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Sunhawk
01/03/21 5:14:11 AM
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The beginnings of Democracy, the various Greek gods, the execution of Aristotle (I think it was Aristotle), and so on.

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g0ldie
01/03/21 5:19:54 AM
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iirc, Socrates had to drink hemlock

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Sunhawk
01/03/21 5:24:35 AM
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Right, it was Socrates, not Aristotle.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/03/21 5:25:38 AM
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What are your thoughts on the classic philosophers?

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TheMikh
01/03/21 5:29:38 AM
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crazy that the first democracy in history - athens - was basically lobbied into a destructive war with persia

almost 2500 years later and democracies are still falling for the war lobby

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HannibalBarca3
01/04/21 9:44:34 PM
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If I remember correctly Socrates execution was less about corrupting the youth and more about his association with the Thirty Tyrants.

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yusiko
01/04/21 9:48:42 PM
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oh watching xena?
its as good show

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Flockaveli
01/04/21 9:49:42 PM
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey?

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R1masher
01/04/21 9:50:15 PM
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That the one with John travolta and Olivia Newton?

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HannibalBarca3
01/04/21 9:56:01 PM
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ImAMarvel posted...
>tfw as a kid, always thought the Greek city-states were the shining example of early democracy
>turns out they were all a bunch of assholes who hated and warred with each other
>Athens was a misogynistic society who bullied lesser citystates into doing their bidding
>Sparta was a militaristic dictatorship who not only kept an entire ethnicity in slavery but treated them rather brutally
>Sparta didn't even have that good of a military and would win wars frequently by just getting others to fight for them or bribing other political powers
Don't forget Athen's destruction of Melos in which they invaded a neutral state and voted to destroy their community by killing all the adult men, and selling the women and children into slavery while settling 500 Athenian men at Melos. That kind of act of destruction wasn't unusual, there are other attested acts of this and the Spartans did the same to the people of Plataea, but what, at least Thucydides, objected was attacking a neutral state.

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