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Selection of Lenin pictures for 100 years without him

Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier. The strangest tongues believe him. Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn There rises a red star.

Lenin, Langston Hughes

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I used to write degrading things in the French Google Translate voice and jerk off to it

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Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

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My "what would the conqueror trio think of the Dance" hot take is that Visenya's (whom we all know is a True Targaryen(tm) and thus her approval means someone's side is justified in their war crimes) favorite person wouldn't be Baela or Aemond or Daemon or Rhaenyra... it'd be Larys. Weird little spymaster who's not afraid to murder, whether it's for personal reasons (Harrenhal) or for the stability of the realm (Aegon at the end of the war)? She'd want ten of him.

However, she'd hate Mysaria because she'd remind her too much of Tyanna who took her son away from her- (I am forcibly dragged off-stage and shot)

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Visenya the Conqueror and baby Maegor

based on Leyendecker's "Madonna and Child"

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It is heartening and important to remind ourselves periodically that humans are inherently capable of empathy with the 'other'. It is also important to reflect on the limits of this empathy, which can be seen in the depiction of the conniving slave, so that we broaden our own understanding. I will have to read more about this play. Its existence is bittersweet since we know in retrospect that the third punic war, and with it the genocide and enslavement of the carthagenian people, is soon to follow.

Can we talk about how, immediately after the Second Punic War, the Romans put on a theater production called Poenulus ("The Little Phoenician"), which subverts Carthaginian stereotypes and portrays ethnic prejudice as foolish and irrational?

I am so fucking stoked to see evidence that even 2000 years ago, there were people encouraging us to look at other cultures with humanity and individuality instead of with fear or suspicion.

(Erich Gruen, “Romans and Others,” in A Companion to the Roman Republic, ed. Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx)

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Rock art in Spain's Altamira Cave, drawn approx. 36,000 years ago, probably by Cro-Magnons, according to the American Institute of the Humanities.

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The liberal contradictions around their own form of "democracy" are fascinating tbh. One-party states are bad and authoritarian, but also the only way for things to get better is if one party wins all elections forever. The multi-party system is essential to having an actual democracy, but also at least half of those parties are an existential threat to democracy. But they still need to be allowed to run, because we wouldn't be a democracy otherwise (which they want to destroy).

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How likely is it that the catilinarian conspiracy actually happened? The first one is generally considered ficticious already, but the 'real' one seems unlikely as well, all things considered. Our only real sources are the letters uncovered by Cicero and he is far from trustworthy. He profited immensely from this whole ordeal and he, the defender of roman law, clearly broke it in the process. Why? And why was Catilinus so nonchalant when caught, as if he didnt grasp the weight of the accusation? I am not convinced either way, and frustratingly i will never know the truth

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Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

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I'm not sure today is "get out of bed" coded.

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having a personality ❌

knowing Augustus' favourite phrase was 'quicker than boiled asparagus' ✅

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Gilded silver and tortoise shell drinking horn, crafted by Cornelius Gross of Augsburg, Germany, circa 1560-1570

from The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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cant fucking stand all these smug liberals who just came out of the woodwork to opine about how important the free flow of commerce is. bitch shut the fuck up about the sanctity of international trade. this self assured attitude of “what did the houthis expect would happen messing with us” celebrating u.s. retaliation perfectly encapsulates this cruel imperial detachment of americans combined with an incessant urge to view real life through the lens of marvel superheroes. fuck you and fuck your product shipping times. putting on this condescending affect towards one of the only countries doing anything to stop the genocide because amerikan liberals delight in the idea of people they clearly see as inferior getting “put in their place” by the us. but well see how that goes