skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org

@amerika @sim it's not democracy, it's the nature of power

any government is capable of seeking dominance if it has the power to do so, it's almost an organic process

@spiritsplice@pieville.net and massively anti bitcoin

@spiritsplice@pieville.net also blows my mind that Taleb is on the warpath for Snowden and Greenwald, huge influence in my thought and he is just full vaxx, pro ukraine, fuck snowden train rn

@spiritsplice@pieville.net somewhat, there's a significant minority of technical people who it has informed

I doubt the cryptographic scene (inc. bitcoin) would be as developed and motivated as it is without Snowden or someone like him

even if you assume that Snowden was nothing but a traitor in the pay of Russia... what? are Americans then supposed to be happy that the NSA spy on them?

@ademan @Stellar @fuggy godspeed

@sim I've already read the first half but it was years and years ago, so looking forward to going back over it

@sim gah spoilers bro

@laurel @MK2boogaloo @tarperfume @sim @fluffy

After fighting off successive Persian invasions, Hellas stood triumphant and sovereign. Front and centre stood the twin city states of Athens - decimated in the war with Persia but now ascendent in their dominance of the sea and trade - and Sparta - a proto-Communist military elite ruling their Helots with savage zeal.

Yet unease was not far away, as Athens began to convert the Anti-Persian Delian League into a de facto Athenian Empire, much to the chagrin and fear of Sparta.

The Pelopponesian War was the culmination of that unease and the war between Athens and Sparta has become the prototype of the Thucydides trap - the implicit threat of another superpower and the temptation to seize the initiative in a war for dominance.

This is the war that Thucydides sought to describe, a war that he fought in on the side of Athens. Histories had been written before yet Thucydides was the first to write a consciously "scientific" history - one which sought not just to tell an engaging story, but to understand the causes, motivations and consequences of the events.

@11112011 uhuh

@11112011 bro it's Tuesday