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For the same reason Chaos and Wholesome are opposites

for the shitpost o7

“Talk is a national institution, but it does not help the slave!”

Hey… you’re pretty good…

Mandatory Fun Conversation

Best lil guys, they recharge my shields

Explanation: In the Siege of Alesia during the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar (of conqueror and dictator fame), Caesar, with a force of about 50,000 Roman and allied troops encircled a slightly largely force under Vercingetorix in the fortified city of Alesia. Caesar, in order to ensure none of the Gauls could escape to regroup, built a wall around the fortified town. Vercingetorix was a charismatic and skilled Gallic warlord who sought to expel the Roman intruders from Gaul, after several years of the Romans increasingly intervening in inter-tribal wars and making themselves increasingly ‘at home’ as overlords of Gallic polities.

Vercingetorix, however, had planned to be surrounded - he had sent out the call for a much larger force to gather and surround Caesar while he was surrounding Vercingetorix!

Caesar played the Uno Reverse card, and built a wall around the wall he was using to surround the walled city of Alesia. That’s three (3) walls in total, for those counting, two by Caesar, one by the Gauls. So when the massive Gallic relief force arrived, they found out that there was no fair fight to be had - they had to siege out Caesar’s own besieging force to rescue Vercingetorix! To make matters worse for them, Caesar had his men ransack the countryside for all available food, burning what they couldn’t take - meaning the relief force couldn’t linger for long without starving.

By Caesar’s counting, he faced nearly ~350,000 Gallic warriors in total. It was likely significantly less than this, with the number exaggerated for both practical (hard to count an enemy hemming you in while you hem them in) and propaganda (big numbers = big victory) reasons. Modern figures ranging from ~80,000-200,000 enemy troops arranged against Caesar.

Forced into several costly assaults on the Roman walls by their circumstances, the Gauls, even coordinating between the besieging and besieged forces to time their attacks, were driven back, and Vercingetorix eventually surrendered for lack of supplies (and lack of ability to break out of Caesar’s siege), ending the Gallic Wars with one of Caesar’s greatest victories.

Get fucked. When someone asks you to disengage, disengage. You’re being an asshole.

I’m sorry I don’t follow the rules of the Fae, or whichever arcane code you’re following?

If you want to disengage, feel free to disengage. No one is forcing you to respond to me. If you want to get the last word in and then say “Disengage” thinking it’s a “Now my points can’t be responded to :3” card, feel free to go fuck yourself.

The people have armed themselves to protect themselves from people like you.

The People’s Stick, I see.

They are more free than you can possibly imagine, and that idea terrifies you.

Maybe the post-1950s PR campaign was unnecessary all along.

They’ve literally hosted international conferences this year.

tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?

You wanna point out to me where that contradicts “holding a conference”?

I literally cannot with you people.

Yeah, sorry that you haven’t been following anything except the endless glazing of Subcommandante Marcos. I understand that PR of the internet age is much more compelling to our generation than the staid 1950s-level PR of former ML states, but I would suggest that you learn to think for yourself nonetheless.

Please disengage, I’m sick of the bad faith bullshit.

“Bad faith is when I’m contradicted”

Okay.

Do you have any actual objections to life under the Zapatistas, or are you just going to continue vagueposting about how it must be bad because you decided it must be?

You do realize that the Zapatistas, before this recent trouble with “Blaming the government (that they don’t need) for not controlling the cartels” tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?

There’s a long laundry-list of problems with how the Zapatistas have ‘settled in’ to their role since the turn of the century.

… I was opposed to AI, but I’m opening up to the idea now. Go on.

Explanation: Funny enough, when the first Roman Emperor, Octavian, seized control over the Republic, there was no (formal) recognition that the Republic had actually changed in any substantial way. The Emperors collected gobs of offices to justify why they could do anything, anywhere, anytime, but denied being kings - like someone saying they were Prime Minister, President, head of every cabinet position, and governor of half the regions of a country. It’s… possibly, technically allowed, depending on your country’s laws? But very much against the spirit of republics!

He’s no king, please! He’s just the First Citizen! So humble, our Octavian!

Oh, sorry, he wants to be called ‘Augustus’ now - ‘Exalted One’.

Future Emperors would maintain this legal fiction, to some degree seriously until the late 3rd century AD, and then nominally until the Byzantine-era 6th century AD. The Emperor is your fellow citizen, and exhorts you to great deeds for the cause of OUR Republic!

Explanation: In Imperial China, Emperors were often overthrown by losing the “Mandate of Heaven” - broadly speaking, the stability of the state, resulting in civil war.

In Imperial Rome, Emperors were often overthrown by… their own bodyguard, the Praetorians, who even went so far as to auction the position off to the highest bidder at one point.

L’etat, c’est la garde!

Yeah, in political compass memes, it’s a common joke related to that libertarians are caught arguing against the age of consent concerningly often, lmao

Mood tho, minus fortnite

“Yes! We’re all individuals!”

Already done!

Warhammer 40,000

Took me a moment