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People kinda forgot that medieval people couldnt just constantly rely on the lactate-carnist duploly and had several alternatives now considered "trendy" "chemical" products.

Its common in a lot of media. One or two figures become the face of "the game" or "who wrote bestelling show" or "made x movie".

Edward S. Herman, who isn’t in the files

The files arent even everyone who potentially had any ties to Epstein.

popularity among non-socialist figures

It says a LOT about that thing, when leftist/socialist media/personalities/literature/theory becomes popular in such circles.

Just dont treat it like "media literacy"

Spacenoid

There were Iranian gusanso claiming that 90%! of Iran was atheist and thats why they should use a pre-islamic flag of iran.

AKSHUALLY feudalism would be dynasties renting (defacto owning) land from the king. Kings historically didnt control a lot of land directly. Absolutism which laid the foundation for the modern nation state, was the consoldation of most land in the hand of the king.

Tbf people still call indigenous picts, germanics and illyrians "barbarians" and whine endless about how great rome was. Another related anecdote is that in english they translated medieval german polities as "stem duchies" -> while the original word means just tribal duchies and is the same word used as to describe native polities (tribes). Because they couldnt fathom calling white people tribal.

But yeah, the erasure of indigenous people is very real. I too often see people in the wild talking as if native americans died out and dont exist anymore or that they arent relevant in the us because its "only" 4 milion people.

Brexit was also very much driven by London profiting massively from financial services, while the rest of the country rotted away. Rural vs Urban, English vs British all were components.

I remember the time ChapoTrapHouse was trying to gaslight its audience into thinking the Brits did Brexit as solidarity with Greek workers or because it was mistreated by the EU. Despite the UK being amongst the top pro-austerity countries alongside Denmark and the Netherlands.

He had enough friends/servants/sycophants.

I know someone who is still using a friend's former accounts, despite that friend going radiosilent and vanishing into a foreign country years ago.