Winter was dedicated to all the maintenance stuff mostly, and there was mostly no other field work during that time. They had way more holidays as you say, and they also had a lot more breaks during the day. Historians have done studies on this. An average 8-hour labourer today works about 1800 hours per year, accounting for breaks and holidays. An average medieval peasant would work significantly less so. English peasants had it worse at 1600 hours. French and Germans would fluctuate at 1300-1400 hours. Italian and French would also fluctuate at 1200-1300. Byzantine peasants (whose majority were not serfs and worked on their own land) would work much less at 1000-1200 hours per year!

The point of the meme is that a modern-day wage labourer is exploited way more than a medieval wage labourer. There’s nothing there about famines, plagues and wars (which by the way only went away from Europe to an extend for the past 80 years, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be staying away).

Also don’t forget:

Medieval peasants worked on average (depending on the area and era you are looking at) 30-60% less hours per year than present-day wage-workers

Medieval peasants who worked on someone else’s land could elect not to go to work on any particular day and just not get paid for it (that’s how weekends were created)

Medieval bosses (i.e. land-owners) were responsible for feeding their workers for the day with breakfast and lunch.

Usually lunch during field work was followed by a customary 2-3 hours nap.

Crackers be jealous that they can’t figure out how to get paid multiple wages, while ALSO getting paid multiple benefits, while ALSO getting paid mad money by peddling drugs and doing all the crime and somehow getting away with it, while ALSO somehow having the time to sit around all day on the street doing nothing and making passerbyes “scared”.

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And why is China looking angry? The US basically just pushed the entirety of Asia towards BRICS and stronger economic relations with China.

Oh, you are right, I read that wrong. Apparently it started out at 100 000 rubles, and doubles every week. So yeah, we are getting there.

It might get there eventually. The fine increases by 100 000 rubles every day that Google keeps Russian media blocked. So in about 40-50 universe lifetimes, if Google doesn’t reverse its decision, the fine will be approaching a googol dollars. Depending on inflation :P

The reason I liked Andor was that it portrays the revolutionaries (Luthen, his assistant, and later Andor himself) as understanding that they need to do the “bad stuff” to achieve results. They are not burdened by idealistic notions of a utopian and pure fight of good vs evil. There’s a scene where Luthen monologues that he sacrificed his soul to the cause. That he is trying to bring about a sunrise he will never be able to enjoy.

Liberal media usually use the arc of the gruff vengeful revolutionary softening towards the end, as they are faced with fateful choices, and not having the courage to go through with it. Andor reverses this arc and I think it’s better for it.

If you like sci-fi read Red Rising.

“But I don’t want to!”

“That’s OK son, you can die for Ukraine”

I don’t know… He looks sharpe

He has a big cult following, especially online, and the people who have no real opinion of him default to the cult opinion.

In my country, a guy who worships him and got famous by camping out for weeks outside Tesla offices just to talk with him, just got elected to the EU parliament, partly because of his Elon Musk worship.

“Logorhea” 😂

What’s the movie called?

The very way you just described is how they make you ignore his resistance.

I’m not saying it’s some sort of Marxist masterpiece by the way. I just think it was the intention.

Yeah, that’s my point. Gomer Pyle doesn’t resist for shits and giggles. He has no choice but to resist. And they portray his character the way they do so you’ll disregard him.

I always assumed this was the case, no?

Joker intentionally disregards authority to be funny. Gomer Pyle disregards authority because of who he is. By happenstance, the only one who is caught is Gomer Pyle, and he gets punished. Joker gets away with it and ends up getting rewarded later on too.

Gomer Pyle is the hero who resists authority and ends up dying for it. He is portrayed the way he is, so the audience disregards him, which is what the public often does with actual symbols of resistance.

Joker thinks he resists authority from within, but really, he is just getting assimilated and by the end of the movie, becomes just another soldier of the empire, perfectly willing to kill Charlie. He becomes just like the rest (or everyone deteriorates into a killer together, which is why they all sing at the end, while marching through fields on fire).

If you die from hunger, while food rots in garbage dumps, it’s democracy. If you die from diseases, when medicine costs an arm and a leg, it’s freedom. If you die from a firing squad, for facilitating aforementioned deaths, it’s evil communism.

Meanwhile, Robotino, the village that got “liberated” by the counteroffensive, is about to be completely encircled by Russian forces.