• NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Of course the URL has to appeal to the wannabe driving his lifted pickup truck, it has the word warrior in it. You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.

      And are either too stupid or too ashamed to recognize all the thinly veiled homoerotic themes

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        18 hours ago

        My dad occasionally bought gay erotica when he was looking for muscle magazines, there’s A LOT of crossover.

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      23 hours ago

      And ironically enough they have more in common with the Persian “soldiers” which are just fodder for their God King.

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        7 hours ago

        Don’t be silly.

        The Persian Empire had basically abolished slavery. Xerxes is noted in particular for being a far kinder conquerer than the Greeks were proven time and again.

        Whatever you can say about the fledgling democracy of the slave state Athens, it would be destroyed by Sparta eventually.

        The wrong side won at Thermopylae.