Recent content by Pallington

welp, the overwhelmingly power-fantasy origins of this genre have come back to haunt it (lol)

you're not (much) older than either of us, if you're a zoomer (then again, on forums for 20 years?)

lol, lmao even, the goal of interacting in forums is making decent points until you get banned, don't you know? (and once you get banned, you go touch grass) (i will retract my earlier statements regarding the mods, well, partially, anyways)

Banned? you mean, blocked? blocking someone because they make better points is totally not a sign of "faux intellectualism" btw, totally edit: oh that's what you mean. lmao swagner got pinged with a warning as well but ok, cope seethe mald ig

this is still bullshit by the way, farming is still super fucking far from guaranteed, just more scaleable. the ridiculous number of chinese famines, from flood and drought and pestilence and simple shit weather, say hi. not to mention with land absorption/concentration, for the majority of...

except for the uh numerous times the country just split into 2, 3, or a few dozen pieces, and also that one time the empress regnant just said "fuck it i'll be the 'emperor,'" and this is not counting the (many) failed peasant revolts

btw, if the discussion is taxing your mental health, feel free to just ignore it (not like the internet points matter anyways) stay safe, m8

oh and here's an interesting question Under Gaddafi, (when the multi-level government was established, specifically), who were the elites in Libya? Honest question. Please bring sources along with your answer.

by two whole months, out of 3+ years. Which means that, again, we're too close in time for you to be wondering, at this late juncture, how i've "wandered INTO here" as opposed to why i'm "still" here. your knowledge of history leads you to saying that medieval setting is when corporations have...

"being a realist" and you say i misconstrue meanings "north korea" literally nobody, not even north korea, has implied they have finished developing socialism, let alone actually started developing communism. not even socialism admits the total elimination of hierarchy or class, simply the...

that you bother trying to stop me, means you do care at least a little, mr. "i totally fail to understand power relations but also totally know how class works." Otherwise you wouldn't try to stop me more than once. It'd be a waste of time. there wasn't a major fucking merchant class, but there...

TWA = terrible writing advice. As for hegel, the whole "human nature" thing is dumb because human nature has changed a shitload over the course of history. You're assuming it'll change in only one direction (no hierarchy -> hierarchy), when this has little basis in theory (many processes cycle...

"i don't understand how political marriages help solidify and gain you political power" see this is why you're a joke. The emperor doesn't naturally have all the power in china; aside from qin shihuang, that evil (but very efficient, and also history forced his hand in a lot of cases) bastard...

"i don't know how you wandered into here" implies i "got into here," not that i was, for a while, "already here." Hence, I explain, "i've been here for a while, potentially longer than you." Is english your second language? would explain why the only insult you know is "bumbling buffoon" (extra...

for you the primary contradiction is faux intellectualism? lol. sure, i'll focus my points more. your argument is basically, "there will always be hierarchy/elites, hence class war is stupid." I won't even debate the premise, because this is more or less axiomatic; you're a doomer, i'm not...