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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2018

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    Good thread on something I've long believed (that the Spartans were dumbasses). https://twitter.com/matthewasears/status/987258599654248448 …

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      2. Indrid Chill‏ @SoInfiniteLife 20 Apr 2018
        Replying to @j_wxnn @HeerJeet

        Even better: The Romans showed up, sieged one port city, Spartans surrender on condition of being allowed to leave unharmed, then fully surrender a few months later without a fight. The Spartans taking a look at the Roman army, going "lol nope", and surrendering is way funnier.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Apr 2018

        You have an odd and persistent obsession with my physical appearance. I suggest you talk to a therapist about it.

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      1. GoAskAlice‏ @GoAskAlice67 20 Apr 2018
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        IIRC, even the other Greeks were like, "you guys are weird."

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      1. 𒇷 𒁯𒅗  🇺🇦‏ @Lee__Drake 20 Apr 2018
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        Also, the famous battle of 300 at Thermopylae against the Persians was much less strategically important than Athen’s naval victory (victory!) at Salamis

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      1. Obama freed the gays  🇺🇦‏ @Nitzky89 20 Apr 2018
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        Also Spartans couldn't defeat Athens without Persian funds, and shortly after Peloponnesian War sold out poleis in Asia Minor to King of Kings.. So much for saviours of the West...

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      1. Michael Cuddihy‏ @Wbaz54 20 Apr 2018
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        Don't recall seeing a lot of Spartan traces in Greece or plays or art or pretty much anything

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      1. Indrid Chill‏ @SoInfiniteLife 20 Apr 2018
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        Reason for their isolationism: Spartan slavery was so brutal, even for the age, that they were perpetually on the verge of a slave revolt, so their men needed to be able to rush home quick. Other cities send men could further and for longer, and we're thus more effective.

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      1. jason  🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦‏ @jysf 20 Apr 2018
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        Never should have brought in John engler as interim president

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