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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish everyone in that thread a big logout

The OP is transparently there to start an argument. They have mostly good points, but that's always a dicey means of communicating and it's going to fall flat (as it did) if you take it to a niche community that doesn't have a real fault line on the matter. OP is going to a small circle of history students, history academics, and dudes who watch 20-hour videos on Rome and asking "why aren't you idiots Marxists?" -- no shit there is no worthwhile response.

Of course the comments are obnoxious, and you also have mods in there doing the classic "we don't want to talk about this so we're going to call you uncivil for disagreeing" bit. A disaster of a thread all around.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

The eternal contradiction