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@pashadelics @NickSzabo4 Yep guess it’s all over 🥱 lol hilarious

The USA is 250 years old this July and instead of launching a Lincoln/FDR scale rejuvenation of the country for another 250 years of glory, has instead chosen to vindicate every theorist of cyclical history by self-detonating the empire right on the semiquincentennial mark.

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

@oliviakrolczyk_ 2 years Dagestan

Bring back bullying

One of the strangest episodes in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus and his men arrive at the island of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing dramatic seems to happen there at first. No monsters appear, no storms rise, no battle begins. Odysseus sends a few men inland to see who lives there. They meet the Lotus-Eaters, who offer them the fruit of the lotus plant. The fruit is not poisonous and it does not harm the body. What it does instead is erase desire. Anyone who eats it loses the will to return home. The men who taste it suddenly stop caring about Ithaca, their families, or the long journey waiting for them. They do not panic or go mad. They simply want to stay where they are, eating lotus and letting the days pass. When Odysseus finds them, they are calm and content. They do not want to leave the island at all. In a way it would have been easy for Odysseus to let them remain there. The island is peaceful and the men seem happy enough. But Odysseus understands what has happened. The lotus has taken away the one thing that keeps the entire journey alive: the desire to go home. Without that desire the voyage ends. So Odysseus drags the men back to the ships by force. Homer describes them weeping and protesting as they are carried away and tied down to the benches of the ship so they cannot escape. Only once everyone is secured does Odysseus order the ships to push back into the sea. It is a small story compared to the Cyclops or the Sirens, but it reveals something important about the Odyssey. The greatest dangers Odysseus faces are not always monsters or storms. Sometimes they are places where life becomes so comfortable that a man forgets what he was trying to do in the first place.

@iamAtheistGirl You’re more than free to go live in a country white men didn’t build lol hurry up now

white men are the most dangerous demographic on the planet

@mattxiv @ZohranKMamdani Oh for the love of Christ smh, when’s the meteor coming??

first ramadan at city hall, thank you mr mayor for showing this jew how it’s done. there is so much hatred in the world but not in this room

Not wanting to be blown up or shot by radical terrorists screaming "Allahu Akbar" is not Islamophobia. It’s a rational response to real, repeated violence. Stop weaponizing the word "phobia" to shut down every conversation the Left cannot win. You do not get to redefine common sense as bigotry.

@BrandonStraka @BillAckman The part people are missing from this is the severe degree of his TDS. He had no clue who that quote was spoken by, but since Trump is in office and the circumstance with Iran he jumped at the chance to try and dunk on Trump and it massively backfired making him look foolish.

Maher: “The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.” Schiff: “Totally vague.” Maher: “...that’s from Obama about Libya.”

@allenanalysis I know isnt it marvelous! 💪🏼

🚨 The White House just posted a video of sinking an Iranian warship in international waters. Their caption: “This Iranian warship thought it was safe in international waters. It wasn’t.” They’re bragging about it. Publicly. From the official White House account. Attacking a vessel in international waters is a violation of international law. The same international law Canada and Spain just publicly demanded be respected. CNN is being told what to show. The White House is posting kill shots like highlight reels.

@luvleyjazmin Damn Princess Jasmine, Alexander was right 😍

sorry not sorry

@grey4626 God damn! That was withering bravo 👏🏼 it’s past time Spain gets a kick in the ass, once things settle down with Iran we need to make an example out of Spain for the other frivolous Western Europe “allies” to observe and think very hard on their future.

Spain...and your sniveling socialist cunt of a Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez... You just banned American strikes on Iran from Rota and Morón...the very bases we built, we maintain, we pour billions into...claiming some UN Charter fairy-tale bullshit while 15 U.S. aircraft lift off and head elsewhere because your leftist ass won't let us use what keeps your Mediterranean doorstep from turning into a jihadi playground. "Unilateral action," you whine? "De-escalation"? That's not principle, you spineless virtue-signaling prick. That's the psychology of the weak: a second-rate power with a third-rate spine, hiding behind "international law" while sucking the tit of the only real superpower that's kept your sorry ass safe since the 1953 agreements. Rota isn't some fucking rental...it's the gateway to the Med, controlling the Strait of Gibraltar choke point, home to six Aegis BMD destroyers, 6th Fleet logistics, the largest fuel and weapons depot in Europe, piers that launch ops into Africa and the Middle East. Morón? Tanker hub, rapid air response, the logistics backbone that lets us project lethal force east without refueling in hostile skies. We turned those Spanish rocks into American steel and American power projection. You? You just handed Iran and every terror proxy a propaganda win and a tactical edge because your ideology demands you kneel to the mullahs and the UN while we bleed for it. And the free-ride psychology is textbook: Sánchez and his EU socialist ilk get rock-hard from anti-American posturing. It plays to the domestic woke base, the migrant hordes you've invited in, the virtue-signalers who scream "no blood for oil" but sleep under the American nuclear umbrella and NATO shield they refuse to fund. Spain...NATO's eternal deadbeat at 1.24% GDP defense spending until you grudgingly crawled to 2.1% and still opted out of the 5% target Trump forced on everyone else. Lowest spender in the alliance. Again. You want the protection, the deterrence, the market access, the billions our bases pump into your economy...but when it's time to stand with the big dog against a nuclear-aspiring terror state? "No, gracias. Not in accordance with international law." Newsflash, you ungrateful fucks: the law of the jungle doesn't give a shit about your resolutions. We protected Europe from the Nazis, from the Soviets, from Putin’s shadow now...with American blood, American treasure, American bases you treat like disposable Airbnb. Spain sat out WWII, cozied up to Franco-era neutrality that only survived because we didn't let Stalin roll west. Now here you are, 2026, biting the hand that feeds your entire security architecture while courting the very Islamists flooding your streets and destabilizing your south. Perhaps Spain needs to find out. Perhaps we stop protecting Europe in all capacities. Pull every last American asset, every ship, every airframe, every dollar. Let Russia test the flanks, let China eye the Med routes, let your migrant experiment meet reality without the U.S. 6th Fleet babysitting. America First means we don't subsidize freeloaders who stab us in the back the second their leftist feelings get hurt. Tariffs on your olives and your wine, diplomatic freeze, bases renegotiated or shuttered...watch your economy crater, your "alliance" evaporate, your streets burn when the wolves you appeased turn on you. We built the post-war order. We can unbuild the parts that coddle parasites. Sánchez, you're not a leader...you're a symptom. Weak men create hard times, and your brand of venomous anti-American socialism is lethal to nations that forget who actually keeps the lights on and the barbarians at the gate. FIND THE FUCK OUT. 💀🗡️

@fofolifoo Princess Jasmine 😍

@plies Just put the fries in the bag Plies and shut up thanks

🤣🤣🤣 So He Got Y’all Sons & Daughters In Another War???? 🇺🇸 The Story Broke The DOJ Had Removed Documents Of A 13 Year Old Girl Saying She Was Sexually Assaulted By Him & BOOM! He Pushes The War Bottom!!! I’ll Say It Again America U Deserved Dis. U Voted For HATE & HATE U Got!!

@caitoz A hissy fit every privileged white leftist woman can be proud of lol

Fuck the US. Fuck Israel. Fuck Trump. Fuck Netanyahu. Fuck Zionism. Fuck Trump supporters. Fuck the Republican Party. Fuck the Democratic Party. Fuck war. Fuck everyone who helped make this war possible. Fuck the western press. Fuck warmongering think tanks. Fuck the Israel lobby. Fuck the military-industrial complex. Fuck the western intelligence cartel. Fuck the western empire. I hate everyone who inflicted this nightmare upon my species. If you stand by this senseless US-Israeli act of depravity, then I consider you an enemy. And I will never stop reminding everyone of the psychotic agenda you supported. You own this. This is on you. It's on you forever.

@RashidaTlaib I’m glad you used “they” when referring to the US. Cause you are certainly not what anyone would classify as a real US Citizen

Both the U.S. and genocidal Israel doesn't care about the laws. This is who they are.

@matthewstoller This is such a low rent uncritical ridiculously stupid tweet. Considering trumps term isn’t even half over. Truly pathetic

If you voted for Trump the only honorable response is ‘I’m so sorry.’ Don’t want to say that? Fine. But you have no credibility.

What did we miss?

@JamieBonkiewicz @ConceptualJames iron law of woke projection?

“I’m not really political” just means “I’m fine with the bad things happening because they’re not happening to me.”

@hlrule 🥱

More from Kelly Pannek: "With the phone call specifically, it's not surprising, to be frank. So, I don't know why we expect differently? But I think for us it's also just about getting back to the focus on our team and what our team accomplished... dominant hockey."

@broadwaybabyto Not really but sure, go ahead and run with it lol y’all are exhausting 😂 🇺🇸

The US women’s hockey team got a fancy meal in Milan with Stanley Tucci. The Men’s Team got McDonalds in the White House with a dictator. The women are the winners here. Thank you Stanley Tucci. A class act all the way.