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Someone gonna rp a clumsy mage whose house has everything sticking out of the floors and walls and floating upside down! ^-^
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... I've never heard of you before but, are you the tooth fairy?
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Man - such a difference between the replies to this post here vs over on Twitter!
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Judging from what I'm seeing, I don't think *anybody* has finished Feb's trading post track : P
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(good movie though!)
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(You'll notice if you need to go to the bathroom like I did - I've never been so grateful for an intermission in my whole life...)
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... sure, "Trunp," why not.
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Trunp's alone, says something - you ask "have you okayed this with Elon Musk?"
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I would genuinely prefer not to be in a neighbourhood, I like the idea of having a house out on its own somewhere in the world.
I'll still likely enjoy their housing system, but was hoping for something a bit more like this.
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The state should be fiscally responsible, but has the welfare and defense of millions it has to watch out for - not to mention international diplomacy.
Modern ways of running businesses frequently behave with a slash-and-burn mentality. If you slash-and-burn the state, people get poor and die.
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One needs to analyse with care.
It'd be difficult to interpret it honestly, today, now that Trump's in charge and folks' answers will be affected by current moods rather than honest appraisal just after the election (or, better, if done before), but seems like it'd be pretty useful nonetheless.
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The people who *do* accept how truly wrong they were are typically those who were dissidents during the worst of it - folks who often ended up in jail. They become important in the post-war reconstruction, while the masses of still semi-believers act quiet and try not to talk about it much.
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What I've read about them, or similar (like post-war Japan), is a mixed reaction leaning towards not accepting how truly wrong they were.
People hem and haw and awkwardly admit to some mistakes, then say "Hitler had some good ideas but, you know, that's all in the past now."
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(I didn't mean to post the wikipedia article in both posts, that's odd. Oh well)
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(...) the wikipedia article, which cites quite a few sources besides. It primarily discusses the generality of the killings in the "Early Outbreak of Violence" section, and sometimes specifically mentions some Anarchists as perpetrators.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ter...
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I directly mentioned Antony Beevor's history - I can't see how he'd be considered unreliable, especially since I first heard of him through the autobiography of the Anarchist Albert Meltzer, who spoke approvingly of Beevor's honest depiction of the Anarchists.
Beyond that there's always(...)
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War's a cruel thing, and revolutions tend to be bloody, I'm afraid.
(Been a while since I read it too, but Antony Beevor's history of the Spanish Civil War is an excellent source, if you've not read it before)
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Especially in the opening days of the Civil War, gangs affiliated with every party and political tendency rode out, abducted, and killed political opponents (along with some basic criminal killings). The Anarchist leaders called for it to end after a while, but Anarchists did it too.
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It was actually a militia attached to the POUM, a Trotskyist party.
He did talk a good bit about the Anarchists, though, and generally liked them. Organisationally, it's possible the POUM militias may have been similar to the Anarchists' (though I'm unsure).
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It's been a while since I read this stuff regularly, but I don't recall much in the way of not following orders with the Makhnovschina - especially since Makhno, himself, had a fervent following.
I think it had more to do with the Red Army three times bigger than Makhno's.
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I don't believe Orwell fought directly with the Anarchists, though he had a good opinion about them in Spain, at least.
The POUM was actually a Trotskyist party - Communist, but not Stalinist, so when the Stalinists gained the upper hand the POUM was wrecked.
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[...] fail a purity test folks rub their noses in it - sometimes Anarchists' fault themselves as they, too, over-emphasise this purity not infrequently. But non-Anarchist civil society runs differently than their military society, so why wouldn't Anarchists when at war too?)
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Of course, that's only when forces are Anarchist-lead.
When Anarchists have fought in traditional armies, the answer is... they simply do what everyone else does as there's no option otherwise.
(I know people get incredulous about stuff like this. Every time an Anarchist is perceived to [...]
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Anarchists have traditionally simply elected their officers, and it's generally expected that they need to follow orders in the heat of battle as a matter of survival. They may discuss broader strategy at other times, but once a resolution is made, people are expected to stick with it.
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Very much so, this thread.
Another issue to the "I just realised they did awful things, so their art is now awful" is the quiet flip-side assumption that if someone makes good art, they're morally good. People see talent and it blinds them to wrong-doing, they refuse to accept it.
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Nice - Suramar was the most interestingly designed city WoW had ever seen, so this is a really promising comparison.
Ever since Suramar, the city design in WoW has been pretty great, honestly.
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The fella in the video I linked? I'm afraid he's actually stepped down from this - though his wife's taken over and she's really good too!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM6j...
Assuming I'm not confused, I believe y'all are talking about this strike - and this video explains why people are countering your point.
tldr: Biden (and Sanders) worked for months afterwards to get the workers a win.
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Sometimes when I save I just name the file some kind of hint about what I was going to do - "FORTIFY AGAINST NW JERKS" or somesuch.
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My understanding is that they are legal in Canada - but you can't import one unless it's at least 15 years old, which is why you'd see them only rarely.