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  • No, I meant the immediate people involved in the revolution, those often don’t fair well & don’t last long (eg people in a party, not necessarily main headline names). Iirc Russia changed almost everyone in charge in the 20s & 30s to a more stable structure afterwards.

    In such system changes the country often goes through another (lesser) system revolution a few years after the first one (when the focus is to just keep shit running) & it’s better that people involved change at that point too.

    Like what happened with Robespierre (~Jacobins), the early two or three years under Lenin, and I think Slovakia or Poland when they transitionv away from communism they forbid running for office to anyone that held any official power under the previous regime (the same people that formally facilitated the end of communism since it as that kind of revolution).

    What you showed is what happened after after that, so the point of revolution. And I couldn’t agree more with that. My point was not in that. It’s that you need admins and regular politicians to run any system smoothly, and the few 1000s of people revolutioning arent usually the best at tirelessly debating a monetary policy or what road laws to use.

    (Oh, the “plundering” part - yes, perhaps the wrong word to use, I meant that fairly literally, irl taking things, not doing it in an organised legal manner which is how “the 1% gets to exist” – and you can se that clearly in the Russia chart too, 90s capitalism was the framework for that, so “paper” not raiding rich houses)



  • Beat or being able to flourish once the Goth Galadriel is gone?

    Because historically the revolutionary forces (the one toppling the bourgeoisie) are extremely shitty governors (just continuing mass murdering & plundering which kinda makes sense if you think how & what they have been through).

    In very few historical instances of regime changes all the previous actors as well as anyone involved in the revolution were prohibited in forming the new structure. This helps a lot to actually change the system.

    You wouldn’t want to move from a czar to a dictator, thats long term the same bullshit, only makes things better in short term.

    Same with any oligarchy, if it exists and has power than it matters little what kind of regime it technically is.

    Edit: I might have chosen poor words but I didn’t mean that the ideologies behind revolutions make for poor government, just literally the force of a few 100 or 1000 people directly involved in the forceful part of the revolution. The fighty-fighty people.









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    … didn’t high end cars start with adaptive beams in late 90s (still xenon then)?

    It’s just absolutely pure greed that kept this still not being the base minimum.
    (And whatever stupit lawy technicality in the USA banned even simple adaptive lights for decades)

    Much like adaptive radar cruise control, it’s a 30 year old commercial tech that is only now being mandated by law and even this only in it’s lesser form of only emergency braking (sometimes done without a proper radar tech).

    Both tech don’t cost much to produce compared to car prices, but companies lose the huge margin they get on extra features.

    But generally speaking, no matter the light emitter (incandescent filament or gas, led orb"laser") or refractor/projector - if everyone needed to get their car checked and stamped once yearly that is still road worthy most of such instances go away.
    Unadjusted headlamps? Can’t drive your car (well, that’s usually a 30s fix on old cars).
    Bad tires? No drivey.
    Exhaust too fumey? Can’t smoke here.
    Brakes not performing to standard? Better call your mechanic if you wanna drive this car.
    Installed unregulated shit on your car that endangers others (incorrect light bulbs included)? Nope, you need to prove it’s ok first.

    Regulations regulates, it’s its thing.



  • My cars high beans beams would have parted to not shine directly into the car ahead, low canned beans beams are auto leveled anyway, and my IR camera wound detect this most hinged individual & yeet a specialised bean flash a specialised beam directly to their face to alert me I should prepare my street fighting axe (to smash the rest of the car with those badly adjusted, now broken headlights).

    But even with all this tech people will absolutely intentionality drive around with fog lamps bcs it “looks cool brah” … I should prepare my street fighting morning star.