Just finished Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor. Unfortunately, didn't learn anything I didn't already know.
Starting Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World. Two chapters in and I'm already finding it very enlightening!
I haven't seen a Pixar movie in forever, but if they don't...
Center-left, if we are using those definitions for far-left and left, would probably be social democracy - ie a genuine attempt to redistribute wealth within the framework of a capitalist system.
Center would be Rhineland capitalism - attempts to make a capitalist system with basic controls and direction for the interests of the people or the state.
Center-right would probably be whatever the fuck incoherent shite America has been doing the past 100 years or so, where there's regulations and a welfare state but the government itself is constantly campaigning against them and shaming its users.
Right would then be the Reaganite trickle-down fever-dream where laws are a suggestion and the accumulation of wealth to the elite is an end in and of itself.
Thus putting far-right as outright fascism or ancapistan.
Not necessarily. Most people would have been nominally free, and most economic activity would have come from them.
"Americans are bombastic, arrogant, and tech-obsessed"
Americans: "it us fr fr 😭"
Yatagans are such interesting blades.
Probably not meant for actual use, though.
Just some details of an incident during the Korean War, using a Chinese propaganda cartoon (unironically very nicely stylized) that's popular on NCD to depict US troops as eagles.
Use the Fediverse link (the star) not the normal one (the chain) to get the url.
I've received several complaints about this. Whatever your opinions on non-sexualized nudity, it would be appreciated if you marked it NSFW simply to avoid the issue.