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>no hooves<War of all against all edition<Gunpowder Treason DayKing James VI & I movie:https://www.bitchute.com/video/PPRUFSGdI22n/>>750603>When it comes to the cost of human life and the spoils of war, while most people like to shoulder the blame on the elites, I think the lay people are just as compliant in it, but indirectly. People in the imperial core might protest and appeal to humanity, but they for the most part profit from it and would erupt much more violently if the flow of treats were taken away from the advantages of foreign conquest, so in a way conquerors take the spoils of war to appease their people and indirectly the people are compliant and enjoy it. They are for the most part apathetic to what horrible atrocities happen and will gladly eat the meat of prey like hatchlings opening their mouths for nourishment from their parent bird.Very true. In a way the performative protests in the imperial core even serve to help the war effort because it lends legitimacy to imperial core common people being noncompliant and separated from imperial crimes, which lets them cry of atrocity against the innocent when the invaded strike back(e.g. 9/11, Lod Airport attack), which provides further justification and moral highground for the war. Not saying that all Americans deserve to die or something, but they can't very well complain about attacks targeted at civilians when they themselves carry out such attacks with regularity. It's like a boxer hitting another boxer in the groin but then accusing him of breaking the rules when he throws a groinshot back.
>>752321This is not canon.
>>752321canonized in the mangaka's author's notes
>>753117>>753120>>753123Why do they need these huge ass empty spaces in front?
>>750596If you think about it Belarus is basically like modern day Melos, except they have nukes so they can tell the retarded imperialists to fuck off.
Minecraft anarchy servers and the way people treat Chris Chan seems like proof to me that human beings are not altruistic (lacking utter selflessness) and probably are motivated by self-interest.
It could be said these examples are primarily online: that most encounters in anarchy Minecraft result in being killed or that people can troll an autist for life doesn't reflect the reality.
TBH, my life experience fills me with doubt. Being an altruistic person is one way to alienate yourself from everyone around you.
The way GTA NPCs act is pretty realistic and accurate: where everyone on the street is kind of an asshole.
When it comes to race and /pol/, that also screams sheer egotism all around.
This point of view isn't really beloved in the traditionalist rightwing community (except the libertarians)–it is not very romantic or aesthetic–but sometimes I find it hard not to believe.
>>753219If they could, they probably would.
Belarus says this is characrteristic of America.
I think if any nation were a superpower, it would be so.
>>752317>what if I think monarchism doesn't go hard enough?Where do you think you are?
Yes, Graceposter likes Gaius Caligula and named Jill "Hot Cheeto" after his daughter.
I guess Western monarchy is sometimes offset with Christianity at times (which Graceposter is blackpilled about on occasion)–having remarked that the only authentic royalism known is Christianity in the West–it doesn't mean we have to look to the pharaohs when we have Gaius Caligula.
>>747064Chrysalis' Hive is a foil for Starlight Glimmer's Our Town.
Chrysalis' Hive is a community of pleasures and pains fully fulfilled far greater than Our Town, with a hive and changeling queen–this represents what Our Town could become and a warning to Starlight Glimmer about how her utopia could become dystopia with darker means to an end.
The throne represents her monopoly on force and absolute monarchy: that is why all the other powers are canceled out.
It's said that love is an infinite possession to be spread around, but material is finite and cannot satisfy the hunger of Changelings. –Hobbes would probably say the latter, that the hunger of Changelings can never be satisfied.
Maybe there's more to it than that, but it could just be a generic evil bug queen with a generic love vs hate theme for a children's show–I'm looking too far into it, lol.
>>758214Something I have to disagree with that video about is that immaterial riches don't become less the more you share it–friendship IMHO means less the more friends you have and the same with love and other things.
I can feel the love inside me slipping away-Thorax
>>758639The epitome of our calling it "fake monarchy" is they only want the monarch to be pronounced by the honors of his estate like
>>744400>Wherefore in well ordered Aristocratic (Oligarchic) and Popular Commonwealthes (States), the greatest honours are granted without power of command, and the greatest powers to command are not granted without a companion therein.>A great policy in Aristocratical estates to give unto him least power to whom they give the most honour.Which they try to do with some royalty, like with the HRE or Venice or Poland.
That is a kind of disguised oligarchism (& not monarchy) in the absolutist view.
Hobbes says fear is the main unifying passion:
William of Orange is an example of Machiavellian/Hobbesian themes–fear of Louis XIV & Catholicism crowns him.
De Witt brothers are cannibalized; he takes England with ease.
He rewards his followers for killing his enemies.
& Machiavelli says not to injure enemies, but to kill or maim those enemies so they don't come back–William of Orange did that with the De Witt brothers & Clan MacDonald–& rewarded the people who did it.
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Trump's foreign policy is mostly to take advantage of US allies because he knows US allies won't abandon US protection so long as the enemies are there, and Trump wants to negotiate with the enemies even–this helps with US expansion and solidifying US control over its vassal states.
Nothing is more useful to subjugating your vassals than fear of an enemy.
What would NATO be without fear of Russia? Or fear of European countries breaking into world wars without US hegemony?
What would US protection of the Sunni Gulf Monarchies be without fear of the Revolutionary Republican Anti-Monarchy Islamic Shia sect of Iran?
What would South Korea and Japan be without fear of North Korea & China?
USA right now is calling to capture Greenland, because of fear that China or Russia might take it later and offset NATO security.
In my experience, when defeat and the approach of an enemy is extremely close, people are willing to give so much–that is why war propaganda is so effective.
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When did Britain lose colonial America to the American Revolutionaries? –Just after it finally defeated France in colonial America.
Plato:
>If this fear had not possessed them, they would never had met the enemy or defended their temples and sepulchres and their country, and everything that was near and dear to them, as they did; but little by little they would have been all scattered and dispersed.
Xenophon Cyropaedia
>But none the less Cyrus was able so to penetrate the vast extent of the countries by the sheer terror of his personality that the inhabitants were prostate before him.
Thomas Hobbes
>That men who choose their Sovereign, do it for fear of one another, and not of him whom they institute: But in this case, they subject themselves, to him they are afraid of. In both cases they do it they do it for fear.
Fear unites people indiscriminately–if there was something that threatened your lives, I'm sure the most stubborn communist on /leftypol/ would unite with the most stubborn nazi on /pol/–kind of like that scene from Halo CE where the marines and aliens are dead together because of fear of the Flood.
From last I read the Stuarts still exist agnatically as nobles but they're not the royals anymore (obviously)
>>762648I'm not keen on the Stuarts coming back.
I kind of bicker at Catholic Jacobites pretending that Stuarts can come back–that's definitely not happening because their Catholicism destroyed the chance back then… I mean, they are glad these sacrifices were made… that a Stuart King stood his ground for his faith, but that comes at a cost… that the Stuart dynasty is gone.
Monarchists in general, esp. legitimatists, seem to me to just not really comprehend when it's over–and it's partially over because of their optimism that we should be too eager to overthrow a king, but assume that it is as easy to resume a king as it is to overthrow (no, it's not)–that King James II -deserves- the throne back by his lineage because he did the right thing, so it should be granted–the monarchists are keen to make a stand there as well and make sacrifices as if the costs don't matter, but when you sacrifice like that you truly must be taken as a sacrifice–it's not coming back, even if it deserves to be back.
>>762653Personally I would scrap the current monarchy of the UK as I find it, in various ways, uhh simply wrong.
>>762656On the subject of religion, I wish I could get closer to God..
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