PugJesus
@PugJesus@piefed.social
- Comment on So I got a type, big deal wanna fight about it? 3 days ago:
You had me at “evil”
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 1 week ago:
I know this is the shitposting Lemmy and historical accuracy isn’t the goal here … But you don’t honestly think they put plantations in infertile places and used slaves for no reason right? They made a shit ton of money
Overall, you’re right, but I’d like to point out two caveats here:
Southern plantation farming was incredibly inefficient and utterly ruined the land it was practiced on - something that was recognized (and criticized) as early as George Washington. So they did build their plantations in fertile areas, but exhausted the soil and did very little to let it recover until George Washington Carver (unrelated) started spreading crop rotations around ~1900.
The aristocrats made a shitton of money relative to the average person, but they were much, much poorer - both individually and as a society - than the industrialized North. Northern farming, even, was much more efficient - but the Southern aristocracy perpetuated their system because control was more important than money. In the slavery (and sharecropping) system, the plantation class effectively ruled little fiefs of dependent ‘free’ farmers and unfree (legally or practically) Black labor, able to exercise wide-reaching control not just economically, but also socially, culturally, and politically. Given the choice between more luxury or more power, they chose more power, and used that power to perpetuate their sickened systems.
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Like a dragon atop a hoard, I just lounge atop of them
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Explanation: What we were generally recognize as the physical form of a book in the modern day is formally called a codex - an invention of the 1st century AD Roman Empire that made reading and book storage much more efficient. Instead of a single sheet of paper that needed to be unraveled, smaller sheets were bound to a spine and protected with covers, progressing through the writing by turning the pages.
Stop living in the past! Embrace the F U T U R E!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 2 weeks ago:
Now there’s a meme I haven’t seen in a very long time…
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- Comment on Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts 2 weeks ago:
… TIL people were punishing their fucking birds for whacking it.
- Comment on "Ha ha hail Caesar, he was just such a cool and wholesome guy, you know?" 3 weeks ago:
He could be you! He could be me! He could even be-!
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- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
… cat is a member of the People Eating Leopards’ Faces Party?
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- Comment on Wild Ones 5 weeks ago:
@pugjesus@piefed.social
Kbin is my original, but Kbin went down years ago, before I even moved to Lemmy.world!
- Submitted 1 month ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
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- Comment on Reptilian Boomertron 9000 1 month ago:
The furries are taking over
- Comment on Weeeeazels 1 month ago:
@rickyrigatoni@retrolemmy.com your people
- Comment on Peak joke but also your banned 1 month ago:
Related: “That’s hilarious but I can never repeat that joke because I’m not [minority group] enough to be clear it’s ironic”
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 2 months ago:
I’m sorry I don’t follow the rules of the Fae, or whichever arcane code you’re following?
If you want to disengage, feel free to disengage. No one is forcing you to respond to me. If you want to get the last word in and then say “Disengage” thinking it’s a “Now my points can’t be responded to :3” card, feel free to go fuck yourself.
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 2 months ago:
The people have armed themselves to protect themselves from people like you.
The People’s Stick, I see.
They are more free than you can possibly imagine, and that idea terrifies you.
Maybe the post-1950s PR campaign was unnecessary all along.
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 2 months ago:
They’ve literally hosted international conferences this year.
tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?
You wanna point out to me where that contradicts “holding a conference”?
I literally cannot with you people.
Yeah, sorry that you haven’t been following anything except the endless glazing of Subcommandante Marcos. I understand that PR of the internet age is much more compelling to our generation than the staid 1950s-level PR of former ML states, but I would suggest that you learn to think for yourself nonetheless.
Please disengage, I’m sick of the bad faith bullshit.
“Bad faith is when I’m contradicted”
Okay.
- Comment on They cannot see the things that will hurt them 2 months ago:
Do you have any actual objections to life under the Zapatistas, or are you just going to continue vagueposting about how it must be bad because you decided it must be?
You do realize that the Zapatistas, before this recent trouble with “Blaming the government (that they don’t need) for not controlling the cartels” tightly restricted entry to and interaction with their territory from outsiders, with journalists only allowed to ask questions when accompanied by EZLN guards?
There’s a long laundry-list of problems with how the Zapatistas have ‘settled in’ to their role since the turn of the century.
- Submitted 2 months ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
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