Rothe
@Rothe@piefed.social
- Comment on search within your heart 6 days ago:
No such thing as an European inch. It varied from country to country.
- Comment on The only woman on the Declaration of Independence 1 week ago:
More like an attempt at buying forgiveness. The fact that she waited to free her slave until she was dead pretty much cancels out any attempt at making this a benevolent action.
- Comment on Just figured out why so many exonyms. 1 week ago:
Same with “inuit”.
- Comment on The US Army was literally mutinying to get out of Vietnam 2 weeks ago:
I think in another timeline it could have been one of the nation’s greatest accomplishments
How on Earth would an aggressive colonialist war ever have been one of the US greatest achievements in any way? The entire premise of the war was fundamentally flawed and wrong, a military and/or political victory would not have changed that in the slightest.
- Comment on Buy 1 Louisiana, get 10 free! 2 weeks ago:
Sucked for the slaves, since instead of being freed in 1848 when France abolished slavery (for the second time), they had to wait until 1865, and even then they still had to live in the literal apartheid which was the Jim Crow South for a century more.
- Comment on Where there people in the 1980's who refused to call 3.5" floppy disks floppy disks? 2 weeks ago:
Danish disketter as well.
- Comment on Oh lord yes 2 weeks ago:
For Anglocentric Americans yeah, either Scottish or Irish.
- Comment on How the mighty have fallen 😭 3 weeks ago:
Except for the “constantly having to worry whether one of them will finally succumb to their right wing extremist parties” part.
- Comment on To be fair, Napoleon did ended up disappointing in 1802 when he reinstated slavery in the French colonies, but even so, this was a big W from his part 4 weeks ago:
That is how it went in the other colonial empires, including Britain though. In fact while the UK abolished slavery in 1837, it only finished paying off its debt of reparation to slaveowners in 2015.
But it should be mentioned that Napoleon also reinstated slavery after he became emperor, so I highly doubt he abolished it on Malta for personal convictions.
- Comment on The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System 4 weeks ago:
And by “making their own” they put a wig and a pair of sunglasses on the British Imperial system.
- Comment on The real Atlantis was the metaphors we ignored 4 weeks ago:
The problem with Thera being Atlantis is that both Herodotus (who lived and wrote some decades before Plato was born) and other ancient writers mentions the island, but they don’t mention anything about it being connected to the myth of Atlantis. Which is something you would have expected especially Herodotus to have mentioned if that was the general belief at the time.
- Comment on in case you needed some good news today 5 weeks ago:
All of it gobbled up by AI data centers.
- Comment on GOG sending emails with Nazi symbolism now? 5 weeks ago:
What a pathetic excuse.
- Comment on Modern day monarch. 5 weeks ago:
It’s a joke. It is not actually an AI picture, but a photo of some random guy who slightly resembles him.
- Comment on When the budget has no limit. 5 weeks ago:
Not a lot of blitzkrieg would be going on. The tanks would be rolling along, and then someone yells “Stop! we have to wait for the AT-AT to catch up!”.