Well, Carthaginians weren’t dumb.

They did both!

They’re such adorable little genetic dead-ends!

[Pug noise]

It is a bit disturbing that we bred a dog variant with the ability to scream.

The same kinds of Very Serious Leftists who are now saying spontaneous revolutionary action is the only solution that is acceptable.

I remember constant complaints of “The Dems didn’t even TRY anything, they should have proposed bills even if they knew it would fail!” before the second Trump presidency.

Now it seems the chorus has changed to “I can’t believe they’re trying something they know will fail!”

Curious.

no you dumb fuck: this is a physical act that carries a symbolic significance.

“My useless symbolic action will make the masses Rise Up™, while THEIR useless symbolic action won’t!”

👏

just fuck off and say you’re a coward and violence isn’t the answer blah blah liberal nonsense fuck you.

Sorry that I find the idea that Congressmembers brawling will help our situation at all risible.

You want to use violence as the answer to this question, get real about it, not asking clerks and octogenarians to get into slapfights in the halls of Congress on your behalf in the strange hope that it’ll cause a mass uprising wherein you won’t have to lift a finger.

oh it wouldn’t!

So, “They’re pandering to the wrong people; I want them to pander by doing different useless symbolic actions.”

So you agree with my comment you originally objected to. Good. Glad we’re in agreement.

Okay, how will AOC ‘beating the shit’ out of GOP Congressmen stop ICE from deporting children?

So, “They’re pandering to the wrong people; I want them to pander by doing different useless symbolic actions.”

About what I figured.

Okay. So will breaking decorum, yelling, and screaming will ‘pass’ or stop fascism?

please do something more. please do something that fucking matters.

Okay.

As members of Congress, what, exactly, should they be doing?

Not enough museums in the world - or funding, unfortunately.

Conservatives lost so badly yesterday, that not only will he not be PM, he got voted out of his own seat.

Rare wholesome conservative moment; he did his part in reducing government waste

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30398/lot/14/a-rare-votive-sword-tunisia-dated-ah-1099-ad-1688/

“If you work for the government you’re an enemy combatant”

… that’s not what combatant means.

You don’t have a minimal idea what you are talking about.

I think we’re on the same page, here. This place is against the “Soviets good, China good” mindset. I voted for Bernie, twice, and I admire the man.

Good soundtrack in the late period

Someone in the other comm had the same question and helpfully checked for more details!

So like…poison? Or did the king have some crazy double allergy?

Time for search engine rabbit hole

EDIT:

Gyeongjong suffered from ill health during his reign, and the Noron political faction pressured Gyeongjong to step down in favor of his half-brother, Prince Yeoning. In 1720, two months after his enthronement, his half brother, Prince Yeoning […] to handle state affairs, since the king’s weak health made impossible for him to manage politics.

It is said that, Gyeongjong’s mother, Lady Jang, was to blame for his illnesses. She was sentenced to death by poison, in 1701[…] she inflicted a severe injury to the Crown Prince’s [Gyeongjong] lower abdomen that left him sterile and unable to produce an heir.

There was some speculation from Soron party members that his half-brother, Prince Yeoning, had something to do with his death […] “But we may well doubt the truth of the rumour, for nothing that is told of that brother indicates that he would commit such an act, and in the second place a man who will eat shrimps in mid-summer, that have been brought thirty miles from the sea without ice might expect to die.”

Seems like a (hepatitis?) type of food poisoning, per Wikipedia. Crazy history though.

Seems like food poisoning that was used as an accusation of intentional poisoning.

Your arm would get tired.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear on a crucial point. There was continuity. While the other states that we call “successor states” were founded by foreigners who conquered or were granted parts of the Roman Empire and who adopted some elements of Roman culture, the “Byzantine Empire” was just a division of the Roman Empire that lived on after the barbarian invasions. That part had been speaking Greek since the beginning, and was already Christan by then, just like the Western half.

‘Continuity’ is a very vague and subjective concept. Just was we recognize a difference between the Franks and the French despite there being no clear break, and as we recognize the difference between the English monarchy and the British monarchy, despite significantly more continuity between them than between the Empire of Augustus and the Empire of Constantine XI, so too is there a difference between the Byzantines and the Roman Empire of old.

So what remains of the Roman Empire in the Byzantines of the 14th century? Not even unbroken imperial succession. Just a name, and a name unrecognized by much of the Empire’s former territories, including its heartland, and others which claim that same name.

For the Turks, maybe, I’d like to know why you think so. I don’t know enough. My initial assumption would be that they took it simply because they conquered the Romans, and their territory, and wanted to give their rule legitimacy before the Roman people.

I mean, they used the title of Kayser-i-Rum to justify a claim to Italy and Western Europe as a whole, and went in big on Classical antiquity as legitimization for their dynasty for the first ~100 years after Istanbul was taken.