caketastydelish
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They were not expecting things to get this out of hand.
Straight from Julius Caesar’s Wikipedia page: “On the way across the Aegean Sea,[22] Caesar was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner.[23][24] He maintained an attitude of superiority throughout his captivity. The pirates demanded a ransom of 20 talents of silver, but he insisted that they ask for 50.[25][26] After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them. He had them crucified on his own authority, as he had promised while in captivity[27]—a promise that the pirates had taken as a joke. ”
This has Donald Trump written all over it, doesn’t it? Malcolm X would have done the same if the KKK or Nazis had captured him.
Donald Trump refused to go to a WWII memorial in France because the rain would muss his hair, and later hid in a nuclear bunker from some protesters.
poster rejects any notion of Trump being anywhere near the other two but it is kinda harsh as the thread starter is known by the poster from other threads as one investigating the truths and stuff and at times being on the edge ...
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His overconfident, consistent denial to his own ignorant and his delusional speech and behavior can instead be compare to some fictional character.
For instance, it would be a lot more interesting to compare Trump to Don Quixote, Trump voter fantasizing the glory of the past that Trump promise to be materialized under his genius mind and powerful character, even though the rest of the world except his voter laughing on his self delusional yap yap. This is quite symmetrically alike to how people were laughing at Don Quixote and Sancho Panza trying to fulfill their childish quest to glory.
Trump voter follow along through many crap that he brings to them because they believe his antique will makes them great again, likewise Sancho stuck around with the Don bonded by the hope of glory and wealth that the Don promised if Sancho trusted him and stick along blindly through all the crap.
In addition to the striking similarity between Trump and Don Quixote, we may also try to compare Trump with The Naked Emperor in Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Emperor's New Clothes". We may also compare Trump voter patience on waiting of the actualization of Trump's vision to Vladimir and Estragon waiting for their friend Godot to come?
Then used the actual scholarly interpretation of the said text/fictional work (so many interpretation of Cervantes' work) to be applied on analyzing Trump and his follower's character, I think that idea is interesting enough to be an academic paper.
Democracy is good to White Man. But Socrates argue in the Republic Book. Oligharchy is better than Democracy.
BLACK OLIGARCHY NOW!
I agree this seems like a productive comparison to make. Especially for evangelicals I believe the Quixote / Panza comparison holds true.
Plato write down, but this book have many greeks talking about society, including Plato who called himself as Fedro in their books.The Republic was written by Plato, and I really, really don't think you want a platonic republic. It's pretty bad.