Okay Stalin, I'll remember that. Except... he died and so did his nation... Could be a little more to it?
I appreciate your might is right angle but there's more to success than might alone. The Christians for example are a historic example of people who gained significant influence without actually being a part of votes, words or law. Christians live on today where as Rome is dead for example. You're mostly right but not entirely.
I agree with this. Thought always precedes action. To reduce the whole world into power dynamics is to play the Marxist game. Power is a huge factor, but without ideas, good or bad, that power doesn't last very long.
Your opinion or my opinion is irrelevant, reality doesn’t care, you ignore the mechanisms of civilization at your own peril.
Mamby pamby land < reality
Christians were massacred for centuries until they gained enough political and military power to have a influence in first the senate and then on the emperor himself ...
The stupid story about Constantine converting after a revelation... it’s just ancient world political propaganda by the Roman empire’s CNN... he converted because it was a smart political move and he needed the now militarily powerful Christian nations to expand the Roman Empire.
Stalin lived and died in power for most of his life ... I think he known more about political power than a lawyer killed in a política purge ... one ruled and the other not ... I know it sucks ... but whining at reality never altered history.
History is filled with forgotten self righteous saints that didn’t accomplished anything ... perhaps they could’ve stopped the tyrants if they knew how the game of power is actually played
Ask any conquered nation if being honorable saved them from slavery or genocide?
Weird. That's exactly what Stalin used to say about the kulaks.
There's a massive difference between being a doormat, and surrendering morality because the end justifies the means in your tiny mind. Your arguments would be better if you didn't engage in reductio ad absurdem to make them.
Stalin said that the kulaks need guns and political power to stop him?
That might not be true
There’s a huge difference between whatever two self serving extremes you choose to trap yourself ... because as we all know life presents itself with clear cut moral and ethical decisions
My argument is not to abandon morality you silly goose ... is that politics (and only politics) doesn’t have an arbiter ... there’s no point in playing by the rules if you don’t control or have a reasonable expectation that the rules will be applied consistently
That’s just a long way of saying that I’m right ... don’t be fooled about being right or speaking pretty words
If you learn nothing else from the history you’re living, learn this:
The only thing it matters is who counts the votes, who interprets the words, who enforced the law ... everything else is dead letter
Okay Stalin, I'll remember that. Except... he died and so did his nation... Could be a little more to it?
I appreciate your might is right angle but there's more to success than might alone. The Christians for example are a historic example of people who gained significant influence without actually being a part of votes, words or law. Christians live on today where as Rome is dead for example. You're mostly right but not entirely.
I agree with this. Thought always precedes action. To reduce the whole world into power dynamics is to play the Marxist game. Power is a huge factor, but without ideas, good or bad, that power doesn't last very long.
Your opinion or my opinion is irrelevant, reality doesn’t care, you ignore the mechanisms of civilization at your own peril.
Mamby pamby land < reality
Christians were massacred for centuries until they gained enough political and military power to have a influence in first the senate and then on the emperor himself ...
The stupid story about Constantine converting after a revelation... it’s just ancient world political propaganda by the Roman empire’s CNN... he converted because it was a smart political move and he needed the now militarily powerful Christian nations to expand the Roman Empire.
Stalin lived and died in power for most of his life ... I think he known more about political power than a lawyer killed in a política purge ... one ruled and the other not ... I know it sucks ... but whining at reality never altered history.
This is a beautiful illustration of the mindset of a tyrant.
History is filled with forgotten self righteous saints that didn’t accomplished anything ... perhaps they could’ve stopped the tyrants if they knew how the game of power is actually played
Ask any conquered nation if being honorable saved them from slavery or genocide?
Weird. That's exactly what Stalin used to say about the kulaks.
There's a massive difference between being a doormat, and surrendering morality because the end justifies the means in your tiny mind. Your arguments would be better if you didn't engage in reductio ad absurdem to make them.
Stalin said that the kulaks need guns and political power to stop him?
That might not be true
There’s a huge difference between whatever two self serving extremes you choose to trap yourself ... because as we all know life presents itself with clear cut moral and ethical decisions
My argument is not to abandon morality you silly goose ... is that politics (and only politics) doesn’t have an arbiter ... there’s no point in playing by the rules if you don’t control or have a reasonable expectation that the rules will be applied consistently
Tell me ... do you feel in control?