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… capitalism is the ideology that lets the 1% be the 1%.

This is like the one fight that isn’t part of the culture war.

In Afrikaans that word is used to add emphasis, like “damn” funny. A bit impolite, but pretty common.

As a South African, that typo is moerse funny.

A lot of that is because in an attempt to rapidly modernise and prevent itself from being colonised, Japan imported a ton of ideas from all over Europe, including imperialism.

Yup, even in Japan, the general weapons of choice were the spear and the bow. The sword was mostly ceremonial.

If a samurai had their sword out in a battle, they had probably fallen off of their horse and were in a lot of trouble.

Most slashing swords are stopped by thick armour, that’s not unique to katana. Katana were plenty sharp enough, brittle metal tends to take a sharp edge, their weakness was mostly durability.

Heck, in Europe, if your opponent was wearing armour, it wasn’t rare to grab your sword by the sharp bit, and bludgeon them with the cross-guard.