ah you thought I was merely a nationalist? You fool, I’m also a racist
You thought I was
, little do you know I am also Going from that guy’s first tweet to his second was like experiencing the moment a Terminator’s human skin-suit burns away.
This is like traveling back to the sengoku period of Japan and being like “wtf some people aren’t samurai?!”
Arguing with a peasant back then: What the fuck, you hate Oda Nobunaga?
Fascism is a backwards-looking ideology where you think everyone used to be a viking, as opposed to the forward-looking communism where in the future not all of us will spend our days in leisure writing poetry.
i’ll spend my leisure time pretending to be a viking (playing valheim)
Or the current Son Goku period and saying “They’re not all shredded and can fly?”
That’s what Capsule Corp airplanes are for.
wtf it’s just a bunch of peasants and girls and runty little kids?
it’s hard to understand why these people choose the fantasy in their head instead of learning the first fucking thing about anything
notice the phrasing. “Absolutely determined to make everything Rubbish”
‘You’re ruining my fantasy with facts. Stop disrupting my fantasy’
Anglo spotted for the use of Rubbish
It shouldn’t but it continues to blow my mind that adults think like this, and it’s the majority who do. How was there never a point aroind age 11 or 12 where these people noticed that pop history is simplified and that people in the past werent cartoon characters and lived equally complex lives to you or those around you? That kinda came to me as I realized that other people have their own internal thoughts just like I do and if people have lives and thoughts of theirnown now, everyone probably used to as well.
Plus why would you be interested in vikings if you dont wanna learn abkut em? What do you spend your Viking time on? Reading Hagar the Horrible and saying ‘hell yeah?’ cause that sounds fun but not really exploring an interest. I have this cool brain thing where I am compelled to either become an expert on something or not care about it whatsoever, I am a little weird that way, but the way people combine ignorance and enthusiasm just blows my fucking mind. Like, i’m a fairly smart cookie and a little brainweird, but people gotta meet me half way or admit they don’t know and arent curious about basically anything including their own supposed interests.
What do you spend your Viking time on? Reading…
You have made a critical error here
I can’t relate, the fantasy stops after I turn of Hoi4. We unfortunately and unjustly live in a timeline where Stalin stopped at Berlin and I gotta accept that
FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME STALIN DIDN’T STOP AT BERLIN
The Soviets took all of Berlin and continued to advance westwards until linking up with the western allies along the Elbe and Mulde Rivers, Stalin just later stupidly gave the perfidious French and Anglos their own section of Berlin after Yalta and Postdam
Huh, good to know.
Stalin shouldn’t have stopped in Potsdam
so they stopped at a slightly different place in germany?
Yes a completely different place than Berlin 100 miles further west, all of that extra land became part of the DDR, capitalist west berlin was surrounded by the DDR
thank you ClathrateG. we will do better
Thank you
Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Torgau
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that’s what idealism is. that’s why every idealist’s first concern is ensuring that all beliefs are treated equally, unless they might cause a change
“It is historical revisionism to suggest that medieval Scandinavians spent any time preserving fish.”
‘Most people were peasants and fishers’ is the historical constant.
Pretty much universally true until well into the 1900s
Overfishing really did a number on us fr
My LARP persona is a Viking trans woman who travelled to Constantinople and served in the Varangian guard. In Constantinople she met other trans women and gender diverse people (eunuch courtesans, eunuch advisors, eunuch bodyguards) and went “Oh I can actually just be a woman?”, so she used her loot to get castrated and sequester herself for a year drinking pregnant mare’s urine. Then emerged as a trans woman who works as a eunuch body guard for high status Byzantine ladies and as an bouncer at the bathhouse her courtesan friends work at.
She also just lies to cis people. When she meets other Vikings she’s like “Yo it’s totes normal in the Roman Empire to become a woman trust me” and when she talks to Byzantines she is like “Oh Vikings just do this all the time”
I wear Viking Women’s clothes but also a sword belt and sword.
I really liked Brian Wood’s Northlander comic where he used modern language for Vikings to make it relatable (and also because accented English is not realistic, they would have been speaking Norse and Greek etc). When the main character takes some loot and is like “Cool my girlfriend will like this” it’s relatable. I like the idea of a Greek/Eastern Roman trans woman sex worker being like “doll take your HRT” while passing a bowel of fermented piss to another girl.
Edit: I was like huh I better check Brian Wood’s wikipedia page as a mid-2000s comic book writer and there it is subheading “Accusations of sexual misconduct”. Why is it everytime?
I was like huh I better check Brian Wood’s wikipedia page as a mid-2000s comic book writer and there it is subheading “Accusations of sexual misconduct”. Why is it everytime?
Lots of abuse and bad people in the comics industry in general (Neil Gailman comes to mind), usually people just talk about when someone steals a character from someone else. Also, seems like the second lady was forced to delete her accusations bc she got a job on some show relating to a work of Brian Wood.
Neil Gaiman is the obvious and really bad one. But Warren Ellis has accusations (the comic writer not the musician different guys). But a quick google it’s also Brian Wood, Scott Allie, Jason Latour and Cameron Stewart
This was the experience of something like 90% of medieval swedes
Another transfem Swede with mouthful of fermented horse piss saying “oh ja it’s really common”
The end of nationalism feels harder to imagine than the end of capitalism oftentimes. At least in Europe it’s just that normalized as an ideal that you have your shitty little countries where people have to look and talk a certain way.
“Nationalism is an inbuilt human tendency”
Meanwhile the invaders that brought down the Roman Empire spoke a mix of German and Iranian
I bet this guy watched Vinland Saga thought season 1 was badass for all the wrong reasons, hated season 2 and completely missed the fucking point
Really funny actually, I didn’t finish season 1 of Vinland Saga because it was a bit gatuitous and non-stop with its violence. Came back for season two when I heard it got better lol
I’m glad you came back to it. I’m not a fan of gratuitous violence either but my “bad vibes” detector never went off while watching it which made me appreciate it more.
In fact, that show has greatly inspired some of my own writing.
nation = race race + ism = racism national + ism = ???
