I want to have faith in Bince. Like he’s laying the groundwork for something. But, only time will tell I guess.

I don’t know if this meets your requirements but Psapp is fire

I read that Bince has at least 4 seasons worth of content prepared for the show, so who knows where this is going.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Just real quick while this is fresh in my head:

Really the only thing that really mattered was germs.

When the white devils invaded from Spain/Europe they managed to pull off some stunning coup d’etats with their shitty little pew-pew rifles, canons, and horses, but eventually the Inca etc (while caught off guard initially) learned to adapt.

They learned that on flat land if you were up against horses you were dead. But on mountainous terrain all they had to do was roll a fucking boulder down the hill and crush everyone to death. Lmao.

They also learned that they could tie 2/3 stones together with rope or alpaca intestine and swing them at horses legs from a distance, tying them together and tripping them so they fell on their faces. Easy peazy.

However, ultimately what mattered the most was smallpox. The filthy, disgusting, savage euros (most of whom had never bathed once in their fucking lives) had been exposed to the virus since childhood, so it was no big deal. But to the people in the new world it was devastating.

What made them so vulnerable is that the population that travelled across the Bering Strait were comparatively small in number to the general world human population, and did not have a lot of genetic diversity, rendering them uniquely vulnerable to diseases in general, but especially from Europe (who also had never, EVER bathed once in their lives, the filthy fucking savages).

Ultimately, the mass death of first nations people was - depressingly - probably unavoidable without modern vaccines.

OR - without colonial conquest. But we all know how capitalism works.

EDIT: One last thing. Probably the coolest thing in this book is how the Inca’s preferred weapon were slings. They would heat up rocks in a fire, wrap them in cloth, and then launch them at the white devils. They would catch fire mid-air, and rain hellfire down on them. I can only imagine the terror that the euros felt watching flaming stones rain down upon their heads on the lands that they were stealing from the indigenous peoples.

Bro is currently working on a 3rd edition of 1491!

Be sure to check out the weekly news mega thread. Excellent source of global current events info!

And ofc there’s also the shitposts. So many shitposts.

I’m reading 1491 right now, fascinating book. At one point it describes a pre-Colombian society in the bone dry areas of coastal Peru that subsisted primarily off seafood. And while they did have agriculture it was only to grow cotton. This throws a wrench in the assumption that all societies form by developing subsistence agriculture.

The more you know. 10/10 book.

Splendid

We haven’t seem to have had an update on the Ukraine/Russia war in the news mega this week as of yet. Anybody able to fill us in?

I’m seeing a lot of NATO libs yapping about how Ukraine is doing great now and this time - THIS TIME - things are going to turn around, but I can’t make heads of tails of it. They always seem to distort the facts to fit their narrative anyway so I don’t really believe anything that they say.

I once saw someone jailbreak it with a riddle, and convinced it to tell them how to smuggle cocaine lmao.

I dunno I think that

SmartPipe but with AI - genius, why didn’t I think of that

Which, to be fair, would be no big deal if she disavowed his beliefs, but AFAIK she has refused to do that.

Hard agree.

Prediction spoiler:

It’s not like french Quebec has a separate culture from the rest of North America

I think a lot of Quebecois would [REDACTED] you if they heard you saying that lol

It’s plurbin’ time

Fun fact: Canada admitted thousands of nazis after the war and allowed them to live unmolested indefinitely afterwards. In fact, flashing your swastika tattoo to a border guard pretty much guaranteed you entry because it proved that you were an anti-communist and would fit in just fine.

60 Minutes: Nazis in Canada 🇨🇦 (1997)

A number of reasons, one of them being that they lost control of the narrative and most young people all hate Pissreal and imperialism now