Fun fact about the word “barbaric”: it comes from ancient Mediterranean race politics. See, in the Roman Empire, there were two races; Roman and barbarian. Barbarian was the word for foreigners, and it came from the way the Greeks and Romans thought foreign languages sounded like “barbar”.

Now, we have 2000 years of history of different groups trying to claim they’re the continuation of the Roman Empire. There’s the Byzantines, and the Holy Roman Empire… And fun fact: when the Nazis called themselves the “third reich”, the first reich was the Roman Empire. The Nazis were trying to argue that they were the new Romans. And the reason why America and England have all that neoclassical architecture in government buildings is for kind of the same reason.

Now, I self-identify as an enemy of fascism and the traditional West. I’m the kind of person who thinks the goths were right and Rome deserved to be sacked. So, I identify as a barbarian. Barbarbar. And I support barbaric practices! I hope Zohran Mamdani has a lot of barbaric policies which expose the injustices of America and help the people.