Jonny B

🇲🇽 🇮🇪 Ancient Historian CU-Boulder and Loyola alumnus M.A student at FSU

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

Arte Moreno drove a franchise into the toilet and got a record price (and 22 times what he paid for it). Good for him. But that is very different than players, who have to perform to get paid.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

Cleopatra rejuvenated the kingdom and made it a power once again through her effective ruling and ability to use Caesar and then Antony. The kingdom was eventually going to be swallowed up by Rome; her betting on Antony was the smart move. Obviously, hindsight is 20-20

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

The Ptolemaic kingdom had been in serious decline since 203 BCE and was basically a Roman protectorate. The only reason they had independence was that it was easier for Rome to leave the administration in charge than to carry the burden themselves.

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

>“brilliant stateswoman”
>loses her life and Egyptian independence for all time on an all-in bet on a foreign state’s civil war

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, and Albert Pujols are such disrespectful answers, which makes me question your knowledge.

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Fans of all 30 MLB teams name the most overrated player of all time

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

“English is a bastard language” is a crazy take here, only because she comes across as not actually knowledgeable about the development of the language. If you talk about English as a bastard language and don't bring up the French influence, then you don't stand on solid ground.

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

"English is a fake bastard language because it has words and influences from other languages" is an insane position

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

“Nonsensical violence”, and it is literally resistance to the apartheid regime, which you and your family were benefiting from. Just a garbage person, but I've never met a good Afrikaner.

[Ruzy @0xRuzy]

Charlize Theron reveals that every room in the house she grew up in in South Africa had steel doors because of the violence, as the country was on the brink of civil war.

We had gone to see a movie, and my dad had taken the key to the side door, not even the front door, the front steel door.

Every room in our house had a steel door.

So if you got in through the front door, the kitchen had a steel door that you had to unlock, because that’s the kind of violence we were living in.

Nonsensical violence. Like, violence that you couldn’t reason with. It just…

I mean, our country was on the brink of civil war. It was frightening.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

Support or rejection of Israel is so much greater than just some “purity” test—it is a microcosm of everything wrong with American politics. So yes, it is a defining issue, and the reason you don't see it is because you lack empathy and don't actually care about improving the US

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

The future of an international war criminal should be handled domestically by the citizens who prop him up; that is take I didn’t think I’d see.

“The future of Adolf Hitler is in the hands of Nazi Germany; it’s not America’s place to decide what’s wrong and right.”

[Hilary Rosen @hilaryr]

Someone with courage and credibility in the Democratic Party needs to stand up and forcefully say that “Gaza” - a complex and painful problem - is NOT the defining issue for the next or any election. People will have differing views but the future of Netanyahu and the West Bank is in the hands of Israeli’s. Not Americans (regardless of our military support). Not understanding that in the U.S. means you’ve lost the plot for our party.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

Also, the West Bank is illegally occupied land, so how does the occupier have the right to decide what happens to it? Her whole take is grounded in not seeing Palestinians as people and legitimizing a blatant genocide and occupation. Just fucking gross.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

All the emperors up to and including Commodus (who is depicted here) were either from Italy or from a provincial family originally from Italy. It's not until the Severans that truly provincial Emperors were chosen.

[Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 @FlintDibble]

Neither were many Roman emperors

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

The fake outrage over Nolan’s “woke” production is so stupid, and, indeed, those people are mostly idiots who do not read; however, it takes a certain level of confidence or delusion to say you “can tell they don’t read” while simultaneously proving you didn't read it either

[Nuance @NTSupFirepower]

ACHILLES IS NOT IN THE ODYSSEY, any version of it. I can tell yall don’t read.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

@LanceTheobald @JustinRMurphy1 @WallStreetMav Lmao, you all are really just unimaginably dumb. The famous movie about ancient Greece — Gladiator 😭😭😭

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

In a just world, if you had taken a single cent from AIPAC, your reputation would be destroyed, and you would be de facto barred from politics.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) Blasts Progressives for Backing Candidates with 'Problematic' Records: "Abdul Has a Problematic Record With Women"

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

@denehoffman @SanguisWorm @roninfyre @esjesjesj I mean, there is so much evidence that this is not the first copy. It's ignorant as hell to say we don't know when it is really you who doesn't know. I mean, the dialect itself tells us it's at least from the archaic period, and it is completely constructed for writing.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

@denehoffman @SanguisWorm @roninfyre @esjesjesj Odyssey is believed to have first been written down around the 8th century BCE, so this is definitely not the original. Also, we know that the librarians in Alexandria during the third century BCE collected copies from across the Greek world to create a canon of Homer’s works.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

Is @CHSN__ going to fix their audio, or are they content with this Cleveland jackass yelling being the only thing you hear?

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

Watching Drew Romo gives me aids. Literally negative value to this team. He is not good defensively, and I can't even remember the last time he got a hit.

[Almus @BeztaoEternal]

“¿Eres colonia?”

—No, soy virreinato.

[Jonny B @jonbarragan_]

My old man take is that this is awful and I can't stand it. People compare it to the Globetrotters, but the Globetrotters started because of the lack of opportunities for black players. This is pandering

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

Everything about this is superior to MLB 🧢⚾️

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

To paraphrase Mohammed Al-Kurd:

In one part of the world, we have mothers complaining about being threatened by some words on a tshirt.

In another part of the world, we have mothers searching through the rubble for their dead children.

Guess who receives more attention?