Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.
Someone better put them back in the grave like the Confederacy
Me, putting the blindfold on them and leaning them up against a sunny wall with a cigarette in their mouth: “I absolutely respect your faith and sexuality, and I want you to know you’re a piece of shit for entirely unrelated reasons :)”
Invasive species, the Ukrainians are just being responsible stewards of the land.
Explanation: The Battle of Teutoburg Forest was an ambush in which 3 Roman Legions (~15,000 men) were utterly annhilated. Publius Quinctilius Varus was the Roman commander in charge of the fiasco, who died in the course of the battle (by suicide to avoid getting captured and tortured). Obviously he is not eager to go through the place again!
I don’t think so.
But GOD do I hope so
The left infights all the time, because we have policy disagreements.
The right infights mostly when there’s a power vacuum in their own ranks, because it’s only about the power to hurt people and enrich themselves.
Yeah, definitely just us having an extended bad trip.
A true Renaissance Man, we lost him too soon
“Dog-killer” is something that still evokes bipartisan horror.
Asocial was a very broad term - anyone they thought was not sufficiently contributing to society, essentially.
You stated the origin of the concept of just war is Roman, not that the justifications they utilized were “italic”. Moving the goal post.
Jesus fucking Christ. The mention of Italic origins was because Rome didn’t spring out fully formed; the point of the comparison was to demonstrate that it was an unusual cultural affectation that was not widely shared by other major cultures of the period.
“How many quotes will it take from societies not veiling their self-interest and, in fact, taking great pride in their naked self-interest, would it take to change your mind?”
“Yes, it absolutely is me, in response to you denying that contemporary societies didn’t act in naked self-interest much of the time”
Yes, in response to you denying that societies acted in accordance with naked self-interest. You, quite literally and explicitly, denied that claim. Are you reversing your opinion now? If so, I commend your ability to admit when you’ve made a brazenly stupid claim.
“Here’s one briefly covering the very Roman origins of the concept of Just War and the contrast with Greeks and other civilizations of antiquity,”
The word contrast means nothing to you, I see. You may want to invest in a dictionary.
If you weren’t trying to imply that Romans were unique in justifying their wars, then why did you have a problem with the rebuttal of “all cultures justify their wars from within their own cultural framework”?
… you mean when you did the exact opposite of that, and claimed that me saying
When the Gauls and Germanics went on raids, their thinking wasn’t “Dohohoho, time to commit some CRIMES”, but rather, “This is the way the world works, I’m taking an opportunity”, the way that a merchant might eye a good deal
was incorrect?
Like, fuck, can you not hold the same position for more than two comments? Is this pathological?
Why did you freak out when I gave examples of religious wars in ancient mesopotamia?
Because you have no conception of what the justification of wars were in ancient Mesopotamia, you just saw ‘idols’ and thought ‘religious ideal of a just war’. Anything else, apparently, would be too complex for you to grasp.
You’re just being academically dishonest and moving the goal post out of pure pigheadedness.
I’m not being ‘academically dishonest’, you’re seeming simply incapable of recognizing that your reading comprehension is subpar, and that several of the claims you made were not only baseless but utterly bizarre in some weird attempt to cling to your original contrarian position.
Ahh so this was a subjective comparison the whole time…
So you finally got around to reading literally the very first comment in this thread? Excellent. I’m so happy for you. Maybe in the future, you should work on your enduring incapacity to exercise basic literacy.
Yeah, I remember those early days too. I always loved PCMs, it’s like D&D alignment, just vague enough to be flexible, just defined enough to be fun. Really sucks that the reddit community was overrun by fascist cretins (and tolerated that until fascist cretins were mostly what remained)
Ahh, so now we’re creeping away from the claim “very Roman origin of Just War”?
Literally outlined in the paper you didn’t read, yes, Roman ideas of Just War were very Italic (ie Roman in this context, putting aside questions of the differences of contemporary Italic peoples and the process of cultures forming or changing) in origin.
Lol, “How many quotes will it take from societies not veiling their self-interest and, in fact, taking great pride in their naked self-interest, would it take to change your mind? Or is that a lost cause?” This you?
Yes, it absolutely is me, in response to you denying that contemporary societies didn’t act in naked self-interest much of the time. Like, are you incapable of remembering what you yourself said, or just unwilling to?
So now that we’ve confirmed that Romans weren’t unique, the argument is how much more value the Romans placed on this compared to other contemporary societies…?
Holy fucking shit, literally in my first comment
The Romans placed a relatively high value on the idea of Iustum Bellum - just war.
I see you’re not mentioning the other source that spoke about how the Han, who were contemporaries with the Romans, justified their wars.
Please point out where I said the Han didn’t have a strong conception of just war.
I’ve spoken to some dumb fucking cunts. But you’re the stupidest this month, easy.
There’s a lot about the late 2000s and early 2010s I don’t miss, but I feel that nostalgia.
The invention of conceptually simple things like that is always so fascinating!
You can still get some great finds from military surplus sites. The older stuff is often plain, but newer stuff tends to be camo, which isn’t always, uh, stylish for everyday wear, lmao.
On one hand, he could be languishing in a labor camp or other unpleasant fate.
On the other hand, he may only be reassigned to Antarctica or the equivalent posting for the great crime of criticizing Great Leader Pooh Bear.