A Door on Other Time

Apparently Carthage was founded by Tyrian Phoenicians who thought Tyre and Sidon were insufficiently enthusiastic for religious baby murder. Pretty sure the Puritan colonies in the New World have to cede the title “scariest religious colony”.

Possibly the most amusing person I ever encountered online was the Romanian white supremacist who said blacks are inferior for having only written their languages in the 1400s or 1500s and still practicing ancient superstitious beliefs.

prettygirlshategoyim

Problem with the stat on the left is it lumps all sects of Judaism together. If the “Catholic” column was all Christians and included the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the polygamist Mormon offshoots, it would be apples to apples. Because yes, Hasidim and the other Haredi are abusive cults. But Conservative, Modern Orthodox, and Liberal rabbis are no worse than Protestant clergy—who also abuse more than priests, mostly just because celibates have fewer opportunities.

white people will literally be like if u arent nice to me Im going to become a nazi. and think they’re making a great argument

this stupid shit has been around for so long and it’s crazy to me there are still people with enough rocks in their brain to believe it. “Oughhhhh if you aren’t nice to you oppressors they’ll become bigots instead of allies” if someone’s support for marginalized groups hinges entirely on whether or not that group is niceys, they’re by definition not effective or useful allies and, by admission of this argument, an active danger to the communities theyre supposed to be allied with because they can Enter Bigot Mode the second they become displease

leunusualsuspect

Hmmm I wonder…. Let me just… oh, oh lord.

Oh look, here you are reposting one of the most horrifying antisemitic screeds I’ve ever seen from one of the clearest ironically named accounts in tumblr history.

Care to comment on your own Nazi mode? Or we not going to reckon with that?

lol. lmfao, even

leunusualsuspect

Strikes me as you didn’t even read that whole thing before you just reposted.

Classy work in the tags there. I’m not critiquing you based on saying “ethnic cleansing is bad”, solid straw man tho.

I’m critiquing you based on that horribly written thing that glorifies truly terrible, antisemitic things that you uncritically reproduced.

“yeah I know I’m frequently reblogging from notorious Zionist and turbo racist but I’m definitely mad at you reblogging antizionism posts for definitely not turbo racist reasons”

You don't get to denounce someone as a "notorious Zionist" and then claim you're anti-Nazi. If the jackboot fits you're not getting out of wearing it.

Who wants to take bets that OP buys the “Nazis only came to power because the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh to Prussia” narrative?

anscathmarcach

SJWs only responses when shown the vile things SJWs have done:

“Okay but that’s not what (insert SJW group here) is.”

“Nobody EVER does this. This NEVER happens.”

“They deserved it.”

arcenciel-par-une-larme

> “But the atrocities that person/group committed weren’t done in the name of communism/atheism/feminism!”

> “They did nothing wrong. The oppressed have every right to lash out against their oppressors.”

> Appeal to slavery/the Crusades/the Inquisition

> “That event never happened. You only think it did because conservatives/fundamentalists corrupted the historical facts and you believe their propaganda.”

theconstitutionisgayculture

The Crusades, incidentally, where the overwhelming majority of atrocities were by Muslims against Christians (cf. Beybars at Antioch, or what happened when Saladin retook Jerusalem—according to his own eyewitness accounts, while the negative claims about when the Crusaders took it in the First Crusade were secondhand and decades after the fact). And the Inquisitions—plural—that were the fairest trials in the entire world for most of their history, created several of our protections for the accused in a criminal proceeding, and executed fewer than 6,000 people across all three (Albigensian, Spanish, Roman) over the course of a combined 896 years of operation.

Whereas de-Nazification—“you shouldn’t be criminalizing beliefs!!!1!!”—killed two and a half million people in five years.

flangst

As a lifelong Dem:

I'm not Jewish but watching people on the left not only unironically but casually repeat the kind of shit that the OG Nazis were saying in the 30s and then disregard me when I tell them that (with receipts) is scary AF. Somewhere down the line, the ideas and language of social justice got swerved in a very bad way so that antisemitism would still be "ok."

takashi0

This was actually completely obvious when you realize modern social justice isn't about lifting up the needy, bit tearing down "The Oppressor" and encouraging cruelty manipulation and ostracization against those deemed as part of "the oppressor", along with the absolute insane and blatantly untrue rhetoric that Free Speech and Gun Ownership were things used only by "The Oppressor" as tools to "Oppress."

All of which i cannot possibly overstate should've been massive red flags for anyone who paid attention to how the Nazis came to power.

kal-dracule

Ah Marxism.

So many movements but different flavors.

"we need to tear down the billionaires (commies), patriarchy (feminist), systemic white racism (blm) only then will we the oppressed be free!"

Or, to put it another way "Everything in the world could be fixed if we just do Good Thing. The only reason we can't do Good Thing is because Bad People are stopping us. If we can just get rid of all the Bad People, we could do Good Thing and fix everything."

feminismisstillahatemovement

The left has been saying it all about Christians and Europeans for 30 years, so it’s interesting that it took OP till they said all the Nazi shit about actual Jews, to notice. I mean I guess it’s best they finally noticed about someone, but “wait no you finally attacked a group I care about” isn’t a good look.

I heard someone say the other day that most people's brains don't separate information into "true" and "false" but rather "us" and "them": will the people of my tribe approve of this? Then it's true. Will the people of my tribe disapprove and cast me out for expressing it? Then it's false.

simon-newman

I watched a detailed documentary on this a couple of years ago but it talked more about sect mentality and religious dogmas.

This is why I say that politics replaced religion for a lot of people.

feminismisstillahatemovement

Marxism is a secular religion.

And sometimes people will see it and oppose actual efforts to alleviate poverty because they "sound Marxist", the main problem being that Marxism is fucking lying about everything it claims to want. But people who can't get that end up going down the Ayn Rand pipeline, at the end of which lies her entire ideology based around why altruism as a concept is a bad thing because Marxism says we should help other people and if they say it it can't be true.

siryouarebeingmocked

I see a lot more far-leftists claiming right wingers do that than actual right-wingers doing that. Of course, that's ironic when so many also want to take the "credit" for any government program that helps people.

That just means you don’t know any Objectivists, because they absolutely do believe that.

promptcalender

Wedding Ring Alternatives

For characters who may not want to wear rings, or a fantasy culture with different customs!

ankle bracelets or cuffs

blood oaths

charm bracelets, which you add onto with each relationship milestone (10/20/… years, kids, grandparents, …)

combining their families’s crests into a new symbol, which is engraved on all important possessions

custom weapons

exchanging each other’s favored weapon

head bands

lighting an eternal fire which shall not die until their love does

magical bonds / oaths

matching tattoos, either somewhere visible to show off, or hidden because of the intimate nature

necklaces without a clasp, that would have to be cut off to be taken off

pieces of armor

planting a tree / flowers in the garden of their new home

sacrificial and ritualistic scarring / branding

temporary ink marks which will fade if the work to upkeep them is not consistently put in

[Prompt Calender: February 3rd, National Wedding Ring Day]

From real cultures you have covering your face or hair (common throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa) and putting your hair up or down (common among Native Americans). For that last one, there’s a Hopi legend where a girl’s father yanks her hair out of its “squash blossoms”—giant Princess Leia rolls that unmarried women wore—when he finds out she’s pregnant. (Since, in Hopi society, women traditionally own the property, the Western equivalent would be a man’s mother getting mad at him when she finds out his girlfriend is pregnant.)

coldboreshooter

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

Except that WW2 era British submachine gun that would empty itself out on full-auto if you dropped it.

...........Are you on Crack?

Also the Americans didn't "Capture" anyone to turn into slaves. YOUR people did though Abdul. And they STILL DO.

Muslims don’t even get to talk like this about Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan.

icara-mack

I bitched to my family for like an hour about Nolan’s odyssey and I wanted to put a point out here that I’ve seen a lot of people sort of skipping. I’ve studied (Kline’s translation) the odyssey for a good 2 years and a lot of the themes boil down to the effects of hospitality and Xenia. (as well as the journey Odysseus undergoes himself and the divine involvement… which is a whole other thing)

when I saw the film, I was immensely frustrated with the portrayal and poor explanation of “Zeus’ law” (essentially westernised Xenia) despite it being seemingly very narratively important to Nolan’s version, and the exclusion of so many of the most important scenes or events in the odyssey where Xenia was key throughout the film. Odysseus’ flaws and misinterpretation of Xenia was completely ignored & the movie as a whole failed to get the point across to me (an angry classicist)

Idk man if you’re going to completely recharacterise odysseus and remove his agency and shorten and his journey as well as cut one of the (2) main themes, it kinda feels like you should make sure the one thing you keep from the text is accurate and effectively portrayed. Cutting the exchange of guest gifts and the Phaeacian hospitality and the sparing of maron and (specific) servants (and ignoring aeolia but keeping Circe?). I feel like so much was missed out and I was just disappointed the whole movie. There’s so much more I could speak about (an hour’s worth, apparently) but I am not typing up a novel today . Lmao

retiredtsgt

…Because you can’t forcibly convert Muslims to Islam?

retiredtsgt

Levels of understanding other slavic languages

oh we also have X and it means the same!

that looks like X but misspelled

that's just the archaic variant of X

this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X

this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology

what

okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal

I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore

I don't even have to look at the blog and I just know this is from a Pole about Czechs

suffering

byrons

KAKAOVY CHLEBICEK???!!!???

hissing growling scratching you etc etc

for example

(Polish: are you looking for a squirrel?, Slovak: excuse me, he is doing what to the squirrel?)

(also "hladna pića" means "cold drinks" in Croatian. means "hungry cunt" in Slovak and Czech)

("you're weird" in Czech is the same as "you're amazing" in Croatian, while "you're amazing" in Czech is the same as "you're terrible" in Croatian)

poetka

My favourite recent-ish example of #8:

visloka

czto-nebud-blog

Don't forget this:

And of course pomoć (help) vs pomoč (ordering you to piss on something)

czto-nebud-blog

Also remembered this shop from my trip to Croatia (piko means meth in czech and slovak)

kaazdalena

przepraszam w CZYM ta restauracja????

axolotl-anemonoides

This reminds me of that time my (Czech) family went to Poland for my uncle's wedding (because my aunt - his wife - is Polish and they decided to get married in Poland).

The wedding afterparty was in full swing, everyone was drinking and partying.... and an elderly Polish lady approached my two aunts (who were also drinking a lot and partying hard) and commented something along the lines of "jesteście odporne". Which in Polish means "you're resilient" (as in they're handling the alcohol well) but in Czech it means "you're disgusting".

It took my aunts a bit to remember that it means something different in Polish. 😅

another beautiful case of n.8 from @someidioticurl

Czech vision: ah yes an emergency button to press in case of emergency

Polish vision:

ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca

Oh, I have a few!

'pozor' in Czech means 'watch out!', but means 'shame' in Russian

droga in czech means drug, in polish it means road

záchod in czech means toilet, zachód in polish means 'west'

odchod 'to depart' in Czech means very specifically 'to depart by foot', while in Slovak it has a bit wider meaning, and buses and trains also combine with 'odchod'. To a Czech speaker this gives the funny implication that departing trains grow legs and walk out of the train station

Croatian 'mrdati' = to wiggle, means 'to have sex' in Czech

'Čerstvý, voňavý chléb' is Czech for 'fresh, nicely smelling bread'. In means the opposite in some slavic languages 'stale, stinky bread'. This kind of 'good meaning in one but bad meaning in other' duality happens surprisingly often actually, see also úžas and odporný above

otrok in Czech means 'slave' but in Slovenian and perhaps other South slavic languages it means 'child'. Very funny when combined with bazaar, turns a perfectly fine baby bazar into a slave bazaar

My friend has a fun sentence from Slovenian - "Hitri otroci kuhali jed na Dunaji". Literally none of the words here mean what a Czech thinks they mean. No not even Dunaj. Czechs read it as 'smart slaves were disemboweling poison by the Donau river', original Slovenian meaning is 'fast children were cooking food in Vienna'

Edit: wait one more. "srpanj" in Croatian means July, "srpen" in Czech means August. Listopad in Croatian means 'October', in Czech means 'November'. rujan in Croatian means 'September', říjen in Czech means 'October'. kwiecień in Polish means 'April', kviteń in Ukrainian also means 'April', květen in Czech means 'May'. Months are fucked up.

ndiecity-deactivated20241101

The calendar ones are because they derive from the seasons and what you do in them, and, like, one of the major Serbo-Croatian cities is known by an Italian name in many other languages, while Czechs were in the same country as Austria and much of Germany, for a reason.

hustlerose

idk much about jojos bizarre adventure but what i DO know is that there’s a character named r.e.o. speedwagon like the fucking 70s rock band and everyone just thinks that’s fine

reading this is like seeing someone discover pokemon for the first time but they’re like “there’s a lizard that breathes fire? what the hell”

carlosmarcosapproved

No, I was told it was bad by the numerous historical accounts of mass murder and totalitarian autocracy. It failed, it lost the Cold War, and now Europe is free. Democracy and the will of the people triumphed over one-party dictatorships from Prague to Warsaw. Get over it.

#democratic socialism is more what we should adopt

There's no such thing. Socialism by its nature is autocratic, either you do what you're told or you're brutally reminded why you should've complied. "Democratic socialism" only ever refers to the impossibility of squaring the circle of what socialism says it wants vs what always happens, political movements that are genuinely socialistic but lie about what they want and claim to support democracy, or political movements that are genuinely democratic but are confused as to what words mean and claim to support socialism. The latter are social democrats who're just further to the left than normal 99% of the time, Bernie Sanders is a pretty good example.

siryouarebeingmocked

I wonder how many anti-communist people were also anti-slavery or even pro-black civil rights activists?

Google says Fredrick Douglass was strongly opposed to early socialism. And "(pro-civil rights) Politicians like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, were free-market capitalists".

Also, the early NAACP rejected communists (PDF).

By the time SNCC came into existence, “Red-baiting," shorthand for this extremely vicious form of anti-Communism, had devastated many Black

And MLK Jr. himself opposed it.