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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Tapping the sign

According to Marx's theory of historical materialism, societies pass through six stages — primitive communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and finally global, stateless communism.

Don't hold your breath

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

Straight from the top

Russian Revolution, 1917–1920

Lippmann and Merz alleged that the newspaper referred to events that had not taken place, atrocities that did not exist, and that it reported no fewer than 91 times that the Bolshevik regime was on the verge of collapse. "The news about Russia is an example of what people wanted to see, not what happened," Lippmann and Merz wrote. "The main censor and the main propagandist was the hope and fear in the minds of reporters and editors."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Business cycle. Sorry bro

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so excited to hear how Leftists cost Democrats another election

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It has happened before.

It is happening now.

It will happen again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Empire Strikes Back was a stellar movie thanks to the whole Cloud City arc. Rebels on the back foot, desperately looking for allies, and walking right into a trap. The liberal businessman Lando Calrisian attempting to triangulate between good and evil, only to become radicalized into sacrificing his little fiefdom for a Revolution. Luke showing up just in time to lose to his father.

I feel like they tried to recapture that moment in AotC. But between bad acting, sappy romance, and the need for these extended fight scenes, they never had time to key in on the drama of an empire in collapse.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The world wars were relatively brief as wars go. In and out. Four year adventure.

Compare that to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. This feels more like we're setting up another 30 Years War.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Between the Dutch, the English, the French, the Spanish, and the dreaded scourge of anti-italian-action we're on our fourth or fifth settler state, easy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

This is just the Libertarian "Free State Project" writ Israeli.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where did this take place?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

You'll get paid in experience and enjoy all sorts of networking opportunities

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