Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Maladict]

He's making a strong case for liberal arts education.

Or a proper history/archaeology education. Rome had already been founded by the time the Trojan war is supposed to have happened.

Aren't those liberal arts?

Badly phrased. I meant a more factual approach rather than the myths.

[garbon]

He's making a strong case for liberal arts education.

Or a proper history/archaeology education. Rome had already been founded by the time the Trojan war is supposed to have happened.

Aren't those liberal arts?

Badly phrased. I meant a more factual approach rather than the myths.

Got it.

[Savonarola]

 

How about that, men really do think about the Roman Empire every day; even those who are obviously completely ignorant of the subject.  I wonder what evolutionary function that serves, and why it's a sex-selective gene.

[FunkMonk]

 

He has to be trolling here. It's way too on the nose.

[grumbler]

How about that, men really do think about the Roman Empire every day; even those who are obviously completely ignorant of the subject.  I wonder what evolutionary function that serves, and why it's a sex-selective gene.

I've heard this claim before and wonder where it came from.  It's certainly not true of me nor (that I know of) any man I know.

[Sheilbh]

It was a TikTok trend of women asking their husbands/bfs and being amazed how often they think about the Roman Empire.

[Maladict]

Daily is pushing it, but at least once a week? Definitely.

[Valmy]

I mean I think about the Roman Empire from time to time because I studied Latin in school and know a lot about Roman history and it relates to plenty of stuff in our western culture.

But if I didn't have an interest in that stuff why would I think about it? I mean I also think about Napoleon pretty often.

[The Minsky Moment]

And he still gets it wrong. Even in the myth the exiles were not a group of competent soldiers. Aeneas was one of the few soldiers that escaped, they were just a bunch of refugees. And Aeneas founded Lavinium, not Rome.

It's a telling error. Musk's explanation for the historical achievements of the Roman Empire is that the Romans must descend from a master race of super soldiers.

[Syt]

And he still gets it wrong. Even in the myth the exiles were not a group of competent soldiers. Aeneas was one of the few soldiers that escaped, they were just a bunch of refugees. And Aeneas founded Lavinium, not Rome.

It's a telling error. Musk's explanation for the historical achievements of the Roman Empire is that the Romans must descend from a master race of super soldiers.

... who are most remembered for losing a war.

[Valmy]

And he still gets it wrong. Even in the myth the exiles were not a group of competent soldiers. Aeneas was one of the few soldiers that escaped, they were just a bunch of refugees. And Aeneas founded Lavinium, not Rome.

It's a telling error. Musk's explanation for the historical achievements of the Roman Empire is that the Romans must descend from a master race of super soldiers.

Alba Longa was descended from the Trojans. The only Roman descended from the Trojans was Romulus himself, and he had no children IIRC.

[HVC]

I wonder how long until he invents Adam and Eve.

[Josquius]

Just sayin'. Humans had to start somewhere. There must have once been two of them. And they must have had a lot of kids. Shows this to be the optimum natural behaviour.

[The Minsky Moment]

... who are most remembered for losing a war.

Because of trickery

IT WAS RIGGED

[Sheilbh]

He hasn't even watched Troy (I have a classicist friend who is obsessed with that moment in the movie and maybe the thought they were thinking of doing a Trojan cinematic universe if Troy had been...good...)