• redtea
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    5 months ago

    Does Britain have any forests left? They could build trebuchets and catapults if they do. No steel for the big arrow tips but maybe brass would do for the fixings, and rocks for the projectiles.

    Turns out you don’t even need a nuclear war for the next world war to be fought with sticks and stones. You just need to let capitalists do their thing and voila.

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      5 months ago

      They’d need lumberjacks for woodcutting, and carpenters for making trebuchets. Judging by UK’s decision to import Polish workers (for apple gathering) in the middle of pandemic-inspired border closure… Well, I don’t think trebuchets are an option

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        5 months ago

        Well, they could throw apples instead. But only the ones that fall on the floor after a good storm, if the English have forgotten how to get the apples off the trees. They can fight the pigs for the good ones.

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      They’d probably need some steel parts, but they’re no longer gonna be able to produce their own steel 🤭