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  • I heard it a few times, mostly about Caesar’s funeral. Every time the person talking/writing about it has the tone of “look at these crazy people giving in to hysteria.” I couldn’t say it’s definitely true, not my area.

    You’re completely right on how they’re portrayed generally. Storytellers will regularly mention generals making a fortune out of loot and slaves, neither the teller not listener will ask what that entails or how moral it is. Folks read Cicero proudly talking about being a slumlord and not bat an eye, at this point I wonder if they just compartmentalise it all, turn off major parts of their brain when the subject of certain ancient peoples comes up.


  • Disaster management is preparing for the worst scenarios, that includes having more equipment then just enough for the people already signed up to do the work. I didn’t say or imply that they should just hoard stuff and forget about it.

    California has wildfires regularly. They should have a whole lot of people on the payroll as regular firefighters, train potential volunteers to assist in fires, and have trucks, planes etc ready for this exact situation. This state and its cities are extremely wealthy. I can criticise countries like Greece and Turkey when they make errors, call out blatant mistakes, but at the end of the day I won’t call them imbeciles as I do people in charge in California and LA. One has all the resources in the world, the other doesn’t.


  • Westerners look down on the Romans throwing clothing and jewellery into funeral pyres, decrying how hysterical they were. And then they do this shit.

    Firefighters in areas with regular forest fires don’t have “surplus” equipment morons, only reserved for later use. This is what happens when an entire society live their lives convinced that infrequent disasters and so-called worst case scenarios may as well not happen.



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    The explanation is simple: The Democrats are a party of do nothing capitalists who only don’t want power

    That’s my explanation. The only reason the make the bare minimum attempt at winning elections is so that a bunch of them can get positions that give them titles, e.g. secretary, speaker.










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    14 days ago

    I had a faulty wording that I think gave you the wrong idea, sorry. My brother’s a techbro and nephew’s too young to have any politics yet, but we live in different countries, get to see each other a few times a year. I’m thinking about how I can use that time well, so that he ends up better than his parents.

    My sister-in-law is at least not a techbro, but she’s got a petit bourgeois background and occasionally has “what about the employers” thoughts when political discussions take place. They’re both xenophobic as hell, despite both being immigrants too.


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    Does anyone have advice for uncles and aunts? My brother’s got a kid and my brother’s an annoying libshit with lots of chauvinism and sinister racism he just doesn’t recognise. Right now he’s talking about Sweden having gone to hell because of them immigrants, isn’t that done decade old horseshit?

    Edited a pronoun for clarity.