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PugJesus

@ PugJesus @piefed.social

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History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.

Sorry to anyone I didn't DM goodbye. I sorted people very 'ad hoc', and my own spotty focus and memory didn't help. I recognized a lot of users in my time on here, and most of you I enjoyed very much. I think, in particular, I forgot some Slrpnk users.

Good luck, going forward. o7

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  • If only we could throw those criminals against basic decency and aesthetics to the lions, like the good old days!

    Or at least enter the Cybertruck in a demolition derby so it can serve some purpose.

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  • The deliberate misunderstanding of the Roman Empire necessitates a pre-existing worldview through which to misunderstand it.

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  • Beautiful

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  • He just loves Roman history,

    True.

    WW2 history,

    What? WW2 history is one of the less common things I post or talk about. About the only place it comes up regularly is in historical photos, and even then that's mostly because it's a well-photographed war.

    the space fascist future of 40k,

    ... I didn't realize being a 40k fan who thinks space dystopia is a space dystopia was all that exceptional.

    and criticizing the past sins of socialism more than the rise of fascism while completely ignoring all sins of capitalism.

    I guess all my constant criticisms of capitalism and the rise of fascism are being ignored in this analysis?

    It’s fine I’m sure. Just a turbolib. He believes in democracy. Probably.

    Turbolib is when you advocate for harm reduction, and the more harm reduction you advocate for in a society where even the vast majority of the proletariat are hostile towards the idea of socialism, the more turbolib you are?

    Forgive me for thinking that national changes need the consensus of the people, a task we as leftists must work towards; I'm sure your holsum vanguard party will perform a successful coup any day now.

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  • The Punt Empire. An empire so antithetical to Western values that the British Library sponsored a genocidial campaign in Africa to erase evidence of its existence.

    What?

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  • So can you explain what’s with the anime girl roman memes with all the sexism and racism?

    As I said below

    Mostly it’s just absurdist jokes and memes by a Filipino Romaboo with a terminal case of Horny.

    Centurii-chan is internet-overdosed, that's for damn sure, but unless "Being terminally horny" is sexism, I don't think I see it. As for racism, there are certainly some edgy jokes, and Centurii-chan doesn't always take racism as seriously as they should, but I don't think I've seen anything that's degrading towards PoC. Which, itself, would be a little weird, considering the artist is, themselves, most likely a PoC.

    I also don’t get the fetish that the people over in non credible defence have either. War, guns and killing glorified and memed. So bizarre.

    Many people in NCD, or at least the original (especially pre-Ukraine War) NCD, were vets or involved in the defense industry at some point in their lives. Some were bitter, some were cheerfully detached, but in both cases, humor over the absurdity of the military and fascination with military engineering were uniting features. Many of them were... bizarrely knowledgeable on military engineering and specs, both modern and historical. An attraction to those with a certain hyperfixation, one might say.

    Military engineering is impressive and militaries the world-round are likewise full of fascinating absurdities - interests I share with that original demographic, even though I have never been a part of the defense industry or in the military.

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  • It is, we don't tolerate fascists or their apologists in the HistoryMeme or RoughRomanMemes comms.

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  • Mostly it's just absurdist jokes and memes by a Filipino Romaboo.

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  • Seen and summoned 🙏

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  • My initial interpretation was that the Western world has always been the best place to live in human history which is a hard sell to say the least.

    Ah, yeah, that would be extremely questionable at best.

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  • What would be the better place to live in human history?

    I mean, we can truthfully say it's damnation by faint praise to say as much, but I struggle to think of a better time.

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  • Romans saw sex mainly through a lens of power and domination. They were okay with a man of higher standing penetrating a man of lower social status but if it happened the other way around, the high status man would suffer loss of his masculine honor. With a similar mindset, older men would mentor adolescent men and it was acceptable to engage in sexual acts with them (pederasty).

    Can't speak as to the Kama Sutra, but this is partly correct and partly incorrect. For Romans, sex was definitely seen through a lens of power and domination, but it was never okay for a Roman citizen in good standing to be penetrated by anyone, higher status or lower. In theory, at least; in practice there is considerable deviation from this 'ideal'. The idea of mentoring adolescent men whilst in a sexual relationship was a Greek practice.

    This is not to say that the Romans did not engage in pederasty - unfortunately, they certainly did in some scenarios. But there was no mentor element involved. Even at the height of Roman same-sex practices, the prevailing relationship standards were of a dominant and submissive male (often younger, and either provincial, an infamis, foreign, or enslaved), a 'in-the-closet' style affair, or of a husband and a male 'wife', which, at least to observers, partly conformed to sexual gender roles even if it (disturbingly, to traditional Romans) preserved the notion of citizenship and masculinity of the 'wife'.

    Notably, the ultraconservative Roman dictator Sulla retired to a nice Mediterranean island with his lifelong boytoy, the actor (actors were considered infames, along with prostitutes and gladiators) Metrobius; the Emperor Titus was noted to have a number of male 'favorites' who were actors whose association lasted long enough that he had to give them up when he became Emperor after his father's ~10 years of rule - suggesting that, at the very least, they were probably not all teens by the time Titus gave up bussy for the dignitas of the Res Publica. Interestingly, the short-lived (and himself somewhat older) Emperor Galba, a bit of a curmudgeon, was noted to have a preference for 'hard-bodied' men in early middle-age. The only recorded Roman daddy appreciator.

    Some of the material is lost, some is simply unrecorded, and some we have only glimpses into, but on the whole, Roman sexuality is an incredibly multifaceted and alien subject.

    Very interesting stuff about the Kama Sutra. I should probably read up on sexuality in pre-modern India sometime, but I have so many goddamn books to read and so little focus to do it with. XD

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  • Me, a Romaboo, walking into Edward Sallow's tent with a .50 cal rifle with explosive rounds hidden in my prison-pocket:

    I WAS READY TO SERVE THE CHIEF ROMABOO OF THE WASTES UNTIL I SAW WHAT HE WAS MAKING

    HE SHAMES THE MEMORY OF THE RES PVBLICA

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  • "Waow let's give more power to fewer people, nothing could possibly go wrong" - Rome nearly every time just before things go horribly wrong

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  • Always was curious what the deal with the alarming amount of Roman and military memes that pop up.

    I mean, on here, it's... it's probably mostly me.

    ... I post a lot.

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  • tbf, it was just a general Western tradition until the fash made it weird.

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  • Salad Man did so much for us 😭

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  • OF THIS I AM ASSURED

    More seriously, there is a strange attachment of fascists to the Roman Empire. A big part of this is that, before the 1930s, nearly everyone with an education in the West was, in effect, either a Graecoboo or a Romaboo. When the fascists came about, first in the 1920s, and then in the 30s, they leaned hard into the Roman aesthetic, both because of its expansionist implications and the symbolism that retained great influence in the pre-existing societies they sought to manipulate. This... both discredited a lot of Roman symbolism amongst non-fascists, and gave fascists a lasting taste for the symbolism, since it was used in the only period the fucks had real power over a significant portion of the world.

    However, RoughRomanMemes, both the original on R*ddit (sadly could not convince the other mods to check out the Fediverse at the time of the original exodus, though I also wasn't super-close with them) and the one on here ran by me, are ardently anti-fascist.

    Rome was (largely) doing the best it could with the limited material and philosophical resources it had - we love that! Show me those proto-rights, that early rise in living standards, that conception of universal humanity! I'm here to share a shit-sponge with my fellow plebs and talk about the grain dole!

    Fascists are universally doing the worst they can with all the material and philosophical resources of human history at their goddamn fingertips - fuck them.