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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlHow many do you recognize?
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    21 days ago

    Yeah, but from the morbid (& historical) perspective it is kinda impressive tho, isn’t it?
    It’s done differently and at a much much higher cost (& more constant maintenance) than in your average direct regime controlled counties.

    Eg 70 years of cop shows & how they solve all crimes (and not just 0.2% of the 1% they even bother with), or how movies go though DoD for 'Murika superiority forever check rewrite, how Americans don’t know the direct (much less indirect) dearth-toll they are producing year through year, how 3/4 of the world population hate you but you think they warship you, etc?
    I especially like how a lot of openly available data is treated as ‘conspiracy theories’.

    If you didn’t have any knowledge of it, there is no way you would believe such a thing is possible.





  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlPerfect clarity
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    22 days ago

    I don’t think that particular game is hunted on the streets.

    They have meticulously maintained resorts, islands, megayachts, etc for exact purpose.

    It’s no proper sport tho, once the staff stops protecting them, they just stand there sucking their thumbs.

    But it’s still fully worth it, once the kill is done & the empire (for at least a moment) falls, nature can’t believe what just finally happened, etc.















  • No, I meant the immediate people involved in the revolution, those often don’t fair well & don’t last long (eg people in a party, not necessarily main headline names). Iirc Russia changed almost everyone in charge in the 20s & 30s to a more stable structure afterwards.

    In such system changes the country often goes through another (lesser) system revolution a few years after the first one (when the focus is to just keep shit running) & it’s better that people involved change at that point too.

    Like what happened with Robespierre (~Jacobins), the early two or three years under Lenin, and I think Slovakia or Poland when they transitionv away from communism they forbid running for office to anyone that held any official power under the previous regime (the same people that formally facilitated the end of communism since it as that kind of revolution).

    What you showed is what happened after after that, so the point of revolution. And I couldn’t agree more with that. My point was not in that. It’s that you need admins and regular politicians to run any system smoothly, and the few 1000s of people revolutioning arent usually the best at tirelessly debating a monetary policy or what road laws to use.

    (Oh, the “plundering” part - yes, perhaps the wrong word to use, I meant that fairly literally, irl taking things, not doing it in an organised legal manner which is how “the 1% gets to exist” – and you can se that clearly in the Russia chart too, 90s capitalism was the framework for that, so “paper” not raiding rich houses)