ye I actually listened to the Oktober revolution part of that podcast before switching to “The History of Rome”

also the host of “The History of Byzantium” is doing quite a good job too, would recommend

though I do understand Duncan for setting the cut-off point where he did instead of the early 15th century 💀

exactly, that’s why I love it here

I may not be an anarchist, but I’m not a Dengist either, so I get massive headaches on both Hexbear and grad with their unconditional support for state capitalism. There are good (or rather less worse) aspects to China when compared to the US, but dogmatically supporting it to the hilt just reeks

(not to shit on Hexbear too much, they have quite a handful of good and more or less genuinely leftist coms; I just stay clear of the more political/theoretical one’s)

and even as a revolutionary Marxist (read: “non denominational” lmal) I feel welcome and think that this instance is a really nice corner of the Lemmyverse
(even with it being largely anarchist/libertarian socialist. not in the sense that I have a problem with those ideologies, more that I feel that the difference in strategy and tactics doesn’t cause as much enmity as it might in other online spaces)

also the free/libre and pirate spirit makes it an even better place <3

yeah it’s been a while since I listened to the part about the Republic lol

I’m currently at episode 34 of “The History of Byzantium”

trying to counteract the lib .world tide post by post :3

/hj

b… but the NEP and the peoples’ stock exchanges? Won’t someone think of the productive forces?!

Please, I hate discussion coms turning into meme chambers

Whooosh

the fun thing is how the dems where apparently cucking themselves the whole time with “respecting the process” and shit like that. The current rep government just breaks the speed limit by a hundred km/h and dares anyone to do anything about it

reminds of how the Roman republic was mostly held together by conventions and traditions until (iirc) two populist brothers started ignoring said things, which marked the beginning of the downfall of the Republic
(this is a very basic rundown and I might just be misremembering things or my info might just be plain wrong. like 80% of my Roman history is from Mike Duncan’s Podcast 💀)
ironic when considering how much of a hard-on the “founding fathers” had for the Romans

as we now see reflected in the up-/downdoots ratio

or it might just be seething libs

(prob both)

I will always cynically laugh remembering my time here on Lemmy during the 2024 Amerikkkan election lol

Basically whenever you said “genocide bad” or “maybe let’s stop appropriating proto-fascist neocon rhetoric so some spineless careerist can get elected over another Wall Street represenrative”, a dem-boot licking lib would come up and cry/rage about how their comfortable lives were worth more than those of Palestinians

even now their whining about “LGBT/queer/trans genocide” just makes me recoil in disgust

not that I don’t detest those policies, just that the hypocrisy is unbearable… so now that you or ppl you happen to care about are affected it’s a problem?!

ig foreigners and brown ppl don’t matter to them as long as they can have their imperial privilege; now that it gets reduced, they whine

well Amerikkka has been a genocidal colonial project since day 0 that hardly ever was a functioning democracy (two party state much?), de facto has an elected Monarch and it’s the worst thing to happen to humanity right after the British empire and the Third Reich (in that order; Spanish, French and Portuguese ones trail (this is my personal ranking, I’m also not perfectly versed in that part of history just fyi))

btw it also was – in some aspects – the primary inspiration for the German fascists who applauded it for it’s history of slavery, racial laws and “manifestation of destiny” (that’s where the concept of “Lebensraum” comes from btw: “slaughter the untermensch indigenous slavic population to make place for the white German master race”)

also ye, bourgeois democracy is just a different side of the capitalist coin that flips to fascism in the instant capital feels too threatened

edit: forgot to use “Amerikkka” instead of “USA” lol

comment of the day 🍷👌

yes, as long as ppl don’t try to run malware masquerading as video games that is

doesn’t seem like one to me tbh

You mean right vs further right? Liberal vs Fascist? Bc those are two sides of the same coin

socialist agitprop has nothing to do with the distraction of the “culture war”

thx for the context

also yeah, they also distribute it on Accrescent, which is miles better than F-Driod in terms of security

what is the difference with IronFox then?

I would heavily recommend on using Ironfox through Accrescent on Android. DDG browser is suboptimal at best

not everything is a smartphone app…

It’s mind-boggling how those people would rather spend their money on elected oligarchy/a Wall Street party than helping actual humans beings in need…