Marc J

@RealJamesWoods Me

Do you have to use the life jacket at all?

@RealJamesWoods Clueless in Seattle

The two disparate views of Seattle pictured below might as well be of every Democrat city in America. It’s probably safe to say that everything wrong with America emanates from the moment Democrats are in power. Their sweeping corruption is the cause of a catastrophic national deficit. Their hatred of capitalism and the nuclear family is the cause of rampant crime. Their communist hatred of single family neighborhoods is the cause of desolate, dystopian shells of once prosperous urban centers. Their open border policies to gain illegal votes have rotted our once civilized culture to tatters. The glory that was America is flickering into eternal darkness. The Democrat way of life is an open wound in the gut of this once proud nation - it is a cancer and it is a curse. We are standing on the edge of an abyss, and the winds are howling from the darkness below.

@looksbizarre Prof Gilbert Murray thought that the Trojan Horse represented the memory of a siege machine, like some depicted in Assyrian art

You can literally see the Greeks through the windows. Trojans are so dumb.

@TrumpsHurricane Don’t drink the water

Richard Gere has packed up his family and moved to Spain because of President Trump. What advice do you have for him ??

@AzzurraS4 Yeah, well she was killed by her son.

This is supposed to be Clytemnestra???🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Boycott Nolan's Odyssey at ALL COSTS!!! This is pure bull****!! Wth is this??????? 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 I'm SO pissed.... This movie is absolutely trash, pathetic crap....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@PastPaulitics When Schliemann excavated Troy in the 19th century he found remains of six (or seven) settlements destroyed one after another, rising one on top of the other. Clearly the site of many battles. The Iliad is a recollection of many battles

In fact, the ancient Greeks didn't believe the Trojan War was mythology. It was, to them, the first real event in what they thought of as the historical period. Today we see it as legendary history. Even while the stories obviously contain many mythological elements, the basic story does not qualify as mythology, but as legendary history. And it does not make any sense to have a black African woman play a Spartan queen just as it would not make sense to have a Chinese man play King Arthur or an Englishman to play the part of Yu the Great, founder of the Xia dynasty of China.

@0hour1 They should have cast Hilaria (I mean Hillary)

Thank God, Alec isn't directing it. He would probably shoot the black woman.

@Z_XSophie Plus, it’s not just about respecting cultural origins. For over3,000 years Helen has been portrayed as a beautiful white woman. Casting Ms Nyong’o in the role is jarring, and detracts from the impression made by this great work of art.

The habit of labeling any objection to non-traditional casting in Greek mythological stories as “racism” completely inverts the issue. This isn’t about prejudice against Black actors or people. It’s about whether we respect the cultural origins and textual evidence of ancient Greek literature or subordinate them to modern ideological preferences. Homer’s Iliad introduces Helen with the specific epithet λευκώλενος (leukṓlenos), almost always rendered “white-armed.” She also receives descriptions tied to beautiful or lovely hair. This is not a casual detail. “White-armed” is a recurring formulaic epithet in Homer, applied to high-status women and goddesses (most famously Hera). It evokes the ancient Greek ideal of feminine beauty and nobility: fair, unblemished skin belonging to women whose arms were shielded from the sun and outdoor labor. Homer’s world explicitly distinguished Greeks from darker-skinned distant peoples, such as the Aethiopians he mentions elsewhere. Citing these descriptions is not racism. It is simply reading the text. Ancient Greek epic and art consistently depict their own heroes and heroines with Mediterranean physical characteristics—the features of the people who created these stories. Defending that fidelity does not attack anyone else’s dignity or worth. What does distort reality is the rhetorical move that treats any defense of Greek cultural specificity as bigotry. Greek myths are not a blank, universal canvas for arbitrary reinvention. They emerged from a particular civilization with its own language, aesthetics, values, and self-image. Rewriting the visual and ethnic dimensions of those stories under the banner of “inclusivity” functions as a one-directional form of cultural revisionism. Other traditions are routinely granted the courtesy of ethnic and cultural coherence in adaptations; Greek ones are often denied it. The real question is not why some people push back against these changes. It is why the changes are demanded in the first place, and why disagreement is reflexively pathologized as hatred rather than recognized as a defense of artistic and historical integrity. Homer’s world doesn’t need to be twisted to remain powerful. It already is.

@pelagiusreborn Homer never existed. Everyone knows that the Odyssey was written by AI

HOMER existed YOU don’t

@PYeerk Yeah, crazy, the Odyssey wrote itself using AI

Do you think that Homer is one of the characters?

@AaronBMacLean The late scholar Francis Cornford wrote in Thucydides Mythhistoricus that the war started because Athens had in influx of foreigners who pushed to expand trade West towards Sicily, and not because Sparta feared Athens’ growing empire.

This tweet is a public service.

@qasireu Yes, dragging your dead enemy behind you tied to your chariot seems to be a custom unique to the Greeks

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were written only for Greeks! It's not a universal epic poem, but dedicated to a specific nation and civilization. Anyone trying to distort this reality insults the Greek nation. Greeks had and always have specific phenotype characteristics!

@Wokenessisevil Spoiler alert: Watch the dog when Odysseus gets home. Note to Nolan: It’s not a poodle.

Boycotting The Odyssey is not enough. This abomination must be canceled!

Sonny Hostin thinks Greek culture is all about Greek yogurt

Sonny Hostin thinks Troy is in Africa

@bernardtjoy The Greeks had long hair because they had taken a vow not to cut it before they had taken Troy

This is true. Back in 2004 many of us were fairly critical of Troy going in because we were basing our frame of reference on the great epics of the 20th century to which this was the heir. But then we were very spoiled in those days and didn't know how bad cinema could get.

@atensnut Now do the cover my face hijab

This is DISGUSTING!! Islam loving Lululemon!! 👎🏼👎🏼

@RealDeanCain She thinks Helen of Troy is African because she thinks Troy is in Africa

🎯

@300mirrors She also thinks Greek culture is all about Greek yogurt

It's crazy that people like her believe their own stupidity. Worse that other people will believe her.

@elonmusk @HomerPavlos He might be eligible but he ain’t getting it

@HomerPavlos Accurate

Chris Nolan is a complicated man. He bowed to a dying agenda. He chose to worship it and show disrespect toward the Greeks. He could have created a masterpiece. Instead, he chose to go woke and destroy his career. Woke Hollywood is dead, and Nolan will be remembered as a weak man