• Андрей Быдло@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I’m more surprised with their logistics (documented) and the amount of slave labor (suspected) that needs to build these tombstones just to burry a dude, and sacrifice many people, animals, resources alongside them (discovered). Their fucking ego is of inhumane proportions. Maybe it’s better to believe in aliens than imagining this dick measuring contest of dead fuckers that probably killed way more people than their average wars. Pharaohs are the ultimate bastards. Instead of a damaged Sphinx, I’d love if someone punched off their noses instead.

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      6 months ago

      Pyramids weren’t built by slaves, but there’s certainly class warfare going on in other ways. Egypt had a lot of farmers sitting around while the Nile was in its flood stage, and they appear to have paid them to work on monuments. Still, it’s a lot of work to feed the ego of one ruler.

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        Hugh, one another stereotype shattered I guess? But still, I don’t feel these people workmaxxed themselves just to be the supreme male alpha predators. If they could just sit around, they could’ve done just that, or organized their living space, or anything, instead of a very traumatic and power-consuming labor. It’s a different condition, but the dynamic seems close.

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          Probably all the same reasons we don’t have 90% of the population doing their own thing now: they’ll starve if they don’t.

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            They aren’t called business empires for nothing. And imho all empires should fall. And we should now build public restrooms to these persons. My urine’d leak by itself if I’d stay over a toilet named after a past or modern pharaoh. Ramzes, Bezos, piss off.

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          If I don’t have enough food/money, and I can’t work as a farmer, maybe doing other work in the off season isn’t the worst idea. It’s what my grandfather did. And what do I care if the end result is a stupid monument or whatever as long as the money is good?

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      6 months ago

      Powerful people committing horrific human-rights violations just to satisfy their own ego?

      Damn, that’s never happened in the history of anything. /s