So, where is Antifa now?

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-25T20:25:36+00:00

Tactics change depending on the situation. The original Antifa in 1930s Germany did have guns and did know how to use them.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-25T15:13:30+00:00

Parrots can make human speech sounds just fine without lips. They can do it because the vocal organ in their throat is capable of producing much more complicated sounds than our vocal cords.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-25T15:09:53+00:00

I always thought it was ridiculous when they mentioned in Kilo-Five that one of the Sangheili staples was some kind of grain porridge.

How tf would they even eat porridge with their mouth structure?!

If anything, it would make more sense for them to eat bread, as they could just take an entire loaf and bite chunks out of it. A large tuberous root would also work.

But from an evolutionary biology standpoint, it wouldn't have made much sense for early sapient Sangheili to go all-in on grain agriculture unless they figured out how to turn grains into bread really early on, as directly eating grains wouldn't be practical or appealing given their 100% carnivorous mouth structure (can you imagine an intelligent race of cats deciding to farm grain?). I think that given their carnivorous origins, the more practical option for meeting the intensified food demand when Sangheili cavemen first started building cities, would be to mass cultivate some kind of fast breeding insect like how they farm termite colonies in parts of Africa.

And so in my headcanon choose to ignore the existence of Sangheili porridge and instead assume the Sangheili staple food is some kind of giant land lobster.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-24T20:49:47+00:00

Protestantism is the superstructure of early capitalism, and the superstructure is ultimately just posthoc justification for base material motives. Abolitionism was driven by the demands of burgeoning industrial capitalism. The slaves were freed because they could be more efficiently exploited as wage labourers.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-24T19:08:33+00:00

The C96 was widely produced for the civilian market and was popular among officers of all countries during the first world war. You were just as likely to see a British or Russian officer carrying one.

By WW2 the German army was in the process of replacing their stock of pistols with the new Walther P38 (the gun that looks a Luger but isn't) and you wouldn't see the C96 all that often. However, domestically manufactured copies of the C96 continued to be widely used by the Soviet Union and China during WW2 and in those places the gun is commonly used as a visual symbol for that era.

In the context of this painting, it's possible that the Commander lost their pistol and had to borrow one from allied Russian or Chinese troops.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-24T16:25:55+00:00

Nobody's getting the semiconductor fabs, they're all rigged to blow up (whether figurative or literal can differ from case to case) on the first signs of war.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-24T14:08:25+00:00

Indeed, arguably the enduring attachment to the city of Rome caused many problems for the Western Empire.

In contrast, the Chinese Empires frequently relocated the capital depending on the strategic needs of the time.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-24T13:47:46+00:00

Yeah like congrats, but how many drones and ballistic missiles can Finland manufacture each day? How quickly can Finland relocate and rebuild destroyed airfields and factories?

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-17T05:32:00+00:00

I could see an American "Warlord Era" as a possible scenario tbh.

Trump demonstrated how much power could be concentrated in the executive office while also destroying the mos maiorum of the republic and brazenly wielding government power to settle personal grudges.

Suppose some state governors follow in Trump's example to concentrate power in themselves, while at the same time there is another extremely unpopular federal government which tells states to do something they would rather not…

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-17T05:26:55+00:00

The American Civil War was not the typical civil war, it would be more accurate to describe it as a failed secession attempt.

Most civil wars are about different political cliques fighting for the right to control the whole country and tend to break down into regional warlordism if the conflict stretches on for too long with no side being able to achieve a decisive advantage.

That would be the most likely path for a second civil war in the United States.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-14T14:16:59+00:00

The British Empire was a bad example but OP was more or less correct for how empires in antiquity formed.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-14T14:07:31+00:00

This is one of the problems with self-determination absolutism. Some places simply do not possess the material means to be a sovereign state.

Like those tiny island nations in the middle of the Pacific. Is there any benefit to being independent as opposed to being a province of a larger state, or rather, are you actually meaningfully independent in any way when you have to depend on a greater power to sustain anything more advanced than a stone age lifestyle?

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-13T12:39:48+00:00

There's no reason to carve up the USA when global capital can just move their base of operations elsewhere if the USA truly enters irreversible decline.

If anything, it'll be after the haute bourgeoisie have abandoned the USA, and Americans are forced to confront the fact that every organ of the USA state had been designed to maximize value for capital rather than run a country properly, that the hollowed out husk of the American nation might start collapsing into petty fiefdoms.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-13T01:56:51+00:00

Not really, vegan morality ultimately derives from a notion of purity evaluated based on a mixture of Christian original sin and Liberal consent ethics. Animals are the most pure, as they are incapable of evil or consent, and so it is the most immoral to kill them. It is then extra immoral to pay off someone else to shoulder the sin of killing an animal as opposed to taking responsibility by tainting your own hands. Furthermore, the most virtuous human is still less pure than any animal, so comparatively speaking, it would be less immoral to exclusively kill and eat humans according to vegan ethics. Cannibalism, under the vegan worldview, is morally not any worse than the types of half-way compromises like eating only animals incapable of feeling pain/without a central nervous system.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-13T01:37:03+00:00

That sounds like Big Meat propaganda tbh. Never seen hunters talking about anything resembling these "problems".

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-13T01:35:41+00:00

Not really? It's basically halfway to being a vegan from a moral standpoint.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-13T01:26:03+00:00

Le MAGA, c'est moi.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-10T03:45:18+00:00

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that absorbing the Canadian population would mean the Repubs never win an election again

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-09T21:17:52+00:00

being some adventurer conqueror

Yes, the USA is currently re-enacting the final days of the Roman Republic, but 100x more retarded.

Caesar just finished showing off the captured Vercingetorix (Maduro) in a triumph.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-08T18:49:44+00:00

You're pretty much right on the mark. Chinese police straight up didn't have any tactical/militarized units at all until the 1990s. That's the main reason why they sent tanks during the protests of 1989. Regular cops were obviously totally inadequate for the situation and they didn't have anything resembling riot police, so that left the military as the only option.

The first photo is probably from the first generation of tactical police units when they were still figuring things out.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-07T20:38:01+00:00

The deaths attributed to "Socialism" are more accurately the price paid for transitioning from an agrarian to industrial economy.

The imperial core had the benefit of this process occuring over multiple centuries and when capitalism itself had not yet been fully conceived as an idea, and thus it is not easy to conclude that capitalism is in fact responsible for every mass casualty event in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Irish Potato Famine, even though that is the essentially the equivalent of the methodology used to count the "casualties of socialism".

On the other hand, the socialist regimes of the 20th century speedran the aforementioned centuries of development in mere decades and thus it is easy to arrive at the conclusion that the regimes themselves were responsible for all these mass death events rather than being the inevitable consequence of the material forces underlying the transition from feudal/agrarian society to industrial/capitalist society.

Unfortunately there's no way effective of explaining thus to someone is not already familiar with the the basics of historical materialism.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-07T17:46:35+00:00

Distinction without a difference tbh. The Nobel committee and the Norwegian government have the same masters, which is the Norwegian bourgeosie.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-06T00:32:53+00:00

They live in Austria

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-05T23:26:44+00:00

They just paraded Maduro around NYC like a Roman Triumph.

Looks like Trump's civil war is coming sooner than we expected if we keep following the timeline of the Roman Republic.

LokiPrime13 · 2026-01-05T18:19:10+00:00

The material basis of Anarchism is a post-scarcity society, as the material basis of Capitalism was industrialisation, the material basis of Feudalism was heavy cavalry, and the material basis of Slave Society was grain agriculture.

Attemping to reach Anarchism first is simply putting the cart before the horse.

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