The Top Ten Things I Learned from the Twitter Tantrum that is #TheTriggering (So Far)

I personally love 300, despite all the problems with Miller and the actual Spartans because I’m a total sucker for “Worlds of Ham” in movies, I find it simultaneously awesome and hilarious.

@ snork maiden

The latter history of Sparta isn’t all that clear. Basically though the world changed around them. When the Romans conquered Greece they left the Spartans alone. Sparta actually became a Roman tourist attraction popular with the military for obvious reasons. The Romans invited the Spartans along on some of their campaigns against the Persians; probably just to ‘cash in’ on Sparta’s history and reputation in that regard. But with Rome being the only super power in the Mediterranean and pretty much reigning supreme, Sparta effectively became an irrelevancy.

ETA: if you’re familiar with the ‘Museum Fremen’ in the Dune series, that’s a good analogy for what the Spartans became.

In defense of the Egyptians, Monzach, that was a royal thing, regular Egyptians didn’t do that. Also, women in Egypt had waaaay less shit to put up with than most places, including Athens.

I find “300” a useful film. When I’m wargaming and someone has a “300” reference in their profile, I know I’m dealing with a cheet-oh.

Mathew Smith ‎@footbrawler

Hitler was misunderstood, Trump is misunderstood, all you liberal cucks are latinophobes, nver talk about moving to Mexico

I don’t… I mean, I do appreciate, as others have pointed out, the inherent honesty of admitting that we can put Trump and Hitler in the same category, after all (actually, I think Trump has more in common with Mussolini, overall). But the second part of that… Is it because people make cracks about moving to Canada if Trump wins? Because seriously, that’s a pretty major logic fail. Mexico is not a center-left country, even in the parts that haven’t fallen into anarchy (in large part due to the corrupting effects of U.S. drug policy). Canada is. I’ll cheerfully move anywhere the government is like Canada’s if Trump wins.

@ Dr Thang

delusions of being Bane for a day

I haven’t seen the Batman film but I have watched the various Bane clips (I just love the way Tom Hardy speaks). Isn’t Bane a bit of an SJW? His whole thing appears to be taking on the privileged classes on behalf of the underdogs. It seems he’s also quite deferential towards a woman who’s actually in charge. I think MRAs who use him as a role model are missing the point of the character somewhat.

@Monzach
While Egyptian royalty married in the family for the most part both the king and queen slept with their conqubines, and would just claim it was their relatives kid.
Also to the whole Athens invented democracy thing, they really didnt. It arose independently in a lot of countries and I would argue modern democracy is closer to Rome’s. Athens also had a habit of killing her heros and ran an empire where only it’s (vary narrowly defined citzens) could vote.

Dalillama and Alan:

It’s partly true that Sparta declined because its men broke down spectacularly outside of the agoge system, either going native or becoming monsters. If nothing else, that kept it from developing the empire that would have allowed its society to grow and change like Athens did.

However, a bigger part, in my own reading, was that Sparta built itself to be perfect for war and then war began to change. So long as the supreme form of combat was strong men standing in a line and pushing each other, with occasional pokes from spears, until one side fell down and ran away, Sparta was king of the hill, but then Athens started using javelineers that exploited the hoplite phalanx’s lack of mobility, Thebes started stacking its flanks and using oblique advances to disrupt the customary clash of the phalanxes, and Macedon started using hammer-and-anvil tactics with its cavalry. Sparta copied all of these advances, albeit reluctantly and without much success in the lattermost case owing to the lack of good horse country in the Peloponnese, but each of them took it further away from its expertise and, by the time of Alexander, it was no longer anything particularly special in terms of warfare (and, therefore, no longer something to be feared or even noticed). The Romans, great lovers of tradition and history as long as both flattered them, paid a lot of respect to Sparta in their conquest of Greece, but it really did become the “Museum Fremen” of the ancient world.

@Alan

Yeah, Dark Knight Rises!Bane (he, like many adaptations, isn’t really the same character from the comics) is really big on the idea that the rich and powerful need to be punished. Though it’s implied that he’s only doing it as a means to keep the populace of Gotham from wanting to rebel against the martial law he’s instituted.

SPOILERS
As for him being deferential to a woman, there’s not a big pay off for that. She’s only revealed like, ten minutes from the ending and then dies four minutes later.

I’m a Leo. Therefore, feminism is a Leo, too.

(preens mane)

What if they gave offense, but nobody came?

Basically, they think being triggered is the same as…what, disagreeing? Disliking something? Finding something unpleasant?

@kupo, I think it’s “This thing doesn’t bother me, therefore anyone who is bothered by it is a cuck/bitch/slur-of-the-day.” Things that do bother them are important, of course, but anything that they’re okay with should be absolutely fine.

The brain models other people by examining its own model, and then modifies that according to stereotypes and individual knowledge. I’d suggest that these people build their stereotypes to make them feel better about themselves instead of building them to create an accurate model of the world. Sort of like object permanence with toddlers, they aren’t able to accurately model brains other than their own.

Skulking edgelords and hovering neocons may correct my analysis if they feel so inclined.

Only thing that got me is that the guy whose Twitter name is “All Women are Wh*res” seems to have a child as his profile pic. Fucking ew. So many fucked up implications.