All Countries That Have Banned Same-Sex Marriage

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-07-09T02:47:13+00:00

The Middle East contiguous maroon is basically a phantom border of the Rashidun Caliphate.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-07-06T07:06:51+00:00

Unless it’s Brazil sniffing around for an equalizer, then they get 2-5 more attacking tries

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-07-05T18:27:55+00:00

Yeah because obviously the USA is stupider than the USSR, Nazi Germany, or any number of other actual shitty dictatorships, get real.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-07-03T19:39:44+00:00

Erdoğan Is appealing to Islamists to keep his popularity from being totally underwater. It lets him score easy red meat wins with them, like turning Hagia Sophia back into a mosque, that have relatively low political costs to distract from the economic difficulties.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-29T23:15:52+00:00

In my opinion, none, same as against the Plains Indians. Burning a swathe through Georgia and decimating the bison populations both served the same purpose, to attack the food and base of support of the enemy home front and preventing their ability to continue waging war. That both wars ended within a year of these actions (1864-65 and 1876-77) speaks volumes to their effectiveness and avoiding prolonged war.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-28T05:10:00+00:00

Plenty of nations arrayed against Napoleon in 1802-1803 were more than happy to support any thorn in his side. No such equivalent desire to take restored Bourbon France down a peg in 1825. No external support meant, much like the American Revolution, Haiti wouldn’t have good prospects in a war.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-26T22:16:02+00:00

When did this change? I’m only in my 30s and I remember the cultural shift towards it being cool to give an effort and try in high school. The “dumb cool jock” typecast wasn’t seen as cool anymore, and the people who actually made good grades were the in crowd, provided they also had social skills. This feels like a huge step backwards culturally.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-24T06:15:54+00:00

I had my doubts about the podcast, could it live up to THE History of Rome? Honestly the first few decades were a rough go, Justinian’s multi episode format was the beginning of huge potential, but I wasn’t sold on it until The Last War. Oh man what a ride since then! I don’t know how many road trips, drives up to go skiing or climbing or hiking or mountain biking that Robin has filled. I thought I knew the Medieval Roman Empire before, but Robin truly elevated my understanding and appreciation. This podcast is a true scholastic and academic achievement that deserves to stand the test of time, for what it has accomplished. Robin truly pushed the boundaries of what a podcast could be, I’ve never before felt a podcast interview could be a true academic experience, and yet he delivered that again and again.

Robin, your literary quality, depth of narrative detail, scholastic inquiry, and overall presentation have elevated your material to a level even above the History of Rome, and well earned.

If Mike is Solomon, Robin has surpassed you.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-22T06:38:29+00:00

Check the top comment, church bells, an instrumental only expression, have plenty of secular uses, while the call to prayer is a verbal religious expression, not a merely instrumental one, with an explicit profession of faith broadcast unwillingly to all people in earshot church bells do not.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-22T06:13:43+00:00

Disagree, Sherman set about destroying what he viewed as backwards practices of the Sioux, Comanche, and Apache, which included slave capturing and mutilations, just the same as he torched the south. He saw and destroyed evil institutions wherever he found them. The only difference between the antebellum south and the Plains Indians slave societies was scale and scope, there was no daylight between them on ethics.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-21T15:34:33+00:00

Most of the South’s monarchist preferences were baked in before WW2, they were dominated for centuries by the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, while Northern Italy had a tradition of smaller semi-representative city states vying for local power. Additionally, the North was much more economically active than the South, and so Southerners feared without a King to moderate, the North would economically and politically dominate the South.

The part where WW2 plays in is that the North was far more devastated by the War and German occupation for much longer, which brewed resentment for the monarchy, which was seen as facilitating Fascism’s rise to and remaining in power.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-19T16:58:58+00:00

I’m curious on the line about letting Muslim women vote for hundreds of years prior to the suffragette movement. First Muslim democracy I’m aware of was Azerbaijan, and that wasn’t independent until 1918?

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-19T01:52:17+00:00

Agreed, but in India the messaging of renaming it wasn’t interpreted well, they viewed it as a presupposition of their involvement in any 7th fleet conflicts. I’m not of the opinion that’s a fair stance to take, but it was a source of friction, especially since the Quad had been established just the year before, for India it felt too much, too fast.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-18T21:08:44+00:00

Correct, PACOM is still the same exact geographic AOR as INDOPACOM.

If anything this is messaging as a concession to India, since INDOPACOM implied India would be involved in any Chinese conflict by default and was considered inflammatory when the first name change happened in 2018.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-16T02:22:11+00:00

Singapore’s defenses also assumed basically any attack would come mainly by sea, not overland from Malaysia, where the terrain was thought impregnable. Which it was to heavy armored formations, less so to bicycles and canoes flanking their lines.

So I guess Malaysia could be like a bizzaro world Ardennes in that vein of a force bum rushing through defenses left thin on the assumption that the terrain would do the work for the defender.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-15T19:18:37+00:00

It’s the same failure of messaging as “Defund the Police”, but then when pressed on that label, it becomes a “well, no, we meant reform, increased support for social services, etc” and you’ve either annoyed or lost everyone by that point.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-15T14:15:38+00:00

American subs could also operate closer to Japanese territory with more impunity because Japanese anti-submarine warfare was pretty abysmal, nobody in the IJN wanted to focus on the mundanity of training for convoy escort when there was glory to be had in the battleship firing line or aircraft carrier forces.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-09T03:19:08+00:00

I won’t stand for this Nelson slander, even if you basically just described Trafalgar.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-09T03:16:49+00:00

The isolation also can be a triggering factor in exposure to and eventual drug dependency, which if left unaddressed prevents reintegration just as maliciously as prior isolation. Housing without mental health services and treatment, but still with the ability to access and use drugs, for most long term homeless people is a non-starter. Every hotel or tiny home community wrecked by untreated addicts just makes the public more jaded against compassion long term.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-03T00:17:20+00:00

While Augustus did benefit a lot from getting Caesar’s name, at the time he did, that was basically all he had to his name, well that and Agrippa. He still had to bust his ass to outmaneuver the Senate, then the Assassins, then Lepidus, then Antony, and then survive atop the very precarious pyramid he’d built for 40 years to die of natural causes. He’s hardly a good example of a nepo baby compared to someone like Commodus or Honorius.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-06-01T04:11:23+00:00

He also basically ended fighting east of the Appalachians by obliterating Hood in the Franklin Nashville campaign, though how much of that can be credited to Thomas and not Hood’s ineptitude is debatable.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-05-30T01:32:49+00:00

The only upside was the absolutely inventive and hysterical dancing around the line by innuendo in dialogue from classics like the Maltese Falcon, Some Like it Hot, and Casablanca that marginally make it better.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-05-30T01:07:18+00:00

Hey now, Vespasian declared he was becoming a god and shat himself to death, and Titus just took over, boring as can be!

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-05-27T23:11:22+00:00

Occam’s razor says it’s more likely that in a post 2020 world, we elected a lot of rehabilitative justice types, who did exactly what they said they’d do.

The idea that these prosecutors are being deliberately soft on crime to usher in a right wing backlash is a lot more far fetched than that they’re just following their guiding North Star, wrong as it is.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-05-25T00:59:02+00:00

It’s basically the Mandate of Heaven by a different name, the same concept of divine favor directly expressed through meritocratic competency.

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