We call people, who worked for the Nazi Party, in the Nazi government, Nazis.

I mean, do we? I’m don’t think I’m convinced that every public school teacher in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a Nazi.

I mean in principle sure, but this has been happening for almost a year now and barely any escalation has happened. At this point protests are acting as release valves more than anything else.

The generation of Gazan children that lived through the war will likely be the most traumatized, both physically and mentally, in the world. I don’t want to even think about the generational trauma that will result from this.

K.

I agree with you, but you should only comment once so you don’t flood the thread.

I hereby award America honorary West Bank status.

Solidarity among evil people, never fails to make me want to puke.

Oh the supreme court is rotten no argument there, but he’s not being tried by the supreme court, at least not yet. The regime would have to appeal decisions at multiple levels before getting there, and by that point it won’t matter anymore.

I expect a kangaroo court.

I don’t. The US justice system isn’t that compromised just yet. It’s only really stacked against the poor; if you can pay enough (which Maduro presumably can) you should be able to expect a somewhat fair trial.

Can we get the end of NATO without Greenlanders getting caught in the crossfire? Please and thank you.

Maybe stop meddling in European politics, sowing division, and funding the invariably Trump aligned far right.

Why would they do that? Helping the European far right lead the West to its doom is a frankly brilliant play by Russia and crew. They can withstand more aggressive Western foreign policy longer than Western liberal democracies can survive with Nazis at the helm.

Not OP but machine translation not understanding context is a big one, especially if you want to produce something (i.e. a tattoo or a request). DeepL also doesn’t translate pictures so that too.

If you’re from the US, then that someone is you and your fellow Americans. If you’re not, then you’d need (a lot more) Americans to get off their asses first, which I wouldn’t bet on personally. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

Good, party’s at my place.

The problem runs a lot deeper than who’s running, but if the DNC was the kind of party that would let someone like Walz run for president then yeah Trump wouldn’t be president.

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TIL that different Fediverse clients have different character limits. Now I’m starting to feel like my 5000-character limit is a scam.

The long-term, the economy gets fucked, but the short-term, the aristocratic family’s balance books look fantastic.

I wonder why this sounds familiar. Must be the wind. That aside thanks for the excellent write up. I’m kinda starting to get Romaboos.

So I’ve got a few questions if you don’t mind.

the structure of the economy meant that a significant amount of benefit still reached the exploited poor, peasants and urban laborers alike.

Can you explain how exactly that worked? How would an average Roman peasant benefit from Roman conquests or trade?

Coloni were not nearly as productive as previous agricultural systems, for the obvious reason that they benefitted very little from their work.

If they were less productive, then why did the aristocracy accept this system? Or did the ability to exploit their coloni more make up the difference? Did this make them meaningfully richer?

More generally, from what I understood it seems the Western Empire went through a cycle of giving more power to the aristocracy and everything getting worse. Was this avoidable or would it be accurate to think of the late Western Empire as an anachronism giving more and more power over to the aristocracy in to temporarily sustain itself until it eventually collapsed? Why did this happen in the West while the East managed to survive?

As much as I hate American imperialism, it does make for good memes.