Also, Caesar was a progressive! Obviously not in the sense of modern social progressivism, but in the Roman political system he was considered a progressives. The conspirators were all *Optimates*, old corrupt conservatives who wanted to maintain the status quo that made them rich. Caesar purged corruption, reformed the grain dole so that it actually benefited the poor, and actively went against the byzantine (an ironic word to use, I know) political structures of Rome and gave much more power to the populace during his terms as Consul.
okay istg if one of you does #america on my posts again im biting.
JULIUS CAESAR is NOT like trump! Julius caesar got stabbed by rich guys for supporting the people, regular people fucking loved julius. The guys that killed caesar were run out of Rome! because everyone was so mad about it! and trump just fucking sucks.
also im not american.
no I actually hate kids.
you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.
you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.
you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.
you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.
You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.
it’s crazy that people make fun of the right for engaging in conspiracy theories, then turn around and write shit like “the government is EVIL and trying to hurt YOU PERSONALLY with EVERYTHING THEY DO”
Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc
why the FUCK would you have cheese or butter with vegetables that so gross. in a just universe those two foods should never come in contact with each other.
diet talk is so inexpressibly nonsensical the instant you know anything about "the human body" or "nutrition" or if you think about it for three seconds
The purpose of art is to provide the world with beauty. Brutalism is not beautiful. Neoclassical and futurist architecture are. QED, brutalism is bad architecture. Not everything has to be about class struggle or whatever bullshit.
Art should be promoted and celebrated based on artistic merit, not politics. Tradition should be rejected when it is harmful to society - for example, I believe that the Catholic Church should be destroyed because it is a major wellspring of conservativism. But I do not want to tear down Notre-Dame or Saint Peter’s Basilica. The harm is not being caused by the beautiful buildings, but instead the people who inhabit them.
do you ever think about the guard on the docks of Seyda Neen? do you ever think about how tired he must be of his job by now?
I’m sure it was terrifying at first, watching the stranger get off the boat, come up him, and morph their race and body and gender as he watched. but then it happened again, and again, the same ship arriving over and over, the same stranger getting off, him telling them the same lie - “I’m sure you’ll fit right in.”
by now, he’s just tired. he’s been doing the same job for twenty years. watching the boats get fewer and fewer, the time spent waiting between strangers get longer and longer. now, he waits with bated breath for the day that the final boat comes in, the final stranger begins their journey, and he can go home.
The difference is that, yknow, the bbc isn’t funded by an autocratic fascist government. England is not a police state with a vested interest in keeping its citizens misinformed. Russia… is.
rt is propaganda because it funded by russian government but bbc, australian broadcasting corporation, npr, korean broadcasting system, svt, television new zealand, radio canada, npo and france 24 totally objective source of informative news despite also being state funded. great work today everyone hit the showers
this shit is why they failed to conquer the world. too busy making egg-related devices to beat Russia.
this is like. demonstrably false. tribal hunter-gatherer societies objectively had more leisure time than civilized ones. when our ancestors settled in the Fertile Crescent, they didn’t do so because it was easier.
the promise of civilization is food security. farming is objectively more work - but it’s certain that you will get food at the end.
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people not seeing lottienat is so funny to me when lottie canonically spends her whole life desperately trying to keep nat alive and then when nat dies lottie immediately goes "right okay time to ragebait a teenager into killing me"
Montagnard, Liberal, Radical, transfem. Autocrats of all stripes are not welcome here, be you fascist, communist, or monarchist. Current obsessions:YellowjacketsYes MinisterTESThe French RevolutionPoetry
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