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THE CONQUISTADOR COLLECTION
After more than a year of work, it is finally here. Ten books of POWER — first-person accounts of discovery and conquest.
Amazon releases will be linked below.
Alaric The Barbarian
Alaric The Barbarian
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Alaric The Barbarian
@0xAlaric
Warrior-Poet lifestyle advocate. Historical research and martial arts poasting. Founder
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Happy Columbus Day! You guys weren’t very good at resisting.
Some battles [1/8]:
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J.I.F.F.
@insurgenthought
Happy Indigenous Day of Resistance.
Just saw an ad for the Army featuring a white guy, it’s over bro we are going to war
Isn’t it funny that you can look at relatively neutral historical art and immediately know the political beliefs of the artist
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Velimir Mikitka
@Vel1m0r
I’m sorry, I cannot get over this. It’s like a villain monologue from a kids’ movie.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if
This is the closest thing we’ll ever get to footage of early explorers encountering tribal peoples in Asia and the New World
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Update NEWS
@UpdateNews724
Tribes living in the mountains of Indonesia attempted to clash with the police using bows and spears.0:25
The Left will go on a 50-year campaign of renaming anything named after a white man but the moment one thing is changed back it’s “uhh why do you care dude? kinda weird”
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Hayden
@the_transit_guy
Can someone far smarter than me explain to me why the name of a mountain in Alaska is even remotely on the top 10,000 issues facing this country? Who is this for?
If you can’t handle some fat old lady getting fired from her crappy job, how can you expect to handle deporting 10-20 million people?
Harden your heart. This is a war, and wars aren’t won with temperance.
If the Olympics prove anything, it’s that basically all women are attractive when they’re at the correct weight & fitness level
Average "karate is a joke" tweeter vs average kyokushin fighter
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STREET FIGHT HARD 
@streetfighthard
Karate vs Street fight
0:02 / 0:22
It’s difficult to understate how aristocratic medieval warfare was. Single combats, small skirmishes. A knight could often count the men across from him.
Thus each man was worth much more — trained from childhood, wildly expensive armor, riding a well-bred horse… 1/
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Daily Roman Updates
@UpdatingOnRome
Classical vs Medieval
“THE SPANISH HAD GUNS!”
“Bad ones. Most of the battles were hand-to-hand.”
“BUT DISEASE!”
“Wasn’t really till after the conquest.”
“BUT CORTÉS HAD NATIVE ALLIES!”
“It was pretty impressive that he rallied and commanded so many people, right?”
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One time I went to a new barber and he started talking about how he “knew mass shootings were fake because they didn’t target IRS buildings.” It was the best-looking haircut I’ve ever gotten.
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“CLASSY” FRED BLASSIE
@megantheevalium
what it’s like getting your hair cut in logan square
Note that the audience being “male dominated” is presented as a bad thing. “Dominated” rather than “majority male.” Kennedy “struggles” with it.
The Culture sees men enjoying something, anything, as gross and unacceptable.
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IGN
@IGN
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has said women in Star Wars, such as The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland, struggle due to a male dominated fanbase. bit.ly/3VjwbNS
Reasonable standards:
225 bench
315 deadlift
6:30 mile
75 second 400
5 rds sparring without gassing
Able to touch fists to floor
Ruck 12 miles in 3 hours
10 pull-ups
50 push-ups
600m swim w/o stopping
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WE did it again. YOU didn’t.
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Nicholas J. Fuentes
@NickJFuentes
I can’t believe we did it again
The real history here is fascinating. Napoleon brought a committee of scholars, historians, anthropologists, etc. with him to Egypt to study the ruins. He would take meals with them and engage in lively scholarly debates.
This is why & how the Rosetta Stone was discovered.
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DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Ridley Scott on shooting a sequence where Napoleon’s cannons fire at the Pyramids.
“I don’t know if he did that, but it was a fast way of saying he took Egypt.”
(Source: thetimes.co.uk/article/ridley)
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Sometimes I think I have a good grasp on some period of history and then I run into a ridiculous piece of information that destroys my entire framing.
For example, Aztecs, samurai, Ottomans, and Spaniards shared the same battlefield… in the Philippines.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Cagayan Battles of 1582 did not involve Samurai, Ronin or anything that could be considered a professional army. The Wokou were pirates and in this case not majority Japanese. They carried spears and arquebuses.
gunbai-militaryhistory.blogspot.com/2018/11/cagaya…
The Tlaxcalan natives allied to the Spanish are not Aztecs.
latinobookreview.com/when-tlaxcalan…
At this point, mass deportation is the moderate compromise. It is an olive branch compared to the deserved response.
Scrolled so long that I ended up on Haitian twitter. What the hell
To be clear, this is how they’re defining a Marine who came from poverty into extreme success and responsibility vs. a commie social studies teacher who ran his school’s GSA club
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Brendan Karet
@bad_takes
this is now a jock vs nerd election
This is hilarious, the guy in the car keeps trying to escalate and his target just responds 100% politely and in good faith
Dude's just trying to lose weight x.com/1nefew/status/
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All of these little symbolic digs that have amassed since 2008 — foreign languages in government media, renamed monuments, “equity” language in public spaces — are being undone. Soon they’ll be the artifacts of a fallen regime, a bizarre government that hated its own people.
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TrumpFile.org
@TrumpFile
The Spanish version of the White House website and the White House’s Spanish Twitter account have been deleted.
The 100-man kumite is probably the hardest single feat in combat sports.
A hundred rounds, bare-knuckle, full contact.
Only 32 people have ever done it. More people climb Everest every month!
