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Fox the Mutt

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Logan 🐛
Logan 🐛@iGoBySgt·
@lecsdrai note: my comment was lowkey ragebaity but i just woke up so forgive me lol cuz i do agree with you. my great uncle was drafted to vietnam and was forced to do heinous shit with agent orange or get discharged. it’s ultimately what killed him too.
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nana ²⁹ mj biopic era
@iGoBySgt the comments and quotes are frying my ass but at the same time make me realize they'll be talking like this about IDF soldiers in the future
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D-E-Harris
D-E-Harris@D_E_Harris_Best·
@mutt_fox @planefag I was a CO in Tennessee just a few years ago, before I left due to scheduling disputes.
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D-E-Harris
D-E-Harris@D_E_Harris_Best·
@planefag I don’t want him to go to prison. He’s more useful to the Right alive, free and running his mouth, than he is getting shanked by skinhead who slipped the lock to his cell when the CO was distracted by his celly.
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Drego Studios
Drego Studios@DregoStudios·
@StoneyAsbologna @planefag " You should kill Rick Scott". " America deserved 911." Those are just two. And consideting the flag on your profile, you already know what he has said. And I'm willing to bet you support his views.
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Fox the Mutt
Fox the Mutt@mutt_fox·
@vidsthatgohard Can yall just let me fuckin eat? Waffle House is so good and it’s just a joke to yall.
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Thomistic Disputations
Thomistic Disputations@TDisputations·
@cstrategist1 So just sit on the couch and watch as they rape your wife and kill your kids? I think the recent foreign wars we are accustomed to has kind of sanitized our idea of what war really is. I’m not talking about a duty to die for oil in the Middle East.
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bongle
bongle@Bongl0id·
@souljagoyteller I think Lee is rated pretty much exactly where he should be, nobody considers him one of the greats
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Fox the Mutt
Fox the Mutt@mutt_fox·
@olivertraldi I agree. I also think it’s a good perspective. There’s a hundred translations out there and it’s nice to have a different perspective. As Wilson herself says, every translation makes choices. I like seeing as many perspectives on the original Greek as possible. Keeps us thinking
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Oliver Traldi
Oliver Traldi@olivertraldi·
This is actually a great example of the translation's perspective. Wilson removes Achilles's "godlike" modifier and uses the psychologizing "yearned" (compare other translations: "charioteering on", "pressed on"). She calls his hands "lethal" (compare "strong", "all-conquering").
Paul McLeod@pdmcleod

Part of what's silly about the Emily Wilson fuss is people on twitter talk as if her Homer translations have the Greeks all go to therapy and work out their differences over cups of soy ambrosia and then you actually read her verse and it's metal as hell

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Roman Helmet Guy
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
@GenHeres123 God creates great men. God works through great men. That’s Great Man Theory.
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Roman Helmet Guy
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
Homer is the original Great Man Theorist of history. He’s not telling you the Trojans lost the war because of climate change. He’s telling you the tale of Hector, Odysseus, and Achilles.
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Fox the Mutt
Fox the Mutt@mutt_fox·
@shellenberger Moron. It’s not about property rights, it’s about Xenia, or hospitality. How a host treats his guests and how a guest treats his host in turn. It’s about the fundamental glue that hold society together: hospitality to strangers, and promised reciprocity.
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Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger·
Odysseus isn't really a hero, a progressive 2017 translation implies. But he is, and the moral of his story is in part about the importance of property rights, which are foundational to Western civilization. Little wonder, then, that the academic Left wages war on "The Odyssey."
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger

Controversy has erupted over Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation of Homer’s poem The Odyssey, which arrives in the wake of a contested 2017 translation by Emily Wilson, a classics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Critics of Wilson’s translation argue that she has rewritten Odysseus from a hero into a morally suspect figure. Nolan cast a black actress, Lupita Nyong’o, to play the Mediterranean woman Helen of Troy, prompting criticisms of hypocrisy and racism from Elon Musk and others. It is inconceivable that Hollywood would today use a white actor to play a black character, and yet the media applauds when white characters are played by black actors. Isabella Reinhardt, an assistant professor of classics at the University of Austin, and my colleague, disagrees with some of Wilson’s choices. For example, Wilson translates polytropos, which Homer uses to describe Odysseus, as a “complicated man,” where Robert Fagles, in his 1996 translation, renders it as a “man of twists and turns.” The choice is representative of Wilson’s depiction of Odysseus as something other than heroic. Reinhardt, who recorded a podcast with me last week, received her PhD in the same Penn classics department where Wilson teaches. “I do think Odysseus is not a perfect hero,” says Reinhardt, “but he is the hero. Her translation strays into a negative view of Odysseus that’s not entirely warranted....” Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the full article, and watch the full podcast!

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