Grump: Sick and tired of the Right's use of Ancient Greece for their Macho Posturing

[Coventina]

The photo in this thread is the stimulus for this thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028945089

So, the bare-chested guy holding a Greek-style helmet thinks that makes him a warrior?
How much does he really know about what Greek warriors went through? Their training? Their death rate?
Does he realize that most Greek soldiers had sex with each other? (Somehow I don't think today's right-wingers think that's macho, even though the Greeks were a hyper-masculine society).

And don't even get me started on the morons who have "Molon Labe" on their trucks!!!
(Forgive my Anglicized spelling, I don't know how to use Greek letters in DU)

As if the government couldn't take down any of those guys in less than five minutes if that was their goal.
Trading on acts of true heroism - when real lives and communities were at stake - for their own false bravado just chaps my hide.

None of these posturing fools would last 5 minutes in the real Greek armies of the day.

Faugh!



on edit: grammar correction for clarity

[Raster]

1. I feel ya... as I type, I look out the window onto a neighbors beige Jeep...

...emblazzoned with all kinds of Sparta helmets, gun decals and "Molon Labe" stickers and a cute little bumpersticker that says "I study Triggernometry"... get it? Maricopa County, Arizona... gotta love it!

[Coventina]

3. Hiya neighbor! I live in Maricopa County as well!

Triggernometry is a new one to me, though!

Probably coming soon to my block....

[Raster]

7. I live in far East Mesa...

...land of beige everything and miles of Mormons... and FOUR Leisure Worlds. I hate the Summer heat, but I am READY for the snowbirds to fly!

[Coventina]

8. South Scottsdale here.

Glad spring training is over.

March is madness in our neighborhood, but the culprit is baseball, not basketball.

[potone]

2. No kidding.

I am a classics professor and this stuff drives me crazy!

[Coventina]

4. Do you get the "The 300" fanboys as well?

Honestly (as I posted in the other thread) I've never seen the movie, but just from what I've heard, is hardly true to the actual battle of Thermopylae.

[potone]

15. Yes, I do.

But to be fair, they usually view it with amusement.

[tblue37]

5. Find it online in Greek letters, then copy it & paste it into the reply box:

???ὼ? ???έ

[Coventina]

6. Thanks! Seems obvious in retrospect...

[HughBeaumont]

9. Moron Lambs are nothing but Trump receptacles.

Just like the meme says - "Your shirt says 'Tapout' and UFC but your body says cookouts and KFC". Bunch of pasty doughboys who wouldn't last minute one in a real war. They could be taken down without using fatal ammo.

What's more hilarious is that these are the same feeble-minds that think the police should have roughed up David Dao MORE. They're all about law and order . . . unless it applies to THEM.

[Coventina]

11. "Moron Lambs" Ha!

I am totally stealing that!!

[HughBeaumont]

12. STEAL AWAY!

After all, the Senate Majority Turtle stole our SCOTUS nominee . . .

[UTUSN]

10. Yip, the wingnuts lusting over ancient Greeks dates to CHEENEE & the Iraq Attack

The Classics professor, Victor Davis HANSEN, was CHEENEE's willing tool, meeting with him as his guru for "permanent war" as keeping the society rejuvenated.

[Coventina]

13. Been reading up on the guy. He's a real piece of work.

[Coventina]

14. Kicking, because I'm still peeved, and, sick of the idiots in general.