@legitnews100 @TrevorOfficialR @Howlingmutant0 Yes people can go to jail over memes and not like in the UK. They are simple systems of thought meant to represent but often replacing complex truths.
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@simpsonryan32 @TrevorOfficialR @Howlingmutant0 Weird that you plead guilty to a meme and spend almost 20 years in jail over a meme
Its also not up to interpretation since there is just about as much evidence for Charlie Kirks microphone exploding than there is for a George Floyd OD
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Remember that their pleas for empathy are always insincere, you don’t even have to dig very deep
Bobby Fakename, Esq.@BobFakeNameEsq
It takes a genuinely depraved mind and soul to watch this and not think this person comes off as anything other than sympathetic. She’s literally saying she will play by your rules, she just wants to be left alone when she does. And still that’s not enough. Still she’s mocked.
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@Carrot_breath @knoxianjv @Sundellier Ancient Greek women were veiled and in homes that could afford it had an entire section to themselves, the gynaeceum. The separation and covering of women is a Near Eastern custom far older than Islam.
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@simpsonryan32 @knoxianjv @Sundellier Where the f*ck did you get the idea that they covered up like muslim women? 😅
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Essa imagem é engraçada pq no conto Aquiles era tão andrógeno que pra evitar de ser chamado pra guerra ele se escondeu com um grupo de mulheres e so descobriram quem ele era porque era a unica mulher interessada em armas
Entao tecnicamente o Elliot ta mais correto ai kkkkkkkk
Fabiano Dominus@FabianoDominus
@GoodNerd23 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK, melhor não assistirem Tróia, pois comparar Aquiles com ''FRAQUILES'' vai doer, rsrsrsrsrs.
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@knoxianjv @Sundellier Yeah I think the only reason that story worked was because Achilles was still young and didn't have the size of a grown man and people aren't aware that ancient Greek women were often completely covered in front of strangers, much like Muslim women today.
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@Sundellier Não há uma única passagem que diz que Aquiles era androgeno. Mas que ele era tão alto que em um exército, priam avistava ele de tão alto que era. Além de imponente, loiro e de ombros e peito largos. O oposto de androgeno. Mas você é burra e nunca leu, mas quer dar opinião. Clbc
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@_theorycel @bathtapsqueegee The Iliad manages to bridge the gap between the divine, eternal world of the gods to the suffering and death of mortal men in the person of Achilles. It shows us that for all their power we are braver than the gods when we embrace our destined fate without fear.
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@bathtapsqueegee The Iliad also just has far better characters, interplay with the divine element, ending, and effectively every other aspect.
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The suitors’ story, especially how the final battle with them is handled (it feels like a shitty superhero movie) and the narrative structure of the Odyssey in general place it significantly below the Iliad for me.
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@CrowofLove1 @bumbadum14 Well if you're talking about adult converts it seems like they're probably right to be suspicious. It's famously not a proselytizing religion and can be quite onerous if observed seriously.
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@simpsonryan32 @bumbadum14 A sample size of one is not the most helpful.
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Nick Fuentes had his entire career nuked because Kassie Dillon secretly recorded him saying he thought interracial dating between whites and blacks was icky.
Meanwhile this dude wrote an entire article under his name about how reprehensible it was for Jews to interbreed and is now VP at Manhattan Institute.
Jesse Arm@Jesse_Leg
I like cops, landlords, billionaires, data centers, Palantir, Amazon, Israel, and cilantro.
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@legitnews100 @TrevorOfficialR @Howlingmutant0 Yes, memes are essentially competing ideas or views of reality. Since the truth is messy and subject to interpretation both Floyd dying of an overdose and being murdered by Chauvin are memes, attempts to sway opinion and summarize the event.
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@simpsonryan32 @TrevorOfficialR @Howlingmutant0 So it was just a "meme" that George Floyd died from fentanyl?
good to know
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@TrevorOfficialR @legitnews100 @Howlingmutant0 Yeah, most of the Floyd memes only hit if you really hate black people. But the chuds seem to at least have some creativity, spiteful as it is. The progressive responses always seems to boil down to "I'm rubber and you're glue".
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@justin62854365 @sammycore333 "Transphobe" brings up visions of a cruel bigot but in common usage it means anyone who doesn't accept that social acceptance is the correct treatment for that particular idée fixe, so maybe this person's intellectualism has them accept the label despite their lack of hate.
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@sammycore333 They applied the "reality vs feelings" approach to their own feelings, weighed against the perspective of your reality. A rare triumph of intellectualism
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@AnthonyCumia I mean rock is dead and air fryers have been the "it" kitchen appliance for some time so maybe you've got a point. Anyway the heyday of standup comedy was like 30-40 years ago so now they're all like kids playing in the shallow end.
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We had him on staff at CompoundMedia but I wasn’t thrilled with his brand of humor. Too controversial. I don’t think humor has a place where race, religion and sexuality are concerned. He’s the latest “fad”. Like Rock and Roll or microwave ovens. It’ll pass. You’ll see.
Variety@Variety
Shane Gillis has made comedy history and broken the Guinness World Record for the most tickets sold for a comedy show by a solo comedian, with 76,212 tickets sold for his July 17 show in Philadelphia. variety.com/2026/tv/news/s…
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@legitnews100 @TrevorOfficialR @Howlingmutant0 God you fuckers can't meme worth a shit. That will never pick up traction because it's obviously derivative in a bad way and isn't even funny. It's not just smarmy comebacks there's an art to it. "George Droid" worked because it's an absurdist fantasy as well as racist. Do better
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@TrevorOfficialR @Howlingmutant0 Charlie Kirk died from a fentanyl overdose
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@Howlingmutant0 Recently, while discussing capital punishment, I was surprised to find that many death penalty abolitionists suddenly came to the desire that the state unjustly execute me for the crime of disagreeing with them. I think technically that means I'm converting them to my side.
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@CrowofLove1 @bumbadum14 My mother is not ethnically Jewish but her "conversion" occurred shortly after her birth and adoption by a childless Jewish couple and no one has ever challenged her right to call herself a Jew.
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@simpsonryan32 @bumbadum14 Ethnic Jews have their own opinions about whites who convert and larp as Jews.
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@SaycheeseDGTL Should have shot him when he was getting out from under the bed. Definitely not in the back of the head. The law doesn't really care about this guy but you got to give them some plausibility that you didn't straight up murder him, it's their job to look into that.
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36-year-old Memphis mom is charged with first-degree murder after police say she shot a 20-year-old man in the back of the head after returning home and discovering him hiding under her 13-year-old daughter’s bed. The girl told investigators that she invited him over.
According to reports, he was leaving the home when he was shot in the back of his head on the porch.
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@princessshay013 @MissSassbox I should really scroll down before saying things.
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@MissSassbox Ok so I read this before seeing the picture so for a minute I thought your dad cracked the pervert dudes skull in 2 then somehow took it home and used it as an ashtray lol
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watched my dad hit somebody in the head hard enough to crack this MF in two and the entire room gasped and went silent. my dad just told me at the time he was a "bad guy" and I never questioned it, I was like 5 or 6.
never learned until years later that the creep was playing in my hair while we stood in line and my dad caught him but never said a word or got loud. just got active. he took the two pieces home, glued them together and used the ashtray for almost 20 years.
Doctora La Jefa con la salsa@Mahogany_Mama
@Sibil_27 It's an amber McDonald's ashtray out there!
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@MissSassbox I didn't see the image at first and thought this was a story about how your Dad hit a man hard enough to split his skull in two and then used the pieces as an ashtray. I was wondering what country he was the brutal warlord of.
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@FortressLugh @NathanielKristo It's been a while but isn't the ending "Athena gave everyone amnesia so they didn't all kill Odysseus for slaughtering their sons"? I can see how that wouldn't be satisfying.
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@NathanielKristo Of course he can't show the real ending because it is entirely inconsistent with his "defy the gods" BS.
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The Odyssey ends with the strangers who had violated the laws of hospitality being slaughtered.
Christopher Nolan Archives@NolanAnalyst
Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey is ultimately about the idea that a society can only function through respect for strangers. He believes that, despite 3,000 years passing since Homer, that fundamental truth about human nature hasn’t changed.
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@Gatablanca27 @SydSteyerhart @darkwanderer64 I don't see why Achilles can't mean both, the liar in his grand tent and the liar sent to treat with him.
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@SydSteyerhart @darkwanderer64 But he says that about AGAMEMNON, not Odysseus, in the scene Odysseus comes with Diomedes (I think) to tell Achilles that Agamemnon has deal for him, and Achilles says that line about agammenon
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The Romans hated the Odyssey. They thought Odysseus was a womanish cretin for the betrayals and the constant lying and they considered him on the level of a prostitute, or an actor.
Interestingly, this is also what Achilles thought of Odysseus in the ILLIAD.
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@morallawwithin I believe the main issue is that the change from first names being compound words rather than sounds we use to identify ourselves taken from other languages or made up happened so long ago for most cultures that a name being an intelligible word, with a few exceptions, is bizarre
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i never understood this joke tbh—not surprised it’s a translation issue
Christopher Nolan Archives@NolanAnalyst
Christopher Nolan revealed that he wanted to include the famous “Nobody” wordplay from Homer’s The Odyssey in the film but ultimately couldn’t make it work. The joke relies on Odysseus telling Polyphemus that his name is “Nobody,” so when the Cyclops cries, “Nobody is attacking me!”, the others leave, thinking nothing is wrong. According to Nolan, the pun simply didn’t translate naturally into modern dialogue.
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@blightersort A different novella, "Apt Pupil", in which the protagonist bonds with a former Nazi living undercover by murdering homeless men and has wet dreams about being a concentration camp guard. It's extremely graphic and disturbing and I wouldn't stock it at a school either.
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@blightersort I recently saw an article about how a Stephen King book was banned from the library of a 7th-12th grade school. They mentioned that one of the novellas in the book was made into the movie "The Shawshank Redemption". They didn't mention the likely reason for the ban.
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the "book ban" re-definition is the most egregious example of motte-and-bailey-ing in recent memory.
the motte is "book bans" as nazi stuff. erasing books from existence based on ideology.
the bailey is "book bans" as "you won't let me give literally any book i want to to any child as part of publicly funded education"
and obviously the bailey position is absurd.
even more absurd is that the same people who will protest these fake "book bans" are also in favor of actual "erase from existence" style bans for Dr. Suess books they find objectionable.
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>banning books is what nazis did! it's super evil!
totally. glad we don't have that here.
>but we do! the book Gender Queer is among the most banned!
is it? i thought i saw it prominently displayed at a table in the front of the store last time i was in Barnes and Noble?
>ugh, dumb chud. "book ban" means someone somewhere said it wasn't appropriate for public school teachers to give to kids! don't you know anything?
umm, is that what the nazis did? i thought they had like book bonfires, not just reasonable community oversight of content suitable for children...
PoIiMath@politicalmath
This is part of the reason we have to keep talking about it: Because many people keep lying about it. There was plenty of enacted censorship. Netflix pulled an episode of Community from streaming. The company that prints 30 Rock physical media quietly removed several episodes from the DVD and Blu-Rays prints. Six Dr Seuss books were discontinued, pulled from bookstore shelves, and banned from 3rd party sales on eBay and Amazon. Now, near as I can tell, most of the censorship has been undone. The offending Community and 30 Rock episodes are available on streaming again. You are finally allowed to sell your copy of "On Beyond Zebra" on eBay. But there has not really been any reckoning for any of this. There is no institutional infrastructure to keep it from happening again. People like @gabewildau put forth the standard left-wing line, which is "It was mildly embarrassing, also you're exaggerating what happened, stop talking about it." I don't see why we should stop talking about it when the left is still flogging the idea that taking a book with pornographic images out of an elementary school library is a "book ban"
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