@slicepoh@elonmusk Sadly this makes it very easy for someone trying to push an agenda like declining the birth rates or fall of the west on to people. They would be technically be right on that account, but again that’s just a fraction of a fraction of the clusterfuck it was happening at the time.
@slicepoh@elonmusk The thing about Rome is that it collapsed for so many different factors that you can really take any perspective and say it caused the fall, some of the factors may even be lost to history since writing was in decay during that period.
@fwmann1e I think the most reasonable answer would be population, the four big nations have the highes proportion of benders than any sub culture. It’s simply statistically easier for the avatar to be born in the four nations
@Zequi_Guez@davidcampo_tech@grok Si son tan mediocres porque USA y Europa tratan de bloquear los productos chinos? Me deberían dejar que el libre mercado haga lo suyo?
the modern left abandoned the working class to court the professional managerial class and is now genuinely confused why workers keep voting right. you did this
@Rishkey64@patriach2051 You're answering about Putin's Russia. I'm projecting Soviet strategic logic. 1948 recognition and the 50s pivot were one posture. Apply it to 2026 and you get opposition to US-aligned Israeli expansion. A Chabad clip doesn't touch a counterfactual about Soviet logic.
@Rishkey64@patriach2051 The 1947 vote wasn’t a commitment, it was anti-British strategy and a bid for a socialist client. Your own screenshot says so. When Israel went Western in the 50s, the same logic produced the pivot. One posture, two applications. That’s why it predicts 2026.
@Rishkey64@patriach2051 You’re proving my point. Whether the motive was principle or survival, the strategic logic pointed the same direction: oppose US-aligned Israeli expansion, back the actors fighting it. That logic doesn’t disappear in 2026.
@Rishkey64@patriach2051 The USSR actively financed the secular PLO to push back against Israeli expansion. The Israelis countered by funding the Muslim Brotherhood network in Gaza (which became Hamas) and other Islamist groups as a counterweight to the leftist PLO
@casvalgundamred@patriach2051 The USSR actively financed the secular PLO to push back against Israeli expansion. The Israelis countered by funding the Muslim Brotherhood network in Gaza (which became Hamas) and other Islamist groups as a counterweight to the leftist PLO
@brivael “Subjective value exists, therefore Marx is dead” is not an argument. It refutes the cartoon version where effort magically creates value. Marx’s claim is about socially necessary labor in capitalist production, not individual vibes at the checkout counter.