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My brain got cooked by classical antiquity instead of modern politics in college, so I have a thing or two to say about oligarchy and petty-princes. I've worked in public utilities for over 20 years.

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browwiw

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@eddsmitty.bsky.social sometimes, while doing my own research, I find something I can't help but share even if there is no good context. Anyway, here's a 6th century Latin poem extolling the beauty of an African professional animal fighter.

sibila.com.br/english/luxo...

Venator
by Luxorius, translated by Art Beck

The reason you’re so popular is that we’re grateful
for the show, Olympius, animal fighter. And
your name fits your gnarled body –– with the neck,
shoulders, biceps and back of a Hercules.
Astonishing, quick, daring, impetuous and ready for anything;
that you’re black doesn’t hurt your looks a bit.
Nature created, dark, precious ebony. Royal purple
glimmers deep within the noble murex.
Blue-black violets blossom in the soft grass.
Dark jewels invest us with a special grace.
The dusky trunk of the terrible elephant thrills us.
Black incense and pepper from the Indies civilize
us. Need I say more? Scarred by your countless
wins, you’re as beautiful in the people’s love
as those elegant fops are hateful.

November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM

browwiw

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I'm just saying.

Top image: Trump presenting a floor plan of his ballroom. Bottom image: a line art depicting various classical Greek temple floor plans.

November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM

browwiw

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Temples, you say?

November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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I am just saying

Top image: Donald Trump holding up the floorplan of his proposed ballroom. Bottom image: a line image depicting different temple floorplans from the Greek classical age.

November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM

browwiw

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I always forget it is #caturday

A black cat reclines in a sunny window sill.

October 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Found an essay you might enjoy. I am highlighting a particular section because the author articulates exactly what I think motivates men like Trump and Epstein to elevate and ritualize their pedophilia. www.gatewaystobabylon.com/essays/shuka...

Let us first analyze in brief the motivations for rape. Rape is motivated by many factors, i.e. desire to possess, control or punish, as well as it may be due to fear of feelings aroused by the inner woman in man, so that the rapist will seek to subdue or destroy these feelings projected in the living woman, or the criminal's prey. It commonly involves the use of physical strength, a coward and vile use of force to ubdue the subject of desire. I chose carefully the term subject of desire, because in the rapist-predator's language, there is no human eing involved but a mere object to be used and discarded afterwards. The many cases of criminal pursuit or stalking and the serial killing of women by obsessional men would fall into the lowest category of control as subjugation of another human being. Rape and sexual use are so tied up with domination and gratification of the lowest instincts in men in patriarchy that an appalling misconception arises: that women enjoy being raped because they unconsciously desire it or are "asking for it". The context in Sumer was obviously not so terrible, because in previous myths there is always a mother advising the young maiden not to venture alone in certain areas, as well as we are going to see that Inanna is fully aware of having been penetrated.

August 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Somebody has been showing G-Gundam to Trump.

Still from the anime G-Gundam. The Nether Gundam, a windmill themed robot, stands amongst a countryside of windmills.

August 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Trump is giving off a certain vibe.

Mural from Saddam Hussein's palace depicting him as a Mesopotamian king hunting lions from a chariot. Iraq's modern war machines surround him in the back ground.

August 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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He's going out in a chariot to hunt immigrants like lions.

A mural painting from Saddam's Hussein's palace depicting him as an ancient Mesopotamian king hunting lions from a chariot. He is surrounded by Iraq's modern military equipment in the back ground.

August 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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A little more context on how divine statuary can be to the pre Modern (re MAGA) mind.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_...

Because of the enormous significance of the statue, it was sometimes used as a means of psychological warfare by Babylon's enemies. Enemy powers such as the Hittites, the Assyrians and the Elamites stole the statue during sacks of the city, which caused religious and political turmoil, as Babylon's traditional rituals could then not be completed. All the foreign kings known to have stolen the statue ended up later being killed by their own family members, something the Babylonians hailed as divine punishment. Returns of the statue, either through the enemies giving it back or through a Babylonian king campaigning and successfully retrieving it, were occasions for great celebrations.

August 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Ivory and gold is a particular vibe.

Artist's reconstruction of the massive Statue of Olympian Zeus, crafted from gold and ivory.

August 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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I have been doing internet research on how Trump parallels Saddam in that they wanted to reinvent themselves as god-kings, but fuck all that context, recreate this mural with your cats, Saddam Hussein and Saddam Hussein's Best Friend, please.

Late 20th century mural depicting Saddam Hussein as an Assyrian king firing a bow from a chariot. He is flanked by modern weapons of war promoting Iraq's war prowess.

July 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Donald Trump is doing a Saddam Hussein and trying to reimagine himself as a modern Nebuchadnezzar or Xerxes. I can't believe I hadn't thought of the comparison, before.
www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-rec...

www.the-sun.com/news/us-news...

Late 20th century mural of Saddam Hussein attired as a Babylonian king, draw a bow while riding in a chariot. Modern weapons of war such as SCUD missiles and fighter craft surround him. Note the symbolic trampling of the lion.

July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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You are over the target of a very powerful Iron Bed of Procrustes allegory. Anakin Skywalker getting chopped and stretched into Darth Vader for the kids in the back.

Still image from "Rise of the Sith". A horribly mutilated Anakin Skywalker on the droid bed that turns him into Darth Vader. Trust me, it's a good allegory for what the patriarchy does to a man to make him 'masculine'.

July 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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Honestly, Trump could flip Gen Z if he started surrounding himself with giant monster women.

July 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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Trump's last meeting with Stephen Miller

July 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Wiger getting juicy like Etruscan tomb art.

Painting for a dancing man with thick thighs and no pants from the Etruscan "Tomb of the Augurs".

July 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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All I know is that if the feds are going to stupid enough to deploy heavy cavalry, then I am to going to exercise my constitutional right to open-carry a bill-hook at protests. MOLLE straps are not your friend when the hook comes a calling.

If that sounds silly, so are Kevlar-Hussars in 2025.