Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        542 years ago

        someone once said that fascism is when the colonial methods of oppression are brought home to the imperial core

        • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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          102 years ago

          Everything has been commodified and continues to be commodified, but that’s just another reason the world isn’t fair (or so I’ve been told)

        • Notcontenttobequiet [he/him]
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          82 years ago

          I don’t know who said it first, but I heard it from a podcast episode with Matt Christman and Sean KB in an episode about fascism

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          You mean Russia has been fascist since Peter the Great till now, with brief interruptions in 1905-1914 and 1991-1993 ?

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                202 years ago

                You are dumber than a zip lock bag of radishes. You don’t know what the words you’re using mean. We do.

              • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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                242 years ago

                I’m dying to hear you define any of these terms you’re using. Please, open the window up to world of politics so incoherent it’s like staring at an eldritch horror from beyond the veil of reality.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  I know what they mean, you don’t, and I’m not going to waste my time explaining, and I don’t have to do that for anything really.

                  • Egon [they/them]
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                    Lol literally doing the “I know what you are, but what am I?”
                    I hope you’re a teenager who will one day grow to look back on this and realise how cringe they were, because if you’re a full-grown adult yikes-1yikes-3

                • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]
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                  Tbh I’d feel pretty owned if someone implied I was any kind of esoteric political Catholic. Integralist, distributivist, clerical fascist, mexican synarchist, etc. Each one would feel like an own

                  • @[email protected]
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                    12 years ago

                    Tbh I’d feel pretty owned if someone implied I was any kind of esoteric political Catholic

                    … Being said on a tankie sub this really is expressive, but obviously not in the way you think.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 years ago

                  I’m not Catholic (my ancestors on my dad’s side were, though), but this specific ideology doesn’t have such a limitation.

              • Dolores [love/loves]
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                222 years ago

                i’d love to hear your cunning mind explain what despotism and feudalism are, and what the difference is

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                  Despotism is an absolute monarchy where technically there’s only one free man, the monarch, and all the subjects, including nobles or whatever, are his property. There’s no contracts or something to this. The monarch’s power is delegated as they wish to the state apparatus of whatever kind they choose. That’d be Russia since Peter or, say, Safavid Persia, and frankly a few German states in the new age despite sporting feudal symbolic.

                  Feudalism is a system of vassal-suzerain and allied relationships, contractual and not even that centralized, as a feudal entity can even be vassal to multiple other entities (games like CK get this wrong, which makes, say, Denmark there less fun than it was) and have its own various contractual ties. With feudalism every person’s status is complex, there are individual privileges and obligations to every entity.

                  Feudalism is much more sophisticated than a despotic monarchy. IMHO it’s the main reason Europeans dominate this planet.

                  EDIT: By the way, Decembrists paid a lot of attention to that difference, if we get back to Russian history.

                  • Dolores [love/loves]
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                    132 years ago

                    feudal contracts literally don’t exist michael-laugh they’re a made up justification of the feudal system that was exposed as false in 1789 when the french peasants found no such things in the manors of their lords

                    IMHO it’s the main reason Europeans dominate this planet

                    feudalism is not at all a unique phenomenon to europe. you say you get this from Crusader Kings, babe look at the rest of the crusader kings map. africans and middle eastern people did that too

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                322 years ago

                Despotism is not a useful political term at all and feudalism is a very specific form of a much broader economic system that was used in the middle ages. You have nonides what you’re talking about.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  According to my knowledge it is just as useful a term as feudalism, describing a specific system.

                  You have nonides what you’re talking about.

                  Buddy, you are a communist , a flatearther from economics, an etherium proponent from economics, a homeopathic doctor from economics.

                  And what you wrote is illiterate bullshit. Listen for once what people who are not from your sect say on things.

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            622 years ago

            There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

            —John Rogers

          • KillingTimeItself
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            142 years ago

            i like the implication that a wane from fascism is an “brief interruption” this is very funny. I will definitely be stealing this one.