this person is a posting genius y’all need to appreciate what they gave us

he’s haitian

Can any palestinians or other arabs here give a take on non-arabs wearing a kufiya? i think they look very nice and i’d like to show my support for palestine, but im not sure where this particular item falls on the scale of “showing solidarity” to “cultural appropriation”. i know some traditional clothing items are meaningful in such a way that it becomes disrespectful for cultural outsiders to wear them but i don’t know about this one. thanks and stay safe wherever you are

i assumed this quote was fake, and while it is from 1907 and not ancient greece, there’s similar sentiments from Plato and Xenophon quoted in the dissertation this is from on pages 73ff. This particular one is in the middle of page 74.

I’ll look into it, thanks. Losurdo looks very interesting just from his wikipedia page.

I appreciate the insight. The reason why I don’t really want to like, just read primary sources is that I’m not a historian (and only have very limited Russian) so I don’t think I really have the training to interpret disconnected primary sources into something reasonable.

have you read anything by stephen kotkin? i heard that his biography of stalin was good so I read the first few chapters but didn’t end up continuing (edit: not because I had any problem with the book, I just didnt think i wanted to commit to a 1000 page biography right now). I’d like to know something about stalin that isnt from american high school textbooks or internet memes.

I appreciate the recommendations, I’ll look into them and add them to my list

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theyre not interchangeable, whence means “from where” not just “where”

its been many years since i opened a math textbook but maybe its common in this sort of discourse where you need to explain whence something comes

logged in for the first time in a few weeks and now it defaults to all instead of local. bullhonky

i dont suppose you have any ideas on where to get issues of it for free? i use libgen for most stuff but idk if it’s the best place for periodicals

or for that matter are there any other good german literary magazines? i dont ever read german these days its sad