/lit/ - Literature

>>15861894
>Nature is a label, a spook.

>>14404538
>commies
>learning from the past

>>13511336
>women have very high standards

>>13244012
So because I don’t know the origins of the universe, sex is bad?

>>10842878
>last year my favorite book was Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The lines in Coleridge's 'Dejection'

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which, finds no natural outlet or relief
In word, or sigh, or tear.

>>10805858
>lolita

Doubt is the key to true research. A so called "thinker" has to embrace a certain degree of skepticism if he truly wants to "think".
Read some Sextus Empiricus.

>>10489982
>obama-pajama-boy-white-house-r.jpg

>>9272713

Dude you're using tu quoque while defending Hitler.

You know whats nice? When you get to leave the camp after the war, and when legal action later in your life compensates you for your illegal internment. You know when you cant do that? When you've been starved and cremated.

Also your comparison of conscription to enslavement is pretty laughable for several reasons. It's been considered a component of free citizenship since literally the classical period of Greek states.

I don't really think I need to go into detail comparing the treatment of Allied occupied zones and German/Japanese/Soviet occupied zones. Do you know why the Germans themselves disliked allied occupation initially? Food shortages. Do you know why those food shortages came about? The Germans were systematically creating famine in the occupied French, Belgian, Dutch, and Danish territories in order to prioritize German citizens. The Nazis were literally a metastasizing tumor choking the life out of Europe until the allies put them out of their misery, and Hitler was directly responsible for the collapse of eastern Europe into Soviet satellites.

And your argument for why we should toss out US economic development and political prominence is some fucking quip about 'muh nukes first' and 'europe rekt for 2 world wars' is equally stupid. You know what would have prevented that? If Europe didn't give themselves over to bellicose warmongers, if the French didn't push the treaty of Versailles so hard, if the Germans didn't launch a war of aggression to reclaim prominence, and if - are you ready for this one - if there was a system of functional collective security, then there wouldn't have been a fucking world war.

NATO and the UN in combination with the structural influence of the bipolar cold war are the main engines which ensured a peaceful and prosperous Europe in the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

And of course I have to say inb4 muh arabs, because whenever someone wants to make a point about an entire continent, there's always that one guy who goes 'muh shitskins'.

You might just be shitposting, in which case I've got to say 'excellent bait', but even if you are there are people who unironically hold the position that Hitler was just misunderstood compared to those big baddies like Roosevelt and Truman.