Random thought: this country hates when people born as one gender dress like other genders (or no gender at all). But, oh boy, we love when (white) people dress up like pretend cops and fake military.

Thanks, Costco

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    But, oh boy, we love when (white) people dress up like pretend cops and fake military

    It goes a long way back in time. The weird old-timey thing about dressing up little boys in sailor costumes started as a bunch of 19th century German parents jacking off about how awesome the German navy was.

    • justjoshint [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      God 19th century German intellectual culture is just the most ridiculous fucking thing, I love reading about it cause it's just bizarre even though it's very influential for intellectual culture today.

      Yes please I would like a 1500 page book with thousands of Latin words explaining which ones are "classical" and which ones are "barbarians"

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        And let's have a big discussion on the patriotism of printing stuff in blacketter or not.

        • justjoshint [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          yeah when its full on fraktur i dont even bother trying to read it, i know i could just learn but its fucking annoying

          turns out there's pretty good OCR for fraktur though.