FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
You think that, and I think that, and it might even be true. Aristocrats of the time, true believers, did not think that was true. Aristocrats truly believed that they looked, thought, acted, simply were different at a biological breed level than their lessers. No matter how much you dressed a peasant up, the true nobles would see right through him. He could not imitate the nobility that comes from generations of breeding.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
For significant portions of Russian history, serfs were also understood as of a different blood and breed to the point of being practically speaking a different race.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Oh no offense taken, it was just very funny to me that I've mentioned Mrs. FiveHour enough that she's a recognizable side character.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Why is my wife catching strays?
Isn't this just the natural process for any slang term?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I don't think "transferred from owner to owner and not bound to real property" is actually a good map to "slavery" as a concept across multiple cultures, at least not in terms of "what are we talking about when we are talking about slavery." Other factors that seem relevant:
-- Are the children of slaves free or are they also enslaved?
-- Can the owner beat or otherwise corporally punish the slaves? How severely?
-- Does the owner have a legal right of sexual access to the slaves?
-- Do the slaves have the right to property or marriages that the owner must respect?
Classical Greece had a tradition of agricultural slavery, but functionally the slaves were simply peasant farmers who didn't have the right to move or leave their farms. There were no overseers, no whips, no chains. They had money, friends, marriages, families.
The legal regimes and the customary treatment given to slaves varies wildly. I constantly bring up the anecdote in Frederick Douglass' memoir of a young Freddy making white friends who taught him to read, something they were legally obligated to do at school, in exchange for bread, of which Freddy had an endless supply from his master's kitchen.
I don't think discussions of slavery are terribly valuable absent a discussion of the particulars.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
The problem becomes comparing different forms of slavery/sefdom/free labor which are incommensurate.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
As in injections one gets off of websites shipped from China designed to help with injury recovery.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
I had an odd experience at jiu jitsu this morning. A few of us have a 6am open mat group, we show up and roll for 45 minutes of rounds in rotation. It's great, even though I'm normally bottom man on the totem poll there and just getting smeared by the blue and purple belts. I'm strong enough and learned enough now that even when I'm losing I'm doing jiu jitsu rather than just flailing around. I'm getting submitted in more creative ways, at least, trying things that fail rather than just resisting.
And everyone was chatting before and after, and I realized I might be the only one in the room not on gear. Everyone is using TRT or peptides or something.
And it's weird because I get the "blond white guy" stereotype of "farm strong," and I'm typically stronger than my opponents on raw power. But if I stick with this, am I going to end up on gear?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
I recall a factoid that young men have a higher crash rate when they have male passengers, but a lower crash rate when they have female passengers in the car. A variety of explanations were offered.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
Ditto. My bugaboo is tailgating.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
Who is "they" in your mind?
Note that an under-reported aspect of the Peter Magyar story in Hungary is that Fidesz put in all kinds of tricks to allow them to push through constitutional changes with a plurality vote share, getting huge majorities in parliament despite pulling mid-40s vote percentages. The flip side of this is that the "landslide" much lauded by global libs that pushed them out of office, came when Tisza got just over 50% of the vote.
A gerrymander can quickly become a dummymander if things shift.
So all Republicans have to do to turn this into a huge Republican advantage is actually appeal to suburban VA voters again.
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