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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldCardio-mogged
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    13 days ago

    Also, the marathon is only a tiny part of the story, and the very end.

    Pheidippides first ran from Athens to Sparta (150mi) to seek help for the battle, then immediately back to Athens, then fought in the battle of Marathon, then ran the 25 miles from Marathon back to Athens to announce the victory.


  • Sealioning is the constant bad faith, feigning ignorance, asking for evidence of everything under the guise of “just asking questions”. Then ignoring any evidence presented and moving on to the next demand. Used to shut down discourse entirely.

    Tankies are leftists that defend or deny the atrocities committed by authoritarian communist regimes like the Soviet Union or the CCP. It was first used to describe communists in Great Britain that defended the Soviet Union for using tanks to crush anti-communist revolutions.