Spinach Pie

@DrJamesOlsson The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury -Marcus Aurelius

@tunguz Had me until the ketchup 🤷‍♂️

European mind cannot comprehend this.

@athenaeumbc 'Now yous can't leave'

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

@therealcwb youtu.be/aCbfMkh940Q?si…

Panopticon setup only from now on. It's the only way.

@The_Real_Fly youtu.be/0o4yv6Cm_ag?si… “you should’ve seen it coming on”

Fastest way to wipe out the rest of white men is a big giant war

@BasilTheGreat 1688

When did the UK start its decline?

@curtis_yarvin So give power to sovereign shareholders and the result will be different? 🤔

Rightist Aryan Queen is all about “The People,” “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” and we wonder why we lose and lose and lose. Brexit tried just this. Result: more migrants. You can’t give power to “The People.” They don’t want it. They can’t handle it. They won’t “wake up.” Stop larping

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@TonerousHyus Titus Pullo approves this message

“Do you hear that men? The Democrats want you to never make it home to your families”

@elonmusk Gonzalo Lira?

Yes, The New York Times is an utter lie

@aphysicist youtu.be/ILop3Kn3JO8?si…

how did they design this without CAD

@elonmusk One thing is if he were able to somehow institutionalize a tradition of the imperial family adopting the most capable future leaders rather than passing everything on to his son whose faults perhaps he was blind to

I wonder if Marcus Aurelius could have done more to carry Rome to greater heights or whether that was as good a job as could have been done

@Rainmaker1973 Born in the USA

What song is this?

@elonmusk "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." Cardinal Richelieu

@Cernovich They believe the ends justify the means, and they never arrive at the 'ends', so they are constantly deceptive, vile, and destructive.

@DrJBhattacharya For elites it's because the free sharing of ideas threatens their power. Probably for most people it's to feel they are part of what they believe the majority agrees with.

Why do so many people who profess a desire to 'save democracy' also favor government power to censor ideas and people online?

Anonymous speech is free speech. Compelling people to identify themselves is a soft form of censorship meant to discourage dissident opinions from being expressed. Once again, "national security" is used to justify tyranny.

@KurtSchlichter Carthage too

Just a reminder that Hamas must be totally destroyed.

#Amazon censors to avoid offending the German Government 🤦 brownstone.org/articles/the-v…

@drip_haus #dripcode

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@SchrodingrsBrat Beauty

What is gold backed by (will reveal what I’ve been thinking about soon but I wanna hear your answers first)