Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Or MAYBE the national superiority complex and xenophobia were fueled by 200+ years of isolation and government demonizing everything foreign, and an attempt to turn them into a less jingoist society so people could peacefully trade was pushed back by reactionaries who played nationalism to the max.
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  2. Rasputin actually survived an earlier attempt on his life when he was knifed, as he was a huge, physically tough man, that probably contributed to poison being not potent enough, so the THIRD real murder of him worked, so for what it's worth, the historical three attempts on his life with different weapons were a thing. Rasputin was thrown into a river. As water was found in his lungs, people gossiped about him surviving the shot and drowning, which, again, while doubtful in this specific case - is not a fantasy scenario, as even a lethal gunshot won't necessarily kill outright. FINALLY, when they burned his body, the ligaments snapped and corpse twitched - now he was 100% dead at that point but it just looked to be creepy and demonic.
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  3. The obligatory STATES RIGHTS TO WHAT moment.
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  4. Chinese also did a variation on that sometimes. Killing siblings to the heir was not as universal, but often influential generals and courtsmen that were important in the rise of a dynasty suddenly all appeared to be totally traitors... thinking of that, maybe Stalin copied that from China.
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  5. I still don't see the parallels... Ceasar is a salad... Napoleon is a cake... one is a sweet dessert, other is a vegetable meal. I guess you stab them both with a fork is about all that's common between the two.
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  6. Using the newspeak word "serfs" for slaves in chattel slavery where their children and grandkids were all owned as property of some pomeschik, should also be done with a LOT of brackets.
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  7. Also read Ibn Rustah, he was a Persian traveler who also journeyed with the Rus' peoples and described their habits in a more positive way, while Fadlan was very fixated on gentiles not doing the Muslim ritual washing, though both complimented the varangians on having luscious, clear, well-combed and often braided hair))) Legolasland.
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  8.  @devanis  the irony is that's ALSO because of the war. Hollywood monopoly started when USA forgave French their lend-lease debts by... making them show American movies a lot. Seriously.
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  9.  @spiko1755  literally nobody roots for Octavian, he's BOOORING. Antony knew how to PAAARTAY, and so did Ceasar and Cleo!
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  10. Media: "this coronavirus is just a normal flu, don't panic, or the stocks will drop too fast, so die silently"
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  11. You'll take my life but I'll take yours too You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand there's no turning back!
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  12. Just don't call it "Ukrainian conflict" but russian invasion. You don't call WW2 "the Polish conflict" okay?
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  13. Kingsman the Golden Circle and Bond Live and Let Die crossover we never deserved.
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  14.  @BaconHer0  if you lived in an anarchic commune, you'd have communists accuse you of being a Trotskyst and a traitor, destroy your communes, and execute farmers as "bourgeois", happened in USSR, Cuba, Spain and everywhere else.)))
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  15. @Michael Terrell II both sides had guns and samurai used them for centuries at that point. It's that one side had more modern guns.
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  16.  @paulbutkovich6103  sacrificing yourself is literally the definition of honor.
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  17.  @TBrewer64  Author of Gospel of John kinda identifies as the Beloved Disciple, though scholars still argue about the authorship.
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  18. To themselves. That move has effectively made Soviet Union isolated and jumpstarted the Cold War which... is kinda still ongoing with Soviet Union losing and now whole world (except Iranian, North Korean and Assad's faltering regimes) hating russia.
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  19. 3:45 Imagine if Rome adopted a Middle Eastern God, yeah as if that VatiCan happen...
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  20. We actually don't care, but can play grammar NS just to mess with people, as long as you don't claim the invaders are "brotherly people" anything goes. Except humanizing those who colonized us.
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  21. Egyptian life expectancy was kinda higher than 19th century Europe tho, as they had primitive antibiotics (moldy bread) and didn't know humorism so didn't bleed people out with dirty instruments to "cure" them... Dry climate also helped.
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  22.  @thecleitom9497  I guess porn version lmao.
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  23.  @GauravSharma-dy8xv  seriously, the current government in India is extremely pro-Hindu and keeps supporting attacks on other religions and cultures, not just Muslims, like attacking men for bringing beef or women for going out instead of sitting at home, Modi is a rudiment of colonial times.
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  24. I kinda hate this rhethorics now. Bothsiding is a gaslighting tactic: no, you can't pretend violently fighting back against slavery or genocide is the same as being the aggressor. I'm Ukrainian so biased in current wars so let's take another example: Ever heard of Yugoslav wars in 90s? Probably something like "all sides committed war crimes". This is a manipulation. That entire war was in Bosnia, and two other factions tried to ethnically cleanse Bosnian lands from Bosniaks. Literal concentration camps. Later in Balkans Kosovo was the victim and Serbia the aggressor. No other way. They are also trying to equate Tigray war with bothsideism (rebels are the victims) or Syria (90% of kills are by Assad and pro-regime forces) or even cases as clear as 80s Afghanistan, where USSR was invading a sovereign country, Mujahedeen were the good guys defending their land. But to this day we SOMEHOW get defenders framed as "terrorists".
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  25.  @yvindhagester9613  But many were actually punished... Soviet war criminals never faced justice, and PoWs from USSR had their entire families repressed UNTIL THE 1990s. When you were watching Ninja Turtles and Back to the Future, my mother had to fill in that "nobody in my family was interred" to be allowed into college.
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  26. And Gil refusing Ishtar is age of man superseding the age of gods, as well as prehistoric matriarchy replaced with the patriarchy that followed.
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  27. So tired of this "escalation" speak when defending yourself is called "escalatory" but indiscriminate bombings of civilians areas by the aggressor are not
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  28.  @themore-you-know  imagine trying so hard, renaming months, styling name after Ceasar, and still be mostly known as the bad side character guy from Cleopatra's story. Most famous Roman emperors are Nero, Caligula and Constantine. Octavian is not even making top 3.
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  29. Joke's on you, I seen the movie with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton BEFORE the cartoon and film version of Asterix... she does have a pretty nose though.
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  30.  @Yapscholar  Saber. She's King Arthur.
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  31. You're seriously claiming that after centuries of Rome having varied year lengths, Ceasar just ACCIDENTALLY by literally magic, decided to make calendar exactly as long as Egyptian when... visiting Alexandria. SERIOUSLY?! XD Stop being so dumb, it's a historical fact that Julian reform was literally just adopting Egyptian 365-day calendar with Ptolemaic leap day.
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  32.  @Datartbunch  Canadian geese 🪿 debunk all Lost Causers and I am not American or into US history. It's just a very clear and simple thing.
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  33. THIS DID NOT AGE WELL... As of typing: 169,854 closed cases, 30,299 (18%) dead. Half a million still infected (that's from tested people, multiply several times over for real data), and every fifth of them will die. Over 50 thousands new infected confirmed every day, over 10k of which in USA alone. Italy has almost a thousand officially recorded dead per day. Spain is closing in. Chinese statistics and mortality rate are now considered falsified, while russia records the dead under "unusual pneumonia". It's much worse than anything since the Spanish Flu.
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  34. Hebrew is the other way around... Go Jewish! xD Arabic language is inclusive tho: BOTH right and left-handed people get their writing smeared equally!
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  35. Australia tried to reclaim its military glory by airstrikes on camels. Seriously! The military is proud of defeating defenseless camels (which were brought captive anyway) with aircraft bombs. Still haven't lived down losing a war to emus.
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  36. They did. Two of the three ladies in Boney M, Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, were actual lead singers (Maizie Williams didn't sing in the studio), but their guy, Bobby Farrell, was a lip-syncing dancer, yeah, and Frank Farian, the producer, did both some of the high-pitched back vocals, and the low male voice in most of their tracks. Specifically, he pulled a Milli Vanilli with just the guy in Boney M.
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  37. Feels like the Space Laser lady is really treated like a toddler by conservatives, like the Israel lobby went to give her a tour of Holocaust museums and explain her history of antisemitism like on a preschooler level, while same very lobby started denouncing Ukraine when we voted in UN for the controversial resolution that "Palestinians have human rights" – now we're hated by both groups and she gets a pass.
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  38.  Dylan Rodrigues  literally Libyan protestors. They put Gaddafi on a bayonet. :3
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  39. MOST civs that didn't start working stone. Majority of buildings in Middle East like Egypt in Africa or Sumer and Akkad in Asia, were made from mud bricks. They didn't last long. City walls made from beaten earth were sturdy enough for a siege. Only temples and sometimes palaces were made from stone. What's left... well, that reminds me of Ozymandias: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away...
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  40. Victorian sensibilities are so weird now like in the movie version, Dracula's true love for his mistress looks amazing, and poor Mina marrying the frigid Harker in the end is the rear horror, I rooted for Oldman over Reeves seriously... Literally the Mel Brooks parody roasted Jonathan's character being taught to repress passion (and Keanu's poor acting) badly while making fun of the Bri'ish in the process.
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  41.  @AlexC-ou4ju  not EVERYONE, mind you, many countries are imperialist, but tons were colonies and just got independence FROM these empires. My Ukraine never colonized nobody.
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  42. Harker, holding back laugh: "SO MUCH BLOOD!" Mel Brooks: "SHE JUST ATE!!!" puts newspapers around
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  43. And Okita Souji is a waifu)))
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  44. At least reactionaries burn 3 and 4G towers instead of "witches" now.
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  45.  @karenmccarty749  literally 50% children died before widespread vaccination. Are you willing to put your child's life on a coin toss? It's three times SAFER to literally load bullet in a 6-barrel revolver and play russian roulette with a kid than not vaccinate them. Let that sink in.
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  46. "two men one horse" was the symbol of knights Templar... so everything evened out in the end lmao)))
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  47.  @Regic  Except that antibiotics should never be used when unwarranted, in that case they just damage your gut by eradicating healthy bacteria that lives there, which makes you weaker. Do you really want to crap yourself when you sneeze? That's what antibiotics do to people with flu, make their stomach weak. You don't need even more dehydration when you're infected either.
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  48. Watch Plane Crash Investigation. Most catastrophies are a string of cartoon level of coincidences. Reality is that there's so many safeguards ONLY an almost comical amount of failures need to coincide for the accident to happen
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  49. Like end of russia is a good thing, shame USSR sprung up... Well, now it's russia again and time to repeat history again.
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  50. ​ @matthewc4590  also North Korea, muscovia, Belarus, Hungary, Slovakia, and Central Asian dictators like Turkmenbashi. They're all basically caricatures.
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  51. Well, try pulling Cleopatra in Fate Grand Order with THEIR rates, and suddenly, Ubisoft aren't even AS greedy... >_>
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  52. ...he helps Gudako too, despite her only caring for gacha rolls and waifus, shows a hell lotta patience!
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  53. If you read on the time, pirates were LESS messy than actual government armies, like English navy treated sailors WAY worse than most pirate captains did and slavery was rampant, it's really hard to pretend pirates were the bad guys in most cases. Closer to antiheroes than the villainous empires of the era.
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  54.  @humanitysucks4025  you understand that your views predate Napoleonic wars and USA Independence? Like literally nobody outside of Mussolini and his fan group known as the Axis held these views in 20th century, and you're kinda in the next millennium at this point.
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  55. To the end of WW2? What about Munich Olympics, Gaza, and endless UN resolutions against Israel – there was no break. Founding of Jewish state of Israel had tons of coalitions against them and is still not recognized by most Muslim countries, and both left and right in the west only ever uniting for one cause, hating Jews.
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  56. Nah, bronze age didn't end because they ran out of bronze
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  57. Why people single out British museum? Most famous artifacts from Egypt like Nefertiti bust are in Berlin museum, and a bunch were even stolen by you know who and put into Hermitage in scat рutіnsburg.
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  58. He killed slavers. That's objectively a good deed. Goddamn Fallout gives you karma bonus for that. And even most villains like highway robbers and murderers draw the line on slave trade. It's just something that's too evil to accept.
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  59. Keanu Reeves has a role in the second season of the most popular ancient Aryans themed show. Watch Milo Rossi's debunking of Ancient Apocalypse seasons 1, it's GLORIOUS!
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  60.  @benjirabbe1205  vaccines are NOT a live virus, most of them don't even have viral component just antibodies, and ones that do have weakened virus WITH antibodies on top, so it's like putting you in front of a jobber who was drugged and beaten up before the match.
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  61. Cleopatra was one of the most expensive Hollywood movies when it was made. Octavian isn't even an anime episode, so she's WAY more famous after death.
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  62. Pretty sure they showed him agreeing with the KKK lmao. Everything else just fits there yeah.
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  63. One of the ways to defeat it was saying a limerick "hut on chicken legs, stay before me like leaf in front of grass", it makes just as little sense in context. Also, "turn to me with your front and to the forest backwards" and hero usually confused the two directions since russian heroes are always stupid. (Not exaggeration, Ivan Durak - the fool - is their go-to main character).
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  64.  @Bluecho4  if I was hungry and some smartass tried to give me fishing lessons, he'd get an uppercut.
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  65.  @Madhattersinjeans  "When your main exports is pillaging and trade people tend to forget about the trade..." not when the trade includes said pillaged goods and captured SLAVES. So even traders were in that. Kinda like when you're with the mob but not an enforcer just someone who launders the currency. The word "slave" comes from Slavs because vikings traded THEM so much.
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  66.  @rtdip2833  the pandemics at 20s are a myth, Cholera pandemic was in 1960, and nothing links specific plagues to 20s before that. Spanish Ffu and COVID-19 being 101 years apart? Yeah, that's a coincidence... the rest? Not even close to a round date.
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  67. This time they should ask Americans to help with supplies when they disembark in Crimea and Baltics to raze moscow.
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  68.  @Emperor_Farrukhsiyar  That's the point. People who call those who want America to get better healthcare system "communists" are wrong.
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  69. Dukes Nukemoss
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  70. WAIT A MINUTE, I always thought it's a really strange coincidence THE most popular stock horror characters were all created in some random evening, but it being a year of existential dread for everyone makes more sense for a background of both vampire stories and Frankenstein's monster.
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  71.  @Ironhold_Watch  red losers getting their fee-fees hurt again, AND you lost an argument in record one term–I mean, one message, by Godwin's law.
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  72. There were also Portuguese way back in 15th century
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  73. This, and I wish they do an overview about that competition in Geneva that gave us both vampires AND Frankenstein. Imagine, a party at Lord Byron's cottage failing due to bad weather, leading to most famous romantic poets (Percy Shelley got so scared he jumped out of the room) and their gfs Mary and Claire, telling each other scary stories while doctor Polidori remembered enough to write a novel later. Literally most important parts of horror pop culture were created due to weather shenanigans making a bunch of bored, creative people try to scare each other. Original vampire stories were picked up by Byron from the Levant, and he kinda hated when they become popular, lol.
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  74. Dude stop being salty, everybody knows Cleopatra, and her opponent doesn't even scratch the top 5 of most famous Roman Emperors.))) Obsidian was he? OR Oblivion, I keep forgetting... And it's funny to see boys pathetically screaming at women like her being more famous despite all your tantrums. ;)
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  75. How can you talk about world war without politics? That's like talking about football without mentioning balls.
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  76. It's called the Dutch disease; named after Netherlands discovering a huge gas field and focusing its exports on fossil fuel, to detriment of other sectors – which backfired when fossil fuel prices collapsed, but as you know, oil & gas consumption now is so high it totally won't crash 300 percent in one day and go into negative price... >_> YEAH... now russia, which has somewhere around 80% of their exports in oil and gas, has to literally burn fuel for nothing with giant torches as they're too poor to pay other countries to keep their low quality mix – and since they literally lived off fuel exports alone, they don't even have enough tech to develop equipment that temporarily stop the production to resume it later. Imagine having your economy completely dependent on two resources and take faith in their prices staying high so much, you don't even invest in equipment to develop them, things like tankers to hold extraneous oil, or ships that can build pipelines – russians don't have those. They literally just dug a hole in the ground in Cold War era and lived off that.
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  77.  Last Earthbender  because the planned Lucas sequel trilogy about Midichlorians would be so much better, JarJarFan?..
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  78. ​ @KH-wm5yi  Coptic priests still couldn't read hieroglyphics tho.
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  79. I absolutely thought of Rincewind making weird faces and hand gestures before kicking the opponent in the balls while watching this!
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  80. You can buy a square foot of land and become a Scottish Laird for like $50
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  81. We didn't start the fire... literally, despite Nero's insistence on the contrary.
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  82.  @delphidelion  It's literally TSao not Tao or Cao. You don't need a degree in sinology for that.
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  83. I'd donate to crowdfund it just to see the hysterical breakdowns alt right crybabies will produce from it)))
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  84. In USSR and post-Soviet history, children are taught Napoleon "lost" Borodino... you know, the battle that routed russian army all the way to leningrad, and russian colonizers lost moscow without a fight soon after. IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS RETREATING SO FAR YOU LOSE YOUR BIGGEST CITY A VICTORY?!
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  85. Well you don't know Bob "Dracula" Whitaker
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  86.  @paulchapman8023  the Greek spelling for Cronus is Κρόνος and the CHronos is Χρόνος
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  87. Yeah, comparing to current NATO shaking in fear and not even shooting down russian missiles flying into Poland or over Romania. Ukraine is the only country with balls.
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  88. Mommy said it's a stork that puts kids into cabbage
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  89. Baba is not diminutive, it's derogatory. Baba - hag, bitch, wench. It refers to all women regardless of age. Granny would be babusia in Ukrainian or babushka in russian, both these words actually have a dimunituve suffix. (Baba is just a root, words without suffixes are not dimunitive in Slavspeak). For example, Yagashechka would be dimunitive for Yaga. Or Rinusik for Rina.
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  90. Everyone called them tsar though. And empress, tsarina, children, tsarevich and tsarevna etc... My grandma talking of her ancestors said they lived "pri tsare", "during tsar", I literally didn't hear the word emperor used for then-dictators of mordor before I seen Western sources. Everybody in ex-USSR always just said "tsar." And no, tsar isn't same level of kaiser/ceasar despite being a translation of one. It's exactly how king is sometimes translated into russian. Polish king = Polski tsar. Specifically, official title of russian emperor ALSO listed him as tsar/king of several countries, so tsar IS a junior title to emperor and indeed, Nicholas WAS a tsar, that title was listed multiple times, in fact. Wiki copy-paste: "Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссійскій, Московскій, Кіевскій, Владимірскій, Новгородскій; Царь Казанскій, Царь Астраханскій, Царь Польскій, Царь Сибирскій, Царь Херсониса Таврическаго, Царь Грузинскій; Государь Псковскій и Великій Князь..." "Emperor and Autocrat of all russia, muscovy, Kyiv, Volodymyr, Novgorod, TSAR of Kazan, TSAR of Astrakhan, TSAR of Poland, TSAR of Sibera, TSAR of Chersonesos of Tavria, TSAR of Georgia, Sovereign of Pskov and Great Prince of..." Then go the lesser, regional titles. Just elaborating that emperor held titles of being a tsar of several tsardoms. Etymologically, tsar is close to kaiser but russia tried to westernize yeah, so they used emperor/imperator as higher title in official documents instead and tsar for lesser ones, think how Wang in China is King/Prince, but Di is Emperor.
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  91. Not the Trooper? How many people even read the poem when Iron Maiden exist.
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  92. It's very similar in Ukraine, Chekhov said "there isn't an item that won't fit for a Jewish surname". They don't follow general name etymologies. Many are a proper noun, Kravitz, like Lenny? Ukrainian for "tailor". Shvets, Portnoy - same meaning. Rybak - "fisher". Reznik - "cutter". Syrota - "orphan". Etc.
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  93.  @Cythil  Civ is really great at making people interested in stuff, unfortunately it also spread some myths, for example the stirrup theory about Middle Ages, or having writing and the wheel as very important techs prerequisite for so much stuff when you would see much more complex maths in Mesoamerica which notably didn't have wheeled transport due to nature of their roads. But Civilization made it look like the Mediterranean way of advancement is the only/main one. I just keep noticing how many misinfo in my head was reinforced by pop culture, not because they were evil but because they either didn't do the research, or the data they used was outdated (i.e. most dinosaurs in games). Total War has really positive impact with how they showed armies, people criticize them for inaccuracy too much. KOEI games too... I'm glad people get interested in stuff due to games or films or TV.
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  94.  @magnadramon0068  guys in the mountains pretty clearly are mythologized outlaws or rebels though... the legend doesn't make sense with being inspired by weather or animals, as it's about hospitality and looking like humans, even if we remove all possible connotations of xenophobia, it's still a story about paranoia and not trusting fellow humans who might look ordinary but be a demon all along... Ever seen the Thing? That kind of existential horror. Anyone can be "it", or an Oni in this case.
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  95. Joan of Arc upped him on that one, as the city is known mostly for her now...
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  96. or DANCING!
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  97. I want a part on Byron, the poet, joining it and wanting to sell his estate to keep financing his Albanian troops. It's crazy!
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  98.  @GT-ii7ci  the peaceful Greece that was totally not colonizing three continents, with their cities spread from Cyrena in Libya to Chersonesus in Ukraine... For some reason we kip digging out Ancient Greek colonies everywhere in Eastern Europe and Northern Africa, maybe because Hellenes were those peaceful democratic isolationists who kept to the Balkans amirite?)))
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  100. Can't wait when you continue this series with the story of Ma Baker, and her friend Daddy Cool... or even a prequel, going all the way back to the Rivers of Babylon... where we sat down...
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  101. Literally only one year and forced to abdicate because she didn't have a penis. TOTALLY NOT MISOGYNISTIC MALE ONLY SUCCESSION RULE AMIRITE.
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  102. >Seljuk Turks from central Asia invade Greece. Solution? >Germans decide slaughter thousands of Jews in Europe. WHY!?
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  103. Worse than chaotic reactionaries, they were the oppressive apparatus of the declining regime... But gurrrl those uniforms were swanky!!11
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  104. @ChewsCarefully it's actually surprising how there's literally nothing in common between Egyptian and Greco-Roman my mythologies despite living so close. There's also little to no things that unite Mesoamerican myths with either... So... They had birds? Yeah, both had birds as deities. Except Greeks who didn't.
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  105. Oh and Eastern equivalent of Emperor is Khagan aka "supreme khan", actually, some rulers took it in Kievan Rus' during Dark Ages (way before moscow was built), but it didn't really last... What's translated as "prince" or "duke" in English is "knyaz", which is equivalent of the viking title of konung (as in, prince Volodymyr would be konung Waldamarr in Norse sagas). Principality = knyazhestvo, knyaz-dom, lol. But those titles aren't related to modern russia, Rus' is geographically closer to modern day states of Ukraine and Belarus. The russian state emerged when Ivan III and IV, the Terrible, took titles of Tsar, transforming muscovy from a principality into a tsardom, and the westernization came a few centuries later with Peter the I'st reforms. They weren't really popular so people kept using the titles from moscow tsardom era vernacularly. Hell, Peter the Great isn't even known by that name as much as Peter the first, "Petr pervy". Even later, white russians would pray for return of the "Tsar-batyushka", the "king-daddy" (yes), not "emperor"... It just never caught on. Overall the whole episode and his explanation here was absolutely amazing, I was very surprised at the research they did because russian history is very muddled (several tsars literally ordered archives to get a little Alexandria library style fire) and it's hard to tell what was myth vs real events. It's VERY RARE for western historians to not fall into the trap of russian revisionism and propaganda. I hope they do Ivan the Terrible because he's being horribly romanticized in russia nowadays with putin giving orders to rehabilitate several convicted criminals linked to him. Seriously. Oh and there's secret police tradition that goes way back they touched the middle part of the Oprichniki-ohrana-KGB-FSB chain. tl;dr: Real good job on everything and yes, people "correcting" tsar to emperor aren't entirely correct because titles on paper are one thing and how the emperors were called in real life is another.
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  106. Bruce Dickinson to this day can't memorize the first few lines and butchers them before the Trooper.
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  107. And when russians shot the kids, bullets ricocheted off the jewelry... They were scared at God telling the murderers to stop, so they acted like russian soldiers always do and slowly beat children to death with rifles until the room was ankle-deep in blood.
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  108. Wait... Is Megadeth a McCoy band then? Metallica are obviously of the Hetfield Table clan.
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  109. Does she qualify for Assassin over... Assassinating herself or what? Most vague class ever!
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  110. 5:30 Gal Gadot is Israeli. Israel literally borders Egypt. Jews and Egyptians look very similar, and so do Arabs to them. Duh.
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  111. Logistician. On battlefield, Zhuge was legendary with logistics and delivering supplies to the army. They tend to be overlooked, as if only warriors and strategists matter.
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  112. Oh come on, it's obvious the middle kingdom was the greater Luxembourg!
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  113. Please, I need an explanation on why there are so many saberfaces! xD On serious note, we badly need summaries, as the problem with Arthurian cycle is that we don't have the definitive popular version everything else gets compared to, like Illiad and Odyssey for Greek mythology or big four novels for Chinese legends. Arthur is just... A LOT of separate stuff that's hard to keep a track of.
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  114.  @corrat4866  They sound distinctly Arbeit Macht Frau 1942-ish. Also government cracking down on people who believe in government conspiracy will only reinforce the lunatics beliefs.
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  115.  @CentristDad155  how can you avoid mistakes of taking over natives land, erasing majority of them from existence and throwing them into reservation when you are enjoying the spoils? Like it's still an ongoing process, I don't see any movement of returning the settlers back into slums of Hamburg or something... Shakespeare pretty much summed it up (of course he did) in Hamlet, when Claudius is praying, he says: My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? “Forgive me my foul murder”? That cannot be, since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder: My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense? You can't REALLY stop repeating offenses when you are directly profiting from them... Did USA even pay reparations? Like Germans and Japanese understand they won't bring the dead back, but they at least trying to do something to the ones they hurt, in fact I am pretty sure Americans forced both to pay... but never issues major reparations for slavery or colonization, you know, just for starters.
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  116.  @gingermcgingin1733  yup except it's Yeshua ben Yosef ha-Nozri, but yeah, in English this translates to Joshua Josephson of Nazareth.
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  117. Wrong. They coexisted in Ottoman Empire all right. You're trying to excuse modern wingnut reactionist isolationism using example of an exception to the rule out of context and declaring people unable to coexist despite almost every existing society proving otherwise, neckbeard.
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  118. I remember some celebrity talking how she refused a private clinic to give birth because general hospital where doctors take labour several times a day, makes them by default more experienced and safer than rich snob clinic where they have a client once in a blue moon. Obviously a country doctor had more patients than the king's spit-collector.
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  119. Congratulations today on Azov-steel defenders making it home, from Turkey! We liberated Snake Island, told their flagship off so hard it sank, and will liberate Sevastopol and Mariupol soon!
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  120. Archer class is made out of archers!
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  121. Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head? Oh Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead? Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the people with magic Yeah, you waited on satan's call
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  122.  @Asterix958  I heard Palenstine was what Romans renamed Judaea province after they exiled Jews from Jerusalem.
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  123. Really? To me Napoleon is the legendary conqueror with people being called insane by comparing themselves to him, like literal synonym for lunatics in the asylum is "the Napoleons". We also learn about Alexander the Macedonian and Cleopatra's lover before Marc Anthony, but they were never really legendary, mostly like, side characters in Asterix and Obelix cartoons, and Fate Zero, respectfully. I mean, nobody actually thinks Iskandar can stand one on one against Gilgamesh or Artoria, right?
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  124. 7:30 Yes, women's history in a nutshell
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  125. Pan-slavism is a horrible idea. Basically an excuse for russia to invade everyone else.
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  126.  @Slash-XVI  Yes, Sakamoto Ryoma and Shinsengumi Okita Souji, Saito Hajime and Hijikata Toshizo are playable. Plus the man slayer Okada Izo.
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  127. Technically, someone in Myanmar and Liberia also uses imperial measurements. 200 other countries don't.
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  128. Yeah the war with Sweden!
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  129. "The Torah (Hebrew Bible) prohibits a Jew from borrowing, lending or being a party to a transaction that involves charging another Jew interest." Reason Jewish people got associated with money lending is because most other jobs were forbidden for them, so...
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  130. They literally described how she engineered her sister's downfall and ordered her to be killed in previous chapter.
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  131. Now do the legend of PADORU!
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  132. It's more complex. Tokugawa bakufu was ousting the samurai as a class, and power lied in the hands of bureaucrats. Stories like 47 ronin were just examples of tragedies born from the degeneracy of the Shogunate. And over a century later, nationalism was on the rise, and Japanese identified as a nation, and wanted both progress and claiming their national identity, all while securing the rights of people who didn't fare well in the rigid caste system of Edo period.
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  133. Then with Poland in 1920... Finland in 1940... Afghanistan in 1980s...
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  134.  @scorpioneldar  Si vis pacem, para bellum... Any political movement that declares "peace at any cost" is usually just working for the enemy and will lead to massive deaths at the cost of formally surrendering and not resisting. But hey, they usually get a nobel peace prize for letting tons of chilren getting shelled without retaliation.
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  135. ​ @sejwok2628 they expected to bomb everyone but not being bombed back. Applies to too many aggressors now.
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  136.  @Carl-Gauss  pretty sure the problem people have with Ludendorff isn't her wacky pseudo-historical beliefs but enabling fascism. Which is one thing she shares with Dawkins. Of course, atheism as a religion has many branches and schisms, so a Dawkinist with their crusade against women's rights wouldn't be the same as typical Soviet "scientific atheist" gathering in long lines near a zigurrat to worship Lenin's mummy while stealing Bible quotes and attributing them to him. "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat,” "Swords to ploughshares" and so on.
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  137. Austria is literally the only country in Europe that doesn't support Ukraine, as their former leader (not that one) danced with putin at her wedding, among other things... Turkey is leading sanction-avoiding hub now with almost ALL flights and sales to russia going through it, DESPITE it being in NATO. But yes, they do help Ukraine a lot, Baykar specifically but help in general. Ukrainians also sent help to earthquake victims in return. Funnily enough, despite Ukrainians helping everyone all the time, even when we're full of russia-shaped problems ourselves, when russians blew up the dam there was NO international help, Only singular volunteers. UN, Unicef, Red Cross, PETA, and IAEA are all upholding russian narrative that it was "nature" the rigged powerplant with explosives, mined the nuclear power plant, and is firing artillery from it into the town across the shore.
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  138.  @carloszapata847  should be, all these secret societies are perfect for AC!
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  139.  @justinpolanco5046  " she used her body for political power " why not the other way around?.. Why do you think women are seducing men, and not men like Antony are getting into bedroom of the Pharaoh, a living goddess', to have a shot on ruling the world, eh?.. DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK MEN DIDN'T MARRY FOR POLITICAL REASONS?! Marc did that at least twice. Officially. That's how politics worked back then. Am not even talking about the other Marc Anthony who married J-Lo.))) Your perspective is skewed by your chauvinism. Also, it's ironic how men think of a perfect seductress with a body count of literally TWO MEN, the second only after the first guy died. Like, how insecure are you guys?! XD
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  140. Marie is one of the most lied about women in history, her cake fake quote is second in bullcrap only to Cleopatra's cultivated image of a promiscuous woman (she had literally two boyfriends IRL), and possibly the Byzantine empress Theodora (jury's still out on how much Procopius made up since he contradicts himself in his bios of her).
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  141. Have you seen Emma Thompson version of Sense & Sensibility? She's amazing at adaptations!
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  142. So... Can anyone explain her qualifying for Assassin class with cobra based Noble Phantasm despite not assassinating anyone but herself?
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  143. After redemption, of course. Tons of Christian saints were sinners or even mass murderers before being born again.
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  144. They were essentially reddit mods lmao.
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  145. Literally all researches and teachers I heard said how Aeneid was a prime example of propaganda piece to justify autocracy to people who grew up in a Republic. If you have your alternate version, throwing phrases like "historically accurate" around, the burden of proof is on you. Literally wikipedia: "Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas's wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and his description as a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned the Aeneid into a compelling founding myth or national epic that tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy..." Try reading Shakespeare, you'll find his plays are not even trying to hide they are commissioned to glorify things the Tudors (Richard II & Henrys), Scotland (MacBeth), and monarchy over democracy (Coriolanus). Vergil wasn't some perfect unbiased author in a vacuum, he also worked for the state.
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  146. 5:35 Using MODERN Bundeswehr emblem tho? Why not X like Charlie Chaplin or something...
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  147. Just a casual reminder that Circassians weren't just "gone" but they were genocided by russians as part of russian colonial wars in what's modern day Sochi region, Krasnodar Krai. You know, Olympics on the bones of a much more successful ethnic cleansing that predated Auschwitz.
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  148. 5:48 Yes, put' means way in russian. Rasputin sounds like "rasputie", which is "crossroads", but also "rasputny", "lecherous". Etymologically "a person who turned the wrong path". I've also heard that the surname's actual etymology comes to "rasputitsa", a word so outdated most people don't hear it on modern russian. But it's a weather condition when roads turn to muck. Again, anything with "put" in it has the root that means a road, way, or path, so it doesn't matter which road-related word it actually comes from. What does matter is that Rasputin sounds in russian like surname Horni would sound in English.
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  149. 7:22 Adams encourages jury to WHAT?! "look beyond their prejudices" ... with calling the protestors, QUOTE “a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and molattoes, Irish teagues, and out landish Jack tarrs.” His ENTIRE defence was based on literally racism and prejudice
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  150. Dude known mostly for being the most popular cake walked down the steps of the most popular salad...
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  151. The wackiest thing is having English poet Byron joining in as a volunteer, financing a unit of Albanians, and dying there because stupid doctors bled him with dirty instruments.
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  152. Before Sengoku era, yes, but by the 16th century most samurai transitioned to being lancers, and wars were led by pike and musket formations. Archery became very limited and only filled the ranks between ashigaru spearmen. BUSHIDO though, was a codex invented WAY later in Edo period when horses, spears and bows were all phased out and swords became more a status symbol than a weapon of war.
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  153.  Abraham Campos  knocking door opens Do you want to have a talk about maiden-eating and burninating in the name of our lord and saviour, Trogdor?
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  154. Yeah for how much they try to modernize this series, take on patriarchy and all, somehow they forgot the nationalist supremacy shtick with calling non-titular-nations "barbarian". I mean, those peoples had actual names! It's like calling Iroquois and Sioux "Indians".
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  155. Well, aboriginals eating Cook as they mistook him for ship's cook (who was rumoured to be tasty) is probably the most famous Soviet era bard song. Seriously.
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  156. The so-called russian "culture" is Mongol hordes who invaded Kyiv NOT KIEV like 300 years ago, imagine telling people to praise the imperialist mass murdering war criminals literally during a genocide they do. Cultural genocide as well, as russians not only kill Ukrainians but also destroy Ukraine's landmarks and burn Ukrainian books and torture people for speaking the language.
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  157. It regularly collapses every 50 years or so. Give it time lol.
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  158. 1:01 WHY you made me spit out my tea! XD OMG, Godfrey...
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  159.  @jjsmith7707  not equally, socialists didn't really have money for ammunition, so Ukrainians were lined up to shoot two heads with one bullet. How's that for socialism, eh? Kazakhs were also starved to "russify" the region. Because speaking a non-russian language was "too bourgeois". ALL Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea to russia. In cattle wagons. Standing up so tight they couldn't move. Most died on the way. The few survivors' grandchildren returned to their home in 2000s... only for moscow to invade again in 2014. So no, people didn't starve equally, look up Holodomor and Executed Renaissance. There was a specific racial hierarchy in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. If you were not russian enough, you were declared a class enemy.
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  160. Yup, that's our Saint Olha. Yes, seriously.
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  161. So who colonized Australia, took the Aboriginal land, and then voted in white supremacists, THE MARTIANS?! All these arguments about "blame the government not the people" ignore who enables that government.
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  162. Decommunizes your philosophy course, now you learn of Kant
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  163. About "hatred of the sinner rather than the sin", that's NOT in the Bible, Jesus Christ never taught people to hate the sin, only hypocrites and phrarisees. Only ones Jesus attacked were the self-righteous bigots, the persecution of "sinners" is completely contrary to Christian teaching, where Jesus dined with prostitutes and even... shudders... tax collectors.
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  164. Another vote for Heian Japan, we have oversaturation with Sengoku, and Japan has tons of media around Edo and Boshin War, older periods are overlooked.
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  165. True. There's a speech in a House of Lords by Lord Byron where he spoke against the bill literally sentencing luddites to death for breaking property. He wasn't against industrial revolution, but against that state and society that left people so miserable: working was hard and hazardous, but they had no other options, and were left even without that.
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  166. Jealousy IS something someone who was an adulterer himself would project, that's true, Othello's final speeches have plenty of self-deprecation. It makes Iago even more devilish, instead of making schemes on his own, he uses Othello's faults as a person (jealous, vindictive, violent), if you imagine Iago as a demon playing with his mind, the story becomes even more interesting.
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  167. Austen is part of Realism genre and Brontes are from Romanticism. So they're the opposite corners of 19th century English romance literature.
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  168. Who cares how they spell the salad, it's not a cookbook!
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  169. So, in a nutshell, A GOOD MOTHER!
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  170. ​ @tyrant-den884  I honestly like both? Hardly anything can best a Caesar for garnish, but Napoleon has to be my absolute favorite thing with coffee, it's so simple, layers upon layers of custard. The cake equivalent of eclairs... Okay, the Kyiv cake with meringue is close. Roshen style... Wait the company is named after our ex president... okay, I just hope we don't make a Zelenskyy salad or something. Then again, Canadians actually eat poutine...
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  171. Finally! Now do Polidori's the Vampyre and explain its link to Frankenstein. Also Carmilla so we can link Dracula, Fran and Elizabeth Bathory together.
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  172. "Regroupings to more advantageous positions" xD Like... The MEATCUBE 🍖📦
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  173.  @randalthor741  Dracula and Addams Family have the best love stories somehow.
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  174. 5:40 False, Kyiv church adopted Gregorian calendar in 2023 and Moscow STILL USES JULIAN TO THIS DAY. The Moscow patriarchate churches in Ukraine have two days, one normal and other in brackets for the church calendar. 14 days off. Still is.
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  175. You ignore the fact that 100 years war was a thing, as well as other longer conflicts, and in Europe we didn't have so many dead until a century ago.
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  176. Fate Grand Order currently has a re-run of a Halloween event where Cleo teams up with Liz Bathory, Wu Zetian (only Chinese woman ruler) and Amazoness com CEO (Penthesilea, not Bezos) who delivers items to NEET princess Japanese yokai spirit in Csejte Pyramid Himeji Castle. There's also a bunch of robot Elizabeths. With rocket arms. And a biker. Your party also can be a thing.)))
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  177. What peace? Countries that Mongols invaded had constant wars for centuries. War literally didn't stop here since Mongol hordes destroyed Kyiv.
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  178. ​ @foristrothbert568 dude just start learning russian.
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  179. In fact they fled England to Netherlands because the Dutch were the only people tolerant enough to accept them AND THEN hated the Dutch FOR their tolerance and decided to just colonize foreign land instead LARPing as Israelis despite totally not being those, and Massachusetts being pretty far from Jordan.
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  180.  @DeconusMaximus  Mujaheddin fought against Soviet invasion... the Taliban are russia-backed insurgency AGAINST pro-western Afghanistanis after the biggest country in the world, USSR, lost the war and was destroyed completely and irreversibly by a bunch of Afghan peasants with rusty rifles.
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  181.  @Ake-TL  we don't know how tanned they were. However, modern Egyptians literally have almost the same DNA (ancient ones mixed with other peoples too), so just look at modern population of Egypt to compare, seriously. Genetically, they are mostly North Africans like Libyans and Tunisians with little West Asian admix, while Jews and Arabs are west Asians, so not quite as related as we think. Also, ancient society had no racial segregation so families were mixing a lot, a lot of Greek men married Egyptian women, either were adopting Persian culture to serve in cavalry and officially listed as Iranians. Plus one of Cleo's ancestors married a woman from Seleucids in Syria, so she HAD mixed blood despite all the incest! Also Alex is supposed to be kinda pale and fair-haired if we go by his mosaic, while the only colored contemporary images of Cleopatra show her with RED hair, but that might be artistic license. TBH I am happy they did her with correct hairstyle! Ramses had red hair though. Dyed on his mummy.
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  182. Ukrainian women. Beware us!
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  183. Date Masamune bought two pistols, way back in Sengoku Jidai.
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  184.  @supremekhmer6596  feha92 also literally used Civilization terms, all resources divided between strategic and luxury is from that. IRL it's more complex than that. Now ways to rush a wonder differ between each game in series and Civ.
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  185. The russians just blew a dam in Kherson. None of international orga reacted or helped. Red cross, UN, PETA, they're all covering up russian war crimes. We have animals, houses and corpses of russian soldiers washing up a shore in Odesa and nobody helps our efforts! Ukrainians are cleaning up russian mess again, on our own.
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  186. 1:44 Ah yes, the narrative of RUSSIANS as the victims when so many government finally recognize the Holodomor, as one of MANY crimes against humanity Stalin did to UKRAINIANS, whom he killed by literally millions.
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  187. Same in Ukraine, and I assume any country in Europe. Also photos are banned in booths so people won't sell their votes.
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  188. ILLUMUNATI CONFIRMED!!! 👁⃤▶︎ x-files music plays hitscan markers fill the screen as a bunch of 2010s memes jump out, you see OBEY written on a baseball cap...
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  189.  @Pavlos_Charalambous  I think that's exactly the point of OP, Greek gods being much more... human, while Egyptians, for example, had a dog-headed Anubis weighing hearts to Maat feather so that the heavy ones would be eaten by a hippo-bodies goddess with a head of a crocodile. And they did things like that just because, as omnipotent but aloof wise beings, especially compared to VERY human emotion and motivations of lustful, jealous or angry Greek gods. To an extent, the most similar characters in the Bible aren't any sort of gods, even pagan ones, but... actual people. Patriarchs and matriarchs: Hera and Athena seem much closer to Sarah or Rachel than to Ishtar or Iset.
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  190. Romanticizing is a very mild word for a guy who listed amount of cats and dogs he shot for fun to be literally declared a saint and anyone talking bad of his family arrested in russia on religious grounds "оскорбление чуств верующих", the "offending believers" criminal offense. They also have a cult of Ivan the Terrible and Stalin because out of all rulers they had to pick the worst to justify the current regime. None of that justifies russians killing children tho.
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  191. Upvote this. Their entire story answers the question of "why people hate russians" rather well.
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  192.  @Yayaloy9  nah, it's more between using standard English pronunciations vs actual regional ones.
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  193. 6:57 OMG than you for the best definition of a revolution I seen: "Let's improve stuff!.. YEAH!!!" It's just. That. Simple.
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  194. Frankenstein is also epistolary... they just had a thing for that in 19th century horror.
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  195. So... the naive Marie in Fate Grand Order is closer to reality than popular depiction. Can't wait for your story of real king Arthur being turned into a dickgirl by Merlin.
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  196.  @this_is_patrick  "handful of high security bio labs" one of them in russia. Just sayin', don't be surprised when someone who spoke against putin khuilo resurfaces with mutated human version of Rinderpest or sumthin'.
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  197. It's a hard read due to non-linear structure and dark subject matter... in the most mundane things... I WILL ALWAYS BE TWITCHY WHEN MAKING OATMEAL NOW... Poor Isabella!
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  198. You might change your mind when you find the amount of cats and dogs Nicholas bragged about killing.
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  199. ​ @barbiquearea  Preserve? The whole point is for all of Ramses' bragging nothing remained of his purported glory, at least on that spot. Ozymandias is synonymous with someone whose empire crumbles like sand castles. Even Breaking Bad named an episode after him for this specific reason.
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  200.  @arinalowery7167  her grandson is also a saint. Volodymir the Great, namesake of sixth Ukrainian president, who isn't great at all.)))
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  201. Some Ukrainian hetmans Like Ivan Mazepa had six-pointed star AND a crescent on their flags, the symbols were much more universal before.
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  202.  @Boss_Isaac  let's blame people for being colonized, they, apparently, CHOSE to be conquered by Persians then Macedonians then Romans then Arabs then Turks then British etc. why all these peoples always choose to be invaded, eh? Like Poland always choosing to be split by Germany and russia smh... Weirdos.
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  203. "The more rights you have, the less freedom" Mizulina, a russian politician who decriminalized domestic violence, among other things.
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  204.  @foristrothbert568  I can give you discount on russian language courses you have required now. I'd be spitting on you between lessons tho.
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  205. People in English arguing over official dubs (usually done by same 5 actors who do EVERYTHING too), while people outside of Anglosphere literally go by fandubs and subs ALL the time anyway and not have that problem.
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  206. We need UK, US and EU to send troops now when russia is weakened!
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  207. It's also the thing that people who call themselves Arabs now, i.e. in Syrian Arab Republic and Egyptian Arab Republic, are mostly descendants of the native peoples, they just choose a pan-Arabic identity, retroactively becoming Arabs even if their ancestors lived in Levant or North Africa and never the Arabian peninsula. So, most Syrians or Egyptians nowadays call themselves Arabs, while being, well, Syrian or Egyptian. Same with Nabatea, which is basically Jordan and Sinai, too. It's worse in North Africa where countries like Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco are Arabs on paper, but are all Africans with not a part of their lands in Asia. Kinda the same with Balkan peoples and Bulgars calling themselves Slavic. It's a extra-national identity over genetic ethnicity.
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  208. Even his coronation was a mismanaged deadly stampede, He started like he ended up, "Nicholas the Bloody", "Nikolai Krovavy". The most brutal thing of his, for me, was his hunting notebook. Like most kings hunted, and many ordered executions of peasants, but he has a bragging list about killing thousands of cats and dogs. That goes beyond paranoia of getting rid of political enemies, and into complete psychopath who get off at hurting little animals that don't pose a challenge and aren't used for food, fur or trophies like regular hunters' targets do.
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  209. W.B.Yates sounds like some southern wrestling promotion from territorial era, welcome to Dubya Bee Ayts!
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  210.  @GoErikTheRed  I have seen elephants in the zoo, and would totally still freak out if a bunch of them charging me while I was only wearing a miniskirt like Romans did...
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  211.  @magicquill1116  🗿🗿🗿
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  212.  @alexanderchristopher6237  "normal Anglo-Saxon Americans" somthing sounds wrong in that statement xD
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  213. Ptolemies used second names to distinguish them, Ptolemy I Soter (Saviour), Ptolemy II Philadelphus (sister-f%^&*r), and this one was Ptolemy XVICIVVV Salad's son, it's kinda similar like russians have Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Horrible, and putin the khuilo.
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  214. 3:50 Haha, YOU WISH. Not in Brexitland! XD
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  215. Add a chapter on Filiki Eteria form Odesa, which masterminded decolonizing Greece, and also it's fascinating how Lord Byron, the famous poet, fought and died in that war, as he was planning to sell his entire estate to finance his unit of Albanians to fight against the Ottoman Empire.
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  216. I think they didn't make Cleopatra Greek enough in AC, look at her tiny nose in Origins, she should have looked closer to Aya or Kassandra, but smaller build (to fit in carpet) and with puffier cheeks if you by her portraits.))) Both Cleo and Ptolemy wore wrong regal gear for Ptolemies BUT there ARE busts of Cleopatra done in Egyptian style and the bob hair too! So it's not a huge stretch either.
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  217. Self-righteousness is indeed the worst of sins. Actual career criminals and bandits have better self-control and morality than a band of people who assured themselves they are doing the right thing for some reason.
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  218. Translation errors, a version of ROTK I read translated two swords to double edged sword) ⚔
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  219.  @googane7755  Ukrainian Crimean Tatars (Kyrymly) have no relation from Tatars in Tatarstan, occupied by russia. The word "tatar" just meant any Turkic tribe, Cumans, Kipchaks, Bashkirs etc., and instead of learning of Mongol invasion we have Tataro-Mongol Yoke in history books. In fact, moscow was a colony of Tatar Khanate all way until Peter the Great established russian empire and stopped paying the taxes to their Tatar overlords.
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  220. Nooo don't put salt on the would of Ubisoft not making a Japanese Assassin's Creed game! =(
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  221. US national debt is mostly internal - to its own citizens. So it's just money that's circulating in USA between investors and government. Comes with everything being privately owned. US owes money to American corporations, not other countries. Except a bit to Japan. Which gets US army perks so it's mutually beneficial.
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  222. Gold by itself is pretty worthless now, though. A pack of $100 bills is worth more than double its weight in gold.) Dollar is backed by US economy. Every country's money works like that. Hell, most of money isn't even in paper now, it's the amount of credits you get for your work / investments that you spend on valuable commodities. Technically, you can exchange all of your digital money into paper cash, but why? Most of the time, we don't really need that anymore. I even buy frickin' cat litter with digital money now... xD
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  223. Fargo don't care lol. THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
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  224. You do know that Al Qaeda and ISIS are mortal enemies of each other, what with the latter worshiping hashish and too full with FSB agents to care about Arabic people - who are most of people they kill.
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  225. Pan-Babylonism was a thing, mostly speculation similar to conspiracy theory that everything was copied from Babylonia myths... And it didn't really compute. Someone took the fact that two stories mentioned flood and tried to sensationalize it...
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  226. It's nice that you have such a nice tradition instead of the absolute destruction that we had here in Eastern Europe with messed up calendars and bad attempts at secularization.
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  227. Remember next time an imperialist country pushes the narrative of "evil nationalists", nationalism is the main method for liberating people from Empires: without national unity, the old divide and conquer wins. Now when nationalism is combined with imperialism itself instead of a national-liberation movement, then it's bad. That's why British nationalism looks much worse than Welsh, and why Ukrainian nationalists are good guys and russian ones are bad. Ones want freedom from Metropoly, others want to force smaller countries to become their colonies (again, in case of neocolonialism).
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  228. That's from Hebrew Eliyahu aka Elijah, the prophet. Unrelated to Illyad.
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  229. AD is also silly, I wouldn't mind using BC/CE, but they HAD to make another character to screw up UIs, imagine if AM/PM was redone as CT/BCT, rip Casios.
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  230. I COULD NEVER GET SHUTEN. Spooked by everyone from Medb to Vinci, Shuten Doji eludes me for years.
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  231.  @augustwolf_2256  we don't know actually to what extent she was tan or mixed. They have a whole series on her and decided to make her ambigously tan, as she could be anywhere from a pale redhead to very tan brunette since we don't have her mummy (both Egyptians and Macedonians were diverse, most were dark but Alexander was blond, and Ramesses red-headed, so good luck guessing.) Also Cleo could have Syrian mixed ancestry which doesn't simplify it at all.
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  232. Sevastopol is literally subtropical. It's near hottest place in Ukraine. I mean it's literally near Turkey and very far from russia.
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  233. This isn't school but entertainment video on YouTube, warnings for people who are eating are appreciated.
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  234. Syncretism is a fascinating thing, you'd see things like statue of Zeus-Amun with ram horns and stuff, the pagan religions intermixed and developed in different regions in wild ways... So yes, fanfiction.
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  235. Same with people in 2014, thinking russians won't seriously shoot down a plane full of children in the sky above Ukraine... they did. How many times will west make the same mistake?
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  236. Honestly? Many. Lukashenko was always mocked for looking like a tractor driver and not being so bright. Turkmenbashi is a joke, Kim is a meme, yet they are actual tyrants who hurt millions of people. Not to mention the villain #1 being a caricature of a pasty dwarf.
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  237.  @mechanicalhoundz  which are then?
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  238. Garufriendo in Moonada.
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  239. More than just friendly gods, Egypt was more progressive in many ways, from women's rights to own businesses to Egyptians accidentally inventing antibiotics))) Basically Ancient Egypt > everything until late 19th-mid-20th centuries. I looked up and English allowed women to own property in 1882... some 10 000 years after Egyptians)
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  240. Ah yes, Leo Tolstoy, the insane misogynist who abused his wife in a cult he ran in some forest. Really "cool". I liked the part in his book where he describes russian soldiers shitting in a fountain after pillaging a Chechen village, so glorious, much russian, very culture, wow!
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  241.  @MaxHDAvenger  why unfortunately? Especially since they made the characters from this legend so cool.
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  242. Japanese were using western tech and guns for over 3 centuries before he was born, he was a reactionary fanatic. And, imagine that, the silly western idea that you can't murder people because they were born in lower caste, is kinda nice.
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  243.  @1q34w  you don't keep count... like count Dracula?
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  244. And that's EXACTLY what russia DID try to do in 2014: invaded Ukraine when Ukainians decided to join EU, then in next two years moscow worked on putin a puppet in white house and orchestrating Brexit, all to topple the EU.
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  245. When Chinese people died by millions from wars, famines, and PlayStation 2. :3
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  246.  @paulbutkovich6103  yeah the reality is that the story is per-Christian, and his original family wasn't supposed to wait for him in paradise.
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  247.  @mantis2048  Exactly how is having katana collection cultural appropriation? If someone collects Walthers and Lugers, does that mean he is culturally appropriating Germans? O.o Weapon collecting... is just a bad example. Sumo wrestlers (tons of foreign ones) have to follow Japanese traditions and dress code, they are MADE TO, so kimono's not a good example either! Almost like a north European or American wearing a suit, you are just appropriating Italian fashion.
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  248. Ask a russian babushka to play the disco tunes of her... well, middle age!
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  249. 2:17 Ah yes, the "if we don't get involved maybe the war will not touch us" fallacy. The NATO non-admission from 2008 to this day that creates wars because English and French don't want to fight for Eastern Europe until they can't avoid it.
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  250.  @millardwashington6216  Britain and France didn't split Eastern Europe, russia and Germany did. In 1772, 1793, 1795, 1814, 1815, 1831, 1846, 1864, 1914, 1920, 1939, 1945, 1968, 1989, 1991, 2008, then from 2014 and still ongoing.
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  251. Several: English have Charge of the Light Brigade AND Dunkirk, Scots have Falkirk and last stand at Culloden Muir, 'Muricans have their Alamo and Pearl Harbor, Haidamaky uprisings like Koliyivshchyna, and, later, Battle of Kruty served as that for Ukrainians until Donetsk Airport, which had russians call Ukrainian warriors "cyborgs", Polish have their failed revolts gainst russia IN THEIR ANTHEM, while muscovites themselves glorify their loss to Napoleon at Borodino and endless times they were sacked by Tatar khans. What else?..
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  252. Anybody knows when the next rate-up banner for Parvati is? I don't have any SSR lancers so she will do. Do Karna and Arjuna next!
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  253. "also seemed to have lived in a time in Russia that was just awful." as opposed to... what, Ivan the Terrible's oprichnina, Stalin's repressions, or putin's fascism?! Was there an okay time to live in russia?.. ever???
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  254. The name Young is obviously known from AC/DC, so I would assume "double slit experiment" is similar to the mudshark incident. ​ @robert-janthuis9927  Euler is a sampler in Stable Diffusion, while Gauss is the best small guns rifle in Fallout... Wait there's also Gaussian blur in Photoshop. That means the videogame weapon designer also made a Photoshop filter? Cool! Still doesn't explain why you would link the two together.
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  255. Yeah I didn't even hear of goths that predated the Cure...
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  256. This is what happens when someone grown in a Christian society retells and reinterprets pagan myths with giving them motivations similar. Kinda like Odin got the "died and reborn" part AFTER vikings got Christianized.
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  257. "Zealots" was the name of Jewish anti-colonial movement to fight against Roman occupation... They lost. I know you're using the word in its more generic sense, but ignoring the context that fanatics are often the only final resistance against a colonial empire is just a fact. And blaming them for everything is a very colonial attitude, should we say. It's the same with "nationalism bad" logic, how else would a small nation fight against a giant empire if not through a national liberation movement?
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  258.  @kuhluhOG  oh apart from crackdowns on strikes and trade unions, there were also infamous strikebreakers hired by companies as plants to sabotage the workers movements from the inside. The story of human rights is painted with blood, and we respect American human rights activists for paving the way for the rest of the world, where we didn't have to invent a bicycle and just followed their footsteps... well, outside of Soviet Union where worker protests were just shot.
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  259.  @LangThoughts  everything is a Jojo reference.
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  260. 1:43 Boullion means (chicken) stock in most languages. Well, most French names would be laughed at for meaning different types of food from Olivier (salad) to Napoleon (cake). Still, it's a surname so funny you'd think it's Discworld or Monty Python parody something.
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  261. Foreign scholars arriving in Minsk and uncovering the Belarusian language to few surviving locals, 2100, colorized.
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  262.  @Ethan-cz8xq  it's true even today. After successful revolutions in most of East Europe and the Arab Spring in middle East made dictators run with their lives, Venezuela, the country that suffered the worst under a corrupt regime, started protesting... then stopped when there wasn't enough food. Instead, people were just fleeing to Peru or Colombia, many through bordering Ecuador. Recently, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, and even Sudan had their leaders arrested or chased away but Maduro, the worst of them all, is still in power.
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  263.  @ferretyluv  TBH Dugin was kinda overstated, he rose to prominence BECAUSE his views (russian supremacist fascism) echo putin, not the other way around. Khuilo was influenced by Ilyin more.
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  264. I got ya third one, putin huilo started his career by carrying suitcases for Sobchak, mayor or St. Petersburg, when khuilo inherited presidency from Yeltsyn after making a sex video of Skuratov (not joking, look him up), Sobchak had a "heart attack"... at the same time with his bodyguards and associates. He was jsut a novichok I guess...
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  265.  @levigeorge9140  because Musashi is not one of Fate/Stay Night summons.
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  266. I take your Jane Eyre and raise you another Bronte sister with Wuthering Heights!
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  267.  @giglioflex  This. Nothing progressive about making reverend Dawkins the head prophet of the only allowed religion.
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  268. Austria being the grandma of Europe through Maria Theresa, and reason for both world wars doesn't help.
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  269. Wait wait wait, so the whole Sleeping Beauty story IS LITERALLY OPENING TO ILLIAD RETOLD? Evil witch, not invited, basically curses girl... checks out. Also Snow White if you add magic apple.
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  270. He proclaimed himself an emperor, that is inherently religious. I thought it's widely known he gradually went mad and fell from grace. Oh but reasons people respect him isn't his faults, literally nobody claims he was perfect. The reality is that his enemies were a million times worse. Literally slave owning backwards russia and the most insane colonial empire in history, British one. By acting surprised of people taking Napoleon's side you ignore half of the planet suffering under the empires that were part of the coalition. That's why Polish anthem still glorifies Bonaparte, because for all problems France had it doesn't enslave half of Europe for following 200 years like russians and Germans did.
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  271. I don't care how much damage it does when farming hands, all I need is to borrow Gil to one shot some most annoying bosses, like Mordred in Camelot)
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  272. I heard there were more Beowulf legends but they didn't last to this day... I wonder if it's a Trojan cycle thing where half of the books are missing but we still pieced out the things like the horse and Achilles death from ancient Cliffnotes versions or these are lost forever?..
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  273. The band Army of Lovers named themselves after the Theban Sacred Band... In Eastern Europe they're much more known than the Village People.
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  274. 14:44 A lot of russian colonizers are collecting books in Ukrainian, from poetry to Bible translations and burning them in giant piles. RIGHT NOW, I mean. It's never top-down, it's dictator abusing the majority's hate to an ethnic group to justify war.
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  275.  @Oxtocoatl13  reminds me of someone who never expected Germany, Poland and UK to donate tanks that attack russian positions in Ukraine.
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  276. ​ @KaiserAfini  it wasn't just Caesar. If you read classic Chinese literature OR chronicles, the emperor was SUPPOSED to refuse crown two times only to begrudgingly agree on the third, it was a total clown show, like the current ruler being forced to play this act in public in front of the couping general.
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  277. Keanu Reeves stars in second season of Ancient Apocalypse aka ancient Aryans.
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  278. I think they dropped that after a few episodes in the start, feels they didn't find good consultants. As much as I love Three Kingdoms lore, I feel a series they're more confident with is better than them stumbling over Chinese names again.
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  279. Shota brusband. He was 13 when he died. That's years into their civil war. They were married when he was like 9.
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  280. Monsier, if French stopped makign so many revolutions we would be able to tell them apart... it's almost like Germany with their wars and russia with their failed posonings
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  281. He was a cult leader. Ran away into some isolated commune where they abused women and kids as he thought the 19th century russia wasn't primitive ENOUGH. My mom wrote an entire coursework about it in her University, on the topic of religion (nobody actually reads his books in Ukraine as they're in broken French, he's mostly known for weird beliefs). It's funny people pretend he has readers because I literally haven't met a single russian speaker who got past the first page of war and peace. "En bien mon prince" part is enough to give up... it's the opener. While most people consider Tolstoy being entire useless, I found the only way for him to be useful when my couch leg broke, and his books, unread for generations, took the place of it.
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  282. And now the word "mine" means too many things, mortar is literally миномет in BOTH russian and Ukrainian, and the shells are called mines. Furthermore, the verb for "rigging" with explosives is not known among even English-speaking Ukrainians so we say that russians "mined" (заминировали) the dam. So now everything is a "mina." Don't tell us you call shakhtars "miners", cause "мінер" is what we call sappers.
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  283.  @1224chrisng  I want to ride my penny farthingle I want to ride my penny farthings... doesn't really roll off the tongue innit.
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  284. I haven't read it myself. Seen people from my country outraged at the author for not celebrating the enemy town getting bombed. Our people are absolutely livid and celebrate any russian base blown up near them when they're PoWs or in occupation.
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  285. Can't tell since we haven't really tried putting a stake through her heart!
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  286. Fallout 2 has giant ants as the first enemy you fight, and giant fire ants are definitely a thing in some computer RPGs.
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  287. In Ukraine, people built a trebuchet to fry some pigs with Molotov cocktails more effectively. In 2014.
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  288. 6:47 The Japanese version, Arashi ga Oka, has a very GRAPHIC scene embracing all the... worms... and what's left of the body. Oh and the song is a classic. Unlike Kate Bush, I actually listen to Tomoyasu Hotei.
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  289.  @Dreamfox-df6bg  how is it crazy when I browse Spook boys before going to sleep to calm down? People put deaths to music and upload them on TikTok.
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  290. Wait till you find out heroes of Emma weren't Clueless 90s valley girls from Aerosmith music videos.
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  291. Years in and Shuten doesn't come home. =(
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  292. Much Ado is my fav play, and I loved the movie (Keanu there tho).
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  293. I hope they mention Odesa and Filiki Eteria. It's relevant to point out that the territory russia repeatedly tries to annex NEVER SEEN ITSELF AS RUSSIA, as it was Greek and Roman before it became Ukrainian.
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  294. Yes and Ukrainian engineers yeeted a whole russian into space... plan was to do that for all of them, but alas... XD
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  295. 3:45 Grendel's mom's spaghetti.
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  296.  Dark Emperor  That symbolism never stopped neopagans making wooden penii and worshiping them after reading too much "aryan" hoaxes like Book of Veles and stuff.
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  297.  @jacksonpaul645  Carthage was found Phoenican migrants in a later period.
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  298.  @totof2327  Holy Grail is a heavily mythologized object, true, but the "cup Jesus drank last" is a thing that absolutely did exist, though I wouldn't believe anyone claiming to have it. I've heard Himmler kept being over excited by every clay pot piece he found and mustache man going apeshit because there was more and more proof that Germany was relatively primitive and simple civilization during the height of Classical Greece, Rome, let alone Egypt and Mesopotamia.
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  299. Watching videos about Native Americans instead of studying boring dates and contracts as PUNISHMENT in history class? We'd absolutely sabotage every lesson to watch TV lol.
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  300. Yeah, also so much false hopes were put into Napoleon and Fr*nch to destroy r*ZZia and they didn't even completely level moscow, forcing us to rely on drones to this day to finish the job. Not a good przykład, Bonaparte!
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  301. You dont think that saying "escalation" is contriversial but it IS. This rhethoric is literally used in ongoing wars to gaslight victims of genocide and frame them as equals to aggressor for fighting back. This argument led to thousands of Ukrainians dead because weapons didnt come in time in misguided escalation fears. There was no winter counter-offensive because we lacked Western armor. Now we do, we are taking way higher losses because we lack aircraft, etc. We heard enough Westsplaining to us about "not provoking russia," or "saving putin's face" and now you're loterally Whitesplaining that fighting back agaisnt slavery is a "both sides" issue. NO. Just no. Stop it.
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  302.  @Game_Hero  if we weren't literally dying, the war would be very funny. In reality, I haven't had a full night of sleep in two days as I watched bodies of refugees go away in ambulance. They moved to Western Ukraine to escape Bakhmut, and were killed here in Odesa by an Iranian drone. At the same time russians keep doing blunders absolutely worthy of making into another Death of Stalin or Dr. Strangelove dark comedy. How many times did they film that one Leopard, while losing kilometers at the frontline?
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  303.  @Game_Hero  Oh we know, thanks for support! My point was that if it wasn't for horrors of war, this entire campaign would be comedic. History does repeat itself as a farce.
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  304. 2:40 Married women couldn't own property in 19th century England, and girls couldn't inherit much of anything, which was backwards even for the time. Jane is obviously roasting their outdated laws, which would be considered too misogynist even in antiquity.
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  305. 9:50 try russia. They have a special form of schizophrenia where they build BOTH statues to Lenin and the gang AND Nicholas, sometimes next to each other)
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  306. You put them into square hole...
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  307. Never had Tunes of War album by Grave Digger? One of the best Power Metal records of all time.
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  308.  @impervas5801  they literally still work, renamed to KGB and then to FSB
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  309.  @bernardoheusi6146  Ой у лузі червона калина похилилася. Чогось наша славна Україна зажурилася. А ми тую червону калину піднімемо, А ми нашу славну Україну, гей, гей, розвеселимо!
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  310. The Bugle sounds and the charge begins...
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  311.  @Dichtsau  no, in the Bible, the fruit was used as a trick of a snake to chase humans out of Eden, making them mortal and feel shame so they cover up with leaves. Hardly similar to the gift of fire, eh?..
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  312. We had 800 guys not just hold out but ROUT 30 thousand russians last year, and that's from rUSSIAN source.
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  313. Both sides were backed by western powers, one by USA and British, other by France and the Confederacy.
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  314. Greco-Catholic churches are an interesting artifact of Uniate church, resulting in moscow usurping Kyiv's metropoly... Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is literally second biggest Catholic church after Latin, and Belarus has one too though both countries are largely Orthodox now, thanks to centuries of russian forced conversion.
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  315. He just hired Ukrainian workers who dug out the Black Sea as russian media claims. A lake was nuthin.
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  316. Nah, the full quote about best feeling goes like: "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women…" -Kylie Minogue
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  317. I will never get over the word "demagogue", like the rest of his sins sound normal but this thing is like an extra upgrade from Gog to Magog in Heroes 3 fan mod or something.
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  318. Note that mountains were traditional outpost for bandits who preyed on travelers, which isn't mutually exclusive with rebels or any other group government doesn't like.
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  319. 13th Warrior literally had guys call him "Ibn" lmao))) But yeah it's like "ben" in Hebrew.
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  320. Never heard a single person mispronounce it that badly as you describe. The stress NEVER falls on a. It's either SevastOpol in Ukrainian or SEvas for how locals nicknamed the city. (My aunt used to live there until russians invaded, and she had to flee with her life, leaving all her property behind).
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  321. Keep-ree-ots. C in Greek words is a K MaKedon. Korinth. Kypros.
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  322. in russia, they call every explosion "a clap", which is a meme because the word for clapping, "хлопок", is written the same way as "cotton", so we made fun of their newspeak by making "бавовна", the Ukrainian for cotton, synonymous with explosions in russia. Other terms they use are "ensmoking" for fire, "underwatering" for flood, and "special military operation" for war, the last is the most ridiculous as "war" and "military" have the same root in russian so it really sounds like them saying "it's not war it's just a... special warring thingy"
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  323.  @alexbastola9437  Assassin's Creed Origins, amazing game with many actually real tomb layouts. Highly recommended even if just to climb the great pyramid and get inside! Also you play the carpet scene.
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  324. TBH pop culture views the Cleopatra story thought the prism of Shakespeare plays.
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  325.  @Abigdummy4life  Yan Liang getting beheaded one on one in reality, made Guan Yu into a legend. So yes, the Guan Du battle made the name for Guan Yu.
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  326. Wikipedia says the Boshin war era Imperial troops were mostly armed with Minié rifles, which were rifled muskets with elongated bullets.
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  327. Wait, so the 19 century people didn't go around screaming "sAcRiFiCe ChIlDrEn FoR eCoNoMy"?! Wow, how far we've fallen...
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  328. Theban Band was super gay even for Ancient Greece, there were called Army of Lovers for a reason. @I really hate making up names for this kind of stuff it was specifically, pederasty, with young boys being preyed upon by older (often married) men and accepted as rite of passage even. You can still get that in modern armies as part of Dedovshchina first in USSR, and now, russia. BTW, the passage in New Testament that talks about "homosexuality" is specifically using Greek words that condemn both older and younger men in such unions.
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  329. They ARE modern mythology. You even have regional rival Marvel and DC myths in USA, then there's manga and manhwa with their own tropes and nuances etc.
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  330.  @dgd2717  as a result, they destroyed Cuba, turning a prosperous country into a brutal dictatorship where people still starve, have no rights or infrastructure TO THIS DAY, AND still lost the Cold War completely and utterly with now every former Soviet republic hating on Kremlin. So, no, Fidel Castrati didn't help ruskies. Neither did any of the brutal coups they sponsored in Syria, Iran, Nigaragua, Sudan and whatnot. Only thing that grows is the russian vault where the runaway dictators hide of they manage to escape the bayonet in the pooper.
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  331. Imagine simping for some 1st century dictator so much you call people who made fun of an ancient version of Kim Jong-Un "butthurt".
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  332.  @Fudelan  seems to be the other way around. Melted iron loses its strength. Swords and even ploughs were not made from liquified iron, it's Hollywood myth. They were cast from solid parts. And what Danilo said, earliest Iron nations could field was meteorite one, to the point the Egyptian word for iron was literally "sky metal".
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  333. I bet 200 hryvnias on Olya
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  334. Your lifestyle to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the people with magic Yeah, you waited on satan's call...
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  335. Back when they had no mobile phones to record and prove police roughing up civilians.
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  336. Please, Darth Vader blows up a planet! xD
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  337. Also I hate this practice of someone renaming city to a Greek name and claiming they founded it in a desert while there were people living there before them. Greeks literally built Alexandria around Egyptian village.
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  338. Because Greek mythology is mostly about psychological disorder. Unconscious fear that your child will outgrow you is seen as annihilation, manifested in prophecies like that. You can see a lot of parents still do everything in their power to ruin their children's lives out of that unconscious. The only thing more Freudian than this story is Oedipus Rex.
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  339. I'd rather speak French than russian... Everyone in Europe agrees.
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  340. I think it's too complex to make for someone not specializing in the period outside the little tidbit they made when 3K Total War was released.
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  341. Don't forget that her backstory is huge spoiler for Sakura!.. They're compatible for... horrible reasons... Still better than sisters fate, when one is worst spook and rare prism and the other is scourge of the sun knight Gawain, and Nordic hero Sigurd possessed by giant Surtr's spirit.
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  342.  @tobybartels8426  That Shchedryk is about a little swallow bird, yeah, but Ukrainian churches do ring them bells.
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  343. Dude was a hopeless romantic, in the most... war, death and destruction way possible.
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  344. Name one war in history which russia won without being supported by England and/or USA.
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  345. Admiral Nakhimov, known for being so bad at sea warfare he literally drowned ALL of russian fleet without fighting, had a passanger ship named after him. Karma was as good as with Titan sub, because Admiral Nakhimov, the man, is far less infamous now than Admiral Nakhimov, "the russian Titanic" which sunk near shore taking hundreds of people on board with it... and another ship. You can write novels just on failures of russian fleet and how horrible they are at navy. I am writing this from Odesa which sank their flagship without any of our own, and took back Snake Island, the resting place of Achilles.
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  346. Who cares, you English people always mispronounce is a See-sar, not Kaiser as it's supposed to be read.
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  347. How about just... not letting the czar issue pardons? USA went from British monarchy to russia-style tsardom. If Biden pardons Manafort Ukraine will want both of their heads.
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  348. Glory to Heroes! ♥
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  349.  @jasonblalock4429  wasn't one of her grandmas a Seleucid?
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  350. Whut? russia will just buy en masse accounts with oil money, create fake profiles and cut salaries even more to get more money to attack you. Stupid idea to let someone BUY accounts, the one who steals more from peopel will win.
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  351. So much for learning a useless language. XD I happen to know russian and only helps when pirating movies and reading trump's cabinet shady deals like Parnas letters.
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  352. We would have Persian popes instead of Italian gypsy ones. Big deal.
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  353.  @armorsmith43  Assad is just their puppet who guarantees no pipelines competing with russian ones will come through Syria. It's all about oil and gas. Nothing to do with russia being trustworthy, they literally invaded tons of their (now former) allies at this point, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova etc. also chickened out and betrayed Armenia.
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  354. and all of that to keep a dictator Assad in power... russia should be destroyed. Hopefully Turkey helps us achieving moscovia delenda est!
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  355. Ironically, some regional branches of big Christian churches, like Catholics in the Philippines, still practice circumcision on a regular basis. I think all pinoy boys at around 7 are expected to get circumcised, and yes, it's bloody, painful, and they remember the trauma well, unlike the Jewish and Muslim infants.
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  356. Thank God russian empire was destroyed, they need to be finished off now. Millions would be saved if Napoleon won and russia wouldn't be a thing.
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  357. You mean transferred from one russian puppet state to another... ruskies literally left a weapons cache for ISIS in Palmyra, retreated, daesh took the weapons, left Palmyra and the russian army reentered. Thankfully, Kurds and USA were too strong and defeated ISIS even with endless stream of ruski weapons given to daesh by the russian federation. But the rest of Syria was destroyed by russian barrel bombs, missiles and artillery. See, ISIS, no matter how abhorrent, DO NOT HAVE AVIATION, so all airstrikes that destroyed Syrian cities were made by russia. Live with that.
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  358. Years passed now Ukraine, UK and US all had horrible election results. I had Americans call us out for picking Zelensky, which is ridiculous coming from Trumpland. Same with Brexit Boris. Three stooges.
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  359. They talked about Yuan dynasty in the earlier episode, and templars didn't run themselves to the ground, they were proclaimed infidels, tortured, robbed and executed by the Papacy and government: what you're saying is like Sharon Tate's bad financial reasoning led to her downfall instead of the Manson family.
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  360. Army of Lovers IS a band named after the Theban Band. Swedish Europop, super popular in homophobic ex-USSR, ironically.
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  361. So Donatists were essentially puritans.
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  362. Macbeth is like one and a half hours to read, I went through it in two bus trips.
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  363. Zealots were guys who resisted Roman colonization of Middle East... It's interesting to see how Western imperialist mindset made that word into a bad thing.
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  364.  @MariaVosa  Cato is a legend in Ukraine, many of us think every speech should end with MOSCOVIA DELENDA EST, as when an aggressive neighbour keeps invading you all the time, at some point, the only thing that works is droning their oil refineries, bulldozing the settlements, and salting the Earth so that nothing grows on it, like the Romans did. P.S. I know salt at Carthage was a myth, I still insist on drone attacks though.
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  365.  @greg_mca  Uhh... Ukraine just did it. Crossed russian border on foot. Many times. Evacuated safely back too, after making bavovna. The russia is weak, if we had even ONE ally fighting beside us on second front we'd already have razed moscow, this time making SURE the explosives in Kremlin aren't wet.
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  366. ​ @samsonsoturian6013  nope. Easter is separate from the rest. Ukraine, which this war was about, FINALLY moved to updated calendar but it doesn't affect the Pascha, which exists in separate days for Catholics, Orthodox and Jews, and sometimes all three are in one day (Passover is Jewish Pascha here, it's all a translation of Pesach).
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  367. ​ @thomasrinschler6783  most Orthodox countries use neo-Julian Calendar which is the same as Gregorian now. Greek, Constantinople and Ukrainian churches now do. Armenians have their all calendar which has drift even further (their Christmas is on 6th not 7th the like the orc one).
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  368. Why cover useless pointless fear-mongering that is used by russia every week so they can get more people killed with conventional weapons again?
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  369. 1: literally cancel district split. 2: make majority win. 3: it's just that simple.
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  370. Same what happened to Jews. Romans invaded. Any chances of Egypt surviving ended with Cleopatra dying, much like Jews were exiled from siege of Jerusalem in 1st AD until 1960s, yes, for 1800 years. But let's blame the JOOS instead of (then pagan) fascists from Europe doing colonization.
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  371.  @LionKing-ew9rm  YHWH is a JEWISH God. True, they are a bit west to Persian but I wouldn't call Israel a very "western" nation. They're certainly are to the East of Egypt.
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  372. Imagine being so insecure they added names upon names and the most famous one is still know better as "Umu".
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  373.  @Duke_of_Lorraine  I mean, if they were American they'd name themselves something like Bob, Tom or... well, Duke...
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  374.  @nidohime6233  come on, the earliest legends have people mating with horses, boars and even lions so this won't be too new.
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  375. It overestimates YouTube earnings also they pay people or split it Iunno, it's not pocket money. Meanwhile YouTube takes like 40% cut and if they're in USA, up to 30% cut of what's left too.
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  376. DO NOT HURT LIZ BATHORY! So what she cannot sing... let dragons be.
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  377. 2:37 and since then nobody ever trusted the backstabbing Kremlin bolsheviks again... not in 1920 when they invaded Ukraine and Poland, not in 1939 with Molotov-Ribbetropp pact, not in 45 Berlin split, the 68 Warsaw Pact invasion, 90s wars in Transnistria, Abkhazia, Karabakh and Chechnya, nor in 2008 when they split Georgia, and totally not in 2014 when russia invaded Ukraine again followed by Syria next year, amirite?
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  378. Dolphins are just playing with drowning humans same way they would play with a ball, there's survival bias that only ones who were pushed to shore live to tell the tale.
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  379. Don't worry, Kyiv will retake Novgorod! Just needs a few Olha-style shashlyk parties in moscow)))
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  380. They're delegated to novelty, living on reservations... singing folk songs, doing rain dance while wearing traditional clothing is the only way megalomaniac empires allow Natives to live, it's the same story with Uyghurs in China or most Caucasus nations colonized by russians. Do you really think Native Americans care about reenacting traditions more than actually owning their own land? Only real reason USA gets little call to return it now is because their opponents are objectively worse, only because civil rights activism had so much blood shed in centuries and got progress, while Chinese, Iranian and russian imperialism is near its peak, and there's no pushback from inside.
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  381. England and France hating each other less during World Wars didn't help with Germany and russia invading literally everybody in Europe they could reach though.
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  382. ​ @paragguruji3223  then it's different to us because despite so many forced to fight on Soviet side, nobody really had a choice, just mass draft and my mum's generation didn't have grandfathers alive.
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  383. Well that's exactly why he lost self-respect in the end, what makes the character so complex.
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  384. " it opens you to reality kinda like nihilism " ah yes, hating everything and everyone all time because you think you're above everyone is totally open and realistic, that's why Nietzsche had so many friends amirite? Also the sheer idea of finding discontentment i.e. tiny inconveniences so unbreable you want humanity to end (i.e. the goal of Buddhism, Nirvana) is THE most ultra-privileged philosophy I ever heard. Nihilism is like if the princess on a pea decided for the world to end because her bed is not perfectly smooth. Nihilists should grasp ACTUAL reality of people who don't have endless free time and finances to just mop around philosophically from their mother's basement.
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  385. Eh, it depends. There's a whole subgenre called closet dramas, which were plays meant for reading specifically. With Shakespeare, there's a LOT of versions of his plays, and I would assume the 4 hour long ones were mostly versions for reading, as actors would play shorter 1-2 hour ones. Few plays like Macbeth we don't have the long version even, and it's unknown if it ever existed, while for most we have both short and long versions. Movies often go for even shorter scripts too, like the Lawrence Oliver version of Hamlet cutting entire Rozencranz and Guildenstern plotlines and the best monologue with them.
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  386. He hinted at it, Othello was a Christian Moor (wouldn't be allowed to serve in Venetian army otherwise) and he contrasts himself to "circumcised dogs" talking about Turks, who are Muslim.
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  387. Yup, we are all still using 12-month 30-day calendar based on Egyptian because of Cleopatra and Ceasar's affair. All reforms (Julian, Gregorian) are attempts to fix leap days and then account for leap hours. Speaking of that, our 12-hour clock division is ALSO based on time in Egypt. So much for Europe bringing civilization to Africa myth.
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  388.  @codysing1223  some ARE based on RL events, like Rose of Versailles.
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  389. @bubbles581 pretty sure people sharing wine and bread are seen as more normal than weirdos casting spells at each other while dressed like burlesque dancers. There's no amount of mental gymnastics that will make wacky cult members look the same as ordinary religion.
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  390. But enough talk! HAVE AT YOU.
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  391.  @tomjack1000000  that's why photographs at voting stations are outlawed here. Gangs can't beat people up, but they can offer money to sell vote with confirmation via photo.
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  392. Oh we had those. Genghiz what?
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  393. Usher house, Wuthering Heights, and Castle If for the worst tourist recommendations of the 1840s.
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  394. This... actually sounds like a far less terrible idea over those they tried before that.
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  395. Good deal!
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  396. You might when he bombs moscow with a drone.
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  397. 4:15 That would absolutely work if every country like France, Canada, Ukraine and Turkey will vote in US elections instead of Americans... just ban moscow.)))
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  398.  @ScreamingSturmovik  they're compensating for completely ignoring Heathcliff hated for his race and looks in Wuthering Heights.
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  399. King with a full army threatening and killing a messenger had guts? That's like saying marines who disemboweled a postman were brave.)))
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  400. We had snow in LATE APRIL in Odesa (a southern beach resort) a few years ago, northern cities had it in may, and the russians had snow in mid summer - climate is ABSOLUTELY going haywire. Warmest winters but sometimes snow in July is some Silent Hill vibes.
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  401.  @jonnunn4196  if could be worse! Look up "Yanukovych egg". Dude reacted like he lived through all the Kennedys lives flashed before him... after a whole egg made him chicken, he was assaulted by a wreath. On its own, yeah. Shot a hundred of protesters dead and ran away to russia.
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  402.  @panrolo  the battle itself and wars of Three Kingdoms are not a myth though, it's just Romance of the Three Kingdoms were like Shakespeare versions of events that made for a lot of PS2 games)))
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  403.  @LeSethX  it's funny how they added one letter to BC despite BC already fitting for Before Common/Current/Contemporary, JUST so they can pretend that date isn't based on Jesus.
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  404. 8:22 Ah so they were as useless as UN or Red Cross.
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  405. Wow, this has horrible optics, we remember the Munich, and then Yalta, betrayals, when the "Allies" so praised today met with pigs and shook their hands as they were killing millions of us.
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  406. British. UK history. Eastern Europe was too busy between gathering support for independence in clandestine Polish schools and Jews not allowed outside of Pale of Settlement to discriminate Irish.
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  407.  CommandoDude  last time I cut Ceasar with my knife he looked green and chopped up like any salad should. Did they make one on Napoleon? I love cakes too.
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  408. See russo-Japanese war too... same story. Called themselves liberators and mocked the country that just lived on its own far away from them.
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  409. At face value, this is trying to equate using disguise to murder and cannibalism... like comparing perfidy with violent war crimes.
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  410. This is literally the same design they used for her in their series that predates Netflix. That's exactly why she has the bun hairstyle and not the Ankha bob. It doesn't change the fact she was a Egyptian queen, like come on, do you call US congresswoman "aCtUaLlY gReEk" because she isn't native FFS?
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  411. And Tomoyasu Hotei's Arashi Ga Oka, also the movie of the same name is Wuthering Heights set in medieval Japan.
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  412. Creative Assembly paying to advertise for Ubisoft, the irony!
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  413. 3:15 These are the guys who did good in some moscow concert recently, right?
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  414. Would be very timely, and good series starting from Baida Vyshnevetsky building a fortress in Khortytsia through the Hetmanate to destruction of Sich, Cossacks exiled to taking Odesa and Crimea from Turks, and then being exiled again to Kuban'. The place Circassians were exiled from in the first place.
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  415. Would actually love that, sports history videos would REALLY benefit from the drawings in this chibi style.
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  416. It's actually both. HIV treatments exist now, though not as simple as a vaccine. Then you got people burning 3 and 4G towers cause they 'spread da varus'. Humans are funny, both types exist.
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  417. When mr. Molotov abused his power by invading Finland and claming bombs are "humanitarian aid", Finns answers by giving him cocktail. When police and state turns on the people, like in Ukraine in late 2013, the nation gave the government the very same cocktail to Molotov. Yanukovych ran away to russia with his life after shooting more than hundred protesters. Our checks and balances against foreign agents is Revolution.
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  418. Hey, he routed the katsap army and burned down moscow. The mistake was trying to turn r&$$@ into a civilized place inhabited by humans. We won't repeat the same mistakes, ideally plunging them into Balkan-style civil war, but the most important thing is to NEVER PUT OUT FIRE IN MOSCOW. Well hindsight is perfect I guess.
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  419. There's a video of a russian soldier being shot through a village toilet door where he was hiding, and another where a burning invader can't put himself out of fire and dunks himself head-first into a well... Not both of these events combined on video... Yet.
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  420. Nah, you can see actually totalitarian countries like Iran, North Korea or russia, regardless of your view on taxes or abortion.
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  421. The beginning is scary because it's literally Syria. Which is currently destroyed by russia and Iran, with Turkey unsure what to make of it...
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  422.  @natsumie.williams3931  Yeah I said that I don't have SSRs so an SR will do, lol. I am only getting the 4-star consolation prizes in rateups. Rolled for Shuten and Raikou, got a bunch of Yagyus :3
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  423.  @MilloSpiegel  nothing NATO can't fix like they did in Kosovo, the now most-pro-US country in Europe.
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  424. Is it surprising though that anyone who supports slavery is a psychopathic ax murderer? To think, to this day they keep gaslighting people about Confederacy...
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  425. 1 is the definition of the word "myth" when referring to a folklore story, i.e. Arthurian cycle, creation mythos of various cultures, or even modern myth cycles like Star Wars lore. 2 is the definition of "myth" we use for false claims that have nothing to do with folklore, i.e. flat Earth theory, pyramid schemes, pseudosciences like phrenology, race superiority myths etc. because they are unrealistic like the mythical stories.
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  426. But they are all extremely ugly on inside and out. Fetal alcohol syndrome. Lazy yes, all russian heroes are. Yemelia, Vasilisa and Ivan Durak are known for their stupidity and laziness and get rewarded for that.
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  427. Artoria, the most popular queen of England... oh wait, Saber is technically a king.
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  428. U started with spoilers lmao
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  429. Kill your own daughter for a chick who ran away from your brother thrice her age TO ORLANDO BLOOM?!
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  430. You missed it maybe, the murder video is out.
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  431. ​ @TAP7a Yeah this is a really interesting point, Scotland got SO romanticized that people assume it was colonized by English, while it's closer to them doing colonialism together against other places. Scots just make for good underdogs in historically inaccurate media.
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  432. russia: догнать и перегнать Америку! (to catch up with and overtake America!)
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  433. Oh it's a complex thing, but basically, Commonwealth still exists and countries like Canada, Australia and plenty in Africa or small Island nations in oceans are still part of it with nominally British king or queen at the helm, and a hundred years ago they would have more control over them, they just gradually got more sovereignty. So that was the goal of that faction in Ireland, Canadify themselves. Others wanted liberation from the start.
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  434. The Emma Thompson film version with Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman is PERFECT.
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  435. That's the "great russian culture" for you. Everything from Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy to Pushkin to Lermontov is literally about supporting colonization then a poor russian having soul searching over corpses of people he ax murdered (literally Crime and Punishment's story is glorifying a murderer because he is ACTUALLY A VICTIM somehow).
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  436.  @mister_grizzlee5105  Maybe "there are no sexists in a foxhole" should be a saying too.
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  437. What? No there's no other way to pronounce Sevastopol, this is how it sounds in original Ukrainian. The russians though butcher it and say the second O as "a" because it's unstressed because the first O is stressed. Except when it's called "Sevas" for short. Then the stress falls on E. Not one time in my life I heard anyone, EVER, stressing the A. Is it even possible? I don't think I'll be able to speak it. What's wrong with you people? LEARN UKRAINIAN.
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  438.  @-haclong2366  I think they can finish all the way with the current Lublin Triangle, which basically reestablishes the Commonwealth as an alliance, sadly sans Belarus... for now.
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  439. Europe was 2000 years behind on women's rights because of a fucking naval battle! Had Egypt won, we'd be able to own businesses like in Ancient Egypt instead of not even allowed to inherit stuff until 20th century.
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  440.  @Edax_Royeaux  how would a WORLD war come from a microstate that nobody will back? All people who think that pariah countries like NK, Venezuela or Iran, can start a WORLD war, are ridiculous, Balkans was land contested between a lot of powers, while nobody cares for modern dictatorships. If anything, Syria or Israel are closer to contested lands. Still not powder kegs.
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  441. They made him into a Ceasar salad.
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  442. Most large wars in the west were fought over Troy too, kinda... rather, Asia Minor/Turkey/Anatolia. From Crusades all the way to World War 1. It changed after that though, with Bosphorus becoming irrelevant.
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  443. ​ @Gelatinocyte2  both are cults with weird beliefs in "ancient aliens" and magical artifact crap that keeps blackmail on powerful people?
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  444. I dunno what's up with English people not being able to read ANY foreign name, thinking C is a "see" and stuff.
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  445. Literally main hero of russian folklore is Ivan Durak, an impolite, stupid brat, and he ALWAYS defeats her. The other is Yemelia lying-on-a-stove. So lazy he enchanted the stove to move so he won't have to get up. Or even here the Vasilisa is a bimbo who's pretty but incredibly stupid and so lazy she has a doll do all of her work. All heroes in russian tales are morally repugnant.
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  446. About that... You should learn about late 16th and early 17th century Japan, especially how Nichiren Buddhists were "peaceful" and how they treated Christian women in Korea that they invaded, and the few remaining Christians who survived that clarity of kindness with their head on their shoulders... Like yeah, all religions had their fanatics and bigots, but it baffles me how Westerners ignore like 90% of Buddhist history and focus on their PR, there's a lot of ironic chuckling to Islam being called "religion of peace", but the one religion FAMOUS for their literal warrior monks is somehow considered them most pacifist, while they're the ones who literally overthrown the Mongol empire, for example. The Buddhist monks.
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  447. Well Frankenstein was written by a woman and Jekyll and Mr. Hyde didn't have major female characters so there's that. From what I read, Stevenson didn't know how to write women so in Treasure Island the only girl is lead character's mother (though you can retell it genderswapping the boy with a tomboy and story won't change), and The Black Arrow does exactly that, lead heroine is crossdressing as a boy. So Jekyll and Hyde's author was more careful when it comes to 'men writing women' thing than Stoker.
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  448. The hazard of falling through the cracks in wooden village toilet box is still real for many places, like most of russia. Septic tanks are more of a first world thing.
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  449. The worst thing is that while this all sounds like crazy stories from ancient times of Caesar and Lenin, recently, Australia declared a war on CAMELS, and this time, remembering the pathetic loss to emus, they STARTED WITH AIRSTRIKES.
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  450. 10:14 sorry but what Olha of Kyiv has to do with russia centuries before moscow would even be founded eh? It's Ukraine.
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  451. Peter the not-so Great renamed muscovite tsardom to russian empire to claim Istanbul and Kyiv.
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  452. Just don't confuse Thebes in Greece with city they called Thebes in Luxor, Egypt, then known as Waset... cause I was like, what are gay hoplites doing in upper Egypt? O.o
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  453. Why is your name Wells not Wills? WHI IS IT NOT AN I maybe because it's a different word?
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  454. 6:17 ADIKEOHNO!!!!!1!! -Sima Yi, circa 2001
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  455. 1919 to 1939 borders are weird but they lasted less than Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy so no sense insisting on them... unless you're politically charged against us for some reason?
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  456. What's weird in China is how emperors traditionally known as very brutal, get lionized by media and government, seems to be Xi's policy, from movies to publications suddenly we have heroic Shi Huang-Di appear everywhere and Cao Cao being venerated, and modern adaptations of either period are very sympathetic to notorious mass murderers.
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  457. But Byron only wrote down the beginning, so if not for steal we wouldn't even know the plot (fragment of a novel only set ups characters and setting, not even the main story hook).
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  458. AFTER?! Oh wait you were from that tiny period in time when people fell for Chinese statistic manipulations and before thousands of people were dying in Europe every day. Ancient, simpler time of 1 month ago.
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  459. By being an island, basically. The only time they were successfully invaded was in WW2.
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  460. I know that she carries a tree and wants to give it to Ma Chao to stop Orochi.
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  461. For extra context, most witches and clairvoyants are just con men. So what they did is looking at Roman trials of ancient equivalent of Ron Hubbard and Jim Jones, and try to find secret magic knowledge in their records. That's like future geniuses trying to browse Eric Dubay's articles for hidden truth on the shape of the Earth.
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  462.  @robertaylor9218  but Freud is not pseudoscience, he and his peers jumped psychology centuries ahead and debunked ACTUAL pseudoscience, most famous case was insisting that hysteria is a mental thing that's in the head and not woman's uterus moving freely inside her body as doctors of the time believed. Similarly, a joking prescription of "Penis normalis, dosim, repetatur!" explaining that the housewife's problems are because she isn't sexually satisfied and not because of some wacky demon that makes women neurotic.
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  463. Chinese language didn't have a separate character for blue and green either. But if you think that's strange, English-speaking people ALSO group two separate colours with the word "blue", while most mainland European languages and Hebrew have separate words for both different colours blue and... sky blue. Like, the rainbow got 7 colors, not 6.
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  464. ​ @ChiefLibrarianAhriman I will never be able to take William of Orange seriously because of his name. I know, it's Dutch color and I associate it with Ruud Van Nistelrooy's goals and Netherlands Olympic team, it's just weird calling someone a king when his name is literally a citrus fruit. What next, Prince Johnny Lemon? Queen Gertrude of Grapefruit? Princess Clementine... Wait, this one doesn't sound as weird.
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  465. Imagine the burn when it's 3000 years since and Greece does NOT own a meter of land in Asia Minor.
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  466. For parade troops maybe but during actual war nobody bothers to shave in reality. Cleanly shaven soldiers in trenches are a Hollywood invention. Nobody cares for regs when most of the war is just digging.
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  467. They just leaked 2025 counter-offensive plans.
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  468. Yeah, House Republicans should have had a choice of either voting for Ukraine aid half a year earlier or being thrown into some cesspool in russia.
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  469.  @AndrewFrancisIlyrian  Tesla is horrible, they're the butt of all jokes with explosions and squashed fingers, Space X is good, but NEITHER was done by Musk, but by engineers there who were BEFORE HIM. And no lmao, Elon didn't do anything related to interstellar travel, last time I checked, he didn't go to the Moon even, something done in 1960s.
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  470. Hey, Mazdas are great, imagine Taliban taking Tehran on a bunch of Miatas and firing an RPG from an RX-7!.. I am joking of course, they would more likely use a 4x4 Mazda not a roadster, when they do to mullahs what Iranian women want for a long time.
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  471. What is the point of the weapon that kills people who touch it? Smear it with country banjos, baseballs and school shooters and expect Americans to come?
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  472. Might be the first at least half-British ruler of England since Cromwell too! I mean the royal family is just a wreath of inbreeding Germans, Diana was the first "non-Aryan" they accepted.
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  473. IRL it's Seh-vuh-stop-all', the last L is soft in Ukrainian.
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  474. At what point she kidnaps and "adopts" children whose parents soldiers of said empire killed? Cause that's the new schtick for russian elite. Slave kids kidnapped en masse.
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  475.  @Alverant  which one? There's like dozens competing for the title, and didn't they already have a piece on LaVey? Or was it Crowley? XD I can't tell apart these LARPers.
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  476. The invaders are burning Ukrainian books at the time. Not even ideologically, in liberated cities, in addition to burned poetry and philosophy of authors native to Ukraine, we found charred remains of translated Shakespeare and even Bible. Guys, book burnings aren't a thing of the past, russіаns are doing it now.
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  477. Donbas war? Hello, 2022 called. The russians tried to take Kyiv in 3 days, and now Ukraine is literally pushing back into Crimea.
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  478. SOWWY, misspelled mr. Fu Ki as Fico, still a prime minister tho, will Slovakian one do?
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  479. ~STOP!
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  480. ​ @HunterHogan very relatable today with russian mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children. Freezing this war will doom another, and more kids to be forcibly deported from their homes.
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  481.  @StudyofSwords  at least Jung accepted that not everything came from Greeks, which was a problem in Helleno-centric Freud. THAT SAID, Freudian interpretations of human psyche that took myths as symbolic representations of unconscious fears and desires, moved psychology forward more than anything else in history, while Jungian research has very little practical application outside of media, like you said, i.e. Assassin's Creed having Animus and stuff.
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  482. Isn't Christology, like, the whole separate discipline that's the actual biggest dilemma between scholars and priests, like, all the time? Unless I am confusing something.
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  483.  @robbuelens  it's not pointless because the video can be rewinded and the names all come up in some media, whether movies, anime or videogames. Just naming them instead of saying fReNcH aDvIsOr and AsSaSiNs and giving names for shinsengumi would be fine.
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  484.  @mjbull5156  I heard Fate has very loose qualifications for Assassin class so it won't be just 50 shades of Hassan. Also her bro drowned in the Nile... Sister, yeah. That was assasination. Other bro iunno I don't think they found any of their mumnies?
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  485. French army in Egypt isn't really unknown though, they were even rumored to shoot off Sphinx's nose.
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  486. It's funny how Serbs consider battle of Kosovo so important but Kosovo is not Serbia.
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  487. 5:35 so yeah they named a bacilla after him. Koch's stick. While Pasteur had a way to preserve products named after him. He wins in the end.
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  488. ​ @kingofhearts3185  oh it would be cool to make a few episodes dedicated to NS "fellow travelers", from tsarists to that English King who had to abdicate over relationship with Austrian painter, and various international quacks too!
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  489.  @basilofgoodwishes4138  States in China did see their country as one, and that whole war was about unification, not independence... and starting with Han, which came right after Qin's two-generation rule (which, in turn, united the country as the result of the Warring States war), Chinese people did assume a common identity, and forced that on conquered peoples. Greeks were also colonizing far and wide by he point of Persian invasions, having colonies from Cyrene in Lybia and Syracuse in Sicily, all way to Odessos in Bulgaria and Olbia, Chersonesus, Theodosia and others cities in Ukraine, they kept a common cultural identity, and built Gymnasiums, where... only Hellene males were admitted. So they HAD TO have some sort of unifying identity, even if they were ethnically diverse, had several dialects and local gods, you still have them recognizing a Hellene/Greek identity all way to 7th century BC. And yeah, the Olympics. Arabs today is good comparison because much like Greeks and Chinese, plenty of non-related peoples were "converted" to their culture.
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  490. ​​ @johnkeefer8760  Poland BEGGED France and England to help them against russia and Germany every time, were always let down. Ukraine now sees that West is hopeless and would rather see millions slaughtered than fight, absolutely nobody in Central or Eastern Europe is against foreign interference. Polish want US nukes on their soil, because without nuclear weapons you get invaded. As to secession vs independence, apples to oranges, even UN recognizes right of nations to self-determination (Irish from British, or Finns, Vainakhs of Ichkeria and Ukrainians from russia, but it doesn't let a slave owner caste to declare they're a new country because election didn't go their way, same with russia backed "separatists" in Ukraine.
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  491. @yossarian wanna have a talk with priests... defenestrated... from Cathedral spires by atheist Bolsheviks? Oh that's Eastern hemisphere all right.
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  492. The Slayers absolutely went to nuts with a delicacy connoisseur hiring literal dragon slayers to hunt for a giant whale monster using Gourry with his mane as lure, and Zel as an... anchor... and in the end, well, they had the whole digging it under ground for months for the poison to get out of the steak lmao. Poor Lina not getting her meal.
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  493. Note that after Hideyoshi died, the Toyotomi Shogunate eased persecution on Christianity (while still hating foreigners), but after losing Sekigahara, a lot of Christian daimyos were on the Western Army side, so they lost power (in Yukinaga Konishi's case, also his head), and a few Tokugawa emperors and many discriminatory edits later, the Shimabara rebellion led by a Catholic boy Amakusa Shirou broke out, and Christianity was outright banned after Buddhists massacred all Christian women and children. Surprisingly, in the shadows, Japanese Kirishitans as they called themselves, kept their faith alive for over two centuries in isolation.
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  494. Yeah, rasputny = lecherous, mostly about sex. Etymologically, "one who lost his way" but never would a woman be called "rasputnitsa" over stealing or assaulting someone, it's really always about lewdness.
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  495. But... he, like, never even conquered Italy?.. It's like me claiming to be Empress of New York while sitting in Eastern Europe, like... no. this Justin not-Timberlake is as much an emperor of Rome as you are the Queen of England.
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  496. I mean, if you had misfortune to read russian literature, pillaging Middle East for wives was kinda the norm, they focused on Caucasus though  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Hey Liz Taylor looked rather fine despite being Br*tish.
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  497. That was the argument, the 25% in Ukraine said to 73% who voted Zelenskyy in. That's the thing, the former pres., Poroshenko, is super rich, he is self-financed mostly. Lobby influence from sponsors is minimal. Meanwhile, Ze is an actor that is linked to the richest oligarch in Ukraine, Kolomoyski (who's investigated by FBI for fraud to boot). People who watched Ze on TV didn't think that they're actually voting for Ko and not Ze. NOW they learned... after failures in pandemic. A parallel to GOP and Tories is evident, as they're pleasing the donors and screwed up response even worse somehow. Lesson in point: do not vote for populists, as they are the puppets and the string holders don't care for you.
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  498.  @KendrixTermina  the chancellor Schroeder is working for russian oil and gas companies, literally. Anything that parody singer makes is morally better. Even if he became a serial killer of babies or something. Anything is better than Kremlin's Novichok-happy, internet trolling fossil fuel mafia.
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  499. Soviet editors used some insane writing gymnastics to frame ANYTHING as critique on capitalism or struggle for worker's rights to get it past the censors. Still government was savvy enough to downplay a lot of stuff so the things people DID rid from foreign literature was mostly stuff about casual life in USA like O. Henry or Alexandre Dumas's books about French nobility.
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  500.  @macaylacayton2915  you mean metaphors or just outdated English? Because it depends. People for whom English isn't main language get dubbed versions and they're easier to comprehend, but the cost is losing all wordplay.
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  501. ​ @Orocnogu  Santa Claus is more known than that film. The entirety of russian folklore can't hold a candle to Keanu Reeves legacy.
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  502. imagine being an Italian dictator and feeling entitled to annex countries on three continents, and acting like that all way until USA puts you back into your place and Duce hanged upside down. Took 1500 years but was worth the biggest imperialists getting curb stomped and "Roman empire" basically reduced to a single backyard called Vatican.
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  503. russia will still work 24/7 to run botnets mass buying accounts, which is what they do anyway, so it's useless
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  504. A brave man! We'll follow his doctrine. -Rogozin, leader of Roskosmos, probably.
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  505. Hello! The russia HAS zero defenses in far East now. And moscow. And everything else. 98% of their army is currently shooting at people fleeing Kherson regions after russians blew up the dam. Any second front will stop the bloodshed very fast. ANYONE fighting with us. But nope. We die alone as westerners pay russia billions for oil, which they use to buy drones and shells that bomb us.
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  506. LMAO putin bent over and gave them all amnesty and is promising to give ALL of their demands. See? He ALWAYS backs down. Now, I don't believe either and think there will be round 2. But it's a fucking joke, these clowns can't protect their capital. If ONLY West wasn't afraid of their own shadow and opened a second front the war would be already over. In a DAY it takes to reach moscow.
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  507. Your example of poker is lost on non-gamblers and the baseball one is completely pointless for non-Americans.
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  508. Who the Hell Is Edgar?
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  509. But Iran always cracks down on rebellions and nothing comes out of it for generations. Times have changed. There won't be an uprising in russia and certainly not China. The only way to defeat fascism is the same as it was during World War 2: by taking their capital and forcing capitulation. Trust me, we expected russian mothers to rise up in protest the first dead sons come home in a casket, in 2014. It's been TEN years of war now and almost nobody in russia is against the war. They'd give their sons to the last. Times of empires giving up because of a few millions dead are over.
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  510. Upvote this people because major international orgs literally let everyone drown in the river, refusing any help on the left bank. Red Cross, UN, Doctors, none of them help, drones do. Literally drop water and help find and save people (between, you know, VOGging).
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  511. 9:10 It's pronounced "spootnik". Like Rasputin and Nick. Literally russian for "satellite," the root word is "poot" with soft t at the end, which means, "the way". Someone on the way with you - your sputnik. Luna is Earth's natural sputnik etc.
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  512. 6:12 I assumed an investigation and some torture but I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition! I AM SOWWY FOR OVERUSED JOKE!!!
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  513. Three at least.
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  514. It's used a lot in modern times by Wiccans and other neopagans. Don't overthink the symbols the cross they use for NS is symbol still in use by modern Germany and has nothing to do with those monsters, they just want to keep video from getting blocked if they shown swastikas, for example.
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  515. Imagine thinking any territory bigger than Vatican can be called "Roman" legitimately. They were wrecked right, everyone in history then curb stomped Italy just because they could.
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  516. If you want the real ending watch Death of Stalin. Squealer's execution was my fav part. (He's Beria).
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  517. Yeah like, Polish anthem to this day glorifies Bonaparte for liberating it... only for that idiot to actually put out fires in moscow instead of letting russia burn to the ground. We are LITERALLY trying to fix his mistakes with drone army now. Please donate to Come Back Alive, Prytula foundation and United24 with Mark Hamill, and May the Force be with you! Each drone bombing russia fixes mistakes of the past. Thambks!
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  518.  @AnoterosHershy  that's from the novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. What IS known is that Dong Zhuo threw a halberd in a fit of rage towards Lu Bu, his adopted son... Forgetting how Lu Bu's last adopted father ended, you, basterd of three fathers, you!
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  519. Western people saying "oh he was anti-war, that must have made him popular among the peasants" never spoke with a russian peasant. "We're hungry but the great poo is bombing Syria so we can wait!"
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  520. I mean now there's putin khuilo in muscovy, which translates to "ho dickhead" basically.
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  521. There are still more people watched the movie. "So much blood..." – "She JUST ATE!!!" puts newspapers around and hides behind wall "...she's almost dead!" – "SHE'S DEAD ENOUGH!"
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  522. In Greco-Roman world, women were frowned upon IN GENERAL, like it's an Athenian thing damage from which lasts to this day, like it was that culture, which brought misogyny to Christianity, not vice versa. Case in point: there are female priests in Bible, and women were major sponsors of early Christian church... none of that survived culture clash with Hellenistic ideas of woman's place.
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  523. I dunno, we have plenty of people who survived Donetsk airport battle here. Way scarier with russian shells all around you. I mean, ancient weapons didn't even tear your limbs off you from 2000 meters away.
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  524.  @captainkail  If they were sponsored but haven't disclosed that would be against YT rules. What is also possible is that they knew the game is coming and started making relevant videos on their own volition.
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  525. If russia wants to stop losing wars it should stay the F out of Ukraine. Especially Crimea. That's how you can avoid war. Take russians back to Siberia.
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  526. A needle in the egg, egg in a duck, duck inside a rabbit, rabbit inside someone's asshole, and the asshole is stuck in a tree's duplo, and you have to kill them all to get to it, or something. It's Koshchiy in UA or Koshchey in language 404. The "a" comes from weird thing in russian where unstressed vowels get a different sound. Irrelevant since we're canceling that language and culture. Shch is the same letter Щ that Let 3 made their Eurovision song about.
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  527. Okita banner when?
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  528. Because double dipping is WRONG. xD
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  529. Note about two sons, the older was one of Emperor's late wife, and supported by Empress Dowager, the grandma, as well as eunuch faction. And the younger was Concubine He's son, and supported by her bro, He Jin, a simple butcher who got high post because of nepotism.
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  530. I'll never get over laughing about Greeks living in Turkey play-pretending to be Romans without even living in Romania. (I know, Romans is how Italians called themselves, still doesn't make either "Eastern Roman Empire" or "Holy Roman Empire" less idiotic. It's been centuries they were rekt and they still look like idiot pretenders.)
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  531.  @WannabeCanadianDev  not sure about Halo, but Mass Effect has ancient aliens grooming, then eradicating civilisations in 50 thousand year cycles, while Assassin's Creed has ancient ones being sorta last survivors of eradicated proto-civ, both games making the precursors incomprehensible for us due to using a form of sixth sense... As bonus point AC: Odyssey goes directly into Atlantis during classical age so must have most parallels with Bronze Age civ.
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  532. I STILL keep hearing how Buddhism (or Confucianism or Taoism) are "not religions" usually by IAm14AndThisIsDeep types, you know, those want to pretend they're smarter than others and oh so different to everyone. Or by cringey Reddit atheism types who are trying to include Buddhist population in their count of atheists lmao.
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  533. Heroiam Slava!
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  534. Yes, this was always fascinating about Genghis Khan... I mean, Napoleon... wait who are we watching about?
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  535. Yeah, I've watched a documentary that had Aztec human sacrifice woven into Christian mythology with Spanish priests taking part in sacrificing little girls "for Jesus", it was creepy! There's a reason Abrahamic religions go so hard against syncretism. Like okay, Sitting Bull damaged his eyes permanently by doing a ritual... did it help? Nope.
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  536. Swan Tran?.. How in the world did you manage to read Q as T (it's closer to Ch) and find the wa in Sun? xD
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  537. Three Emperors. There were much more kings, self-proclaimed or not. And one dreamt of restoring the Han (something done 200 years ago), other proclaimed a new dynasty, and third literally mostly kept to his country and didn't care much for reuniting China.
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  538. It's the other way around, as a Ukrainian I am not surprised that when the best people were started to death, others fled abroad, the few who remained were heavily indoctrinated by the empire. Genocide always makes survivors more compliant, that's the point.
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  539.  @thastayapongsak4422  No, Christianity teaches that soul is immortal and contradicts reincarnation. Also, to contrast, Penitent Thief story teaches that a repentance is enough, period. No karma, no dues to pay, you're free as soon as you repent – it was important to note that the Thief was already crucified, so it was physically impossible for him to repay anything or become good or whatever in life, as he died soon after, and in tradition becomes the FIRST person to follow Jesus into heaven. One of traditional beliefs is before Resurrection, souls awaited in Sheol, Judaist underworld similar to Greek Hades. But note that there wasn't one view in Jewish faith on that, i.e. in New Testament we see conflicts between Sadducees, an aristocratic denomination that didn't have afterlife, and Pharisees, which was the denomination later Rabbinic Judaism was founded upon, which shares a lot of beliefs with Christianity, despite being THE most critiqued religion by Jesus in Gospels. There were also other splinters like Essenes (of Dead Sea Scrolls fame) living a hermit lifestyle in caves and rebellions Zealots, which put minor religious differences aside as they considered fighting back against Rome more important. And Purgatory is a mostly-Catholic concept closer to Buddhist Arahant, but it's not based on canon. IIRC, there's still debates between salvation based on Faith and salvation based on Deeds (and views that work in both and/or either), but the somewhere-in-the-middle temporary place between heaven and hell is not a widely followed belief.
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  540. They swore only ONCE and it was very impactful because of that.
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  541. Evil religion... As opposed to good Soviet atheists who shot the kids and killed millions in the name of world revolution, which they failed in the end?
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  542. We have ethnically non-russian minorities invade us and die for a russian ethnostate they want to make in Ukraine.
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  543. You literally could have said he was influenced by Byron and called it a day.))) The rest was kinda guessable.
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  544.  @bernardoheusi6146  that song was sang everywhere. Including by Pink Floyd.
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  545. Prometheus: a kinda mediocre Alien quasi-seqo-prequel thingy.
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  546.  @scribejay  the current Hybrid WW3 (2007-Munich confrence followed by invasions of Georgia, Syria and Ukraine) is spin-off series the Mandalorian. Like with the russians cosplaying as neo-russian Empire, and Mark Hamill literally fundraising the drone army for Ukraine... Zelenskyy is baby Yoda.
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  547. So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand there's no turning back.
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  548. She's literally beheading people and eating babies. Chaotic evil.
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  549. To raise average temperature in russia, please donate to Come Back Alive and United24, our drones actually JUST STOP OIL refineries.
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  550. it's called both
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  551.  @hunterdunning1776  cleanse your ears by listening to Arashi ga Oka by Tomoyasu Hotei. That's Wuthering Heights in Japanese, and the film named Arashi ga Oka is also a great adaptation, though set in feudal Japan... Onimaru digging up Kinu's body is... well, graphic. It's probably the best version too because Japanese actors aren't overacting.
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  552. Then you know very little of post-Napoleonic literature. Read ANY 19th century book. Any. Chances are, you'll find a Byronic hero archetype, based on Byron's characters who many people styled themselves after, which, in turn, were created by Lord Byron based on Napoleon.
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  553. As Ukrainians, we understand your should NEVER sign any treaties with colonizers... we fight really hard to avoid the fate of American and Asian natives.
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  554.  @reign0599  No no no, the Chinese people were basically eradicated. Mao has the single biggest body count in entire human history, runner-ups to him are his best pal, Stalin, whose ex boyfriend, Hitler, is also in top 3.
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  555. Wait, both Kangaroos and Emus are from Australia, and penguins live in Antarctica... that means most people literally didn't kno of upright-walking animals until last 200 years or so...
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  556. Yeah, I don't think anyone did more damage to socialism than the bolsheviks tbh. I mean, wasn't Orwell on a KILL LIST made by Stalinists for having socialist views?
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  557. So... nobody tried to eat their children??? No rapey gods or women bethrothed without consent?! Just wars against invaders... why is Celtic mythology so... normal?..
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  558. I wish people would understand more than "locals totally supporting empire" are often just settlers who took natives homes. Like the majority of pro-russians in Ukraine were russians in the first place that were sent to work in mines or to take locals homes after man made.famine.
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  559. Also Ibn Rustah who was Persian.
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  560. You forgot Nefertiti. She's the top 3 known Egyptians with Cleo and Nef's stepson, who, well... Tutankhamen is mostly known for his tomb, his reign was uneventful apart from restoring polytheism. The sequel to Ramses is also famous for the Percy Shelley poem Ozymandias, which mocks his "look at my works, ye mighty and despair" inscription that was found in a field of endless sand (like, WHAT works, lmao)... he's also an OP Rider. Cyrus is definitely most famous Persian, as he's the guy from Bible who Jews respect for freeing them from captivity, and screwing over Babylon and the Morpheus ship guy (don't ask me to spell Nebucah... Nobyhedzazzar), Herod is INfamous baby-killer from New Testament... Well, if Bible is your main source, I'd say the most famous pharaoh is the Exodus one BUT nobody knows his name... Obviously David and Solomon are the more famous kings from there. Finally, Leonidas is known for how he lost the battle so hard that Berserker guy steamrolled and burned down Athens to the ground. HOWEVER, Herodotus started the tradition of Europeans glorifying losses and building heroic propaganda around them, so Spartans became the first to lose so legendarily before things like Borodino, Light Brigade's Charge and Pearl Harbor copied the pattern by immortalizing heroism by the losing side in military disasters (it helps if the side who lost the battle won the war in the end though). Still, Cleopatra and Ceasar are the most popular historical figures of all time, period. Even German leaders literally called themselves Kaiser like up to WW1... russian word Tsar is literally just a form of Caesar. All because of a guy who got crazy over his Egyptian lover and decided to deify himself like pharaohs did in Egypt. The only one who can rival this couple in popularity is MAYBE Alexander the Great on male side, but there's no woman in history who's as well known as Cleopatra the seventh, Philopator.
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  561. Moral of the story: men are easy to manipulate as they always get distracted trying to catch some beaver.
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  562. ​ @RocketSlime yes it was just Kyiv state. Calling it Rus' is like calling Rome the ancient Italy.
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  563. 2:38 Oh, but thankfully Richard had Robin of Loxley and his Merry Men on his side!
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  564. U can ask them. Like literally travel to Constanti—Istanbul. xD
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  565.  @cadenroedl4896  You see, Ron Hubbard was much more successful as a cult leader than a sci-fi writer. Many more are like that. They FAIL at writing something popular, and NEED an entire cult of brainwashed acolytes to hold up their slop at high esteem.
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  566. So you can walk to your neighbour and steal their building materials from their property? Let's take a guess how will the cops see it.
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  567. This is how most russians are. They know their government is corrupt, war is bad, yada-yada, but they all silently allow that to happen... for entirety of muscovy's existence, all 300 years or so. Note that there are no prison terms for refusing to join the army in russia, just a fine of 3000 roubles... that's 38 dollars. This is the amount of money the russians are willing to kill, and get killed. This is the price of their soul. Less than a videogame.
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  568.  dimapez  East Germany was under Soviet occupation after WW2 and later, Cold War era, the GDR had a puppet government with leaders that were too keen literally French kissing Brezhnev.
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  569. Yes all these theories basically are laundered NSDAP pseudoscience
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  570. Note that even though Egypt invented several forms of writing, they did use Sumero-Akkadian cuineform script as well.
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  571.  @bernardoheusi6146  we have plays by ancient Greek playwrights survive to this day, people compared Willie with his contemporaries.
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  572. I JUST noticed that you have Walpole in the tags))) XD
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  573. I never knew Atari рг0n has so much lore behind it!
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  574. Go on UK, we'll thank Ben Wallace and all once we see your troops approaching moscow, or at least a few missiles onto red square.
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  575. Because russians attacked them first. France had no choice, nobody actually WANTS to conquer that uncivilized barren wasteland, they just keep invading until we stop it by razing moscow... again. Putting out that fire was Napoleon's biggest mistake, should have let it burn to the ground and went back to Europe concentrating on fortifying Poland and Ukraine, people who would never let russians pass to France if they're armed enough without any "peace in our time" wankers.
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  576. 26:40 only russian exports are fossil fuels. They're all bought exclusively with US dollars, as you explained... russia is just a bad example. France and Germany pays ruskies in USD for oil & gas and russians use that money to airstrike children in Syria and shell Ukraine every day. Literally nobody needs roubles for anything. Nobody in russia holds savings in them. They're called "wooden" money for being so bad.
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  577. They made series on Vlad Dracula and should do origins of how 18th century European tales were mixed with vampire legends from Middle East brought West by Lord Byron in 19th, then transformed into Vampyre novel by his doctor Polidori, followed by other stories like Carmilla (based on countess Liz Bathory), fear of being buried alive (read anything by Poe), and culminated into Bram Stoker's Dracula, later adaptations of which made vampires what they are in modern pop culture.
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  578.  @zackakai5173  they aren't sCieNtIfFiCaLly-FaLsIfIaBlE eVteEnAnCe fOr ExTeiNsAncE'ing, the whole story is about actors being superstitious, who let you out of the locker anyway, egghead? DX
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  579. Tsar of Poland was a title Nicholas held. We see it in documents. King was just translated to tsar.
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  580. Who is Kate Bush? Is he related to the Jeb?
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  581. I've watched some documentary on printing presses and they were known by Ottomans but gradually phased out apart from a few in the capital because it didn't work with local culture and traditions of writing at the time. There's a lot of myths from claiming lack of printing press either shown Ottoman empire as technologically backwards and it didn't allow for enlightment to spread, but it's kinda bogus since real history is more complex than the Civ3 tree where things like stirrups send you to next age. Oh and Arabic printing presses, of course, exist to this day... Probably more in museums though since modern printing phased them out decades ago.
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  582. Likely ending in mass rout like when russians were beaten and fled from Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Voznesensk, and Kharkiv. I just don't see a protracted defense being possible there. We just need to get artillery into range and then cover invaders with cassettes and missiles.
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  583. The French people, duh. They be snark. It's with russian tzars whose names are made by foreigners, like Ivan the terrible, Nicholas the bloody, putin the khuilo, and Catherine "whom glory still adores as greatest of all sovereigns and wh—s" last was Byron, Don Juan.
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  584. The one thing we got from that is that she was petite. Had to fit into the rug.
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  585.  @wederMaxim  ватный швайне, как там Крымский мост?)))
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  586. They were blamed for having Western PoV on early episodes and now for having Eastern PoV in this one. I guess there's just a source that's dominating each episode and they're always biased.
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  587. I dunno why they also not name individual shinsengumi members and assassins.
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  588.  @Albinojackrussel  yeah, "wuthering" means there's a lot of windy storms, "withering" means it's dry and arid, the opposite weather condition.
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  589. YOU TAKE MY LIFE BUT I TAKE YOURS TOO!!!
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  590. ​ @The_NickTL  yup, the entire point of reprisal killings is to make people stop resisting by gaslighting them into believing that "your resistance FORCED us to violence". Like we are being told that using air defense systems is "escalatory" and we should just stop defending or it will get worse.... Well, how about no. Stop victim blaming!
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  591. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton romance on screen and in reality was worth it! They also reused the expensive decorations for a bunch of stuff like Caligula.
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  592.  @PuzzlingDingo  Some Greek chick marrying a Mongol ruler of russia would technically make Mongolia the third Rome, as russia wasn't a thing until like 1700s, the marriage to Paleologists or how they call themselves was through a Mongol Khan, not czars.
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  593. 4:40 so Arabs are perfectly willing to coexist with Jews in separate states but that didn't fit the others' narrative. Brilliant! Somehow reminds me of current-day BOTH western people and Middle Eastern locals being MAD at Saudi Arabia and Israel trying to shove wars aside and be friends. But NOPE, peace in Middle East is called "Saudian Zionizm" and zOMG evil CIA is blamed for trying to make them stop fighting cause who will russia sell their weapons to, just India and Pakistan then?..
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  594. We actually call Chinese characters "hieroglyphs" too in my culture... I mean, can't really call Hanzi "letters".
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  595. Yeah, they literally started that series because of CA sponsorship. NOW, if they actually get paid for this and don't disclose it, that would break YouTube rules so might just be jumping the bandwagon of Trojan war becoming relevant among target audience.
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  596.  @JPKgold  well he is now known for having one of worst diseases in history named after him. Bacteria tuberculosis? Nah, it's just "Koch sticks" over here.
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  597. She eats kids in all versions.
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  598. "As the Collapse of the every single Empire showed, seperating an empire amoungs many people never ends well" FTFY
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  599. So you're saying that someone whose family for centuries didn't have the same rights and opportunities as the others, was segregated in a ghetto with worse education, infrastructure and no jobs or way out, weren't affected by it? Like there's no living people who were affected by laws that still worked in the 1960s, really? Saying they don't carry scars of slavery is ridiculous, all these processes that have to do with racism after were direct results of North Atlantic slave trade.
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  600. Wasn't those Sarmatians? They were called the children of Scythians and Amazons by Herodothus, IIRK. Then there's the story of Scythian queen killing Cyrus. Anyway, story on Scythians and Sarmatians should come together, and would be very cool, especially considering one the biggest sexist conspiracies in scientific community when they tried to falsify humans men being much smaller in the past so they could label all women's warrior burials and skeletons with battle and riding deformations as "tiny males" and pretend nomadic women didn't exist, nomads procreated via cloning, and ancient history about them are just fairytales.
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  601. who TF spends so little time on social media? In russia they have a program, "60 minutes" of hate, the ENTIRE program is them cursing Ukrainian, the West, EU, America and the like.
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  602.  @imambaybars3405  there's difference between reporting thieves, murderers and ones who damage property to snitching on people who broke dress code lmao
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  603. 5:45 OMG I thought drawing of Kaguya was cute and funny enough but her entourage))) Guys you're brilliant!
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  604.  @류재열-u4w  steppe nomands like Scytians and Sarmathians paved for a lot of Greek legends, namely Amazons.
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  605.  @loke6664  Polidori wrote and published Vampyre based on Byron's fragment of a novel, which itself was published along with Mazeppa like half a decade before Byron died. Crediting Bram Stoker's Dracula with inventing classic Euro-aristocrat vampires is like saying MCU made the super hero movie. P.S. Vampire and vurdulak stories obviously predate any English writer stumbling upon them in Eastern Europe the same way actual Ramses the Great predated Ozymandias, it's still kind of a fact both Frankenstein AND the vampire as we know it today originated from that brainstorming session with some of the best poets of all time.
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  606. Got to 7th part. USA is hopeless. OBSCURE GAMES WITH VAGUE RULES SUCH AS BASEBALL ARE NOT ANY MORE A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAN STRANGE WOMEN DISTRIBUTING SWORDS FROM THE LAKE!
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  607. Imagine going out of your way to declare yourself a god, renaming a month after you, and still be mostly known as "the bad guy from Cleopatra..." in 2000 years...))) I looked up this Octavian, and, apparently, he actually got a film, even was played by Peter O'Toole (How to Steal a Million, also Priam in Troy)... in an Italian TV movie that nobody seen. :3 I mean, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Octavian doesn't even sound right! xD
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  608. I wish they invaded Eastern Europe, instead it's just everyone vs the russians.
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  609. Jada isn't Egyptian either and Ptolemaic dynasty was, obviously, Macedonian, but let's not get facts get int he way of Greeks pretending they were conquerors and not the conquered ones.
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  610.  @curtiswong7280  "knowing we can't see them" what part of Mad Max fog-smudged Beijing industrial surburb are you living in? Like yeah, hard to see stars if your skyline is filled with skyscrapers and casinos somewhere in the middle of Vegas but even there, you can literally look away from downtown. Are there places people actually cannot see stars when looking away from the bright lights? Cause in Europe I see stars at night in a city with over a million population, and it's easier to see them outside of huge ass cities.
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  611. Bedivere has Airgetlám slapped by Merlin for his NP too.
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  612. I always felt those stories warn the guys to not be stupid or else.
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  613. I need to watch it! I really like Val Kilmer, but at some point (after BATMAN) him being in a movie basically guarantees it being terrible: some are enjoyable in a way tho, Mindhunters and Snowman were pretty decent thrillers if you're into that.
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  614. Horse might be the metaphor for inventing siege engines. In reality, it depended on country. In Eastern Europe, Mongols brought first siege engines in 1200s, which Chinese engineers built, as they were using trebuchets at least since battle of Guandu (200 CE, i.e. around 1400 years after the Trojan war). Quick search says that in the west, Carthage and Rome were first to use complex siege engines extensively, which is earlier, but still WAY later than Troy.
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  615. just say Yugoslavia so everybody is offended lmao)))
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  616.  @GeneralLuigiTBC  is THIS the reason Turkey blocks Sweden's NATO bid during another war against russia in Ukraine?
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  617. Do you have one about Lilith instead? She was always my fav from Darkstalkers because I am... not as well endowed in the chest region as Morrigan.
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  618. It was debunked many times, and you can see modern war footage that any gamer with a joystick who got ZERO psychological conditioning, will aim drone straight at an invader's bottom, the only reason they missed a lot before were bad early firearms. With an AK74, AR platform, or an FPV drone, everyone aims to kill.
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  619. That would be cool!
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  620. It's a feudal thing when king or warlord's retinue did anything, he would be given a credit. Shame that universities still pretend it's Ancient China or something. 2000 years behind the rest of the institutions that moved on from people owning other people and getting credit from them.
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  621. You have the higher ground... XD
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  622. They did the same on previous Eurovision we won (not 2022, 2016) because they knew someone REALLY wants to make us smaller on the map... so people overcompensate.
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  623. Now this isn't ancient mythology just anecdotes adults made up to scare children into slavery and child labour.
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  624. Thankfully for brokers, now they have a guaranteed investment in oil, I mean, it's not like it can drop 300% overnight and get into negative price, right?!
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  625. Ukraine is the world ♥
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  626. How fast did Sicilians surrender in World War 2 to Allies? A week? Two days? An hour?
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  627. The worst part is appeasers still exist, so many think tanks work on lessening russia sanctions or platforming russian ultranationalists like Navalny or plain refusing to extradite "rusich" deputy leader to Ukraine.
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  628. Ukrainian activists literally canceled the current Pope to for his pro-russian statements.
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  629. So, is there ONE reason anyone should be rooting for Gigas-in-mesh and not the Rum-baba?
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  630. The russia will cease existing because of that peninsula.
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  631. Lucky wankers living on island. We need to flood Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk and Hungary, then dig a channel across Polish and Slovakian borders to become an island too!
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  632. Yes, it sounds like Mithtril, the metal for Frodo's flak jacket and Mithrandir, Gandalf's name elves called him by.
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  633. The slave mentality is horrifying, it breaks people in unimaginable ways, like in this case, someone who would rather kill their own children than fight back... it takes centuries of conditioning, and I did see very similar stories in China or in Slavic countries, where people never lived free... It takes a conscious effort to break from the self-destruction cycle. Look at Arab Spring or Color Revolutions, Hong Kong protests, women in Iran etc., all the same problems in any part of the world.
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  634. 3:10 I am pretty sure the proper historical term is "burninating"...
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  635. Literally no, the king who united Scotland and England into one country was a Scot. Ruling from London. Meanwhile, to russify Crimea, russians forcibly deported ALL Crimean Tatars from their homes to Siberia. You can make a case for Khmelnytsky signing Pereyaslav Rada though, but even that was done under pressure, and not like he ever became the ruler or both peoples. But Crimea case is closer to Europeans colonizing Australia or America.
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  636. Lmao what level of gaslighting is this? The russia itself recognized Donetsk and Luhansk as part of Ukraine, always. They only claimed it, along with two other regions they failed to conquer in 2022, after killing thousands of civilians. Also currently russia is attacking Kherson, blew up a dam, and rigged the biggest nuclear power plant with explosives. Neither are in Donbas... So GOOD LUCK GLOWING IN THE NAME OF PUTINS YACHTS AND HIS OLIGARCHS MANSIONS.
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  637. 5:48 Did Catholics not read the passages of the Bible where idolatry was forbidden and idols disposed of? I mean Protestants killing Catholics for their idols weren't much better but at least they justified their pogroms with scripture. What the Hell did the Pope read to come at the "massacre Jews to protect statues" conclusion?
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  638.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  who cares about your magic genie scores when millions starved to death because food was taken away by government? And then when it no longer was, shops were empty, even if you had money, good luck buying something you need. Plastic bags were washed and reused for YEARS. Toilet paper was a luxury and not even made when all budget was spent on rockets to kill people abroad.
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  639. Idealism won tho, Ireland is not part of the commonwealth. "Realists" claimed Soviet Union won't collapse and that resisting russia is futile. They're always end up wrong.
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  640. Moves cocaine via diplomatic planes, call back to his youth at the Leningrad customs and Colombian cartels)))
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  641. Looked it up... oh wow, literally the best parts of Trojan war that everybody knows are in now-lost poem and we got this ship list that ends literally when the fun starts survive to this day.
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  642. Three Kingdoms era ended with Jim dynasty, which lasted like two generations, and culminated in war of eight princes. Guess how many heirs was that.)
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  643.  Dylan Rodrigues  "nichevo" is just the word "nothing" in russian though. Their attitude IS just like that though, as if the government they keep electing for 20 years "cannot be helped", and the wars they keep fighting "just happen". Absolutely despicable creatures.
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  644.  @mergele1000  Argo was just their Super Smash Warriors Orochi King of Fighters.
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  645. ​ @privatefellow6589  Haven is a faction in Heroes 4 & 5, and as to hell existing, if you doubted it before, look up pictures of Omsk, Ustyug, Sransk, or any other russian towns. You can't really deny that.
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  646. It's a long story of how russians installed their puppet Assad as enternal ruler for life, who then died, and his PoS war criminal son killed a million people for being Syrians, ethnically cleansing Syria from Syrian people. Because russians told him to.
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  647. 1:16 Ceasar was stabbed in the pooper by Amunet and his last words were "name a salad after me".
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  648.  @jensling  Out of all European things, Irish folklore seems to be the most "alien" and fascinating, Greco-Roman and Nordic myths are overused so Balór, Banshees, or Cu Chulainn and Medb stories feel more exotic than another generic dragon-slaying story.
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  649. The lining up all Tatars and massacring every adult male what got me thinking of russia, since they kept doing that in more recent age. Ivan the Terrible was just copying Mongol traditions of his uncle.
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  650.  @minestar2247  name three atheist scientists who invented something people actually use. I deliberately looked it up, and between cars, electricity, gunpowder, alcohol, pasteurization, refrigerators, an so on, going WAY back to scientific method itself developed in Golden Age of Islam based on Greek pagan sciences, I can't find THREE atheistic scientists who did something useful. Most things that were invented all track to someone having either traditional boring going-into-local-church-on-holidays background or some extra wacky beliefs like Newton... Like it seems at this point all atheists do is write books and complain about religion online. Atheism is like a religious version of veganism. They just keep pestering and annoying people to no end without being asked... At least they don't get their way in government anymore, we had that from 1920 in Ukraine, got rid of forced atheism in 1991 and are never going back, though people have freedom to be unbelievers, every Lenin statue still gets its head chopped off... And no, tech bros theorizing about crypto and making a slave colony on Mars isn't helping. IMO Korolev the Ukrainian rocket man sending a гussіаn into space was a noble goal, but he failed by not sending them all. /s TBH
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  651. Russians & Assad made sure to leave no shoes from the million Syrians they killed.
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  652. Raw milk is something a Soviet grandma would torture her children with, along with fish oil. Do you know how milk smells before it's processed? It's hard to wash away the smell for someone working even in a milk product shop, good luck getting people to talk to you when you reek of cow dung from 10 meters away.
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  653. British are kind of masters of glorifying losses themselves, the most famous battle they took part in is charge of the Light Brigade, I guess heroic sacrifices are far more motivating than steamrolling, Greeks have their Thermopylae, Americans - Alamo, and we got Kruty.
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