ProdigalFrog

The 'witch hunter' seemed to present a compelling case that you're not engaging in the community in good faith. How do you explain having so many contradictory posts?

To someone politically literate, that much is clear as day.

For the average person, they are easily tricked by false promises that the right will do the opposite. :(

Neoliberalism utterly failing to staunch the ransacking of the working class due to capitalism

”Why is the right gaining momentum???"

Smoothbore musket was the standard issue firearm during that period, with a smattering of rifled muzzleloaders as well.

"What the fuck dude, you're talking like there's no paper in tray two after I just filled it. Fuck off!"

Just to clarify, I did not post this as an allegory for the election loss, we don't need any myths to soothe our conscience. It just popped up in my subscriptions and thought it was interesting enough to post.

If anything, I think its conclusion about feelings and beliefs ultimately trumping objective truth is quite applicable to MAGA.

Maybe I misinterpreted what Feral was getting at, but at least from my reading of it, he's saying the myth was 'half-true' in the sense that that propaganda was effectively sold to the lowly enlisted/conscripted men to give them self-justification to fight. Whereas the truth was indeed that the whole thing was just for slavery. The myth then became even more useful after defeat to help them accept it 'honorably'. His conclusion about what people believe and feel ultimately having a larger impact than the actual truth seems to confirm that reading, but I could be wrong.

Cheers for this, Mambabasa! I'll be throwing these on my ereader! :D

A deeply unfortunate choice of sponsor.

In a really morbid way that would've been funny to see, if only to witness the confusion of conservatives.

Good time to consider abandoning the DNC altogether and give Anarchism a chance. Create a new world in the shell of the old with worker owned cooperatives, cooperative energy, cooperative housing, mutual aid becoming a core tenet of society, and solving local problems with direct action .

Society with decentralized power and the elimination of profit motive would limit corruption heavily, and should be a sustainable long term way of being, and allow us to effectively fight climate change.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is a nice exploration of how that sort of society could be. But we can also look to how the CNT structured society during the Spanish civil war to see it put into real practice.

There are thankfully now stand alone devices that can use meshtastic, and they support hosting on RPI as well.