ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
on 20 Sep 12:34
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But the shareholders (tourists?)
Paradachshund@lemmy.today
on 20 Sep 15:09
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I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
on 21 Sep 19:56
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TIL the “discovery” of Petra was just western Europeans hearing about it again after the Romans, western and eastern, were building fucking churches in it and that we’re at whatever stage of capitalism it is that gentrifies fucking Petra.
tinycarnivoroussheep@midwest.social
on 04 Oct 16:36
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As someone who grew up in Dust Bowl country, if the indigenous people in the region stayed nomadic for umpteen thousand years, there’s a couple few fukken reasons for it.
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But the shareholders (tourists?)
I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin
TIL the “discovery” of Petra was just western Europeans hearing about it again after the Romans, western and eastern, were building fucking churches in it and that we’re at whatever stage of capitalism it is that gentrifies fucking Petra.
As someone who grew up in Dust Bowl country, if the indigenous people in the region stayed nomadic for umpteen thousand years, there’s a couple few fukken reasons for it.