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hate to break this to you but if you call yourself self aware but you are only aware of your faults and never acknowledge your strengths you are not self aware. you have repackaged your self hatred

akashicrecord

*logs onto tumblr* I wonder what the people who don't leave the house are saying about sex today

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whyenn-reader

disabilities are not superpowers, that being said having auditory processing disorder my entire life made me insane at freestyling, cause my mental libary of homophobic phrases (rhymes) is massive and keeps expanding every day

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HOMOPHONIC PHRASES HOMOPHONIC HOMOPHONIC SOUNDALIKES RHYMES ECHOS

HAVING AN EXTENDED LIBRARY OF HOMOPHOBIC PHRASES DOES NOT HELP YOU WITH FREESTYLING UNLESS YOU ARE EMINEM.

whyenn-reader

NOT THIS ONE IM BEGGING

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xiranjayzhao

A TEAM OF ROBBERS JUST HEISTED NAPOLEON'S JEWELS FROM THE LOUVRE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, 7 MINUTES IN AND OUT, WHILE THE MUSEUM WAS OPEN AND TOURISTS WERE INSIDE

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

nicbemused

Yep, very funny how they are now probably going to try to sell them to an appallingly rich person who will lock them in a vault and only show them to like 3 people they can gloat to, or to someone who will destroy them to reset into smaller pieces that can be sold to people who are only very rich, instead of having them on display where anyone can come and see them (for free even, on the right days). This is obviously terribly amusing.

xiranjayzhao

I've said this elsewhere but if the sacrifice of Marie Louise's emerald earrings (oh no whatever will we do if we can't see them) and Eugenie's 1354-diamond crown will bring about better working conditions for Louvre workers, who went on strike in June to protest the exact understaffing and over-burdening that led to the ease of this heist, plus renewed scrutiny of the notion that artifacts looted via violent colonial plunder (and not 7-minute looney tunes heists that hurt no one) cannot be returned to their home countries because they're "safer in European museums," I'd say this incident will be a net positive for the world

While we're here, might I interest everyone in an account of the artifacts Napoleon III and Eugenie stole from China?

Away from the crowds of tourists moving through the grand rooms of the French castle Fontainebleau is a quiet, darkened treasure room that houses a bizarre and exquisite collection of Asian artifacts. It is here that France keeps the Qing dynasty artifacts that Napoleon III’s troops looted from the Chinese emperor’s summer palace, Yuanmingyuan, in Beijing in 1860.

A jewel-encrusted golden stupa flanked by two elephant tusks, bronze dragons, fine porcelain, carved jade, cloisonné vases that French Empress Eugénie had French craftsmen make into a chandelier and candlesticks and bejeweled gold jewelry vie for space in crowded Chinese-style cabinets. On the ceiling are Tibetan thangkas taken from Yuanmingyuan. The items are in pristine condition, as though they had just been shipped from Chinese imperial workshops.

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As the Anglo-French forces neared Beijing, Chinese officials detained and imprisoned an advance party sent to negotiate under a prearranged flag of truce. The foreign armies advanced to Beijing and French forces on October 7 broke into Yuanmingyuan, which the emperor and his entourage had vacated and which was guarded only by a few eunuchs. Soldiers lost control, running around in an orgy of indiscriminate looting. They lifted everything they could and destroyed objects that were too heavy to be removed. The British joined in. Priceless treasures were carted out of the palace and crated for shipment to Europe, where they now reside in some 47 museums and in private collections.

(I don't agree with everything written in the article, but it's a starting place to read more about the Old Summer Palace looting)

nicbemused

Yeah, there are better ways to get good working conditions.

France is kind of famous for it's social actions to improve worker conditions and they don't include robbing museums.

You might have a point if the Chinese artifacts were stolen for the purposes of returning them to China. However, that is not what happened and China is a world power that is more than capable of negotiating for the return of any art that it's interested in.

ninjaofkaos

Did you not even read the article, nobody is claiming they stole the jewels as a political action, the article makes it clear that the louvre is so understaffed that something like this was inevitable, because there isn't enough people to protect the items. The poor working conditions led to this outcome, and that matter far more to me then whether or not some jewels can be look at.

I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're trolling, because you missed the point in an impressive fashion, especially since you think countries can just snap their fingers and get stuff back

nicbemused

As I pointed out, the French are quite good at getting their working conditions improved (in ways that do not involve robbery).

You understand, of course, that what the OP was doing was implying that the robbery was OK because Napoleon III's Army had taken Chinese Art that is now in the Louvre, right?

Thanks, but the current issue isn't whether or not the Louvre should retain the Chinese art, which the Chinese government is more than capable of negotiating the return of, but it is about robbing the Louvre of the jewelry in order to sell it to an appallingly rich collector or to very rich fancy jewelry people.

Stealing from a public museum to sell to the wealthy isn't funny.

xiranjayzhao

The current issue is actually whether the Louvre is CAPABLE of protecting its collection, which leads into discussions about artifact repatriation because a fundamental argument against it is that European museums take better care of them. Clearly, this is not the case. Putting aside how "a team disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight in 7 minutes using a basket lift" is an objectively funny event (funny precisely because of how high and lofty the Louvre positions itself), this event will force the Louvre, and other European museums by extension, to take a good hard look at its staffing and funding and fix issues they've been piling onto their workers for years. It will give colonized countries more leverage to demand repatriation, because, no, not even China can just demand artifacts back without shifts in the status quo, because museums are inherently allergic to giving up their collection. I am absolutely not saying these were the heisters' intentions or that it was some noble event, but these will be the heist's effects.

The deeper systemic issues exposed here are more important than whether everyone gets to look at Marie Louise's earrings. If some obscenely rich Napoleon stan commissioned this heist because they just wanted the jewels for their private collection so badly, fucking whatever. The embarrassment will force the Louvre to overhaul itself and prevent more important stuff from getting stolen. Of all the stuff in the Louvre, the Napoleon family jewels are pretty fucking low when it comes to artistic and academic value. If all you can think about is "robbery is bad so no laughing," idk how to deal with this Javert ass mindset and will not be engaging further.

Also, "the French are quite good at getting their working conditions improved in ways that do not involve robbery"?? Did you like....miss the entirety of how the French Revolution(s) went down???

byjove

I love how NYC has done everything under the sun to deal with the rat problem and now they’re circled back and are like “Ok. We’ll legalize bodega cats. We need cats manning the food stores.” ancient problems require ancient solutions.

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whaddya-mean-my-name-cant-be-s

Hell yeah

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