Bad History Takes
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Debunking the worst history takes on the internet. DMs are open to submissions. Run by @JasonLHughes , a "gay, activist nerd who can't change his own oil."
Sir John Glubb, a British Lieutenant General, spent 36 years commanding armies in the Middle East. He studied every major empire in recorded history and found something he didn't expect. Every single empire (Assyria, Persia, Rome, the Arabs, the Ottomans, Spain, Britain) lasted about the same length of time. 250 years. And they all died the same way. (thread) 🧵
A lot of people forget this... ...but America's first ever overseas war was fought against state-sponsored Islamic jihadists who attacked American ships and took Americans as slaves Jefferson literally bought a Quran and concluded we should attack them... We won, by the way.
“I suppose if Sparta were to be deserted, and the temples and foundations of her public buildings all that remained, as time went by, posterity would be strongly disposed not to accept her fame as a true account of her power.” Thucydides had you guys marked. Sparta was the preeminent power in Greece for 200 years. Their armies were almost undefeated in that time. Other Greeks wrote about them with fear and awe. Whenever a great general of the Greeks was needed, a Spartan was chosen. Would you say Prussia was never powerful? Its heyday was shorter than Sparta’s. Would you judge Napoleon’s armies by France’s surrender in WW2? The Battle of Plataea and the Battle of Leuctra are about as far apart. Sparta haters are universally people who I’d never trust on my right side in a shield wall. They’re motivated by a compulsive need to tear down the virtues the Spartans stand for in our collective unconscious: Courage, discipline, self-sacrifice, and defiance.
Sparta forged men in fire. Athens forged arguments in marble. Empires are not defended by marble.
Tucker Carlson is completely correct. Hitler had no plans to conquer ‘Europe’ and certainly not the UK. We got into the war for no good reason on a purely voluntary basis and destroyed ourselves.
Literally every civilized society in history until 60 years ago was ethno nationalist
Fair point—data is indeed sparse for ancient Rome. Based on scholarly estimates (e.g., Scheidel 2007, Frier 2000), fertility likely fell from ~6.5 births/woman in 500 BC (early Republic) to ~3.5 by 400 AD (late Empire). Key points: 200 BC: ~6, 50 BC: ~5, 50 AD: ~4.5, 200 AD: ~4. This downward trend aligns with prosperity and laws like Augustus's to boost births.
BREAKING: CIA is reportedly planning its largest mass firing since 1977.
Well, I'm done with my first semester of grad school at Georgetown. To be frank, it was bad. Academically I did fine, but not as well as I would have liked. The social situation is really rough. I'm not really sure how well I fit in with the program.
90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18. They paid the ultimate price for your freedom. You live your life the way you do because of them.
