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@BorealBaron "Greek historians from the 5th century" and "less biased" in the same sentence is wild... These were people according to whom the Greeks were always the good guys fighting evil barbarians, and outnumbered 1000 to 1, but always won.
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Greek historians from the 5th century BC are far less chauvinistic and biased than British historians of our era when discussing conflicts with their enemies. It’s no surprise that Bayliss draws parallels between the Spartans and the Third Reich, since it’s impossible for British historians to be objective about Germany
Academic Agent@AcademicAgent_X
300 is a cope. Always has been. This is abundantly clear even in The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss. Invasions are costly for the attackers always and thus the ratio is readily explainable. But also Herodotus is a major teller of porkies.
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@sitch_monitor @Lib_Development A 2k crown Vic today is not a car that can actively drive. If you think different you are an absolute moron.
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@Lib_Development an excellent deal is a 5k usd miata or 2k usd crown vic
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@romanhelmetguy Decimation is was viewed as a horrid practice and was almost only accepted by mutineers, as it was preferable to all of them getting executed.
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In the 4th century BC, a Roman general could convince his men to draw lots and beat each other to death. In the 4th century AD, a Roman general couldn't convince his men to wear their helmets.
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@number_pizza111 Constantine was incredibly smart to wait considering some of the actions he took in his lifetime.
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A lot of Romans, Constantine the most famous among them, tried to min-max Christianity by living their lived however they wanted, getting baptized immediately before their deaths, and having all their sins forgiven and being guaranteed entry to heaven.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
The whole heaven/hell thing just kind of gives bad incentives. If you’re already like pretty bad, the optimal play is just to be really bad if you want because it’s the same punishment! Surely there should be a sliding scale of punishments.
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@arguablysomaya Italians were always white in the US. Show me a single case of miscegenation laws being applied to Italian anywhere I the US. That industrial America thought some Euro groups were superior to others doesn’t mean that Italians were viewed as non whites
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the inclusion of italians into whiteness was a pretty bad disruption in the right’s phenotypical project bc now everyone from egypt up can reasonably pass as white and you can tell they’ve been frustrated by this ever since 9/11
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@g_ldn_f @ColeSandick The gender wars of SK make whatever weird stuff you’ve seen about Japan look fairly mild.
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Korea has an incredible standard of living. I’d argue amongst the best in the world.
It’s Japan without all the weird shit.
Poland has the fastest growing economy in Europe.
Ireland’s pretty solid
I do agree with you though but I think we need to pick some better examples other than general solid places to live.
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Britain’s collapse might be the world’s most underreported story. Within a generation they could have a lower standard of living than South Korea, than Poland, than *Ireland*. And it’s solely the fault of bad governance, there’s been no external crisis, no institutional collapse.
Academic Agent@AcademicAgent_X
Real-terms GDP per capita growth per Prime Minister: Winston Churchill: +0.8% Clement Attlee: +3.2% Winston Churchill: +9.8% Anthony Eden: +4.5% Harold Macmillan: +14.3% Alec Douglas-Home: +2.3% Harold Wilson: +13.6% Edward Heath: +8.1% Harold Wilson: +3.8% James Callaghan: +5.5% Margaret Thatcher: +2.7% John Major: +7.2% Tony Blair: +7.8% Gordon Brown: +1.9% David Cameron: -12.9% Theresa May: -7.4% Boris Johnson: -3.7% Liz Truss: 0.0% Rishi Sunak: -1.0% Keir Starmer: -1.0%
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All of the Late Republican Optimates were repulsive in their own way. Cicero wrote a brief poem celebrating his extrajudicial murder of political opponents that loosely translates to "How fortunate for Rome to date/her birthday from my Consulate."
J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander_
I dislike the *meme* of Roman History, because while many people know gists and vibes, they don't seem to know the particulars. A good litmus test is one's view of the Late Republic. If someone speaks fondly of the Late Republic, they are most likely either a rube or projecting. Our Founders, for example, projected their Enlightenment views onto a Republic that held virtually zero of those views. (See pic related; in this instance I don't apply it only to modern Leftists, but Classical Liberals in general.) Caesar didn't just appear out of nowhere. The only truly unprecedented things Caesar did was cross the Rhine and the English Channel. He wasn't even the first to "cross the Rubicon" in his own lifetime. If you know the detailed history of the Republic, rather than act like its final demise was some tragedy forced by the tyrannical mad dog known as Gaius Julius Caesar, you'd recognize that it was a terminally sick institution in the midst of collapse that was ultimately *saved* by Caesar's consolidation of power, his leaving it to the Triumvirate, and then Octavian's re-consolidation of that power into one supreme First Citizen. The Principate didn't create some new Office of the Emperor. Octavian consolidated power that already existed in various forms so that rather than a bunch of guys fighting civil wars over and over, which were frequent events, there was some stability. This stability led to the most widespread period of peace the world would know for more than a thousand years in either direction. If you consider this a bad outcome, then you're just not a serious interlocutor.
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@newlooklurker @Mazzagattiii @bkwhufc Are you retarded or unaware that’s a typical Georgian name and that this occurred in Georgia?
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@Mazzagattiii @bkwhufc "Entirely unprovoked and random attack"
Star Wars name
Schizophrenia
Released without bail, NGRI
Send them back.
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@TharnexTaspix @waxaxe1 @HeerJeet Fogerty also joined the guard to avoid the actual draft so he might not want to throw stones there
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The US has elected three presidents who evaded service in Vietnam War (Clinton, Bush, Trump). It has repeatedly rejected candidates who served in Vietnam with distinction (Gore, Kerry, McCain). The logical conclusion is US public doesn't care about this stuff. Maybe they should, but they don't.
Rick Wilson@TheRickWilson
Please don’t send this to @realdonaldtrump or his family members. It would be wrong to remind everyone he was a 5-time draft dodger and a coward.
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@MurrayHillGuy1 This is tattling on yourself and admitting you have no friends besides drinking buddies and don’t know how to make them outside the comfort of the bar lmao
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Typical timeline of the American normie:
• Varsity athlete in HS (peaked at 17)
• Big Ten/SEC school, blacked out Thurs–Sat
• Moves to a “fun” city for 3–4 years to continue college lifestyle
• Slowly becomes a slave to a normie desk job
• Settles for a beautiful mid at 31 because “it’s time”
• Promoted a few times, still checks Slack at 9pm
• Buys a house 45 min outside the city in the suburbs
• Gains 30 lbs and calls it a “dad bod”
• Develops a concerning addiction to gardening/lawn care and Costco runs
• Sees friends 3x a year if lucky
• 2 family vacations a year (one beach, one obligatory holiday)
• Pops out a kid to run the exact same script
is this the dream or did we all just agree to it?
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@ScottMGreer Euros don’t seem to understand that we just find them kinda effeminate, really not much deeper.
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