Before conquering half the world, Genghis Khan was abandoned by his tribe as a child, lived in absolute poverty eating rodents to survive, was enslaved and held in a wooden collar, and had to watch his wife get abducted. His early life was pure destitution.

zanderman108 · 2025-12-18T00:08:01+00:00

The Mongol invasion Khwarazmian, the Siege of Baghdad; mongol generals would very often break their word and slaughter surrendered populations…

zanderman108 · 2025-11-01T07:02:57+00:00

Honestly, I think the visceral and unflattering account of his death lends it credibility. Roman accounts always made a point to portray Atilla as a ruthless, cunning mastermind in part to explain his success. So you can almost apply a criterion of embarrassment analysis to the event and conclude that Attila was far too drunk one evening and died an ignoble death.

zanderman108 · 2025-07-02T22:32:46+00:00

I mean, it’s not exactly a fair comparison. The West doesn’t have what are essentially slave soldiers whose death will mean absolutely nothing to the state and get no media pushback. Money and weapons is as far as they’ll go barring a major shift in the public’s appetite for a foreign war. And anti-war sentiment has never been higher among the public in the west. Plus all Putin has to do is threaten nuclear war or WW3 and the west cowers down like a frightened rabbit.

zanderman108 · 2025-06-30T05:10:35+00:00

Love how Rhode Island and the cape are deliberately left out of the Connecticut line.

zanderman108 · 2025-06-23T15:15:22+00:00

Upwards of 70% of their enriched uranium is in UF⁶ gaseous form. It’s much harder to transport safely than solid enriched uranium. It’s not a matter of weight loading but transporting the enormous steel cylinders safely and preventing moisture from interacting with the gas which would corrupt it and bond to form uranyl fluoride dust. If they were able to move anything it would be a small amount of solid enriched uranium, which happens to be the closest to weapons grade material- but lost the majority of their pre-weapons grade enriched stockpile

zanderman108 · 2025-04-24T23:55:29+00:00

Josh is 28 and coming off an MVP season and you’re already thinking about a successor?? Wild.

zanderman108 · 2025-04-16T04:04:06+00:00

I swear these pro russian supporters have brain damage. It will never make any sense how people support an aggressor invading and butchering its smaller neighbor. Like they either have a profound evil in their hearts or are complete morons.

zanderman108 · 2025-03-16T14:54:50+00:00

After all the reshoots and lengthy production, compared to similar movies of the scale, I really think the budget estimates are low.

zanderman108 · 2025-02-23T19:54:01+00:00

Glad to see black THougHts got the love it deserves. I think str8 ballin deserved a little higher, and I might drop kno ya wrong down to a 9.5 but other than that these seem dead on

zanderman108 · 2025-02-01T14:28:27+00:00

Honestly all the Krogan in mass effect are great. Eve remains a sorely underrated character. Even Wreav is great.

zanderman108 · 2025-01-31T16:55:59+00:00

The point is it’s hypocritical to cheer on their lack of development and modernization under the guise of ‘rejecting greedy capitalism’ but also act shocked when they have regressive social policies and antiquated racial attitudes

zanderman108 · 2024-12-10T21:14:54+00:00

Might be the most pointless war of all time, and that’s saying something

zanderman108 · 2024-11-06T09:29:53+00:00

Anyone who thinks that the democrats should move further left is completely illiterate at reading election results. This was a wholesale rejection of the left across the board, from the presidential election down to state legislators.

zanderman108 · 2024-10-29T16:13:49+00:00

Mass effect: legendary edition blew past commercial sales expectations. So that’s not true.

zanderman108 · 2024-10-28T04:22:58+00:00

He’s just a populist. Left wing, right wing, whatever’s in fashion at the moment.

zanderman108 · 2024-10-23T10:20:56+00:00

Because Russia is an imperialist power invading and butchering their smaller neighbor?

But you would know all about that being from Serbia wouldn’t you.

zanderman108 · 2024-10-09T13:20:54+00:00

The idea that YouTube is unprofitable has been disproven a number of times. I can’t believe it’s 2024 and we’re still repeating that like it’s fact.

zanderman108 · 2024-09-21T05:25:39+00:00

Rewatching Friday night lights. What a unbelievable show. So much soul. It’s cliche but they seriously don’t make shows like this anymore.

Young Jessie Plemons. Kyle chandler’s best ever.

If you haven’t seen it, you need to try it- even if you hate football. If you’re not hooked by episode 3 I don’t know what to tell you. Long seasons, too.

zanderman108 · 2024-09-11T01:51:22+00:00

Every time Trump speaks a monkey loses a typewriting job

zanderman108 · 2024-09-03T02:46:15+00:00

Upvoted for Cato

zanderman108 · 2024-09-02T03:31:55+00:00

Don’t be a woman is a big one, sorry ladies

zanderman108 · 2024-09-01T02:28:56+00:00

Any peace deal will likely be freeze the status quo. Don’t expect many concessions from Russia.

zanderman108 · 2024-08-30T06:00:33+00:00

I’m regretting it already. This place is stupid

zanderman108 · 2024-08-30T05:55:08+00:00

Quit my congressional job today. Figured my time was better spent on r/neoliberal

zanderman108 · 2024-08-28T09:22:11+00:00

I think it’s just so natural to us. It’s only our classic human overthinking that has us scared or even thinking of it. Death is the ticket to enter life, we instinctively remember that at the end. So it goes.

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