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1. kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:52:27 JST kuteboiCoder

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
   • Angry Sun

   @icedquinn@blob.cat @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
   
   That's just American exceptionalism and frontier society at play. America is free-ish because the founding stock encountered no formal military hierarchy, at all, from then enemy camp when they conquered this land. That's why they believed in low taxes and unregulated markets.
   
   North America is exceptional because it was the final hunter-gather society that gave way to agrarianism. All others had given way thousands of years ago in the bronze age collapse.

   • kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:52:25 JST kuteboiCoder

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     • Angry Sun

     @icedquinn@blob.cat @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
     
     Edgey libertarian?
     
     The competing interests between the warrior caste and the merchant caste is nothing new. It's easy to say "well, the warriors just stab us with pointy things and the merchants bring us shiny baubles, so clearly the former are stealing value from the latter."
     
     That mentality itself is a form of modernist degeneracy; our Bronze Age ancestors didn't believe this. When the first crops were cultivated, they understood their harvest depends upon their ability to retain possession of their land, and that they have a collective responsibility to support their warrior class.

   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:52:27 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • Angry Sun
     @KuteboiCoder @sun @lanodan some of these people aren't american. the italian loved obedience and laws, the south african was like :neocat_gun:
     
     i've noticed serfs tend to have really poor understanding of logistics and complex thoughts, too. if you ask them to break down how things work they struggle to understand everything a state does is under threat of violence, and get antsy to change the topic quickly.
   • kuteboiCoder (kuteboicoder@subs4social.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:53:01 JST kuteboiCoder

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     • Angry Sun

     @icedquinn@blob.cat @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
     
     When the bartering economy first emerged from the agrarian economy, people high and low understood that being a professional barter-er was a privilege, not a right.
     
     Making a living as a barterer depended upon having friendly relations with our tribe's chieftain, and the neighboring tribes' chieftain as well. If the neighboring chieftain says "I want one tenth of your surplus shells, from trading with my kin, each harvest season" it is well within his rights. And well within his rights to banish you from his realm if you don't comply.