PugJesus

https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/spanish-damascene-metalwork/khalili-collection-spanish-damascene-metalwork-iron-shrine-with-virgin-and-child-zul95/

The Great Fire of Rome killed a lot of people and destroyed a lot of wealth, but was inconsequential to the Empire as a whole. This is more Emperor Honorius bribing the barbarians not to invade, then stiffing them and pissing off to feed his pet birds as Rome was looted for the first time in over 700 years.

There might be a more general coin collector community somewhere on the Fediverse?

From the sidebar:

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage/khalili-collection-hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage-qiblah-compass-with-a-view-of-the-holy-sanctuary-at-mecca-sci458/

Explanation: The Romans, traditionally, would muster the male citizenry on the Field of Mars seasonally, for war (for the Republic was almost always at war) and training. This is a photo from a fantastic re-enactor group in Taiwan, teaching the children to fight and die FOR THE GLORY OF ROME

Insane that even commenting about how some prefer the Soviet days gets you a ban, simply for being insufficiently positive.

Fascists painted red. Issues like Uyghur genocide and support or neutrality on the imperialist invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and subsequent ethnic cleansing, are often clear indicators of tankieism; but really the root is tribalism without any deeper cause, principles, or thought process. Many are American exceptionalists who insist everything revolves around US policy.

Those who claim that 'tankie' just means 'socialists' and everyone who uses it is a bourgeois puppet or useful idiot are often the same kinds of people who will say things like "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, led by workers and demanding a democratic and socialist government of the people, was counterrevolutionary fascism and they deserved to be crushed by Soviet tanks"

"No true Scotsman" is about redefining a term to suit the argument, not that purity tests or gatekeeping are inherently illegitimate.

Libright in a boring dystopia commodifying existence kind of way

Reality has a well-known WOKE bias

All words are made up but tankie just makes me think, go the fuck outside and touch grass

Would touching grass make us forget history?

I suppose intellectuals are dangerous counterrevolutionaries. As Lenin once said, after all, the educated classes are the 'shit' of the nation, not its brains. "No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals!"