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Merchants were absolutely devastating to Rome

Like the rootless merchant classes from the East. Caesar war...
Crusty mewling fortuitous meteor national
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its the weirdest thing that western culture isolated and mad...
Startling Brethren
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The weirdest part about it is that the West both ritualizes ...
Crusty mewling fortuitous meteor national
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Wow
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NYT Opinion | “What Tacitus Knew (and HR Forgot)&rdquo...
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You’re just describing jews but this really has nothin...
Hateful Prole
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Everyone knows this but (((people))) will bankrupt you for a...
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My neighbor once told me that the west was infiltrated by th...
Twisted queen of the night
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What exactly didn’t make sense
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I have heard this too. Merchants from the Levant showed up ...
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Date: May 20th, 2025 8:23 AM
Author: Crusty mewling fortuitous meteor national

Like the rootless merchant classes from the East. Caesar warned about this, said that the merchants were peddling trinkets and ideologies that effeminate (the Latin word means both weaken and make more feminine) the soul. Tacitus later also bemoaned the accountants, bankers, lawyers and weird religious cults that kept popping up when Eastern rebellion infiltrated the empire. Btw I'm not singling anyone out here, I have nothing against merchants. Just giving the diagnosis of social dynamics and empire.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48946617)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: Startling Brethren

its the weirdest thing that western culture isolated and made taboo the acknowledgment of group differences.

thought leaders will lead you into the weeds and start splitting hairs between Finns and Swedes or something - call you crazy for inventing difference, but one casual glance at Australian aborigines and white Australians puts to rest forever any notion that racial groups are not vastly different

this seems like most basic and utilitarian human knowledge and we completed abandoned it for a very weird and useless religious notion of blank-slatism. To what end?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48946623)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 9:02 AM
Author: Crusty mewling fortuitous meteor national

The weirdest part about it is that the West both ritualizes diversity in approved ways, while at the same time rejecting Différance. You are forced to talk about diversity all the time--to accept The Other. But as soon as someone tries to talk about The Other in a way that diverges from approved scripts, or if The Other has opinions that diverge from sacred narratives--the meaning of diversity itself begins to slip. In doing so, the Westerner creates what one might call a Semantic Enclosure in which diversity is not diversity, but is curated display. True differance--the true Otherness that disrupts, delays and defers meaning is rejected as noise. This is the paradox of curated alterity-- where the West enshrines "diversity" not as ontological opening but as a symbolic placeholder-- a simulacrum of difference domesticated into brand-safe semiotic units. The system wants difference but not Différance. Color, not contradiction. Faces, not fractures.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48946665)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 9:31 AM
Author: Green Step-uncle's House Factory Reset Button

Wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48946703)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: idiotic deranged haunted graveyard

NYT Opinion | “What Tacitus Knew (and HR Forgot)”

By: Evan39 (Safeway Night Manager | Equity Partner, Perkins Coie – Cultural Compliance Litigation Desk)

May 20, 2025

The merchants were already here when I arrived.

They didn’t wear robes, exactly—though the woman from DEIB Ops does keep a shawl draped over her chair—but they moved like them. Shuffling, whispering, managing consensus. Shaving down the rough edges of morale like accountants carving losses off the quarterly scroll.

When I objected to a mandatory anti-bias training entitled “Empires of the Mind: Recognizing Your Inner Colonizer,” I was told, “You’re creating unsafe semantics in the breakroom.”

I said, “I just wanted to sweep the vestibule.” They wrote me up.

Tacitus saw this coming. Caesar warned us. Not about any one group—no—but about the metastasis of Meaning Management. About the rot that sets in when empire forgets how to say “no” to trinkets of the spirit.

First came the imported policies. Then the templated scripts. Then the monthly “difference audits,” which Tabitha from Corporate insists we conduct using scented markers and “feedback cloaks” sewn by local youth.

In our age, the new altars are SharePoint folders. The new Vestal Virgins are Credentialed Men of Soft Voice™ who facilitate empathy circles while hoarding billable hours.

It is all extremely equitable.

And extremely over.

http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/opinion/tacitus-diversity-safeway-decline.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48947305)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 6:36 PM
Author: Crusty mewling fortuitous meteor national



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48948664)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:48 AM
Author: Hot exciting box office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48950283)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 12:48 PM
Author: Startling Brethren



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48947230)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 1:05 PM
Author: Apoplectic piazza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48947318)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 1:08 PM
Author: Hateful Prole

You’re just describing jews but this really has nothing to do with The West

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48947327)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 9:41 AM
Author: costumed bespoke water buffalo lodge

Everyone knows this but (((people))) will bankrupt you for acknowledging it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48946747)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: Twisted queen of the night

My neighbor once told me that the west was infiltrated by the “Jews of Babylonia” who were not even Jews, but something else, and they came East and ruined the West forever.

At least that’s what she told me. I couldn’t really follow what she was saying and it didn’t make a lot of sense so I just nodded my head and said okay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48947348)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 6:33 PM
Author: Vigorous snowy senate volcanic crater

What exactly didn’t make sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48948655)



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Date: May 20th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: Crusty mewling fortuitous meteor national

I have heard this too. Merchants from the Levant showed up bearing trinkets in exchange for shekels. Not technically Jews or whatever but they absolutely were vile kikes. And when I say vile kikes I'm not singling out any one group, just the transnational trinket peddlers from the tiny strip above Egypt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48948674)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 8:46 AM
Author: Twisted queen of the night

There is a wiki article on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_hypothesis_of_Ashkenazi_ancestry

Honestly, this neighbor (we have since moved) was a Greek woman and kind of crazy. She told me about this stuff late at night and I thought she was kooky as hell.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48950280)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: frum stage

amazing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48950613)



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Date: May 21st, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Gay supple property wrinkle



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5727679&forum_id=2Elisa#48950601)