using kids as political weapons is fucked up in all cases except one leave your fucking kids alone let them be kids or put them on Venetian ships and let them have a crack at reclaiming Jerusalem from the Saracen no middle groundhttps://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1099076130089459712 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Sending children with no knowledge of realpolitik to plead for things they don’t understand once you’ve injected them with fear is really sad
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @eigenrobot
It's an effective way of teaching them realpolitik because I guarantee it won't be taught in public school.
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Replying to @ballofgame @liminal_warmth
we used to just let fourth graders read caesar in the original
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ballofgame
I can't decide if teaching people about power games is a net-good move or if it will just inject them with my cynicism this is a really salient problem as a manager of managers
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @ballofgame
remember that week where mongermongers were a local meme
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