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Oh God, if that isn't the truth. I read three omnibus(pl?) Worth of Cain novels in about 2 weeks when I was first starting out with 40k. I love the series and go back from time to time, but I forget exactly what happens in each book, or get scenes mixed up with different books.

Because he was conceived through the use of a love potion. Apparently that fucks up your ability to feel love.

I imagine that kind of arc would have taken forethought and planning, and as we've clearly seen the Heresy dosen't seemed to have been planned really beyond the first few books.

If I had to make a guess, I would assume there's a long history of fanfiction writing in her past, and just never developed her writing style beyond that. But I could also just be being too judgemental lol.

I think its because she does very little of note in her day to day life. These miniscule things to us are giant events to her because her only comparison is sitting at home existing.

If you look back across history, illness kills more soldiers than battle ever does. It's not till the middle of the 20th century that this trend changes.

The United States went from Kennedy giving his "we choose to go to the moon," speech in 1962 to putting manned missions on the Moon by 1969. All with FAR less computing power than what I'm using to make this comment. I think the smart people will figure it out. Haha

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Yes absolutely, you're 100% correct, I've never said anything to the opposite. The cotton gin absoluely entrenched slavery in the south, no arguement there. Having said that though, that cotton that was produced in the south so cheaply was what allowed the north the industrialize so quickly and that industrialization, plus the populations that northern cities had to support that industry, is what ultimately allowed the Union to win the Civil War and end slavery in the United States. I point that out only to show that history is complicated and nuanced and very very rarely as black and white as we would like it to be.

You missed my point. Even with slave labor, cotton was not profitable. It was technology that made it profitable.

So with cotton specifically, It wasn't slavery that made it profitable, It was the cotton gin. Cotton was on its way out as a cash crop in the south until Eli Whitney inadvertently brought it back. Without the gin, it was still too laborious and time consuming and inefficient to produce cotton on a large scale even with slave labor.

And taking labor without pay isn't unique to capitalism. That's happened throughout history. The Russians were still serfs on their masters lands until the communist revolution in 1917. And communism didn't exactly save the serfs from being exploioted by the elites, it just changed which elites were doing the exploiting. Slavery is a human problem, not a specifically capitalist one.

I just take issue with the idea that slavery is somehow special or unique today because of capitalism. Slavery has been part of the human experience essentially since we we've been able to engage in conflict with one another. And there are examples in history of societies that depended entirely on slavery for every aspect of manual labor. The Helots in Sparta were a slave class that did literally every bit of labor so that Spartan men could focus on their life as a warrior.

Well I don't know what exactly you mean by "industrialized," but there were farming plantations run exclusively by slaves during the Roman period. Thats one example of large scale slavery long before capitalism. And the Spartans as a society were only able to survive due to the labors of the Helot class. Who were slaves.

Slavery has been around LONG before capitalism. ETA: my comment makes less sense now that the original comment has been edited.

r/holdmyfeedingtube

I think it's an MLM pitch. You get people curious with the product and then get them to DM you so you can try and manipulate the individual into buying the product.

Absolutely, take care! You have a good weekend as well!

I hope you're right. In my experience though, people like that have to want to change and be a better person. That change can't come from outside forces, it has to come from within. You know, I've enjoyed this conversation with you. Thanks for taking the time to actually ask questions and being willing to hear me out and actually have a discussion. I really appreciate it.

You're correct of course. But I also shouldn't take advantage of that kindness because I am disabled. Even though they love me, I shouldn't force them to upend their entire lives and cater to me. If I did that, I would be one of those bad people I was talking about thay doesn't care about anyone beyond the end of their nose.

"Hurt people hurt people," is what comes to mind when you say that about traumatized people treating others poorly. That's an example of what I mean though. Someone who treats others badly because they have issues isn't taking responsibility for their own problems and instead of trying to seek healthy constructive ways of dealing with their trauma, they inflict their trauma on those around them.

Hey! Thanks! I really appreciate you saying that! I also really appreciate that this conversation stayed civil! You have a great day!

I agree with you that acts of kindness directed towards other people make the world a better place. But there's a large portion of people of all types who just do not care about being a good person. Nothing you can do will change those people and you have to have strong enough mental toughness to deal with that without falling apart. And sometimes despite that, you're still going to fall apart, and that's okay. But making it so that you're mental health is the responsibility of others around is just going to set you up for failure over and over. It's not nice to think about, but lots of people just plain suck.

I don't disagree with you at all. And taking care of your own mental health and triggers absolutely includes having boundaries and not letting people walk over you. And having a good support system whatever that looks like. I never said it did, but you also have to understand that more people in the world than we would care to admit just do not give a shit about anyone beyond the end of their nose. It's our responsibility as people with triggers and trauma to be able to deal with those situations in a healthy constructive productive manner. It's not fair to our support systems to lay all of the emotional work of holding ourselves together at their feet all the time. Occasionally you just have to be mentally strong and power through what's going on.

Hey, why do I deserve to be to called an asshole? I never said that everyone I meet gets triggered, not even close. You're 100% correct that it isn't hard to treat each other nicely. But that's not how the world works. It's naive to pretend otherwise. And like I've said, It's an individual's responsibility to deal with those issues as they arise.

You're correct. But not everyone is going to care enough about your life to. When those situations happen, it's your responsibility to deal with it in a healthy way.