They never provide a quote, never actual words or a situation or a quoted policy or position. IF there is anything, it's ALWAYS "Someone said something mean to me on social media" or "Affirmative action policies existed".

It's astounding to me how seriously people take this whingy loser behaviour.

Is no one at all interested in interrogating whether the cynical and nihilistic narratives young conservatives parrot have any factual basis at all?

"Most of them spent their youths being told that as whites, and especially as white males, they are what’s wrong with the world."

You know, I have heard this complaint so many bloody times from Dreher's ilk. My question: Who said this to them? When? In what context? Is it even a real complaint?

It's striking that these kinds of posters always frame the question in terms of "access". You're being denied "access" to entertainment, as if entertainment is like a well and some bastard is denying you the water from the well. The idea that this is a product created by human labour doesn't occur?

Polybius's account of the Battle of Drepana said that the Romans didn't have the space to do the diekplous. But a diekplous is a technique of a skilled navy. The Romans I believe were attempting a diekplous at Ecnomus and succeed at one at Myonessus. I don't think the 'lubber' theory holds up.

I once read a cursed theory that the trireme was a "three" as it had three rowers in a single row across the ship: One man to port with one oar, one man to starboard with one oar, and one poor sucker in the middle with -two- oars. Obviously the guy in the middle is the rower they didn't like.