Ginger 🦌

Saw a Metternich quote a while back about Castlereagh’s suicide: “But what did he mean by that?” I first took this as an incredible bit, but on reflection, I think Castlereagh meant “Napoleon was right”

@RyanGeddie Oooohh I’m unleaashhingggg

He’s possessed by the spirit inside the Sword of Chiang

14th Century Arabs: “I do declare that in this here Mamluk Sultanate only the hhwhite man shall rule, never the accursed subsaharan abd!” 14th Century Europeans: “Hark, ye Chuddes, and despair! Forsooth I hath rewritten La Mort d’Arthur to include Moorish representation!”

@hellspatisserie >coastal elite >portland Just put the tents in the bag bro

i would wear milsurp more as a transgender individual in a coastal elite city but every time this image flashes in my head like the scene from Akira

Most people complaining about the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey don’t fully understand what they’re objecting to because it's deeper than they realize: As such, I'll explain. The unease they feel runs deeper than superficial complaints about “realism” or skin tone. What they can't articulate is their objection to universalizing the particular; an error characteristic of philosophical liberalism. The Odyssey is not a universal story. It is not a detachable “hero’s journey” that can be stripped of its cultural origins and modernized for contemporary audiences. Its power lies in its particularity. The audience must do the work of closing the gap; the text does not come to us. The values that animate it, xenia (reciprocal guest-friendship), oikos (the household and its obligations), mētis (cunning intelligence), kleos (glory), and timē (honor), are not interchangeable with modern liberal abstractions. They are embedded in a specific ancient Greek moral and social world. They are not timeless “human themes” floating free of context. This is why the Odyssey functions today primarily as an educational text rather than popular entertainment, as it once did. It belonged to the moral universe of ancient Greece. It does not belong to ours. Its value lies precisely in its alienness: it forces us to encounter a distinct way of thinking about justice, loyalty, hospitality, and human excellence. When critics complain that an adaptation “isn’t realistic,” they are grasping for the most accessible language to express a deeper discomfort. What actually bothers them is the erosion of cultural fidelity; the required deracination for modern audiences stripping it of its required context, which in turn strips it of all of the value that it contains. A universal Odyssey has no value. In attempting to globalize the Odyssey, they erase what remains of an already dead culture; killing even its ghost. Ancient Greece is gone, yet we have preserved its artifacts and stories not because they resemble us, but because they are different. The point of engaging with them is to contend with what is foreign, not to replace it with comforting modernity. Ancient Greece is remarkable, horrifying, marvelous, repulsive, and admirable all at once. It is not a culture we would want to inhabit, but it is one from which we still benefit by struggling to understand it on its own terms. Turning it into a generic vehicle for contemporary sensibilities performs a kind of reverse alchemy: it transforms something rare and demanding into something familiar and undemanding, thus making gold into lead.

Dreyfus affair? Who was the lucky guy?

@SwannMarcus89 Idk man I'm a long time liberal, I just don't believe in lone gunmen

Right-wingers coming up with conspiracy theories about the Charlie Kirk assassination is incredibly weird because a famous conservative figure being murdered by a Communist who was fucking a transgender furry seems like it should validate a lot of their political assumptions

@zedsamcat @kkaayyssaarr Surely this is backed by IDs right?

@kkaayyssaarr Have to be a citizen to vote in all Missouri elections

No Patrick, requiring people to learn the local language is not apartheid

@PanelJunkie @barkingyears Let’s flip the burden of questioning: Can you name a modern school of political and social thought that would think it’s a good thing for a work of art to randomly swap the essential characteristics of characters from a well established millennia old myth?

@barkingyears All that just from asking which ideology you're referring to 😭😭 it should be a pretty simple question, it's your theory after all.

The new lefty strat is to be maximally bad faith. They will ask questions that they (and everyone else) know the answers to. (See quoted tweet) They will demand proof of things that everyone knows. "Unless you can provide me with documentary evidence from a source that I will accept while on this call/panel, then I refuse to believe that there have EVER been any displays or endorsements of kink at any PRIDE parade anywhere. In fact, unless you can prove it in the next five seconds, I refuse to believe that anyone at said parades has ever done anything that would not be appropriate in any corporate office in America." They will shamelessly abuse language, disappearing between the cracks of linguistic ambiguities so they can derail the conversation. Think Destiny pretending not to understand what the word "unprecedented" meant in his conversation with Konstantine Kisin. The point is to exhaust you and waste your time. Don't let them do this. The moment that they do any of these things, the conversation is over. These people are not entitled to your time when all they have earned is your contempt.

@Bob_Somebody021 Because it actually resulted in impeachment and resignation it got a reputation as The scandal par excellence—Nixon the crook, etc etc. It’s a bit of a sad joke bc in spite of his many problems he was a more honorable man than those who came before or after

@Bob_Somebody021 Watergate (a failed burglary of DNC offices) was a setup designed to get caught and drag Nixon under. His (legitimately impeachable) crime was to try to covering it up. But if we’re adults we understand that presidents regularly do more and worse and go unpunished

To this day I have no idea what actually happened with Watergate, so I assume it wasn't a big deal because if it were a big deal people would refer to the actual events. I suspect they don't do so because they know most people today would react with "that's it???"

@paul_hundred Pugh does a great job of capturing the book character’s desires, motivations, and reservations, happy she got casted for it

She’s the product of a ten thousand year breeding program, but it’s a breeding program run by women, so they’re chunning out 4’s and being like “she’s STUNNING” and just using their psychic powers to steamroll objections.

We urgently need to capture one of these and reverse engineer it, this is like an Enigma machine situation but worse

That's my Kant. My Kantitative

@LukeFHan Yssaril going Warsuns next to Yin? A dubious choice my good sir

This is how Mormons have fun with no alcohol. I highly recommend!

Why didnt biden just do this

@JohnWakefieId I had the luck to meet my first good boss at 24, incredible feeling to not answer to morons, never been more motivated to create shareholder family

It's amazing the impact even a crumb of proper gainful employment can have on a man

@lt_hill_1 @StylesMahone2 @EchoesofEmpire_ Watergate was a setup, it was designed to fail get caught and drag him under. Nixon’s crime was to try covering it up. This is a legitimately impeachable offense but if we are not toddlers we understand that presidents do far far worse regularly. Reagan/Bush 2 should’ve hanged 🤷‍♂️

@StylesMahone2 @EchoesofEmpire_ Wasn't he corrupt? I mean you don't resign because you feel like it

Richard Nixon buying melons at a Moscow market. 1992