A.Dimitriadis @dma3ad

A Greek friend begs me to stop complaining about the filmic Helen who lacks the white (leukōlenos) arms of the text. His movieland friends told him that the non-White Helen was a hard-won compromise, after almost irresistible pressures for a castrated ("trans") male Helen.

I am told that the Helen in the new film does not have the only specific physical characteristic in the text : WHITE ARMED, because the chosen actress is not European. A Greek friend refuses to complain, feeling certain that the analphabet in charge first considered a castrato

Most people don't know that Kuwait expelled 300,000 Palestinians in 1991 after Arafat backed Saddam's invasion of their country. No UN emergency sessions. No protests. No global outrage. Just silence. It was never about the Palestinians. It was always about hating Jews.

There is a dead king under every car park in England.

Daily Mail @DailyMail

2 days ago

Have the long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great finally been found? Investigator claims bones buried under a Hampshire car park may belong to the Anglo-Saxon ruler trib.al/yZ4Crsz

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Do you know the term ‘nemesis’, the ancient Greek word for injustice amended and justice restored? Bringing a unique sense of satisfaction? Thanks, Belgium.

The Spartans like other Greeks knew that life ends & refused to pay for invented heavens with angels or whores. Instead they strove to live to the fullest. As late as WWII insufficiently Christianized Greeks were deemed the bravest Europeans by German invaders & occupiers.

Neil Rogachevsky @NeilRogachevsky

4 days ago

@ELuttwak I know, Strategos. I was referring to Sparta’s military-oligarchy ruling in the name of Lycurgus.

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Saudi Arabia sent a deputy foreign minister - not exactly a level befitting the holiness of the carcass in question - to the funeral of Iran’s now-defunct Supreme Loser, during Muharram no less. And the delegation showed up in white robes. White. The colour reserved for Eids, weddings, and joyous celebrations. Not funerals. Certainly not Shia funerals during the month of mourning. Now, before someone rushes in with “but it was a Friday and the Royal Court mandates white for officials on Fridays!” … sure, when you’re inside Saudi Arabia going about your Friday business. Not when you’ve been dispatched abroad to attend the funeral of a supposedly Muslim leader. Royal Court protocol explicitly calls for black or dark brown robes at funerals (or no robes at all) … white is for when you’re happy. A low-level delegation dressed for a celebration, offering “condolences.” The most elegant slap in the face ever delivered under the guise of diplomacy between the two regional rivals.

Η δολοφονία της Βάγιας Νεστορα , φέρνει στην επικαιρότητα ξανά το θέμα της ένοπλης βιας που μπορει να ασκηθεί από ποικιλόμορφες ομάδες στον ελληνικό αναρχικό χώρο κ στον χώρο της αριστεράς . Πρακτική ξεπερασμένη από την δεκαετία του ‘70, παραμένει ομως πάντα διαθέσιμη για κάθε περίπτωση. Ο πολύπειρος @chrisochoidis ας περιορίσει τις διάφορες μορφές πάλης που ξεφυτρώνουν στις μέρες μας έχοντας περίεργους πάτρωνες ..

Όταν ανεχεστε να κυκλοφορούν τέτοια παράσιτα στους δρόμους και να επιβάλουν με βία τις ακροαριστερες απόψεις τους, είναι φυσικό επακόλουθο οι δολοφονίες όσων είναι απέναντι τους ιδεολογικά, με στοχευμένες δολοφονικές επιθέσεις.

Μια νέα γυναίκα ασχολείται με τα κοινά. Σου καίνε την μάνα ζωντανή & αφήνουν τον ηλικιωμένο πατέρα σου χήρο, εσένα με τραύματα στο σώμα σου και την ψυχή σου για την υπόλοιπη ζωή σου, μόνο επειδή είσαι ΝΔ. Και δεν έχει ξεσηκωθεί στα σοβαρά η κοινωνία. Η χώρα μας απέτυχε.

@Loukas_7 Είναι ντροπή που δεν εμφανίστηκε η @hellenicpolice να τους συλλάβει. Και είναι ντροπή που ο κατά τα άλλα άξιος υπουργός @chrisochoidis δεν έθεσε την παραίτησή του στην διάθεσή του πρωθυπουργού.

Κανονικά Τάγματα Εφόδου. Που δεν τα ακουμπάει κανείς (εννοείται ούτε η λαοπρόβλητη κυβερνησάρα μας...) γιατί ως γνωστόν το marketing του αριστερού φασισμού είναι το καλύτερο του πλανήτη... Ο Ρουβίκωνας και η ντροπή της Θεσσαλονίκης news247.gr/gnomes/o-rouvi…

Έτσι είναι.

Anyone who insists that the Bible is the source of morality either has not read it or is not intellectually serious about the question.

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οποιαδήποτε ομοιότητα με τα φασιστικά πογκρόμ πριν τον ΒΠΠ είναι τυχαία

According to recent polling, 93% of Palestinians in Gaza oppose Hamas. Meanwhile, idiots like you—safe and comfortable outside Gaza—romanticize a terrorist group you’ve never had to live under. It’s easy to cheer for Hamas when you’re not the one paying the price for their terrorism.

Nasser Musa @nasmusa1992

2 weeks ago

@IhabHassane Ihab not only do all Palestinians support Hamas even Americans support Hamas now more than the Zionist. Hamas are heros. You can go fuck off

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The Crisis in the Humanities Is Not About Money: "Critical theory did not merely politicize scholarship. It made scholarship easier to produce" (anyone could get a dissertation out of showing that some work was really an instrument of oppression). Abraham Wyner cites a phenomenon I've long noticed: for an academic movement to get traction, it has to give grad students & junior scholars something to do. Chomsky dominated linguistics in part because he revised his theory every decade or so, sending linguists scrambling to reanalyze every construction in the new theory's terms. In the 80s and 90s neural networks spawned hundreds of papers called "A Connectionist Model of X," followed by the cognitive neuroscience revolution in which anyone could get a thesis out of sticking people in a magnet while they did some familiar experimental task. quillette.com/2026/06/26/the…

When you Westerners visit Iran, the Islamic regime say: “Our country, our rules.” Wear the hijab. Cover your hair. No handshakes. But when they come to the West, somehow it’s still their rules. Cover the nude statues. Hide the wine. Tone down your traditions. Don’t offend Islam. Watch my conversation with @jaketapper to see why the regime is now asking America to respect Islamic values on American soil.

By far my favourite Scotland vs Brazil story is the referee saying “Good luck, may the best team win” to both captains before the game in 1982 and Graeme Souness replying “I fucking hope not”