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@ripwtephenwurry @IndoAmericanMan @RedGreenBC They absolutely were lmfao what are you on about

@IndoAmericanMan @UMaterialist @RedGreenBC "scythians were iranic" in big 26😭😭😭

Turks and mongols developed horse archery and feigned-retreat tactics because they understood that the one thing you can never, ever do is let a stocky Anatolian/Caucasian/Slav black sea style individual get ahold of you.

@ZNN_Andy @BlueRepublik There is also Muhammad

@BlueRepublik The only person I can think of who would be a legit case for GMT, would be Ghengis Khan. Took a steppe tribe into a continent-spanning empire within his lifetime, and to this day 0.5% of the worlds population shares his genes. And then without him, it broke into smaller empires.

I am sick and tired of people treating the “Great Man Theory of History” as just the idea that heroes or wildly influential people exist. That’s not what it posits! Rather the GMT posits that the primary cause or even guiding force of historical change is these men, rather than a larger societal shift happening and them just taking an influential role at the forefront To take an oft quoted favorite and one of the best plausible cases for the GMT: Napoleon. Napoleon didn’t revolutionize France alone, the upheaval of French society and new thought therein predates him, it is completely impossible to deny this - the monarchy was overthrown 7 years before he took power, he had virtually no distinctive role in this massive initial shift. He certainly had a massive guiding hand later, but he wasn’t the *initial cause* of the wave of change, rather an exceptional man within it- but Napoleon is too exceptional and we don’t have enough of his ilk to justify the GMT applying to all of History, despite it possibly working with him (or a weaker version of it). As for Homer’s epics, these men were heroes, but also playthings of the Gods. They simply didn’t transform society, rather they’re a mythical retelling of old set tradition, and heroes engaging in adventures and conquest within this tradition. Funnily enough there’s a better example that Roman Helmet Guy could cite but doesn’t - Aeneas! Virgil’s account of the story much better reflects someone who created a new society and led the future, whereas Hector, Odysseus and Achilles simply… don’t. Your better case would be Agamemnon or Menelaus who actually started the war, but neither of them really made a cultural shift per se. There’s also the problem that the Greek Gods are truly the manipulators here, whereas the GMT ascribes a much greater sort of self-will and sovereignty of decision to its Great Men. Update: I thought about it, and Hector is a GREAT example of someone who people might talk about relating to the GMT but is absolutely not! Many people know of Hector, RHG cites him as a Great Man of History but under the GMT… he doesn’t even come close to qualifying! His brother steals a woman and he dies in battle. What history changed? None! Rather he’s a great man and amazing hero and popular figure *DESPITE* not having a massive effect on the course of history.

@DrDiGiorgio @feelsdesperate @DrewPavlou American salaries are insane

@feelsdesperate @DrewPavlou There’s a handful of nurses in SF breaking $400k a year. Not crna. Not NP.

@feelsdesperate I know nurses in NYC who make six figures

@Mv7LFC @njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback And what if the jew is right aren't you cooked too then? And what if zoroastrian is right and so on. You do understand how ridiculous it all is right?

@UMaterialist @njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback You're entitled to think that and I respect it but once again, if I'm right you are quite literally cooked. If I'm wrong then tell me what I've lost? Nothing.

@Mv7LFC @njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback It’s all so ridiculous

@UMaterialist @njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback Judaism is for a specific people. So no, I couldn't be accepted by them. Islam claims to be the final universal message for everyone no matter how race etc, with one book, one language, preserved perfectly.

was the material ever tested

@Mv7LFC @njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback Could be said about a dozen other religions. So why not become a jew?

@UMaterialist @njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback If he's wrong, he loses nothing. If you're wrong...you burn forever

@njbq7 @sam_isthere @shegoisback And what if none of that transpires?

@sam_isthere @shegoisback I hope to see you while I'm in heaven while you're suffering in hell and they put the iron in your mouth full of dirt, you idiot

@ape_detective @ProphetableTrdr @moultano It's already being called

@UMaterialist @ProphetableTrdr @moultano That’s a bluff that can easily be called.

Every time we have immigration discourse I get tired of explaining to the "right" that a job is where you create more value than your wage, not a sinecure. Somehow it never actually gets through.

@Xyz1rx @ReighpDrumpf @RadishHarmers Why would we risk Nuclear annihilation for nris who don't even care about India?

@ReighpDrumpf @RadishHarmers India’s nuclear and atomic weapons will speak up.

No. Send more Indians to America. Our population is much larger and we can easily subvert their democracy to our will. They lack the backbone to implement the only effective safeguard (permanent suspension of elections). Let's make Bharat larger. Let's make Bharat maha again.

@ape_detective @ProphetableTrdr @moultano You deluded if you think american companies won't just completely outsource almost all engineering jobs if you ban legal immigration.

@ProphetableTrdr @moultano Because I want Americans to be better off. That’s why. When US tech companies are routinely going to US high schools and IQ testing the 16 year olds and offering the smartest ones free education, then we can be satisfied that our laws don’t disadvantage US workers.

@Demosthenesxx @blueberry_phase @mattparlmer America had almost completely unrestricted immigration during its ascent as a superpower.

@blueberry_phase @mattparlmer To you maybe, but to many it is their country... Its been a power since foundation cos it had a large European population at inception...

America is actually an economic zone, and always will be irrespective of whatever tantrum some interest group is throwing

@RenaldyApreza @worqas China was an economic power. It had very limited power projection outside of its regional sphere for most of history. The arabs and the Europeans could be said to have beeen superpowers.

@worqas China was a superpower in all centuries of humanity except the 19th and 20th Century. Where both centuries were stolen by England and America . And now we return to the original position

The hundred year period between 1900 to 2000 is the only time in the last two thousand years that China WASNT the biggest contributor to the global GDP.

@RahulKurup17 @mxtaverse European welfare systems are headed towards total collapse .

@mxtaverse If you can't afford to maintain your living standards in the US, you're already living like the poor in India. The US, China & India can keep their economic dick measuring contests going while its Europeans who just sit back and chill with their free education and healthcare.

Vishwagorillization of Amrika Biggest bubble which will burst in next 5 years will be QUALITY OF LIFE IN ABROAD

@Rex84N @JamesEisen1891 @stukharin I don't think a known pedo would care about that

@UMaterialist @JamesEisen1891 @stukharin You realize one person behind him died, right?

Mussolini’s last words were just “shoot me in the chest”. Due to the just world fallacy we like to imagine that all psychopaths/petty tyrants are secretly super insecure manbabies with daddy issues, but in reality often they are perfectly at peace as they are.

@JamesEisen1891 @stukharin That was so obviously staged lmfao

@stukharin We’ve literally seen him react to getting shot and he didn’t act like that

@futarch @kusganwan @TrueSlazac There are many who exceed him

@kusganwan @TrueSlazac he's the exception that proves the rule: there are no other great men because no one comes close to Napoleon

One of my favorite Napoleon moments is when he was exiled to Elba and singlehandedly turned it around in less than a year, he was just That Guy

@LibertyLion_ @liangshikai1990 @kusganwan @TrueSlazac Lenin and mao should also make the list

@liangshikai1990 @kusganwan @TrueSlazac Napoleon was the last guy to have Julius Caesar levels of historical impact and aura

@ShibaWienu @souljagoyteller What an insane thing to say

@souljagoyteller Why would it be an offense to me if men are paying to see my partner naked? They're losers who can find a woman who actually wants them to see her naked

What is it about OnlyFans paranoia. Do men genuinely have this existential dread about their girlfriends/wives selling images of themselves?

@showerwigger @iron_redux What is it about white men and cuck porn lmfao

One of the things you don't notice when you're 17 but you do later, is just how much women _enjoy_ the male proclivity for violence