My anti-military thread..

[Hasbinbad]

Khan?

Fun question: Who had a bigger empire than england?

Gonna be a real short list.

[Hasbinbad]

CANNOT BELIEVE YOU ARE USING ENGLAND AS YOUR EXAMPLE

so fucking rofl right now

[Hasbinbad]

Sure it's super easy to have a stable state when 3/4 of the world performs slave labor to provide you goods bro.

[47shadesofgay]

You need Jesus

[Hasbinbad]

^Speaking about England and the US.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by 47shadesofgay [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You need Jesus

I actually have a close personal relationship with my conception of Jesus. Dude was a pretty awesome guy who loved the poor and hated rich banker/priests.

I don't believe any of the mumbo jumbo, but rather take the stories about him as secular fables or parables from which to learn.

[Hasbinbad]

Kind of like Odysseus or Frodo.

[Ephirith]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

England was the largest imperial state since .. Alexander?? Attila?? It spanned the world at the end of a sabre. I don't even.........

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sure it's super easy to have a stable state when 3/4 of the world performs slave labor to provide you goods bro.

I'm talking about internally, in terms of maintaining the integrity of the state. Of course they are going to go abuse brown people the world over, just like we do today. But back at home, people tended to solve problems by talking before they resorted to brick-throwing. That relative domestic stability helped them go out and subjugate effectively.

This is about the effectiveness of talking before you chimp out. Being a large, brutal empire sucks in certain ways, but it's not very relevant. The state was stable before it "enslaved 3/4 of the world" anyway, and long after. It's about what goes into keeping your evil empire together, not the evil things it does.

[Hasbinbad]

Yeah they just enslaved the irish before they moved on to india etc..

Again:

REAL FUCKING EASY TO HAVE INTERNAL STABILITY WHEN LABOR IS PROVIDED BY OPPRESSED PEOPLE SOMEWHERE ELSE

[Hasbinbad]

Also, real fucking easy to keep it that way once you've squeezed sufficient resources to put you on top.