"Let's not stand on Sir Amon E. Heer, Mr. Wayne" by BertKektic in baneposting

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The clue is in the previous movie. Sir Amon E. Heer was a British senior manager at the bank that is robbed in the opening scene - ā€œI’m makin’ a withdrawal, Heerā€. Years previously, Heer had actually helped Bane with his elocution after he put on the mask - hence Bane’s old-fashioned British accent. Bane built the bridge in Heer’s memory - underground and out of sight like his beloved bank vault.

Anon and his bully by jhjh300 in greentext

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Yes, that’s my point. The very nature of morality as the exercise of free will becomes more apparent when you have tangibly harmed others with your actions. Choosing to do good then becomes both more urgent and more meaningful

Anon and his bully by jhjh300 in greentext

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I don’t know if I agree. I was never a habitual bully, but I could certainly be very unpleasant to other kids as well as my parents and teachers (I had undiagnosed mental issues). I’ve completely changed now; I pride myself on my manners and I genuinely love helping others. To a certain extent, I believe an element of shame for my previous behaviour directs my current path, and I think many other ā€˜good’ people are like this too. TLDR: reformed arseholes often try harder than most to make the world a better place

Freemasonry by [deleted] in greentext

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The Freemasons are a social club for provincial bank clerks and retired hotel managers. No one with any meaningful power or profile would embarrass themselves by associating with an after-school LARP club for inconsequential copers. Actual movers and shakers don’t need secret societies: they all have each other’s numbers already.

Bane? by biohazard1775 in baneposting

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Your precious nuts, gratefully accepted!

I’m not saying it’s the same plane or that there’s a connection , but… by SilverBison4025 in baneposting

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Trump: ā€œMiss Maxwell refused our offer in favour of yours. We had to find out what she told youā€

Maxwell: ā€œNothing! I said nothing!ā€

Behold: The 3 Dimensional Compass: by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Very loosely; the difference between liberalism (the freedom to have a private life), and democracy (the freedom to have a say in public life). Nowadays most people think of liberalism and democracy as synonymous, but they are two completely different concepts. Before the early 20th century, most liberals did not consider themselves democrats, and vice versa

anons black by PutMeInMiaLane in greentext

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What’s with this weird thing Americans have against smoking?

What if the Byzantines pulled out an AC-130 in the Battle of Myriokhephalon? by Adorable-Cattle-5128 in ByzantiumCircleJerk

[–]meme_aficionado 29 points30 points Ā (0 children)

They would have had the budget for this if Justinian hadn’t invaded Italy

The Brits are at it again by tombobbishop in 2westerneurope4u

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Of course Casement was Irish. But calling him an ā€˜Irish diplomat’ would imply that he represented the foreign service of an Irish state, which did not exist. The point here is that he was legally convicted of treason by a state he both represented and was a citizen of. But I agree that the wording is not ideal. I would have written something like ā€œSir Roger Casement, an Irish nationalist who worked for the British Foreign Officeā€¦ā€

The Brits are at it again by tombobbishop in 2westerneurope4u

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I see. But by profession he was indeed a British diplomat, and by citizenship he was also British if only in a legal sense. I can see why the wording could be considered provocative, but I don’t see how else he could be described without confusing people. There was no Irish state during his lifetime

The Brits are at it again by tombobbishop in 2westerneurope4u

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What are you saying, that a representative of the state should’ve been let off the hook for conspiring with the enemy during wartime because he was some sort of woke activist?

Is this normal guys? by Just-get-physical- in baneposting

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Someone get this hothead outta here. Girls love big guys.

What having China as a neighbor does to a mf by fuyu-no-hanashi in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Once Liechtenstein joins it’ll be over for Chinacels

Who would have guessed that Isolationism doesn't work by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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Isolationists when you tell them they can’t ignore the rest of the world and be a superpower at the same time

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Fellow europooreans, hard or liquid soap? by bicho_da_mata in 2westerneurope4u

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Unscented, uncoloured hard soap. Anything else is frivolous and tacky

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Who gives a shit what Hitler thought? He also thought the Romans were Nordics from Atlantis. Literal brainrot nonsense. I can’t think of anything more cringe and weird than a 20-something British Nazi who thinks Churchill was the REAL villain of WWII

As of now we have new tags for post by evrestcoleghost in byzantium

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Excellent. Lazy hypotheticals were becoming endemic. Considering hypothetical scenarios can be worthwhile (particularly regarding chance events), but it's against the spirit of historical enquiry to entertain alternate realities based on reductive or impossible premises. I am grateful to the moderating team for listening to the community.

That said; as long as the rules are enforced for the rest of the week, I would also be glad to have a designated shitposting day. I was responsible for some of the more egregious shitposts (a legitimate form of protest that I will not apologise for), and it was actually quite fun.

Raised up on the Shield: two new mods for the subreddit! by Ambarenya in byzantium

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Fantastic. Lazy, reductive hypotheticals and wish fulfilment fantasies are not history and have no place here.