You have shakespeare and gay rights and whatever.

I saw this lady’s horrible tweet too, but I think it’s fair to say most of the discussion happened outside of its context, before people unearthed it.

Maybe it’s the “grass greener on the other side” type situation. I like to believe my culture—Russian culture—is very salvageable, despite what it looks like right now…

goddamn it why did the fucking Europeans have to find the Incas when they were in the middle of a civil war such awful timing

Supposedly one of the reasons the civil war happened was because a bunch of Inca including the emperor died of smallpox, so it’s not exactly a coincidence.