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@ObtainerOf Was the point of manors like this to keep a large team of retainers close at hand? The premodern version of an office tower with in-house catering

There really is never a reason to own a house this big, it’s just a nightmare. Things will constantly break and you will need cleaners 24/7, you don’t have any peace. Unless you have 12 kids it’s never worth it

@QiaochuYuan One of the first generations to be raised by the TV as well. Much more centrally changeable than older methods of culture transmission.

so apparently the concept of a teenager basically did not exist until post-WWII. a specific combination of historical forces produced a new class of young people who all had to go to high school, could not work on farms or in mills or factories anymore, and had access to money and cars. the entire rebellious teenager trope was created in this time period so it refers specifically to boomers rebelling against the silent generation, who grew up in a completely different world. the generation gap here was so stark this is also where the term "generation gap" even comes from, and i think the whole practice of naming distinct generations saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/02/brief-…

@TheBlackHorse65 His target audience is used to Jerry Falwell, so a clown like him is par for the course.

How Ben Sharpiro keeps his job after beclowning himself and tanking his own show will never cease to amaze me. Even if you were a hard-core Zionist, you should want him fired to send the message that a higher standard of propaganda is required.

@facefuklibtards Did they? A lot of them sound like they did Saturday morning cartoons

this is literally how anime used to get dubbed and why it was so much better in the 2000s

@HariSel57511397 To be fair, even the records of these lies and mistakes works as an antidote to doomerism. Civilization has survived endemic self-destructive nonsense before, and when you read it in an old book you have the chance to ask "how did that turn out?"

Reading old literature is good, but you’ll find it’s often filled with all the lies and mistakes that shaped modernity. The best literature is written by authors who’ve already been through the looking glass.

@jt0hny Isn't this just "call yourself conservative because you're desperate"?

Here is your trad conservative hinge wife sir…

@AkkadSecretary "No West Berlins"

It is a functional town, produces little crime, provides electricity to South Africa, pay's for all their own services including the roads, pays taxes to South Africa asking for nothing in return. How exactly is that a Thorn?

@tannishmango @eigenrobot Might be conscious imitation, lots of chicanos LARP as Aztecs.

@eigenrobot I just cannot help but see the parallels between the savagery of modern cartel executions and massacres and these stories.

I'll take any excuse to talk about the Moche and adjacent cultures of Precolumbian South America It's amazing how bad society can get and how it can persist in horror

@Stephen58043304 @theoldworldshow @Will_Tanner_1 It was common for guerilla groups to simply press-gang men from villages they passed through, not exactly a recipe for unflinching loyalty.

@theoldworldshow @Will_Tanner_1 Terrible leadership. Captured, turned and trained many became Selous Scouts - a unit even more elite than the SAS. This is all undeniable. Two questions, though: Why did they need Rhodesians to lead them? And, most devastating, how come they were they so easy to turn?

This brings to mind one of my favorite stories of guerrilla incompetence from the Bush War Rebels attacked a homestead and the family retreated to a bunker Rebels started bombing them with a mortar Rounds landed close at first, but then got farther and farther away Eventually, the family heard a huge explosion, and then everything was silent Later the response force arrives, and goes to investigate with the family They find a huge divot where a mortar had been, and a bunch of rebel bits strewn about, and are very confused Eventually, they figure it out: the rebels knew how to aim the mortar, but not how to secure the baseplate on a solid enough foundation. So it sank and sank until the tube was pointing bertical, and then dropped a mortar round on themselves, which hit their ammunition and caused the huge explosion I think this story comes from Three Sips of Gin by Tim Bax

@TristinHopper Interesting, that was how it turned out at my school, environmentalist messaging must have been much more effective in 2011 (but even then Greens only got 17% of the popular vote).

@Ingold321 Nope. The last one elected a Conservative minority.

If the next election was decided exclusively by teenagers, I actually think Canadian politics would get smarter. Teenagers are stupid but suggestible, which is a slight improvement over stupid and stubborn. They also have to engage with reality sometimes.

@KaiserLoengramm Was there a significant difference between the Anglo-Saxonism of the founders and that of groups like the Diggers and Levellers? The latter blamed the Norman Yoke for all hierarchical impositions and imagined Saxon England as a bucolic paradise.

This goes back centuries. Anglo-Saxonism was a significant aspect of the revolution itself. So much is said about this idea that America in its revolution was a grand throwing off of the shackles of history. It also could not be further from the truth. Far more than you find talk and references of America as some kind of grand experiment, you in fact find reference to ancient Saxons. You find them across a variety of pamphlets and voices, referencing heavily the ancient Saxon laws, ancestry and lineage of the colonists. Their ties to these, how with independence the in fact seek a RETVRN to these ways in so much as is possible. Chief among these was Thomas Jefferson. In A Summary View of the Rights of British America, he writes “our ancestors, before their emigration to America, were the free inhabitants of the British dominions in Europe, and possessed a right which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice, has placed them, of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as to them shall seem most likely to promote public happiness. That their Saxon ancestors had, under this universal law, in like manner left their native wilds and woods in the north of Europe, had possessed themselves of the island of Britain, then less charged with inhabitants, and had established there that system of laws which has so long been the glory and protection of that country.” - Thomas Jefferson. He would also go on to heavily praise Hengist and Horsa, the two legendary brothers who first brought the Angles, the Jutes, and the Saxons to Albion, wanting to place them on the back of the seal of the US and erect statues to them in our capital. And while this would sadly not happen, this spirit of Anglo-Saxonism would continue heavily throughout our history, constantly referenced as we settled the continent, with Manifest Destiny tied as much to our ancestors and their conquering and settling of Britain as it was to divine providence alotting us these lands. It’s no wonder then, that in this time of rediscovery of American identity out of the confusions we endured in the 1960s, that we would begin to speak again of the Anglo-Saxon, and that he has reawakened within us.

@martianwyrdlord DriveTest in Ontario could do this, but instead it selects for BS tolerance.

Or, instead of submitting to AI nannytech, we could just ban the bottom quintile from driving entirely.

@CrimCartier They successfully raised a generation that knows no morality outside their ideology

Left has dominated the culture *ruthlessly* for a decade, and now that social conservatives have finally balled up for some of the most sensible, mildest of pushbacks, it’s an avalanche of tears. You’re a bunch of cry bullies. Your ideology is not the default morality.

@ProudBavaria So it's just Mark Twain vs. Walter Scott forever?

Most people that think they know the middle ages actually know NOTHING about them. Their views are shaped by one of two extremes: DARK MEDIEVALISM (renaissance propaganda) NATIONALIST MEDIEVALISM (nationalism propaganda) The middle ages are more than your escapism fantasy.

@questiondis @Hootcel Being a quirk chungus stuck out in 1970, but now that's the default.

@Hootcel It's weird how people generally haven't noticed yet how embarrassing young people find this, especially considering they were once young themselves. It also seems very condescending.

One of the weirdest inversions of the 21st century is that organisations "try to appeal to the youth" by presenting themselves as unserious and childish rather than creating a serious, prestigious image that the youth can hope to attain if they join.

@BBDaybreakEU In the Americas this civilising process has reversed, bars have become the preserve of ageing hipsters who fantasize about being the guy to kick out the Nazi punk.

This map is indeed terrible (wildly inaccurate), but 'vodka culture' is just a nice way of saying that consumer capitalism hasn't yet delivered the civilising concept of 'the bar', as opposed to apes getting paralytic in an apartment block (perhaps before murdering someone).

@vers_laLune Didn't he make himself infertile with all the roids? I guess the showrunners had to retcon that.

unfortunately, when you over optimize for looks you also tend to get girls dumb enough to let you blast inside on a first date when theyre ovulating. This is Lindy. It's why you get gorgeous midwest girl next doors

@DerekPederson3 Only counterexample I can think of is Mobutu and even then it's a likely a wash when compared to what the commies would have done.

Thank God serious people in the past ran our foreign policy who didn't give a shit how nasty any of our allies were so long as they were obviously the lesser of two evils.🤷‍♂️

@agraybee "We're all living in America, Coca-Cola sometimes war"

It kinda seems like people are just copying what Black Americans say even when it doesn't make sense? "Where would you be without us" makes sense for a minority that's been in the country for 400 years, not a refugee who came in a decade ago.