Assyria, the Maya, and a few Chinese dynasties are particularly notable imo. What scares me is the climate change they experienced was on a significantly smaller scale than us.

History of labor is what I really should teach but I would enjoy teaching a class on native American art.

Low key, I spend a lot of my time studying how ancient cultures collapsed and a shocking number of them were caused by climate change. At the very least climate change was a significant factor in 70% of the collapses I have studied.

No worries, take your time

I’m between sprcial interests rn

Teaching in general is way harder than most people think

Explaining yourself

To be clear I am not trying to argue with you here I’m just curious what you think.

What part of what I said have you found to be untrue? What sort of interactions led you to this conclusion?

The biggest similarity is that we are both willing to use violence to oppress our enemies. The difference is that the enemy of communists are our oppressors and the enemy of fascist is whoever they decide to not like at the moment. The ultimate attack on capital (communism) is materially different than the ultimate defense of capital (fascism).

Fun fact though, liberalism also supports violence (or at least passively accepts it) as long as it is mostly external. We don’t get to choose non-violence. You can attack the people doing violence, join the people doing violence, or accept the people doing violence.

Social cohesion is important for a smoothly running business. Unpunished rape creates problems on the shop room floor. Or to put it another way, rape gets punished extrajudicially in ways that are not good for business or social cohesion in general.

Few years ago. Right before this phase of the genocide in Palestine. I had an idea of it before that but I wouldn’t have called it a conscious thought until then.

Okay in all fairness the Finnish assisted the Nazis in the siege of Leningrad AFTER the USSR invaded them. However, the invasion of Finland was done in order to create a better defensive position for the anticipated Nazi invasion. Motivated largely by the already existing fascist sympathies of the Finns and their proximity to Leningrad.

It’s hard to say it was worth it imo. The invasion went poorly for the USSR, it didn’t successfully secure Leningrad, and it did heavily inflame fascist sentiment in Finland all while making the USSR look like an unreasonable aggressor to Western audiences and weak to fascist audiences (possibly incentivizing the Nazis to invade earlier than expected). If the Finnish weren’t going to ally with the Nazis they definitely were going to after that.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the Spanish anarchists. Their story is very romantic and inspiring. However, they didn’t exactly succeed no? The Spanish put up a solid resistance to fascism but in doing so they had to abandon quite a few of their ideals. I mean they had labor camps yk? They had to a build a semi-state apparatus in order to survive and I think that really undermines the message here.

there were signs all around my uni that said “dump your socialist boyfriend” for like NO reason 😭😭

Are you on my campus or is this a common thing?

Wow its almost like mean height is affected by poverty and nutrition or something

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They probably mean their google account

DAMN. I thought I was bad at 350 communities and 81 users lmao. I think I saved a lot of blocks by blocking whole instances instead of just communities