Vikings was the name given specifically to the ones who got on ships to go raiding and pillaging. It was not the normal citizens.

Just like not every German citizen was part of the Nazi party, not every Nord was a Viking.

Vikings were not a culture, Vikings was the name given to people who got on ships to go raiding and pillaging in foreign lands. It was a choice to be a viking. And hopefully I don’t need to explain what raiding and pillaging involves.

Capitalism has only been around since the 1800s, and humans have been hating and killing people different from them for thousands of years.

I’m a socialist is well, but I don’t like how many people see socialism as a silver bullet for everything. I think it’s dangerous.

If we take socialism just to mean something like “workers are the ones who own the means of production; they take part in decision making and share the profits”, that doesn’t mean everything else will be solved. Some people will still be bigoted. Those (worker owned) companies will still have ads because they’ll still want to make money*. A lot might still give no fucks about the environment and keep polluting. And if it’s still a hierarchical system, there’s no reason those in power wouldn’t try to abuse that system, try to profit from it, oppress people, start wars, etc.

• Obviously the ads aren’t as bad as the rest, that feels a little out of place. I just mentioned it because I’ve had and seen conversation where people seem to think that marketing and advertising would go away without capitalism.

Yeah, a lot of people seem to forget what raiding and pillaging involves, especially during that time. I hate when people try to romanticize that crap. It’s like if 1000 years from now someone tried to romanticize Nazis or Russian soldiers.

It’s homophobic to look down on someone for being a bottom. How is this hard to understand? It’s nothing new either, it’s something that’s been around for a while and which is part of macho and homophobic culture. You can see that in prison rape/culture as well. No one questions your manliness if you’re the top, but if you’re a bottom you get called the bitch.

Yeah, “left-unity” has always been a red flag for me. Most of the time, when someone talks about “left-unity” they are usually either authoritarian leftists who will historically shoot you in the back, or liberals who expect you to always support them but refuse to compromise with people on their left.