MassiveStallion
MassiveStallion t1_j6f92n6 wrote
Fines really need to be percentage based on net worth. But obviously we'll never get that in a plutocrat controlled environment.
MassiveStallion t1_j4w3nhm wrote
Reply to Tucker Carlson guest dresses as trans teacher with giant prosthetic breasts to ridicule Ontario school drama by Downingst
Self-hating trans traitor goes on Republican TV show to expose themselves while exploiting school teacher for a scape goat.
News at never.
Woman can have large breasts. Especially ones that are bigger and heavier. While the teacher's dress in the picture is probably inappropriate, this is just another strain of criminalizing and controlling women's bodies.
It's easy enough to tell the teacher to wear a thicker bra and frumpier clothes, it's pretty fucked up to expose them as trans and blow it up all over TV and then use it as an excuse to jump out of the closet in your own fetish gear.
MassiveStallion t1_iuctdqd wrote
I think the fact is Ye has been antisemitic for years and the music industry has been hiding it or at least managing him to keep it quiet.
But then the right wingers came out and enabled him to say these opinions in the bright light of day and turned him into their puppet. So he's chosen to go the Trump route because he thinks he can be the next president
MassiveStallion t1_irhotvi wrote
Reply to comment by khaddy in Did the first crusade impact significantly the war-making capacity of states like england, west and east francia? And did later crusades impose equal burdens, or was the distribution of this burden different for the 2nd and 3rd crusades? by Qazwereira
Yeah. The idea of a crime syndicate can only realistically exist in an area of laws.
If it's just kind of a no man's land like France was back then, it really is just kings and kingdoms.
Your traditional godfather style mafia family is a feudal power structure in of itself, with the Don at the top, sons as heirs and the Commission being like embassies of different kingdoms.
What makes them a mafia or criminals is that they exist inside of an existing nation with laws that outlaw them.
This is a time when 'crime' in the way we think of it honestly wasn't even a thing.
MassiveStallion t1_irhgz9i wrote
Reply to comment by khaddy in Did the first crusade impact significantly the war-making capacity of states like england, west and east francia? And did later crusades impose equal burdens, or was the distribution of this burden different for the 2nd and 3rd crusades? by Qazwereira
To be fair the concepts of crime syndicates, crime and mafias are after feudalism.
"The mafia" doesn't really exist without 'the law" and the modern idea of 'the law' doesn't really exist without literacy or policemen.
In a time before laws were written, before police existed, an entity like mafia would essentially be the police. Who else was there? You'd have a nobles guards but those are more of a simple military force than people who investigate theft, murder or whatever.
The idea of a serial killer doesn't even exist until the 1910s because frankly no one actually cared or bothered to keep track of murders.
MassiveStallion t1_ja8wiac wrote
Reply to comment by The69BodyProblem in Anti-war partisans in Belarus claim to have damaged Russian plane | Belarus by Caratteraccio
Drones have limited payloads and are usually one use.
The obvious counter is super all around heavy armor. Not to mention human wave tactics.
"Next guy picks up the rifle" is surprisingly valid with drone attacks. Frankly it's easier to swarm with lightly armed and poorly trained infantry than to build a done.