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Doug Bright

@DougBright1

I'm so bright my mom calls me son.

Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Doug Bright
Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@reuket @StefanMolyneux I’m not bothered by her skin color except Troy was in Anatolia not Africa. If she’s such a minor character, so irrelevant, so fictional, why include her at all? She’s no more important to the story than a cyclops.
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Reuket@reuket·
@DougBright1 @StefanMolyneux And in the story they meet cyclops, sirens, giants, charybde and Scylla and many more and the thing that bothers you is her skin color…
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@reuket @StefanMolyneux So if she’s such a bit part, not real, plays no real significance in the war itself, why cast her at all?
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Reuket@reuket·
@DougBright1 @StefanMolyneux Helen of Troy is most likely a mythological figure, not a historically proven person. Ancient sources about her all come from Greek mythological traditions written centuries after the supposed Trojan War. Troy itself may have been real, but Helen remains legendary.
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@philgreen @StefanMolyneux Was Troy real? Yes. Was the Trojan war real? Yes. Achilles, Ajax, the King of Sparta, King of Troy, Paris, Hector, et al all real. But Helen was not? Then why cast her? Leave her out entirely since she had no role.
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
So you prefer the passive Helen who was passed around by three men like a piece of used furniture, stood on the walls of Troy fixing her makeup, wringing her hands and clutching her pearls because she thought she was so superficially pretty that a war was started over her (not true) and then she went home as a trophy wife not really taking part in anything? Got it. How boring. A significantly diminished role. Bit part. Been done. Now who is the misogynist? I like my version better.
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Fox the Mutt
Fox the Mutt@mutt_fox·
@DougBright1 @GraceOM63384867 @StefanMolyneux “Mission accomplished” lolol. Also, women were not generally raped and killed. They were enslaved for life and also raped. Neoptolomus took Andromache, Odysseus took Hecuba, and Agamemnon took Casandra. Helen was taken by the man who already owned her.
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@reuket @StefanMolyneux How do know? Troy was real. The Trojan war was real. The participants were real Men. Why couldn’t there have been a Helen?
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Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
Politicians often ask others to make sacrifices that would benefit them, but this was truly the Super Bowl of self-serving political pitches. Some of these young athletes would give up their hopes for an NFL career to fight for racial gerrymandering. jonathanturley.org/2026/05/25/thi…
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
She was a double agent employed by the King of Sparta to betray the city from within. Perfect because she herself was Anatolian. The “Trojan horse” if you will. In this she was only partially successful, she certainly disrupted the royal court, when Paris was killed she immediately married his brother then hid his sword. Defenseless, he’s killed in the final assault, she’s “reconciled” to the king of Sparta and they rule together. Mission accomplished.
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Chatnoir@Mschatnoir·
@DougBright1 yes...all good....all good...her casting matters...her look matters, it was her looks that caused a lot of problems...she's a massive main character
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Doug Bright
Doug Bright@DougBright1·
Well, as you’ve exemplified, most people can no longer think in parables so they assign silly romantic drivel to history. A City under siege in ancient times could only be taken in two ways: a direct bloody assault or betrayal by the inside. The Greeks did both. Helen was the betrayer. Notice she was carefully spared in the final assault. Women were generally raped and killed. This was the price of not surrendering. Helen was not. She “reconciled” with the King of Sparta and they returned to their positions of King and Queen. Mission accomplished. You read it without understanding it.
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Fox the Mutt
Fox the Mutt@mutt_fox·
@DougBright1 @GraceOM63384867 @StefanMolyneux I’ve read it. You just described the events of the story, not the way the writer portrays the morality of the characters. Learn to read a book, not just the plot synopsis on Wikipedia or ai or whatever. Your take is so juvenile. lol talking about villains in Homer
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@FoxNews An endorsement by a comrade who served with Platner would mean much more than one by the old grifter Sanders. So far, no luck.
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Fox News@FoxNews·
United States Senate candidate Graham Platner launched a blistering attack on the political establishment alongside Senator Bernie Sanders during the first stop of their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. Platner took aim at long-serving politicians, specifically calling out Senator Susan Collins and declared that the current system exists solely to enrich elected officials while leaving everyday Americans behind. "We will not just fight the oligarchy, we will defeat the oligarchy and the political system that it maintains. We will defeat the political system that it maintains.” “The politics of Susan Collins, a politics that turns politicians into millionaires but tells you to be grateful for crumbs. It is a lie. It is a lie intended to serve the billionaire class."
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@DefiantLs The working class was shafted by democrats who abandoned the working class long long ago.
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Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
“Why do you think Democrats lost so badly in 2024?” Ro Khanna: “We lost because we weren’t willing to say that the working class was shafted.”
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@C_3C_3 It’s all a grift. Still waiting for a comrade that served with Platner to come forward as a character witness. So far, no luck.
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C3@C_3C_3·
Bernie Sanders is a total fraud… A multi-millionaire communist with 3 homes. House #1 Burlington, VT $700K-$800K House #2 Champlain Islands, VT $700K-$800K House #3 Washington, DC $700K-$800K Anyone that still falls for Bernie's act is a sucker. Bernie is the Oligarchy.
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
She commits adultery, runs off with her lover and when caught can go back to her husband, king Menelaus of Sparta to avert a war but doesn’t. Menelaus uses her as a pawn, a human Trojan horse if you will, as his excuse to begin his war of conquest. When the naive Paris is killed in battle she marries his brother Deiphobus, hides his sword during the assault on Troy and defenseless, he’s killed by King Menelaus who she returns to Sparta with and they continue to rule Sparta. A duplicitous double agent. You need to read it the first time.
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Fox the Mutt
Fox the Mutt@mutt_fox·
@DougBright1 @GraceOM63384867 @StefanMolyneux Ok you also need to read Homer again. Helen is a sympathetic character in her own right in both Homeric epics. Calling her a villain is kinda silly. It’s like calling calypso a villain. Like it doesn’t even make sense and it’s just a holdover from Victorian era misogony.
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Doug Bright
Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@EveKeneinan The distinction is that it’s a work of western literature. I thought cultural appropriation was wrong?
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Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن@EveKeneinan·
I think people are confused about the Iliad and the Odyssey. Two things can be true at once. • They are fundamentally Greek works. • They are works of such greatness that they belong to all of humanity as our common property People seem to think that the second point authorizes them to mistreat those works.
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Doug Bright@DougBright1·
@tonywendice1954 Helen of Troy was Anatolian not African. It’s Hollywood doing blackface again.
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Mollie McCollum
Mollie McCollum@GraceOM63384867·
@mutt_fox @DougBright1 @StefanMolyneux I do and I see his point. He's using the actress to make a point culturally or to check boxes for awards- either way- it's rude to the culture you are trashing and to her because now she is used to bear the brunt of hate for his movie to get attention.
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Bonchie
Bonchie@bonchieredstate·
As I keep saying, AI tech bros are the absolute worst possible messengers for AI. You want to start a popular uprising to stop your AI infrastructure? Keep telling people you’re going to take their jobs so they can live off government UBI.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv

NOW - Anthropic co-founder says there is a "real possibility that AI will displace human labor at a very large scale," and that supporting those people "will be a moral imperative of historic proportions."

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