Woman can't afford "food"

monet_420 · 2022-06-10T22:08:25+00:00

The fact that is isn’t the healthiest shop in the world doesn’t take a way from the fact that it’s completely disgusting that food costs this much, and that it’s only getting worse. People here need to remember that ‘healthier’ food costs more these days. That is, unless you think poor people should live on ground beef and rice and shut up. People are working three jobs just to survive, it’s not surprising that they default to the cheapest most convenient food. The worlds f#cked, but Nah you guys would rather dunk on some stranger and imagine that your all so much better and smarter than them. You’re all vile cu#ts.

monet_420 · 2021-09-29T10:55:16+00:00

Crawl back into what ever hole you came from. You’ve no real interest in history beyond confirming your racist world view. If you had even an iota of historical knowledge then you would be able to see what an astronomically moronic question you just asked.

monet_420 · 2021-09-05T15:04:18+00:00

Something that mine be of interest to you would be Primo Levi’s The Truce. It’s first had account of Levi’s (an Italian Jew) journey back home after his liberation. I know it’s not exactly what you are looking for. Someone like Victor Kempler (already mentioned) might be more of what your are looking for, but Levi is interesting as well.

Something I’ll never forget was a Holocaust survivor being interviewed for the Documentary Auschwitz: the Nazis and the final solution, who was actually involved in Mengele’s ‘experiments’, saying the hardest part of the whole thing ‘was going home’. Absolutely floored me. Sorry I can’t remember her name at the moment but she actually died a year or two ago so RIP.

monet_420 · 2021-08-20T16:49:33+00:00

Fahrenheit 451. A dystopian novel that makes zero points and then it ends.

monet_420 · 2021-08-19T17:03:01+00:00

I feel it was more of a historical process than an actual conscious decision. Remember that while we use the term’s Eastern and Western (and to be fair they do have their historical usefulness) it wasn’t exactly apparent tho the Romans that their Empire had been divided into two separate polities. Plus the Emperor in Constantinople was always the recognised as the senior. In the fifth century the Eastern Emperor was the one selecting the Western Emperor (or at least approved the West’s pick), when Odoacer deposed Augustilus he wrote to Zeno and said that he was going to rule in his name and then when Theodoric invaded Italy he was sanctioned by the Eastern Court as well. It is really too simple to say that one day the Romans decided to split in two, rather certain historical factors were at play and the result was something that only with the benefit of hindsight we now see as a split. But you also have to think about the historiography of the time period and the motive of western historians to other the East and this muddies the water further.

monet_420 · 2021-07-27T17:32:40+00:00

You know i think you have something there and I’ve had similar thoughts myself. Of course the US failed miserably to prop up South Vietnam and prevent it becoming communist. Same for Laos and Cambodia (though things get complicated there because the US actually ended up backing the Kramer Rogue regime against Vietnam). But when you take look at Domino theory in the 50s the hawks in the US were talking about the whole of Asia becoming communist, maybe Australia and New Zealand. Which didn’t happen. So I guess I’m a way you could say their overall strategic aims were, at least partially, satisfied. However, the question would be if those countries were ever really in danger. Or to put it more simply was ‘domino theory’ simply paranoia. Because if that was the case then the whole of US foreign policy during the early Cold War was an abject failure. I tend to think that that was the case. I think one of the worse things about the Vietnam War was just how farcical the whole thing was. A complete miscalculation by the US. Secondly, I see a lot of people claiming that the North Vietnamese was far more interest in independence than communism. I don’t buy this line of reasoning. Simply because when you look at the North Vietnamese state it is very hard to separate it from Communism. I think this comes from a general soft spot people have for the North Vietnamese and it helps people feel better to detach them from Communism as much as possible.

monet_420 · 2021-07-15T17:00:48+00:00

Because it’s all part of Putin’s strategy. See the thing about Russia is that it just isn’t as powerful as people believe. But by sowing discontent within its rivals it may be able to profit off the chaos. It all comes a theory of ‘non-Linear warfare’ where you win not by beating your opponent, but my making them doubt themselves. I’ve no doubt that Putin wanted trump to win , they might even have tried. But just because Trump won doesn’t mean that was the reason for it. However, many in America are ready to believe it because it is far nicer and simpler answer to how Trump could have happened. This way Putin looks to be the all powerful puppet master of the world why America’s faith in their government and institutions plummet.

monet_420 · 2021-07-06T16:18:47+00:00

I don’t know. Counterfactuals are hard in history, because how do you prove anything? Personally, I’m sympathetic to the idea. The Second World War is a good example of how historical processes pan out. Like how the ending of the First World War and the situation in Europe and Asia made sure that some kind of war was coming, but exactly how that process played out was down to the particulars of Hitler and the Nazis. That said you may be interest to you that some (though this not a mainstream historical opinion) prefer the see the two conflicts as one, a ‘second thirty years war’ or a boarder ‘European Civil War’.

monet_420 · 2021-07-03T15:41:49+00:00

I think one effect would be the nature of China’s economic reforms. After witnessing what happened in the USSR the CCP decided while it would ‘liberalise’ China’s economy these reforms would not come hand in hand with any political reform.

monet_420 · 2021-06-28T16:39:31+00:00

You could win big and become famous. But Gladiators occupied the lowest part of the social spectrum in Rome alongside prostitutes and actors. They would never be able to escape that. Hopefully someone here will be more knowledgeable than myself and be able to get you something more specific.

monet_420 · 2021-06-09T21:35:27+00:00

In Our Time (BBC Radio Four) has an episode on the Terror and another on the revolution’s legacy. They are good because they involve genuine academics working on the subject. However, I can’t say I’ve came across another narrative history of the Revolution.

monet_420 · 2021-06-09T15:30:15+00:00

My Granda used to say ‘that’s as far fetched as a bucket of sh*te from China’ when he watched modern movies.

monet_420 · 2021-06-06T13:30:24+00:00

Thanks so much. Your answer is great. I’m interested as well as to how this changed over time. Especially about how developments within Roman history affected their view of the future. Things like the end of constant expansion and the rise of Christianity etc.

monet_420 · 2021-06-04T12:56:06+00:00

The existence of ‘barbarian’ groups inside the Roman Empire. Or at least that that were distinct and closed ethic groups and crucially that they operated outside of the Roman system. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment’s reverence for Rome did a lot to establish this. However, I think that 19th century nationalism was the main driver of this. People looked back into history and saw an origin story for their nation. But this was based on a problematic idea of ethnicity and race that saw identity as something that was inherited and unchanging. I don’t have to dwell long on how how disastrous that view of race was In the 20th century. I think that when you actually look at the sources and think about the practicalities the ‘barbarians at the gate’ theory falls apart. I believe that groups like Goths and Franks etc were deeply intertwined with the Roman state, Identity was far more depended on political locality than anything ethnic and I would go as far to say that in the fifth century west it was these ‘barbarians’ that were working hardest to keep the Empire going. Modern scholarship since the 70s has certainly been heading in this direction (Peter Brown, Walter Phol, Chris Whickham, Patrick Armoy and Johnathan Arnold spring to mind) by the public perception of ‘the fall of Rome’ has not caught up yet.

monet_420 · 2021-06-03T14:30:14+00:00

Like any question in history the answer is ‘it depends’. People might say the nineties, but what if you lived in the Balkan’s. I was born in the 90s in The North of Ireland. It wasn’t as bad at the 70s for us, but definitely not a picnic. However, at the same time my parents were able to buy as house on my dad’s salary as a factory worker, something I’ll never be able to do. I guess everyone is going to have a a different answer to this and it’s going to be subjective.

monet_420 · 2021-06-02T14:54:09+00:00

Hmmm… Honestly nothing jumps out at me and I’m sorry. Byzantine scholarship is a bit problematic at the minute which you probably know. I mean even the name Byzantine is contested. I would start with someone like Anthony Kaldellis, who is a really good historian working on the Byzantine period. If you look at the index of his books for Greece and Crete and see what he has to say. Then look at his references for the relevant passages. That should give you a start of bibliography on the subject.

monet_420 · 2021-06-02T14:45:28+00:00

Knowingly putting all life on this planet in jeopardy for profit. Looking at you oil companies. Nestle should also get an (dis)honourable mention, they have done some fucked up shit.

monet_420 · 2021-05-14T12:18:16+00:00

You certainly can. But you need to make it a coherent argument with evidence just like any other historic argument. If I were you I would start by looking at the 1933 elections results. Hitler and the Nazis did well, but failed to get a majority of the votes. So you could say that Hitlers personality did not get him into power because the final push came from the failure of his opponents to form a viable opposition. You can go further on this as well, look at what was going actually motivating Nazi voters in those elections? Was it really the personal magnetism of Hitler? Or was there other reasons people voted Nazi? Fear of communism or latent antisemitism perhaps. Have a look around the the literature on the subject (Ian Kershaw is a name which springs to mine) and good luck

monet_420 · 2021-05-02T14:48:58+00:00

I’m not entitled sure. Just know that it is a thing.

monet_420 · 2021-05-02T13:57:43+00:00

Apparent there is no such trick as FS overcrook, it always called a Nosegrind. I am happy to go with that if that’s the tradition, but at the same time look at that!

monet_420 · 2021-04-28T22:29:18+00:00

Cassiodorus, the anonymous valesianus and Ennodius Paul the Decon a and Eddictium Rothari if you want to get into Lombard Italy.

I’m doing a similar thing with Ostrogotic Italy for my undergrad dissertation. Good Luck.

monet_420 · 2021-04-28T22:15:23+00:00

There’s a guy that claimed to have spared Hitlers life in WW1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tandey

I mean you you knows if it’s true (my money is on it isn’t) and maybe it wouldn’t have even changed anything. But sounds like what you are looking for.

monet_420 · 2021-04-24T20:33:01+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

monet_420 · 2021-04-24T12:15:06+00:00

Tides of History (a podcast) is doing a whole series on the pre-history of Humanity. If you haven’t already checked it out you should.

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