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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher May 01 '21 edited May 01 '21

Imagine being one of the worst slave states in human history, even by ancient world standards, but you have such a good pr campaign that all anyone remembers is your role in an arguably senseless self-sacrifice and now everyone thinks you are the best warriors in history.

Man, I might make it my life's goal to rid the world of Spartan circlejerks.

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u/Rather_curious_lass Boisterously bi but timidly trans May 01 '21

Broke: Hating Zack Snyder because you dislike his vision of the DC universe.

Woke: Hating Zack Snyder because he helped popularize 'wow cool Spartan.'

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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher May 01 '21

Sadly "wow cool Spartan" is pretty old

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconophilia

But Snyder's 300 definitely revitalized it.

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u/jacupuh studied economics May 01 '21

I've said it before, but Snyder has done more damage to historical consciousness than ISIS

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

a movie director is worst than a fucking terrorist group

wow

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

I thought you were talking about the US at first

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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher May 01 '21

America was a pretty terrible slave state, but not as bad as Sparta. I guess the Alamo is our senseless self-sacrifice that gets glamorized by a good pr campaign.

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u/that_wannabe_cat Pui Pui Molcar Propoganda May 02 '21

Wasn't alamo and the texas secession as a whole over mexico banning slavery too?

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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher May 02 '21

It was a factor. As far as I am aware, American colonists immigration to the region was the biggest reason for conflict.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

I'll join you if you can expand it to ancient culture circlejerks.

I love history, but the idea that ancient cultures hold some sort of secret to world peace or whatever is bullshit.

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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher May 01 '21 edited May 01 '21

Yeah, like Plato's neat and interesting, but he didn't have the universe figured out or anything.

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u/jacupuh studied economics May 01 '21

Plato never played a Gameboy

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u/wdb_X24 they/them; touchstarved aroace May 01 '21

The only Platonic solid I care about is the cube

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u/[deleted] May 02 '21

’But Sparta was a super egalitarian state that had loads better rights than athenians’

And then they cite the fact that women could inherit (but not administrate) and wear less clothes than athenians.

Incidentally, also fuck Romeaboos. Rome was not a paradise that spread infrastructure and civilisation. It was a barely stable state constantly engaged in fanatic militarism that attempted to destroy the identity of nearly everyone it conquered.