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UnemployedMarx [S] 9 points ago +9 / -0

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.

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this_mortal_coil 4 points ago +4 / -0

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.

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DeplorableSpic3 -3 points ago +3 / -6

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.