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[dhampyresa]

I have been dragging this stupid coughing sickness for forever. Feel even more useless than usual.

Spent today watching a bunch of Archaeology with Flint Dibble videos. Which lead me to encountering, in Debunking the Fake Historian Taking Over the Internet: Professor Jiang's Predictive History, the conspiracy theory that Hannibal Barca never existed (from the guy being debunked -- who also is fractally wrong aboutso many things omg "Why didn't [Hannibal] go back to Carthage and claim the kingship" because Carthage didn't have kings??????? they had suffetes and Hannibal did in fact become suffete, during which tenure he led several massive reforms, including ones that made Carthage less oligarchic).

I need to reclassify my entire ao3 account as "Fake Person Fiction", I guess.

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[sovay]

Debunking the Fake Historian Taking Over the Internet: Professor Jiang's Predictive History, the conspiracy theory that Hannibal Barca never existed

What.

[schneefink]

Clearly you have no other choice *solemn nod*
I have not watched the videos but I assume their theory is very convincing because of rule of funny.

[greenwoodside]

conspiracy theory that Hannibal Barca never existed

argh???

This is weird even by conspiracy theory standards. I mean, with most of them you can see how they exist by serving some sort of political function or answering human need.

Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't?