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This might be a new record for blaming people for something that happened so many eons ago its not even likely they're descendants.

• tzs 1y ago
  It is probably a lot more likely that they are descendants than you would expect. Any given random person from a long time ago tends to have either no living descendants now or a whole lot of them. The sacking of Constantinople was long enough ago that probably most now people in Europe are descended from people who were involved.
  • amanaplanacanal 1y ago
    Most likely descended from both sides.
  • ramraj07 1y ago
    Which only means that by your logic no one should complain about bezos anywhere.. proving the rebuttal.
• elcritch 1y ago
  I try! Ok I’m not blaming the people now for being descendants. The lead character in the story was an American foreigner anyways. When I took on of the boats around Venice I had a European couple going on about it. They kept calling it a city of thieves, shrug. More that for a city where important pieces of the historical artifacts and art was stolen by betrayal it’s a bit ironic to complain about modern wealthy people. As in “how dare rich opportunistic Bezos rent this city where he can see beautiful Byzantine treasures stolen by rich opportunistic Doge Enrico Don-solo.” Then again maybe it is an intentional backdrop for the story.