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Pook Good Mook
Aug 6, 2013


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rudatron posted:

what's the over/under for acquittal/"lone wolf mental health patient"

They have him cold. All the state needs to prove is that he had a gun and was on school grounds.

He'll appeal on the motions he lost but he's being found guilty this week.

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Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

rudatron posted:

what's the over/under for acquittal/"lone wolf mental health patient"

2 weeks

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Pook Good Mook posted:

They have him cold. All the state needs to prove is that he had a gun and was on school grounds.

He'll appeal on the motions he lost but he's being found guilty this week.

But it might mess up his promising football career that he will embark on at 45.

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012

Crain posted:

When you're so desperate to look cool you decide to throw out basically all of actual history:

https://twitter.com/shaun_jen/status/993356335793221633

"we wuz spartans"

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
lol that apparently white supremacists think all current greeks are turks pretending to be greeks when all evidence is that no, greeks just always looked like that, your aryan ideal has always been a lie

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/992126897416036354
https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/993489455918014465

Pook Good Mook
Aug 6, 2013


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Ghost Leviathan posted:

lol that apparently white supremacists think all current greeks are turks pretending to be greeks when all evidence is that no, greeks just always looked like that, your aryan ideal has always been a lie

Most people's image of ancient Greeks is from paintings painted by the people who made Jesus Norwegian.

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better


Reminds me of @Sweden letting one person every week run their Twitter account, resulting at some serious shade being thrown our way from random people in Sweden.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014


I had no idea this is what his voice sounded like. In retrospect it makes sense, but holy poo poo he's the silliest man I've ever seen.

Panzeh
Nov 27, 2006

"..The high ground"

Ghost Leviathan posted:

lol that apparently white supremacists think all current greeks are turks pretending to be greeks when all evidence is that no, greeks just always looked like that, your aryan ideal has always been a lie

lol the spartans were chumps anyway, they won the peloponnesian war but it was long and basically destroyed greece while the persians laughed and left greece wide open to the macedonians

anyway yeah gotta paper over that ethnic diversity in europe for a bad point

Business Gorillas posted:

tbh all you really gotta do is bring up the fact that the confederacy's plan after winning the civil war was to create a slave empire in latin america and the carribbean whenever someone starts yammering on about state's rights

keep in mind that throughout most of the antebellum period, the main perceived threat to slavery was the british, not northerners or domestic abolitionists- the pro-slavery interests mostly dominated the federal government through almost all of the antebellum period after john quincy adams' presidency

there were a lot of arguments borne out of that, and many of the aggressive designs were mostly in trying to deflect perceived british plots, particularly in cuba

One of the more perceptive arguments they made is that you can't really have a free citizenry without a servile class, which is probably a better insight on capitalism than many people had at the time- they were just unabashed about the need to exploit said servile class. They also accused the British of hypocrisy through the other methods of unfree labor relating to peonage.

only in the 1850s and the massive territorial gains did free-soilers become more of a going concern and they were still mostly shut out of the executive until 1860 in which the southern politicians had an extremely emotional shitfit despite the fact that even northern governments were entirely willing to compromise on slavery

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Panzeh posted:

only in the 1850s and the massive territorial gains did free-soilers become more of a going concern and they were still mostly shut out of the executive until 1860 in which the southern politicians had an extremely emotional shitfit despite the fact that even northern governments were entirely willing to compromise on slavery

Historian Manisha Sinha describes slave state culture as fundamentally counterrevolutionary in her aptly-named "The Counterrevolution of Slavery," which for my money is a pretty solid was to label the South's attempts to create a separate, anti-democratic, pro-slavery American state.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


Reclines Obesily posted:

i couldn't tell, like no media are covering it. from what i can gather there were 1500 supporters and a few hundred protesters

it seems like most of the people there were from two groups "Democratic Football Lads Alliance" and "Veterans Against Terrorism" going to see tommy robinson whine about being banned from twitter

i'm just going to assume those groups are far right, i don't know much about british stuff

Football Lads Alliance is a far-right group, Veterans Against Terrorism was formed after the Manchester Arena Bombing and denounce groups like the EDL while closely associating with the Football Lads Alliance.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Historian Manisha Sinha describes slave state culture as fundamentally counterrevolutionary in her aptly-named "The Counterrevolution of Slavery," which for my money is a pretty solid was to label the South's attempts to create a separate, anti-democratic, pro-slavery American state.

of course it was. antebellum southern culture was absolutely steeped in fuedalism with large land owning families holding power. it was reactionary in the extreme.

Mr. Fish
Sep 13, 2017

INLAND EMPIRE — This is a team with a lot of past, but little present. And almost no future.

Panzeh posted:

lol the spartans were chumps anyway, they won the peloponnesian war but it was long and basically destroyed greece while the persians laughed and left greece wide open to the macedonians

anyway yeah gotta paper over that ethnic diversity in europe for a bad point

Don't forget, the Persians rented out their navy to Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Yep, the same Persians that the Spartans tried to keep out of Greece only a few years before.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


chitoryu12 posted:

I had no idea this is what his voice sounded like. In retrospect it makes sense, but holy poo poo he's the silliest man I've ever seen.

Lol he is totally faking that accent

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i mean his voice will never beat jordan petersons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESYQ6TGwhQ

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Ghost Leviathan posted:

lol that apparently white supremacists think all current greeks are turks pretending to be greeks when all evidence is that no, greeks just always looked like that, your aryan ideal has always been a lie

I thought they did mix pretty well though?
Like how a bunch of Turks are actually greeks

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Jose posted:

i mean his voice will never beat jordan petersons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESYQ6TGwhQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GdkGwzSBxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMmx3suL_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfHEXAHQUkE

Tias
May 25, 2008

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The war was inevitable because of the mutually antagonistic interests of slavers and free labor. Differences in culture and religion were already non-issues because of semi-autonomy afforded to the states, and the disestablishmentarianism cemented in the constitution. Saying a war was inevitable because the North and South were just so different is moronic.


The people's army also fraternized with the Tiennamen Square demonstrators and weren't willing to open fire on them. They got around the problem by bringing in ringers from the provinces who hated city folk and didn't have any issues following orders. All those guys fraternizing with the demonstrators would have been cycled out to bring in a bunch of the same people who ended up voting overwhelmingly for De Gaulle.

Which may again have led to broader insurrection. Selling out your comrades to feel good about your vanguard party rep has accomplished exactly gently caress-all in comparison.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Lawman 0 posted:

I thought they did mix pretty well though?
Like how a bunch of Turks are actually greeks

afaik most migrations in premodern times were less totally killing or displacing and then replacing the original inhabitants, than some folks move in, kill some of the original inhabitants and rule over the rest, and eventually they all blend together. So yeah a lot of Turks are basically Greeks who converted to Islam and learned Turkish. Similarly English people are as much Celt as anything and just assimilated into Anglo Saxon culture when those guys migrated to/conquered England.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Pornographic Memory posted:

afaik most migrations in premodern times were less totally killing or displacing and then replacing the original inhabitants, than some folks move in, kill some of the original inhabitants and rule over the rest, and eventually they all blend together. So yeah a lot of Turks are basically Greeks who converted to Islam and learned Turkish. Similarly English people are as much Celt as anything and just assimilated into Anglo Saxon culture when those guys migrated to/conquered England.

turks themselves arent even from anatollia they’re from the central asian steppes

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Crain posted:

When you're so desperate to look cool you decide to throw out basically all of actual history:

https://twitter.com/shaun_jen/status/993356335793221633

Isn't it true by the end of the first century that the Legions increasingly were not recruiting from Italy, but from places like North Africa, Asia Minor and Syria, (which is when that armor design is from)? Also the Crusader would totally kill the viking/ slav. (The one area the Crusade were successful was in the baltic.)

Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 19:30 on May 7, 2018

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Crowsbeak posted:

Isn't it true by the end of the first century that the Legions increasingly were not recruiting from Italy, but from places like North Africa, Asia Minor and Syria? Also the Crusader would totally kill the viking/ slav.

not only that, they were increasingly having trouble with those goddamned ax-having pagans to the north, and doing their best to wipe them out

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



Crain posted:

When you're so desperate to look cool you decide to throw out basically all of actual history:

https://twitter.com/shaun_jen/status/993356335793221633

I guess that illustrator never heard about Greece from the time of Phyrrus onwards.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
hot take here: european unity is a made up idea created by neo-marxist postmodernists attempting to put an end to the concept of borders and national identity.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Darkman Fanpage posted:

hot take here: european unity is a made up idea created by neo-marxist postmodernists attempting to put an end to the concept of borders and national identity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_scseCmkk

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Crowsbeak posted:

Isn't it true by the end of the first century that the Legions increasingly were not recruiting from Italy, but from places like North Africa, Asia Minor and Syria, (which is when that armor design is from)? Also the Crusader would totally kill the viking/ slav. (The one area the Crusade were successful was in the baltic.)

Rome never gave one gently caress about skin color. Their sense of Roman vs. Barbarian was based on whether or not you accepted Roman culture, and they even had an African emperor at one point while viewing white people as barbarians for being of a different culture.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
skin color was not associated with race until chattel slavery tia

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

GWBBQ posted:

Football Lads Alliance is a far-right group, Veterans Against Terrorism was formed after the Manchester Arena Bombing and denounce groups like the EDL while closely associating with the Football Lads Alliance.
https://twitter.com/Henry_Langston/status/993123666354417664
interesting thing about this video is how old a lot of the right-wingers look. one guy must be a 50-something skinhead. looks like he let his hair grow a bit but the red suspenders give it away

oi!

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rzao52ndNA

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/Henry_Langston/status/993123666354417664
interesting thing about this video is how old a lot of the right-wingers look. one guy must be a 50-something skinhead. looks like he let his hair grow a bit but the red suspenders give it away

oi!



Lindsey Shepherd the “free speech” activist and founder of a “society for open inquiry” at Wilfrid Laurier university, finally got to hold another event after crowdfunding $5000 for security, with headline speaker Gad Saad



look at all those bright young students doing open inquiry! such diversity of viewpoints!

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

chitoryu12 posted:

Rome never gave one gently caress about skin color. Their sense of Roman vs. Barbarian was based on whether or not you accepted Roman culture, and they even had an African emperor at one point while viewing white people as barbarians for being of a different culture.

note the African Emperor was Italian through and through.

he was born in Africa but he wasn’t exactly African.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

chitoryu12 posted:

Rome never gave one gently caress about skin color. Their sense of Roman vs. Barbarian was based on whether or not you accepted Roman culture, and they even had an African emperor at one point while viewing white people as barbarians for being of a different culture.

Oh I knew they didn't for the most part give that much of a poo poo about skin color. (They did believe though that based on where you were born climatically might lead to one accepting or not accepting civilization.). But I just could have sworn reading that by the 2nd century they were not getting most of their recruits from Italia.

Also, yeah about the Spartans and Persia and Persia supporting various faction in Greece in general, really if the Persians had not been distracted by a revolt in Egypt, I wonder if Philip of Macedon would have actually been victorious if Persia had been able to send their full support to the anti Macedonian forces.


Also Septimus Sevarus's father at least was half Libyan Berber origin. So he actually was part African. Also the fresco of Septimus Servus certainly suggests a man of dark complexion. I find it rather interesting how in many ways his policies would lead to the crisis of the third century, although that wouldn't be clear for two decades.

Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 21:01 on May 7, 2018

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Crowsbeak posted:

Oh I knew they didn't for the most part give that much of a poo poo about skin color. (They did believe though that based on where you were born climatically might lead to one accepting or not accepting civilization.). But I just could have sworn reading that by the 2nd century they were not getting most of their recruits from Italia.

Also, yeah about the Spartans and Persia and Persia supporting various faction in Greece in general, really if the Persians had not been distracted by a revolt in Egypt, I wonder if Philip of Macedon would have actually been victorious if Persia had been able to send their full support to the anti Macedonian forces.


Also Septimus Sevarus's father at least was half Libyan Berber origin. So he actually was part African.

legions were typically locally recruited and there generally weren’t many legions in Italy. Generally there wasn’t any.

BurntCornMuffin
Jan 9, 2009


chitoryu12 posted:

Rome never gave one gently caress about skin color. Their sense of Roman vs. Barbarian was based on whether or not you accepted Roman culture, and they even had an African emperor at one point while viewing white people as barbarians for being of a different culture.

Which emperor was this? I must know more.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

CharlestheHammer posted:

note the African Emperor was Italian through and through.

he was born in Africa but he wasn’t exactly African.

Septimus Severus is distinctly dark skinned in at least one surviving portrait.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

BurntCornMuffin posted:

Which emperor was this? I must know more.

septimus Severus.

won the civil war in the year of the five emperors.

funeral home DJ
Apr 21, 2003


Pillbug

Jose posted:

i mean his voice will never beat jordan petersons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESYQ6TGwhQ

the best voice is Mark Levin who is such a loser that a voice actor who literally made up a stupid voice for a dense, idiotic cartoon character beat Mark Levin to his game by six loving years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYz0RaZSMsA

mark levin isn’t even cool enough to sound like himself, he is literally a parody of a cartoon

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Ripoff posted:

the best voice is Mark Levin who is such a loser that a voice actor who literally made up a stupid voice for a dense, idiotic cartoon character beat Mark Levin to his game by six loving years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYz0RaZSMsA

mark levin isn’t even cool enough to sound like himself, he is literally a parody of a cartoon

Wasn't Swampland a member?

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Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

DrManiac posted:

aren’t Vikings and crusaders known for pretty much just raping and pillaging?

Yes. And white supremacists are in for a very rude awakening trying to use crusaders as a pan-European symbol when they get over to the Orthodox world.

They're uh, not exactly popular there.

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