@Emperor of Atlantis Yes, they also used them as bodyguards during presidential visits.

in 1894 for example, the Chinese were more industrialized and had a bigger army and navy

Still, that quickly, in a few decades?

everyone expected China to win that war

the issue is that the Chinese government and bureaucracy were incompetent and corrupt

Unlike now

Yes

yeah Japan industrialized as quickly as Germany did

Italy was completely unable to for some reason

the Japanese have always been really efficient

molyGOD

Chiang Kai-shek is overrated.

when the Portuguese brought guns in 1542

the Japanese were outproducing Europe during the 1570's and 1580's

Tbh I feel like for most of human history we've been carrying the Italians.

^

The EU basic exists to carry Greece and Italy, and their tanking economies, at the expense of more industrious European states.

read Nicholas Farrell's Mussolini

it is by far the best source on the subject

Mussolini not only completed Italian unification

@ThatSmugGuyGlen

he was also the best ruler the Italians had in all of modern history

https://youtu.be/trBxPFLq__g

Italy was just REALLY fucked

secular fascism is not enough though

yes I agree

whoops

sorry to whoever posted that last vid

my bad

Sicilians wuz blaque <:CHAD:396569198404435969>

nah they actually have North African ancestry

all the way since ancient times

I'm back <:supermale:399903458964275203>

So..

also a bunch of Greeks that migrated there in the ancient times

Why does everyone freak out with Turkey invading Northern Syria, but nobody has cared for decades that they have been occupying Cyprus?

because muh Kurds

I don't think the Moors were blacks, didn't they just have black slaves?

I like the Kurds, glad they're doing this Assad deal.

@Str3tch Did you need to ask me something? You @'ed me, but didn't highlight specifically what you wanted to draw focus to.

@Weaboo Kempeitai https://www.haaretz.com/1.5460712

@iippo Because NATO is clearly attempting a regime change in Syria and is using both the Turks and Kurds as a vehicle for this. Kurds are out of the fight, now that they're Assad allies, so Turkey is the new arm of the US in Syria.

i just have been pinging people to make it easier to reassign them roles

oh, okay

false alarm @Miniature Menace

Close? Kurds look nothing like Jews. They're almost Indian looking tbh.

yeh

Jew is a jew is a jew

@J-P @Cucked by MGTOW already secret mod VC sessions........

They're debating whether or not to let the spergs back in

and? @Wesker

@Wesker hop in

@Smoke

I love how we can ping all autistic people that get angry over pinging in this server <@&618302685657169924>

why?

just stop plz

there are ppl who joined the server just to do minecraft stuff

Come on its perfect😊

leave them be

Lol

Oh I’m back

JFG official minecraft server

Girls are historically bad for this server

bah

where is the lie @Smoke

https://youtu.be/NfNnCNkyvos wtf did I just watch?

*threatens superior with gun*
"You just joined the treasury department."

Why the treasury department?

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@Str3tch For those who are just coming back, please note that the server was victim to a vegan terrorist agent who destroyed much of it and stamped the entire server with pro-lettuce messaging. If you have lost a role as a consequence, please contact a GMO or me and we will give you back your role!

i lost my role in an act of pro lettuce attack

what role was that?

As part of my assignment on event planning, I have to extensive research on which locations are more likely to be hit with terror attacks, and what we would actually do if we were caught in some sort of bombing.

@Weaboo Kempeitai iirc, Treasury Department was the department which enforced alcohol prohibition. It also concerned the IRS which was invented around that same time. I'm a bit vague, though, so it might be better to actually look this up.

i was a R type for a bit @Str3tch but it was mainly a joke

north african forehead

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@Miniature Menace I thought he'd be guarding gold or something

med GANG

nah, basically, when federal prohibition was passed, it was with the caveat that they would create a federal income tax to make up for the revenue losses on whiskey

RISE UP

MED GANG GANG

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and when prohibition was ended, they never repealed this tax

it was basically one of those departmental jurisdiction quirks on the surface, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was something else going on there, as well

i thought income tax was passed to fund WWI?

I mean with the treasury department being what handled prohibition

oh tim ball is on

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/366712155472396323/633865809864949771/unknown.png

current HOI4 game

Are you Chinese?

I was playing as Manchuria 😄

rebelled against and conquered Japan

while simultaneously unifiying China

also helped Germany take out the Soviet Union

More like Manchukuo