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[–]DsagjiiggsScjjigsjsb一柱亭亭獨立時/ 狂瀾怒觸未曾欹/ 誰言東魯斯文喪/贏得千秋永賴之 10ポイント11ポイント  (12子コメント)

I'm suffering from popcorn overload, please halp

[–]A_Crazy_CanadianEU4 is a Academic Source 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Try less salt and butter light. It reduces indigestion.

[–]pittfan46 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

What drama now?

And I'm surprised Aragon lost so badly to Iberia. I would've just abandoned the balerics and corsica.

[–]DsagjiiggsScjjigsjsb一柱亭亭獨立時/ 狂瀾怒觸未曾欹/ 誰言東魯斯文喪/贏得千秋永賴之 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

What drama now?

Everything Ellen Pao did this week, oh and this

I would've just abandoned the balerics and corsica.

Yes.

[–]pittfan46 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I can't believe she resigned. I was kinda peeved.

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can't believe she put up with this shitshow of a website for as long as she did.

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

The pitchfork crowd has a lot of inertia built up after going for Pao, but I feel that it's ever so slowly turning its wrath on Alexis. Now that they've tasted blood, gods know what will happen. It'll keep me mildly entertained while I'm craving for the next season of GoT.

[–]taylororo 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Yep. It's time to make /r/subredditdrama a default sub

[–]pittfan46 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yep. It's time to make /r/subredditdrama a default sub

Pls no

[–]taylororo 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's the only chance we have to creating a perpetual motion machine in which every post is refering to a drama in another SRD post. Imagine popcorn stuffed in the human face - forever.

[–]MBarry829God bless you T-Rex 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

We'd have to prepetually dig down to /r/subredditdramadramax17

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Poor mod team, please don't do that to them.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 6ポイント7ポイント  (6子コメント)

I watched too much Midsomer Murders you guys and now I can't trust any old white people for fear of my life.

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 3ポイント4ポイント  (5子コメント)

Never leave Causton is the main lesson I've learned from Midsomer Murders. The countryside is filled with murderous maniacs.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

Apparently the Queen asked the producer why anyone ever moves to Midsomer as they'll eventually be murdered.

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Somebody worked out the murder rate of the county and it's like three times more dangerous than London. I think it's on par with Baltimore, which is pretty awful considering that Midsomer doesn't seem to have, you know, gangs.

I love Midsomer Murders. I love Barnaby's dad jokes. I love having your Grumpy Dad solve crimes.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

One blog figured, assuming Midsomer has a population equivalent to Somerset, that it's only outdone by five countries on a per capita murder basis with 17 killed for every 100,000 people.

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

It lures them in with pictures of idyllic villages and probably low property prices ("has been the place of four previous murders" will affect the asking price somewhat I'd imagine). And once they're in then... slice-dice-chop-blam it kills them off. It's often the new people moving in that get the chop as well.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sounds like someone should investigate Beauvoisin Estate Agents.

[–]taylororo 5ポイント6ポイント  (15子コメント)

Happy 2-year anniversary of Pacific Rim! Let's all talk about what you were doing the first time you watched Pacific Rim. I'll start.

Fistpumps.

[–]WorldOneWonAlexander the Great Didn't Real 3ポイント4ポイント  (5子コメント)

I never saw it

[–]taylororo 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

OMG YOU'RE IN FOR THE BEST TWO OF YOUR LIFE THIS EVENING!!!

[–]spark-a-darkOops, I just forgot I was a Turk! 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

The best two what?

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

Wondering why the swords weren't option A instead of option Q.

[–]KaliYugazTenno Heika Banzai 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's a common trope in the Japanese mecha animes that inspired Pacific Rim. The sword always comes out last.

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Which is fine, but why is he SURPRISED that they have a sword? He seems to have no idea that a sword is available.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

He didn't read the manual first. His dad would have been so disappointed in him. Mine always was when we got a video game console and I threw out the manual.

[–]Elm11History [his-tree]. A series of smug judgements about the past. 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I saw it with my brother and a friend when it came out. We went back the next night with a few more friends, because it had to be experienced in a cinema.

I watched it again just two nights ago. That glorious, glorious film.

[–]taylororo 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I saw it with my friend when it came out. I went back the next, next morning with my girlfriend, because it had to be experienced in a cinema.

I watched it again just two nights ago. That glorious, glorious film.

WE ARE DRIFT COMPATIBLE!

[–]Gunlord500 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Going to a nearby mall with my dad to watch it. :o

[–]ALLAH_WAS_A_SANDWORMHitler accidentally all of Poland. 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Squealing in delight. Man, that tanker-bat, the container-knuckles.

I should get it on blu-ray.

[–]misunderstandgapPre-Marx, Marx, Post-Marx studies. All three fields of history. 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're going to hate me for this, but I thought it was merely ok. It didn't let me down, but it wasn't as good as I might have hoped.

[–]the_statusThe Civil War is a conspiracy by NAACP 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

I got another pictured of unmoderated /r/AskHistorians.

Not as good as my last one, but hey, it's topical.

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Goddamn.

[–]R_B_KazenzakisKra! I speak for the Downworlders 5ポイント6ポイント  (22子コメント)

Up Yours robot.

Had a pretty fun time at the Go Ruck thing on Saturday. It was just a 5 K, I'm not up to the challenges.

Also, hey! /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov got a SRD thread in his honor! Everyone cheer!

[–]KaliYugazTenno Heika Banzai 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

So /u/spez -dolf Hufftler literally wants to let the neo-Nazis overrun /r/AskHistorians now because of some populist cyber-libertarian bullshit, huh?

[–]turtleeatingaldermanAcademo-Fascist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

AskHistorians and AskScience would probably be among the most affected, but the problems don't end there. It would make enforcement of rules mandating civil behavior and against stuff like political soapboxing and history denial in /r/history as well as here extremely difficult, to the point that I would probably just give up moderating. I don't want any part in a sub that hosts defenses of things like racism or Holocaust denial, among many other toxic items. Honestly, those subs are pretty much the only reason I even come to reddit, so I'd probably quit using the website altogether if what /u/spez initially proposed ever came to see the light of day. I know a lot of moderators feel the same way, and I believe he did at the very least give some vague reassurance on some of it when he came to talk to the default mods. I'm not to worried (and not because of his reassurances), as I doubt anything like what he proposed will ever see the light of day. It's just kind of frustrating that, after all the nonsense about Pao not understanding the fundamentals of how reddit works, a new CEO comes in and proposes some ideas that would make having a dedicated, enjoyable community practically impossible.

[–]Gunlord500 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

A subredditdrama thread? Really? :o

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 2ポイント3ポイント  (17子コメント)

What, and no one told me!? (Until now...)

[–]TurnshroudPresident Raiko is literally Sozin 2ポイント3ポイント  (11子コメント)

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 2ポイント3ポイント  (10子コメント)

Oh, I certainly knew which it would be :p

[–]KaliYugazTenno Heika Banzai 1ポイント2ポイント  (9子コメント)

Would Huffman actually be insane enough to do that? I don't feel very confident about any of the people running Reddit making rational decisions anymore.

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

I don't know. /u/deimorz seemed to have been as surprised by this as we were when he commented on stuff being said in there, and seeing as he is an admin, it suggests to me that spez was just talking out his ass, and not about anything concrete. Makes me feel a little better about the immediate future certainly, but not about his tenure overall.

[–]KaliYugazTenno Heika Banzai 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Well /u/spez did create Reddit, and he's a product of the whole Silicon Valley techno-utopian culture who will never give up and admit that Rousseau was wrong and people are not inherently good when allowed to be free.

I'm not sure if he's even aware yet about how bad the problem has become, but to me he seems like exactly the kind of person who would at least identify with, if not actively exemplify, Reddit's core userbase of amoral, base, narcissistic, paranoid, anti-intellectual neckbeards. I wouldn't put it past him to pander to the majority and screw you guys over, along with everyone else who makes, curates, and desires quality content and discussion over "absolutely free" content and discussion. But still, I hope I'm wrong about that.

[–]turtleeatingaldermanAcademo-Fascist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

At the rate this site's largest racist forum is growing, it wouldn't be surprising if he gets to include in his legacy that he oversaw the largest white supremacist convention and recruitment tool on the web. If that's not an indictment of the arguments for less restricted free speech, I don't know what is.

[–]shannondoahAurangzeb hated music , 'cus a time traveller played him dubstep 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

I have a solution for that(it will require more mods in more timezones) if spez's 'suggestion' comes to pass. Interested in hearing it?

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

All ears.

[–]shannondoahAurangzeb hated music , 'cus a time traveller played him dubstep 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Go to the Moderation tools--->Subreddit settings--->Spam filter strength section. Click 'all' in everything.

The disadvantage of this method is that this will require far more mods,who are knowledgeable in every area(and have permissions for approving comments). Also,timezones are a thing.

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yikes, that would be a terrible way to have to do things.

[–]sulendil 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Wow, you didn't know you're in the popcorn spotlight?

You know, given human have a desire of wanting to learn things that are forbidden from them, I sometimes wonder if the current [deleted] system is really suitable for subreddits like /r/askhistorians. If I can redesign the architecture, I would prefer a permanent deletes that leaves no signs or tags, that would at least make the reading process less annoying.

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

So do we!

[–]sulendil 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

But then, people would accuse you for being power hungry controlling SJW cabal that censors THE TRUTH popular posts because it satisfy your Internet ego! How would you respond to such an accusation?

[–]spark-a-darkOops, I just forgot I was a Turk! 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Last week I got confused on which day was which and posted in the Thursday thread on Friday. So I'm reposting.

So, I'll admit that I haven't even searched through the sub's history to see if this has been discussed, but earlier this week I ran across an article on io9 discussing John Boswell's book Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe and I was just wondering if there was a scholarly (or unscholarly) consensus on the book (and him, his research, or whatever). I seem to remember some users in /r/AskHistorians poopooing the comparison of whatever kind of relationships these were with our modern concepts of homosexuality, marriage, etc but I couldn't find it and decided to see what everyone here thinks.

Some notes:

  • The article uses the term Dark Ages. A commenter tries to point out that not only is that crap terminology, but that 100 AD wouldn't even be included in the supposed Dark Ages. The author rebuts and doubles down.
  • The article was posted in 2013, so I'm not really sure how I even found it. I deffinitely wasn't thinking, "What does the place I read True Blood recaps and Joss Whedon listicles have to say about marriage in the Roman world as it relates to today's politics?"

Also, grad school is going swimmingly. And by swimmingly, I mean that I feel like I'm submerged in water and I'm flailing about helplessly. Haha. No, it's ok. I'm happy with my life choices, I mean it.

[–]kmmontandonGoing bowling in the Alamo's basement. 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm looking to do a badhistory write up of parts of "A People's History of the United States," and I don't even know where to begin.

[–]Gunlord500 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

First again!

...Or, maybe not. :p

Here's a quandary that's been bugging me for a little while. I fear I may have committed some badhistory (or bad geopolitics, but I'll get to that later) myself, but I'm not sure. This didn't happen on Reddit, though, and I thought it would be in bad taste to make a whole thread dedicated to the matter. Thus, I thought our latest 'Mindless Monday' would be appropriate, at least looking at the lax rules for these threads, though of course, mods, please feel free to delete this if it’s troublesome. I was having a conversation with an acquaintance over the subject of the American Civil War, and he brought up an argument I had honestly never heard before. To summarize (hopefully without doing injustice to what he said), it went something like this:

“Slavery wasn’t worth fighting for at all, but here’s something Northerners don’t think of very much: If the Civil War was justified to “end slavery,” why isn’t any American intervention justified if the reason is “good enough?” Should we invade Nigeria to stop Boko Haram (our girls haven’t been brought back yet!) You’d probably say no. But when it comes to Southerners, who you Northerners keep saying are worthless embarrassments the US would be better off without, you still can’t let them leave. So how can you justify intervention to stop slavery but not to stop terrorism or misogyny or whatever? It seems like you just have it out for Southerners specifically.”

Like I said, I hadn’t heard this argument before, and I had to admit he had a point. It’s easy to get on board with a war against slavery, but it’s also easy to get on board with wars against terrorism or maltreatment of women or a lot of other ills, and it’s something to be careful of. Still, upon considering it, I ended up thinking that the North would still have been particularly justified in attempting to subdue the South. Here’s what I replied:

“True, but think of what would have happened if we’d just let the South secede. Pretty much all the seeds of conflict would still be there. Slaves would still try to flee from the South, leading to a lot of acrimony between the old nation and the new one. The South was also pretty aggressive and expansionist; look at the Mexican-American war. It’s likely a separate Confederacy and Union would have come to blows later on even with a peaceful secession. Southerners might be annoy us Northerners inside our Union, but they’d be outright dangerous outside of it. That's why you couldn't justify other forms of intervention through this reasoning, by the way--as bad as organizations like Boko Haram may be, they're far away across the ocean instead of right next to us like an independent Confederacy would have been.”

I don’t want a brigade or a personal army or anything like that (that’s why I’m being vague about who I was talking with and where), but I would be interested in hearing from folks who know more about the geopolitical/strategic setting of mid 19th century America than I do. This was just an off the cuff conversation, so I probably didn’t hew to Rule 5 as much as I could have or should have, but I’m wondering, was my reasoning completely off? If Lincoln had just let the South peacefully secede (I know, he wouldn’t have), would a large conflict (or series of conflicts) between the US and the Confederacy be likely in the future, or was my assessment too pessimistic? (This is a ‘what if’ question too, which is another reason I took it to a Mindless Monday thread rather than, say, an askhistorians thread. :p )

[–]The740Feminists hired Christians to put lead in the Roman water supply 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Pretty much all the seeds of conflict would still be there. Slaves would still try to flee from the South, leading to a lot of acrimony between the old nation and the new one.

I think this is fairly close to it. I figure one of the following two scenarios would have played out. First, assume a peaceful split and no shots fired at Fort Sumter.

In the first scenario, the USA dismantles any type of fugitive slave laws. Maryland's slaveholding farmers are compensated to emancipate, effectively ending slavery in the USA. This causes a crush of fleeing slaves coming north. In response, the CSA does one of two stupid things (possibly both): either cracking down significantly on slaves themselves, or actually attempting to do something about the USA's refusal to repatriate slaves by claiming that slave movements are actually being encouraged if not caused by "Yankee agitators".

So we'd be looking at either widespread slave uprisings or outright war between the two sides in this case.

The other possible scenario would involve a completely hands-off policy from the USA toward the CSA for one reason or another. Even if left completely alone with no slave movements or uprisings, slavery couldn't have lasted because the soil couldn't have lasted. Cotton is extremely damaging to soil, meaning that as time goes on, it's necessary to either let fields lie fallow (which means having slaves is pointless), plant something else to replenish soil nutrients (which means having slaves is pointless since there's basically nothing as labor-intensive as cotton), or else expand territory (which would be pointless as well, since west of Texas can't grow cotton anyway). And even if there was a massive migration of cotton planters into Texas, it would leave behind nothing but a bunch of poor and extremely angry farmers with no real prospect for the future, meaning that a bunch of the CSA may well have been re-absorbed into the USA.

But that's just how I see it.

[–]Gunlord500 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I was pretty sure the issue of runaway slaves would be really really troublesome even for a "peacefully seceded" confederacy too.

[–]taylororo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The Boko Haram analogy has some problems. In the ACW, it was an attempt to restore sovereignty against another government, whereas in Boko Haram is trying to suppress a non-state actor. If anything, Boko Haram is more like the explosion of white supremacist violence during reconstruction. This was the war that the federal government decidedly did not prosecute to the fullest extent.

So tell you friend he got what he wanted! No war and the victory of white supremacy through the constant violence against black bodies!

If the Civil War was justified to “end slavery,” why isn’t any American intervention justified if the reason is “good enough?” Should we invade Nigeria to stop Boko Haram (our girls haven’t been brought back yet!)

There's an idea in Just War Theory called "probability of success". Before, and obviously after the American civil war, the success was clearly known to be possible. On the other hand, if we've learned anything in the past 15 years, it's that we are not very good at defeating non-state actors. Our probability of success is low in Nigeria or wherever. Just because one good cause may be justified, doesn't mean that every good cause justifies war.

His position only makes sense if you believe that there is one criteria (humanitarian intervention/right intention) for the basis of war.

[–]turtleeatingaldermanAcademo-Fascist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thus, I thought our latest 'Mindless Monday' would be appropriate, at least looking at the lax rules for these threads, though of course, mods, please feel free to delete this if it’s troublesome.

There's no problem. This is the best place for it. We discourage and often remove individual posts asking if something is bad history, given our rule 5.

Should we invade Nigeria to stop Boko Haram (our girls haven’t been brought back yet!) You’d probably say no.

If Boko Haram were acting in the capacity of the Nigerian state or with approval from the Nigerian state and directly attacked the U.S., I'd say there'd be strong grounds for military action. Not that I think an invasion would be the best course of action, which only brings me to my next distinction—Nigeria is not sovereign U.S. soil, meaning the hypothetical isn't comparable to the ACW.

So how can you justify intervention to stop slavery but not to stop terrorism or misogyny or whatever? It seems like you just have it out for Southerners specifically.

The problem here is pretty simple. For one, they appear to be confused about what the Union cause for 'intervention' was, which was not initially to stop or even take action against slavery. It was to suppress an active domestic insurrection, led by a self-declared sovereign state's government, after an attack on what was U.S. sovereign ground regardless of the legitimacy of that declared state. The initial part of the war was officially conducted to restore federal authority in states that had taken to rebelling against it, and which had initiated violence.

Your counterargument is pretty solid, at least as much as dealing with this sort of counterfactual history can be. The only thing I'd add is that the justification Unionists used at the time often included the idea that the dissolution of the Union was a destruction of the country itself, and represented a failure of what was essentially an experiment in democratic republicanism. Many further argued that it set a very bad precedent, which in turn would weaken if not destroy the viability of republican government.

[–]WorldOneWonAlexander the Great Didn't Real 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

So my friend sent me this yesterday.

I had seen it before, but let me tell you, this video changes completely when you're high.

[–]piwikiwi 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

I've never been as angry about politics before as I was last night. This euro/greece criss is bad for my heart.

[–]sulendil 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Oh, try the same thing in my place. Man, the drama and politics would make as much popcorn as the current drama in Reddit did, if not more.

[–]piwikiwi 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh, try the same thing in my place.

Where do you live if I may ask?

[–]sulendil 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Malaysia. Man, popcorn supply is not going to satisfy the demand of the various dramas in my country lol.

[–]leton98609 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Still in the glorious PRC. VPN access through the Great Firewall is irregular and often blocked at various points of the day, but Reddit is still safe for now.

Gotten further into Court of the Red Tsar, which I thought was fitting reading in the PRC. The book goes with a bit of an unusual approach: it focuses a lot on Stalin's domestic life, as opposed to just being a broad, general history. The author in the preface goes on a bit about how "demonizing" figures like Hitler and Stalin makes them seem anomalies and inhuman monsters of sorts, allowing us to distance ourselves from them. I have to say that I'm starting to see the wisdom of his approach and his comments, though. Sure, the first few pages depict a lot of interesting and I guess positive features of Stalin's personality, but those only make him seem more monstrous he executes more and more of his old and closest friends. The fact that Stalin was capable of emotions like love and empathy and that he enjoyed literature and comic films, in my opinion, humanizes him, and in doing so makes him all the more of a human monster: someone with alarming similarities to many of us that makes us pause a bit for thought.

The college admissions game is stressing me out even more. Ironically, as more and more successful test scores started coming back, I felt like the pressure and the stakes were getting raised on me even more. Before this year I would have been fine going to UW(in-state) or something, but now I feel obligated to aim higher than that, and consequently I have a lot more worrying to do.

[–]pittfan46 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I thought reddit wasn't blocked.

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Apart from getting more headaches, I'd a lovely weekend. Finally started reading the Peloponnesian War by Kagan, and it's great. Not too academic (for that he has three other books about the war), but also not too light. And it has tons of maps! For someone who hates to constantly have to leaf back and forth through a book to figure out where something is, it's a blessing. This is a writer who understands me.

It's also heritage month in Dublin, so we visited a large Georgian house on Sunday where the tour guide obviously had just started working there since she knew hardly anything about the use of items in the house, apart from the ones she had on her cheat sheet. She didn't point out any of the interesting bits in the house that were obvious to the two of us. Since we love visiting great houses, we know quite a bit about the things inside, so it felt a bit like we would be better off getting a sheet about the history and then make our own way. There were some on-the-cheap short-cuts taken to "update" the house to the Victorian style (painted wood-effect on white, modified fireplaces), and we spotted at least a couple of Edwardian mods that she totally ignored.

Still, we had a good time and the tour took its time going through the house, so we weren't rushed from room to room like in some other houses.

[–]International_KBAt least three milli-Cromwells worth of oppression 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Finally started reading the Peloponnesian War by Kagan, and it's great. Not too academic (for that he has three other books about the war), but also not too light.

Just a word of warning, I recently finished Jeanne Morefield's Empires without Imperialism and the author sharply criticises Kagan and his work on the Peloponnesian War. According to Morefield - and I can't independently comment on this - Kagan is guilty of projecting modern democratic (ie US) ideals onto Athenian society. Thus, using Thucydides to make his own political points.

Again, I can't comment on the validity of these claims, and Kagan's work is widely read, but just a watch-out.

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks for that, I'll keep that in mind while reading. So far I haven't really noticed it, but the war is still in the first decade.

[–]jiikAve Tarquinius Superbus, Ultimus Romanorum 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Can one of the flaired users give a read to this article on modern Islam and the European wars of religion? The whole premise seems bad, and the article seems rife with bad history, but I don't feel like I know enough to refute any of it. Just to give you an idea...

What they forget is that Islamism is not only Islamic but also an “ism”—an ideology and a plan for ordering common life that should be analyzed alongside other ideologies. No part of the world has generated as many isms as the West itself, and so to aid clear thinking about the contemporary Middle East, it is useful to look back at the West’s own history of ideological strife.

Woof. Maybe I'm being dense, but that seems .....off.

[–]de_la_seoul_Rommel, you a busta. 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Just a headsup, I don't think you linked to the article in the comment.

[–]jiikAve Tarquinius Superbus, Ultimus Romanorum 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thanks. I guess that's what I get for trying to speak before I've had my coffee.

[–]Elm11History [his-tree]. A series of smug judgements about the past. 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Giant essay Nr.1 down! Two more to go! T.T

[–]georgeguy007High Chartist Chancellor (was elected tho, like Hitler) 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Got into a classic conversation with a civil war second opinioner. I'm sure he wasn't racist or anything, but he kept saying " this is how we were taught". I hope he looks into the real stuff and forms the final third opinion after the second opinion bias.

Also I have always thought that the 3/5 compromised is the worst thing ever. It's like telling Idaho that every potato counts as half a vote. "Oh those slaves are definitely not people! But we realllly want to seem bigger than we are". It is having your racist cake and eating it too.

[–]de_la_seoul_Rommel, you a busta. 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Is it wrong for me to think that until teens have at least taken a US history class, their political opinions aren't as valid? I keep seeing all these kids on my Facebook feed lecturing people on the evils of capitalism and why they should vote for a certain presidential candidate when they don't know what the words "electoral college" or "primary election" mean.

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Honestly I don't pay any attention to the historical or political opinions of anybody who hasn't held down a job and lived on their own for a while. So that can be 18, or it can be 25, depending.

My girlfriend's little brother is going through his "radical anarchist/communist/incoherentist" phase and has STRONG TAKES on capitalism and social contracts and shit, but he's also 22 and still living off momma and seems to be going way out of his way to avoid engaging with the real world, so I just try to avoid arguing with him.

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm finally reading Tony Judt's Postwar and holy shit it's brilliant you guys for real

[–]pittfan46 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hey guys!

I went to Pittsburgh ' s Waterpark this weekend, Sandcastle. It was a blast. I am sunburnt lol.

The buccos are on a roll going into the all star break . And my friends are going crazy.

I'm working a lot through Thursday this week, then my parents are coming and I'm going to Wisconsin for the weekend apparently.

I have to get a doctor's appointment and TB test. And I am kinda lost. Should I just go to student health? Lol

After next weekend...my time in Pittsburgh is basically done. I'll be sad but ready to go.

In HWP I finally officially got Corisca. And my work in the West is done. Now to focus on annexing Greece, which will take weeks.

[–]hussard_de_la_mort"sandwich in my right, .45 in my other hand" 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is the greatest artistic achievement ever accomplished by humankind. It has one-liners, stabbing faceless mooks in the heart with a wakizashi, and the judicious use of the Rocky IV soundtrack.

And then there's the Deadpool trailer which has Ryan Reynolds killing people to a DMX song. And there's a joke about avocado breeding.

Also /u/Turnshroud I think I'm decent enough at NTW that I won't be a complete drag on team "Gang Up Against the Computer."

[–]GameM4T 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Had a great mini-vacation: a BBQ with friends, just chilling with some video games, etc. But now it is time for work again My paper needs to be finished.

I suppose none of you have a printable version of C., ‘Historical Social Network Analysis’, International Review of Social History, 43 (1998), 125-144 lying around? Because that would help me a lot...

Otherwise I'll have to suffer through people looking at me weirdly for taking pictures of every page. It supposedly has the methodology I need for my case study so I'd like to be able to access it any time I want.

[–]DuceGiharm 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anyon well versed on the Khmer Rouge want to analyze this article: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/18/pol-pot-revisited/

It seems a bit problematic but I'm not historically literate enough on SE Asia to know.

[–]MBarry829God bless you T-Rex 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I saw Inside Out on Saturday. Pixar is great at making a grown ass man want to cry.

[–]Hydrall_Urakan 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've become addicted to Steven Universe and cannot stop watching, all thanks to whoever wrote a post mentioning badhistory it had once. Thanks, whoever did that.

stevenbomb 3 get hype

[–]40kfreak 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I bought crysis 3 because it was on sale and thoroughly regret it, it's like a totally different game from the first one