Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️so if you're wondering how the internal collapse of the Israeli state is going, earlier this week Prime Minister Netanyahu said in an address to the nation that Israel is about to become so globally isolated that the people should get used to being, and i quote, "super-Sparta", and today it was revealed that Minister for Social Equality and Women's Empowerment May Golan, suspected of corruption, broke into a police station and snuck her mother out mid-interrogation.
Marcus Marcius Marcellus@Yuvalne Sparta was a world-historically shitty state.* Netanyahu doesn’t care about that. But does he know that Sparta didn’t even have a winning record? And was ultimately destroyed? I mean, Thermopylae: very brave and all that, etc. But the Spartans were all slaughtered.
* Srsly. See the linked articles by a scholar who actually knows something about the place.
https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
