[cackling in ‘anyone-but-shithead-worshiper’]

TERF island is at it again, huh?

Very brave people.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they were all secret CIA agents /s

Calling India an ally is a strong word.

But yeah, their behavior is concerning, to say the least.

But let’s not blow air up [Russia’s] asshole.

That seems to be the favorite pastime of a concerning number of people on here, though.

Well I’ve never done it on PURPOSE. But a lot of little scratches add up over time.

I’ve never scratched a digital game too hard to play.

GoG offline installers, my love

Patience consists of wanting to be bored by repetitive and constantly-demanded actions while involved in a recreational activity?

And here I thought I just had my priorities straight.

What about people who don’t like swapping into the menu to get the iron boots on and off every ten seconds

“It’s tedious and I want it to end”?

Nothing happened, but anyone involved with nothing happening is a security threat.

They were unpaid because Egypt didn’t have the concept of currency.

You don’t need currency to be paid.

They weren’t forced, they volunteered their services.

That’s not what ‘obligatory labor’ means.

All work in Egypt was intermittent due to Nile floods.

Okay? All work for peasantry is intermittent due to the changing of the seasons. That doesn’t mean you can’t impose corvee on a peasant - in fact, peasant farmers are USUALLY the ones who ARE getting corvee’d precise BECAUSE their own ordinary labor is intermittent. The point of distinguishing corvee as intermittent is to differentiate it from slavery and ad hoc forced labor, not because picking up drifters who do small jobs instead of full-time factory workers changes the nature of a corvee.

It wasn’t for the purpose of public works, it was for the purpose of religion.

It was a public monument by the government. Your own link says, and I quote:

From the Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 2613 BC, the 4th Dynasty) onward, corvée contributed to government projects.[6] During the times of the Nile River floods, it was used for construction projects such as pyramids, temples, quarries, canals, roads, and other works.

How does that describe pyramid workers?

unpaid

forced labour

intermittent

imposed by a state

for the purposes of public works

I’m not seeing the unskilled Egyptian workers we’re talking about here miss any of these criteria.

What do you think ‘obligatory labor’ in the context of a ‘feudal’-like system for the Pharaoh by commoners on a massive construction project is exactly?

Okay, great, I see our argument is “Words don’t matter, corvee isn’t corvee, unskilled labor isn’t unskilled labor; because they lived in a barracks and were fed well”.

If not slaves, then who were these workers? Lehner’s friend Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, who has been excavating a “workers’ cemetery” just above Lehner’s city on the plateau, sees forensic evidence in the remains of those buried there that pyramid building was hazardous business. Why would anyone choose to perform such hard labor? The answer, says Lehner, lies in understanding obligatory labor in the premodern world. “People were not atomized, separate, individuals with the political and economic freedom that we take for granted. Obligatory labor ranges from slavery all the way to, say, the Amish, where you have elders and a strong sense of community obligations, and a barn raising is a religious event and a feasting event. If you are a young man in a traditional setting like that, you may not have a choice.” Plug that into the pyramid context, says Lehner, “and you have to say, ‘This is a hell of a barn!’”

Lehner currently thinks Egyptian society was organized somewhat like a feudal system, in which almost everyone owed service to a lord. The Egyptians called this “bak.” Everybody owed bak of some kind to people above them in the social hierarchy.

That’s literally corvée.

The pyramids were built by well paid craftsmen.

Designed, certainly. But constructed by peasant corvée.

US: “We’ll sign off on your retaliation against Iran if you put the Rafah invasion on pause.”

Israel: “Deal.” [invades anyway]

Turns out there IS a limit to how far Israel can backstab the US before having SOME kind of response.

but last year when I was looking at things in depth, they also have NATO weapons, but I couldn’t find how they got it.

Way #1: Cold War-era supply to dictators who weren’t aligned with the Soviets hasn’t run out yet.

Way #2: Cold War-era surplus sold off en masse in the 90s.

Way #3: Western supplies for ‘anti-terrorist’ states and the proliferation that results from corruption within those countries.

Since October 1st 2023, 20 trans people in the US are known to have died from violence. Almost half of them died in the south (as defined by the US census). Are trans people in the south any safer for it happening under cover of night?

Yes, trans people in the US are safer than in Palestine. Jesus Christ.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/415610_WEST-BANK-AND-GAZA-2022-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf