Fair. I loved the book, great pseudohistorical relation. What bugs me the most is that Martin can’t ever finish book 6 of Asoiaf, and books 4 and 5 (especially 4) were pretty weak, and he suddenly wrote something like the Fire and Blood, proving he is not burned out, just fucking lazy bum.

Funnily enough, House of Dragon was better, but the hype was way less because the book it’s based on is much less popular.

May i present you the idea of “cartel”?

You should read Lenin’s “Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism”, you’re like 2 steps from it, just in this moment you try to turn back the clock instead of looking forward.

Correct, except smaller pyramids, those were also for the kings only, workers building pyramids had their own cementaries iirc.

But knowledge of this fact actually makes this meme even more relatable - the people in it were closer to wage slaves like us.

That’s Soviet MBV-2, two were made in Kirov manufacturing plant in Leningrad in 1936-37, though i guess the transformation of one of them into a Thomas was post war development (second one is preserved in museum).

You also intimated that MLs simply “haven’t discovered social democracy”

This is especially completely hilarious for anyone actually reading even a wiki page and knowing that the the most historically important M-L party, CPSU, was originally named literally Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and that all marxists called themselves social-democrats for a decades, until the bulk of them betrayed the working class and supported imperialism in WW1.

Yes

Also I think something very similar happened in the 3 Body Problem trilogy at some point

Trisolarians apparently at some point formed a computer out of the members of their species in order to try to predict the Chaotic Eras, it was presented as experiment to the humans in trisolarian VR game, that was very close to the beginning of the book.

Yeah they are still on it, just 3 day ago i encountered one of them here on lemmy, and i’m not even active here.

4chan and their offshoot nazi spaces. It’s not entirely apropriated by them but it’s incredibly popular, there were shitholes like r/frenworld which sit all day and made fascist dogwhistles with pepe and clowns (and clown pepes).

Considering some babies i know, it’s still failure after 50+ years…

Rothbard moment

Do remember that even Alexander the Great lost an army once because he took the wrong way.

Mmo irl

It’s Andorra! GREATER ANDORRA!

In dealing with business i prefer sickle. And hammer.

This is impossible under capitalism, scalping at necessities always happen.

It’s a nerd place for nerd groups and the only thing it shows is who manage to gather the highest number of most terminally online people.