Similarly, both leaders were acutely aware of the power of history and sought to control those ancient narratives.
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Maybe better is just narratives (nix 'ancient'): the history of the US, especially its reliance on slavery, is not old at all!
aug 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Plus ça change... I am curious, though, did they remove Saddam's brick after the fall of his regime?
aug 29, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
Really good question, they didn't: the latest date I can find of it is from 2019, so I'm not sure if it's still there, but I haven't heard otherwise. A number of objects and structures from his regime can still be visited
aug 29, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
In Turkish the word for gold coating is "varak" and the word for penis, in slang, is "yarak" (I can't believe I overtly wrote that, writing in Turkish I would never do that😳). This leads to creative jokes when it comes to our president's internal decoration taste (please, I don't want to be jailed).
aug 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s appropriate as he & his interior decoration is frequently described by various unattractive references to nether regions of human & animal anatomy-so people say!
aug 29, 2025, 7:54 am • 1 0 • view