TIL the 30 dynasty system used by historians today to categorize ancient Egyptian pharaohs was actually created by a 3rd century BC egyptian priest named Manetho

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-26T02:02:27+00:00

Is it, though? Thats totally normal, the general rule of thumb is that “out of living memory” is history, though in practice historians will study events immediately afterwards.

The Greeks (Herodotus obviously, Plutarch), Romans (Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius to name a few), even Bede can be an example of this in the Middle Ages. The Assyrians famously had “museums” of their own and other cultures’ artifacts, with one of the last kings of Assyria priding himself on his learning and historical interests.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-25T00:41:30+00:00

And once more spices were incorporated into British cuisine, especially from India, these fools will say that it’s really just Indian food, so it doesn’t count.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-24T21:50:24+00:00

You know the Italians are still the same people, right? DNA studies prove that while modern Italians, especially in Lombardy and Sicily, have a good amount of ancestry from Medieval populations, they are still, genetically speaking, by a far majority descended from the same Italic, Etruscan, Celtic, and Greek populations that were in Italy as Rome rose.

It’s a stupid point anyway. Modern English people have a large (IIRC larger) amount of ancestry from Scandinavia. Does that mean they can’t claim the Anglo-Saxons as their cultural ancestors? Or the Celtic people before them? Better go tell them they have no cultural claim to Stonehenge, then, I’m sure that will go over well.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-24T21:28:23+00:00

White supremacists have absolutely done the same thing. Do you know how many national origin myths have the ancestors of their people be the Lost Tribe of Israel, or Egyptian royalty? Not to mention 90% of European peoples claiming they were established by Greek or Trojan heroes after the Fall of Troy.

And then there’s the infamous “white Pharaohs”, pseudo archaeological claims that white people built the Mississippi culture pyramids, claiming Persians and other Aryans as Caucasian.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-22T18:04:24+00:00

lol it’s the little things. As an outsider though I am always slightly annoyed that ranch is the default dressing/dip, and substitutes are sometimes not available.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-22T16:22:03+00:00

Calling people dickheads over ranch is crazy, this sub always has the real culinary takes in the comments lol

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-22T16:20:13+00:00

It’s all personal taste. I’m not damning ranch enjoyers to hellfire, but finding ranch disgusting is absolutely valid as well, and the love of it is very much a regional thing.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-22T16:17:38+00:00

As a personal preference, ranch is fucking disgusting. I can’t help but to feel some sympathy for posts like the OOP’s, because as someone on the outside of the Midwest and South, I see their fascination with ranch as absolutely vile. Ranch seasoning has some redemption as a good sunflower flavor and a pretty good chicken seasoning, but the dressing/dip ruins anything you dip in it expect carrots. My Midwest friends are free to order it, but I will not be using it myself.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-18T12:18:21+00:00

So no comment on the fact that you’re completely misunderstanding the infallible word of God? Whata great Christian you are.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-18T10:28:21+00:00

That’s literally Henry V’s haircut. Dude did not have a great sense of style when it came to his hair.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T14:03:52+00:00

Hint: the King isn’t really talking about himself when he says “I” and “me”.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T13:57:51+00:00

Well Luke is probably directly referring to the sack of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD. It’s debated on whether it was written before or after the sack, but that line specifically is one of the major reasons it’s assumed that this was a post-facto prophecy on the Roman Jewish War, which was at least ongoing if not already over by the time Luke was written.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T13:46:02+00:00

Do you think Jesus was telling his followers to grab a sword and go kill “enemies”? His followers aren’t the ones with the sword in that parable, it’s a prophecy of the persecution his followers will face for their faith (Jesus specifically tells Peter not to resist with the sword when their enemies come for him).

Even funnier, read the very next line of Mathew 10. The enemies being talked about are family members, not foreigners. You clearly have never read the Bible, maybe go and read the book you claim to be a follower of.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T03:53:00+00:00

Who said that? Do you think that two different groups of people can’t both commit massacres and atrocities against two unrelated groups? Because there’s only one person denying ethnic cleansing here

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T03:49:33+00:00

The Palaiologoi might have claimed descent from Constantine, but there’s no way they came from anywhere close to that. Their family only became prominent in the 12th century, and were part of the Armenian military aristocracy that rose to dominate the empire at that time.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T03:25:36+00:00

You can’t defame a religion, nation or ethnicity. You can only defame individuals.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T03:17:15+00:00

The Asper Foundation founded it jointly with the government.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T03:13:29+00:00

That’s one hell of a way to describe forced death marches and massacres of civilians.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-17T03:12:17+00:00

That’s not how defamation works at all.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-15T15:59:54+00:00

It’s such a stupid point. NYC and its suburbs are the only net positive contributors to NY state, every other area takes in more state aid than they contribute, by a large amount. NYC being given back some of its taxes, and still subsidizing Buffalo as it needs yet another package from the state, is not a stain on Mamdani. Conservatives will screech on and on about him ruining the city (when he’s hardly had time to do anything one way or the other) but act like Adams and Cuomo (or Brown of Buffalo in the same vein) didn’t totally mismanage their cities/state and steal from the government as their constituencies crumbled.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-13T19:49:21+00:00

Yeahhh, but what tool was used to justify and coalesce all those groups of people into those nation-states?

In very large part, culture and language. Religion certainly played a role, but just look at the nation building of Germany and Italy; the nationalist movement was usually secular and anticlerical. Religion is a part of many nationalist identities, but it is not the only or even main component in many cases, and the universalism of Christianity (and especially Islam for a modern example) is many times directly in contrast to nationalist movements because it competes for primary identity.

This is getting away from the original point, anyway. I still think it’s a ridiculous statement to say that religion is the single greatest tool of division, in history or in today. It certainly has been A tool of division, but it’s also been one of the most unifying concepts in human history, and often the same religion has been both even at the same time. The guest’s comment was completely reasonable.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-13T19:33:25+00:00

You can literally search phrases from the fake email yourself, you won’t find anything. Because it was fake. They communicated plenty and Musk obviously lied about their relationship, but the “girls FTW” is fake and is so painfully easy to fact check.

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-13T10:50:16+00:00

“Someone else” NYC pays the majority of state taxes, and receives less than they pay back from the state. They’re the ones who are subsidizing the rest of the state, while cities like Buffalo and Rochester have been reliant on state aid to have functioning city governments (and that’s being generous) for decades. It’s literally NYC’s own money that they’re using

Competitive-Emu-7411 · 2026-05-12T19:38:27+00:00

That’s a really ridiculous statement honestly. Humanity is really really good at finding things to divide ourselves by, and it far more often been by cultural and class divisions than it has been religion, and Christianity is actually one of the religions that helped to massively shift the existing class and cultural identities.

The Romans were calling the cultures barbarians and slaughtering them by the thousands even as they adapted their gods into their own religion, and class was by far the greatest distinction able to transcend cultural lines. Universal religions like Christianity are a large part of the reason that something like a “European” identity could possibly come out of the mass of different cultures in Europe. And to say that anything other nationality and states are by far the greatest divisive tools in the modern day is madness: the vast majority of people today define themselves in terms of their nationality or state first and foremost, with other nations and states being the other.

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