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Specialized arrowheads for carrying incendiary material, Roman Empire, 1st-2nd century AD? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Cavalry was a stupid idea" is a pretty big thing to be wrong about, though. Like talking about physics and asserting gravity is a myth and if you close your eyes and believe, you can free yourself from its tyranny and float. Even if they were correct in 100% of whatever else they said on physics, it's going to be hard to believe them from that point on.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    He also has a video titled "let the children smoke" and I completely agree with the video.

    I haven't relistened to this now, but I'm pretty sure he's not just plain out asserting it's bullshit, just like he's not actually pro-children smoking tobacco.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. The biggest empire of the ancient world was built on basically a 100% horse archer military and they didn't seem to have too much of a problem.

    I feel like it would be different if he was citing some kind of history "look at the composition of all these armies, cavalry's actually a really small part, look at these big battles where the horses were a liability and then they moved away from them after." That's history, whether or not it's right or wrong, it's based in fact. This whole thing sounds like "I ride horses and it's a mess, cavalry doesn't work, the end."

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