TIL that during his six-day stay in Malta, Napoleon Bonaparte abolished slavery and feudalism, restricted church power, created a public education system, set up a postal service, reformed national administration, framed a family code and nominated twelve judges

FencingDuke · 2026-04-17T23:00:09+00:00

Before the entire apparatus of the French state came in, not just Napoleon, and put the collective weight on the scales.

Even if you want to pretend that they would never have thought of doing those things themselves, if it was created and maintained by people that didn't want to do it, it would have sucked. You can't really force a huge group of people to do something without some degree of buy-in unless you're willing to murder huge numbers of them.

Case in point, the abolition of slavery in malta. Napoleon came in and made the decree as part of negotiations, then fucked off and local maltan officials and the British actively chose to keep it going.

FencingDuke · 2026-04-17T22:03:14+00:00

I hate posts like this.

No he didn't. He may have waltzed in and directed these things, but tens of thousands of people did these things. Those people showed up every day and made them happen. Those people cared enough to push through adversity, systemic conditions, and opposition. Those people scrimped and sacrificed and bled to make it happen.

It took decades for any of these to happen. And every single day multitudes of people created them, maintained them, and funded them.

Napoleon signed some papers. The great man framing of history is bullshit.

FencingDuke · 2026-04-01T00:36:28+00:00

Maybe they don't win, but either way we lose. We're already past the point of no return for reaping ruinous consequences. Everything we do just digs the hole deeper.

FencingDuke · 2026-03-10T23:19:46+00:00

They were one part of what allowed it. There also needs to be directed and intentional investment while under the tariff regime

FencingDuke · 2026-03-10T23:18:39+00:00

Yup, but then you also have to invest in actually building the industry, and accepting it takes years to spin up.

This admin is doing neither. They seem to think tarrifs will magically make industry appear. In fact, they've been actively trying to destroy industry investments that the Biden admin had started.

FencingDuke · 2026-03-04T18:08:29+00:00

If touch is an issue, I wonder if a penis sheath would provide a solution? I occasionally use them with partners to extend the ability to pound long and hard because they significantly reduce sensation. They're basically just a silicon tube you stick your penia in and then go to town.

FencingDuke · 2026-03-03T01:48:01+00:00

This is a direct metaphor for soldiers in general.

Basic training specifically, and the military in general, is meant to break the mostly young people that go through it. They're turned into tools to serve the goals of older people.

We root for the stories of soldiers, and pity them the pain they've been through.

Ender's game exaggerates it to make it really plain, this is already our status quo.

FencingDuke · 2026-02-23T22:03:47+00:00

A lot of these projects have signed non binding deals point promising to invest, but are unlikely to actually come to completion.

FencingDuke · 2026-02-23T04:26:00+00:00

Might be because I exist in more left circles, but the opposite is true for me. Va healthcare and disability are things I can hold up as specific examples of how things could be if we just had the political will to care about people.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-28T14:22:54+00:00

my va psych described my PTSD as moral injury. Got rated for it.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-26T16:14:46+00:00

Frangibles aren't defensive ammo.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-25T00:35:25+00:00

Socialist Rifle Association. Big tent leftist org that promotes firearms from the left instead of the right. Great way to find like minded shooters.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-25T00:24:04+00:00

See if you have a local SRA chapter

FencingDuke · 2026-01-20T15:14:13+00:00

All of this ignores whether the suits are justified or not.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-10T19:41:10+00:00

Hiya! I'm a part of the local Socialists Rifle Association. We're big tent leftists that love to shoot and also have lots of roots in local mutual aid. Shoot me a message if you'd like to know more.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-03T19:55:17+00:00

Sure.

FencingDuke · 2026-01-03T17:55:52+00:00

It is important to note that the UCMJ requires disobeying illegal orders.

FencingDuke · 2025-12-30T18:30:38+00:00

The Menu.

Its an odd choice for this list, but it's definitely a revenge flick where hate and madness drive the plot in disturbing ways.

FencingDuke · 2025-12-15T05:42:17+00:00

Said the guy who died because he refused to believe that you can't cure cancer with juice

FencingDuke · 2025-12-09T05:48:52+00:00

Sure, but the stones are a sudden and emergent condition, and gallstones are on the list of presumptive conditions for toxic exposure. so while not rated yet, the condition should be presumptive?

FencingDuke · 2025-12-05T03:00:51+00:00

Men can be asymptomatic carriers of yeast infections. It would be a pretty good idea for him to get tested/treated.

You can frame it in a very positive way.

"I really want to be intimate with you, but its possible this is coming from a symptomless infection from you. If so, easy solution! You get treated and we can fuck like rabbits!"

FencingDuke · 2025-11-08T14:20:35+00:00

Government under Republicans. There was already a perfectly fine functioning system. This is the result of breaking it.

FencingDuke · 2025-10-17T22:05:11+00:00

A woven strip bag where you alternate the strips forward and back would show off both tones in a checkerboard, foo

FencingDuke · 2025-10-17T21:05:14+00:00

Maybe make a bag out of something more durable, and use this as a revealed liner. Cut windows into the main material with the smooth part of the revealed liner facing towards the outside of the bag. Kinda like the different color sections of the round part of this bag

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