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[–] 65 points 8 months ago (3 children)

triple betrayal of Feng Yuxiang in 1926, 1929, and 1930

We're gonna need a better :fell-for-it-again-award:

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  • [–] 57 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    eight inches 'look he may have sold out the people he sold out the people he sold us out for but that thing be swangin'

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  • [–] 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    last defection was to the Japanese
    died in 1940

    speed-dont-laugh

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    A thing that should probably be mentioned with regards to Shi Yousan is that these are not entirely in order, because he betrayed Feng Yuxiang 3 non consecutive times.

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    A modern Alcibiades!

    Military career

    Allegiance

    Athens (432–415 BC)
    Sparta (415–412 BC)
    Persia (412–411 BC)
    

    Branch

    Athenian military (432–415 BC)
    Spartan army (415–412 BC)
    Achaemenid military (412–411 BC)
    
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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Always felt bad for Alcibiades, dude got fucked over for trying to actually win the war.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    A tragic anti-hero, yes, and thus the most Athenian out of anyone, but every time I go back to the sources I find him worse and worse. I read a fun paper a while back that pointed out that all of his claims to fame were almost winning something. With the exception, I suppose, of the Olympic chariot teams he sponsored, and even there he hedged his bets by entering seven teams.

    Plus he has all sorts of domestic violence anecdotes and stories like "Alcibiades once went into a bookshop and asked for some Homer. The bookseller said he was all out of Homer. At this Alcibiades wittily punched him in the face."

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago
    [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    He must have had a sick military uniform collection, but there were much better ways to acquire it.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    Bastard of Three Fathers walked so Slave of Six Surnames could run.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    That's such the worst way to flip flop. You want to get your time in with warlords or Japan first, flip to nationalists, then flip to communists, then you get to be a national hero.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    i think i just learned about my new hero and he's dead so it's impossible to meet him and dispel the worship. lol

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Real life Revolver Ocelot

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    friend-visitor-1 8 inches

    friend-visitor-2 is that enough to make a heap

    friend-visitor-3

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