May the Bridges We Burn Light Our Way Home

"Ambiguously brown" - frankly that's just lazy, that could be anywhere. Just say "brown" if you really have to.

"Ambiguously African" - okay you have a vague guess of a continent

"Ambiguously Central Asian" - plausible to narrow down on sight if you're very familiar with people from around this region

"Ambiguously Baltic" - this mf is either Latvian or Lithuanian, and I am intrigued by the fact that your estimate is this precise but you still aren't confident enough in your assessment to guess which one

Also were the Polish who emigrated to the United States particularly good at slinging sausage (by which I mean literal kielbasa) or is that just a default trait of Poles?

communism is literally just, to put it simply, " we should all unite and form a stateless, moneyless, and classless society and share our resources without anyone getting the upper hand thanks to money or what not "

THAT'S IT

and people are getting pissed over it

communism is literally just, to put it simply, " we should all unite and form a stateless, moneyless, and classless society and share our resources without anyone getting the upper hand thanks to money or what not "

THAT'S IT

and people are getting pissed over it

Therefore, if the average person within the borders of a socialist nation-state experiences an improvement in living standards, it is clear evidence of socialism's success. If there isn't an improvement of living standards, it is because of foreign interference or simply western propaganda aimed at de-legitimizing the socialist project, so it is not worth discussing further because any discussion is a concession.

Therefore, if the average person within the borders of a socialist nation-state experiences an improvement in living standards, it is clear evidence of socialism's success. If there isn't an improvement of living standards, it is because of foreign interference or simply western propaganda aimed at de-legitimizing the socialist project, so it is not worth discussing further because any discussion is a concession.

Therefore, if the average person within the borders of a socialist nation-state experiences an improvement in living standards, it is clear evidence of socialism's success. If there isn't an improvement of living standards, it is because of foreign interference or simply western propaganda aimed at de-legitimizing the socialist project, so it is not worth discussing further because any discussion is a concession.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

But one thing those lessons did was install a firm identification that our ancestors WERE the serfs. Our ancestors WERE the slaves (yes serfdom is slavery, esp as practiced in the Russian Empire). I personally have people in my family tree who were the masters/owners/aristocrats, but they're a minority compared to my ancestors in the same generation who weren't, you know?

Ukrainian Literature class was unseparable semantically from the Ukrainian History class which was in turn very close friends with the world history class. And all three together made it very obvious that yes, slavery in different forms and under different names was very normal historically. From ancient times to modern days, it's just what humans do with power. The Soviet Union had functionally serfdom II: yes they abolished it in 1861 but baby we're bringing it back.

We are all descendants of slaves, in however many generations. That's just kinda how human history works.

Watching yall being horrified by Roman slavery and fondly remembering rooting for various Roman politicians in middle school because some of them were actually anti slavery / pro slaves' rights? And being horrified when their reforms time after time did not work out long term?

bunch of ice

Video games and tabletop games seem to generally elude this problem, instead simulating instant communication and complete control of units the player directs. It’s fun in a game, but reality is that soldiers are entirely capable of ignoring orders or executing them in stupid or half-assed ways.

Since the armies in the game were made up of teenage boys (lore accurate) it was RIDICULOUSLY difficult to get people to listen or to follow orders, and when the KD ratio came into play during seasonal matches, a lot of folks would flee or stay back from the action to avoid dying. Sure, their lives weren’t actually on the line, but even from a commanding standpoint (which I was in as an officer at one point) it was damn near impossible to get everyone on the same page and keep them there, especially when fellow officers were barking out contradictory orders over each other.

When communication was not clear, and the fighting players weren’t listening/confused, it caused us to lose big time. This meant that officers 1. Had to plan ahead of time as to who was allowed to call orders and who wasn’t, and even go as far as to strategize against certain regiments.

Was reading tweets by the anthropologist William Buckner (he has a lot of interesting papers on comparative cultural anthropology) and he greatly praises Eggers' The Northman for its uncompromising depiction of the Norse lifestyle and worldview... with one exception.

Movie protagonist goes on a murderous rampage in revenge for an act that most of the rampage's victims were unrelated to? Fine, that's just what movie protagonists do.

Movie protagonist takes part in a rape-and-pillage raid of a peasant village in which able-bodied men and fertile women are sold into slavery (some being destined for human sacrifice) while everyone else is locked into a barn which is set on fire? Well, y'know, it was a different time.

If someone gets drugs from a pill mill, then they're getting a known drug in a known dose.

If someone gets drugs from a dealer, then they're buying mystery-powder or possibly counterfeit-pills-- and then there's no telling what they're putting into their bodies.