Tiler Kiwi posted:

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

Not gonna lie, top left "remember" guy has an awesome loving hat.

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Something Else posted:

white nationalists believe in literal ghosts who get sad when we don’t resemble them and also past-life regression apparently. cool

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Dead Beef posted:

ok now what

should I attack minorities?

Slugnoid posted:

Tiler Kiwi posted:

spartans lol

Slugnoid posted:

literally all i know about my family history is im named after my great great whatever grandpa who was the first person in australia to get run over by a steamroller

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DiggityDoink posted:

what i know about my family history is that my last name is a town in Finland that my grandfather translated to "the town next to the dump." i thought he was full of poo poo forever but it turns out he was right, it literally is the name of the town next to a dump

Syncopated posted:

Tiberius Christ posted:

When the romans invaded sparta their society had stagnated to an isolated city state because they held to the same murderous slave owning race purity for generations and were out breed by all the dirty helots

Peanut President posted:

my ancient ancestors were bavarian sheep farmers who got the poo poo kicked out of them by the rich for thousands of years :thinking:

Pornographic Memory posted:

whenever that kind of image gets posted i think of elliot rodgers being convinced he was descended from the highest english nobility because he was half white. nobody wants to consider that maybe their ancestors were poor as dirt and probably are proud of you just for having the material wealth to sleep in a different room than your livestock

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The context for this image is that this guy comes from a South American country that's being invaded by the UN for some reason or other, and the factory where his "budget" spaceship that's basically just an upscaled spacesuit just got blown up by a tank. Planetes is the most Third Worldist anime ever. The Global North isn't just hoarding all the gains of space development, they're actively keeping the third world underdeveloped. Letting space be developed according to the sociopathic logic of capitalism leads to nightmarish situations. Characters introduced earlier in the show dreaming of living in space end up as virtual slave labor in the slums of the Moon while working on the Jupiter exploration vessel.

Gripweed posted:

Bust Rodd posted:

literally the only good part of the Fight Club sequel is when the Chud therapist tries to become the new Tyler and immediately upon doing so finds himself pathetic and unworthy and blows his own brains out.

Tiler Kiwi posted:

Gripweed posted:

I think it's really important to remember that the fourth crusade sacked constantinople

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Pornographic Memory posted:

i remember reading on askhistorians (the one good subreddit) that spartans weren't really that elite except compared to other greeks, who consciously shunned training for warfare beyond physical exercise they thought was valuable on its own merits, since it was a greek citizen's moral character, not martial prowess, that justified his place in society in their minds. hoplite tactics were generally pretty simple, since they were all part time soldiers at best - just stand together with your bros in a straight line, and march forward into the other guys and our virtuous moral character/superior numbers will carry the day. hopefully nobody flanks you but you should probably be ok because the hoplites on the other side aren't capable of complex maneuvers either, just as long as your fellow citizens are good men who won't get scared and run and leave you open

meanwhile the spartans (and other greeks writing on their behalf) propagandized the poo poo out of spartan military prowess after thermopylae, and spartans did two things other greeks didn't - they practiced basic formation maneuvers, and they all wore those red cloaks. so other greeks would hear all these stories about how badass spartans were, then they'd be on the battlefield with spartans and see them rock up actually looking uniform (instead of buying whatever suited their individual taste) and then...oh poo poo, the spartans actually know how to do an about face, or run without losing their formation! and cue more greeks writing and talking about how badass and martial spartans are. iirc it became a kind of self perpetuating thing too, because the idea of sparta as a uniquely martial culture didn't really take off until thermopylae but once they developed that reputation they bought into it and began acting to fit it

shirts and skins posted:

Let's also remember that every one of those European societies except *maybe* Rome was a pathetic backwater in the world at large, that most ancient European knowledge would be lost without the Muslim world, and that the only reason Europe didn't follow China and Baghdad into Mongol-driven liquidation is that Ogadai Khan was a drunk who died just in time.

Gripweed posted:

I think it's really important to remember that the Knights Templar were disbanded by the Pope because they were all gay witches.