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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

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

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.

it’s kind of crazy that “he has a sadness in his eyes you only see in Eastern European gay porn” took off, because the joke is, like, exclusively about people being sexually exploited due to miserable economic conditions.

Unfortunately to the majority of this site Eastern Europe is not actually a real place full of actual human beings, instead a vague concept where everything's grey and miserable and (to the slightly less ignorant) full of violent ethnic tensions, and if you try to explain why that's the popular Western conception of the place and why things got so miserable from the late 80s onward they'll just call you a tankie

Good time to link the The Fall Of Communism As Seen Through Gay Pornography video essay

I think it's better if you read the article instead because some people might find the video uncomfortable or upsetting (it contains scenes from said pornos. Not explicit scenes but scenes of the men themselves being filmed and clearly uncomfortable). Here's a post with with highlights from the article too if you'd like that.

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monkeypox after covid. heatwaves after monkeypox. this that Prince of Egypt stimulus package

when they document the 20’s I hope they use this post

i am so sickkkkkkkk of people seeing misogyny perpetuated by a man and automatically going "well SOMEONE'S closeted" omfg you know that men hate women even when theyre attracted to them right??? why are you more interested in making fun of gay people than hating misogynists. you fucking freak

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

i think we can move on from saying whimsy about everything now btw.. in fact. i’m taking the word whimsy away from you. it’s lost all meaning, you just say it for anything. go learn a new word. i love you.