just a bunch of dudes, checking corners with their bows drawn, getting shot by a crossbow-machinegun nest

  • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    This is honestly pretty fascinating from a cultural standpoint, like 100 years from now anthropologists will be able to look back on how the English myth of Robin Hood was adapted to the warrior culture of the late American Empire

    • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Only modern America would say "well if Robin Hood is so good at archery, why didn't he help out during the crusades? He would've been an incredible operator" and I think that's beautiful

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        well you have to consider that many of the great American historical bandits like Jesse James often had got their start in the civil war

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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          2 years ago

          John Newman Edwards made sure to highlight such techniques when creating an image of James as a kind of Robin Hood. Despite public sentiment toward the gang's crimes, there is no evidence that the James gang ever shared any of the robbery money outside their personal circle.[33]

          Leave it to America to make their Robin Hood story about a selfish, racist, Confederate

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            it's slightly more complicated than that as the legend of Jesse James got big well after he died during the great depression