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[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 months ago

Alexander: "Will I ever be as chill as Diogenes?"

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 months ago

Diogenes: "No, you're blocking my sun"

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 26 points 2 months ago

Then there's Genghis Khan, who's probably the only one to max "Fuck Around" and never ending up "Finding Out".

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago
[-] lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's the best strat of all.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

If by friend you mean rape-baby

[-] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 15 points 2 months ago
[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

I heard she's a real wrecking ball.

[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[-] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Nah. Alex was like “will I ever be as good as Porus?”

And then he was.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

Why the fuck is Churchill there

I demand the artist answer for their crimes against bloody military conqueror tier lists

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not really relevant, but: it's kind of weird that the three main generals of the Battle of Waterloo (Napoleon, Wellington, and Blücher) all had a type of shoe/boot named after them. But only Napoleon and Wellington had a pastry named after them.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Blücher had a Frau named after him

[-] CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago
[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He sure had a talent for warfare. He wasn't necessarily as much of a strategic genius as Napoleon (AFAIK Alexander's father or one of his underlings invented and implementend the system of warfare that Alexander was using, and the system itself was mostly fairly straightforward), but how many rulers were part of the vanguard of their forces with this much success?

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

He was pretty great.

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

No credit to Aristotle?!

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