How Ancient People Saw Themselves

Re:How Ancient People Saw Themselves by potato3732842 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:05AM (#45758207)

You're needlessly dragging a contemporary controversial political movement into a discussion about a subject measured in much longer time periods, which by itself is fine and you can trick the useful idiots into mashing the rightthink button if you do it right, but you didn't do it right.

To use metaphor, you made a "haha 69" joke in a context where you needed at least a double entendre.

If this were a comment section for an article on a subject of modern political relevance (i.e. a poo flinging match) you probably would have gotten away with it.

You could/should have crafted the comment with more words and hit some other topics (maga isn't unique, there's other historical and contemporary movements that follow the same trend) to obfuscate it and appeal to the people who fancy themselves pseudo intellectual but that would have taken effort you didn't expend and so those people are offended by your low effort.

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Re:How Ancient People Saw Themselves by jalk on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:17AM (#45758277)

Thanks, I see your point. Was not trying to be snarky/funny, but rather come with counter example to parent. I was thinking about the (recent) "Era of globalization" - but perhaps that is too short of a time span to be called an era

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Re:How Ancient People Saw Themselves by potato3732842 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:08AM (#45759123)

Just tossing out more examples than just MAGA would likely have sufficed IMO. Current Russian expansionism, 1930s Italian ambition in Africa, etc, etc. There's a fair bit to compare to even if you restrict yourself to "modern" (i.e. industrial revolution and beyond) societies.

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