I’m pretty annoyed at the way the extreme right have now co-opted fucking Thermopylae.
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In fairness, the Spartans were pretty much fascist assholes.
Better than the Persians in some ways, but I’d put them squarely in the “bad guy” column of the Peloponnesian war.
Calelari
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Woohoo, an opportunity to plug A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry again!
Thraeg
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Heh, I had the same thought. Not sure if it was you that originally plugged it here a couple months ago, but if so, thanks. I’ve been slowly making my way through the archives and really enjoying them.
I was waiting for someone to do that.
Great bedtime reading.
I especially like the comparison to the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Yeah, the Spartans sucked, but that doesn’t mean modern American fascists get to appropriate the friggin’ Greco Persian Wars.
Did anyone say that they could?
If anything, it mocks the right wingers who idolise Sparta, as they evidently were a pretty rubbish society to model oneself on.
At this point the Green vs Blue riots may be the analogy of choice.
Are we sure that their stage-designers are not just big fans of The Color Out of Space?
(spoilers)
I love his equating (in the conclusion) of Sparta as the “North Korea of Antiquity”. What an incredibly apt comparison.
Also worth reading, is Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly’s “Three” - which started out as a deliberate antithesis to 300.
rei
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It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people
Caught a random moment. NYC, Neo nazis already wearing red back in 1993.
It’s an interesting camera that apparently cost $250,000 back in the day.
AWS260
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That’s outside the old Hell’s Angels headquarters on 3rd Street in the East Village. They moved out a couple of years back.
Man, cool video. I knew HD standards were being developed in those days but I didn’t know a camera had already been made. That’s the New York I remember living in.
And nobody staring at their fucking phone.
(I’m not above it, I stare at my fucking phone a lot.)
After seeing so many drone-filmed clips, you really notice the shaking from a helicopter recorded video.
