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  • I can totally see them as not a military. They are to science and diplomacy what the East India Companies were to capitalism. Sure they have a military structure and a militia role, but if anything they’re more like general purpose UN vessels. They need to be capable of military force because they’re the government’s ships, and because even beyond dealing with aggressive governments, they’re also responsible for peacekeeping missions and they’re off in unexplored places.



  • Redheads still have it rough, but it’s gotten a lot better over the years. In the US we still use “redheaded stepchild” to mean someone or something clearly unwanted and mistreated. Especially in the form of “to beat like a redheaded stepchild”












  • Capitalist ideology sees class as unavoidable and so it strives to make it meritocratic and unstable. This was a radical idea in an era of nobility or castes, but ultimately resulted in the merchant class basically seizing control of society.

    Communism strives to eliminate it entirely, but you wind up with some leaders being insincere or incapable of letting go of power. But you also have the fact that it’s difficult to completely eliminate class.