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>if history is written by the winners, why then are so many books extolling robt. e. lee?


>if history is 'written by the winners' then who how did this get published?

>why, if 'history is written by the winners' are people still able to purchase Hitler's 'opus magnus' just about anywhere?

This is pretty funny drama but this bugged me a bit, I'm not a 'race realist' or whatever, but 'history is written by the winners' has a bunch of meanings, one of them I guess is 'nobody gets to write history except the winners and those who side with them' but to other people it means that generally the mainstream narrative of popular history follows who has power and 'hegemony' in society. I think this is much closer to the truth; for example, if the first world war had been won by Imperial Germany the narrative about German aggression and desire to bring about a Europe that was economically and culturally dominated by Germany would be very different, the same with US bombing of Japanese cities in the second world war and hundreds of other examples, Napoleon would be seen as a hero outside France if he'd managed to impose his French dominated Europe, etc, etc. This is true especially within the lifetime of the polity or group who are being written about.

The cases of Japan and the defeated Southern states are interesting because, iirc, they were essentially allowed to reconstruct a narrative that treated their war aims and motivations favourably (or focused on members/bits who were honourable etc) because of the elites reaching accommodation with the victorious powers. The Southern states had the Jim Crow period and Japan had MacArthur's 'reverse course' where rolling back the ultra nationalist/fascist-ish state, limiting the power of bureaucrats, business families and the mafia was reversed, partly because of the US need for a strong Japan to combat east Asian nationalism or 'communism' etc.

No you're right the majority did settle in the west (ie. the Maghrebi countries + Libya), because it was viewed almost as a frontier by the soldiers in the Islamic armies who wanted to settle there. There were also later migrations that occurred for political reasons the most famous being the Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym in the Middle Ages.

With the Levant it was largely the same as in other countries. When the Arab Muslims arrived they established themselves as the local elite and to this day many of the old notable Palestinian families like the Nusaybah are descended from Arabs who did settle in the country during the Islamic conquests. The armies and administrators were all Arab (in the early years) but like I said mass population displacement didn't really occur and Palestinians at large are generally believed to be descended from a mix of the numerous peoples who have inhabited and moved to the land over the centuries, everyone from Greeks and Crusaders to Turks and ancient Jews. Over the centuries after conquest more and more of these people adopted Islam as a faith in order to obtain more social privileges, something that initially caught the invading Arabs by surprise. Since you'll probably ask I'm getting most of this info from the books In God's Path by Hoyland and The Great Caliphs by Bennison.

Thanks for the kind words, I have an intense love-hate relationship with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (I'm literally always either the most "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestinian" person in whatever room I'm in, not that I care for those dichotomous and ill defined terms) and nothing to do today so I've just been popping in to comment periodically.

Scott Atran's work is a good place to start, I'd recommend [Talking to the Enemy: Religion, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists] (http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Enemy-Religion-Brotherhood-Terrorists/dp/0061344915). He's spent years with the very groups he writes about and earned their trusts. He's very good.

If you want a quicker read, here is a good [overview] (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10683169808401747) of the situation and here is a good [self observation] (http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=randy_borum&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dpsychopathy%2Bterrorism%26btnG%3D%26as_sdt%3D1%252C10%26as_sdtp%3D#search=%22psychopathy%20terrorism%22) of the research itself.

> That I can't live anywhere cause they own it and will charge me and if I don't pay will shoot me.

Now, I'm no real estate attorney, but I believe that when you buy a piece of property from another private citizen, the citizen can't threaten gun play at the time of contractual negotiations or signing.

If you can do this, then I really think that HGTV is missing out on some more exciting programming opportunities. "Flip Or Fire At Will", "The Sisters Brothers", "Love It Or I'll Fucking Shoot You", etc.

First off, if your experience is anything like mine you'll see that as they get older they'll need to rethink their positions as they leave the college bubble and enter the "real world."

>Where can I find good sources that express this exact sentiment?

The problem is this sentiment is the culmination of years of study, hundreds of books and papers, and extensive debate and criticism. At least that's the way my classes worked. Mapping the Social Landscape; Readings in Sociology by Susan Ferguson is a good collection of several sociological readings over a broad range of topics. The Second Shift by Arlie Russel Hochschild is a good book for examining gender roles in a family setting, although it does have a feminist bias that has counterarguments that come up in debates. Sociology of crime and law enforcement also provide insight into topics that tend to disagree with the notion of male privilege. Companions in Crime is a good book that covers a range of criminology theories. Deborah Tannen also has several good books about the ways men and women tend to differ, and the consequences that result.

God I love you for linking this. this book is what turned me on to a more humanistic way of thinking

Well, the bottom of the poster links to QBQ.com (https://www.amazon.com/QBQ-Question-Behind-Practicing-Accountability/dp/014305709X) which is apparently a book about personal accountability in business. A lot of thought for something fake.

Anyway I think the link to QBQ is funny because my gut feeling is that bosses that post signs like these are trying to cover for their inept management skills.

Have you read this book? It's really good

One possible explanation, which looks quite reasonable as a first approximation, is that the US libertarian fringe has been assimilated by the neo-Nazis. After all, once you take one red pill, why not take another, and another, until you overdose on the bloody things?

I think this is the case.
There has been quite a bit of writing lately examining the "libertarian-to-Nazi pipeline", the Niskanen Center (a bunch of libertarians who saw the slide start with the Kochs and Cato and are growing alarmed by it) has been giving it a hard look for a while now. These, in series, do a good job laying it out

https://niskanencenter.org/blog/explaining-white-nationalisms-anti-statist-bedfellows/

https://niskanencenter.org/blog/libertarian-democracy-skepticism-infected-american-right/

https://niskanencenter.org/blog/libertarian-origins-libertarian-influence-ruling-american-right/

These 3 are the pretty critical ones but this
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/black-liberty-matters/

looks at the historical biases which shifts things a bit and here
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/defense-liberty-cant-without-identity-politics/

It goes into a bit more that "black lives should matter as much as tax rates so why don't they to libertarians?"
Here they go into how libertarianism is shooting towards fascism because they only do a superficial consideration of their principles on markets and ignoring most of what Hayek said
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/the-shortcut-to-serfdom/

This one covers how trying to be "edgy" with their ideas feeds the fascism
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/public-choice-theory-politics-charity/

Here they go into how the embrace of climate denialism is very tied to fascism
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/climate-change-denial-historical-consciousness-trumpism-lessons-carl-schmitt/

Here about how their embrace of the republican line on nationalism is goostepping towards fascism
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/fuzzy-borders-benign-nationalism/

here they are more explicit about it
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/liberal-case-nationalist-immigration-restrictions/

And here even more so
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/individual-liberty-power-exclude/

With this one they try to point out to their fellow libertarians that they aren't willing to fight this and "what the HELL man!"
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/revitalizing-liberalism-age-brexit-trump/

And here they talk how the idea of being a libertarian is becoming toxic because of all this and they may need to shift
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/moderation-ii-rules-moderates/

Additionally, while I haven't completed it yet, the second edition of The Reactionary Mind https://www.amazon.com/Reactionary-Mind-Conservatism-Edmund-Donald/dp/0190692006/
Deals a lot with how the libertarian style worship of markets and business ties in with the same reactionary impulses we see in neoconservatism and its take on military prowess and how both are tied with domination.

Bad Feminist is a really good book

I thoroughly recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/What-Are-You-Looking-Surprising/dp/0142180297

I saw it referenced in /r/museum once and it literally changed the way I see modern and contemporary art (which I now love).

Just because people use other words most of the time doesn't mean one word doesn't cover the other.

Storage is memory.

If you read Hennessy & Patterson (and you should) a big feature of the book is the Memory hierarchy which includes mass storage. It even includes off-line storage.

That's the way I'd do it but I read math magic when I was a kid and it taught lots of simplifying strategies that I didn't learn in school

This should get you going. Once you have finished reading that, read my posts again.

A quick google found this post in AskHistorians, which cites a passage from this book.

>On 20 August, chaplains from the 295th Infantry Division informed Lieutenant-Colonel Helmuth Groscurth, the chief of staff, that ninety Jewish orphans in the town of Belaya Tserkov were being held in disgusting conditions. They ranged from infants up to seven-year-old children. They were to be shot, like their parents. Groscurth, the son of a pastor and a convinced anti-Nazi, had been the Abwehr officer who, that spring, had secretly passed details of the illegal orders for Barbarossa to Ulrich von Hassell. Groscurth immediately sought out the district commander and insisted that the execution must be stopped. He then contacted Sixth Army headquarters, even though Standartenführer Paul Blobel, the head of the Sonderkommando, warned Groscurth that he would report his interference to Reichsführer SS Himmler. Field Marshal von Reichenau supported Blobel. The ninety Jewish children were shot the next evening by Ukrainian militiamen, to save the feelings of the Sonderkommando. Groscurth wrote a full report which he sent direct to headquarters Army Group South. Appalled and furious, he wrote to his wife: ‘We cannot and should not be allowed to win this war.’

Unfortunately I don't own a copy of the book itself, so I can't look into what sources the author used.

You can, however, read the original report that Groscurth filed with Army Group South (and an English translation, although I'm not sure of how accurate it is) here.

In case anyone is interested in why the whole thing about the Nazi German Economic Miracle is actually wrong, read The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. It takes that misinformation apart in detail.

Dood - love Megadeth

also Judas Priest, Pantera, Dokken, Dio, Maiden, Motorhead - Motley Crue

Before you say anything about Motley Crue, have you read their biography? The Dirt - holy shit, I knew bands did 'rock and roll lifestyle', but that was an eye-opener

*EDIT - about Megadeth vs. Metallica - Metallica, as a whole, has produced music that is much more intricate and has more depth - Megadeth just fukkin rawks - and that's what many give a shit about - I don't disagree