Couple considerations: what is a nation to do when it constantly is on the verge of civil war, hasnt had breathing room to get its feet under it after a political revolution and is beset by brand new, world power level enemies doing everything they can to make sure your new nation fails?
Followup: when has this not been the case for a new communist nation? How many coups has the US backed? How many times did we try to assassinate Castro? Vietnam?
Finally: what does it look like when none of the above is true?
We tend to think of nations in a vacuum, but they exist along side each other and they have people like us inside them. Stupid, greedy, lying, shitbags that are full of empathy, love and curiousity, just like us. That makes them messy by definition, but its easy to forget.
You've got it, really. The difference between stalin and hitler is largely one of rhetoric. There's definitely political differences, but gulaging that many people, in the name of "saving up for the house" of no more oppression... Both used a political system that had nothing to do with authoritarianism and perverted it to their own ends. Both called it socialism, both lied.
The questions still valid.... Why would I simply be aware what year I was born in under the Chinese zodiac so that I could get a new SS card. You are missing the forest for the trees.
I mean, the people of a bloodline are literal descendents of a specific person, while a family tree shows people who marry in as well.
The fact that you dont place value on knowing exactly how generically related you are to the person you wanna bang is fine, but to say its "made up" is stupid. Its made up in exactly the same way every part of human culture is made up.
Didn't even notice the word the first time around, and before I read your replying assumed it was a portmanteau of medication and predicament. French could work. Dunno why the loan word though.
Entirely reasonable, and likely successful. There are however a bunch of weirdos here, and a bunch of people that won't understand the reference cause they do t remember the guy. No seriously, we grew up with him, but that was ages ago for the young'uns these days.
The national kind, yeah. Common knowledge. See above statement about how awful he was.
I am aware you're specifically referring to rush's specifically anti-socialist dint. But by suggesting he was a fan of socialism, you're committing to the same fallacy as he tended to, where he would equate socialists (from USSR so obviously they are mega socialist, and fans of the purges, read authortarians) with actual socialist ideology.
The grand irony of rush is that his solution to authoritarianism was authoritarianism.
Can you post a pic of someone with black eyes? That sounds wild, and I'm curious what its like in your world where half of people just have pupils and no iris.
No answers in this reply, just stating that the sky is blue except when its not.