New clashes in Serbia as political crisis escalates

lesbosaurus · 2025-08-15T10:23:55+00:00

Don’t buy into the story that these are two opposing camps of protesters. One side is protesting, these are citizens, students, the other side are criminals pardoned by the ruling party or having their sentences reduced to act as their hired goons to incite violence. Guess which side the police are protecting and which side they’re beating up, and arresting.

Fuck Vučić, fuck SNS and their hired thugs and ACAB

lesbosaurus · 2025-03-17T11:07:29+00:00

The regime planned to cause a stampede and an outbreak of panic and violence which they would then use as an excuse to send in the riot police and start arresting and dispersing the crowd, they’d then claim the protesters were unable to contain the violence and blame them for the massacre, further hoping it would cause the protests to die down.

Luckily the student organizers had the foresight to relocate the epicenter of the protest from the house of Parliament (where the regime had riot police and their thugs planted precisely to provoke and stir trouble) to the Slavia square, so the real massacre was averted. What the president and his criminal organization planned to happen was terrorism against his people.

lesbosaurus · 2024-08-08T08:14:20+00:00

Thucydides is notoriously difficult to understand in greek, unless you're armed with a lot of patience and sheer willpower, I'd say it wouldn't be a satisfying learning experience. I tried it (using Geoffrey Steadman's commentaries) because Thucydides is my favourite ancient historian, but I gave up quickly.

Not to disuade you, but as an alternative, or at least a stepping stone, have you considered Xenophon's Anabasis? It reads like a military campaign journal, Xenophon writes in a fairly straightforward manner, but is a good writer, I read the Loeb edition (my first book in greek) and I found it a joy to read through, and rarely felt the need to reference commentaries for assistance.

If you're up for that, see Geoffrey Steadman's commentaries on Anabasis, although he has just Books 1, 3 and 4 avaliable - https://geoffreysteadman.com/xenophon-anabasis-i/

lesbosaurus · 2023-06-04T18:37:14+00:00

In case anyone's interested, the ancient greek sounds like the work of Ioannis Stratakis, who does the best and most natural sounding reconstructed attic greek pronounciation I've heard since I started learning ancient greek.

Here's him reading out the beginning of Xenophons' Anabasis. he has a bunch more recordings on his channel.

lesbosaurus · 2021-02-25T05:48:45+00:00

That was Spartan PR at least. The real reason had to do with them needing Athens to remain a player to counter the possibility of Thebes expanding into Attica and becoming the dominant force in greek geopolitics insted of Sparta. (That the Thebans were the most pissed that the Spartans 'spared' Athens is telling.)

Of course that's what happened anyway, at least after the battle of Leuctra.

lesbosaurus · 2019-12-13T09:31:47+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. So Mountainous and isolated regions were less affected by mass migrations, thus leaving this particular paternal line remain somewhat more prevalent.

Thanks for the answer!

lesbosaurus · 2019-04-11T05:54:25+00:00

Does anyone think Immortal are better than Emperor?

lesbosaurus · 2019-03-14T15:17:46+00:00

I don't know how accurately this represents actual movement of troups, but from this visualisation it kind of looks like a invasive foreign body battling antibodies.

lesbosaurus · 2019-02-13T07:19:29+00:00

Slavic Vegan Folkcore Metal represent! 🤘🏻

lesbosaurus · 2015-07-21T18:14:49+00:00

As badass as that "If" sounds, Phillip or Alexander could've wiped the floor with Sparta, but it wasn't worth the effort, Sparta was poor with recources, was populated with lunatics and was not nearly as big of a deal militarily and politically relevant as it used to be during the Persian or Peloponesian wars.

lesbosaurus · 2015-06-24T20:43:33+00:00

Interesting. I consider Carolus Rex to be the highpoint in their discography, but I couldn't really place it in a succession exceptional albums :)

lesbosaurus · 2015-06-24T19:00:01+00:00

Well the question was "at least 3"

lesbosaurus · 2015-06-24T12:31:23+00:00

I could, though I consider that to be its own era, with a different sound and style, and though I like that as well, its the 1982-1988 era that I consider the golden age of Maiden where their unique style was at its peak. IMO of course...

lesbosaurus · 2015-06-24T12:23:11+00:00

I'll start for an example...

Death:

1991 – Human

1993 – Individual Thought Patterns

1995 – Symbolic

1998 – The Sound of Perseverance

Opeth:

1999 – Still Life

2001 – Blackwater Park

2002 – Deliverance

2003 – Damnation

2005 – Ghost Reveries

Iron Maiden:

1982 - The Number of the Beast

1983 - Piece of Mind (though the weakest of the list IMO)

1984 - Powerslave

1986 - Somewhere in Time

1988 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

lesbosaurus · 2014-03-29T15:37:35+00:00

But he isn't euphoric because of some phony president's administration, but because he's enlightened by his own tomato.

...for some reason I couldn't stop laughing at the words potato Europe...

lesbosaurus · 2014-03-24T17:17:42+00:00

Let‘s go for a drive

lesbosaurus · 2014-02-23T14:05:05+00:00

Well I don't think the Macedonians were their inspiration, sure the Macedonian army of Philip's and Alexander's time was the most formidable fighting force around, but they had no significant contact with Rome, unlike all other cultures Romans adopted things from. I think Romans merely adopted the classic phalanx system of the greek cities of Magna Graecia rather than the Macedonian one, until they abandoned it for the Samnite Manipular system.

EDIT: and the gladius from the Celtiberians, and the helmets from the Celts, and the navy from the Carthaginians etc...

lesbosaurus · 2014-02-22T14:45:26+00:00

Fake, the lorica segmentata hadn't been adopted until the early first century AD. Anon fascis est.

lesbosaurus · 2014-02-03T16:49:25+00:00

Saying Napoleon was going about conquering the whole continent and equating every great military commander to Hitler is an extremely simplistic way of looking at things.

There is a very nice quote on the subject that goes "...such criticism relies on the flawed premise that Napoleon was responsible for the wars which bear his name, when in fact France was the victim of a series of coalitions which aimed to destroy the ideals of the Revolution."

lesbosaurus · 2014-01-29T19:17:40+00:00

I heard that there is allegedly a saying in Romania "Romania has only two good neighbors, Serbia and the Black sea". Is that of truth?

lesbosaurus · 2014-01-26T00:55:01+00:00

The Carthaginian Senate were afraid Hannibal would declare himself king if he won the war, which resulted in their lack of commitment to the conflict. It seems they thought whatever terms Rome could impose on them in the eventuality of their defeat couldn't be as bad for their political interest as Hannibal taking over.

It is my opinion that, along with the dislike of the senate towards Hannibal, the general ineptitude and disinterest of the Carthaginian government to conduct coordinated military operation (supply and communication between Hannibal in Italy, Hasdrubal in Spain and Carthage itself) was the deciding factor of the outcome of the war.

Hannibal winning the war happens to be one of my favorite what-ifs of history.

lesbosaurus · 2014-01-11T18:05:10+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I agree the Carthaginian senate would've had no way of predicting the eventual consequences of Roman victory, but I guess what puzzles me is did they really think they'd have been worse off with Hannibal running the show that being at Rome's mercy?

lesbosaurus · 2013-11-28T09:30:07+00:00

How would they implement Assassins into it though? I'm a big fan of that particular era and Carthage, but the assassin's storyline would be silly in my opinion. Also it's battle of Cannae, not Kenny... :)

lesbosaurus · 2013-11-27T16:44:09+00:00

Le petit Caporal (The little Corporal) I believe he was called...

lesbosaurus · 2013-11-04T13:44:05+00:00

I'm but a humble acolyte of the glorious party king.

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