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What are some of the more interesting things you've encountered while reading something like that?

I've heard that they don't sugarcoat anything regarding indians, so I'm interested.

https://x.com/FinancialPhys/status/1816829189279957473

Tried to make it about left and right when it was really about individual rights to stand up to bad government

https://youtube.com/shorts/PsvJLRJz8pA

I'm an adventure I guess that actually none of this is traditional native american. The clothes are all Western the colors are all Western the beads are probably plastic the cloth and other things look far different than any actual tribe would have had in the 1800s. Most of what they had would have Ben brown with maybe a little bit of blue dye and a few colored stones. They might have had some silver. But all these fantastic colors and the perfect feathers and all these other things they would never have had. That frankly is all Western European products of Western European manufacturing and intellect.

Now as far as the dances go who knows if the little pockets of tribes that used to exist actually danced in those particular patterns and in those particular footsteps or whether that was just all recently just made up or just been modified so much that it's totally unrelated to whatever they used to do. But I don't know it's just an example I think of things that are passed off as something they aren't.


It's like when you see the maasai tribes in Africa dancing with all their fancy colored clothing and everything else.

That's all Western European stuff. Those clothes are all Western European they never would have had anything that looked much like that at all the shapes might have been similar but that's about it.

https://x.com/rawbloodenjoyer/status/1784325203855655183

The story of Henry VIII is the story of a conflict. The conflict that is occurring is the conflict between Habsburg and Tudor houses. The house of Habsburg is, as they had previously done in many other European countries, attempting to gain political control of England through marriage and through its influence over the Catholic Church.

Which is to say: The Habsburgs are trying to take over England during the reign of Henry VIII.
Henry’s actions – exiting a marriage to a Habsburg connected figure, and exiting the Catholic Church – are direct responses to Habsburg attacks on England’s sovereignty through those same two avenues. The Habsburg attack comes through marriage and the Catholic Church.

However I have never seen that story recounted. Instead, I have only seen bizarre retellings where half the plot is left out, the Habsburg part. Obviously, if you omit the geopolitical motivation for Henry VIII’s actions from the story then his actions seem insane. The situation reminds me a little bit of the experience of accidentally walking into a spiderweb. Have you ever done this? It is totally jarring. You flail your hands and look like an idiot trying to get the bits of spiderweb off of your face. To an outside observer who can’t see the spiderweb you just walked into, you look spastic, manic. But there is a reason you’re acting that way. The conflict with the Habsburgs is that spiderweb for Henry VIII. You need to know it is there to understand his actions.

Is there any evidence of a Habsburg coup attempt? The evidence I have that the Habsburgs are trying to take over England during this period is that the Habsburgs do take over England in this period.

What? Yes. ‘Bloody Mary’ Tudor weds Phillip II Habsburg – the son of the Habsburg Emperor – just 5 years after the death of Henry VIII.

Phillip Habsburg becomes King of England Jure Uxoris – joint sovereign with Queen Mary. England comes under Habsburg control, along with Spain, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Flanders, Bohemia, Germany, Italy, Hungary and… Did I forget any? At this point the Habsburgs are basically kings of the Universe, totally drunk with power. In England they are literally burning their enemies at the stake.

The Habsburg method for expanding their territory was fairly simple:

1. Find a failing kingdom in need of aid or protection.
2. Offer to use your influence in the Catholic Church to aid the Kingdom in exchange for an advantageous marriage, protection money, or both.
1. Betray the Kingdom and use your influence instead to install your newly wed Habsburg as the sole sovereign.

Are you starting to understand why the story of a medieval Republican who miraculously defeats something that looks suspiciously like today’s democratic institutional oligarchy has never been properly told?

The Habsburg Coup in Henry VIII’s England