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cyber-feline · 9 months
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Out of all chapters in Machiavelli’s The Prince, I did not expect the one that says: “DO NOT RELY ON MERCENARIES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES” to be still relevant in our day and age, but I guess here we are?
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shinisenko · 9 months
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deadpresidents · 9 months
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merovingian-marvels · 4 months
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Birka’s warrior woman
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This grave was found on Birka (Björko) in 1878. The grave contained human remains, remains from two horses, bowls, weaponry, a shield(boss), a chess game and saddle stirrups. The burial room was built in wood. Most likely the person was buried seated, with the bones collapsing on themselves. Some remains of textile were found.
The assumption that the person was a man was quickly made and the “high status burial of a Viking warrior” was often cited in research.
It would take until 2017 when both osteological and genetic testing proved the person was in fact a woman. To this day it is the only genetically and archaeologically proven female warrior from the Viking age.
The reason I say genetically AND archaeologically is because it is assumed that gender was a very loose concept in the Germanic age. Biological gender wasn’t necessarily denied, but there are indications that people would take on “the role” of the other gender. A woman could “step up” as a man’s son, as seen in blood feud tales where the patriarch is killed, but if there is no son to avenge him, a woman would “take up the role” and set out, armed for revenge.
Biologically male individuals have been found with “female” attributes such as beads, pendants and certain decoration styles.
From the limited amount of research there is, it seems possible that cross-dressing, gender fluidity and gender role exchange were very normal before mass christianization.
Excavated by: Hjalmar Stolpe
Found in: Birka, Björko, Ekerö - Sweden
Drawing by: Hjalmar Stolpe
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pactii · 9 months
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So what was that all about lol.
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mysharona1987 · 7 months
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Putin is terrible but credit to him for doing something other than “mysteriously fell out of a high window.”
Really speaks for how he’s grown creatively.
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scherzokinn · 7 months
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Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out - Composers Edition!
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bundibird · 9 months
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So there's been an update on the russia situation.
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musikcore · 11 days
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Real life composers and their ClassicaLoid version.
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redjaybathood · 9 months
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Have you heard Wagner rebellion? What do you think about it? What does it mean and is there now 3 sides in the war?
Heard. Please understand that Wagner is a Neo Nazi private military company that committed atrocities in Syria, helped to steal Central African gold, and more, on Ru government behalf. They're not rebelling, this is a mutiny. Official reason for which is that Russian military isn't killing Ukrainians efficiently enough. That's just to make it seem justified, but you already understand those are not the rebels.
Based on past reports of Wagner and regular Russian army were competing for munition and fuel, their arresting Ru army officers, infighting, and also based on my experience of seeing the Russian proxies infighting in Luhansk region in 2014 and the subsequent assassination of Mozgovoy, the fucker whose armed drunks were stationed in my town... Yeah no. The cook realized he's expendable and his car gonna go in flames at some point soon, tries to bargain with Putin, still gonna get nixxed.
Hope Wagner and Russian army kill as many of each other as they can before that. Good luck to them both in this.
So tldr, no, there are no three sides.
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parmandil · 9 months
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It’s easy for Wagner-haters to deal with his legacy: reject the work, reject the man. And it’s easy for bigots: reject the oversensitive critics’ concerns, for the sake of the art. But after several decades in which the Festival has led the way in its own evisceration, many Wagnerians are Just So Over The Nazi Thing.
Some people fall over themselves to get their references to the anti-Semitism up front and out of the way, so they can establish liberal bona fides, before moving on to the stuff that really matters. It’s a rhetorical reversal of Godwin’s Law: Why, of course Bayreuth was manipulated by the Nazis! But it was Winifred’s doing—she wasn’t a Wagner by blood—and Richard Wagner was dead long before the 1930s, so it wasn’t his fault. Why, of course Wagner wrote propaganda on tropes that were still current at the time of Kristallnacht—but the music is pure, the actual notes can’t be anti-Semitic. Why, uh, well, of course the actual notes in “Parsifal” include Christian devotional motifs to underscore the anti-Semitic themes of Jewish blood impurity and the Wandering Jew…but but but….
I’m disturbed by Slavoj Žižek’s “Why is Wagner Worth Saving,” a 2005 foreword to Theodor Adorno’s In Search of Wagner (1952), in which he declares that critiques of anti-Semitic representations in the operas are wrongheaded and superficial, because they fail to decode the real question of how the “‘Jew’ itself” is simply a cipher for the “‘original’ social antagonism” of “the most elementary disgust, repulsion felt by the ego when confronted with the intruding foreign body.” It’s like he’s never heard that scapegoats get killed.
I’m disturbed by a piece in The Guardian that bemoans the archive disclosures. “The danger of Bayreuth publicising its dirty washing like this is that the link between Wagner and Hitler turns the place into a sort of self-flagellating Nazi theme park, as if Nazism were the only prism through which to interpret Wagner’s music.”
I’m disturbed by the New York Times article that aspires to compare Wagner’s legacy to the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, only to backpedal: “The disturbing events of the outside world largely faded for me, though, once I entered the theater.”
If writers for The Guardian think Bayreuth’s acts of accountability trivialize its institutional gravity—if Times reporters sit in the theater where Hitler sat and magically forget, here of all places, that neo-Nazis are murdering people in the United States and Germany—then maybe, for them, the Festival is an amusement park, brainwashing them into insouciance about crimes against humanity.
– What You Have Seen, Alison Kinney
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German vintage postcard about the Rheingold, first drama of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
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well rip to this guy
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taiwantalk · 9 months
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Ok, putin is not in Sochi. Lol. Where’s he gonna land? I swear that I was mocking about this not long ago.
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