The one good thing the germans did was sack rome.

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

"The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." -Pslam 92:12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblos_syllabary

All I want for election season is a US army dealt a defeat on the field.

Alan Wake 2. It was good. Up its own arse but in a good way.

"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."

I guess...but...that cuts out 99.9998 percent of what most humans would call art. Including all socialist art!

Also, is a commissioned work not created solely to exist and be appreciated by the commissioner (and often the artist as well, artists like making things for others)? Is g&s only art if done by a third rate amateur musical society? Indeed, are they performing art or a product? Does a work of performance art become art when it enters the public domain?

It seems utterly absurd to call every professional artist who ever lived not an artist just because they had some kind of outside context to their work.

So only amatuer art is art? The western art music canon is Schubert and some folk songs? The Sistine chapel and the Forbidden City and the Sphinx, all products

Incredibly normal things happening here.

I love this anime. Love the live action musical as well, especially when done as a Chevalier d'Eon/Rose of Versailles/Scarlet Pimpernel (they remade the broadway version for Japan) trilogy

Chevalier d'Eon is very much a late 90s tribute/prequel to Rose of Versailles

I'm having fun. Would like to see some of the niche hobbyist coms get more visibility.

Truly, one of the most powerful contributions to communist theory in the 21st century. (I'm not even being ironic)