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Despite the embellishment of minor events during his long reign and his portrayal as an Oriental despot “straight from the pages of the Arabian Nights,” Ali Pasha showed little genuine interest in religious matters, engaging with them only insofar as they offered political advantage.

Eratosthenes reports that Aristotle, in a letter to Alexander, advised him to treat the “barbarians” as a master would and the Greeks as a leader, caring for the latter as friends and kindred while looking after the former as he would animals or plants. The advice was rejected.

@grabitqar Sa deshti qeni?

bro didnt let me get this for 5$ and I didnt even know if the battery or the charging port worked...greedy fucking gyps Ive always bought from him

@Lugati7 Inflation

@utilitaryan I don’t recall this being a thing 3 years ago when i visited. Something changed?

Why is the largest Lira note only a 200 ($5 equivalent)? I’m walking around with hundreds of notes… there’s gotta be a better way than this.

His discontinuity theory is inseparable from his person. French historiography engaged with it more readily, and entertained aspects of it, German scholarship mostly rejected Fallmerayer. For the French, it posed less of an intellectual threat, not because they “accepted” it wholesale, but because their more cosmopolitan and less philologically anchored tradition allowed them to discuss such things without the same taboo.

@utilitaryan We're really going to ignore Fallmerayer and act like it was mainly French historians?

It was the Germans with their Romanticism who gave birth to modern Greece. The French were much more stoic; some would even say “blackpilled” to the point where French historians like Lavallée declared the ancient Greeks extinct and long since replaced by Slavs and Albanians.

If we are talking physically, then it is undoubtable that France and Italy are the embodiment of Romanticism, but the Romantic soul has always belonged to the Germanicvs. Fichte, Novalis, Goethe, Schiller, Wagner, Schubert, and many more. The Germanic fixation on the inner self and its contempt for society as a whole.

This is not a value judgement, by le way.

France and Italy are considered 'romantic' by many Anglos, and for a good reason, with Lake Como, Cannes, Paris, Rome, Venice, Saint-Tropez often making the ideal backdrop for a Hollywood story between lovers. Yet the heart of European romanticism is Germany.

I’m in the Grand Bazaar. I came for an Ataturk baseball cap, something to shield my gentle Norwood 6 from the Bosphorus breeze, not for some counterfeit Goyard cardholder, orospu cocugu.

Today more than ever humanity disgusts me

I’m not worried about getting robbed or anything, far from it. It’s just a hassle to have to carry so much or pay a 7% markup on every card transaction.

@bsjdhjk I love you

The Pasha's Favourite, depicting Ali Pasha and Kira Vassiliki - School of Paul Emil Jacobs, 1844

@kucukadamindibi Thank you. I use a Ricoh GR III

They have cat food vending machines in Istanbul. Sometimes the seagulls help themselves to it as well.

Schopenhauer: "Every age has its own mental illness; ours is called 'public opinion'."

@bsjdhjk Not a fan. Seems like miseriness for animal

The LARP went too far, and now I’m a White Kemalist in Istanbul.

Pack of sleepy cats outside the Blue Mosque & Hagia Sophia