Being unable to speak the language and therefore ignorant of internal Hungarian political debates might have something to do with this ability.

The obvious move is to go relentlessly negative. "We may not be able to fix anything, but if the Democrats win in '26 it will be even worse/our country will be over" etc. Expect lots of focus on Mamdani, none on Spanberger.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear sandwiches, including those measured in traditional Roman units, shall not be infringed.

Haha, glad to see this one launched into the category of "images that float around the Internet forever."

Thanks!

I'm interested in reading it! Texts from that period of Chinese history are so frustratingly inaccessible to scholars who can't read them in classical Chinese.

Now I'm intrigued about ancient Chinese ramming warships!

Has the combination of AI search and social media sites deboosting links led to a drop in new readers finding your site?

"We demand the right to immigrate into areas the British government has declared off limits, regardless of the feelings of the locals" was a bit long for a motto, but it was definitely in the mix.

E.g. Trump saying he doesn't endorse Project 2025, or that the judges he appointed to the Supreme Court wouldn't overturn Roe.

I think what you're bumping into here is a double shell game that both parties play with their platforms, where they stake out a position that both their supporters and opponents believe to be a lie, the former hopes they are lying and the latter fears it.

We haven't internalized that writing history is a cultural practice. A contingent practice that isn't guaranteed to continue.

If we don't figure out a way to turn this ship around, we're going to end up like those Babylonian scribes, writing the final cuneiform tablets in the 1st century AD.

Of course, most novi homines I can think of came from families which hadvheld Roman citizenship for generations - so the relationship between mass Italian enfranchisement and new men in the Senate isn't clear to me.

I'm surprised no one has done this already. But also seems obvious that the mass enfranchisement of Italians in the early 1st c would lead to more novi homines?

Another good example is in this thread on Publius Ventidius Bassus! (author of the thread is a good person to follow) bsky.app/profile/bret...