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@BrynApollo @CaravelCapitan @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou

@El1asBryan @CaravelCapitan @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou It wasn’t perfect. It had problems. And also, it was overthrown by a genocidal, thieving tyrant who proved that he was willing to do absolutely anything for more power and wealth. This didn’t solve any of the main problems long term

@BrynApollo @CaravelCapitan @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou The Roman Republic was a de facto oligarchy with some democratic features which did plenty of tyrannical things throughout its existence (like killing the Gracchi brothers). Acting like it was a beacon of democracy overthrown by a tyrant who started a dark age is incredibly dumb.

@El1asBryan @CaravelCapitan @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou My god. North Korea is horrible because there’s nothing republican about it other than the Orwellian name of the government. The political system is a de facto hereditary monarchy in every way. Lol, you’re just proving my point

@BrynApollo @CaravelCapitan @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou You sound like someone ignoring all of the issues in North Korea because they’re called a Republic.

@El1asBryan @CaravelCapitan @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou You sound like someone praising Hitler for building the Autobahn and sometimes not killing people who groveled at his feet

@CaravelCapitan @BrynApollo @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou He did awful, tyrannical things like issuing blanket pardons for his political enemies and building public works.

@BrynApollo @JTAlexander_ @DrewPavlou The corrupt senators were tyrants themselves. Using theie positions to enrich themselves, their families and anyone rich enough to bribe them. Many of them attained their seats in the senate through nefarious and unscrupulous means. What evils exactly did Caesar commit?

@CookieDelFuego_ @westerosies The novellas they’re directly adapting so far are all around 100 pages. When they get further into the series and no longer have books to go directly off, they may get longer though.

@westerosies Wish they were more than six episodes a season

HBO CEO Casey Bloys confirms ‘A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS’ will be released annually: “They’re shooting season two now. One of the benefits of that is the production footprint is smaller and it is easier to get back to on an annual basis.” (source: deadline.com/2026/03/hbo-ma…)

@quinnthegm closest i've gotten is rewatching the scene of brienne being knighted. everything else is genuinely physically painful to watch.

i think i've only watched season 8 of Game of Thrones in full one time, when it was airing live in 2019. I don't know if i could do it again

@BlackMajikMan90 I can’t believe some guy started a fight with Alan Ritchson of all people over him going under 25 mph in a neighborhood on a motorcycle.

Yup, Alan Ritchson was 100% justified and this dude absolutely deserved the ass beating he got.

@TomBFlanagan They have a terminal case of Crusader Kings brain.

Not quite sure what the maker of this map thinks some of these terms actually mean and signify.

@bigblackjacobin Not sure how crazy of a pick this is, but Ewan Mitchell could do it imo.

i think lee pace could do it

@Earclacks Growerbros…

Flail ⛓️ VS 🟢 Grower

>new earclacks post >crossbow vs-

Still thinking about this. We missed an utopia

@WrestleFeatures Drawhausen

Danhausen still has the top selling shirt on WWE Shop right now. Randy Orton, Stone Cold, Roman Reigns and Finn Balor follow behind.

@left_plain Based and Dawipilled

flipped through Chiang Kai Shek's diaries for like ten mins the other day and discovered that he opens nearly every entry with a "daily shame" report wherein he records some particular insult or humiliation the Chinese nation suffered recently and/or historically. what a freak

What *would* happen if both the Appalachia Hillbilly and the Sichuan Farmer were to meet on the battlefield?

@HaangEmHiigh 🫡

where my small accounts moots are

@SpectoCustodes @leroyb756

@El1asBryan @leroyb756 The "they reported" is doing some heavy lifting there, considering it's about the central claim of the entire Christian religion

More Twitter atheist revisionism and mythicism. It's all they've got and it's pitiful. 1. “Only 2–5% by 100 AD” Yep, and that’s exactly what rapid growth looked like in antiquity. People hear “2–5%” and imagine a world with Facebook and cell phones. But in the ancient world, any movement that reached even 1% of a vast, multilingual empire was extraordinary. The Roman Empire had ~60 million people. If Christians were even 1% by 100 AD, that’s 600,000 Christians within 70 years of Jesus’ death. That's massive for a persecuted, illegal, decentralized, non-violent, non-ethnic, non-political movement with no army, no homeland, no institutional backing, and no literacy advantage. Christianity grew at ~3–4% per year for 250 years. That's faster than any other ancient religion we can track. A 3–4% annual growth in antiquity is, by any measure, explosive growth. “It was only slaves, women, and the poor” is simply false. We have named Christians in the 1st–3rd centuries who were: - wealthy patrons - Roman aristocrats - philosophers - military officers - synagogue leaders - householders - merchants - magistrates Celsus (the critic), who would know better than any and all atheist could, complains that Christianity was attracting philosophers, educated women, wealthy patrons, and Roman officials. And that started in Jesus' and the apostles lifetime with people like Pilate's wife. Celsus, who acrially lived it and isnt vomiting a scripted atheists apologetic, wishes it were only slaves and women. His whole polemic is that Christianity is annoyingly diverse and socially mobile. “Romans didn’t care about Christianity until 380 AD” Completely incorrect. In 64 AD Nero blames Christians for the fire of Rome. Tacitus calls Christianity a “deadly superstition” spreading through Rome like a disease. In 112 AD Pliny writes to Trajan asking how to stop Christianity. From 150–250 AD multiple emperors issue edicts against Christians. In 250 AD Decius issues empire-wide edict requiring sacrifices because Christianity was undermining traditional Roman religion. 303 AD marks Diocletian’s Great Persecution, the largest persecution in Roman history because by that time a tipping point had already been reached. “Philo didn’t mention Jesus, so Jesus didn’t exist” even atheist hero Bart Ehrman is tired of atheists' desperate, anti intellectual mythicism and so is everyone else. “No first-century non-Christian mentions Jesus” Again false Josephus (93 AD) references Jesus twice Tacitus mentions Jesus Pliny describes Christians worshipping Jesus. All these are first or early second-century sources, from hostile authors. “The Gospels are mythological stories” that doesn’t explain the data, match the history or reflect the present. It matches atheists trying to live in a reality as they would like it, rather than in the reality that is. Mythology does describe evolution, abiogenesis and "subjective" morality though. Those are all secular fables that Twitter atheists cling to.

@SpectoCustodes @leroyb756 josephus did mention the resurrection. the most famous version of the quote that was known in the west is obviously doctored, but here's a more neutral translation that was originally in arabic and then translated in israel in the 70s.

@leroyb756 You fail to address the critical, obvious point, though. No one mentions the miracles, the apostles speaking in tongues, or any other element. In fact, they don't mention anything about Jesus' actual ministry or life, other than what Christians believe

@LucasFryman I’m already envisioning the Wii music and shitty video editing.

I’m glad I’m seeing someone talk about this kind of video because, God, I hate them with a passion.

@danymeria time for Dunk & Egg, Fire & Blood, and AWOIAF.

i finished adwd. now what