Post AtnSgHS3z73FTarunA by jotaemei@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #AtnQlkyZRRPIaGYbfE by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-05T21:29:04Z
       
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       I like ancient Egyptian lore and culture, but if a pharaoh is ever depicted in the "smiting the enemies" post I can't help but assume he was a real jerk I wouldn't have liked at all. IDK maybe I'd feel different if the sea people and the desert fold kept stealing my cow... but even then. Ugh. So gauche.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtnRFEutCaczqCtTiS by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-05T21:34:23Z
       
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       @alter_kaker IDK there is like 5k years of history I think everyone can find something to like and things to hate in all of that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtnSgHS3z73FTarunA by jotaemei@social.coop
       2025-05-05T21:50:25Z
       
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       @futurebird Speaking of jerks in Egyptian mythology, if you ever run into Horus, and he gives you some lettuce, I recommend telling him that you already ate. NSFW if googled.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtnTY0Yd0qWaiYYgz2 by cshlan@dawdling.net
       2025-05-05T22:00:01Z
       
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       @futurebird It's a weak pose. Only the pharaohs with something to prove use it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Atng87dFO02oX9hpho by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-06T00:21:10Z
       
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       @alter_kaker I think Rome and The Catholic Church can also play those roles from time to time. But really most "great powerful men(and people)" tend to be kind of awful. I don't know if the Egyptians were worse. They did have good branding, though.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtngIt9ZYdDmoYxZC4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-06T00:23:07Z
       
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       @cshlan That's kind of most of them at one point or another... but I do think it could be correlated with the empire being under threat or easing towards decline. I just wonder if any of the Egyptian people rolled their eyes like I do. Some must have, right?
       
 (DIR) Post #AtniVovGnYOFMlZ1bk by JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com
       2025-05-06T00:47:50Z
       
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       @futurebird @alter_kakerEgyptians, even Pharaohs, were from different ethnic groups over those 5k years. Exodus shows a wise Pharaoh followed by a paranoid ethnic cleanser from an invader dynasty.Shaul was awful. Ashurbanipal was awful.Power over people is sought by awful people. And sometimes they get that power and they become awful.No king, no matter how righteous, protects their people from their royal descendants.