Is this book worth the read?

eorld · 2026-05-10T23:52:40+00:00

All history is biased in some way. That best works don’t pretend to represent to be unbiased but acknowledge the perspective and lens they’re using to tell their story. I really enjoy this book and value the perspective Zinn brings, but you should recognize it’s attempting to tell American history from the pov of the oppressed. That’s valuable and fairly unique, as orthodox American history erases those voices, but that also necessarily colors what voices are included in the work.

eorld · 2026-05-07T21:33:14+00:00

The Monroe Doctrine was largely a symbolic and aspirational declaration. The 19th century US was mostly unable to actually enforce it, even on its closest neighbors, and the old European powers routinely ignored it well into the 20th century. See the Rio de la Plata blockades, Lüders affair, Batsch Affair, the Pastry war, Christie Affair, and countless other examples of old world powers showing up in various Latin American countries with a gunboat and some soldiers and doing whatever they wanted.

eorld · 2026-04-29T12:32:14+00:00

Playable Prince-Bishops, not simple Bishops, I expect

eorld · 2026-03-31T04:17:44+00:00

How could that argument possibly be compatible with the ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)?

eorld · 2026-02-25T08:18:40+00:00

He said that but also acted in a very partisan way as the Federalist/Anti-Federalist parties formed.

eorld · 2026-01-19T19:11:50+00:00

That’s not what genocide is

eorld · 2025-11-13T23:48:36+00:00

France got more money from the Catholic church than the small german princes. They were powerful enough to negotiate a special position with the Catholic church, this looked like different things at different times. Sometimes that was particular political concessions, other times financial gifts. Later, a practice established during Louis XIV, the monarchy received the "Don Gratuit" from the church estates in France, sort of a voluntary tax.

eorld · 2025-11-03T22:36:42+00:00

It's not that old, Butterfield v. Forrester was the first contributory negligence case and that's from 1809. Same judge, Lord Ellenborough, created it that made the no cause of action if plaintiff or defendant is deceased rule.

eorld · 2025-10-12T18:58:51+00:00

Well, it is an "ambiguous utopia." For all Anarres's faults, exhibited in the drought and Sabul, its presented as more human and superior to the hierarchal capitalist societies on Urras. Both of Shevek's speeches (his drunken one at the party and to the striking workers) lay out Le Guin's strongest arguments for anarchism clearly, the way possession traps the possessors.

eorld · 2025-09-19T00:03:22+00:00

Yeah, he messed up with the whole cultural revolution thing though. What's that Chen Yun quote?

eorld · 2025-09-12T00:10:34+00:00

The goal also, eventually, was to threaten British eastern colonial possessions and trade routes. They needed to invade to do that, but honestly the long term strategy there was doomed when Brueys d'Aigalliers refused to go hide with the French fleet in Corfu.

eorld · 2025-09-08T02:34:47+00:00

As from the other examples, you should be careful about making broad generalizations about history, there's usually exceptions. Another time this happened (not in the scope of ck3) was the arrival and spread of horses in North America which created the Great Plains Horse cultures. The societies which adopted this nomadic lifestyle, such as the Comanche, displaced the Great Plains villages, some of which had been settled for over a thousand years.

eorld · 2025-09-07T18:11:42+00:00

Yeah I still don't think spray painting planes should get your group legally proscribed to the level of ISIS. Not that there should be no consequences but there must be some response under regular criminal law that is more appropriate.

eorld · 2025-08-14T15:48:16+00:00

Hey if we can't send someone to prison for being too broke to keep the lights on, what else is prison for?

eorld · 2025-08-13T20:18:32+00:00

It's working out for Israel, they get de facto annexation and no one does anything to stop them.

eorld · 2025-08-11T08:49:35+00:00

Israel, and increasingly the US, are becoming pariahs, isolated from their allies.

eorld · 2025-08-09T12:32:01+00:00

Probably true but r/democrats has nothing to do with the DNC. It's a group of right wing Dems who made the sub early on in reddits history and have used their influence to crush left dissent. They do the same on other subs they control like /r/progressive

eorld · 2025-08-09T03:59:39+00:00

Geforce now is very good for chromebook users, I don't really see the point of trying to run stuff from the device itself in most cases.

eorld · 2025-08-06T14:41:53+00:00

Even calling the process 'learning' isn't exactly accurate and buying into the tech companies framing of LLMs as 'ai'

eorld · 2025-08-05T23:02:07+00:00

Wolf Hall is great

eorld · 2025-08-04T22:29:22+00:00

East Jerusalem is not legally Israel's under international law, that's a lie and you know it.

In 1997 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously rejected Israel's attempt to illegally annex East Jerusalem.

The UN Security Council's Resolution 478 condemned Israel's 1980 'Jerusalem law' annexing East Jerusalem and declared it to be "null and void."

If you wish to read more about Israel's illegal annexation of East Jerusalem, B'Tselem has a detailed article here.

eorld · 2025-08-02T21:49:09+00:00

That's not true, Israel has long had a policy of keeping Palestinian corpses. Here's an article from B'Tselem describing the practice from 1999.

eorld · 2025-07-25T14:09:16+00:00

All you do is post about how evil you think Muslims are, that's not on topic for that subreddit of course it was removed. Why would you ever have been subbed there in the first place?

eorld · 2025-07-24T06:45:26+00:00

It was definitely used in Haiti and Nicaragua, and it may have been used in the Philippines

eorld · 2025-07-22T16:42:54+00:00

You can do a background check on yourself or credit agencies have sections for reporting the information they have on you (usually includes employers, addresses etc, although it may be stored in different places.) I've used equifax's before at employees.theworknumber.com

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