Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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    2 days ago

    Peep Show also has that joke - “Slaves, Jeremy” VS “Whips, Rimmer”.

    But there’s a good chance that the answer wasn’t slaves, but well paid, hard-drinking work-units, organized along the lines of boat crews, all working together during a public festival and overseen by well trained specialists.


  • This is too close to dishonest to be persuasive.

    The word “occupied” is doing the heavy lifting, but saying “invaded & occupied” implies that they’ve done as little invading as occupying, which is not true.

    The USSR isn’t included, so the implication that socialism means 0 occupations is also untrue.

    All states that identify as socialist have done fewer invasions than the US, as a combination of having existed for less time, having had less power during that time and -yes - having a slightly lower inclination to invade.

    All powerful states abuse their power to unacceptable (if differing) degrees. That’s the nature of hierarchical power. All nation states are vermin.




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    5 days ago

    I love how often “we have no idea how they did it!” and “they couldn’t possibly do something this sophisticated!” turns into “we know how, when, where they got the materials and the name of the project foreman” when you just ask an archeologist.











  • I’m pretty sure that’s still the case in the US as well. The Wire mentions it as a fact.

    “Not a stat legally required to be recorded in many states” makes it sound like it would get mentioned in reports of gun firings, but they wouldn’t then have to collate that information, come up with a total or publish or store the stat somewhere.