Tried that back in 2012, too many health problems for them to accept.

Truly a golden age. God I wish that was me

Always happy to share! 🙏

US democracy drew heavy inspiration from British democracy. The main differences were that there wasn’t a (largely depowered) monarch at the head, and that Americans actually got to participate in it.

It’s important to remember that what caused the American Revolution wasn’t the sudden urge for a new form of government - American colonies had been electing their own governments for over 100 years at that point. What caused the American Revolution was the sudden attempt by Britain to impose taxes on Americans without letting them participate in elections for the British parliament, which they were nominally legally entitled to do, as British subjects.

Context From Original OP:

At the height of Martial Law in the Philippines, thousands of academics, scholars, and students were detained. One of these academics were historians William Henry Scott and Zeus Salazar, and they were arrested in 1972.

Scotty, as he is known, was arrested due to having a copy of Mao’s writings in his bookshelf and was cited as one of the “evidences” for his alleged communist sympathies despite the fact that he’s only using it to teach Asian History, while Salazar was arrested due to his involvement in the First Quarter Storm and Diliman Commune years prior. Both Scotty and Salazar share the same prison cell in Fort Bonifacio near what is now Bonifacio Global City and they often have tense arguments and disagreements about history and anthropology.

It got to a point that jail guards got curious about their discussions that they ask for history lessons, which Salazar obliged and gave lectures on Filipino History, listening to their takes on the subject. Scotty later recalls that his time in jail was “one of the best days of his life” as he was surrounded by detained academics and had all the time in the world to have endless intellectual discussions away from university admin work.

Their detention was even recorded by renowned Filipino author Jose “Butch” Dalisay in his novel “Killing Time in a Warm Place” who also shared the same cell with Scotty and Salazar.

Context From Original OP:

At the height of Martial Law in the Philippines, thousands of academics, scholars, and students were detained. One of these academics were historians William Henry Scott and Zeus Salazar, and they were arrested in 1972.

Scotty, as he is known, was arrested due to having a copy of Mao’s writings in his bookshelf and was cited as one of the “evidences” for his alleged communist sympathies despite the fact that he’s only using it to teach Asian History, while Salazar was arrested due to his involvement in the First Quarter Storm and Diliman Commune years prior. Both Scotty and Salazar share the same prison cell in Fort Bonifacio near what is now Bonifacio Global City and they often have tense arguments and disagreements about history and anthropology.

It got to a point that jail guards got curious about their discussions that they ask for history lessons, which Salazar obliged and gave lectures on Filipino History, listening to their takes on the subject. Scotty later recalls that his time in jail was “one of the best days of his life” as he was surrounded by detained academics and had all the time in the world to have endless intellectual discussions away from university admin work.

Their detention was even recorded by renowned Filipino author Jose “Butch” Dalisay in his novel “Killing Time in a Warm Place” who also shared the same cell with Scotty and Salazar.

Context From Original OP:

At the height of Martial Law in the Philippines, thousands of academics, scholars, and students were detained. One of these academics were historians William Henry Scott and Zeus Salazar, and they were arrested in 1972.

Scotty, as he is known, was arrested due to having a copy of Mao’s writings in his bookshelf and was cited as one of the “evidences” for his alleged communist sympathies despite the fact that he’s only using it to teach Asian History, while Salazar was arrested due to his involvement in the First Quarter Storm and Diliman Commune years prior. Both Scotty and Salazar share the same prison cell in Fort Bonifacio near what is now Bonifacio Global City and they often have tense arguments and disagreements about history and anthropology.

It got to a point that jail guards got curious about their discussions that they ask for history lessons, which Salazar obliged and gave lectures on Filipino History, listening to their takes on the subject. Scotty later recalls that his time in jail was “one of the best days of his life” as he was surrounded by detained academics and had all the time in the world to have endless intellectual discussions away from university admin work.

Their detention was even recorded by renowned Filipino author Jose “Butch” Dalisay in his novel “Killing Time in a Warm Place” who also shared the same cell with Scotty and Salazar.

Context From Original OP:

At the height of Martial Law in the Philippines, thousands of academics, scholars, and students were detained. One of these academics were historians William Henry Scott and Zeus Salazar, and they were arrested in 1972.

Scotty, as he is known, was arrested due to having a copy of Mao’s writings in his bookshelf and was cited as one of the “evidences” for his alleged communist sympathies despite the fact that he’s only using it to teach Asian History, while Salazar was arrested due to his involvement in the First Quarter Storm and Diliman Commune years prior. Both Scotty and Salazar share the same prison cell in Fort Bonifacio near what is now Bonifacio Global City and they often have tense arguments and disagreements about history and anthropology.

It got to a point that jail guards got curious about their discussions that they ask for history lessons, which Salazar obliged and gave lectures on Filipino History, listening to their takes on the subject. Scotty later recalls that his time in jail was “one of the best days of his life” as he was surrounded by detained academics and had all the time in the world to have endless intellectual discussions away from university admin work.

Their detention was even recorded by renowned Filipino author Jose “Butch” Dalisay in his novel “Killing Time in a Warm Place” who also shared the same cell with Scotty and Salazar.

They were trying to get them to kill each other. Normally this would be a foolproof plan, but giving historians an audience to pontificate to is an even higher priority than quibbling over details with other historians!

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Not sure if there’s any archeology addressing Diocletian’s particular sprouts, but I can at least quote Pliny the Elder (a source predating Diocletian, but giving good overview on a large variety of Roman topics)!

Growing cabbages is also one of the ways of supplying table luxuries, so it will not be out of place to pursue the subject at greater length. A way to produce a kale of outstanding flavour and size is if first of all you sow it in ground that has been dug, and next keep pace with the shoots breaking through the soil by earthing them up and when they begin to rise to a luxuriant height make another pile of earth against them by raising the bank so that not more than their head emerges. The kind so grown is called Tritian cabbage, and it may be estimated that it takes twice the usual outlay and trouble.

There are quite a number of other varieties: Cumae cabbage, with its leaf close to the ground and a spreading head; La Riccia cabbage, no taller in height, with a leaf more plentiful than tenderthis kind is considered extremely useful because underneath almost all the leaves it throws out small sprouts of a peculiar kind; the Pompeii cabbage is taller, and has a thin stalk near the root but grows thicker between the leaves, these being scantier and narrower, but their tenderness is a valuable quality. This cabbage cannot stand cold, which actually promotes the growth of Bruttian cabbages with their extremely large leaves, thin stalk and sharp taste. The Sabellian cabbage has leaves that are quite remarkably crisp and so thick as to exhaust the stalk itself, but these are said to be the sweetest of all the cabbages.

There have recently come into notice the Lacuturna cabbages from the valley of La Iticcia, which have a very large head and leaves too many to count; some of these cabbages are bunched together into a circular shape and others bulge out broadwise; and no other cabbages make more head, not counting the Tritian kind, which is sometimes seen with a head measuring a foot across, and which sprouts as early as any other sort. But with any kind of cabbages hoarfrosts contribute a great deal to their sweetness, although a frost after the cabbages have been cut does the plants a great deal of damage, unless the pith is safeguarded by using a slanting cut.

Cabbages intended for seed are not cut. A peculiarly attractive kind is one that never exceeds the size of a young plant; they call these halmyridia, because they only grow on the seacoast. They say that these keep green even on a long voyage if as soon as they are cut they are prevented from touching the earth by being put into oil-jars that have been dried just before and are bunged up so as to shut out all air. Some people think that the plant will mature more quickly if in the process of transplanting some seaweed is placed under the foot-stalk, or else a pinch of pounded soda, as much as can be picked up with three fingers; and some have a plan of sprinkling the leaves with soda ground up with trefoil seed.

Soda added in cooking also preserves the greenness of cabbages, as does also Apicius’s a recipe for steeping them in oil and salt before they are boiled. There is a method of grafting vegetables by cutting short the shoots and inserting into the pith of the stalk seed obtained from other plants; this has even been done in the case of wild cucumber. There is also a kind of wild cabbage which has been made famous particularly by the songs and jests of the troops at the triumph of the late lamented Julius, as in capping verses they taunted him with having at the siege of Durazzo made them live on white charlockthis was a hit at the stinginess with which he rewarded their services. This is a wild cabbage sprout.

WHAT

No deeper joke, just a meme-maker with strong opinions on medieval helmets - AS WE ALL SHOULD HAVE

(great helm 4eva)

Explanation: General George McClellan, pictured, was a Union general of the US Civil War. Other than his famously tense relationship with Abraham Lincoln, he is remembered primarily for his ridiculous level of caution in military operations - something which, counterproductively, resulted in a great many more Union deaths than an aggressive approach would have yielded. Several opportunities to shorten or outright end the war were lost because of McClellan’s tendency to overestimate the enemy by a grotesque margin.

Nevertheless, he was a good military administrator and organizer, and he did make the Union Army under his command into a formidable fighting force.

He just didn’t fucking use it.

Explanation: General George McClellan, pictured, was a Union general of the US Civil War. Other than his famously tense relationship with Abraham Lincoln, he is remembered primarily for his ridiculous level of caution in military operations - something which, counterproductively, resulted in a great many more Union deaths than an aggressive approach would have yielded. Several opportunities to shorten or outright end the war were lost because of McClellan’s tendency to overestimate the enemy by a grotesque margin.

Nevertheless, he was a good military administrator and organizer, and he did make the Union Army under his command into a formidable fighting force.

He just didn’t fucking use it.

Explanation: Emperor Diocletian of the Late Roman Empire is a contentious figure. Many, like myself, deride his ‘reforms’ as autocratic, oppressive, ruinous, and against the traditions of Rome. Others claim that his reforms were necessary and extended the life of the ailing Roman Empire.

He, uniquely for a Roman Emperor, did not die in office, but instead retired peacefully, of his own volition no less, to go farm cabbages.

If only he would have found his calling a little sooner in life.

Explanation: Emperor Diocletian of the Late Roman Empire is a contentious figure. Many, like myself, deride his ‘reforms’ as autocratic, oppressive, ruinous, and against the traditions of Rome. Others claim that his reforms were necessary and extended the life of the ailing Roman Empire.

He, uniquely for a Roman Emperor, did not die in office, but instead retired peacefully, of his own volition no less, to go farm cabbages.

If only he would have found his calling a little sooner in life.

Explanation: The Byzantine Empire, based in Greece and Anatolia (modern Turkiye), had a… contentious relationship with Western Europeans.

The Varangian Guard, recruited from Germanic peoples (largely Norse, Germans, and Anglo-Saxons) was a bodyguard unit of the Byzantine Empire renowned for its loyalty and bravery, despite the fact that they were foreigners.

Crusaders, on the other hand, had a long history of… interfering with Byzantine business, even as they claimed to crusade to ‘help’ the ailing Byzantine Empire. Notably, in the 4th Crusade, the Crusade sacked Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and temporarily dissolved the Empire entirely!

still would

Yes, but in this case, considering China’s large private sector reliant on the exchange of stocks as a means of providing an investor class with ownership of, and return on, the profits of the proletariat, China’s gonna fit into a capitalist definition.