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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Wear whatever you want.

    People mostly used to wear cloaks to keep the elements off of them.

    Lots of mud and dirt from horseback riding back then–also rain.

    We’re indoors a lot more now. Most of us don’t work outside and our transportation, mainly automobiles, are protected from the elements.

    As the function became irrelevant, so did the clothing choice.





  • There’s not many all-in on authoritarianism that aren’t extreme left or right economically.

    The political compass is better than a one-dimensional spectrum, but it’s literally twice as complicated.

    You can pretty safely plot a symmetrical U shaped line running through the political compass and find almost everybody. That’s why one-axis works well for describing the political climate of the USA, it’s mostly in the right half of the political compass sitting on this line.

    So tankies are very Communist (left) and necessarily very authoritarian to achieve their goals.

    They represent the other half of the political compass that Americans usually do not see. So people on here frequently get confused when exposed to tankies.

    And you also have the tankies talking about the Bernie-Sanders-style/social democrats (found at the vertex of our U shape) as “right” because if you follow the U line, they would be.






  • The Mexica existed long before the Spanish arrived. They migrated to the Valley of Mexico from a land in the north they referred to as Aztlán when the Toltecs went into decline.

    Nuevo Mexico was named by the Spanish in reference to this history, as they were following the Rio Grande north searching for the Cities of Gold referenced in these same Mexica (ie Aztec) legends.