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@Not_the_cabal @AdamantPluto @DIAS People ARE saying that Ancient Greeks were black It is not presented as an adaptation, but rather as a mainstream interpretation The problem is that Greek history is treated as something you can write over, but if this was Helen of Nairobi, no one would be making these points

@AdamantPluto @IdiotWind6 @DIAS Much easier to get confused by this and lead to misrepresentation... Yet no complaints. No one is saying because Lupita is playing a myth that makes all ancient Greeks black... Adaptations lead to people rediscovering Homer each generation. Every generation has.

A lot of thoughts Greek history today. I really encourage those in disagreement to engage in dialogue rather than insults. You’re only discrediting your stance. The Odyssey has no Greek actors, yet the entire casting debate has been hijacked by everyone except Greeks themselves. That is what happens when Greek civilization gets turned into “Western heritage” instead of being treated as the history of a living people. After Greek independence in 1800s, Greece aligned itself with western Europe because the new state was weak, devastated after the war and surrounded by stronger powers. Greece needed western loans, military backing, diplomatic recognition, modernization and protection against the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, western Europe wanted Greece too. European intellectuals had spent centuries romanticizing Classical Athens and Sparta as the roots of “Western civilization,” democracy, philosophy and art. Greece also sat at the crossroads of Europe, the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean, making it strategically valuable to western powers. So both sides reinforced the same narrative: Europe presented Greece as the cradle of the West, while many Greek elites embraced that identity to strengthen the modern state and secure western support. This was the real cultural marriage between Greece and the West. But ancient Greece was never exclusively “Western.” Greek civilization shaped Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Islam, the Renaissance and eventually the modern West. Greek texts were translated, preserved and expanded in the Islamic world for centuries. Aristotle, Plato, Galen, Euclid and Ptolemy were studied intensely in Baghdad, Cordoba and Cairo during the Islamic Golden Age, while much of western Europe had limited access to many Greek works. In many cases, Greek knowledge re-entered Latin Europe through Arabic translations, Islamic Spain, Sicily and Byzantine intermediaries. So the idea that ancient Greece belongs uniquely to “the West” is not history. It is a later civilizational narrative created by western European dominance after the Renaissance, colonial expansion and the Enlightenment. Ancient Greece was an Aegean and eastern Mediterranean civilization with global influence. The problem is not that others were influenced by Greece. The problem is that modern Greeks are now often treated like guests in conversations about their own inheritance.

@AdamantPluto @DIAS Homeric epics describe the physical features of these Greeks Exception or not, that is irrelevant You are missing the point I think

@IdiotWind6 @DIAS A minority of Greeks, as well as other Mediterraneans, do have lighter features like blonde hair or blue eyes, but they are the exceptions not the rule. That has always been the case, but those features do not make Greeks and anglos look the same, phenotype is more than hue.

@AdamantPluto @DIAS Some Greeks do look like Anglos Menelaus, Achilles and Helen are specifically described as being blonde Which is why no one is saying that Ancient Greeks were FROM the British Isles… because it’s plausible People are saying that Ancient Greeks were FROM Africa and that isn’t

@IdiotWind6 @DIAS I disagree. People don't watch Matt Damon as Odysseus and think Greeks were from Boston, no...they see him, an Anglo who very much looks Anglo, not at all Mediterranean Greek, and think that's what the ancient Greeks were...I see them say this constantly. Greeks are/were neither.

@hungryhypo1 @DryBulkETF How much they charge is the difference between an environmental tax and a toll If it’s nowhere near the 1-2 million they were charging as a toll, then it’s performative

@IdiotWind6 @DryBulkETF No toll But they want a good old Canadian carbon / environmental tax scheme! Pretty smart if you ask me. Will it work. How much are they going to charge. Let's see the traffic in SOH pick up 1st

So the proposed MOU effectively puts SOH under Iranian control. Will be interesting to see how the rest of the Gulf countries react to that in terms of shipping oil under such scheme...

@christankerfund Slow reopening then bombs dropping again in November

Tankers mildly down pre market .. lead down by $ECO. A slow / gradual SOH reopening is the best outcome for tankers …

@ed_fin The British call it pussy-donia

🇬🇷 Feels like coming home. 🇬🇷

@vcsgrizzfa2075 @CRUDEOIL231 Then from a non-Trump guy … at this point it’s the Iranians that are sounding overconfident With everyone and their mother building a pipeline bypassing Hormuz, the pressure is on them to secure a deal that saves them from another round of bombing in the not so distant future

@IdiotWind6 @CRUDEOIL231 I definitely didn't mean to imply that. It was a shot at Trump, not you. Cheers.

This guy is a total clown. Imagine being a washed-up exile rotting in a think tank, churning out garbage with a bunch of clueless academics, and actually thinking your opinion matters. Robin got dumped by GS and crawled into a think tank, whereas Jeff secured the bag at Carlyle. The hierarchy is crystal clear. You can't reason with a pathetic amateur like Robin who can't even grasp roll yields. If you're obsolete, sit down and stay quiet.

@vcsgrizzfa2075 @CRUDEOIL231 I’m by no means a Trump guy if thats what you’re implying

@IdiotWind6 @CRUDEOIL231 I wouldn't be so confident. Iran does what Iran wants.

@vcsgrizzfa2075 @CRUDEOIL231 Iran has a trade deficit with China despite selling ~95% of its oil to China Let that sink in China will open the straits before inventories run down Iran doesn’t have a strongman’s leverage It has the leverage of a hostage taker

@IdiotWind6 @CRUDEOIL231 I don't think he is. The lower inventories go, the higher oil prices go and the more leverage they have. You simply stating that he's wrong without an argument behind it doesn't say much about your case.

@GeologicSuccess @CRUDEOIL231 Great point

@IdiotWind6 @CRUDEOIL231 No hes not

@PastPaulitics And people in Milan think that they are Italian … 🤷‍♂️

Slop like this is so annoying. The modern Greeks have copied the style of certain ancient Athenian coins but there are thousands of years of Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern Greek history between the two. But slop sells like hotcakes.

@CathyYoung63 @Quillette If it was Helen of Nairobi played by a white woman you’re article would be very different

What you were all waiting for: my take on Chris Nolan's Odyssey, the "black Helen" controversy, & cross-racial casting, at @Quillette (I swear, come at me with "What about a white Mandela?" and I will throw my replica ancient Ares statuette at you) quillette.com/2026/05/25/hom…

@ThatchEffendi Black Athena… Black Cleopatra Black Helen of Troy

"She?" Is the "she" here Helen of Troy? Are we worried what Helen of Troy would say?

@Rory_Johnston Now they tell us? No one saw the inventories… ok No one imagined they existed?

Excerpt from my latest report, 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆? 🛢️ Our normal indicators of China’s petroleum demand have collapsed, from a more than 40% reduction in crude imports to the steepest contraction in domestic Chinese refining activity since COVID-zero in 2022. 🛢️ However, mobility indicators remain robust and show minimal signs of true demand destruction, with flights, truck traffic, and road congestion all sitting at healthy levels. 🛢️ The pullback in imports far outpaces the pullback in refining runs, which, in turn, outpaces any evidence of a retrenchment in end-user activity; in addition, visible inventory data has remained flat-to-higher. 🛢️ This incongruence of flows indicates a high likelihood that the Chinese government is injecting a substantial volume of strategic petroleum stocks—both crude and finished products—into the market, providing critical supply relief to Hormuz-starved Asia and buying additional time before the scarcity panic really bites. The financial consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are accumulating slower than initially expected (read: Sanguine Strait Stoppage). One argument is that material demand destruction is already visible in one of the world’s most important markets: China. As the largest and most variable demand centre in Asia, China is very much “ground zero” for how the Hormuz Crisis is playing out. Indeed, we have already seen a measurable, 40% decrease in Chinese crude imports from 11.5 MMbpd in February to a May month-to-date average of less than 7 MMbpd. Digging in, there is a confusing assortment of volatile trade and refining data to parse. Chinese crude imports have fallen faster than refinery run rates, which have fallen faster than visible mobility data. Together, this indicates that China is likely drawing statistically invisible inventories of both crude and refined products to sustain demand. In other words, this is not true demand destruction but, rather, temporary supply relief in the same vein as the US and Japanese SPR releases, keeping the market looser than it otherwise would be right now. This highlights a more structural and analytically discomforting reality: despite unprecedented visibility into global oil inventories and seaborne trade (thanks to the proliferation of alternative data vendors), large portions of China’s oil industry remain troublingly opaque. Today, this represents the largest blind spot to the market’s collective statistical model of the oil industry. And, more urgently, this leaves the market guessing as to when China’s aggressive SPR support will be exhausted or otherwise withdrawn, which would prompt a renewed surge in upward pricing pressure. Let’s review the Chinese data that we do have—from imports through refining and on to end consumer behaviour—to get a better sense of whether this looks more like true demand destruction or mere temporary supply relief. [Link to the rest of the piece in reply below]

@Ramco0748 @turkishcy Well actually a much smaller % of people in the region speak Greek and the reason had to open new churches is because you stole the old ones

@IdiotWind6 @turkishcy If we enslaved you, why did we allow you to speak your own language and open new churches there? The Ottomans did not oppress you; on the contrary, they protected you, the Orthodox, from the oppression of the Catholics.

Typical modern Balkan mentality. Anyone who isn't like me can be killed. But if you kill me, you're barbarians 😭 Furthermore, the Turks are a much older people in that region than your Montenegrins.

@business @Pellz_ @opinion No one looking at Matt Damon play Odysseus thinking that Ancient Greeks were Irish-Americans Hope that helps!

People upset about Lupita Nyong’o being in “The Odyssey” seem strangely unbothered by Matt Damon not exactly matching the time period either, writes @Pellz_ (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@librarythingtim 300 was a comic book

The dudes who thought this a reasonable portrayal of the Achaemenid Persians are now crying foul at the accuracy of the Nolan's Odyssey.