Thats more Athens. Sparta wasnt even a village, it was three hamlets and was almost run neoliberal and build on a perpetual enslaved class. Sparta became a myth and a tourist trap for romans and were defeated by an army of consensual similarly aged gay lovers.
Sinisterium
joined 1 week ago
OG Orientalism was about the Byzantines and the struggle for self-determination during the greek papacy, when rome was a backwater under east roman control. Especially once east rome adopted iconoclasm to stop the rise of islam, which raised an huge issue, since icons were a beloved tradition of roman culture. Of course romans believed in goldilocks "racism", with the south being nerdy frail femboys and the north being dumb overmanly brutes with big dicks (yes), and the romans being the perfect middle ground.
This caused the fractured between the decadent effeminate emotional greeks vs the temperate stoic masculine latins. This was transferred to the muslims and then east asia. The tropes are basically the same across the times.
Back then they actually hoped for technology aiding in the liberation of the human spirit, instead of the daily dread of what torment nexus is going to be implemented next.
Imaging wanting a unique style and unique aesthetic instead of Pinterest copy-paste all beige/grey.
Fascism is a death cult, so yes.
He is basically the only candidate that is hwhite but can appeal to the global south (the actual relevant place for the catholic church), thats why his "peruaness" is so emphasized and he used spanish instead of english.
He named himself after a famous pro-worker (in the cronge socdem way) pope. I doubt he is fond of china due to the muh evul cpu state-enforced atheism.
They literally had to steal food from the Nauset of Meeshawn to survive. Even funnier when only three years prior a lot of the local native population died due to spanish slave raiders introducing plagues, leaving essentially cultivated farmland and villages for the pilgrims to settle, but they still croaked en mass.
Netanyahu is an american citizen by birth. The us is not a "foreign" country to him, and just like the average american expects civil service from that government, so does he.
Trump values only himself, Biden values the empire. There are accidental alignments present only one of the two, where harm is being reduced. The mere act of trump stepping on the institutions of america and devaluing it in the eyes of americans and other countries, is an act of harm reduction.
Congratulations for making it the most obvious of genocides, even for the "its not a genocide unless the people doing are 30s nazis!". Nonetheless, it remains a topic of debate.
They also had a shrinking class of Spartiates, because spartan citizens had to pay for their own training & equipment.