Malaka, philosophy is the deadlift of the mind

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lifting weights, said he’s the best wrestler in Athens said you be a celebrity the time with a wrestler name, didn’t qualify for the Olympics, got into philosophy, ended up writing about the evils of democracy and how it would be better if people like him where in charge in an absolute dictatorship.

  yhea, failed celebrity to alt right podcaster pipeline isn’t new

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  • Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Democracy rewards the best liars and manipulators.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Socrates students led a coup that killed about 10% of Athens, Socrates was found responsible in in the trial for inciting it, and in his trial he did not denounce his students and cried witch-hunt and how he was better than everyone else and deserves a reward for it. so he was sentenced to death.

      Plato spent his life cleaning Socrates’s image.

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  370 BC?

  The beards need to be way more fierce.

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We think hard, we play hard.

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