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Roy
@royllovians
Atomized millennial • Homosexual male • Abolish progressivism • Carceral urbanism
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Joined February 2021
If you still think they "chiseled" cuneiform into clay tablets in 2025 you're not gonna make it*Receives wrong copper* *Angrily chisels note for 6 hours*
- A good "reverse Aztec-Oxford" factoid that riles people up is: There were Muslims in France before the first written records of the French language.
- Replying to @TwinkTheoryNothing, it's just funny when people don't realize these tablets were made of wet clay and you didn't "chisel" them
- Countries that had no awareness, understanding, or appreciation of entire eras of their ancient history have no greater of a moral claim on artifacts from those eras than the Europeans who discovered, studied, translated, and reconstructed them, often for the first time ever.
- This is like saying "Lincoln Cathedral is older than the Ming Dynasty." A vacuous triviality that only sounds revelatory if you don't know anything about Mesoamerican history. The Aztecs were not ancient; they were a very "modern" state that hearkened back to ancient forebears.
- Replying to @perfnonfreedomWhat I've learned from Twitter is that absolutely nobody remembers anything from grade school history class
- Replying to @sweetietheyknoThey literally pressed it into wet clay like it was art class. Incredibly easy and flexible, no chiseling involved
- Yeah, if you seriously think that "sodomy" is the *worst possible* act a person can commit, then you've pretty much lost the plot and it casts serious doubt on the the rest of your moral philosophy. Thanks for sharing these quotes from ancient nutcases!
- If you do a deep dive on this, you find out that Arabs pushing their African maids/slaves out of upper-story windows is actually "a thing", though it hasn't received a ton of media coverage.
- "Okay, as a prison abolitionist, how would you deal with a man beating and robbing an elderly woman?" "It's obvious you have no familiarity with prison abolitionism. I can recommend several books and peer-reviewed research papers to read if you want to educate yourself."
Replying to @heuristicismi can reccomend several books and peer-reviewed research papers to read and then discuss afterwards, if you're into that - Example #27371497148 of idiot redditurd map makers not knowing the difference between "maintains diplomatic relations with" and "recognizes as a sovereign state". Bhutan can't afford the real estate or staff for an embassy in every country in the world.Bhutan’s game is confusing
- the immediate result of Merkel's "crowning achievement"
Replying to @vanillataryYes the refugee thing was a brave and pure expression of human compassion and is quite literally her crowning achievement
