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Instead they’re renaming lakes instead of focusing on the trade war that’s going to hurt people on both sides of the border.
As somebody originally from a border city in the US, it just pisses me off to no end.
They do this so often it’s amazing. They like villains but forget that villains most often lose
It’s just that American Christian Republicans only know their bible 6th hand thru memes. Like this dumbass who is talking to who he thinks are people that know it 12th hand because his ego is over-inflatedx
The villains lose because history is written by victors. Pretty sure Amalek would describe their genocide different from the biblical version
Weren’t they the ones who have their babies dashed against the rocks? The Bible is fucked up.
I think that was a revenge fantasy for Babylonians. So it didn’t happen, not even according to the biblical narrative, which doesn’t really make it better.
About Amalek, the Bible says among other things: “You shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!”
Adding to the obvious irony, there is no mention of them outside the Bible. So assuming they were a historical people, the only book that preserve their name is the one that tells us to wipe it from memory.
Fun fact: almost everybody are dead wrong about David vs Goliath.
David was a seasoned soldier armed with the bronze age equivalent of a 9mm pistol, while Goliath was a huge dude with a club.
The only way Goliath could have had any chance would be if David started the fight in the Goldilocks zone of “within melee range but not so close that the relative size of Goliath and his weapon becomes a disadvantage”
To the extent he is an historical figure, it wasn’t even David who killed him, as I understand it. Rather it was an appropriation of a the valor of one of David’s own soldiers by David’s biographer/Propagandist/Deuteronomist since seemingly their own sources say that Elhanan killed him:
IN ANOTHER BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AT GOB, ELHANAN SON OF JAIR THE BETHLEHEMITE KILLED GOLIATH THE GITTITE, WHO HAD A SPEAR WITH A SHAFT LIKE A WEAVER’S ROD
2 Samuel 21:19
It seems unlikely that any scribe in a Davidic regime would get away with the reverse; attributing one of King David’s most heralded victories to a lowly son of Jair.
I always imagine goliath just being a huge dude. But not like hafthor, but more like a disabled guy that has gigantism and everything hurts. But hey, tall guy
I hadn’t realised that a sling was so lethal.
That’s what makes the story so sensational - kid with a stick takes on a navy seal.
Yeah, it was a proper military weapon.
In reality* it was more like “navy seal takes on badly armed primitive dude who happens to be large” 🤷🏻
*insofar as you can regard anything from a religious text as “reality”
so like fezzik vs the man in black
As you wish.
Sling stones (although you’d normally use specially cast lead shot) would absolutely break bones. A hit to the head could definitely be lethal.
Obligatory Lindybeige - introduction to ancient slings, and comparison to archery.
Does he even know Goliath was the bad guy?
Was he even? He was just a big dude who was part of an army that was opposing the (genocidal af) Israelites.
I guess maybe in that, according to the story, he was cocky and challenged them to bring him their best fighters for single combat or whatever, but I dunno. I’d say rampant genocidal army, and a future king who would obsess over foreskins and send his mistress’ husband to the front line to die, might be the bad guys there.
Probably worse than just thinking you’re a better fighter than you actually are.
No like, actually to any American who feels that way, shut up, quit voting, and let those of us with brains and hearts run the country. Canada has done nothing to hurt or offend us unril we started it. They were in fact the best neighbor and ally a country could ask for. Far better neighbors than we were and especially than dipshits like this are
And here we have an example of the American education system on full display.
It sounds like Canada needs to burn down the White House again.
Not really. Trump is much of the way there on his own.
Think of the smell, though… fire may be the only feasible option
That’s how god damn fucking stupid these mother fuckers are. They don’t understand a single fucking thing beyond the most absolute surface level of everything they fucking see and hear. They repeat shit they heard from people they think are smarter than them and they think they’re being clever for it.
Fuck dude pisses me right the fuck off, im so fucking over this epidemic of idiocracy. Felt good to vent on a Friday morning tho. Didnt want to hold onto it all day.
Canada will find the one card that brings down the whole house.
There’s a reason we call it the Geveva Suggestions
Yeah it’ll be the same card that always brings down the trump administration.
Tuesdays?
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A giant, blustering and bragging in his hubris, only to get his ass handed to him by a rock wielding shepherd. In a match he should easily have won.
Not a situation the US would be familiar with at all. /s
Goliath down, you looketh tired.
It’s even funnier that scripture wise Goliath was like 6’6" to 6’9" most professional basketball players are as tall as or taller than he was said to have been. I’m taller than Goliath for what that is worth.
Yeah, but that was a long time ago, average height was 3ft max
Nah nah, average height was, like, half a foot. I learned it in history class.
Oh you right, three feet was max height, my bad.
Motherfuckers out here doing anything to not measure in cubits
Jack Miladin is a terrorist collaborator.
Who negotiated the USMCA again? Who couldn’t even beat an Iran that has been heavily sanctioned for decades again?
