demeritum

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[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Its Guatemala not Nicaragua. The Collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America continues to doom the region however.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Isnt he part of the government that came into power after coup by the us against Khan?

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

The Haiti treatment does prove adequate in hindsight. Regardless, the strategy has been winning over hearts in the west, which isnt always the best course of action.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

Yeah a lot of "greening the desert" headlines are actually about regreening former areas that used to be green like 100-400 years ago. Like large parts of the Sahel were lost to the Sahara, even in like 17th century there were european reports about kingdoms that are now lost to the sands. The Kingdom of Yam is an famous example from ancient egyptian times.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Honestly it depends on the country. Many european kingdoms like Germany, Poland or Great Moravia were more like consolidated tribal confederations at first, so the King was more closer to "first among equals" and only firmly controlled "his" tribal base. In cases like England or Castile where there was massive land redistribution (Reconquista & Norman Conquest) it was closer to what you said. Carolingian Feudalism also worked that way, where aristocrats where more like viceroys or mangers with their lands being "easily" revoked if run afoul of the King - back then most peasants were also free farmers and not serfs.

Absolutism was then the transitional state towards modern capitalist nation states. It saw the rise of like the principles of "the states does things" and territorialization with things like border patrol or the idea of a closed space constituting a country.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

“taking resources isn’t a colonial endeavor”

I said only part of it. You know I would have loved to engage in your argument if you did not immediately created a strawman to tear down by yourself.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes they did in their brexit episode years back, I think it was something along the lines about the EU "beating greece up" which scared the UK into leaving or something.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

People kinda forgot that medieval people couldnt just constantly rely on the lactate-carnist duploly and had several alternatives now considered "trendy" "chemical" products.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

Its common in a lot of media. One or two figures become the face of "the game" or "who wrote bestelling show" or "made x movie".

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

Edward S. Herman, who isn’t in the files

The files arent even everyone who potentially had any ties to Epstein.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 22 hours ago

popularity among non-socialist figures

It says a LOT about that thing, when leftist/socialist media/personalities/literature/theory becomes popular in such circles.

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