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he doesn’t know it but russell crowe’s dream job is playing the king at a renaissance festival. horseback riding. grand monologues. silly little outfits. a fuckass accent. leading the tavern in a singalong. unlimited beer on tap. nobody gets to speak to him unless they make it through his entourage. putting people in the stocks. getting put in the stocks himself.

hometoursandotherstuff

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speedlimit15

Holy shit wtf how are people just ignoring this?! This is a REAL PICTURE of an EXTRA TERRESTRIAL

jjtaylor

spockvarietyhour

Casino Royale (2006) directed by Martin Campbell

chungledown-bimothy

i genuinely don't think there's much, if anything, hotter than someone clearly having a blast doing something they're really good at. doesn't really matter what it is. the combo of competence and joy is absolutely lethal to me

depsidase

optimysticals

Bless this ad.

nudityandnerdery

The Facebook post from them is even less subtle

socialjusticeinamerica

what-even-is-thiss

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

what-even-is-thiss

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

what-even-is-thiss

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

what-even-is-thiss

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

hesperocyon-lesbian

Lurking under this is also the fact that most Roman mining operations were done by slaves in conditions that were far more brutal than those of household slaves, to the point that sending a slave to the mines is a threat I’ve read leveraged multiple times in separate texts

depsidase

ralfmaximus

"Turning pictures of kids into child porn is YOUR right as an American!"

He's probably more worried about to $500K penalty per violation.

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xxrie

That’s why you should never accept the excuse “Well it was a different time.” They knew it was wrong. They always knew.

eraserheadadult

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this