its because Bur's took over there

the language bit was a joke
my point was the brits won in the end, and the zulu victory is less a story of “david standing up to goliath” and more like “david and 10 of his mates bumrushing goliath when he wasn’t looking and then inevitably getting their asses kicked once goliath’s 20 friends showed up”

ah underdeveloped african tribe lost a war against sorld superpower how unpredictable

I’m just mentioning it because like
I never heard the rest of that story growing up
every time i heard about Shaka Zulu, it was as a brave warrior who was so ferocious, he managed to stop the invasion of his home with nothing but leather shields and iron clubs

nah its not like that

and then i looked him up when i was a little older, and realized nearly his entire tribe got *fucked* as soon as that battle was over

zulus had no chance

in a long run

yeah

but they fought as good as they could

but they don’t tell you that as a kid

Oh yeah, they did a good job for what they had, good on em

its like fighting an Alliance from HL2

the whole resitance thing is just like minkeys fighting in a deep forest

i think it was fucked up of the British to just take the whole region like that
and I think the Zulus did what they could for as long as they could, as they should
but then, I’ve never been a fan of colonialism anyways

Alliance is busy with bulding Dyson Spheres

only Americans are allowed to Manifest our Destiny

everyone else needs to stay where they are and wait for us to get to them next

they will go away as every major force before them

nothing is ethernal

I know, just meming

I think America is probably as big as a nation can sustainably be, really

like, geographically

anything bigger and you get too thin-spread, it all falls apart in a century or two

china is kinda big too

Yeah, they’re doing good as well

its not about the numbers but about cultural influence

west is losing it

Russia is the biggest, and they’ve been in a rut since the 1980s
Canada is second biggest, but they barely use half their land, and their population is smaller than California, so I don’t really count that
America is the third largest, and we’ve got the most well funded military in the world, but we also have zero local competition, so, maybe also not the best example
China is the fourth largest, and they split up and re-conquer each other every couple hundred years, call it a new dynasty, and move on
then you’ve got Brazil, which is basically just tropical Russia with more gangs
Australia, which is the same as Canada, low population and hectares of untouched land
and India, who can’t poo in loo

So, I repeat:
America does big country the best, or at least the most sustainably

Rome was the biggest western civilization

it’s like with stars
bigger stars shine brighter, but they fall apart under their own weight relatively soon
small stars live longer, but they never burn as brightly
America is a big star, and has burned pretty well so far
BUT we’ve only stopped adding new territory in the past 120 years or so, so who knows where it’ll all go to next

yeah, Rome is why I’m thinking about this

and ahd the longest run

Empires

they *had* the longest run

i’m talking about current competitors

i’m mostly rambling, actually, if i’m completely honest

Little sleepy, and just killing time before work

America is the spiritual successor and 3rd incarnation of Rome tbh

may we rule for 10,000 years