Count Hastfer

@QuintusCurtius Sad that by the time of Agesilaus the Oliganthropia has taken its toll on Sparta.

From the biography of Agesilaus the Spartan from my translation of Cornelius Nepos's "Lives of the Great Commanders." (amzn.to/3P8TaIN). The passage describes early Sparta's unusual dual monarchy system--and it references Hercules as an actual historical figure.

@aristomarinetti The book name please

Hegel said copying Heraclitus: those peoples who choose death rather than slavery or submission in a confrontation, that is a people of masters.

@GrayConnolly Could Britain afford the Empire? I always thought that margin between costs and benefits was thinning and even dipped below zero

No one at the time thought they were intentionally presiding over the loss of empire or the diminution of the Royal Navy etc … instead weasel words were found then as now for what was being lost

@UpdatingOnRome Hannibal never vaped or smoked!

One year clean 🙏

@johnkonrad @elonmusk Looks like a ragebait strategy to promote Onlyfans.

@johnkonrad @elonmusk So, the husband is perfectly fine with that

@UpdatingOnRome The ghosts or Cannae are still disturbing you

Classic Carthage.

@GrayConnolly Last castle

As a maker of unpopular takes... I saw "The Way We Were" later than most & thought the end reflected very poorly on Redford's (RIP) character who knew Barbara Streisand was a communist etc when he married her & had child .... but he then cut her away when she was an impediment

@johnkonrad Why trying to keep the woman who did not love him? She wanted out, he should have let her go.

A friend of mine went through this. The dude is an awesome dad. Early 40’s. Tall, handsome guy. Made good money. Graduated a top college. He restored an old house himself. Always was talking up his wife. Kids lacrosse coach. Kept in shape just incase he needed to defend his family. No major vices. She wants out. He insists on counseling. Counselor says he’s right. She flips out says he picked a biased counselor. So she asks all her girlfriends for a wife friendly female counselor who will “understand me”. They go. The counselor apparently lost her mind. Starts yelling at the wife. “Listen to him. I’m happily married and I’m jealous of you. All he keeps saying is how much he loves you. How he prays every night for your happiness. And he is HOT!” The whole thing boiled down to he refused to go to woke wine tastings, art shows, wedding receptions for people they barely know and baby showers with her. Girl stuff. And he claims he didn’t even refuse, he just said they had to take separate cars so he could jet after 30 minutes. That was his only request in life. Bonkers. Bonkers!

@restitutorII Which turkish medieval sources do exist on the topic?

Voici une pseudo-série produite par la chaîne publique turque TRT, dans laquelle le sultan Mehmed II est représenté partageant un repas avec des janissaires dans une atmosphère presque égalitaire et fraternelle. Cette mise en scène relève pourtant bien davantage du roman national contemporain initié par Erdogan que de la réalité historique. Dans les faits, après la prise de Constantinople lors de Chute de Constantinople, Mehmed II entra dans une logique impériale beaucoup plus ambitieuse: il se considérait désormais comme le successeur des empereurs romains et revendiquait explicitement le titre de « César des Romains » (Kayser-i Rûm), c’est-à-dire héritier de l’Empire romain d’Orient. Loin d’adopter une posture de chef militaire proche de ses soldats, il entreprit au contraire de reproduire une large partie du protocole impérial romain afin de sacraliser davantage la fonction souveraine ottomane. Le véritable Mehmed II n’était donc pas un souverain populiste partageant familièrement ses repas avec ses troupes ; il cultivait une distance cérémonielle extrêmement stricte, au point de ne même pas permettre à sa propre famille de manger avec lui selon l’étiquette de cour instaurée après la conquête selon les coutumes du palais impérial romain. Cette séparation rigoureuse entre le souverain et ses sujets faisait précisément partie de sa stratégie visant à transformer la dynastie ottomane en pouvoir impérial universel, dans la continuité symbolique des Césars romains. En présentant Mehmed II comme une sorte de commandant fraternel attablé parmi les janissaires, cette production avec la complicité du gouvernement Erdogan réduit donc une figure impériale complexe, obsédée par la majesté monarchique et la centralisation du pouvoir, à une caricature bas de gamme de chef militaire populaire, adaptée aux sensibilités nationalistes modernes par le gouvernement Erdogan. On transforme ainsi un souverain qui aspirait à incarner l’héritier des empereurs romains en simple "sergent ottoman" au service d’une narration télévisuelle idéologisée par le pouvoir en place, pour servir les narrations d'Erdogan et de sa bande.

@ChivalryGuild Get well, man! Have you been bitten by a tick?

Going to be pretty quiet for a while. Just started treatment for Lyme's and am feeling the need for a general reset. Hope all X frens are doing better—God bless!

@AlbionSteel @NobleBrown @QuintusCurtius You've picked the ones very very far from average

@NobleBrown @QuintusCurtius Yeah fucking terrible

Of all the peoples of the world, the British alone, for successive centuries now, have mastered the curious ethic of the gentleman adventurer. What propelled him from his foggy insular domain, and set him loose upon the world, no one has yet determined.

@realpeteyb123 Margin means a speculator, not investor

If I can tell anyone one word of advice who is an investor and follows me? Don’t use margin, especially now. Don’t be their cattle 🐄

@UpdatingOnRome Swap flamethrower for corvus and the vikings for the carthaginians and it will be clean af

Drop the “Byzantine” It’s cleaner.

@Babygravy9 Does he think that's a problem?

Still can't believe he blamed the total bogging of his face on slipping over in his kitchen and breaking his jaw on a granite counter.

@ChivalryGuild Now try with the puddle 😏

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” - CSL

@realpeteyb123 Man likely put his ego above his responsibility to raise the kids

My post telling men to not suicide themselves like other man who left his three kids orphaned has been flagged as hateful conduct. I did nothing wrong and broke no rules with that post. If anything I should be awarded with the amount of men that have reached out for help.

@UpdatingOnRome It was, actually)

Facebook told me this was antisemitic

@gurj_jaswal @UpdatingOnRome He was a roman, Alexious was greek. It is that simple

@Count_Hastfer @UpdatingOnRome Sarcasm detected. Whatever, Cato has no say in the matter.

@_putonthemask_ Since the only living infantry are stormtroopers, they must be the good guys, right?

The only limit in Star Wars is your imagination, which makes it one of the ultimate forms of fiction: freedom to invent yourself, boundless and limitless creative liberty. Few universes have this. Those that trivialize it or dislike it are hamstrung by their inability to create.