What are some of the most accurate predictions ever made?
What are some of the most accurate predictions ever made?
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Is this racist?
>Black colonist troop
Why is "kultur" written on all these propaganda peices about germany?
The philosophical concept of culture is actually german.
Kultur was a central propaganda concept in the German Empire used to justify any and all abuses as Germans bringing Kultur to the world.
>smoking in restaurants and bars
man I'd love that future
They're sat outside.
hope you’ll enjoy smoking the devil’s wiener in hell
what nanny state shithole do you live in that don't let you smoke in a restaurant? in Egypt nobody thinks a thing of that.
>You will live to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension
Bismarck and his quote about the balkans
lol
Is this real?
apparently yes, although the exact quote does not refer to a "great" war, just the next european one.
Yes, just like the guy (I forget his name, he was a French general IIRC) who looked at the final terms of the treaty of Versailles and said "This isn't a peace, it's a cease fire for 20 years".
seems this one appeared first in 1939 and is therefor doubtful
HAHAHAHA no way
No war is any longer possible for Prussia-Germany except a world war and a world war indeed of an extent and violence hitherto undreamt of. Eight to ten millions of soldiers will massacre one another and in doing so devour the whole of Eurepe until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done. The devastations of the Thirty Years’ War compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent; famine, pestilence, general demoralisation both of the armies and of the mass of the people produced by acute distress; hopeless confusion of our artificial machinery in trade, industry and credit, ending in general bankruptcy; collapse of the old states and their traditional state wisdom to such an extent that crowns will roll by dozens on the pavement and there will be no body to pick them up; absolute impossibility of foreseeing how it will all end and who will come out of the struggle as victor; only one result is absolutely certain: general exhaustion and the establishment of the conditions for the ultimate victory of the working class.
“This is the prospect when the system of mutual outbidding in armaments, taken to the final extreme, at last bears its inevitable fruits. This, my lords, princes and statesmen, is where in your wisdom you have brought old Europe. And when nothing more remains to you but to open the last great war dance—that will suit us all right (uns kann es recht sein ). The war may perhaps push us temporarily into the background, may wrench from us many a position already conquered. But when you have unfettered forces which you will then no longer be able again to control, things may go as they will: at the end of the tragedy you will be ruined and the victory of the proletariat will either be already achieved or at any rate (doch ) inevitable
-Engels 1887
>working class.
this should always be modified into ~~*working class*~~
God I hate socialists so much
Tocqueville never said that.
We get bribed by our own taxes? Right.
You guys are such moronic pseuds jesus christ
The democrats attempt to buy loyalty. Everything from gibs to maybe cancelling student loan debt.
>he still doesnt get it
lmao
Maybe I'm a brainlet but I don't understand this quote. Isn't the whole point of taxes is so the government can "bribe" us with public services and safety?
I don't know very much about American politics and how it relates to them, but I imagine it mostly refers to welfare and such.
A lot of people are genuinely too moronic to understand that any money they get from the government comes from taxation, so when a party promises them a bigger welfare or some other donation (or some sort of concession etc.) they genuinely perceive them as some sort of a gift. That's how plenty of populist parties got voted into power and kept there.
>A lot of people are genuinely too moronic to understand that any money they get from the government comes from taxation, so when a party promises them a bigger welfare or some other donation (or some sort of concession etc.) they genuinely perceive them as some sort of a gift.
But not everyone pays the same amount of taxes. If I my job pays poorly, then being gifted money that people with better paying jobs paid in taxes might indeed be in my interest.
Sure, but still, lots of people genuinely don't know this is money taken from someone else, not money that the government just somehow magically has or prints.
Also, if such promises are made mostly to shift election, they usually are pretty bad for the economy and hard to withdraw later
This is true of course, but ultimately people are lobbyists of their own interests and when you're a minimum wage type of guy it would be unreasonable to not take handouts in favour 'the economy', when most of the excess wealth ends up in the pockets of someone else.
Of course, but this allows populists to basically bribe their way into office by offering gibs to the masses and taking the money away from people who actually work, which is harmful to everyone in the long run and takes the votes away from people who actually want to do something beneficial. And that's what the quote is about.
>which is harmful to everyone in the long run
I'm not so sure about that. If you're a working poor kind of guy you have the choice between gibs now or gibs never. While it's overall better for the economy to have more funds in private hands, it also results in greater social disparity, higher crime rates, less social cohesion, lower social trust, etc. - and due to wealth naturally assuming a pareto distribution in free market economies you will only disproportionately benefit from that additional wealth. While certainly there is a tipping point, voting for the populist might be the smartest thing you can do if you don't see yourself climbing the social ladder any time in the future. And for many people that clearly is an impossibility, as it is largely associated with IQ and conscientious personality, which are largely heritable traits.
That's why we have to reduce the amount of money that congress has available to spend (i.e. lower taxes).
they will just sell treasury bonds, and the world will buy them because the US is an empire, the reasons individual Americans are taxed is more for decorum purposes and to keep them from realising they don't need to be taxed at all
>no value
>literally ended the largest global conflict humanity has ever seen
im surprised people bother to remember this moron
>This man didn't predict the ways in which a new technology would change warfare? What a fricking moron!
Go on then, how about YOU predict the next major technology-related military innovation.
>next major technology-related military innovation.
No need for any such thing as there is no enemy worth the first world confronting militarily. The West's greatest enemy is its own people, and they are quite conquered. Social media and smartphones are the greatest weapon the world has ever seen.
Armoured bipedal weapons platforms controlled by biomechanically enhanced pilots through neural connection
Do the pilots have to be whiny 14 year old homosexuals with daddy issues?
Transmitting our social media trends over the battlefield causing the enemy to leave their position to do a goofy dance or some viral "challenge". Send the influencers to the front lines.
Imagine airplanes before aluminum
This is what he was thinking of when he thought plane.
Do note that he uses present tense. He was right : planes were largely useless and inconsequential in WW1.
Also, the entire world would have been much better off listening to Foch and dismantling Germany.
>Do note that he uses present tense. He was right : planes were largely useless and inconsequential in WW1.
They weren't a decisive factor yes, but you have had to be a fool to believe that planes had no potential.
It's the modern equivalent of saying that drones are useless lol
>Also, the entire world would have been much better off listening to Foch and dismantling Germany.
Why do morons believe that balkanizing Germany would magically make german nationalism dissappear or would not lead to other rivalries being the source for a next war?
I don't believe in linear history but dismantling Germany = eternal world peace is incredibly naive
The only source i find for this is that he said it when he was still a teacher at the Ecole de Guerre. If the quote is true, that would still mean he was talking about planes in their infancy. In which case the quote still holds true for when he said it, it’s not a prediction nor is it worded as a prediction. He had no trouble adopting combined arm tactics once planes DID gain military value.
There is no way this quote is true. It would be like discovering teleportation tech and saying there is no military value. Smooth brains think this quote is true.
They named an aircraft carrier after him btw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Foch
The problem with this one is that it assumed we would use this technology for leisure and live as kings.
Instead we use Zoom and Skype to sit through mandatory unpaid sensitivity training for jobs that contribute nothing to society other than to waste our limited time on earth so that we can afford these horrible gadgets in the first place.
Truly, our technology exceeds what was expected of us but so does our misery.
People also facetime and video chat their friends and families moron
Didn't a few people literally freeze to death in Britain last winter because gas prices more than tripled?
Old people die more often in cold winters and hot summers in every corner of the world. It's just basic biology and statistical inevitability.
Only the people weeks away from dying anyway, we had a mild winter this year. How the frick did people survive winter in wooden huts if people can't survive in brick houses with glass windows.
I've lived in cold shitty houses where I would get ice inside the windows, and at no point was I anywhere near freezing to death.
just a side note, thick walled old buildings are cold as frick
t. eurocuck
are you implying people are dying of poverty in Britain?
It's a fact
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/austerity-thousands-deaths-study-researchers-b1938504.html
>"Budyonny was a staunch proponent of horse cavalry. During the Great Purge, he testified against Mikhail Tukhachevsky's efforts to create an independent tank corps, claiming that it was so inferior to cavalry and illogical that it amounted to "wrecking" (sabotage). After being told of the importance of the tank in the coming war in 1939, he remarked, "You won't convince me. As soon as war is declared, everyone will shout, "Send for the Cavalry!"
>gets Tukhachevsky killed
>loses Kiev to tanks
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
Perhaps, through an unheard-of catastrophe produced by devices, we will return to health. When poison gases no longer suffice, an ordinary man, in the secrecy of a room in this world, will invent an incomparable explosive, compared to which the explosives currently in existence will be considered harmless toys. And another man, also ordinary, but a bit sicker than others, will steal this explosive and will climb up at the center of the earth, to set it on the spot where it can have the maximum effect. There will be an enormous explosion that no one will hear, and the earth, once again a nebula, will wander through the heavens, freed of parasites and sickness.
ZENO’S CONSCIENCE
Italo Svevo
Originally published in 1923
John 15:18
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’a If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
GIGA-BASED
Just look around on 4Cuck for proof of this verse
Nearly every nation in the world faced or is facing the need to combat Americanism, a generally pleasant retreat to a barbaric lack of culture. A victorious America would act brutally in this regard. Small and great cultural achievements that we have inherited from past generations and further developed would be taken from us, because the enemy envies them.
Everything holy to us would be mocked: Mother, heroes, God,
Glorification of the Black.Women transformed to girls,
Filth and smut for children and adults. Corruption of all areas of culture and life. The arts and sciences will lose their place to the pure practicality of architecture and technology and there will no longer be music in Mozart’s sense. Only one civilization, the American, will rule the world.
Die Gefahr des Amerikanismus, ”Das Schwarze Korps, 14 March 1944
Parole 22: Amerikanisierung wäre das Ende Europas!” Sprechabenddienst, Sept./Oct. 1944.
God I could drink this seethe like fine wine
You’re like a pig enjoying it’s own aroma.
That's a lot of words for, " I will never have a real ethnostate".
Who cares at this point. Society is going to hell, just as they predicted.
Dwight Eisenhower's speech about the military industrial complex
Patton's quote about the wrong side winning WW2, just before the israelites had him assassinated.
>we fought...le wrong enem-ACK
>All mankind bears witness to-day that there is no crime, no cruelty, no abomination that the mind of man can conceive which the German has not perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is allowed to go on.
Kipling
a french guy called the frenchmen sended me a mail with a youtube link set some subtitles and watch closely
Wired Magazine, July 1997.
In an article about the future "Long Boom" of the 21st century, Wired put out a list of 10 ways for such a great revolution in prosperity to derail.
And it turned out that almost all of them came true.
>the russia one
Wired, I kneel...
>97
Black person that was already happening, it was merely an observation
Hardly prophetic. Establishment progressives have been hand wringing over all of these things for decades
2000s roadmap kek
Olivares and the TYW's duration, Foch and WW2
lee was right
>NOOO IMPERIALISM BAD
>but also we're doing this lol
lee wasn't a member of the golden circle
I always wondered, how would you conquer areas as a confederation where any state can constitutionally leave? You'd conquer Cuba, they'd become a confederate state, and then the next day they'd just constitutionally leave, becoming a free nation again?
keep them as "territories" instead of states until you have a sufficient number of white settlers
>alternate history
Why?
At no point was this an offcial policy of the confederates. This was the dream of a very small number people. The rest was concerned with actually winning the civil war and probably didn't even know the plan or the order of the golden circle at all.
Sorta, but the ruin didn’t come until the New Deal, and it’s motivating forces didn’t really have anything to do with the Union, the Civil War, or Reconstruction. States rights died when the 17th amendment was passed, not when the North won the war
>In 1835, 98 years before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized power in Germany, Heine wrote in his essay "The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany":
>Christianity – and that is its greatest merit – has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors, that insane Berserk rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often, will once more burst into flame. This talisman is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably. Then the ancient stony gods will rise from the forgotten debris and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes, and finally Thor with his giant hammer will jump up and smash the Gothic cathedrals. ... Do not smile at my advice – the advice of a dreamer who warns you against Kantians, Fichteans, and philosophers of nature. Do not smile at the visionary who anticipates the same revolution in the realm of the visible as has taken place in the spiritual. Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder. German thunder is of true Germanic character; it is not very nimble, but rumbles along ponderously. Yet, it will come and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world's history, then you know that the German thunderbolt has fallen at last. At that uproar the eagles of the air will drop dead, and lions in the remotest deserts of Africa will hide in their royal dens. A play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll.
And another one (this one from Nietzsche) that could be applied to the Nazis/fascists, from the Will to Power:
>868 (Nov. 1887-March 1888)
>Overall view of the future European: the most intelligent slave animals, very indutsrious, fundamentally very modest, inquisitive to excess, multifarious, pampered, weak of will—a cosmopolitan chaos of affects and intelligence. How could a stronger species raise itself out of him? A species with classical taste? Classical taste: this means will to simplification, strengthening, to visible happiness, to the terrible, the courage of psychological nakedness (—simplification is a consequence of the will to strengthening; allowing happiness to become visible, also nakedness, a consequence of the will to be terrible— ). To fight upward out of that chaos to this form— requires a compulsion: one must be faced with the choice of perishing or prevailing. A dominating race can grow up only out of terrible and violent beginnings. Problem: where are the barbarians of the twentieth century? Obviously, they will come into view and consolidate themselves only after tremendous socialist crises— they will be the elements capable of the greatest severity toward themselves and able to gurantee the most enduring will.
>A play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll.
>where are the barbarians of the twentieth century
all failed in the end, what use is strength and passion if it is thrown aimlessly at the nearest object until the world grows tired of your existence and closes in on you
One of Hitler's paintings was by Franz von Stuck. Pic related, it's called "The Sin"
>all failed in the end
Listen I'm not a Nazi, and the guys I posted aren't Nazis either. In fact, Heine was one of the most censored authors in the Reich. But why does "winning in the end" matter at all?
Nothing can last forever, that's the first principle of every organic thing (societies are organic, too). So, given that every enterprise, every goal will eventually reach its decadence and then death, nothing can win eternally. The names we now know of will be despised in the future and eventually forgotten. When you realize this you can cry like a b***h or you can move forward with a pessimism of strength, for even if you win just once, that's still winning and no one can take that feeling of victory away from you
>It is strange how, among all the justified praise heaped upon Heinlein, what should have counted as one of the most brilliant successes of his entire career is very much overlooked. I talk, of course, about the 1940 story "Solution Unsatisfactory". At the time when the Second World War just got seriously going, the United States and Soviet Union had not yet become directly involved and the world's attention was riveted on the unfolding Battle of Britain, Heinlein was four or five steps ahead of everybody. More than a year before Roosevelt authorized the Manhattan Project, Heinlein correctly foresaw that: a) The President of the US would initiate a secret project to develop nuclear weapons and employ scientist refugees from Nazi Europe; b) By 1945, the US would have a weapon able to destroy an entire city in one blow from a single airplane – and would use that weapon to end to war; c) That with the US having thus won the war, the world would become aware of the realities of a nuclear arms race – without using the term, Heinlein predicted and described in detail the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction; and d) Concretely, the main issue on the agenda in the post-1945 years would be whether the Soviet Union would obtain nuclear arms, and if it did – would the Soviets try to launch a surprise nuclear attack on the United States. For having predicted all that in 1940 – even to accurately predicting the remorse and guilt feeling of the scientists involved – Heinlein deserves much plaudits. In my view, this should have counted for than the Future History – which is entertaining but widely off the mark as, well, future history.[61]
Impressive, but
>Between 1939 and 1940, Joliot-Curie's team applied for a patent family covering different use cases of atomic energy, one (case III, in patent FR 971,324 - Perfectionnements aux charges explosives, meaning Improvements in Explosive Charges) being the first official document explicitly mentioning a nuclear explosion as a purpose, including for war.[101] This patent was applied for on May 4, 1939, but only granted in 1950, being withheld by French authorities in the meantime.
Did the Soviets
almost join the Axis powers? Germany, Italy, Japan, etc?
Sort of.
The Germans and Soviets hated each other, but they did have an uneasy alliance for a while.
The Germans needed Soviet trade to fund their wars and build up, the Soviets needed German money and an ally that could defend them should the British and the like come for them again.
I wish, that fashion is kino
lmao dis homie looks like a togepi
JoJo part nine leak
Thomas Jefferson:
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.“
and yet is the government that is printing money and causing inflation, not the private banks
Love him, hate him, in your heart you know he is 100% right.
"same shit; another day"
Marx and Engels predicted that the mass of proletariat would continue to grow and the mass of capitalists would shrink while essentially concentrating the accumulated capital into very few hands. Accurate.
a lot of those nazi posters, wew
>Nature
>Women who are not almost naked
>flying car
at least they got the visiophone right.