America’s first war as a new nation was against the Barbary Pirates because of those scoundrels kept preying upon civilian shipping and were engaging in an extremely large white slavery operation targeting European women and children in particular
Fortunately, Thomas Jefferson was willing to bomb them into submission
The Muslim invaders raped so many European women and killed so many European men as they blitzed across the Mediterranean world that the population went from looking like Romans to looking like Arabs
And even if they didn't tax churches, they abducted Christian boys and raped them, or turned them into janissaries, as shown by the twin tales of Skanderbeg and his brother
This is why Martel and the Franks were heroic for stopping them at Tours, the Hospitallers were heroic for stopping them at Malta, and the Poles were heroic for saving Vienna
Muslim invasion brought with it the same problems as Muslim migration, which is the horrific rape, abuse, and murder of Christians
Interestingly, all four key monarchs involved in WW1 opposed entry; All four were too weak and/or lacked sufficient conviction to stop the war.
It was the democratic forces that led to Europe to collapse and the end of the old-world civilization.
Yea, Tucker, Christians were treated realllllllly good by the Ottomans.
It's getting ridiculous out there.
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2–5 million Christians enslaved or forcibly taken by the Ottomans
Devshirme (Blood Tax / Janissaries): ~500,000 total
Black Sea Slave Trade (Crimean Tatars): 1–2 million Eastern European Christians (mainly Slavs) 1500–1700.
Barbary Regencies (Ottoman vassal states): 1–1.25 million
Ottoman War Captives & Raids: Hundreds of thousands more (e.g. 57,000+ in one 1683 campaign).
@MysteryGrove Comedians getting into politics was such a crazy death blow for serious political discussion. People seem to misconstrue funny with smart and basically say “This guy made me laugh once, so I’m gonna listen to him now.”
This goes for a LOT of comedians, especially on the Right.
I could stare at this for hours but I'd still shoot her in the head if George Washington told me to. That's chivalry. That's what it means to be a Knight.
A lot of men are like this because they were ugly as kids and grew up as social outcasts. Even after self improvement they’re too socially maladjusted to talk to girls because of their school days. This doesn’t mean the man is abusive. Abusive men get girlfriends rather easily.
Early American frontier settlers experienced Viking-esque brutality that had been absent from normal life for centuries in the British towns their forbearers left.
Men became brutal in kind, or died hideously while their wife & daughters likely faced a different horrific fate,
Women are never talking about incels when they talk about incels. They're mostly just talking about dudes they don't like or have negative interactions with and using incel as a catch all pejorative for them. Their semantic imprecision about stuff like this is why men struggle to understand them. Women don't use language the way men do. You have to literally constantly read between the lines. They even post complaining that men constantly fail to read between the lines, and balk at the notion of communicating anything directly. Yet we pretend we can have a "discourse" under these conditions.
i captured this fat piece of shit from the americans hoping it would be this indestructible dreadnought only to realize that it guzzles like 5 liters of gas per SECOND and it ran out of fuel halfway to the battlefield