Zodiark [he/him]

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Cake day: September 25th, 2020

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  • The way that the bourgeoisie arrested and seized control from aristocracy and monarchy, (e.g, England) making the latter into the symbol of the state and central authority and undermining the former’s dominance in shaping the future of the country, yes.

    I think the Erebonian empire’s situation can be compared to Meiji era Japan, where an oligarchy emerged to bring Japan away from isolationist feudalism to imperialist bourgeois democracy, modernization, and industrialization.


  • Idk, the Bismarck analogue guy (Osbourne?) was supposed to be a representation of the emergent bourgeoisie taking control from and over the aristocracy. The emperor was basically a puppet of his - not even given voiced lines - and the state had begun to be fully centralized. The peasantry and proletariat at that time weren’t as class conscious, politically coherent, or as organized as the bourgeoisie were.

    The game’s politics seem to be consistent with how history played out.

















  • I don’t see the purpose of asking this question when Israel is still extant and capable of surviving while Palestine burns. Israel hasn’t surrendered because they can do this attrition warfare longer than Gaza can hold out, despite any gains or advantages Ansrallah and Hezbollah have over Israel at the moment. Israel and the US are both willing to escalate in calculated and measured ways.

    Considering that Jewish Israelis are 70% of the population, it’s likely that they will stay in the long term. Before Oct 7th, there was already a sort of exodus of Israelis to Europe/US because of lack of economic opportunity, high rents, low wages; reasons people leave their country as it is. Israel is not really stable without US support.