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ryan cooper

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in general all these guys were flying blind. a bunch of alcoholic slave owners trying to copy and adapt half-understood Roman shit from 1800 years ago

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Patrick Fessenbecker's avatar Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social
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American empire being what it is, my students in Turkey would sometimes excitedly tell me the US revolutionaries got some ideas from the Ottoman Empire (all good things started in Turkey, you understand). I felt bad letting them know none of those doofuses knew anything about the Ottomans.

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