Netflix Post-Roman Mob Whining About African Queen Cleopatra Series

Not to mention insisting on hiring mercenaries instead of training citizen-soldiers. Sure, the former tend to be more experienced than the latter, but once you burn through them, they're not as easy to replace. That was always Rome's biggest advantage during the Punic Wars. Whenever they lost an army, they could just raise a new one from their vast population, while Carthage struggled to find replacements for their lost troops.
Rome also had the will to win, especially after the battle of Cannae. No matter how much blood was shed or battles lost, the Republic would prevail. No Roman citizen was ever in doubt of that, whilst the Carthaginians flopped around more than a dying fish.

Whilst the Phoenicians were a more mercantile people, Rome was this militaristic mountain of muscle, left mentally unstable by the Gaulish sack, and constantly punching anyone in its general vicinity.

Have to say, against the might of Rome, the Carthaginians really shouldn't have been so...salty...about losing.

...I'll see myself out.
 
Bruhhhhhh she had one eye and a bunch of dead loved ones. Most tragic backstory ever.



No Docuseries for you!
They are not interested in holding up their own historical figures; they merely wish to tear ours down.
 
They are not interested in holding up their own historical figures; they merely wish to tear ours down.
Ah.

Not “rip down.”

Redistribute.

That is an absolutely vital distinction.

That and a lot of African Americans are so sodding rootless and radicalised that they are just going for whatever is closest to hand. It shows how cut off they are from their ancestral homeland.
 
Ah.

Not “rip down.”

Redistribute.

That is an absolutely vital distinction.

That and a lot of African Americans are so sodding rootless and radicalised that they are just going for whatever is closest to hand. It shows how cut off they are from their ancestral homeland.

Its intersectional entitlement. if intersectionality is a caste system, then the higher castes are given an absolute right to access and appropriate the spaces, symbols and culture of the lower castes.
 
Oh man, that Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass decided to speak out on this Netflix Documentary as well.


What a guy. I remember when I was young, watching the first episode of The Amazing Adventures of Zahi Hawass (yes that is what the show was called) where Dr. Zahi Hawass was mentoring a bright eyed group of college aged American students who were following him around on his archeaological digs. In the very first episode, the cutest of the co-eds, Zoe somehow got lost in one of the pyramids and Dr. Hawass singlehandedly went out to find her and successfully rescued her from the Tomb. I thought it was the silliest thing I ever saw pertaining to Egyptology.

I didn't know then that Dr. Hawass was the Hero we deserved, but now he is the Hero we need. I can only hope he confronts this Docuseries with the same passion, zeal and strength he had when his vehicle broke down a few episodes later in the middle of the desert, forcing Zoe and Him to trek across the rocky dunes alone until they encountered a friendly tribe of... I don't know... Fremen or something who loaned them camels. This was all before the new discoveries they uhhh discovered in Cleopatra's Tomb.

The best part is that there were like four or five other students in the group but none of them were as hot and nubile as Zoe. And it turned out Zoe wasn't even an anthropology or archaeology student but just an actress with an interest in anthropology. Good times.

What was the point of this?

Oh yeah... Netflix... bring back this seventy five year old guy doing creepy Indiana Jones shit (shouldn't be too hard since they are making a movie with an actual eighty year old Indiana Jones doing Indiana Jones shit) instead of crappy Docuseries produced by Will Smith's Wife. I get that she was a Navy Seal or something but that doesn't give her license to crap all over history. Thank you for your service, Dr. Hawass and Lieutenant Pinkett-Smith both.
 
Whipped up this promo for Netflix in MS Paint.

I know Jada Pinkett Smith will love my ideas for her docuseries.

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Call me Netflix.
 
Disney is being sued in Egypt because of blackwashing Egyptian history and because their values are 'not compatible with Egyptian values', or something like that:


Cross-posting cause we have 2 threads on the huge rat.
 
Disney is being sued in Egypt because of blackwashing Egyptian history and because their values are 'not compatible with Egyptian values', or something like that:


Cross-posting cause we have 2 threads on the huge rat.


I wonder if the suit will be dismissed this time just like the Egyptian lawsuit in the 80s for blackwashing Anwar Sadat in a Hollywood biopic.
 
Disney is being sued in Egypt because of blackwashing Egyptian history and because their values are 'not compatible with Egyptian values', or something like that:

I am gonna point out that the lawsuit is not gonna amount to anything. Because the suit has no standing. No one in the suit is a recent blood relative of Cleopatra.
 
I wonder if the suit will be dismissed this time just like the Egyptian lawsuit in the 80s for blackwashing Anwar Sadat in a Hollywood biopic.
All of these suits are thrown out for good reason. You can't sue for anything that happens multiple thousands of years ago. No court wants to open up that can of worms.
 

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