• Mandarbmax@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Who else throughout history should be given time travel machine guns? I think Lin Zexu should have been armed to win the opium war he kicked off when he Boston tea partied the English drug shipment

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        21 days ago

        Pretty unusual to see a war on drugs actually target the drug imports and not just criminalize the addicts . No surprise that Lin Zexu is a hero to the Fujonese people. I want to write a fan fic of him hooking up with the stars of heated rivalry so he can be a hero of the Fujoshi people as well.

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      21 days ago

      Hannibal, the Carthaginian general. Give him like 100 AK-47s and 2 tons of ammo, plus 1 IKEA style manual on how to maintain the gun.

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        A world where Rome lost the punic wars would be so different it is hard to think about. I’m not sure if it would be better or worse. Iirc Carthage was less democratic but also less militaristic and more pluralistic. It could go either way imho.