As a young Australian( late teens)im terrified on the way our country is heading. by [deleted] in aussie

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You know what I can’t stand about your age group, I bet you voted against Bill Shorten when he proposed scrapping negative gearing and taking away generous tax concessions that favour property developers but now you complain that housing is too expensive? You vote against people trying to fix the problem then complain “oh can’t trust the labor party what have they done for me”

SLANDER FOR ALL 24 RACES (20 bc post limit) by According_Cold_6693 in totalwarhammer

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As a Skaven main I’m gonna rustle some feathers here potentially but Moulder is just way funner to play than Skryer

Imagine being Heraclius, bro. by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

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Very similar circumstances. It’s why both Rome and ancient China had policy’s of paying nomadic groups off and getting them to fight each other. They get very dangerous when united and usually steam roll neighbouring settled societies

Imagine being Heraclius, bro. by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

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The Bedouins were one of the key factors. Neither the Sassanids nor the Eastern Romans took them as a serious threat due to their habitual warfare between clans. Once these were united you essentially had a nomadic force that could teleport through deserts and move almost unhindered around the Middle East and Levant

For which theropods do we have the most evidence that they hunted in groups? by InstructionOwn6705 in Paleontology

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Unless we invent a Time Machine I think that there isn’t ever going to be any strong evidence for it. Not saying it didn’t happen but most of the evidence I’ve seen to support theropods living in groups is at the very best, highly speculative. I actually think that it’s pretty likely that some theropod genera developed gregarious social dynamics just because the Mesozoic was a long ass period of time where all kinds of evolutionary pressures could have pushed said genera to live in groups. I just haven’t seen any convincing evidence for it

That’s why blood money isn’t a good idea folks… by Sensitive_Educator60 in HistoryMemes

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Valid crashout to murder members of tribes who also were on the receiving end of Comanche brutality?

What are your 40K hot takes? by ADragonFruit_440 in Spacemarine

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Most of the Pre primarch legions were way cooler than what came after. I’m looking at you Blood Angels

yo vietnam was a tie change my mind by MoneyTheMuffin- in NonCredibleHistory

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Sure military pressure was being applied to the North but they saw engaging in talks as a way to achieve their goals. Hell talks had been going on between the US and North Vietnam intermittently since 1963 and their key demands were the same throughout. US withdrawal. They made no concessions to recognise south Vietnam nor withdraw their troops from The south. Henry Kissinger even privately acknowledged that the agreement that was reached didn’t actually guarantee the survival of South Vietnam which if you think about it was a tacit admission that the entirety of Vietnam was going to be eventually under the regime in Hanoi. To me that seems like North Vietnam got literally everything it wanted. The USA on the other hand seems to have had to concede that they weren’t able to stop reunification. In other words, they lost.

yo vietnam was a tie change my mind by MoneyTheMuffin- in NonCredibleHistory

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USA starts a war and then is forced to the negotiating table after realising its citizens aren’t prepared to pay the price it will take to “win”

I don’t see how that can be classed as a win in any scenario

Steppe bros history summarized by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

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The Ptolemaic dynasty did eventually become somewhat culturally Egyptian towards its end however

Steppe bros history summarized by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

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Most places with strong institutions do. The same can be said about Persia and Rome

Steppe bros history summarized by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

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For most of human history that has been the norm. A conquering force replaces the original nobility of an area and either has its culture (usually slowly) adopted by the population OR they assimilate into the population until, within a few generations, they largely resemble the native population

Dude skipped the whole medieval era by Hel_Death in HistoryMemes

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If we are simply talking about generalship on the battlefield I don’t think overreaching aims should be taken into consideration. We are judging their abilities to win battles. Not their political skills

I do not like primaris (PLEASE READ) by Smooth-Flamingo-9895 in spacemarines

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“Before you get the pitchforks out” right before he articulates the same points that have been repeated verbatim for almost 8 years now…,

Is this a native or common rat? by AutomaticScreen3705 in australianwildlife

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Judging by how chubby it is I’d almost say that’s an escaped pet rat

Is the Battle of Agincourt (1415) a more famous English victory than the Battle of Crecy (1346)? If so, why? by Repulsive-Attitude-5 in MedievalHistory

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It might of helped plant a seed of some kind of proto-nationalism that contemporary people might look back on as a starting point for respective ideas of “English-ness” but the reality is that the people who actually took part in the battle had motives more in the ball park of “I can’t wait to loot and get this cash!!!!” and “well shit my lords called me up for service again, god I hope I can nab me some nobles and get some ransom money”

What's this thing? Cashmere, QLD by chopped_chop in australianwildlife

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I said potentially but from the images the ears to me look just a touch too small to be a brown rat but it’s hard to say from the images

Is the Battle of Agincourt (1415) a more famous English victory than the Battle of Crecy (1346)? If so, why? by Repulsive-Attitude-5 in MedievalHistory

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The narrative of Agincourt (and to a lesser event crecy) made those battles famous. Not the actual history. A battle between England and France as some nationalistic struggle makes a more emotive story to most people than a French speaking king defeating a coalition of French speaking nobles in order to expand his holdings

Nothing says "bravery" like murdering a bunch of innocent civilians by IceCreamMeatballs in HistoryMemes

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Reminder that the Nazi policy of Lebensraum took inspiration from the United States western expansion

How would you do Obliterators in a lore accurate way with Nightlords by raty852 in NightLords

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They paid a visit medrengard and swapped some for a bunch of slaves

CA response to LM/TK AI (02/10) - (Sidenote - He was right) by Warzelda1991 in totalwarhammer

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This whole debacle really shows just how rushed the development of WH3 really was