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Context for the last line: Instant loss 2-koma is a genre of (usually NSFW) anime art divided into two panels, with a character proudly proclaiming something on the first panel and then being proven incredibly wrong on the second.

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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lots of historians have had their work altered or destroyed, so that doesn't work either.

The common understanding of Sparta is like the Wild West; Sparta operated as a theme park for several centuries while under Roman occupation, and that theme park's marketing was so popular that it displaced the plentiful historical records of them eating shit from the public consciousness.

No matter what historians say, Spartans will continue to exist as a hypermasculine warriors just like knights will continue to exist as chivalrous gentlemen and like cowboys will continue to exist like badass gunslingers. Because in the end,

History is written by the advertisers.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Kind of like saying authors don't write the novels fanfictions are based on imo

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

angry Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way noises