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> As my history professor put it, "going to the Holy Land was an incredibly expensive endeavour reserved for a very few. There's no way anyone was going to wast
by qwytw 4y ago
> As my history professor put it, "going to the Holy Land was an incredibly expensive endeavour reserved for a very few. There's no way anyone was going to waste it on young, inexperienced children".
While a Crusade made up primarily of children is not realistic. The 'People's Crusade' was a thing. During the first Crusade 40 thousand or so poor peasants and various religious fanatics including many women and children departed Northern France a couple of months before the 'proper' army left.
It wasn't pretty. Along the way they murdered thousands of Jews, sacked or attempted to sack multiple cities and most of those who survived the journey were eventually massacred by the Turks (according to some that's one of the reasons why the Turks were so ill prepared when the actual Crusader army arrived, they expected that all westerners were poorly armed, disorganized and had no understanding or proper warfare... )
- FormerBandmate 4y agoThat's pretty close to what we think of as the Children's Crusade. It was peasants with little weapons or training
- ekianjo 4y agoif I recall correctly most of them were enslaved even before making it to the Holy Land.
- qwytw 4y agoYeah, they only got as far as Nicaea.
- PakG1 4y agoIt is really weird reading this, it makes me realize that motivations and rationalizations of people who joined Jan 6 and similar events are really nothing new under the sun.
- logicchains 4y agoThe motivations of people who joined Jan 6 are very simple: they thought they had been disenfranchised because of unprecedented anomalies during vote counting on election day, which their opposition made no effort to explain.
- hilbertseries 4y agoLiterally dozens of articles were written about a red mirage and how the mail in vote which would be counted later, would skew towards the democrats.
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- logicchains 4y agoIn one case a collection of votes was delivered that contained over 400k votes for Biden and zero votes for Trump or the independent candidates. That is incredibly improbable verging on statistically impossible even if 99% of those mail-in voters supported Biden.
- mrtranscendence 4y agoCite from a reputable source on this? I know there were stories of related things happening, but to my knowledge they were all bullshit.
- canadianfella 4y ago
- AmpsterMan 4y agoWhy is the opposition to blame on this? There were dozens of articles written to explain the effect. Contrary-wise, why didn't their leaders explain the "unprecedented anomalies" themselves?
- GendingMachine 4y ago