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Russian, cutting the the cancer of the imperial war machine from within. Плешивый дед будет повешен. Король голый

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@jay_acuna @grok Was the bill approved?

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@Amillennialist @PeteAnthonyJr @RealAmps @zarathustra5150 He displays a Russian flag so obviously.

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@FutbolFax Sore losers and sore winners. The hate is justified and is entirely self-inflicted. https://t.co/dfXmzZbtqh

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@GordonNewell6 @stuarthazeldine @BenWallace70 @EVKontorovich What ethnic cleansing of Crimea? The one perpetrated by Russians?

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@RetroGamerDad17 @JohnLeFevre @grok how many non sporting events does Bernabeu field host on the field throughout the year?

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Which ones? She was in 4 films in 2025, “Echo Valley” on AppleTV , “Americana” $9 mil, flopped and “Christy” flopped, but both of these were independent releases and artsy projects, with good reviews, bad box office. “The Housemaid” made $400 million on a $35 million budget. So not exactly sure what they are talking about.

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@QuintusCurtius At the end of the end of “Good Will Hunting” he went to go see about a girl, haven’t heard from him since.

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Chelsea is run by morons. Last World Cup he was caught singing a song about France how they are not French, but from Angola, Cameroon. He never apologized, made excuses, hit the bottom and kept digging, and they kept him. Argentina mocks England by singing “Wonderwall”, now this. Argentina are sore losers, and sore winners. And Chelsea posted this, although it was deleted a short time after.

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@QuintusCurtius Reading the discussions around translations has been eye opening and fascinating. Definitely took me on an odyssey.

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Here is the actual Greek — Odyssey 8.514–520, the close of Demodocus's song:

ἤειδεν δ᾽ ὡς ἄστυ διέπραθον υἷες Ἀχαιῶν
ἱππόθεν ἐκχύμενοι, κοῖλον λόχον ἐκπρολιπόντες.
ἄλλον δ᾽ ἄλλῃ ἄειδε πόλιν κεραϊζέμεν αἰπήν,
αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσῆα προτὶ δώματα Δηϊφόβοιο
βήμεναι, ἠΰτ᾽ Ἄρηα, σὺν ἀντιθέῳ Μενελάῳ.
κεῖθι δὴ αἰνότατον πόλεμον φάτο τολμήσαντα
νικῆσαι καὶ ἔπειτα διὰ μεγάθυμον Ἀθήνην.
No bullshit, so here's the verdict the tweet won't like: its central philological claim is false. αἰνός does not mean "awe-inspiring." LSJ glosses it dread, dire, grim, terrible; the adverb αἰνῶς means "terribly"; αἰνότατον is the superlative — "most dreadful." It is the word Achilles uses of his grief and Zeus of his dread. There is no positive-glory sense of αἰνός anywhere in Homer. So Wilson's "dreadful" is not a political intervention — it is close to a dictionary gloss of the superlative. The tweeter's "awe-inspiring" is the invented translation in this exchange, not hers. And note Fagles, whom the tweet holds up as the faithful one, renders the same word "grimmest fight" — grim, dread, dreadful: Fagles and Wilson agree on the semantics of αἰνότατον against the tweeter.
Where Wilson is legitimately vulnerable, on the evidence of these lines:
πόλεμον → "violence." This is her one real liberty in the passage. πόλεμος is war, battle — a term with standing in the heroic code. "Violence" strips the martial frame and imports a modern moralized register. "Dreadful war" or Fagles's "grimmest fight" keeps the category; "dreadful violence" changes it. If the tweeter had aimed here, he'd have a case.
τολμήσαντα dropped. "Having dared/endured" — the verb of heroic daring. Fagles catches it ("he had ever braved"); Wilson's compression loses it. That's a genuine subtraction of heroic coloring.
Epithets flattened. ἀντιθέῳ Μενελάῳ is "godlike Menelaus" — Fagles gives the loose but vigorous "diehard Menelaus"; Wilson drops the epithet entirely. μεγάθυμον Ἀθήνην is "great-hearted Athena" — Wilson: bare "Athena"; Fagles inflates to "Athena's superhuman power," which is more than the Greek says. So the honest scorecard on epithets: Wilson subtracts, Fagles adds, and the Greek sits between them.
The cause is mechanical before it is ideological: Wilson translates line-for-line in iambic pentameter — fewer syllables per line than the hexameter — so compression is forced on every verse, and epithets are the first cargo overboard. Fagles's loose six-beat line lets him expand. You can fault her choice of form as guaranteeing a thinner Homer; that's a fair fight. But on the specific charge the tweet makes — that she perverted a glory-word into a shame-word — the Greek convicts the tweeter, not the translator. αἰνότατον πόλεμον is a dark phrase in the original: Demodocus, singing to please, still calls the fight at Deiphobus's door most dreadful, and Homer's very next move is Odysseus dissolving in tears likened to a widow being dragged into slavery. The darkness at Troy's fall is not Wilson's insertion. It is Homer's design — the poet of the Iliad never once lets a sack be clean.

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I feel like a lot of people are expecting a straight forward adventure story and getting a deconstruction of a character instead, hence the disappointment.
Nolan did say that he started out with Wilson’s translation, but I think it is pretty obvious that he borrows from Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and the Epic Cycle as well.

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@_jeff_jaramillo @volhosis @michaeljknowles But he is not a main character in Odessuys, people should stop treating the movie as a re-telling of Homer’s story, and view it as a deconstruction of a character, Odessyus. Nolan is using texts from Homer, Virgil’s Aeneid, and wider “Epic Cycle” on Trojan war to tell the story.

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@RicardoPatn4 @ReggiSaxx Russia is kidnapping Africans to fight for them but it is Colombians are the the problem😂😂 https://t.co/R7bButJpjC

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@Jadaki @BornToBalance @LordofHennessy @crackcobain__ I’m not, I’m responding to a dumb statement. Because dude literally said South America did have that many slaves and had less slaves than the North.

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@BanditBrigand @OGBlackRedGuard Argentinian headline from 2004 before they had to play either Brazil or Nigeria in the Olympics.

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@aleksthgrt Yep, obviously a Russian supporter with stand with losers 😂.

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@QuintusCurtius In all honesty, can’t wait to read your review.

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@supersifon @Max_a_secas @plumaderecha @grok what territory Paraguay lost to Argentina in the war of triple alliance?

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@BornToBalance @crackcobain__ Argentinian 2004 headline re: possible match with either Nigeria or Brazil. “Bring on the monkeys”. But sure, they are not racist.

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@Rory_Talks_Ball Let me guess, American Airlines.