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I wouldn't think this would happen, if you really think about it. We still have to understand how fragile human society was in Antiquity starting from...

At some point, things come to be a belief system and comparable to a religion. Trying to reason with others issues of faith isn't fruitful. In a way, ...

This is basically how also leadership works. First you have to know what those being lead think of the issue to be done, their own motivation and thei...

Think on the positive side. The FBI still works well fighting against domestic terrorism.

Well, it is quite logical and understandable that history is taught from the viewpoint of domestic history, that people are interested in their own hi...

This is actually a very good example why in order to understand history it's important to focus on more than just one narrative. Perhaps what we lack ...

Let's not forget. Let's try to look at them with the same objectivity (and criticism) that we look at our own "Western" history. If we do that, many i...

So the Democrats have learned how to play the game like the Republicans did with Bill Clinton? What's new? Divide et impera, I say. It works, you know...

A very good point. Although many states have their last days to register coming up just now. But when such a very large percentage don't vote, it is h...

Let's see how well the polls predict the election results. We'll see then.

Getting Covid-19 is a blessing in disguise? Ok. :roll:

I think it will be close because I do think that it is an reality that many might say that they vote Biden in a poll and then vote Trump. Still, it's ...

I think that Trump is finally losing it. The election, I mean. Halting the stimulus talks and taking up (again) the idea of "it's just as the flu" on ...

As Rome wasn't alone and didn't just face "barbaric" tribes and the celts in the north, it would be interesting to learn how much the Persian Empire (...

At least Europol seems to agree with you: (See Europol says all terrorist attacks in Greece last year were by anarchists) Stats from 2018: https://www...

Before people prayed in the Church sermon that "disease and pestilence" wouldn't come. Not anymore, but now we have seen they are still there. Yet thi...

'Change' and not 'collapse' would likely be the appropriate way to look at this. The first thing is to realize that people and societies take diseases...

Here's how the US compares to the World. Notice the uptick in Asia. What basically is happening is that now Europe is approaching the high infection r...

I think well before. Tacitus in 98 AD does separates many of the present people as various Germanic tribes living in the North quite accurately (talks...

Were we there in 1918-1920? A lot more people died then and the response was, well, quite the same. Besides, If the Black Plague didn't collapse our c...

There was here a good article of this as one doctor referred Trump's actions being result of a cortisone psychosis (see here), unfortunately in Finnis...

Start from the languages: they are different. Swedes and Norwegians can understand somewhat each other while (at least in my view) Danish is a lot mor...

Emphasis on the "some level" is appropriate as that is what all EU members want.

This all just shows how problematic a singular idea of "Europe" and "European" is. When you think of it, Europe's strength is in it's diversity. That ...

Well, I should point out that the Spanish flu didn't change the way people behaved later, even if it did alter a lot of things back then when the pand...

A former astrologist and an influence behind Jair Bolsonaro who among his anti-Western stance has also contested the ideas of physicists Isaac Newton ...

Well, from the experience with my daughter I can tell that for first graders it doesn't work, it sucks. Yet have to say that the pandemic was a crash ...

If we get that vaccine, it won't take long that the pandemic is history...assuming it goes away in 2021. How important will it be depends of course fr...

Yes. But not as a major.

What wouldn't be forced in a top down manner? That's the way societies work. Germans have a problematic stance towards their history and Italians do f...

A scientific issue that creates political discussion usually means that the topic has a) opposing economic interests at hand or b) some moral issue li...

That's nice to hear. :smile:

I'd take that grain of salt when a matter comes to be the focus of politicians. Only that. But of course, politicians are there to solve the moral dil...

Climate science and economic policy recommendations are still a bit different from each other. I lost all hope after following the debate on nuclear e...

A very good question. I have to admit, not in anyway close as Americans values are dear to Americans. Far too easily someone defines "European values"...

This doesn't make any sense as this is a global event with a global response to it. This isn't a Dutch issue only, it's a global issue. You have total...

? Sorry, totally clueless what you are implying. Are you talking about the Romans here or whom?

At least officials here are now saying that this time now is the critical for the second wave. The majority of those few new cases reported here do no...

This is severe misreading of Muslim history that simply shows deep ignorance. Start from the kingdom that Mohammed himself created and follow the stor...

Yet Americans have an ace in their pocket at this: anybody can become an American. The ideology on what the country was founded upon is extremely impo...

By this logic, I wonder where the South Koreans put the pandemic with their little death toll of 420 deaths from covid-19 in a country of 51 million p...

One expects the person who wrote the forum guidelines to be consistent with them. I've never been a supporter of Trump, yet what I think feeds the sup...

When people feel morally right and think others are totally wrong, nearly evil, why be humble? Anyway, I think that your country will survive this jus...

It is quite true that Rome has been seen as this historical example what European powers have wanted to be the successors of Rome, but let's not forge...

His supporters support him and his haters hate him, not much changes from what Trump does. But of course what is obvious is that he wouldn't have been...

As millions have already voted, likely the election would result in the tragicomedy and a full shit show. Likely the Republicans would argue to change...

It's the same here too, but then again the symptoms are flu symptoms. Cough, sneezing, fever, etc. This makes basically having any old flu a reason fo...

I think at least one Republican senator has learned his lesson, I guess. Yet still blows my mind that people act in this way. Heck, I haven't shaken h...

Pretty incredible. Only the military officers have systematically masks while I count about three other people wearing masks. And lots of hugs and han...

With sovereign states court decisions are a minor issue, what the real issue is how other sovereign countries respond in things like trade policy etc....