Sabitlenmiş Tweet
Aram Tayebi
1.9K posts
Aram Tayebi
@0millennial
No one in particular https://t.co/DBOdFYyUyZ
Sydney, Australia Katılım Mayıs 2012
269 Takip Edilen148 Takipçiler
Member of the Iranian National Security Council: "Kuwait should know that its situation will not return to normal after this war ends."
🔻 "We consider the attacks carried out from Kuwaiti territory as direct attacks, and you should know that **we will respond to them in a special way."
English
But this is where the argument collapses under its own weight. White is not a stable category. It is a social designation that has been continuously redrawn to include and exclude as political convenience demanded. Within living memory, Italians and Greeks were not considered white in the United States or Australia. They were southern Europeans — Catholic, swarthy, suspect. The very people whose civilisation supposedly forms the foundation of the West were, by the racial logic their defenders now deploy, not quite white enough. So, when the outrage demands fidelity to a white Helen, it is not appealing to an ancient standard.
open.substack.com/pub/0millennia…
English
The Odyssey feels like Stalingrad for conservative antiwoke culture warriors because they tried to go after one of the worlds most famous filmmakers and ordinary people are like shut up nerds
English
People are sad because they have internalised a fictional story about "the West" and they think it's being destroyed. From my essay:
"What exactly is “the West”?
Not rhetorically. Literally.
When people invoke it in debates like this, they imagine a continuous civilisational lineage: ancient Greece to Rome, Rome to the Renaissance, the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the Enlightenment to the liberal democracies of Europe and North America. A thread running unbroken across three thousand years, carrying with it the values they believe are now under threat by a Black Helen of Troy.
Reason. Democracy. Individual freedom. The inheritance.
It is a powerful story.
I use the word, “story” precisely— the west as defined above is a fiction.
The category “the West” as a coherent civilisation with ancient Greece at its origin was largely assembled during the nineteenth century. European imperial powers needed an origin story — like all empires — one that explained why they occupied the pinnacle of human development and were therefore entitled to govern everyone else. A lineage was constructed: Greece to Rome, Rome to Europe, Europe to empire. Like the best kind of propaganda, elements of that story are true. The seamless continuity was manufactured. Greece was recruited for purposes the Greeks themselves would not have recognised, stripped of its Mediterranean messiness and handed back as a clean European inheritance."
open.substack.com/pub/0millennia…
English
I read the Odyssey in high school and fell in love with it and it's exciting to live through a genuine mass cultural phenomenon. Also, cynicism isn't compulsory yet. x.com/Lacertosus_776…
The Antidisestablishmentarian.@Lacertosus_7766
@clairlemon I struggle to understand why you, or anyone for that matter, is getting so excited about this. This month's Geatest Film of All Time which will be totally forgotten by Christmas.
English
From my essay:
"Myths are not ethnographic documents. Every generation remakes them in its own image — because that is precisely what makes them myths rather than history. Every culture that made contact with these stories painted themselves into them. The Florentine painters did it. The Pre-Raphaelites did it. They all made Helen of Troy look like them. Nolan is doing it now. His cast, diverse and unmistakably contemporary, is his way of saying what Homer’s bards said to every room they ever worked: this story is us. Nolan isn’t erasing Homer. He’s doing what the tradition has always demanded."
open.substack.com/pub/0millennia…
English
This is an ancient Greek warrior according to Christopher Nolan.
English
The pre-release fury over Nolan’s The Odyssey is just sitting there now that the film is a massive hit
Why are people fine with brown civilisations turned into literal monsters in 300, but outraged by a Black Helen of Troy?
See Link below
English
English
The claim is about the build-up to Enzo Fernández’s 85th-minute equalizer (assisted by Messi) in the 2026 WC semi-final vs England (final score 1-2). England appealed for offside on Messi. VAR reviewed it and confirmed he was onside. Some freeze-frames look close from certain angles, but the tech and better views showed it was correctly onside. No full broadcast graphic was shown (common for non-marginal build-up checks), which sparked the debate. The goal stood.
English
🚨 FIFA has displayed VAR images for every single offside call in the World Cup, except when Messi was Clearly Offside against England Before Making the Assist
England Could've been playing the World Cup final against Spain if it wasn't for FIFA blatantly favouring Argentina🤯
Kalshi Sports@KalshiSports
NEW: Lionel Messi now has over a 90% chance on Kalshi to win the World Cup MVP (Golden Ball). 91% — Lionel Messi 6% — Rodri 3% — Kylian Mbappe 3% — Lamine Yamal Who deserves this award?
English
@martyrmade @martyrmade you're a principled man. That's a rare thing
English
Joe, you’re great, but how can even reasonable people like you say, “Sure, we launched a surprise attack in the middle of negotiations on behalf of a foreign power and have been bombing civilian infrastructure for months, but that doesn’t mean Iran gets to shoot back.” We attacked them, the President repeatedly has threatened to end Iranians’ historical existence as a people, and they have every right to use the means at their disposal to defend themselves. I’m a veteran, I don’t like saying this, but it’s the truth. I mourn the US servicemembers, but Iran didn’t kill them - Trump and Netanyahu did.
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19
Tonight we will have to hit Iran hard in response to our troops being killed in Jordan. After that, we need to end this before it escalates further. Strike & simultaneously pull our forces out—remove Iran’s leverage and move on to economic negotiations. Restore order.
English
@GyengoA @trashleftback Does not matter, he got to the ball first
Thats how the rules apply to everyone else
English
@0millennial @trashleftback Cus it was Spence who made the contact.
David@PedriFCB
Claro es más creíble la tecnología de BBC que las imágenes del propio partido.
English
I doubt that would be the decision if Yamal make a point about Palestine
Sky Sports News@SkySportsNews
Argentina have been given the green light by the White House FIFA task force to display their Falklands banner again if they win the World Cup on Sunday 🚨 The head of the task force Andrew Giuliani believes the Argentina players are allowed to express their opinions.
English
Entrevistador: ¿crees que la España de 2010 le ganaría a la Argentina actual?
Xavi: sí
Entrevistador: ¿por cuánto?
Xavi: 1-0
Entrevistador: ¿solamente?
Xavi: la mayoría ya tenemos más de 40 años
Español
@fdm_tw @clairlemon If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike
English
@0millennial @clairlemon Everything that works, around your stupid self, was made thanks to that "fiction".
English
I honestly can't believe that conservatives--of all people--are angry about a blockbuster, mass-market film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey that is getting rave reviews by critics & audiences alike. 🙃
English
@Pampa139 No its not
Its called dirty cowards
Cause if you liked physical contact you wouldn't flop around like girls every time somone hit you back
English
Se llama POTRERO, si no les gusta el contacto vayan a jugar al golf manga de llorones
Español
@0millennial @FabrizioRomano You are a retard with a belly full of media cum. You think you know... but you have no idea. You shouldn't trust your brain.
English
🇦🇷🇪🇸 Alexis Mac Allister: “Football is becoming more and more physical…
…and that’s why it’s important that two teams who play good football have reached the final”.
English
@primocalcio @FabrizioRomano Are you a generic culture war bot?
English
@0millennial @FabrizioRomano Look! Another NPC cuckolded by media, virtue signaling on social media.
English
@socraticjuan @mrnandz_ Good thing I played with your mum first
English
@0millennial @mrnandz_ Pretty sure nobody gives a fuck if you played against kangaroos in Australia lol
English
This is the difference between European football and South American football.
South Americans live and breathe the game and will do whatever it takes to win.
Europeans don’t want to compete: they want to play a nice, soft, naive game where the conditions are perfect to impose their game.
I just hope Spain are braced for war this Sunday…
All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷@AlbicelesteTalk
🚨🇪🇸 Aymeric Laporte: “In the last few matches we’ve seen things that have really surprised us, incidents that have been ignored. Especially with Argentina, who are a team that leave a lot of little messages with their challenges. "That shouldn’t be allowed in competitions like this, because it can throw you off your game and make you lose your temper. It’s part of the referee’s job to keep these situations under control so that he doesn’t get walked all over. "From the start of the tournament, we’ve been a pretty fair team in that respect. We’re not the kind of team that goes around kicking opponents or committing reckless fouls. "And I think that’s how we need to approach this match as well. But it’s true that a lot will depend on the refereeing.”
English
@0millennial @socraticjuan La opinion de fútbol de alguien de Sidney, Australia.. tiene la misma relevancia que las de un argentino sobre Aussie Rules o Cricket 🤣🤣🤣
Español