CrimsonSage

joined 4 years ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

So long and thanks for all the fish.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah twitter is a nazi website.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but have you considered "corn man bad"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Jesus was Italian though!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I grew up on the tail end of some semblance of child autonomy in the 90's. To be clear I was a white "boy" in a upper middle class family so I had way more privilege than most. The one place the totalitarian controls had really started dropping was public school, but my parents put me in private school for various reasons; the psychotic administration being one of them. Like I still got to roam the neighborhood and ride my bike into town and stuff, but I got questioned by cops a couple of times, never punished though. Looking back though I can see the strictures were really closing in around behind me, NCLB was passed when I was in HS and my sister got some of that madness before she graduated.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (9 children)

The more I learn about khrushchev the more I wonder about the competency of stalin for not purging the doofus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't say it's imaginary. The value of the platform was the people who used it as it effectively functioned as s clearinghouse for news. The fact that a moron like musk didn't realize the value was the people and that by adding nazis and conspiracy theories he was destroying its value shows how much of a dipshit he really is. He basically bought a punch bowl, shit in it, and now is mad that no one wants his shit punch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

For a pre capitalist imperial project to exist you need a class/category of people, who are usual self conscious, who dominate a military hierarchy by using military power to extract value from a subaltern people or regions toward an imperial core. The system is circular in that the military hierarchy exists to extract the value upon which its existence is predicated. Also important is that the system is more or less depersonalized, bureaucratized, and expansionary. The ancient Greek west Asian empires are a perfect example of this where you even had ethnic divisions between the military class and the subordinate producing class. You really don't see this in the crusader states. These were feudal states with very little burecratc control which were dominated by customary reciprocal laws, duties, and obligations. While they were hierarchical between the productive and ruling class, there was amuch more limited differentiation within the ruling class, and a limited drive toward expansion. Additionally there was not an extraction toward an imperial core, taxes and. Appropriation remained local to serve the sustenance of the local nobility. Also interestingly the local Francis nobility quickly developed their own synthetic culture with their Muslim neighbors and would often ally with them against newcoming Christian crusaders from the west. So no the crusades to the levant were not really imperial projects. You could argue more strongly for the Baltic or Hispanic crusades, but even then I think the argument is weak for it. This matters because sloppy historical analysis can throw doubt on the entire project of leftist historiography this strength should be consistency and impersonal rigor as compared to a more personality focused liberal project.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's trans people before they transition to women right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No see if ypu can rotate the cube you aren't really trans because it's proof you have a man brain.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I suspect some form of membership in the EU or Nato will be the consolation prize for the rump state that makes up ukraine.

 

I have complained about it before but I heard on of the guests from guerrilla history on the deprogram make this argument and it made me want to gouge my eyes out. This kind of trans historical argumentation is both stupid and unmarxist, just stop! Sorry I felt the need to vent.

These states were not imperialist and they weren't settler colonies. This framing doesn't make any fucking sense when transfered to a medieval context. Like the best you could say is that the Italian city states represented an early firm of merchant capital, but even then that is an incredibly complex phenomenon that has only a tenuous connection to modern capitalism. Calling these city states early capitalism is just a fancy way of saying "lol u hate capitalism yet you exchange good or service! Curious!"

Seriously just stop. I don't know why this set me off but it was like a week ago and I am still mad about it.

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