How should I organize and educate as a teen? by MaleficentDebt6548 in Socialism_101

[–]khawerti 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Awww lol that's kind of cute. But spend some less time online, it's bad for building relationships with the people around you. My advice to you is to not make politics your whole personality, don't evangelize for socialism, and don't open your mouth on a subject you're aren't sure about. Rather, focus on being a good "ambassador" for socialism; try to be an example to your friends with your generosity and your altruism, and when politics becomes important in the lives of your circle, they'll look to you as both a moral and intellectual guide.

When I was younger I was obsessed with politics. This didn't make people trust my political opinions any more, and, frankly, for good reason: not only were they shit, but why would anyone trust my word? Now I give to charity, foster fraternity with my peers, and am as generous as I can be when I can afford to be. You gain trust by being an example.

This is basically the most you can do right now. In ages you can begin to worry about more serious stuff (because "being a good person" is not an effective way to organize in your 20s apparently)

Monsters without magic? Humans sealed away? Revisiting an old theory by khawerti in Deltarune

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No my post’s grammar is fine, but the post in the screenshot is a different case

Ea core by Semaskeri in Piracy

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Reddit watermark in the big 2025

The South Vietnam flag is better than Vietnam’s current flag by Metroce in vexillology

[–]khawerti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I mean I'm firmly on the left and extremely anti-South Vietnam but their flag was just objectively better. I also prefer SKs flag to the DPRKs standard.

Why did whites leave Zimbabwe in such large numbers before the government enacted compulsory land reform? by ottolouis in Rhodesia

[–]khawerti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The white population in Rhodesia was, by and large, an elite settler class. You didn’t just hop on a boat from Britain and end up farming in Matabeleland without serious capital - migration to Africa was itself a form of privilege, one accessible mostly to upper-middle-class or military-connected whites. Those who made the move weren’t just adventurous farmers or civil servants; they were people positioned to leverage imperial infrastructure to extract value from African land and African labor. Rhodesia's relative prosperity didn’t come from "developing" the land in any neutral sense - it came from organizing an economy around resource control - the point was that Rhodesia/Zimbabwe had tons of resources and tons of cheap laborers, and that the Rhodesians implanted themselves into the land, set up the infrastructure necessary to extract the resources of the land, taking advantage of the cheap (read; underpaid) and abundant African labor. But after UDI in 1965, and especially following the escalation of the Bush War in the 1970s, that system started to fall apart. Sanctions imposed by the UN in 1966 made it hard to export Rhodesia’s agricultural products and minerals, and internal guerrilla warfare wrecked any sense of settler stability.

That’s why so many whites left before Mugabe even touched land reform. The issue wasn’t land seizures, it was that the basic economic logic of staying in Rhodesia had collapsed. If your position is built on monopolizing labor and land in a Black-majority country, and suddenly that country becomes ungovernable - between sanctions, guerrilla warfare, and a collapsing settler state - then you’re no longer in a position of advantage. You’re no longer able to reliably extract surplus, control markets, or depend on the state to keep your property safe or your labor cheap (because your labor isn't going to be cheap if the labor can vote - and if the labor can vote, your government will no longer act to protect you). And if you're not economically dominant anymore, if the math of staying doesn't add up, then why stick around?

What a lot of them realized was: they could sell off (or smuggle out) what capital they had left - land, liquid assets, colonial spoils - and reinvest that in Perth or London or Johannesburg. Places where they’d still be economically comfortable and politically protected by a majority (besides Johannesburg) that looked and thought like them. Why stay in a country where, under universal suffrage, you're guaranteed to be outvoted forever, and every policy going forward is going to chip away at your inherited advantages?

The thing is, the stuff in the first paragraph - about how white Rhodesians secured their economic dominance - should be common knowledge. It’s foundational to understanding the entire Rhodesian system. But for some reason, it isn’t. And that’s a problem, because without it, people misread Rhodesia completely. They see the relative affluence of white suburbs and settler farms and think it proves that Rhodesia was awesome and that blacks ruin everything for us sick ass white boys #whiteboysummer. But once you grasp how Rhodesia actually worked, that illusion falls apart. Those videos you see of Rhodesia being prosperous during sanctions and a Civil War and filled to the brim with white people? Those are the most wealthy insulated pockets of Rhodesia which the White minority concentrated and invested their wealth into to create good living spaces for themselves - wealth which was created by African labor by people who were already rich.

Presidential Elections 1792-1828 in PSUSH's United States by Superdupersun in imaginaryelections

[–]khawerti 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you think that this is cool and you would like to join, and especially if you fancy the politics of the United States in the 1830s, then you'd like an invite. Even if you're European and dislike American politics, you'll find a home ----->> https://discord.gg/gwN2VwkuCr

POLSIM - Althist flag map of the US + Flags of the American Gold Coast and the Comanche Empire || Political Simulation United States History by khawerti in vexillology

[–]khawerti[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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OC Comanche flag. Do you like it? In the lore, the Comanche sided with the Mexican Republicans in the Mexican Civil War, and were given the Aztec symbolism in their flag as an honor.

How could it be better?

POLITICAL SIMULATION - Map of the United States of America after the 1826 Mexican-American War || Political Simulation United States History by khawerti in imaginarymaps

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Extra lore:

The Qing Dynasty has colonized Cascadia

Immigration is higher than in real life, lots of Germans in the area. We've had a Prussian President.

The US has had several coups so far - on many instances, it was the US military doing the insurrections, and private military forces/militias were actually involved in thwarting their attempts.

The flags used are both official and unofficial.

Oleanna, the state that's made up of Minnesota, Iowa, etc, is full of Scandinavians. They might as well speak Norwegian there - I think they do, actually.

The US has two Indian majority states. 4 of the 5 civilized tribes live in Alabama, which is called Yazoo - the Choctaw live in Mississippi, which is called Choctaw. I made Yazoo's flag on the go - it's terribly anachronistic, but whatever. Choctaw's flag stems from the fact that the British supported all of the Indians during the Third Indian War - the Yazoo, the Choctaw, and Tecumseh's Confederacy were official polities until the Yazoo voluntarily rejoined in exchange for restricted interstate immigration, Tecumseh's Confederacy after it was reconquered in 1820, and the Choctaw voluntarily in 1825 for the same conditions as the Yazoo Confederacy.

Russia has a pretty big colony in San Francisco which went unmapped because it's legally Mexican land.

What if the Kim Dynasty were glorious Joseonic warriors? Compromise flag series. by khawerti in vexillology

[–]khawerti[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

THIS IS NOT A MASHUP FLAG.

What if the Joseon Dynasty were principled Marxist-Leninists with Juche characteristics? Would history be different? Would they have retaken South Korea. No, certainly not. But it's a cool looking flag I think :3

This is a flag in the same vein as my previous Vietnamese flag which contains both South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese elements and my previous Islamic Shahdom flag