(the reply tweet here from Jason is the cringe, idc about what he's replying to)

How do you think Christians were responsible for the dark ages lol?

Western Europe was mostly inhabited by savages and barbarians by the time the Roman empire fell obviously it took time for them to catch up to the Roman standard of living.

The other half of Rome, Byzantium was very prosperous achieved a higher standard of living than the old Roman empire ever did till they were eventually crushed by the Ottomans and had their development stunted for another couple hundred yrs.

Work is when you wear a hardhat

He's just an edgy early 2010s youtube atheist at heart.. it makes so much sense now

The idea the dark ages even existed is legitimate eurocentric racism, and people who know me well on this board know I rarely ever say that about anything or ever bring race into discussions. The GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM started almost immediately before the midpoint of what we consider the dark ages. The golden age of islam gave us modern mathematics and physics, astronomy, and early chemistry and scientific method rationale. Plus the golden age of islam resulted in advances in philosophy, arts, engineering, and medicine that were basically unrivaled historically up until the enlightenment. This also ignores Tang Dynasty (golden age of china) which lasted throughout virtually the entire dark age period + advances of the post-Gupta empire in India.

Isn't it understood that when people say "dark ages" they are referring to only Europe? I don't think anyone claims it was a global dark age

the chart itself which that guy is using is trying to frame global science and includes non-european advancements (Egyptian) but after that implies all advancements were uniquely eurocentric before "modern science" (also """scientific advancement""" being some measurable quantity on a y-axis is a joke anyway). It's different to talk about dark ages as a concept as far as living quality or european history, the discussion of "how did the dark ages effect science/philosophy/etc" is complete bullshit because the implication there is that europe was the sole source of advancement in those studies.

Oh I thought u were agreeing with his chart and the tweet that he was replying to was "cringe"

my bad lol

oh yeah i see what you mean. that's just how embeds for replies work here, they embed the tweet being replied to. i edited the post to clarify the cringe was that chart lol

DiscloseTV comment threads are great

is trump pandering hard to the Q crowd now?

yea i forgot some of the anti-vaxxer crowd don’t fw him no more

I don't think so, I think he's just obsessing over dumb GOP talking points like ""election security"" + mandates or whatever. Like yeah the GOP just sweeped democrats universally but clearly every election is rigged.

Should have left this one in the drafts my man

the Sino-soviet split will haunt commies till the end of time

Both tweets are f***ing stupid.

wtf

they deleted the tweet so they definitely knew what they were doing there. want to know who greenlit that to begin with

aimee continuing to delve deeper into unhinged mental illness

lmao

They really want us fighting over nothing...

"am i wrong for being economically rational?"
reads like some literal autistic teenage libertarian

the total comp: 550k is the punchline