A joke with a very small audience
2019-Dec-10, Tuesday 16:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I posted this on Facebook after I got an advertisement for Crusades-themed sweaters (I assume due to posting links to Sabaton videos) and it's worth reposting here:
Deus vult is obviously from the Crusades and nowadays from the idiot meme-spam, especially on the song The Last Stand which is about the 1527 sack of Rome and thus Christian internecine fighting.
שנית מצדה לא תיפול (Sheynit Metsada lo tipul, "Masada shall not fall again") is part of the Israeli Defense Force swearing-in oath, referencing the First Jewish–Roman War and the Siege of Masada following the destruction of the Second Temple.
尊皇攘夷 (sonnō jōi, "Revere the Emperor and expel the barbarians") was the slogan of the Imperial loyalist forces (維新志士 ishin shishi) during the Meiji Restoration. There's a Sabaton song applicable for this one too, called Shiroyama, about the (of course) Battle of Shiroyama where Saigō Takamori led 500 samurai against 30,000 Imperial troops as the last gasp of the Satsuma Rebellion. There's a statue of Saigō Takamori in Ueno Park which I've seen several times, though I didn't know who he was at the time.
No Sabaton song for the Zealots at Masada, sadly.
Sabaton does have some really good music. Apparently they were in Chicago a couple months ago and I missed them.
Broke: "Deus vult!"This isn't a joke only for me, but it's not far off.
Woke: "!שנית מצדה לא תיפול"
Bespoke: "尊皇攘夷!"
Deus vult is obviously from the Crusades and nowadays from the idiot meme-spam, especially on the song The Last Stand which is about the 1527 sack of Rome and thus Christian internecine fighting.
שנית מצדה לא תיפול (Sheynit Metsada lo tipul, "Masada shall not fall again") is part of the Israeli Defense Force swearing-in oath, referencing the First Jewish–Roman War and the Siege of Masada following the destruction of the Second Temple.
尊皇攘夷 (sonnō jōi, "Revere the Emperor and expel the barbarians") was the slogan of the Imperial loyalist forces (維新志士 ishin shishi) during the Meiji Restoration. There's a Sabaton song applicable for this one too, called Shiroyama, about the (of course) Battle of Shiroyama where Saigō Takamori led 500 samurai against 30,000 Imperial troops as the last gasp of the Satsuma Rebellion. There's a statue of Saigō Takamori in Ueno Park which I've seen several times, though I didn't know who he was at the time.
No Sabaton song for the Zealots at Masada, sadly.
Sabaton does have some really good music. Apparently they were in Chicago a couple months ago and I missed them.
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Date: 2019-Dec-11, Wednesday 14:31 (UTC)