Yeah, i also get depressed thinking about how long it took for Rome to fall.

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say. In this context “fascistic” is a descriptive/indexical term not trying to literally say “the ideological form of facism we understand nowadays arose directly from the legal code of Solon of Athens.”.

Alright fine, proto-fascistic, or you could argue that it’s been so fully incorporated into the fascist mythology that it’s effectively a part of it. It’s not as if fascism arose from the aether. Also while I wouldn’t call your average member of the athenian polis “white” supremacist, they were absolutely supremacists.

Yeah, classics is taught in a super fascistic way at most levels of study. Many modern classicists/historians are trying super hard to push back on this narrative but it’s not going to be easy to convince people that a many thousand year old narrative is “wrong”. That said, I will point out that Athenian Democracy is a pretty interesting innovation in it’s own right and it shouldn’t be (overly) demonized for it’s absurd contradictions (UnderpantsWeevil’s comment kinda highlights the biggest ). It’s main significance lies in how it involved people directly into “politics” and how that change in conception of “Polis”, and what it represented, changes things downstream of Athens in the historical context.

“But until the sage is dead, great thieves will never cease to appear, and if you pile on more sages in hopes of bringing the world to order, you will only be piling up more profit for Robber Chih. Fashion pecks and bushels for people to measure by and they will steal by peck and bushel.5 Fashion scales and balances for people to weigh by and they will steal by scale and balance. Fashion tallies and seals to insure trustworthiness and people will steal with tallies and seals. Fashion benevolence and righteousness to reform people and they will steal with benevolence and righteousness. How do I know this is so? He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord-and we all know that benevolence and righteousness are to be found at the gates of the feudal lords. Is this not a case of stealing benevolence and righteousness and the wisdom of the sages?” Chapter 10 of Zhuangzi (Stolen Chests), Burton Watson translation.

one of the better gundam series imo. Ending is very much rushed, in spite of that I really enjoyed the cast, particularly with ersatz Amuro Ray as the MC’s mentor.

ADHD is having difficulty focusing.

Not really very accurate, but go off.

I assume the joke is that they have very difficult birthing processes?

Eh, I like Bad Dude better as a name.

Preach.

Man, I am so hyped for this season, I’ve been looking forward to this for months now. Trigun, Frieren, JJK, Oshi no Ko, it’s just STACKED. Non-zero chance I may have to put somethings on the backburner until the season over even.

I generally agree with all of your points here, this was a solid show, better than average but not outstanding. I’m not AS skeptical of a school arc, so long as it doesn’t become a metastatic plot tumor. Sure, it’s played out, but this show was never trying to re-invent the wheel, just put a slightly different spin on a lot of old tropes.