KulakRevolt
Writes at https://anarchonomicon.substack.com/
Writes weird Twitter Threads @FromKulak
Rides motorcycles... poorly.
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Winner of Motte Post of the Year 2019
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KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Ya except this was a decision actually made by the private owner of the company, not the FBI sending threatening communiques and making demands.
This might be the only instance in the past 3+ years where the "private company" argument actually has any weight since at least in this instance we're pretty damn sure it wasn't the fascist security-media-intelligence complex state.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Jones Alleged the document demand of him had never existed because no such document had ever be made.
But because a single judge made 1 determination about 1 document that may or may not have even been a document, he was denied all due process, and appeals.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Yes exacly... thus you'd either look faded or show obvious visible wear and aging of your clothes.... or you'd wear dark colors.
Filmmakers struggle to age clothes appropriately... so they put them in dark colors
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
I never claimed Germany suffered a holocaust.
Boys suffered a holocaust.
Boys 14-25 are the most discriminated against group in human history. Full stop.
No group has suffered such violence so Deeply in the moment, vastly across nations, and consistently across time.
The bloodiest day of the holocaust it was calculated 15,000 people were killed.
Bloodiest day of WW1 20,000 British! boys were killed (not counting all the other powers)
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And notably this is a holocaust that never ended
The world screamed never again after the holocaust... but even our "humane" "modern" "progressive" welfare states reserve the right to drag teenagers from their home and massacre them by the million.
Indeed both Ukraine and Russia are doing this now without a fucking mummer of protest
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
No but their clothes didn't look new, and they certainly weren't able to get all the residue out... think of the stains that stay in ordinary bright clothes, the impossibility of getting fruit or vegetable stains out of brightly colored clothes even today.
That's what your eye will expect to see when they see clothes that are supposed to have been exposed to hard use... and if it doesn't it will break the reality of the film.
Even though people put incredible effort into cleanliness in the past it couldn't keep things looking new, and before the era if machine washing and chemical cleaners "not new" looked very distinctively different form lawrence olivier
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Intentionally.
I try to write like I speak, and maintain a conversational tone.
Well your tone of voice changes when you speak, you can't just throw in a coma... because you're not just throwing in a comma.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
That's an excellent snapshot. of the early 1800s. Thankyou so much for sharing!
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
The fabrication of the film was moving events that happened in various armies around to make a statement about the war... the filmmakers have said the commander who ordered the 11th of Nov attack was explicitly based on a British General known for being a butcher
Its not Germans, its all conscripts across all nations.
Their were mutinies in the French, British, and German armies including the german navy... I think that's a pretty dramatic statement that they didn't want to be there
In addition to the fact the conscription was neccessary to begin with. There wasn't an all volunteer army on any side of WW1
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
I've given you 3 types of evidence:
Contemporary accounts from 400 years of history 1500-1900 (Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, and many others wrote extensively on this in the 19th).
Historical records of the Lancet Medical journal from the 19th century ...
And the Historical records of the catholic church from the 12th century.
and the historical GDP which shows this is very much in line with what we find in modern poor societies at these GDP levels like El Salvador, Haiti, and Somalia...
There is no scarcity of women, lower gdp figures don't limit how much is available like iron or timber. or food ...GDP just determines the price of their labour and the poverty that will push them to trade that labour.
and your response amounts to: "Nuh Ugh"
Seriously every single piece of evidence we have says that 1100-1900 a single digit percentage of women were employed in prostitution and maybe a very low double digit percentage had engaged in it at some point in their lives. (And yes how people manage to feed themselves and keep themselves alive absolutely seems like the kind of matter of material necessity than can be extrapolated backwards)
We have bawdy authors from the 16th century painting this picture, senitmental authors from the 17th, moral reformer authors form the 19th, quite impressive records from all these eras including very early records from the 11th century...
and what I consistently find is people just deny it because they don't want to believe it.
3% of the victorian population, 6% of the female population, were employed as prostitutes in 1887... in London. One of the most industrialized cities of the day and one that actually had factory work for women.
This was when GDP of the Uk was close to 3000-4000 per person, or poorer than modern Ukraine... this was post industrial revolution after London had entered what we'd now say is middle income status...
In the Medieval period when real GDP was $300-600 per person per year it would have been vastly worse and the poverty vastly more pressing.
Hell the Catholic church owned the brothels in many areas because it was just seen as a fact of life and they were trusted to morally absolve and oversee the "sinner"
Seriously. the catholic church was running brothels with ~1000 prostitutes in London in the 1100s... when London's total population was 18,000-40,000... and that was just the one Burough where they owned the brothels... there were plenty of private brothels, speak-easy brothels, and women not affiliated with a brothel working as prostitutes as well.
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Edit: sorry to pick on you but there's this revisionism I got everywhere I've posted this essay that somehow prostitution wasn't common, people weren't poor in the past, and everything that was expansively written about by contemporaries in early modern novels was just fiction and obviously Feilding, Defoe, Richardson, John Ford, Thomas Middleton, and every other writer about the lower classes from 1500-1900 ever wrote about was just sensationalist fiction to be completely ignored.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
The blow was light, but I fear it has struck true... and like the red vitae fatal flowing forth...I fear I shall not recover.
(But like actually, I can't see my total yet (too soon) you may have sent me negative)
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
They couldn't shoot back at the commanding officers and military police forcing them to the front.
Indeed All's Quiet on the Western Front depicts what happened to soldiers who refused to go into battle on nov 11th after the armistice had been signed but before 11am when it went into effect.
The filmmakers make a very dramatic case...
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
So the analogy I used elsewhere was to just adjust it for purchasing power.
A skilled worker made 6-8d a day according to a redditor... which I analogized to 60-75k a year. A linen shirt required 3 els of linen at 12d each, and 2d worth of labour from a tailor... so it'd take a week or week and a half's labour from the skilled worker to buy a linen shirt... if he deadicated 100% of his income to it.
So it comes out to 1000-2000 dollars for a linen shirt, which admittedly is high end, kings would wear linen.
But you multiply that out and a full outfit pants, boots, socks, sweater, jacket, hat ( and you need all these you're walking everywhere in all weather) comes to 10-30 thousand dollars depending on quality.... and user you can buy used or skip and get it down to 5k or maybe even 2k at the bare minimum... maybe cloth a child for 1k with used babyclothes...
But a full outfit for an adult to actually go out and do things in the world is looking like the investment we make for a car or vehicle.
I bought a motorcycle for 5k a few years back, believe me I wanted it to last 5-10 years. I consider its loss a personal tragedy.
And you example likewise points to this: A team of mother and daughters working year round in a more leisurely cottage industry, with other responsibilities, we'd expect to kick out 15-30k a year... maybe 40-60 if they were in the top 5-10% ... so divide that out and those low end homemade outfits destined for women and children are 2k to 5k each.
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Then you get into MILITARY outfits that have to survive a ton, do all the work you might possibly do on campaign, have armour, maybe have heraldry...
that's like a 40-60k investment for a low end footsoldier, and getting up into the hundreds of thousands for knights and a king's custom armour and everything might be into the millions ppp.
You just really aren't going to have multiples or if you do you aren't going to take your spare set on campaign with you and leave it with some squire-boy who could easily be beaten up and have it stolen from him
I will repeat my take that the only ethical response to conscription is desertion, terrorism, the murder of draft boards, and volunteering for the enemy.
I wrote just as stridently on this matter back when The Motte was on reddit, and I'm not going to pull punches now.
Here's my old piece: Liberty and Violence: Kill your local Draftboards
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People enter into peace and agree to abide by laws so as to protect their liberty. The second their liberty is taken and they are being threatened with enslavement and being used as cannon fodder, there is no reason to abide by any of the rules of that society, indeed one should break every faith with it in revenge for the attempted enslavement.
There is no reason whatsoever for a young man to sacrifice his freedom, youth, and life for those who will not respect his liberty and who aim to make him pay everything for the wealth and security of others.
"But how will a nation defend itself? What about all the old ladies who can't defend themselves from the foreign hordes!?"
What are those old ladies sacrificing for this apparently vital defense they need? Have they sold off their homes and taken to living on the street that they might pay for said defense? Have they taken to prostitution that they might pay for their protection? Or have they merely voted that the cost be born entirely by young men who like as not are 18 and have not even had the opportunity to vote on the government that seeks to enslave them.
Taxation without representation? How about everything and your life before you can even drink.
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I grew up in a small village. I actually knew the old ladies and sense of community that governments appeal to make people sacrifice everything. I've actually felt the tribal sense of community that's exploited to make young men sacrifice their lives.
And if my village thought they could enslave me and take my life from me, instead of doing the natural thing and selling off all they could (their houses, their heirlooms their businesses, their bodies) to pay for someone who will willingly defend them...
Then I would feel no compunction at deserting them, I'd drink to their massacre, I'd join the invading force they feared.
Because anyone who'd betray me so totally and try to enslave me to suffer and die at my moment of greatest vulnerability, as a youth who's had no opportunity to gain anything or even leave the polity, but has just lost parental protection... anyone who'd do that is my mortal enemy be they my closest kin or my own mother. And it is vastly more urgent that I see such a traitor dead at my feet, than some German or Russian who has done me no harm.
The social contract is like any other contract. If it never benefits one of the parties, if it is unilateral, then it cannot bind the party that gains nothing.
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I am not joking. If my own mother tried to do to me what the governments of the world did to 18, 17, 16, and 14 year old on the western front... I'd kill her. Not a single question. I'd murder her. And not quickly.
And young men are supposed to acquiesce to politicians doing this to them?
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(Fortunately for me my mother would never do such a thing, we love each other and get along perfectly well.)
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Slavery, forced labour under threat of violence.
Conscription is 100% slavery. Indeed it is the very worst form of slavery.
Ask a conscript at the Somme or on the eastern front if they'd rather be Picking cotton. Ask some poor bastard on a Uboat waiting for the depth charges.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Suspending basic freedom of assembly, bodily autonomy, and travel for 2 years is the biggest things western governments have all done since conscriptions, mass internments, and human experimentations (look up what they did to conscientious objectors) that characterized the world wars.
We SHOULD hate each other over this. This SHOULD poison our every attempt at discussion. This SHOULD divide us so thoroughly our grandkids look at each other as subhuman, the way the grandkids of the various factions in the 60s look at each other today.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
I feel like you're disappointed they didn't explicitly have a scene for every character where they monologued about their Tragic Past like a Kojima game.
Every character has a really well defined disposition, attitude, set of motivations, and yes backstory... the show just doesn't stop to tell you them, you catch their story through glimpses of their personality, lifestyle, decisions, stylistic choices... you know like real life.
Maine andDorio's names, character designs, interactions, and dialogue tells you everything that narrative essential about their characters and back stories, without having to spell it out.
Kiwi's interactions and relationships with Lucy, Faraday, Maine and Falco are all you have to see to start drawing out the past of her character... Even her design, she specifically chose Cyberware that didn't have a mouth and would prevent her from being expressive, purposefully alienating herself from everyone around her, fleeing the interpersonal Trauma implicit in everything she does.
These are characters are incredibly designed characterized and fleshed out, unique backstories and personalities are implicit in everything about them, StudioTrigger just followed the show don't tell school of thought (as you expect from litteral animators and artists) and embodied this in their characters and actions instead of stopping the show's breakneck pace.
And as for the characters who's inner monologues we do get ,its incredibly rich!
The entire reason David keeps doing merc work instead of ditching and enjoying his modest wealt and girlfriend is he feels he needs to become a great success in order to live up to his mother's dreams and retroactively undo his abandonment of her ambitions through success, He feels he needs to continue Maine's ambitions so as to render Maine's tragedy a success...
He's fleeing his Trauma by embracing the very danger that caused it.
That is very strongly characterized and very subtlety handled, and every character is like this!
This is how in 10 episodes they can cover so much ground at such a break-neck pace, and with so much style, because their writing, artstyle, plotting, and even music is operating at maximum efficiency.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
I mean... yes, but that's still just Saburo Arasaka...
The dude's a 180 year old Japanese flying ace from ww2 that's run his company and most the world more than most people's grandparents have been alive, and he pretty much literally eats people's souls
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
I never wrote about it no.
If someone here did though I'd be very interested to read it. Always found that character inspiring
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
I disagree strongly... The entire point of edgerunners is that it comes at you fast and the characterization is done through animation, subtle character moments, implications that you read into it...
Also deaths aren't furthering the plot? The plot is they're punks trying to get rich and not die, and the tragedy is they know they probably will. You might as well complain the Deaths in "All's Quiet on the Western Front" not furthering the plot... that's the point, death can hit you at any time, you're not special.
I feel like you expected the story to be "And that's how we decided to do "Big important heroic thing" and advance "the good" and this is the story of our noble sacrifice..." no the point of edgerunners is they're just trying to achieve their personal ambitions, make it out alive, not be crushed by the world around them... and everything escalates because the intense friction and pressure they're under just achieving that.
We get the backstories for David and Lucy because they share them with eachother, the rest we get to gleen so much of their personalities, their values, what little part of life they're holding onto, just from how they behave an interact.
Its incredibly efficient show don't tell and it works remarkably effectively. There's a reason it has 100% and 96% on rotten tomatoes.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
You realize they could have just written their own world if that was the case...
Not like even Gibson came up with anything expecially unique, he just brought all the elements together that other writers had put out in the 70s and layered a cool style over it.
No individual sci-fi elements hadn't already been done by someone else.
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And honestly if anything they turned the silliness up... the Chainsaw arm became the mantiss blades or monkey arms, They explicitly made all the goofy rockerboy stuff Canon and made one of the main characters a rockerboy who did 9/11 but with nukes, played by Keanu reeves.
Like there are entire flashback missions in game that plays out exactly how they played in the 2020 corebook.
Hell the only 2 character from the corebook who aren't one to one transplanted into the 2077 game are morgan blackhand who doesn't appear, and Johnny silverhand, who's character design they had to redo to look like Keanu reeves.
Aside from that Rose, Alt, Rache Bartmoss, Spider, Adam Smasher, Saburo Arasaka... their character designs haven't even changed. Rose even has the big 80s hair and leather jacket in the flashbacks.
Its actually incredible how much CDPR leaned into the silliest aspects of 2020 and managed to make them work in a serious and dark setting
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
That character should have real ties to their world and their actions should have real consequences.
The lifepath and FNFF systems ensure that their is no way for your character to be a generic orphan without grief, while the FNFF system ensures your character can't be superhero effortless evading the consequences of combat or conflict, but instead must take everything smart and always be in real meaningful risk even if they are smart.
KulakRevolt
2yr ago
Ok that does sound more interesting
The fact that these words can fit together as a given seems the vastly more concerning trend.
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