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- Comment on Basically 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, but, like, 100 archers against 1000 people ends poorly for the archers if the people are willing to take some casualties, and a keep wall is only good so long as nobody inside decides to unlock a door or people outside can’t get a ladder set up somewhere for a few minutes
Yes, there have been successful revolutions since the 1850s, but they’re definitely a lot harder than they used to be, and I think they now really do require some sort of defection from the ruling classes or military over to the opposition in a way that you didn’t really need for, say, the French revolution, where an angry mob of peasant women could just force their way into the kings castle and tell him how things were gonna be going forward
I’m not saying it’s impossible, and I’m definitely not saying people should give up protesting all the bullshit going on right now, but I do think meta social contract between the rulers and the ruled has changed a lot since the 18th century because of technological progress
- Comment on Basically 2 weeks ago:
why people aren’t gathering in mobs
Well, it happened about a hundred years after your time, but there’s this thing called the Gatling gun that got invented that really became a hard counter to angry mobs trying to storm things, and once that stopped being an option they just kinda stopped listening to us
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 weeks ago:
“Your screens should be nicer to you than this one. Join Lemmy!”
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, maybe someone could make some stickers with anti-advertising/anti-capitalist slogans on them for the next person to see specifically for this purpose
- Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns defends public media during visit to Houstonwww.houstonpublicmedia.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to movies@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Comment on Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings 2 months ago:
I love the concept and these song choices, I’m too lazy to make my own playlist but here are a few things you might dig
open.spotify.com/track/1mCAo03iRVykBr1HObOePI?con…
open.spotify.com/track/56CDeVdoVjGbxfAddAnAPh?con…
- Comment on The other shoe drops, and this time it is covered in dog shit 2 months ago:
- Comment on Forget politics and enjoy your life 3 months ago:
Dang it all, what is with all the intelligent comments here? I have been waiting all day for someone to make some stupid argument so I could go “heh, looks like you just took a side, hypocrite much” and then you go off and write something I can’t even jokingly disagree with
- Comment on Forget politics and enjoy your life 3 months ago:
Life is easier when you don’t take sides
No it isn’t
- Comment on Its so joever 4 months ago:
And, like, is taking good media hosted on shitty sites and rehosting it on a better one supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on Andrew Jarecki Is Back with Jaw-Dropping Prison Exposé ‘The Alabama Solution’ Out of Sundance 4 months ago:
- Andrew Jarecki Is Back with Jaw-Dropping Prison Exposé ‘The Alabama Solution’ Out of Sundancewww.indiewire.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 5 months ago:
Kind of off topic, but I’ve just gotta add that the safety shutters over the positive and negative terminals that only open when the ground pin (which is longer than the others on the plug) is inserted up top is brilliant, it basically makes short circuiting impossible. Electrical outlet design is one of the few things I’ll concede the UK does better than the rest of the world.
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 5 months ago:
Getting people to talk about the headline is going to be really difficult, I wish I had some kind of metaphor or idiom for this situation
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 5 months ago:
It gets even worse, the federal government now only accepts applications for asylum through a mobile app
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You know you can delete your posts, right? You could spare us your idiocy if you were actually sorry for it.
- Comment on Caught in 4K 5 months ago:
I don’t think they really wanted a sequel to that movie, I think they were just saying it teased a bunch of interesting stuff in its trailer but then never actually did any of that stuff in its plot, probably because the producers wanted to make everyone buy a ticket to a sequel that never happened, which is just another facet of how the film industry’s obsession with sequels and fictional universes is leading to the downward spiral they talk about in their other comment
It honestly feels like this post was put together by an LLM that just saw the word “sequel” in two different sentences but didn’t have any ability to read context and figured it must be ironic
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- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
An American security contractor and a Chinese embassy employee are at a bar. The American says, “I gotta say, your propaganda is impressive. You sure know how to keep your people in line.”
“Oh, you’re too gracious,” the embassy worker says. “And besides, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda.”
The contractor chokes on his drink and gives his friend a bewildered look.
“What are you talking about? There’s no propaganda in America.”
- New documentary, "The Strike," shows how a peaceful prison uprising ended torture in Pelican Bay prisonmissionlocal.org ↗Submitted 8 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Learn to play piano like a pro in 30 days! 8 months ago:
Ah you are totally right and thank you for the correction, I got taught at a young age by a very nice but very overworked public school music teacher that there were just eight notes and not to worry about anything more complicated than that and my brain always really wants to default back to that
- Comment on Learn to play piano like a pro in 30 days! 8 months ago:
I don’t know for sure, but the Jaws theme is definitely a half-step interval, so the spacing of the keys in the meme is right at least
Random trivia I learned from a music theory YouTuber, the bass line to Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name kind of does the same thing, except instead of going back and forth a single half step it does nine (aka, an eight note octave plus one note)
- Submitted 10 months ago to hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on USA'ers of this instance do you think a two woman ticket would give Democrats the white house again? 11 months ago:
Verily
- Comment on Which is which? 1 year ago:
Doesn’t matter, just wash you hands when you’re done
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 1 year ago:
Huh, well this is one of those things I’m going to see everywhere now
Melvin Conway and Hannah Arendt probably could have had a really fascinating with each other comparing ideas in computer and political sciences
- Judith Godrèche Launched A New Wave Of #MeToo In France, And Now Brings Her Survivors Film ‘Moi Aussi’ To Cannesdeadline.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m going to echo everyone else recommending this podcast, it’s absolutely incredible non-fiction story telling and it will really deepen your understanding of how we all got to this point in history.
To answer your question, I actually think season 8 (all about the French Commune in 1871 and how external pressures can end up causing liberals and socialists to go to war with each other) is the best one for explaining it, but it will be really confusing if you don’t listen to season 7 first (which is all about 1848, when France revolted against a liberal monarchy and most of western Europe went “hey, we should do that too, but differently”), which will be really confusing if you don’t listen to season 6 first (all about France 1830, when the people who would be overthrown in 1848 came to power) and all its supplemental episodes (all about different western European leaders who would see rebellions in 1848).
Season 3 (all about the French revolution everyone knows about in the 1790s) will help understand a few things going on in 6 and 7, and is also worth listening to just to understand why and how liberalism got going, but I don’t think it’s strictly necessary to get seasons 6-8, and 3 is ridiculously long season because the French revolution is just an insane series of back and forth plot twists that doesn’t let up.
That all said, if you’re prepared for something ridiculously long, the final season (all about the Russian revolutions, 1905 and 1917) is an incredibly informative and interesting listen too, and kind of completes the series (this is extremely reductive, but season 1-3 are sort of the “liberalism was a big improvement over what came before it” seasons, 6-8 are sort of the “but liberalism had its problems, which socialism tried to answer” seasons, and 10 is the “but socialism has its problems too” season).
Lastly, it doesn’t really touch on the liberalism vs socialism thing, but season 4 (a history of the Haitian revolution that highlights how incredibly destructive racism and colonialism are) is probably the one season I would make everyone in the world listen to if I could.