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Leave it to double Ivy Leaguer and most entitled man-child in a very competitive DC market, Pete Hegseth, to come up with a metaphor for the American military that involves a massive defeat to the Persians.
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@LaChasseuse
Maybe someone should point out to him that Sparta is long gone, for extremely good reasons. Time to upgrade.@adritheonly @LaChasseuse Gone? It's right there:
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Did Pete Hegseth skip school the day they taught about Spartan warriors: the forced male-bonding and sodomy, cruel hazing, brutal punishment, and sociopathy? Did he learn it from one film? Or is this exactly what he wants in "his" military?
Children started their training at age 7, continued it until 20, and remained in the army until age 60 -- or their much earlier death. Hierarchy and abject obedience to command were paramount.
https://ancientwarhistory.com/spartan-warriors-brutal-society-ancient-sparta/
@huntingdon
He only saw the movie most likely.
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@LaChasseuse They got an even worse hiding from the Thebans at Leuctra in 371.
With Thermopylae, the Spartans and their allies were badly outnumbered.
At Leuctra, the Thebans built their tactics around the Spartans being unimaginative ‘no retreat!’ meatheads, invented the echelon formation and beat the Spartans so hard that the myth of their invincibility was shattered forever.
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@LaChasseuse He wants the whole military to be supergay gym bros?
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@LaChasseuse He wants the whole military to be supergay gym bros?
@gooba42 That could be fun
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Did Pete Hegseth skip school the day they taught about Spartan warriors: the forced male-bonding and sodomy, cruel hazing, brutal punishment, and sociopathy? Did he learn it from one film? Or is this exactly what he wants in "his" military?
Children started their training at age 7, continued it until 20, and remained in the army until age 60 -- or their much earlier death. Hierarchy and abject obedience to command were paramount.
https://ancientwarhistory.com/spartan-warriors-brutal-society-ancient-sparta/
@huntingdon @LaChasseuse
Pete Hegseth may not know those details, but he's a fascist, so he would probably be fine with the vicious, depraved side of the Spartan military if he knew about it. I'm sure that would include the part where it was only possible because the Spartan economy was built on the backs of an enslaved population far larger than their citizenry. -
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@LaChasseuse Also didn’t Sparta have military-sanctioned twinks for the manly men to definitely not do gay stuff with?
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@LaChasseuse Also didn’t Sparta have military-sanctioned twinks for the manly men to definitely not do gay stuff with?
@josh Well, I just learned a new word, thanks.
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Isn't it laconic, don't'ch think?
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