Yeah, that's a great series but he desperately keeps trying to compare Sparta to North Korea, and the whole time I'm reading, I'm like "no dude, the US is clearly the modern equivalent and we basically treat the global south as our helots." The shit about them stalking and killing the helots throughout their rural countryside was basically just ancient Contra-type shit like we've supported throughout Latin America.
I want to pause here. I am being a bit bloodless talking about this, because I want my point to be clear. But just so we understand each other: using barrel bombs against civilians is monstrous. Using poison gas at all is monstrous. Assad is a monster.
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
has some libshit but methodically destroys the myth of Sparta
Didn't Sparta get 300 Spartiates killed at Thermopylae and then coast off of that until the collapsed due to their contradictory society?
Yeah, that's a great series but he desperately keeps trying to compare Sparta to North Korea, and the whole time I'm reading, I'm like "no dude, the US is clearly the modern equivalent and we basically treat the global south as our helots." The shit about them stalking and killing the helots throughout their rural countryside was basically just ancient Contra-type shit like we've supported throughout Latin America.
While browsing that blog I found this:
:who-must-go:
and there are five OPCW whistleblowers who say the Douma gas attack was a fabrication