Changed my profile pic on discord to a depiction of Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub after seeing this
It’s not a larp, they’re actual losers
They larp as even older losers.
👏DON’T👏CALL👏YOURSELF👏A👏CRUSADER👏IF👏YOU’VE👏NEVER👏SACKED👏CONSTANTINOPLE👏
Man, why’d Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
It was an easier target than the holy land. And filled with shitloads of treasure. Source: wrote a trilogy about it.
Link me to your stuff. I’d love to learn about it.
Changing the name of the city conveniently resulted in all further Crusaders getting lost on the way.
They didnt have the money to pay venice for passage to the holy land, so venice offered them a deal where they would help install a venice friendly pretender on byzantine throne and he would pay them for it from byzantine coffers, when they succeded it turned out byzantine coffers were empty, so the crusaders took their payment by sacking the city
I think quite literally they were broke and pissed off before getting to the Holy Land to they were just like “ah fuck it these guys are weird Christians which is kinda like Muslims.”
It was just so easy
I’ve suffered constipation is thst close enough
constantinpation
:beanis-laughing: lmao!
How about sending thousands of children into death and slavery?
This may be reading too much into it, but I think some of it is that fascists love fantastical narratives of grandeur and fighting for doomed causes. Fascists don’t have a realistic end goal, their “utopia” is pure imagination, so if anything victory is undesirable because then their project would be revealed to be a farce. Better to die fighting for some unreachable ideal than to live in a disappointing victory.
Hitler often reminisced about his time in the army during WWI and how nostalgic he was for it. Fascists think life should be one giant struggle where a better future isn’t possible. Only an avalanche of adversity where might makes right.
Communists after WWI: THAT WAS THE WORST FUCKING THING EVER! Let’s try and not do that again.
Fascists after WWI: Let’s do that again!!!
I wonder why they like Warhammer 40k so much
Which is hilarious because he had such an easy time of it in the war. Veterans orgs initially rebuked him because his main job was running messages for his superiors and sucking up to them the whole time he did it. He wasn’t the type of soldier to go up and over. Most veterans didn’t see him as a “real” soldier who actually faced the horrors of war like they did.
Nah crusade larpers just like that white Christians killed brown Muslims.
I think your spot on, not reading too much into it at all. Fascism is a glorification of self annihilation. It is a death cult.
As Walter Benjamin already said:
Mankind’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art
Almost all of the time, fascists win. And that’s part of the appeal.
Just identify with them and you can take some self-congratulation on simply being “history’s winning team”. Why do you think they also live vicariously through billionaires?
Fascism is defined by failure. It is an embitterment towards your own people (however the fascist defines that) as a way of laying blame for failure on someone else. The fascist doesn’t fail, they can only be failed.
Because in both cases they have a very poor understanding of history or rather no understanding at all beyond edits.
“Israel” is a modern crusader state though…where the crusaders were like, well, when we used Christianity to justify conquest in this region, it didn’t really work out. So let’s try Judaism I guess?
Fascists are more of redditors than they ever want to admit.
Well, libs also love using the Taiwanese flag.
Were there any historical guys with badass looking armor than weren’t evil?
armor is expensive so you’d have to fuckin rich to get any, and if you’re fighting for rich people then you’re almost guaranteed to be evil
the only exception i can think of this is 4 australian dudes who stole farmer’s plows to make their own plate mail to fight cops in
Ned Kelly is awesome. I have a quote from his manifesto in my bio. In fact, I frequently reread his manifesto. I proposed that his likeness should be an emoji (it was never added but it would’ve looked like this:
). I saw the 2003 Heath Ledger movie about him earlier this year. I named my conlang’s word for “plow” after him specifically in reference to his armor. I also named my conlang’s word for “to bring to orgasm” after him but that’s only indirectly because the word in question is a plow-based euphemism.
You should watch SPARKLE ON RAVEN: The Life of DrillGirl; it is a very good show. Cēterum cēnseō iūs auctōris esse dēlendum.OOHHHH the drillgirl promotion is like an automatic thing I thought you wanted me and me specifically to watch it, that’s interesting
was the movie worthwhile
NONE SHALL PASS
Holy based
Spartacus was quite literally a gladiator.
not armour, but the budenovka was inspired by bogatyr helmets.
Not that I like mustaches, but man Hitler really ruined that style for all mustache afficonados
Good thing Hilter wasn’t into wearing TV aerials or this photo would be ruined.
Not a man but joan of arc was cool
NateTalksToYou
Woah haven’t heard that name in a while
Is that the alter ego of NateWantsToBattle?
No, he is the evil twin of NateShutsTheFuckUp
Look, I get it, those fictional armors are cool af, and I’d also wear an armor once in a while if I got one. But stop pretending you’re defending the Catholicism by harassing non-Catholics.
Who is using crusader profile pics?
No one here. Usually tradcath larpers
