Associate Professor, University at Albany SUNY
Greek and Roman History
PhD UC Berkeley
Spartans: You'll never beat us Spartan wArRioRS. There are dozens of us! Dozens of us!
Aristotle: True. There are fewer than 1000 Spartans total (Pol. 1270a).
Theban Sacred Band (staring into each others' eyes tenderly) GET SOME GET SOME.
Aristotle: Update, fewer than 600 Spartans total.
The Coalition: We're going all in boys. Hoplites block the warm gates. The Athenian fleet in the straights....wait, where are the Spartans?
Spartans: Whoopsie, Carneia...
The Coalition: Are you fucking kidding me? Again!?
Spartans: Its cool, slight loophole, we brought 300 guys.
Athens: HELP! The Persians just landed at Marathon. We need reinforcements!
Sparta: Sorry, can't. Religious taboo.
Athens: You have a taboo against warfare in late summer? At the height of the war season?
Sparta: Respect the Carneia.
Athens: FUCK IT *runs a mile* GET SOME GET SOME
Ionians: Hey Sparta, we hear you guys are wArRiOrs. Wanna help us with a war?
Sparta: Maybe. Is is close by? Like three day march?
Ionians: Across the sea. Here's a map.
Sparta: WHOA! Sorry, we're not really into *expeditionary warfare.*
Athens: FUCK YEAH. GET SOME GET SOME.
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As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
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They kidnapped Liam Ramos.
They just executed a man on the street.
Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.
Joining ICE does not give you license to murder.
The President is escalating the situation—and I have no faith he will stop. The Republican Congress must join us to end this. Enough.
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They had the man down on the ground, with half a dozen agents holding him down, beating him, when they shot him, multiple times. They were *holding him down and beating him.*
All the charges. Everyone of those agents should be in prison.
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If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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It strikes a lot of folks as unbelievable, but the evidence really does suggest that, apart from physical fitness (and even then) hoplites don't seem to have trained much at all!
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Trump's Letter To Norway Should Be The Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress Ever Step In?
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Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“