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• Calling themselves “third Rome”.
• Emperor’s guard can’t whack the emperor to save their own hides.
• Bruh.

Yeah, but even if we go back to antiquity, reputable historians always acknowledge that sources on military history of that time were often full of shit with things like “yeah, there were 100k of us versus millions of Persians”.

And in political history there’s a lot of discrediting one’s predecessors, and retroactively paitining some personalities as crazies.

And part of modern historian’s job is to point out all the possible conflicts of interest in historical sources, so that we can know that we’re presented specific perspective of events or if it was written hundreds of years after events.

Yeah… but as the example of Kingdom of Georgia had shown - when they finally get to you in your mountain fortress - things are going to get really ugly really fast.

Funny how that was really how much of that was actually portrayed at the time.

Basically Machiavellian villains - sending someone to exploit the frontiers of Africa or “New World”, someone you know will not be doing things ethically, then convicting them for doing your own bidding. Whilst at the diplomatic table everyone maintains a facade of “we’re bringing jobs and higher quality of life for the natives, and teaching them the ways of God” while talking about Belgian Congo.

It’s actually quite easy to instigate an argument between tankies themselves too.

While I still used Reddit, I used to sometimes visit “communism101” sub or whatever and would answer some historical questions regarding Soviet Union, as living in post-soviet country I, if course, hear a lot from people who experienced it themselves. And I once mentioned that being unemployed was illegal in USSR. Discussion immediately turned into a shitstorm where tankies started calling each other “lazy bourgeois dogs” and “libshits”. 🗿

Stalin when you ask him why most of known communist revolutionaries from 1910’s and early 1920’s have 1939 as date of death in their Wikipedia article: 🤭.

That TV box is connected to the same Wi-Fi, and those just do that, nothing to be alarmed about, just mild annoyance.

Should give you settings menu entry after long tap on that push notification, where you can block it from appearing.