well complain about attacks targeted at civilians when they themselves carry out such attacks with regularity. It's like a boxer hitting another boxer in the groin but then accusing him of breaking the rules when he throws a groinshot back.
>>752321This is not canon.
>>752321canonized in the mangaka's author's notes
>>753117>>753120>>753123Why do they need these huge ass empty spaces in front?
>>750596If you think about it Belarus is basically like modern day Melos, except they have nukes so they can tell the retarded imperialists to fuck off.
Minecraft anarchy servers and the way people treat Chris Chan seems like proof to me that human beings are not altruistic (lacking utter selflessness) and probably are motivated by self-interest.
It could be said these examples are primarily online: that most encounters in anarchy Minecraft result in being killed or that people can troll an autist for life doesn't reflect the reality.
TBH, my life experience fills me with doubt. Being an altruistic person is one way to alienate yourself from everyone around you.
The way GTA NPCs act is pretty realistic and accurate: where everyone on the street is kind of an asshole.
When it comes to race and /pol/, that also screams sheer egotism all around.
This point of view isn't really beloved in the traditionalist rightwing community (except the libertarians)–it is not very romantic or aesthetic–but sometimes I find it hard not to believe.
>>753219If they could, they probably would.
Belarus says this is characrteristic of America.
I think if any nation were a superpower, it would be so.
>>752317>what if I think monarchism doesn't go hard enough?Where do you think you are?
Yes, Graceposter likes Gaius Caligula and named Jill "Hot Cheeto" after his daughter.
I guess Western monarchy is sometimes offset with Christianity at times (which Graceposter is blackpilled about on occasion)–having remarked that the only authentic royalism known is Christianity in the West–it doesn't mean we have to look to the pharaohs when we have Gaius Caligula.
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