Oh it’s simple, you keep going because you know you’ll be unable to get back up for months if you stop.

It was a secret society with a bunch of magical rituals to trick people into learning about democracy, because it being illegal wasn’t enough to make people interested

Yeah power forces you to make decisions with human cost, then by necessity it insulates you from a lot of that cost. It destroys the mind whether by isolation from consequences of your actions, which reduces your ability to understand or care for the little people, or by immense stress as you try not to stop seeing the people you hurt, which can lead one very rapidly towards substance abuse.

I’d add a third opportunity, had leadership seen Kronstadt as a wake up call rather than a rebellion they could have implemented left wing pluralism. If the overton window is so far left that allowing capital is unthinkable there’s no risk to your revolution by having it, whereas a single party state makes course correction incredibly unlikely.

The patricii would be a good quick answer.

That said, Caesar killed it like a lion kills a very sick gazelle. Without the lion the gazelle probably still dies, but may recover.

Yeah his cousin was better, but the Roosevelt family was really good for America. Well, the united states, Teddy, was more mixed for the rest of the hemisphere. Both of them were rare in that they understood that capitalism was in danger if left to its own devices. Now I’m not grateful they kept capitalism going, but they curbed its excesses and made life better for the average person.

Legs arent on camera so he doesn’t exercise them

Wait people think of Rome of all places as technologically stagnant‽ Sure they weren’t producing the wonders of China, but they were breaking ground in construction and metallurgy. The republic began with bronze spears in huts, and ended not long after the snapshot we have in Pompeii with aqueducts and steel. By the fall of the western empire (beginning of European middle ages), the equii of Caesar’s childhood had become more like knights (hell, cavalry was an early classical innovation, though Scythian not Greco-Roman).

And the medieval period picked up from there and ended with early clockwork, castles, plate armor, early firearms, cannons, and the spanish found America. This was a thousand years and each century was distinct in its cultural and technological position.

Odin doesn’t hold the full domain of conflict merely by nature of being lord of Valhalla. Hell, Freyja gets half of the dead in battle to bring to Fólkangr which is incredibly similar to Valhalla. I referenced her because I have an affinity for goddesses of beauty, love, and war and because beauty and love are part of why we fight nazis. Also because a lot of people basically only think of Odin, Thor, and Loki when thinking of Norse gods and there’s more than just them.

Though those who fight for Odin are well welcome to it, as an Odin devotee once told me at a protest, “Allfather means all father”

If the shoe fits, get it nailed into your feet

When the alternative is starving you get shockingly open to trying gross things

It’s what Freyja would want

Fuckin hate nazis. They don’t even have the decency to only ruin lame shit, they gotta get their loser stink all over stuff that had been cool.

Yeah ohio has a Medina (meh-die-nuh) and a mecca (idk how you’d pronounce it wrong but by the gods they probably do)

They also have a Defiance which got a punk band named after it, so that’s a creative name. Must balance out the Circleville, Centerville, Middletown bs

Yeah there’d be like 8, one of which was a major European power before Germany was founded.

I’ve long said that the German response has been not that fascism is bad from the root to the fruit, but that Jews are good and maybe queer people as well.

Germans (and other Europeans) have displayed some appalling levels of racism towards Roma and Turkish people just casually. They sound just like elderly white people in the American south when talking about these groups. Many still also believe that Germany is for Germans.

To inocculate people against fascism you have to teach them about the disparate ideologies and the long running ideological undercurrents that coalesced into the NSDAP regime. Like, Germans and Americans alike largely just see it as big totalitarian antisemitism that wants to kill everyone. But otherwise reasonable people weren’t attracted to it for that, they were pulled into things like the volkish movement (similar to modern homesteading movement) out of a fear of the costs of modernity, or they had concerns about changing morals and mores with regards to gender and sexuality (similar to the modern anti feminist and transphobia communities), or they got into conspiracism after unexpected and uncomfortable world events like the Soviet revolution, the 1918 flu, and the shattering of the German front in the first world war, all of which led to blaming others. Hell even “tough on crime”, anti drug, and health concern attitudes were some people’s inroads.

We see so much of this again today because we’ve created an image of 1930s fascist Germany and for many people their interpretation of that image has become the whole of the real thing in their eyes. They don’t understand that these ideas can be tempting and that a Jewish nation is capable of fascism because they think fascism requires hating Jewish people rather than just that diasporic people with a different religion and a history of persecution are really easy targets for it

A motor is the same as a generator. Also a telegram is closing an electric circuit using a spring opened switch.

Waterwheel electric motors give you the capacity to prototype an electric train without all the horrible horrible metallurgy you need for a steam one.

More like jackass. “Fuck off hoser” could be said to any Canadian if they’re out of line, while calling a too drunk businessman or a Karen a redneck or a bogan would be weird.