This has been the problem with violence specialists throughout time, and on the macro level I think is part of the much bigger question, "how do we make male subcultures do pro-social things"
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This has been the problem with violence specialists throughout time, and on the macro level I think is part of the much bigger question, "how do we make male subcultures do pro-social things"
There are also citations of books in my older comments
The timeless Italian men know the fabric weight
The difference between you and me is I know that what I study is the worst thing in the world.
You don't really believe this, you've backed yourself into it because otherwise that would be to concede ground
You do your research on Facebook mediated blood feuds which IN YOUR OWN PAPER you say are unjust to women and people without social clout. Now you are claiming that this is a system which should replace the way the USA does things
I never exaggerate
(The concrete justice system being proposed here as a model for the US is a system of ritualized blood feuds among nomadic Bedouin tribes)
people want to portray conservatism as inherently anti-intellectual, anti-art, but historically that's obviously not categorically true. contemporary american conservatism really sort of is uniquely dumb and tacky.
My Liberalism is that there is no ending, there is no fixed goal, we always can improve, we'll always need to improve, and the work never ends and neither do the dividends from the work. No gods, no masters, no teleology.
This is also what they think about war
One of my favorite exchanges is when a Jew says “there’s a lot of antisemitism out there” and someone replies “I haven’t seen a single example!”, clearly thinking that’s a comment on the Jew being a liar rather than on their own lack of vision.
Hello, I'm a postdoc at an American university, they send these things to every student because they want more people to apply
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Why did Gen Z males all hate Kamala with the fury of a thousand suns while believing that Trump was gonna personally make each of them rich I dunno what could possibly explain this it must be her neoliberal policies
precipitated the riot that destroyed the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées during the very first performance of Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps"
How many people in your real life that since 2018 have become really angry about America's global dominance or some crap. None. Now how many people do you know who have gone crazy from the Internet? I know plenty in addition to well known public figures like Musk or Rowling.
I call it the monks thesis
Bro has never heard of the Great Fear
Mario Kart prices normalized to 2025 dollars. Yes, video games were much, much more expensive in the 90s. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
And it's not even like there's an apparent consensus they're disrupting, there's a question right now of whether homicide rates dropped steadily from the middle ages through the early modern into the modern; or were low, then rose in the 1500s and 1600s, and dropped suddenly in the late 1600s
OP and his supporters, some of whom have done PhD work and should really know better, are treading into an intricate debate where there actually is quite a lot of evidence going YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE COOL? BLOOD FEUDS
What's interesting here is that historical standards of evidence are so different! Again, early modernists are discussing this, that's the history of epistemology
We know early modern cops investigated crime because judicial records are so copious www.amazon.com/Fragile-Live...
Anyways, if you ask me what's most likely, I'll go back to what I always go with
This is like a protestant telling me what the Bible is because if I don't like it, it must just be that I haven't heard enough I have
I know what you mean and it dates from at least the high middle ages. I am begging you to read even one book. I also know what police abolition is, I just disagree with it
All of the shit that's going on right now? It used to be MUCH worse
That's because both of your statements are true, society can't function without many things which are not perfect and therefore can be improved Did you think we think society is perfect
Vaccines are late medieval, police are high medieval
Two choices, a monopoly on violence or a competitive violence market.
That's not even true, Italian berovarii do all that
I wish we got that instead of the actual thing, that would have slapped
See those guys beneath the allegorical women, with spears and shields? Cops
This is the kind of thing that people repeat from academics (who are specifically referring to police as armed full time agents of the state integrating investigation, enforcement, and patrol obligations) but is not remotely true in the way the poster means it.
Sponks
Ironically he had some very subtle things to say that you could interpret as being about war fiction, I wrote a paper about this
Any good parody, in order to function, must also be a good example of what it makes fun of. This is why the only decent picaresques are Don Quixote and Candide
1. Where's it from, the Indians produce some extremely fine cotton 2. Long cotton or short cotton? There are multiple breeds of plant
I think violence specialists always have been like that, it's where soldiers / cops / bodyguards / criminals / nobles' households / fire / EMTs / martial arts clubs overlap. Insular, culty, homoerotic, and cruel. If I'm correct the challenge is finding a society where this doesn't happen
You and I are the side effect. The main point is military finance.
The attempt to get there generates modern society, but largely as a byproduct
Soldiers are also the only workers I know of (the only in society?) who are paid whether or not they are working at the time, so the outlay must be consistent to function. Early modern governments aren't there yet
It is usually expressed with the truism that "polities have enough money to raise an army, but not enough to pay them." Signing bonus and regular pay are different things
You don't "need therapy." You need to raise a regiment, and outfit it with scarlet flags with Our Lady on a background of flaming shells, motto: SVB TVVM PRÆSIDIVM
pope's from Chicago excuse me Chicago pope
I've said it before but the almost McCarthyst paranoia among the left looking for "Zionists" reminds me of neo-Nazis looking into "Early Life" sections of Wikipedia.
I believe we can create a country where people like this go to prison
our flag should be trashy as hell. gun cigar horse head titty type shit. we're from Jersey baby and you're not
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
"It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Post a meme made by you
He's fundamentally benign
Honestly Trump being too old & sick to talk to reporters serves my purposes almost as well as him kicking it. "What if Trump was president & it wasn't any fun" is a pretty good summary of why the press hated COVID & I am very happy to bring that back
Loomer is the high priestess of a cult which worships blood sacrifice and body modification grotesquerie; whispers around town say that it's not the surgeries that are why the cultists look that way, but something deeper and more sinister
He's been with men, and it's canonical
If this is indeed Taylor Lorenz's actual voter record profile, it would help explain why she inherently detests Democrats so much despite being listed as an inactive voter.
thank you for giving Morty attention. it convinced him to sit under his rock like this which I've never seen him do.
there he is. that's him.
>>>"can't stop me from doing this" It's kind of sad that you think your contribution to life should be being annoying
(in the early / high middle ages, that means knight)
On the other hand, wallenstein uses the same word for (forced) military contribution that is found in norman French. Where did he find it? No idea
This gets weird though. *soldarius* is used in England from the 1290s to mean military man as wage earning professional; by the 1600s they're *miles, milites* because everyone who knows enough Latin to be literate in it is also a huge weeb for the classics
How many of you guys remember who hitlers successor was without looking it up / being one of my irl friends
This is why entertaining conspiracy theories is so harmful, because that whole conspiratorial ecosystem is just rebranded antisemitic conspiracy theories, and once you start accepting one conspiracy theory as true, you're vulnerable to the whole universe of increasingly less disguised antisemitism.
Much like anti-vax on the right performative masking became a shibboleth on the left.
That literally happened, he stopped being racist and gave an award to the girl who integrated the school when he tried to stop her
About a dozen friends and colleagues (including one of the premier philosophers on the planet) have complained to me that ChatGPT 5 is a significant downgrade. I’ve had to explain delicately that they feel this way because they developed a parasocial relationship with a computer.
This is what Donald sees in every nightmare he's ever had
Sober wife makes another appearance.
Medical science: Ahaha we have invented tens of thousands of life improving and saving medications ahaha we are unstoppable Grapefruit:
Really seems like the dude is dying. Wish I could summon the post I made about this a few months ago but deleted after I was shouted down for “not understanding the elderly body.”
I would leave comments on random homemade websites like "are you for real" and of course they would be like "yes of course why do you ask" and it would go from there. This was not productive behavior.
Y'all ever have weird shit that happened online just pop into your brain for no reason? Today I remembered a guy on my world of Warcraft forum getting so mad he took a picture of him pointing a rifle at a printout of someone elses character's skill tree
I think this is an important and useful jumping off point! “man” can be in contrast to “woman” but it can also be in contrast to “boy”
Thank god they could put the speculation to rest with convincing proof of life that could certainly never be mistaken for a body hastily preserved with formaldehyde
This is just a plant by Big Editor and James is the big editor in question
Hello there. On the macro level the early modern period sucks ass because 3 kinds of changes are happening at once.
Taylor Lorenz is getting defended for boosting a Nazi by an awful lot of covid conscious accounts, so yeah, looks like she's become the entry point for introducing that crowd into the fash pipeline.
Been receiving messages like this all day, not because I said anything at all positive about the state of Israel or its actions, but because I dared to suggest that some people who think of themselves as being on the left are being radicalized to antisemitism in the name of anti-Zionism.
Oh yeah, and the entire practice is, I cannot stress this enough, immoral. War is more cruel between about 1450 and about 1710 than it ever was before or since. Yes, even including your favorite example.
However, the soldiers THEMSELVES use the same words that describe feudal obligations to describe this
As men with specialized training who perform services for wages, you should start thinking of "violence specialists" as a kind of artisan
Also, you're correct in concluding that what we call feudalism (medievalists don't use that word) isn't really used. It's salaried professionals who are recruited through existing social ties: first the nobles' households, then (as armies get bigger) regional knowledge
Normal plunder gets flipped for cash asap
They displayed that until after WW1, when Austria gave it back to Sweden as a gift in return for swedish Red Cross activity during the period of starvation after the war
This, again, is a special case, if you plunder a very important person you can present it to your overlord for clout, look at what the imperialists did with Gustav Adolf's buff coat.
Alexander is a special case because they're isolated
Wages. Armies are bigger than you think. Supply is handled THROUGH locals, the fouriers and quartermasters are contracting every baker in the vicinity. Food transportation also occurs but is less important because far more difficult
Long story short, it's soldiers' pay and, to a lesser extent, food and supplies
All of these are in crisis at the same time. The problem here is that armies got bigger more quickly than people's mental map for how to control them, or the social infrastructure for how to supply them
3. Changes internal to human systems that transmit from one to another dependently such as the global silver circuit
2. Changes internal to human systems that are happening to everyone independently, such as population growth and increasing complexity
1. Changes external to human systems that are happening to everyone in the same way, such as climate change
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