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  • bedwyr@piefed.catomemes@lemmy.worldThis changes everything
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    3 hours ago

    To their credit, I believe the Chinese did at one point make powder charged darts shot out of bamboo or something, but they never went farther.

    The Mongols were some of the first to use guns. Not a lot but they had a few auxillary units of them under Kubli Khan. Idk cannon and rockets were used earlier I think though by others.

    The reason the west beat them to guns seems that China was always one country, they had a lot of unrest always, but they could put it down easy enough.

    Meanwhile europe and the near east were made up of myriad nations constantly at war for thousands of years. So they had to one up each other in a constant arms race.

    As money is the sinews of war, making money was also an arms race, hence the corporations and colonial trade and the like.














  • I am not speaking of preserving this federal state, but a new federal state, in line with the constitution and all of it’s amendments, which honestly is a decent framework and better than anything we could hope for if we started new at this point in time.

    The feds have ursurped power year over year, they aren’t supposed to be doing almost any of what they are doing according to the constitution, and all laws contrary to that are illegal and unefnforceable, according to that highest law.

    The feds are supposed to handle international relations, trade, and interstate commerce. But they are forbidden from enacting barriers to trade within the states or movements of people. That’s about it.

    The States obviously need their own restorations to their constitutions and that of the United States.

    Plus practically, you won’t get support for an overthrow and new system. You can get support for a restoration, which amounts to the same thing in most ways.




  • Especially so with the norse mythology, the gods are like people that have achieved magic and immortality. Too bad celtic and gaulic and germanic and the rest of the barbarian mythology has mostly been lost to history because they weren’t given to letters. Which is the definition of a barbarian tribe according to some, if they wrote shit down.


  • I am no expert but missed that part, I recall zeus himself taking the form of animals to bang mortal woman more than once, and Hera’s vindictive changing into a fly was it, flying in a woman’s ear, then going person again and exploding their head? I probably got that story wrong.

    Did Zeus or his kids or brothers fuck actual animals themselves?