{"id":4076,"date":"2025-01-24T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:50:02","slug":"fashionably-fashy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"Fashionably Fashy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/fashionablyfashy\/fashionablyfashy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/fashionablyfashy\/fashionablyfashy650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><em>\u201cNot a single Roman work of art \u2014 sculpture, coinage, or painting \u2014 displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and related ideologies&#8230; It is also unknown to Roman literature and is never mentioned by ancient historians of either republican or imperial Rome. The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a significantly different function and is never identical with the modern straight-arm salute.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>\u2014 Martin Winkler,<\/strong><\/span> in <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-roman-salute-cinema-history-ideology-martin-m-winkler\/17389156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;just in case you run into any fashy apologists or Musk symps trying to explain it away by saying it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcr.brynmawr.edu\/2009\/2009.08.45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Roman Salute&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So just <a href=\"https:\/\/romanempiretimes.com\/no-elon-musk-did-not-perform-a-roman-salute-at-trumps-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut the crap<\/a> already, &#8216;cos all the wide-open fash are wide-open loving it and \u2014 like the original \u2014 the Early 21st sequel also features craven-ass collaborators, in the form of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2025\/01\/20\/vyfg-j20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11 x 16.5 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/fashionablyfashy\/fashionablyfashy300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 777kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot a single Roman work of art \u2014 sculpture, coinage, or painting \u2014 displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and related ideologies&#8230; It is also unknown to Roman literature and is never mentioned by ancient historians of either republican or imperial Rome. The gesture of the raised right arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1336,7,10,132,8,762],"tags":[1480,1059,886,1401,516,1177,1058],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-elections","category-media","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","tag-cybertruck","tag-elon-musk","tag-fascism","tag-nazism","tag-oligarchy","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}