this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
103 points (99.0% liked)

news

23464 readers
2 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
all 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holding back my sickos until I learn more about the perpetrator

[–] disposable_cracker@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sicko-crowd Hexbears on their way to make "feel the burn" jokes.

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You headed me off, motherfucker. sicko-wistful

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

UlyssesT staying busy I see.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

He finally decided it's time to destroy the treats.

kitty-birthday-sad feel like pure shit just want them back

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

He probably deserves it the least out of the other senators.

But he still deserves it.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago
[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Feel the Burn

[–] Cochise@lemmy.eco.br 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thw long history of USA right wing domestic terrorism gained a new chapter.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What tells you it's right wing?

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You seriously think somebody did this for anti-imperialist reasons rather than bog-standard anti-semitism?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bernie owes a lot of people money.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ziggurter@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Same comrade, hadn't considered that angle deeper-sadness

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're almost certainly right, but it's still unknown.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

I googled him and a guy that looks just like him with the same fairly rare name was a ceo for Dell in Australia/New Zealand???

I kinda hope its the case, the visual image of some CEO personally trying to burn down Bernie's office is just bizarre

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You cannot convince me Shant Soghomonian is a real name

[–] assyrian@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

white people when they hear a name they're not familiar with

[–] buh@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Armenian

You misspelled American, and it's definitely not an American last name.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Sorry, I'm autistic — you're just pretending you're ignorant, right?)

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

You don't need to be sorry, and yes this is a joke.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] Amerihay@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 international-community-1international-community-2 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.

[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Caucasians literally have heavily choreographed pretend sword fights with actual swords, at some point you just gotta say that they know how badass their traditional culture is and they're just kinda rubbing it in on everyone else.

Like my mom always points out that in the Caucasus that interest in traditional culture seems to skew a lot younger and seems to be a lot more widespread compared to in Norway. In fact I got an accordion not too long ago, and when I got it, the thought of playing local folk music like its previous owner did was frankly secondary to the thought of learning some Circassian folk music. Because obviously these Norwegian waltzes with their quaint lyrics, to younger folks like me cannot hold a candle to some raw, concentrated Adyghe swag.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

Link 1:

Link 2:

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A ton of D&D and therefore fantasy stuff is from the middle east and the caucasus. Same with cosmic horror via lovecraft.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you name any specific examples? I'm curious.

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

so you're saying they have giants

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This comment reminds me of that one chud youtube channel i saw where this beardy chechen guy was like "us chechens are hairy, live in mountains, love blacksmithing and fighting orcs (russians), so we're basically dwarves"

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Made me think of Shant Mesrobian (anti-communist with an email job in san francisco that has convinced himself he's a working-class whisperer)

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

saul-your-honor your honor, the United $$nakes SSenator wouldn't call for a ceasefire in Gaza. My client was acting in a based manner. If they're revealed to be right wing, the punishment should be minimized to a heartbreaking

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

It's not Bernie who's lucky its the perpetrator. Bernie would have pulled out the gat

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This guy must be an adventurist leftist or just your avg. MAGA guy...

(Edited: because "better principled" was the wrong term to use)

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No principled leftist is gonna go out doing adventurism against this disappointing wet fart

Yeah he kinda sucks but if you’re gonna do an adventurism go for one of the loud fashy ones

Yeah, I spoke before I thought...

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Finger@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

it's not like Bernie looks good but the compression on the thumbnail makes him walking-dead

[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It's cuz he's a Lib