I swear someone did this years back
ComradeSharkfucker
They/Them
“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Mark Twain
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ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
Greentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon thinks she's exaggeratingEnglish
16·20 days ago
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•am I late for this memeEnglish
3·23 days agoIncredible.
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
Greentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon isn't worried about population declineEnglish
20·1 month agoSpecifically, the peasants had more bargaining power for better conditions because the absolute decrease in their number made each of them more valuable to the ruling class as individuals. There was an increase in peasant revolts and concessions to the peasantry following the black death partly for this reason.
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•ontologically evil human beingEnglish
4·1 month agoPETERS, JULIE STONE. “Staging the Last Judgment in the Trial of Charles I.” Representations, no. 143 (2018): 1–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26504449.
This is the best I can find in regard to perspectives of King Charles I as an idolator. If there is an account of Cromwell directly accusing Charles I of Idolatry I couldn’t find it easily.
As for the rest I found this
His destruction of idols and statues largely happened in Ireland but also occurred in England source
As for closing bars, his administration did this but not all bars, just ones that were “unlicensed and disorderly” source
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•ontologically evil human beingEnglish
13·1 month agoA Taghut is someone who worships a deity other than the Abrahamic god. Christians would use the term idolater. It IS a stretch but Cromwell considered High Anglicanism (as advocated by Charles I) to be too close to catholicism which protestants considered idolatry. This was made worse by Charles I marrying a catholic. I can’t find a source where Cromwell specifically calls Charles I an idolator but he headed a socio-political movement that did.
I’ll get back to you with better sourcss later if I can especially regarding the other details. My partner was not appreciating my casual historical research during our movie lol
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•ontologically evil human beingEnglish
13·1 month agoPointing to specific instances of scientific development and religious interference with scientific development does not create an argument. You have to add analysis that places these examples within their respective historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts. Then use that to support a defensible claim.
Regardless, none of your examples address the core of my argument which was, to clarify, that investment in abstract sciences originates from specific economic necessities rooted in the dominant mode of production rather than ideological dispositions. The existing ideological perspectives surrounding scientific development form as political and social justification for the meeting of those material economic needs. Not the other way around.
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•ontologically evil human beingEnglish
161·1 month agoThe UK did not “discover” science and the Islamic world didn’t “turn their backs” on their scientific methods out of an ideological disposition as you seem to be implying. The decline of material studies (golden age specifically) in that region coincide with the increase of social inequality and resulting concentration of political and economic power in the hands of a small elite who had little interest in funding these pursuits on account that they were not strictly/directly “productive”. This, followed by the decimation of scientific institutions, records, and the regional economy generally at the hands of Mongol invasion made this trend effectively irreversible.
Under the Ottoman empire there was a relative resurgence in scientific studies as was necessitated by industry and military parity which, again, declined as the empire declined. The dissolution of the Ottoman empire after WW1 and subsequent consumption of its parts for the satisfaction of British and French imperial desires once again cemented this decline. The colonizer has no need for domestic scientific inquiry, they need resources and labor.
The various cultures of West Asia and North Africa did not “abandon” abstract scientific inquiry because islam made them irrational and backwards. Oppressed people simply have more direct concerns preoccupying them. Should we leave them the fuck alone they would have the time and money to invest in such things.
I would also like to note that the U.K. and other European nations developed the scientific method as a result of their advancing economic needs in regards to industrialization (of course only made possible by plundering the world) not because they just decided to be “rational people”
Your knee-jerk reaction to my insult of Cromwell, and following denigration of the modern people of West Asia betrays your racist idealist conception of the world and its people’s histories.
That’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong
My fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much
It IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itselfWrong
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•The Chad, lake stabilized, flood pattern vs the virgin, high sediment variable course, flood "pattern"English
8·2 months agoAdmittedly I thought the implication of Chad being the country was funny but I was referring to the Nile flood pattern being stabilized by its origin in lake victoria. I’ll fix the grammar to the best of my abilities lol
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•The Chad, lake stabilized, flood pattern vs the virgin, high sediment variable course, flood "pattern"English
4·2 months agoHuh, neat, I wonder why. I really gotta read more about Chinese “pre-history”
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPto
History Memes@piefed.social•The Chad, lake stabilized, flood pattern vs the virgin, high sediment variable course, flood "pattern"English
8·2 months agoThe Yangtze likely played a big role (In my poorly educated opinion). It’s far more reliable than the yellow river and likely provided a more stable ecosystem from which early people would learn to live with, and make use of, the yellow river despite its volitility.
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
History Memes@piefed.social•Looks like meat's back on the menu boysEnglish
6·2 months agoAdmittedly it is unlikely all of those people were eaten and none of the sources here are what we would call “good”.
Regardless I do think Zhang Xun was looking for a reason
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Polymarket's Rush to Grow Left a Door Wide Open for FraudstersEnglish
1·2 months agoLiterally no one could have predicted that a website allowing you to gamble on anything would lead to fraud
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
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ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
History Memes@piefed.social•The path to hell is paved with good intentionsEnglish
14·3 months agoI’m sure this will have 0 repercussions for the entire continent of Africa haha
ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlto
History Memes@piefed.social•Not a job I’d be signing up forEnglish
2·3 months agoI mean that entirely depends on when and where. Not every culture is guaranteed to have done this or something similar.



Found it link
It was in florida obviously