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Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

I read a study a long-ass time ago on people living in near-starvation conditions and it was discovered that people set aside some resources (not necessarily in the consciously budgeting sense, but in the actual usage sense) for recreation even in incredibly desperate circumstances.

Human beings are funny creatures.

Oh, I have no clue if they did or not, I just found this pic online at some point and saved it.

It does, unironically. Soviet aesthetics are pretty cool, a shame the Soviets ruined them by being the ones to use it.

https://samlingar.shm.se/object/E8FF7A7A-C412-42C8-97C5-9138CD8D633E

Little thing had quite a journey!

Explanation: It is commonly said that the common people of Rome in the Imperial era cared little for the withering of their political power, so long as they received Panem et Circenses - bread and circuses (or races, or games). The reality is more nuanced, but it is certainly true that Roman authorities used free (or reduced price) food and public entertainment to tamp down on unrest in the city of Rome.

Uh, that's an interesting positioning of Trump.

Oh! But also, we'd love this at !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.world

Me, antisocial and rotting in my apartment: "Damn where all the antisocial girls rotting in their apartment, how come I never meet them"

Because Biden and the rest of the leadership are a bunch of Cold War fossil fucks.

Being comrades with someone with a Soviet ushanka sounds like a great way to have workers' protests violently suppressed.

The slaves were much better off. Roman empire was a slave empire.

And the resulting polities were slave kingdoms. Wow. Much improvement.

That’s the main reason it’s celebrated in our empire. Europeans and the founding slavers of USA looked towards roman slavery as their ideal.

Wow, that's the dumbest thing I've heard in the past 24 hours.

Arguing for the roman empire is like saying that USA was better before the Civil War.

what

Today the worship of this slave empire remains a foundation of white supremacy.

Yes, the foundation of white supremacy was a multiracial empire which had very mixed feelings on those pale G*rmanic savages and thought of Africans and Syrians as the smartest people in the world. You nailed it.

What the fuck are you on about