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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 month ago

Why do they have those statues as their profile picture every single time?

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 month ago
[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Alright. But why are those a symbol of that?

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

They are often extremely muscular statues with god like bodies. The Romans and the Greeks themselves were believed to have painted them in all kinds of colors but along the way they came to represent whiteness as the most pure and perfect form. It's basically the literal version of whitewashing history.

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

There's also some worship of (an idealized form of) ancient Rome and Greece here. They see their particular theme park version as a peak example of a society unmarred by the millieu of things they consider dege[...]ate.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fetishizing ancient Greece and Rome as the birthplace of Western Civilization whose ideals our immoral society's have degraded from.

[-] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They think they would have been a knight or philosopher or some warrior if they went back in time. Odds are they would be a peasant being ground into the dirt by nobles and still kissing their asses. It's because they love imagining a different reality where they wouldn't be the wimpy ass spineless cowards they are now.

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