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Screenshot from cultured swine on bluesky Peter Hegseth: We need our military to be more like the Spartans! *immediately loses fight with Persia over an important chokepoint*

2026-11-13 03:38:38

Another Angry Woman via Cory Doctorow

stavvers@masto.ai

2026-11-13 04:48:55

Ox1de

Ox1de@cyberplace.social

@stavvers I may be wrong but didn’t they value pedophilia as a right of passage?

2026-11-13 05:02:39

Filip M. Nowak

fmn@mastodon.social

@stavvers also, someone should make him aware, that Spartans got beaten up by Sacred Band of Thebes, openly and explicitly army of gay lovers.

2026-11-13 05:36:23

klegdixal

klegdixal@vivaldi.net

@fmn

Was about to mention the battle of Leuctra.

@stavvers

2026-11-13 05:36:18

Androcat

androcat@toot.cat

@stavvers Classic

2026-11-13 05:50:56

JackMex

JackMexa4@mastodon.social

@stavvers

He focused on the six packs, short haircuts, and very macho aesthetics of the film 300.

2026-11-13 06:39:38

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

@stavvers

Sadly, the next step is to ally with Persia and overthrow democracy in neighbouring countries.

2026-11-13 06:53:08

Chris [list of emoji]

suetanvil@freeradical.zone

@stavvers

Obligatory ACOUP:

https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/

(tl; dr: the Spartans mostly sucked at military stuff beyond basic spear-and-shield combat, where they were slightly better than average due to starving their slaves in times of famine.)