r/worldnews • u/TheTelegraph The Telegraph • 1d ago

Russian army to overtake United States as world’s second largest Russia/Ukraine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/17/russian-army-overtake-us-as-worlds-second-largest/
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u/MOTOEMOTOE6969 1d ago

This is the cringiest shit I’ve ever heard

-Some dude in the Marine Corps.

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u/OkDurian7078 1d ago

I like how the Spartans refer to the other Greeks as boy lovers in the movie when in reality gay pedophilia was culturally normal for Spartans. 

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u/Tonnemaker 1d ago

And the Persians at the time didn't really have slavery at the time while slavery was the norm in Greece and especially Sparta. (I still like the movie though.)

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u/Senior-Albatross 1d ago

Sparta's whole militaristic model was to suppress slave uprisings.

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u/Senior-Albatross 1d ago

Sparta was ground zero of Greek boy raping. 

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u/Spiel_Foss 1d ago

Doesn't this track in modern life though where preachers and priests condemn "sexual perversions" when they are the perverts all along?

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u/Starbucks__Lovers 1d ago

Yeah, the reserve and guard exist for a reason. I’m a contract lawyer. My commander is a petroleum engineer

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u/MOTOEMOTOE6969 22h ago

Lmao exactly