AmrikeeAkbar
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AmrikeeAkbar
14d ago
Assuming they're actually Yemeni, its probably less virtue signaling than sincerely held belief. I feel like this is the right wing version of not patronizing chick fil a because of their stance on gay rights, or refusing to go to the best burger place in town because the owner has a MAGA sticker in the window.
AmrikeeAkbar
21d ago
It's true that the reaction of the average npr listener to the average infantry squaddies banter is hilarious. But plattner is just hilariously over the top about it too. He's like a pmc lefties idea of what a dirty infantryman is like, the same way that Michael moore acts almost as his own parody of an ugly American
AmrikeeAkbar
21d ago
Not necessarily. I mean presumably no one in the Sacred Band was considered an effiminate wuss
AmrikeeAkbar
21d ago
There's still societies that look at things that way today. As a GWOT veteran, Platner presumably has been to those places
AmrikeeAkbar
21d ago
I feel like your depiction of historical prostitution is a little exaggerated. Obviously there's a whole category of high ranking courtesans who could do pretty well even without being actual wives of their clients. But even regular prostitutes were sometimes able to retire into respectability.
If I were a dissident rightie, I would totally create a White Fu Manchu. It would be hilarious and make white people look cool. "Picture all the enterprise and ingenuity which allowed the White Race to bring nine-tenths of the globe under their heel, incarnate in one man!" They can be opposed by a biracial lesbian secret agent. I just cant think what the white equivalent name would be. Given the roots of "Manchu", I guess it would be something like '"John Wasp", which admittedly is less evocative.
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