With all due respect, you people the left have been screaming "Eat the Rich" for as long as you have been on God's green planet, but I have only seen two elites eaten so far, and that was in 1672.
If you want me to join y'all, put your money where your mouth is and go out and eat Donald Trump. Feast on his carcass on some Shaun of the Dead type shit.
Dry heaved a little at the thought of trying to eat Trump. He's apparently so repulsive to be around. The stench alone makes people gag. You didn't think of the smell!
A lone terrorist attack does absolutely nothing either, nor would the conditions change if trump died today.
1672? You forget about revolutions i guess, 1917 was one such year, with more that followed, and that WILL follow.
People need to prepare on the side of theory, read, study, learn from the mistakes of those before us and take victory.
Without an actual movement, strategy and union all that will result is but a recreation of the current conditions.
America is the enemy of the world's workers, of the proletariat, it is the hardest mountain to topple, as the center of command of world imperialism(fascism too), it's not impossible to create a proletariat state without the fall of the us empire, but it would be subject to constant attacks, be it economic or actual war.
Dude, that sat on his ass in Switzerland while everyone else did the heavy lifting, only to come back and grab power after the democratic government lost almost entire armed force because of a mutiny, and then made single party system that created one of the most brutal dictatorships in Europe? Yeah, sounds like he knew his shit!
Ah yes, relative peace. Like the Franco-Prussian War. Or the Crimean War. Or the two wars for Schleswig-Holstein. Or the Austro-Prussian war. Or the wars of Italian unification. Or all the colonial wars the participants had...
The Napoleonic wars were as bloody and Armageddon-adjacent as the First Great War was.
These conflicts and wars in the interim that you list were of such small scale, they may hold barely a candle to the utter devestation that was witnessed between the Human Lawnmower wars that saw the beginning and the end of the 19th century.
EDIT: Yeah, I recognize it is an entirely Eurocentric, and also ultimately contradicting perspective. The 19th century was definitely wild times.
1864.The devastation of the Taiping Rebellion was so great that certain Chinese provinces did not recover from the damage until well into the 20th century. It is believed that 20–30 million Chinese soldiers and civilians died during the war.
The Chinese are people, they just aren't people who participated in the Napoleonic Wars and therefore weren't fighting in them with the hope that the settlement from the conflict would produce a more peaceful future for their children, which is the point of the comic.
The comment you were replying to was talking about extended conflicts between great powers. The Taiping rebellion doesn't fall into that catagory, even if we generously assume 'great powers' doesn't mean the European great powers who actually fought the Napoleonic war.
Or you know, any war involving China. Like a rebellion caused by a dude thinking hes Jesus's cousin killed more people than all of the Napoleonic wars.
Franco-Prussian war has around a million dead, that's a 3rd to 6th of all the Napoleonic wars. If Prussia didn't kick Frances so hard if would've been much worse, to say its "tiny" is an insult to the people involved.
To my knowledge the Franco-prussian war has nowhere close to a million dead. Military deaths are estimated to sit around 160,000-200,000, and even if you lump in all the civilian deaths and deaths from incidental harms like epidemic illness, it barely cracks 500,000.
Seems more like European cultures fight a truly horrific war every century or two and then says, "Alright let's not do that again." Until the generational memory fades and suddenly they're right back to it.
The 30 Years War bought a century and a half of 'peace'. The Napoelonic wars bought a century. The world wars seem to have convinced most of Europe to swear off great power wars for the time being. But give it another half century and they'll be back at it.
To be fair I think it is not just that people forget about war, but that time naturally causes the balance of power encapsulated by the settlement established at the end of the previous conflict to slowly stray over time.
Conflicts arise from a combination of divergent perspectives and bargaining frictions, and both of those progressively accrue the further away one gets from the resolution of the previous conflict. In some cases like Britain incentive structures always favoured maintaining peace and the existing settlement rather than proactively seeking great power conflict, but in most cases great powers were willing to resort to force of arms earlier in the century, they just lacked the capacity to win by doing so.
Prussia in 1816 was unquestionably the least of the great powers at Vienna, and the settlement there reflected that status. By 1870 it is clearly at least among the first rank of the continental great powers, and the immediate post Vienna settlement no longer accurately reflects what they can expect to gain through war. This leads to the Wars of German unifocation and the Franco Prussian war, which establishes a new equilibrium, but the problem is the gains that Prussia has made through that equitable room then allow for further growth, such that the balance of power tipped further in its favour, leading it to raises demands again by 1914.
Prussia was willing to threaten War all the way back in 1816 to try and improve its bargaining position at Vienna, but it was forced to back down because it lacked the coercive power to improve its settlement in the face of resistance from Austria Britain and France. What changed was less their moral willingness to fight, and more their capacity to win.
It's weird how folks are more concerned about some nebulous "demographic crisis" thats 50 years away than a very real climate crisis that we are facing now and is made worse by every additional human put on the planet
I am worried, because I live in a country with already shit demographic situation. My life leaves pretty much minimal carbon footprint, because I already use reusable shit, ride on public transport.
There is no crisis, we have over 8 billion humans. The economic crisis is not on you, the growth ponzi-model is insane, you can't fix it by shooting uterus canons at it.
There are 8 billion people, but native population of my country is shrinking. There are at least 2 or 3 reasons for that: war, economic situation, quality of life
War is obvious
Economic: 32 USD for 3 months of metro rides
QoL: internet limitations, general stress. A lot of shit
I have no problem with Africa and Indians, but I know that my country has problem and I know that I will not even try to help solve it in any way
the world is brutal, chaotic and tends to solve issues with violence.
that is the baseline of evolution and life for well..forever.
and humanity has done a fuck ton to improve the situation, former generations again and again gave their blood to improve conditions because they knew the alternatives first hand.
it is only this generation that does so well, is so well fed, has most luxuries ppl in former times could only dream of that they rather immerse themselves in nihilism then actually go out and fight the good fight, which always was and always will be nessecary
If you wanna be technical Palestine “started” the current war in Israel, in order to improve their conditions cause Israel was being evil and oppressive. There absolutely is times when starting a war is necessary to improve conditions
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u/Ebony_Phoenix 4h ago
Something Something war never changes Something Something war has changed Something Something what is it good for?