[what-even-is-thiss]

Historically the Greeks (very broad version of that term) have indeed had a lot of military victories but it’s never not funny when they go “pfft what they can’t do anything they’re just barbarians” and then immediately get punched into next Tuesday

[what-even-is-thiss]

Personally I think that the Ancient Greeks had to invent the concept of hubris in an attempt to stop themselves from getting so full of themselves that they ran directly into a wall but it never worked

[what-even-is-thiss]

To this day a lot of Greeks are made uncomfortable by the idea that ancient Macedonia wasn’t Greek until they just kind of elbowed their way in there without much permission for a variety of reasons but one of those reasons is definitely that Phil and his son Big Alex kind of weren’t Greek and it was another instance of them going “barbarians? Conquering us? Yeah right” and then immediately having a piano dropped on their heads.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Pffft. As if some ethnos could conquer Sparta. *walks directly into a wall*

[rabbitkinglune777]

i love how American food for the most part is 1252232 billion dollars and doesn't taste like real food.

[rabbitkinglune777]

this is what it's like eating food here

[weaseltotheface]

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

[weaseltotheface]

Actually let's get specific with it

*checks wiki*

Everybody say thank you indigenous people of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia from 7-10,000 years ago for the humble potato

[parkchanwoohoo]

That weirdo billionaire obsessed with stopping his aging/taking his son's blood to stay young has, as far as I can tell, taken a hero dose of shrooms that led him to fall in love with one of his employees(?) and is now attempting to use his wealth to find a cure for her endometriosis? Which like, sure

[parkchanwoohoo]

This is so funny

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm ctfu

[toskarin]

I think a lot about this one twitter post where someone, lacking a few crucial pieces of information, says "you know jesus wasn't real" (not really the popular stance among non-religious scholars these days, but fair enough) "and neither was muhammad" (the degree of historical attestation here is a bit different)

[toskarin]

the first point's buy-in is that multiple accounts fabricate the presence of a preacher, the second point's buy-in is that the entire arabian peninsula woke up one fine morning and decided it was conquered

[rabbitkinglune777]

(reposts)

black boys and bunnies

[milf-king]

Just a reminder that Saudi Arabia is responsible for one of the world's largest and most severe man made humanitarian emergencies. Their blockade of Yemen, which prevents food, water, medicine, and fuel from entering the country has caused a significant death toll. Emphasis here on man made as these were preventable.

Yemen relies on most of its food and medicine via imports and this blockade (land, sea, and air) has created an environment where 80% of Yemen relies on aid for survival. It's lead to so many people, mostly children, dying of starvation.

The rate of child malnutrition in Yemen is among the highest in the world with 2.3 million children under 5 requiring treatment for acute malnutrition. At one point a child died of starvation every 75 seconds.

This blockade is ongoing btw.

[milf-king]

Here's a pretty comprehensive source

[stoptheantisemitism]

Isn't this exactly what the Trump administration wants to do to Cuba?

[huzni]

It is, and it's arguably what they're currently doing to Venezuela too. Sanctions haven't been taken down despite the oil industry seize and the humanitarian crisis stemming from the recent earthquakes, may I remind you folks.

And if Milei's government coalition survives another election cycle somehow, this is a very likely scenario looming on Argentina as well, along with a likely balkanising scenario if the zionist settlement in Patagonia materialises. They've made welfare there go right down the gutter in absolutely all respects.

[zoesupreme]

we're for real gonna be telling stories about this man for centuries

[zoesupreme]

yall I feel like I'm floating right now

[plaguedocboi]

He means a little squeeze bottle with brine shrimp inside but… bottle feeding the loblings…

[ittybittyisopod]

I'm sorry this was too good of a mental image I had to draw it

[ivy-michaels]

Don’t let anyone tell you the Iraq War was unpopular. The average American STILL only objects to it because “we were lied to,” as if killing 2 million Iraqis would be okay if Saddam Hussein had actually had WMDs

[smokingrozanov]

T shirt that says “I ❤️ getting laid” & then on the back it says “to REST” with a photo of a coffin + the name & phone number for a local cemetery. Please follow for more advertising ideas

[teaboot]

I don't think anything will ever better represent my experience of being a child better than one time in like 2nd grade when I told a teacher's assistant, "I'm not stupid, you're being very condescending, please let me do my math worksheet myself" and she immediately replied, "That's a really big word, do you know what it means?"

[knightclubbing]

your knight's unending loyalty for you is kinda parasocial and lowkey problematic...

[teaboot]

In a fascinating turn of events, my Most Pragmatic Sibling, reader of exclusively nonfiction, interested only in historical northeastern politics, fish recipes, and his dog, who in his bid to "opt out of frivolous nonsense" has worn only the same 3 pairs of identical cargo shorts and 5 free promotional tee-shirts for the last nine years, has recently come to understand that fashion, trends, and fads, are- as difficult as it is to grasp- direct expressions of a given population's political and socioeconomic environment

I, local family's resident literature fine arts and weird dead animals dork, have been having ENDLESS fun at his expense on this

(We both enjoy writing)

[teaboot]

We have, since this monumental epiphany, essentially had the same conversation nine times in a row now, and I am genuinely never going to get sick of it. I hope he keeps texting me questions forever

[teaboot]

Him: Wait but THIS stupid ugly thing was super impractical, so how come everybody wanted to wear it all of a sudden

Me: Well I'd have to do some research to be sure but if it didn't have a practical purpose and it wasn't a spiritual thing then my best guess is that it was either a novelty that had suddenly been introduced and found appealing, or it came to represent an important facet of the culture that suddenly gained relevance

Him: So why did it stop

Me: Fashions swing from one extreme to the other. People seek out what is desirable and unique, which is almost always unique because it's not produced or available very much. If enough people jump onto that bandwagon, demand goes up, so whoever can invent a way to get more or make more will make a killing. Once this innovation meets demand, the rhing will become commonplace, and no longer new or exciting. If it happens to be perfectly suited to a particular niche or image then it will become timeless as long as that niche or image is relevant, but the majority will move in the opposite direction once they hit the greatest possible extreme.

Him: That's stupid

Me: War is stupid. Ask grandma why she doesn't throw out old nylons and keeps turning old rags into bath mats

Him: (nodding sagely)

[waterandsilver]

if you have to rely on specific scripts or turns of phrase to socialise that's totally fine, but you must NOT reveal them to your friends while slightly drunk. it's like showing how the magic trick works, you can't do it in front of them afterwards

[waterandsilver]

i like dogs a lot but i can never remember the differences between breeds (apart from the few types i've actually owned/interacted with). but i know people looove their dogs and love talking about their dogs, so whenever im talking to a dog owner i'll ask what breed it is, and no matter what breed they say i'll say "oh! i've heard they have a really nice nature :D" and they always go YESSS THEY'RE GREAT and start gushing about their dog and we have a nice conversation and i build social credit with this person. anyway i told my friends about this script a few weeks ago when slightly drunk and now every time we're in public together and a dog goes past they turn to me and ask "does that one have a nice nature?" im in a hell of my own making

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone will say "as a queer person in the heart of empire, my life is in danger every day" and you'll find out they're a developer for Amazon and live in San Francisco or Seattle or some shit, and then you'll meet a trans girl from Alva, OK who's like "Yeah, things are pretty good. AutoZone moved me to full-time."

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone in a queer group in my current blue city said that they didn't like expressions of solidarity because it "diluted their oppression".

[teaboot]

[msvorderofoperations]

#That's what I mean when I say the foundation of feminism and queer community should not fixate on victimhood #Once you feel that our suffering is our shared experience an not our love then our suffering becomes vital to the culture #I don't want a culture where suffering is vital #I want a culture where love is celebrated #The suffering is an imposition not a prerequisite #And yeah I sure fucking hope our oppression is diluted bitch you WANT us freebasing the uncut shit???

[uniformedwater]

music not hitting, phone not hitting, Minecraft not hitting, food not hitting, mouth taste like blood, death comes for us all