ComradeSharkfucker

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“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Mark Twain

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Fingers crossed ruleEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    The death of the last competent emporer is not the death of the empire itself. I personally wouldn’t put a hard date on the end of the western roman empire as I don’t think of myself a competent Roman historian but I refuse to consider it earlier than 395.

    America hasn’t competent leadership for a while but its empire is still very much alive.

    Edit: not sure I understood what you meant by the last part of your comment so I apologize if I misinterpreted something and my response feels out of place

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Fingers crossed ruleEnglish
    23·
    10 days ago

    Made this comment on the hexbear post but I will put it here too because of my hatred for Sir Glubb

    I have an unreasonable dislike for sir Glubb. His conclusion is just wrong and based on horrible data. It bothers me that his opinion has lasted this long in the public consciousness

    I mean look at this shit bruh

    I’d be embarassed to have made this. What made him choose these dates? Wdym the Ottoman empire only lasted 250 years??? Yes, the Roman empire totally ended in 180 A.D. nothing happened after that don’t worry about it haha. Don’t even look at China, doesn’t matter, nothing is going on there. Like??? I hate him

    America is coming to its end as an empire but it’s not because it reached some arbitrary date set by a Brit trying to rationalize the fall of his empire in a way that absolves its people of any fault.