@The_ANWTO @ShitpostRock2 Except he does have super powers and is physically superior to Jamie in every way. Also ignoring the fact that people knew how to handle people in plate, why would Aragon not?
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@PPEbtw @ShitpostRock2 Saying “aragon has super powers so he wins” is retarded. Those powers wont stop Jaime from charging him full-speed and stabbing him in the chest or cutting his head off. Jaime wears plate armor and a helmet, Aragon does not. End of fight.
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@The_ANWTO @ShitpostRock2 Aragon is a literal superhuman. The only way Jamie wins is if he has a shotgun right at his chest. Not to mention plate armour does not make one invincible. Much of our surviving depictions of sword fighting are about getting around this and stabbing the joints or battering them
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@ShitpostRock2 Still in shock this BS fake quote still makes the rounds.
youtu.be/6Rem-KsSrzU?si…
tldw: Jaime only wins cuz he always wears plate armor to a fight while Aragorn usually wears leather or at most chainmail.
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@anvilof @ConsulofRome_ This kind of armour was already popular before any serious interaction with the Goths. They only first appear as Roman allies under Constantius II and not as part of the Roman army but foreigners to be called up and to return home once they were dismissed
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@ConsulofRome_ Goths served in Roman armies in the period and their fashion spread around the empire. There was a heavy Sassanid Persian influence on Roman armour/clothing as well.
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A lot of commenters about how this looks Germanic as opposed to Roman are seemingly unaware that most Roman armour was taken from other peoples.
Rome@ConsulofRome_
A Roman officer of the 4th century AD
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@TU84LC41N @ConsulofRome_ Armour was made in factories by men on contract. They weren’t just importing people to do that job, nor would it make any sense to. Germanic people weren’t making armour for the Roman army, it was the Romans doing it
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@ConsulofRome_ Not to mention a high percentage of the men making and wearing said armor were Romanized “provincials” of Germanic extraction.
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@GuyInRealLife81 @ConsulofRome_ Goths were in the East, and foreign soldiers were far rarer. Constantius II defeated them and had a treaty where they could be called up but they weren’t part of the Roman army. Even in the 5th century they weren’t really part of the army
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@SargentUniverse @WigglyCath He raped a Vestal Virgin. It was literal sacrilege, not by 'modern standards', but by the values of people in the day it was both a horrifying rape of an elite woman and sacrilege.
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@PPEbtw @WigglyCath For the love of Zeus, almost everyone in Roman times according to our modern standars was a rapist (also Elangabalus was very unpopular so it is normal that all the founts we have of him are someway exagerated)
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"The psychotic cultist emperor who spent his reigning years having underage homosexual sex with adult men and was assassinated at only 18 because he was that terrible was a heckin' valid woman. TAKE THAT TERFS!!! TRANS RIGHTS!!!!"
Queen Chimerazilla ☭🐾 🏳️⚧️@Qveen_Potato
🏳️⚧️ Roman Empress
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@SargentUniverse @WigglyCath He was also a rapist while no other Roman Emperor we know of was one at the age of 15
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@WigglyCath Elangabalus was a freaking child dude, he was 15 when he started his reign, what do you spect from him?!?! Trajan 2.0?!?!
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@Hattydovah >Rapist
>Sadist
>Commits Sacrilege
>Managed to antagonise everybody
>Incompetent
>Completely uninterested in doing any work
Trans Icon.
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All we're told about Elegabalus comes from hating ass senators in an age where "woman" was the worst insult of all
Cassius Dio's "Call me not Lord, for I am a Lady" was him calling him a gay bitch
Queen Chimerazilla ☭🐾 🏳️⚧️@Qveen_Potato
🏳️⚧️ Roman Empress
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@MarcoJM164 @FrenlyOfficer It is a realistic tv showing of how rape can ruin a life. It is a serious topic.
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@FrenlyOfficer You know irrespective of your thoughts on whether or not Criston was raped, it’s inappropriate to piggyback off a serious topic and make it about fiction in this way.
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@Crusadah44 @ShitpostRock Both Carthage and Rome had anywhere between 200-300k men active at any time during the war. Carthage had far more resources than you give it credit for.
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@ShitpostRock He could never won; Rome by the census of that time had 900k citizens that could be mobilized in times of need, Carthage had about 45k + mercenaries. He'd need to win at least two more Cannae to start whittling Rome down, and that was near-impossible.
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@uncle_deluge Rome was not only more militarised, didn’t rely on a massive underclass to achieve it and it wasn’t a failed state which fell into irrelevancy due to incompetence. Nor were hypocrites, Xenophons rhetoric is all anti-Persian and then you see that they were Persian vassals
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You know what "a hyper-militarized state in perpetual opposition to everyone else" also describes? Rome.
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The drive people have to diminish and push back against anything young men might find cool needs to be studied. Yes, a city from thousands of years ago is in ruins. It is joined by nearly every other city from the same period, regardless of ideology.
ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki
Sparta failed so hard that all is left now are a few scattered ruins. It turned out that being a hyper-militarised state in perpetual opposition to everyone else was a bad idea.
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@x3notrope I can only think of it like hysterics to do with Napoleon in the 1900's. It's been too long, who cares anymore?
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Trying to explain to anyone under 25 how well these lines used to work.
"Why tho?"
I dunno but... no, I'm not making it up.
Politics For You@PoliticoForYou
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 Restore Britain Party members forced to elect Rupert Lowe as leader after their original 1st choice candidate shot himself in a bunker in 1945.
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@yaqobhyndes Byzantium and the Caliphate is a good example of something more with pitched battles, where multiple major pitched battles could occur yearly but little siege against walled cities or major fortifications. Not to say minor fortifications and settlements didn't change hands often
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I've long been meaning to do proper research into the pop history claim that "medieval sieges were more common than pitched battles". This quickly runs into a lot of problems, I think many of which are caused by historians using the 100 years war as a baseline 🧵
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Here are some state restrictions on islam in Tajikistan:
- Long beards are unofficially banned, with bearded men sometimes shaved by police in the street
- Foreign (read: islamic) clothing is banned
- Islamic and Arabic baby names are banned, with Tajik/Persian names encouraged instead
- The hijab is banned
- Islamic holidays and celebrations are severely restricted, while Persian traditions are promoted instead
- Cousin marriages are illegal, DNA tests are mandatory to make sure couples are not related
- No mosque is allowed to operate outside of state control
- Nobody under 18 is allowed to attend religious services in mosques
This is how to preserve native heritage against foreign ideologies and religions.
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@Kilo1Foxtr49349 @ProjectLiberal Coinage debasement largely stopped by Diocletian and emperors throughout the 4th century worked to actively reverse it
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@ProjectLiberal >Rome fell to diversity
Nigga, nah.
Rome fell because the government started minting coins like crazy, and started giving away shit for "free", fucking over merchants and wealthy citizens in the process.
That, plus constant wars and rebellions, because not everyone wanted in.
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@DytrykJesionek @ThatchEffendi Most of these weren’t refugees. Other than the Goths. Nearly every group invading in the 5th century did so to carve out new lands for themselves and were far away from the Huns
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@ThatchEffendi ‘Rome fell because of inmigration’ types really need to account for the fact that the Romans did try to push back or break up migrating peoples (refugees, really) whenever they could and they still lost Western Europe
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In 1461, people who were religiously Christian, linguistically Greek and genetically mostly indigenous to the Pontic highlands of the northeastern Black Sea were willing to die for the last scrap of what they believed to be Rome.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
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@xixiosp @dornishgoblin Funnily enough the Lance system was slightly cheaper than the ad hoc careerist forces fighting for both sides. It also included a very large seasonal soldier component which was basically funded through tax breaks to those who signed on
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@dornishgoblin He could have achieved that, if an abnormally large ammount of noble houses got extinct and their possessions went to the crown, kinda like the french king inherited a lot of land from the nobles that died in The Hundred Years War
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@JJ0414831582803 @dornishgoblin Frankly with the revenues that the crown should be bringing in, a standing army isn't that absurd. Byzantium had a standing army until the late 11th century, and it reached a peak of nearly 100,000 men. Even without the administrative advantage, he rules a kingdom 50x larger.
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@dornishgoblin Does he? There's a reason why most medieval states didn't have a standing army.
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