@SandyofCthulhu Hell, it’s been argued that the primary reason the First Crusade succeeded in the first place was because the Sunni Seljuks and the Shia Fatimids were more focused on fighting each other than the crusaders.
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JosephBForaker
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JosephBForaker
@JosephBForaker
Still waving the bloody shirt. Free markets & free people.
Illinois, USA Beigetreten Ağustos 2025
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@SandyofCthulhu The problem is that you’re viewing Muslims as this monolithic civilization when they very much were not. Medieval Islamic states fought each other just as much if not more than they fought Christians or others.
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By the time of the Crusades, there had already been a Muslim incursion so deep into France that the ensuing battle (Tours) was fought midway between Nantes and Paris. The Muslims owned Sicily. They owned Spain. They were deep into India. They weren't a peaceful retiring civilization happy to tend their gardens.
In fact after the First Crusade, the Muslims continued to conquer, eventually taking down the Byzantines and all the Balkans.
The First Crusade was an audacious and courageous strike against a force that the crusaders felt menaced all Christendom. Were they justified? That has to be determined by your own moral compass. But certainly they weren't just picking on the poor oppressed Mohammedans.
Natasha Montreal@NatashaMontreal
The Crusades were not random wars of aggression. The Crusades were the Eastern Christian response to centuries of Islamic conquest. They were primarily defensive wars. In early Christianity there were five centers of high authority: Rome, Alexandria, Constantine, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Each one had a Bishop and administered a large region, both politically and religiously. The origins were Apostolic and the cities were the core seats of Christian authority. Islam rose out of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s. Almost immediately after consolidating power in Arabia, the Muslim state launched rapid military expansion against its neighbors from 632 onward. Islam took 3 out of 5 of the Patriarchal Holy Sees (Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) in the 7th century. The Crusades were the Eastern counteroffensive. The Muslims had conquered the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and were in Tours, France by 732. It took over 700 years for the Spaniards to expel the invaders. The Reconquista was a parallel Western front. The Ottomans laid seige to central Europe for hundreds of years. They took the Balkans and Constantinople fell in 1453. Vlad Tepes of Wallachia (reimagined in modern times as the horror character Dracula) fought them off heroically for 6 years and drove them out of his principality. They laid seige on Vienna in 1529 and were expelled from Vienna 160 years later. Only Rome remained from the original Holy Sees after 1453 when Constantinople fell. Things you don't learn in school these days.
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@bigbenjiyahu @roseromaunt Of course. That’s what everyone should do when told that “medieval people didn’t bathe”.
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@JosephBForaker @roseromaunt Did you say anything?
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Just saw a video claiming people in medieval Europe didn’t know what bathing was
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We really need that “Robert’s Rebellion” spinoff,need to see how good Ned stark was.
GameofThrones Quotes@ASOIAFQuotesGOT
"I don’t fight in tournaments, because when I fight a man for real, I don’t want him to know what I can do." Eddard Stark
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@RomeInTheEast If I recall correctly, the Romans (Byzantines) actually kept several patriarchs-in-exile just hanging out in Constantinople. Anna references a patriarch of Antioch in exile in the Alexiad
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In 600AD there were 5 cities of honor in Christendom, each with their own Patriarch. Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria.
The Pentarchy does exist administratively, but 4/5 cities were later conquered and more or less removed from the world of Christendom!
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@mitterrandiste Calling him the great khan has lost its luster since he discovered wegovy
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Long live the Great Khan!
AF Post@AFpost
Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker speaks about a Democratic "Project 2029" in which members of the current Trump administration, along with federal agents, will be criminally and civilly prosecuted. "Whatever it is that we can do. It may be that you cannot criminally prosecute somebody, but you can go after them civilly." Follow: @AFpost
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@DrewSav It should be noted that, whatever your personal disagreements with him, Rubio is still objectively one of if not the most competent cabinet member. That said, the bar is not particularly high.
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Martin Heinrich's defense for supporting Mullin's nomination is the same argument Dems had for supporting Rubio and look how that turned out. Rubio has abandoned every belief he had. Hoping that he might find the courage to tell Trump the truth didn't quite pan out.
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@Remnicore_ Why would you willingly subject your poor gf to the horror that is TLJ?
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I showed my gf TLJ last month and briefed her on all this. Her reaction made me realize that the most confusing part of Star Wars for first-time viewers isn’t understanding the lore. It’s trying to understand the psychology of the average Star Wars fan.
Star Wars Holocron@sw_holocron
Kelly Marie Tran reflects on the backlash she faced for THE LAST JEDI nearly 10 years after its release. “I will say, when I think about that time, which was ten years ago now, the thing that I think I didn't understand was that it wasn't my fault. My first reaction was to internalize everything that I was receiving. And use it as evidence that I wasn't supposed to be there... If it happened to me now as someone who has been through ten years of therapy and joined support groups and done all this work on myself, I think that I would have had a very different experience.” (Source: cbr.com/kelly-marie-tr…)
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@Swurv__ The first time I tried the quest is bugged out and I couldn’t complete it. The second time I did I ran into my in-game parents (the best part of the game by far for me) but the quest still bugged out. Thankfully, the bug wasn’t so bad and I actually managed to finish the quest.
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Its funny, cause when you do the quest that is above this scene, there is tons of sneaking around, killing enemies, avoiding traps. You even get to decide whether or not to execute a man at the end of it. This doesn't satisfy everyone's inner edge lord apparently.
RAZORWIRE@RazorwireRPG
No single image of Starfield better illustrates how toothless, gutless, lacking in grit and texture than this one does. I made the mistake of visiting Neon late in my playthrough, excited about the idea of visiting a sleazy Cyberpunk planet. What I found was a clown show. There is something hollow and sad about the entirety of Starfield's worldbuilding and lore, that I can't even bring myself to be mad about - I'm just disappointed. This doesn't feel like a universe comprised of competing factions and people, it feels like a bunch of empty mannequins shooting at each other over nothing. Everything feels so dumbed down and family friendly. All the edges filed off to make everything palatable and bland. It's sad.
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@EdbieLigerSmith “Western media is all corporate lies! I trust actual reputable sources like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran!”
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He literally stabbed a cop to death. Try that in America you’ll get shot in the head before you can pull the knife out.
TMZ@TMZ
Iran publicly executes a teen champion wrestler for participating in protests against the Khamenei regime. tmz.me/S0UJCid
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@ThePoetGeeski Meanwhile Chris Brown is still selling out stadiums. Truth is, our society has always made excuses for domestic violence for celebrities whether the perpetrators be male or female and it’s awful either way.
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Justify your civil war choice in Skyrim👇
And don’t give me the “oh the Nords are racist” as your justification for the empire. everyone in elder scrolls is racist. Just Google the shit Tiber septim did to summerset with a gundam
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@justinhall46024 @PeterMeijer Did you even read the article?
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@PeterMeijer I don’t have a dog in the fight. But we are not going to question the motives of a decades old allegation? Seems like taking this at face value would be a mistake
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This is beyond horrific. Cesar Chavez was an absolute monster who used the cloak of civil rights to prey on women and girls.
Shane Goldmacher@ShaneGoldmacher
MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…
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@lanabeesfw This is absolutely, 100% correct. Ignore the morons who say otherwise.
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Having sex with lots of people is completely fine as long as youre safe about STDs/STIs and everyone is consenting. Nothing bad happens to your soul, it doesnt change your body, it doesnt ruin or soil you like religious propaganda wants you to believe.
Hoops@Hoopss
What opinion will get you in this position?
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@itsbushwacker @GooseChees @lanabeesfw The reason this is the case is that the women who are less likely to have premarital sex are religious and thus less likely to get divorced in the first place.
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@trouble_man90 Leftists: “Why can’t we connect with working class voters?
Average working class voter: “Wow, I really fucking hate trans people” (and that’s bad)
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@irishloubega If it was Quentin Tarantino directing Junglepussy would be just Samuel L Jackson in a wig and the security guard would be QT himself and he’d say the n word right before being shot
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if coogler directed it there'd be a sequence of all the ghosts of other famous bank robbers appearing
Bojack Fan Account@Cam_Unstoppable
If Coogler made it, no bullshit like this would be included
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Season 2 of surf dracula on streaming would have dracula lose his surfboard in the first episode and the rest of the season be about trying to get it back from a villain who ends up coming back again in season 4
dille@flurryfrenzy
Surf Dracula tweet undefeated
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@ConsulofRome_ He’s a great historian and a pretty decent guy too. He does make it very clear when he doesn’t like another historian, however.
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