Rhyme Repartee
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
If the plague doesn't get me, that is.
StarkRG@catsalad Only half? That's a dream.
yuhasz01Yes we have all become 21st century "peasants" again beholding to the land owning aristocracy.
ghostdancer
Nicole ParsonsRemember who funds this drift into life as a medieval peasant...
Larry Ellison, Alwaleed bin Talal, Mohammed bin Salman, Rebekah & Robert Mercer, Putin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk,...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/rockbridge-trump-vance-wiles.html
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Seid, Uihlein, Tim.Dunn, Farris & Dan Wilks, DeVos, Prince
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/22/inside-the-trump-plan-for-2025
Robin Barton@catsalad Ah progress is a harsh mistress
KanaMaunaPlagues.
William B Peckham@catsalad Peasants could own a hovel, but not the land that it was on. A critically important distinction then and now!
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@wbpeckham @catsalad that model exists today in the form of pad rent for mobile homes/manufactured homes.
MWT
a fish named dog ✡️♾️@catsalad OK but minor nitpick: We can't simply generalize ALL OF the 13th century that way. for instance, as is argued in graeber & wengrow's "the dawn of everything", wendat people were free -- their chiefs had little actual power (e.g pgs 130-131).*
*disclaimer: this is based on observations made after contact. maybe they were different in the 1200s.
2040s, bubonic plague v2?
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Florist vs the Anthropocene@catsalad bring back the 13th century
Kinene⭐🐻@chaotic_evil @catsalad More like back to the 14th century: Weather disruptions, famine, bubonic plague, and wars that helped keep the plague going.
(Note: Historians think the European population at the end of the 14th century was 1/3rd to 1/2 of what it was before 1347.)
@c_merriweather @catsalad thanks for the mansplanation
@chaotic_evil @catsalad No, just a medieval history nerd. (Deg. Minor: Medieval Studies)
Taz the pika@catsalad Left side: everyone is dying of bacterial infection
Right side: everyone is dying of viral infection
Right side: everyone is dying of viral infection
Juniper Flower@catsalad part of the reason why I keep telling people that peasants had it better than we did. If they had better medicine tech then it will be better than now.
Light@catsalad
Should put "legally considered subject to their feudal lord and the absolute power of the king" on the left side and "legally considered to own oneself" on the right side. Just to be fair.
Should put "legally considered subject to their feudal lord and the absolute power of the king" on the left side and "legally considered to own oneself" on the right side. Just to be fair.
Silver Arrows@catsalad half hahaha!
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/26/map-shows-much-salary-spend-rent-different-areas-london-10072789/
I can't imagine it's got any better since then.
toufy@catsalad i read this as "shovel", and was very confused for a second
Cali@catsalad Reminds me of a variation of this , the “punchline” being, “I want NEW problems not past ones repackaged.”