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>>7645055
Bump to get this thread going. Sorely in need of some humour.
>>7645068
But thats true
>>7645596
dont get it
>>7645607
'Its the current year' meme.
>>7645607
When the new Canadian PM was elected, some reporter asked him why he cared so much about hiring the same amount of women as men, whites as blacks, etc. and he just said "because it's 2015" with a shit-eating grin.
>>7645607
it's a dank pol me me about how liberals justify things by just saying "it's 2015/6"
like, someone asks trudeau why it's important for canada to take in x refugees and he answers "because it's 2015"
like most things, it has some basis in the truth, but it's been so overused that it's ironically become a slogan that pol people use when they can't justify why they disagree with something
>>7645625
hm some how the previous pics seem cleverer
>>7645557
auto erotic choking?
>/lit/'s 'humour'
>>7645361
this is an amazing post
Can't believe nobody posted this one yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA
>>7645753
Gets me everytime.
>>7645753
my sides
Slavoj Zizek on Bernie Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbEgg_pEG0
>>7645033
>>7645753
My stomach and throat hurts from the laughter. Thank you
>>7645574
keked heartily
>>7645033
>>7645103
im sure im not the only one that actually did/does this
there's this ultra rare heidegger greentext where his whole philosophy is explained (not the one where he goes hiking with his grandpa). its just an extended monologue that reads something like "but what be 'be'? it not be what 'b'" not because then you daid etc"
does anyone have it
>>7645114
did peasants even fight in the war? i though war was an aristocratic thing
>>7646102
the only one i made fun of was the schop one
i dont have memes, new computer
>>7646109
>I don't have memes
look at this faggot
>>7646116
>>7646025
bretty gud :DD
>>7646036
I wonder which of the three or four ways the dude on the train meant that.
>>7646025
>>7645109
>this is genuine
>>7645361
Fuck I remember that one.
>>7645557
kek
>>7645589
i wish i could get this
>>7645605
kekked, i still liked lucas's version more desu senpai
>>7646239
I could have made this better, I did it pretty quickly. Someone else should try a better one.
>>7646218
After the Punic Wars, the Romans started edging into the Eastern Mediterranean which was still dominated by Philhellenic (Greek-y) Macedonian successor states to Alexander's conquests, along with a few minor independents or semi-independents like Rhodes and the Greek city state leagues. Rome entered via pretexts like calls for help from Rhodes and Pergamum, smaller states trying to play major states off against each other. They came up against the Big Boys of the East, most notably the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Antigonids, all major sophisticated dynastic empires established by the generals of Alexander who carved them out in the free-for-all after Alex's death. Most of these states didn't think much of Rome if they thought of Rome at all, but she had just become a surprise superpower in Italy during the wars of the previous century (most notably the Pyrrhic War and the Punic Wars) and was poised to rape the fuck out of everyone. What followed was the first real encounter of the old "Macedonian mercenary'n'phalanx army" paradigm with the new Roman legionary paradigm, the former battered and tattered, and the latter full of piss and vinegar in its ascendant.
The big battles you really need to know are Cynoscephalae and Magnesium. At Cynoscephalae Rome pushed the Antigonids' shit in, in sort of their first real slugging match against an Eastern superpower. Antiochus thought it must be a fluke by some upstart, and thought it'd be a good time to horn in on their old rivals the Antigonids, now weakened, and the Greek leagues, now vulnerable and kind of pissed at Rome because Greeks are never happy. He tried to capitalise on this, and Rome basically pushed his gigantic MEGA PERSIAN EMPIRE SUCCESSOR shit in, in a very famous battle that even moreso than Cynoscephalae demonstrates the swan song of the Macedonian way of war and the time of Roman hegemony.
The Seleucid state had been waning and splintering for a long time already but still had a lot of the pretense of being this imperial superpower. The juxtaposition, and the idea of contemporaries reacting the way we do, is kind of funny. They got buttraped and were basically reduced to a footnote. That's all.
>>7646327
Sounds quite amusing. Were could I read about it? -- In detail.
>>7646036
>implying a pleb any way you cut it
>>7646170
What do you mean ?
>>7646341
Livy books 30-40 I think.
>>7645574
I could see Zizek doing this, fucking faggot.
>>7646384
Thanks mate.
>>7646376
1 "All I know is I know nothing" so he reads Plato
2 Reading plato is for plebs
Not sure what other ways
>>7646389
No worries, I think Polybius too but I'm honestly not sure how much of the accounts of the Macedonian wars are fragmentary in him?
>>7645753
fucking kekked so hard
what the fuck
>>7645574
>>7645753
fucking kek
>>7646393
3 You're not an intellectual yet, keep reading plato.
>>7645731
That's stupid, is it meant to be stupid?
>>7646257
This was stupid, but it has potential.
>>7646245
Fukin LOL'D
>>7646376
Ooooh. When you nod your head yes, but you wanna say no!
>>7645574
this is my favorite /lit/post
>>7645114
Kek
>>7645543
scientism plz go
Anybody have the green text where the guy tells a girl that DFW has no discernable talent, grabs her copy of Infinite Jest and hurls it across the room, tells her to read Hemmingway instead and corrects her when she pronounces it with only one 'm?'
>>7645582
This starts off honestly really hilarious
None of these are very funny.
>>7646407
Great description, except I would argue that the Greeks, if not those in Asia Minor, were palpably aware that Rome was about to fuck them up.
>He advised him to postpone until times were less critical his arguments and wars with the Greeks, and to focus on the west, or else lose the ability to make peace or war with them as he wished. ‘For,’ he said, ‘if you ever allow the clouds now gathering in the west to loom over Greece, I deeply fear that all the games we now play with each other, our truces and our wars, will be so thoroughly denied us that we shall find ourselves imploring the gods to grant us this right, to make war and peace with one another as we wish, and in general to manage our own internal disputes.’
Everyone was pretty much just waiting on the outcome of the second punic war.
>Even people who even now paid little attention to world affairs could not be blind to the fact that whether the Carthaginians or the Romans won the war, it was inconceivable that the victors would rest content with rulership of Italy and Sicily. No, he said, they would come, with excessive intentions and forces to match.
Both passages are from Polybius. He's worth checking out as a supplement to Livy, and is actually very helpful in contextualizing the otherwise confusing wars in Livy, but I definitely wouldn't start with P. Also his works on the later wars are only available in brief and incomplete selections from Penguin, or expensive volumes from Loeb. Livy is much more accessible, with full translations offered by both Penguin and Oxford.
