Are we getting Guelphs and Ghibellines? Definitely not on my bingo card for 2026.

I’m pretty sure the guy in the photo is Netanyahu, not Sanders. /s

Maybe the Moloch of Despotism?

That sounds like misinformation.

Quite a Protestant think to say, for a supposed Catholic.

Random guy on the internet claiming to debunk the WHO, various national health authorities, and every dentist I’ve ever talked to ever. Ok buddy.

Just to cover all the bases here: what’s your take on the mRNA COVID vaccines?

But it does have an effect on dental health! A positive one!

Historically speaking that’s a cartoonish thing to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII_and_the_Holocaust

Apply the same standard to the enslavers that you guys call “founding fathers” any time a US politician makes some lofty speech.

Just like we need to talk on about non-market housing for the housing crisis, maybe we need to start talking about non-market employment (worker owned cooperatives).

Having read Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger, I think for the proto/pre-fascist antivax crowd that’s… acceptable, even desirable, because it means cleaning up the race from weak immune systems.

The lack of professionalism here is astounding. If you, Mr Popo think that that member of the public is doing something arrestable, you don’t get into a debate about “yaw kidz” and escalate a peaceful situation to a clusterfuck. Make the arrest in a professional way, and be done with it.

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The Reconquista in Spain, yes. In the Levant/Outremer? That’s just not what happened.

PS. I know that in the US, (CW: Hegseth) the christian nationalists are using crusading iconography to promote their deranged fascist apocalypticism. They are instrumentalizing the past the way fascists always do. Knowing and insisting on the actual history is a kind of negation of that instrumentalization. Don’t be tempted to just mirror a reverted image of their anti-intellectualism back to them.

Yes, obviously there is no total order. There is a partial order though.

That’s why I prefaced my whole comment with «Side thing,…». I’m doing an «um ackchyually» about the history of the Crusades, nothing more.

Side thing, but I don’t see the Crusades as at the same level of the Holocaust or the Holodomor. They were religious wars of conquest not campaigns of extermination. They were brutal, sure, but if you add them, then you have to start piling a bunch of other wars in there too, like the Mongol conquests, the Timurid conquests, the Arab conquests, the Ottoman conquests, the Aztec conquests etc. Which kind of dilutes the point of “grave crimes”.

There is nothing particularly unique about the Crusades, and at the time, the Roman Empire that invited them and tried to sanction them actually had a legitimate claim of them being reconquests of Roman territory (even though they ended up killing it off anyway in 1204).

This sounds like 1998.

The Reformation was a mistake, people.

Withdraw to your 1967 borders. Then we talk.

We need more tech unions and tech coops.