Message from @Rileygood
Discord ID: 531186610545623070
It's (((NowThis))), they spread fake facts to make people into degenerates, cucks and dumbasses
poeple
poeple
:)
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blah blah blah other chanel
good feels
is that a good feels or depression?
sad
but happy
its feels
Feels are feels
No matter good or bad
@π°πππππΎπππππ this is for feels no memes
I hate to feel numb all the time.
@Corinthian why?
what does that even mean?
I dont mean to say that in a condescending way I just genuinely dont know what you mean by that
@Rileygood maybe alcohol?
Not like oh I have been laying down on my side for 5 hours I can't feel my left arm numb it's just
It's hard to discribe
thats fucked man have you heard of PCP
Isn't that drug?
Some sort of?
yeah it is
Why?
joe rogan meme
Oh now I get it
Ye bastard
>when you don't even like your identity since you have no friends and don't like anything and now everyone thinks it's trendy to be a 'le epic outsider misfit xD' so now you can't even be you without people thinking you're just being fake
leave me alone
I'm a day late
However
Now is the ***t i m e***
570 years ago today in 1449 A.D, Constantine Dragases Palaiologos, was crowned as the last Emperor and Autocrat of the East Roman Empire. His reign would last no more than four years yet his fateful final stand against the Ottoman Empire at the fall of Constantinople would become the stuff of legends (Emperor pictured astride his pale Arabian mare facing down the Turkish army).
Born in 1405 A.D, Constantine XI was the eighth child of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and his Serbian wife, Helena DragaΕ‘. Growing up in Constantinople under the supervision of his parents, Constantine rose to manhood at the centre of an empire whose golden age had long since past and over whom the spectre of extinction loomed bleakly. Yet this did not deter Constantine. Prior to becoming Emperor he proved himself a most capable ruler and statesman, reigning as regent over the Imperial capital whilst his brother, John VIII, was attending the Council of Florence. Thereafter he acquitted himself well as the Despot of Morea. Ruling from the palace of Mistra, not far from the ancient city of Sparta, he had his first confrontation with the Ottoman Turks, then under the leadership of Sultan Murad II, after he annexed their vassal state of the Duchy of Athens. Enraged by the Byzantine's obstinacy, Murad predictably marched south in 1446 A.D and brought his pitiless wrath to bear upon the Greeks, smashing down the walls of Hexamilion before enslaving and selling off much of the population. Thereafter reduced to an Ottoman vassal, Constantine had learned firsthand not only how powerful the Turks had become but also how mercilessly cruel they could be to their vanquished enemies.
In October 1448 A.D, Emperor John VIII died childless. The months which followed saw a typical scramble for power ensue then between Constantine and his brother Demetrios who drew much support by asserting that there should still be no peace or union between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Constantine however had the support of his mother Helena and also of Murad, whom had been asked to arbitrate the affair. As Constantine was technically Murad's vassal, the Sultan naturally chose his own man to rule in the old Roman stronghold.
Within two years however Murad had died and was succeeded by his 19 year old son, Mehmed II, who was hell-bent on sweeping away the last vestiges of the broken Byzantine Empire into the shadows of history once and for all. Constantine perceived the gravity of the threat being posed to him and his people and began to prepare for war. To thwart his young opponent, the Emperor threatened to release a contender to the Ottoman throne. Mehmed took this as Constantine breaking the peace and began building a fortress on the Western side of the Bosphorus to seal Constantinople off from the Black Sea to complement a fortress built half a century before on the eastern side by Sultan Bayezid I. With a siege now inevitable, Constantine began repairing the old Theodosian walls, restocked the supply of food in the city as best as possible and mobilised as many able-bodied men as could be mustered into the comparatively tiny