• kristina [she/her]
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    3 个月前

    I googled him and a guy that looks just like him with the same fairly rare name was a ceo for Dell in Australia/New Zealand???

    I kinda hope its the case, the visual image of some CEO personally trying to burn down Bernie's office is just bizarre

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    3 个月前

    You cannot convince me Shant Soghomonian is a real name

    • assyrian
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      3 个月前

      white people when they hear a name they're not familiar with

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      3 个月前

      I read "Shant Soghomonian" and I immediately thought "oh, Armenian, 'son of Solomon', that's neat"

      Rule of thumb: pretty much everything about the Caucasus looks or sounds like it's straight out of some sort of high fantasy conworld, which honestly makes me wonder to what extent the aesthetics of high fantasy may have literally been inspired by the Caucasus.

      • Amerihay [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 个月前

        We literally inspired the term Caucasian because white people were too racist to admit we all came from Africa. Mix that with that eras orientalism and I think you're actually on to something with regards to high fantasy. I mean just look at some of our traditional clothing

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          3 个月前

          Yeah, like, circus side shows in Amerika in the PT Barnum era had "Circassian princesses": they'd just grab any random pretty girl off the street and give her a curly afro — possibly inspired by papakhi but this is questionable — and they'd dress her up in some sort of titillating and obviously 200,000% inaccurate """traditional outfit""", often complete with a nice cross necklace to remind viewers that [gibberish name] is really a good Christian woman... Even though Circassians are in fact Muslims.

          So yeah, the Caucasus definitely has a historical place in the popular imagination of international-community-1international-community-2 as being "simultaneously foreign and familiar". In that sense I guess you could say that "Circassian beauties" and their likes were just yesteryear's big tiddy anime GF.

          I dunno, I've had this thought a few times, about how the Caucasus may have inspired fantasy aesthetics. For instance when I first discovered Circassian musicians like Aslan Tlebzu and Aslan Kulov, I thought, "What, like the Narnia lion?" — naturally, it turns out that "aslan" is just Turkish for "lion", hence both the Narnia character as well as the Circassian forename. And another time when I had this thought was when I first saw the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — because those are very clearly supposed to be gazyri on the titular character's chest, and I remember there was also one scene in that film with buildings that reminded me a bit of those famous Vainakh towers.

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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        3 个月前

        A ton of D&D and therefore fantasy stuff is from the middle east and the caucasus. Same with cosmic horror via lovecraft.

          • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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            3 个月前

            I can't name much for the caucases sadly, being very ignorant on the subject, but I was told that whenever Gygax needed a name for something in one of his settings he just took a random Turkish or Armenian word. I'm much more confident about the middle east thing, but that's not what we were talking about.

      • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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        3 个月前

        This comment reminds me of that one chud youtube channel i saw where this beardy chechen guy was like "us chechens are hairy, live in mountains, love blacksmithing and fighting orcs (russians), so we're basically dwarves"

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 个月前

      Made me think of Shant Mesrobian (anti-communist with an email job in san francisco that has convinced himself he's a working-class whisperer)

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    3 个月前

    saul-your-honor your honor, the United $$nakes SSenator wouldn't call for a ceasefire in Gaza. My client was acting in a based manner. If they're revealed to be right wing, the punishment should be minimized to a heartbreaking

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    3 个月前

    it's not like Bernie looks good but the compression on the thumbnail makes him walking-dead