Ah, I see now. I have a gold version of the same reproduction hanging on my wall at work. The silver ones look way more like the actual thing.
What good is a post apocalypse when you're living in the ruins of a once great civilization brought low by hubris where people eke out survival in a barren world where you have to expect you'll be stabbed in the back by anyone you meet before you strap on the VR goggles?
Excuse me, I will happen to inform you that I am in fact a multi trillionaire in Zimbabwe dollars already. I have every denomination from $1 to $100 trillion. I can buy not one, but one and a half loaves of bread!
I remember reading an article around 1999 about evidence of all kinds of people in the America before the proto-siberians came across and basically took everyone else out.
It seems obvious that Polynesians would absolutely have had the capacity to get to America at some point. A man in a boat who only planned to go fishing for the evening ended up spending 438 days drifting across the pacific ocean and landed on an island in oceana, so for a seafaring civilization should have been able to make the same journey over thousands of years, even if only by accident.
It seems obvious that Polynesians would absolutely have had the capacity to get to America at some point. A man in a boat who only planned to go fishing for the evening ended up spending 438 days drifting across the pacific ocean and landed on an island in oceana, so for a seafaring civilization should have been able to make the same journey over thousands of years, even if only by accident.
Progs who want to ban unpopular speech should beware: many of the things they say are deeply unpopular so the sword would cut in your direction first.
I managed to find one place on the Internet that still had copies of some recordings of an Austrian band that I'm pretty sure has been broken up for 20 years and was never well known to begin with.
Kind of a blast from the past finding the music. I used this song as one of the intros to a QBXL Audio edition back in the day.
Kind of a blast from the past finding the music. I used this song as one of the intros to a QBXL Audio edition back in the day.
I'm not an anti-russia person (I don't really care either way), but I trust that number about as much as I trust the Kamala push polls we saw before the presidential election showing her winning in a landslide.
Chainsaws were originally invented -- and this is actually true -- for chainsawing through women's crotch parts.
I had to learn this fact, and now you know it too.
I had to learn this fact, and now you know it too.
How many decent follows does a person actually need?
I won because I get to interact with fun cool people. If a bunch of losers arent flocking here, good. We win.
I won because I get to interact with fun cool people. If a bunch of losers arent flocking here, good. We win.
First you need to define Fascism. Lately I've considered fascism "state socialism" where everything and everyone is subsumed under an all-powerful state.
Some people go "noooooo fascism and national socialism are actually right wing bro source: everything I don't like is right wing trust me bro", but historical facts show us that the creators of both ideologies were already strongly aligned with the left. Mussolini was a card carrying member of the socialist party, and Hitler was elected the leader of his Soviet during a German communist revolution. Seeing the problems with Class socialism, both of these leftists decided to try to create a new socialism with blackjack and hookers. One of the reasons Marxists hate fascism so much is that there's nobody socialists hate more than other socialists.
So one of the problems immediately is that socialism sucks. One of the reasons it pretty much always fails is that it contains a worldview that is flawed. It assumes that utopia can be obtained by just properly socialising the populace. That goes for fascism and German national socialism as well. If you hand a group of people unlimited power, then you're almost always going to have monsterous people see that and try to get into that one group that has unlimited power.
Systems that work over a long period of time find a way to balance power between different groups. The government is one group that has power, but typically so are the military, the merchant class, and the priesthood. If you give any one of these groups unlimited power, it doesn't turn out well, because each one is dysfunctional as a totalizing impulse even if each of them has their important role to play in society.
Another problem with fascism is described in my book: “The truth is, everybody thinks that they want fascism because they imagine that fascism will do exactly what they want and nothing more. They look at all the groups of people that they do not like and they imagine that the fascists will go and clamp down on those people and then just stop. Reality is not so kind. Yes, the evil empire did go out and do reprehensible things to the group that they identified as causing the problem. Of course, you do not need to make any kind of choices to whether someone of that particular group caused any problems to realize that most people within any given group are not responsible for the actions of the few. Within any given group there are lots of people who are just trying to sit back and live their lives without hurting anyone. Despite that, this great evil empire went out and exterminated a people. They did not stop there though. To them, even amongst the people that they claimed to protect and try to save there were two sorts of people: those who supported the regime and those who did not. For many of those who supported the regime, they were given the means to gain tremendous wealth and power in a very short period of time. For those who did not, they had their livelihood stripped away, they were shunned, in some cases they joined the groups who faced extermination.”
Some people go "noooooo fascism and national socialism are actually right wing bro source: everything I don't like is right wing trust me bro", but historical facts show us that the creators of both ideologies were already strongly aligned with the left. Mussolini was a card carrying member of the socialist party, and Hitler was elected the leader of his Soviet during a German communist revolution. Seeing the problems with Class socialism, both of these leftists decided to try to create a new socialism with blackjack and hookers. One of the reasons Marxists hate fascism so much is that there's nobody socialists hate more than other socialists.
So one of the problems immediately is that socialism sucks. One of the reasons it pretty much always fails is that it contains a worldview that is flawed. It assumes that utopia can be obtained by just properly socialising the populace. That goes for fascism and German national socialism as well. If you hand a group of people unlimited power, then you're almost always going to have monsterous people see that and try to get into that one group that has unlimited power.
Systems that work over a long period of time find a way to balance power between different groups. The government is one group that has power, but typically so are the military, the merchant class, and the priesthood. If you give any one of these groups unlimited power, it doesn't turn out well, because each one is dysfunctional as a totalizing impulse even if each of them has their important role to play in society.
Another problem with fascism is described in my book: “The truth is, everybody thinks that they want fascism because they imagine that fascism will do exactly what they want and nothing more. They look at all the groups of people that they do not like and they imagine that the fascists will go and clamp down on those people and then just stop. Reality is not so kind. Yes, the evil empire did go out and do reprehensible things to the group that they identified as causing the problem. Of course, you do not need to make any kind of choices to whether someone of that particular group caused any problems to realize that most people within any given group are not responsible for the actions of the few. Within any given group there are lots of people who are just trying to sit back and live their lives without hurting anyone. Despite that, this great evil empire went out and exterminated a people. They did not stop there though. To them, even amongst the people that they claimed to protect and try to save there were two sorts of people: those who supported the regime and those who did not. For many of those who supported the regime, they were given the means to gain tremendous wealth and power in a very short period of time. For those who did not, they had their livelihood stripped away, they were shunned, in some cases they joined the groups who faced extermination.”