Rothe
@Rothe@piefed.social
- Comment on Like Castro and Lenin and Cromwell and Robespierre and- 5 weeks ago:
They had to kill a buttload of actual ideological revolutionaries to seize that absolute power though.
I think it is more a case of psychopaths being better at rising to the top than it has anything to do with revolutionary ideology.
- Comment on Everyone had plans for the turn of the century 1 month ago:
More like “US: Continuing the imperialism we spend the entire 19th century doing”.
- Comment on Modern earth is candy land compared to the planet we had 500+ years ago m’dude 1 month ago:
If you are literally starving or dying from a preventable disease without access to healthcare, it doesn’t really matter if it is happening now or 1000 years ago, the result is exactly the same.
Claiming that every human on Earth lives better than 100 years ago is not only objectively wrong, but rings of the “even our homeless here in the US lives better than the richest person in Africa” ignorant nonsense some people likes to spew.
- Comment on When your drug recovery plan involves moving with Iggy Pop 1 month ago:
It’s nostalgia if you enjoy them.
That is a curious biased claim while simultaneously trying to push subjectivity.
I think most people enjoy them because it is great music. You may not like them, that is also fine, but you claiming that people only like them because of nostalgia is some grade A bs.
- Comment on Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming 1 month ago:
They have the effect of massively increasing our energy consumption at a time when we desperately need to cut down on it. Just to mention one thing in the slew of disastrous things this AI bubble is causing to our ability to just do the bare minimal to counter our climate disaster.
- Comment on “Sir HMS Invincible has exploded.” 1 month ago:
It is pretty impressive that they apparently managed to get the ship moved into Jutland.
- Comment on The Early Medieval in Popular Culture 2 months ago:
It varies depending on locality.
In Scandinavia for example the medieval period starts after the end of the Viking Age around the middle of the 11th century. 500-800 is the Germanic Iron Age (in Sweden it is called the Vendel period).
- Comment on search within your heart 2 months ago:
No such thing as an European inch. It varied from country to country.
- Comment on The only woman on the Declaration of Independence 2 months 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 The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System 3 months 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 3 months 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.