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there is an argument here. it would need more support. it would need to break down the why though. it would need to go into the reasons that historically it was deemed easier to found your own church than it was to work to reform Catholicism's corruption.

An interesting take on Russian culture and how it is a rather interesting mesh of east and west.

they are usually. on the otherhand centuries of bad blood combined with easy handouts and scape goats is a hard thing for any government to ignore in good times. if bad times as we exepect to see in the future? it gets even harder.

2nd one was hit and miss. you could still end up as collateral if you engaged in wrong think or bad speech. such as using the old system of measurements or the old calendar or using gendered language. the mob would come for whoever caught their attention. the solution was to either flee or be a...

what? someone admitting they are wrong on the internet? what is going on? I don't understand. the world's laws have been broken.

I agree. foreign entanglements are going to need to be put in terms of how does this benefit America and the American citizen. arguing for infinite $ to be poured into a pit and burned to spread DEMOCRACY or some other bullshit is not gonna fly for a while. at least while your trying to recruit...

and alternately the so called optimates have such potential leaders as Nikki Haley and Gavin Newsome. they only have energy for corrupt ends. their goals and policies actively hurt the nation, their constituents, and the world. they push for war to distract the mob than completely fuck it up...

I'm not saying it is impossible. I am saying the current people in charge would be incapable of it.

I don't believe we in the west are capable of pulling off a Marshall plan at this point. especially not for russia where the population has been groomed to hate us and we also have a significant population that views them merely as orcs to be disposed of and not people. at best russia balkanizes...

because everyone loves to kvetch sometimes.

it is an assessment of our current trajectory without shifting. there are problems with presuming there will be no unexpected reactions when building your mental models. however it is a likely result west is facing a lot of issues. east is facing a lot of issues. a collapse is likely if people...

It would at least be something though. bluntly we don't need more land. a large amount of our land is unsettled. especially Alaska. we don't need or want a 2nd class population. our lower class is already struggling to compete with the tens of millions of illegals. most resources are actually...

On the Isolationism I think it wouldn't be that hard to sell MAGA on foreign ties if you put it into terms of how it actually helps America and the American citizens. The issue people have is for decades we have hollowed out the core of our economy in favor of empowering not just allies but...

Bacle woke up today and chose violence I mean Shitposting. Bacle we may not use lead in our food but the overwhelming majority of people do not eat healthy in the slightest. there are loads of additives in foods that we are probobly gonna find out cause cancer in a few decades. that isn't...

Do you think that the hypothetical Carthaginian world system would have stayed mostly focused on the Mediterranean or moved along the African coasts/ looked southward? setting up trade posts along the coasts to let local tribes trade. considering how mercantile they were I think they would have...

Preparing someone or an institution to take over after him should have been one of his top priorities considering his age. that he hasn't means either he has chosen not to are there are no good options. neither option says anything good for Russia's future.

Putin can likely hold together Russia. I don't think what he built will survive him by much though. He won the scramble for the brass ring after the fall of the USSR. he has not groomed a heir to take over the levers of power. they got a pretty bleak future unless there is someone who has kept...

I get it but Germany has the history of starting shit all through the 1st half of the 1900s. in the spirit of it being biased I feel like they are a safe bet.

@Skallagrim how do you think that AI generated images and video will influence things. It will make it easier to rile up the mob. both for the elites and the populists. for good or ill it is already being deployed. Trump using it to make jokes and satire. DeSantis to try and supplement a...

I don't completely disagree. I just think America is going to need to put some serious effort on focusing inward. we spent the last 2-3 decades getting hollowed out. and we really do need to put effort into America. not simply in the sense of pumping up GDP, but in actually being a country...