Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldFae Columbo
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    3 hours ago

    Fairy folk - in traditional mythology, fairies and the like aren’t sweet little pixies, they’re very alien fellows who abide by strict-but-seemingly-arbitrary rules. To differentiate them from modern conceptions, the older term ‘fae’ is often used for traditional fairies.

    The power of words and contracts are common themes with the fae, and often in mythology knowing their ‘true name’ gives power over them, so they’re reluctant to give away that information.






  • Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.












  • The slaves were much better off. Roman empire was a slave empire.

    And the resulting polities were slave kingdoms. Wow. Much improvement.

    That’s the main reason it’s celebrated in our empire. Europeans and the founding slavers of USA looked towards roman slavery as their ideal.

    Wow, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in the past 24 hours.

    Arguing for the roman empire is like saying that USA was better before the Civil War.

    what

    Today the worship of this slave empire remains a foundation of white supremacy.

    Yes, the foundation of white supremacy was a multiracial empire which had very mixed feelings on those pale G*rmanic savages and thought of Africans and Syrians as the smartest people in the world. You nailed it.








  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldReaching across the aisle
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    16 hours ago

    The rightward shift of the GOP and the tendency of the seemingly infinite number of spineless Dem careerist politicians to seek compromise is very real, but please remember the 90s and 2000s, everyone. They were not as rosy and left-wing as you remember; while not nearly enough, the Dems are notably more left than they were then.