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  • There wasn’t really any challenge to it because of the absolute nature of the states control and the concept of human rights not really being a thing at that point to n history. The most powerful oppositional forces to the feudal lords were mainly the clergy originally, although they had many shared interests, and eventually the mercent class who was cosmopolitan and traveled and grew up in better circumstances.

    Under feudalism around 20% of the population was considered nobility and the rest were peasents, serfs, or coloni. Nobles generally owned all the land and businesses and sometimes had political rights or fiefdoms which were like property that could be passed down.

    Medieval societies often used torture, execution, and abuse as well as religious brainwashing to control their subjects. The nobility also guarded knowledge about war and currency and other things, like reading to oppress the subjects who worked the land.

    Taxes were generally low. Around 20-25% of their crop. The rights of serfs varied from region to region.

    Really the biggest adversary to feudalism was other feudal lords, then the clergy, and at times conspiracies of finance and empires. The feudal kingdoms often aided each other in giving asylum to war criminals or relieving each other from riots, or trying to install friendly nobles in neighboring areas. They often intervened to put back into place other monarchies when they were overthrown.




  • Nationalism is anticorporate if you do it correctly. I am by no mean a fascist, (I’m trans) and I have moderate views on immigration. Also you can just ban the stock market and the collective ownership of companies and also limit their limited liability and go to a hard, Inflation proof currency to plug up the other holes. Corporations cannot compete with small businesses without lobbying for lower tax rates then the working class and relying on low interest loans to buy assets and brands which artificially boost their value in the speculator markets. What I’m asking for is a real free market, where corporations and the people pay the exact same tax rate, so it’s fair for everyone. This alone would bring in a good bit more revenue for the state and also simply taxes by getting rid of the micro taxation and property taxes on single property owners and stuff.

    Right now Blackstone is holding 60,000 properties in the U.S market, and somehow are paying little property tax on that while working class people who have seen their wages desitigrate over the past 20 years are paying 10s of thousands in property taxes in many cases.

    We have the power to nationalize things like the real estate market through wise tax policy, if we choose and this would actually take a ton of pressure off the working class. Just that alone could free up hundreds of dollars/pounds per month for many workers. It could get the average age of buying a first home back down below retirement ages.





  • Hmm, so I have thought about this for a while.

    There isn’t a ton of reason to think aliens are here.

    1. The main reason, is because of how things are. Things are rough and chaotic. Our leaders don’t seem to even see 5 years into the future. The world is very exploitative. It’s very arbitrary. It just doesn’t make much sense to think that some powerful mind is in control of it. It doesn’t seem planned. It seems like a bunch of hairless monkeys that live short lives developed technology a few people ago and are stumbling through everything.

    2.Aliens if they have the tech to visit earth. Are very likely to be post scarcity, and to have less competitive ideas. The values of our leaders do not align with the idea of aliens at all at least in all likelihood.

    3.Anyone who isn’t a child or short on intelligence probably realizes that everything on TV and the internet is pretty much a lie, intentional or not. Humans barely know anything about anything as it has always been, and the world is very much controlled by the upper class of wealthy people.

    There is maybe a shred of reason to think they may be here. One is that life on earth has continued for many billions of years, which is amazing when you really think about it. The conditions required for life to perpetuate are quite narrow.

    Another piece of evidence is virtually all of human history for many thousands of years revolves around extremely religious people and magic and all this stuff.

    Another thread of reason is simply the logic of the Fermi paradox, we know there is likely at least hundreds of thousands of intelligent life forms in the galaxy alone, probably more like millions or billions.

    So if they are here, they probably don’t want any contact with anyone or very few people. I don’t think politicians and rich people would be of interest to them. It’s also possible that they are so far beyond us in development that communication or acknowledgement of existence isn’t even something they care to establish. I mean what good does it do an ant to know humans exist? Mostly just makes them long for things they are not going to get from us. Even though we could give ants everything they want, we just don’t feel the desire for whatever reason. Maybe they judge us by our own level of empathy? They treat us like we treat lower animals?

    This still doesn’t line up well with the apparent chaos of reality, however, if they had a secret agenda, it becomes more possible, just also not all that likely. There isn’t anything on the planet that would ever be of value to them except maybe the fruits of human knowledge of culture.



  • Well sure there isn’t a physical thing like class. It’s just an abstraction that we as humans came up with but I like the idea of owning (not indebted) a home, which to me signifies middle class. This is mainly because it gives you a lot of sovereignty. You can choose not to work continually, if the market doesn’t pay a fair rate. You expenses are relatively low and controllable, since you don’t have taxable income and you can survive, even retire in this ideal society.

    These days that’s very difficult with inflated asset prices, fiat currency, property taxation of the common people and things like that.

    Yes my definition isn’t anymore or less true then anyone else’s because class isn’t something that exists, but personally this is how I see it. I only think in terms of working class when it comes to labor law versus business and stuff. It doesn’t have much use to me outside of thinking about workers rights. Most more left leaning people that I’m aware of these days don’t particularly care about workers and stuff much these days. They care more about things like welfare or equality which to me isn’t really a working class issue so much as a low class issue. I’m not anti welfare by any means. I just don’t think I have every heard like an American Democrats professional or not, advocate for giving workers time off, or protecting their wages from excessive taxation or forced profit sharing or anything like that.

    America isn’t a right wing or left wing system. Democrats are mostly right wing and mostly liberals, they are also hard capitalists. The Republicans are mostly alt right and borderline to full blown Nazi. Workers come nowhere in the equation of political parties or the average worker. Most democratic and Republican voters seem to be mostly interested in building a massive surveillance state, rent capitalism via high taxation on the poor and low taxation on the rich, controlling each other, controlling speech and ideas. This is what most Americans for the past few decades regardless of party has found important enough to vote in. If you want someone to care about the working class you will probably have to somehow get your average American to stop being obsessed with spying on everyone in their society first because that is way higher on your average voters priority list.








  • The issue is that almost zero phones have custom roms available, and android is just a bad operating system to begin with. It’s designed much more around tracking rather than something like a server. You can’t do basic things like close programs or uninstall software or even choose how the memory is used. Basically unusable as a server for anything other than a toy. If you do find a ron for your phone somehow, it will suffer from many of the exact same issues. No closing apps, no access to the networking layers, massive security flaws due to a chaotic software landscape.