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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The 20th century fascists were all meth'd out of their fucking gourds.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they were all terrifyingly productive

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the slave labor helped more than the meth

[–] BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

I'd like to see a study but that seems ethically complicated somehow

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Imagine if a time traveller gave the mongols a lifetime supply of meth

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This trend of yassifing/twinkyfing historical figures is weird

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Okay but Alexander was pretty indisputably a prettyboy.

Like, we didn't just invent twinks in the last century. I promise, they've been around.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

It is, but in this case by all accounts Alexander essentially just looked like this

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Reaches the border with India...
"Shit! We're outta gak!"
Turns around and heads back.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 2 months ago

or lipping zyn