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Since I don’t see much football stuff on Lemmy, this is Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian footballer and premier league royalty. YNWA

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What does YNWA stand for/mean?

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-8 points

“You Newly Woke Ally”?

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52 points

You’ll Never Walk Alone. It’s liverfool football club’s motto. They sing it at every game. People get it tattooed.

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13 points

Thanks!

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9 points

It’s something the Dunmer often say.

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17 points

You’ll Never Work Again

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Close, but it’s a threat: You’ll Never Walk Again. They are kneecapping people up in here.

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3 points

It’s a typo for YMCA.

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-38 points

Will he burn if there’s crosses in the Museum?

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12 points

Huh?

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7 points

Nah, he doesn’t really care. He even celebrates Christmas with his family

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3 points

Why would he not celebrate Santas birthday?

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26 points

Can someone explain the reactionary joke I’m missing here, what does this mean.

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You see, when football is mentioned online, the collective intelligence of any comment section is cut by at least 90%. This stacks with another 90% if it’s women’s football or any token LGBT acknowledgement in football. The joke is Muslim Bad.

Which is a shame. I used to make fun of le sportsball amirite until it clicked that there was immense entertainment value in these matches, which could be super tense and exciting even when an individual match doesn’t have super high stakes. There’s storylines with each of the players and managers, there’s a lot of diverging personalities among them and they all handle the same game in their own way. And unlike scripted shows, when something unexpected happens it is so much more interesting. Like the story is real in a way that scripted entertainment isn’t.

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YNWA made me think of what Muslims say about Mohammed.

This is a famous footballer Salah (YNWA)

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It stands for You’ll Never Walk Alone, it’s a motto and anthem of Liverpool FC.

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Honestly the concept of property here is just silly. Who specifically do they belong to, why, what claim, and how could such a claim exist?

I just don’t agree with the concept, this individual doesn’t have any right to ownership regardless of whether his specific family owned it at some point prior, but most likely a direct relative doesn’t even own it, just someone with his self same ‘race’ ( which race doesn’t really exist either tbh, not genetically anyway, but exists as a social construct ).

I just despise this mentality. I don’t own anything collectively with anyone of my ‘race’, neither their achievements nor shames, and same for even direct relatives.

There is not enough generic diversity in humans to even prop up the idea of race beyond being a cultural construct, it’s time to stop seeing our fellow humans as something other.

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7 points

Property rights only exist when non-western countries want their stuff / land back. When the west stole them, then its finders keepers.

/s

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5 points

they belong in Egypt not in en***nd

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5 points

(Why are we bleeping England?)

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0 points

cuz its a bad word.

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what a bunch of nerds… this is mohamed salah, pro football player with liverpool fc and he is joking.

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In fairness it likely wouldn’t be preserved otherwise. So you’re welcome.

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That’s an interesting point. While I agree it’s kinda shitty the UK nicked everyone’s cool stuff and shoved it in 1 building. I’m willing to bet if we hadn’t the number of pieces that would be lost to time would not be zero

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This is just weird revisionist history. They moved in stole shit, colonized and murdered. The after the fact excuse of “we took it to preserve it” doesn’t play mostly because their colonizer bullshit is largely the reason areas they stole shit from are destabilized.

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I’m not revising anything its a shitty thing to do and it should all be returned. It was just a thought with a beer given how volatile some of the areas where the stuff comes and yes I know most of them ended up volatile because of colonialism.

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Yeah I’m totally sure the Brits didn’t break a single thing shipping artifacts to their big fancy museum. Let’s ignore all the mummies Europeans ground up into powder and ingested as “medicine”. Savagely eating dead humans with the same mouths that say brown people are too savage to take care of their own artifacts.

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To be fair, they probably weren’t able to take care of their own artifacts very well … after having been invaded by the British.

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Oddly enough they didn’t teach that part of history when I was at school. Got anything I could learn up on it

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They also turned them into oil paint. Mummy/egyptian brown was a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

I dont know why people do shit like this. Find some rare, finite resource of information and do just about everything with them except study them respectfully. Eat them, grind them into paint, rich people having “unwrapping parties.”

Humans are so deeply disappointing.

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85 points

Sure, I’m gonna steal your TV because I’ll take better care of it than you would.

You’re welcome

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This is a conundrum I can’t wrap my head around. One (country, usually) can have something of cultural significance, and decide what to do with that. They can make it a museum, make it generally available, forbid access at all, and even destroy it completely (e.g. see Palmyra under ISIS).

If the object in question is not protected by UNESCO (and really, even if it is) no one has a say in that. The only remotely correct argument that can be made is that destroying historical artifacts makes it hard or impossible to study history, but one can argue that we don’t need to study history, it’s not like this is an imperative. Another argument may be that things do not belong to those who have it, but instead to their people as inheritors of people who lived long ago, but I don’t think that also helps.

And so, on one hand, I am for preserving artifacts and not destroying those, on the other hand, I don’t quite see what moral ground is there for it.

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If by steal, you mean purchase from me for cheap because I don’t give a shit about it and don’t appreciate its value, only for my great grandson to show up years later and call you a thief, then sure!

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23 points

White man’s burden

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except that not actually an other hand sorta thing at all, almost exclusively it was colonizers and their wars that destroyed so many of the artifacts that werent stolen, if they weren’t delivery destroyed by colonizers to erase history and beyond even that the colonizers carelessness, greed, and racism which they brought to archeology led to much more than just artifacts being destroyed. There are so many historical sites whose histories we will never know at all because these clown excavated them to take “relics” and took little if any records where their precious artifacts were found and how, and that is if sites were not destroyed in their entirety out of sheer idiocy in the search of something else like how troy was. 18th, 19th, and even some 20th century so called archeology is a history of the destruction of history.

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Holy run-on sentences. I agree with you, but it was done, it’s already in the museums. Signing petitions and raising awareness of agencies/museums that are trying to get the stuff back is probably a better way to funnel your frustrations.

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20 points

It was already thousands of years old. The British destroyed more artifacts than they “saved”.

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9 points

It was doing fine where it was.

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38 points

Time to plug one of my favorite podcasts: Stuff the British Stole

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19 points

Needs a French version as well, they still allow active trade of stolen native objects.

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And the girl in the back on the original post photo, looking like this below meme photo. LoL

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