He probably deserves it the least out of the other senators.
But he still deserves it.
Holding back my sickos until I learn more about the perpetrator
UlyssesT staying busy I see.
He finally decided it’s time to destroy the treats.
feel like pure shit just want them back
You cannot convince me Shant Soghomonian is a real name
white people when they hear a name they’re not familiar with
I read “Shant Soghomonian” and I immediately thought “oh, Armenian, ‘son of Solomon’, that’s neat”
Rule of thumb: pretty much everything about the Caucasus looks or sounds like it’s straight out of some sort of high fantasy conworld, which honestly makes me wonder to what extent the aesthetics of high fantasy may have literally been inspired by the Caucasus.
We literally inspired the term Caucasian because white people were too racist to admit we all came from Africa. Mix that with that eras orientalism and I think you’re actually on to something with regards to high fantasy. I mean just look at some of our traditional clothing
Yeah, like, circus side shows in Amerika in the PT Barnum era had “Circassian princesses”: they’d just grab any random pretty girl off the street and give her a curly afro — possibly inspired by papakhi but this is questionable — and they’d dress her up in some sort of titillating and obviously 200,000% inaccurate “”“traditional outfit”“”, often complete with a nice cross necklace to remind viewers that [gibberish name] is really a good Christian woman… Even though Circassians are in fact Muslims.
So yeah, the Caucasus definitely has a historical place in the popular imagination of
as being “simultaneously foreign and familiar”. In that sense I guess you could say that “Circassian beauties” and their likes were just yesteryear’s big tiddy anime GF.I dunno, I’ve had this thought a few times, about how the Caucasus may have inspired fantasy aesthetics. For instance when I first discovered Circassian musicians like Aslan Tlebzu and Aslan Kulov, I thought, “What, like the Narnia lion?” — naturally, it turns out that “aslan” is just Turkish for “lion”, hence both the Narnia character as well as the Circassian forename. And another time when I had this thought was when I first saw the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — because those are very clearly supposed to be gazyri on the titular character’s chest, and I remember there was also one scene in that film with buildings that reminded me a bit of those famous Vainakh towers.
A ton of D&D and therefore fantasy stuff is from the middle east and the caucasus. Same with cosmic horror via lovecraft.
Can you name any specific examples? I’m curious.
I can’t name much for the caucases sadly, being very ignorant on the subject, but I was told that whenever Gygax needed a name for something in one of his settings he just took a random Turkish or Armenian word. I’m much more confident about the middle east thing, but that’s not what we were talking about.
Thw long history of USA right wing domestic terrorism gained a new chapter.
What tells you it’s right wing?
You seriously think somebody did this for anti-imperialist reasons rather than bog-standard anti-semitism?
Yeah you’re almost certainly right, but it’s still unknown.
Bernie owes a lot of people money.
Sure but on what grounds does he owe more people money than any other dem? Singling him out is either a) a Maoist insurgent attacking a social fascist or b) someone who’s not a fan of the loud Jew.
Sure but on what grounds does he owe more people money than any other dem?
He never returned my $27 loan when he rolled over and endorsed Hillary.
Same comrade, hadn’t considered that angle
It’s cuz he’s a Lib
I would say chud, the bog standard murican lib would never go and actually do something about politics.
