#feudalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #feudalism, aggregated by home.social.
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The Early Medieval Crucible: Viking, Magyar, and Saracen Contestation and the Forging of New Orders
"This study has argued that the simultaneous and pervasive contestation from Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens was not merely a series of destructive
incursions but a profound transformative force that actively catalyzed the forging
of new political, military, and socio-economic orders across the continent."Revista, Z. and BIOLOGY, . 10 . (2025) ‘The Early Medieval Crucible: Viking, Magyar, and Saracen Contestation and the Forging of New Orders’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17737629.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodons #Medieval #Europe #Vikings #Magyars #Saracens #Feudalism #Academia
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It’s just feudal letting out homes that are EPC F and G…it’s also illegal and has been since 2020.
These homes were built in feudal times and the situation has never changed.
It’s bad enough that private landlords aren’t subject to the stringent rules that social landlords are (Decent Homes Standard and Awaab’s Law)…but it stinks that royal lettings are even worse.
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It was theft of #commons on training, and now theft of commons on enforcement. Digital #feudalism.
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A few years ago I thought the new housing bubble will burst like the one in 2007. But when it didn't I realized something. There's no fundamental reason why it would have to burst on its own.
Last time around the #housingbubble lasted like 600 years and it took a french revolution to end it.
It was called #feudalism
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Money and foreign interests out of politics!
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-backed-nonprofit-lawmakers-draft-legislation
#israel #zionism #nonprofit #legislation #trump #fucktrump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #donnydipshit #donaldvonshitsinpants #feudalism #treason #crime #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #worldpolitics #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #history #ushistory #worldshitory -
@urlyman My own land borders the land of a massive farm which keeps 600 milking cows in a shed half a kilometre long. There are appalling farming practices everywhere.
But when the diesel deliveries stop, those farms cannot continue, and the land will still be there. It cannot be worked by one rich family and their half dozen zero-hour-contract workers alone.
The question then is whether we move to #communism or to #feudalism.
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The techbrofeudalism just for you.
Now there would be a great time to wake the fu&$k up and stop them.
Don’t like feudalism, genocide, or your government? We’ve got just the thing for you, slave.I’ve still got your health details here. What’s the worst that could happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBW9QCVDSjY
https://word.undead-network.de/2026/07/02/the-techbrofeudalism-just-for-you/
#darkage #dystopia #feudalism #figthback #genocide #Palantir #surveillance #war -
Honest Government Ad | Palantir
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#FOSS governance is digital #feudalism - coders as gatekeepers, projects organised around personal authority.
The lesson from history is simple, never trust a king, even a well-meaning one.
The #meta problem is that we keep repeating old power patterns inside new technology. The libertarian “just fork it” answer feels increasingly pointless in this stage of the mess. We need better collective governance, not just more individual exit routes.
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One man, one vote. He is the man, and he has the vote.
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2163304/one-man-one-vote-he-is-the-man-and-he-has-the-vote
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"WeLib describes itself as an “endless library” founded on the principle that “education and literature belong to everyone.” The publishers, however, clearly don’t agree with the library framing, noting libraries can be trusted; pirate sites not.
“Libraries are trusted institutions that serve the communities that fund them by lending books and other publications they have lawfully acquired. Using this label for WeLib explicitly misleads the public and allows WeLib to hijack the goodwill that libraries enjoy and have legitimately earned.”
“WeLib is no more than a pirate website that reproduces and distributes works of authorship owned by others to users for a profit, without authorization from or compensation to the copyright owners,” the complaint adds.
The complaint notes that WeLib’s operators made efforts to keep their identities hidden. However, the site itself quickly became a go-to portal for many book pirates.
The complaint notes that, by WeLib’s own account, its collection includes 43 million books and 98 million articles. The site reportedly has over 80,000 active monthly users who accessed more than 51.7 million books and downloaded 14.5 million files last month."
https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/
#AnnasArchive #Copyright #IP #Piracy #Monopolies #Rentism #Feudalism
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Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"
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Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"
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“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”*…
Wat Tyler’s death (left to right: Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London (wielding sword); Wat Tyler; King Richard II; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the king, bearing decorated sword (source)Your correspondent is headed into a melange of meetings (and their attendant travel), so (Roughly) Daily will be on pause for a few days. Regular service should resume on or around June 19. I’ll leave you with a (timely?) tale from the past…
“Steve” publishes a wonderful weekly newsletter, Dates With History. In a recent post he shares the story of Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt…
If you walked into Smithfield in the City of London in the small hours of the morning, you’d find the great Victorian iron-and-glass halls of the old meat market, traders hard at work while dazed club-goers spill out of nearby Fabric nightclub, uncertain for a moment what century they’re in.
A few steps away stands St Bartholomew’s Hospital—Barts—the oldest hospital in London still on its original site, patching people up since 1123.
On one of the blocked window bays of the hospital’s north wall, a memorial marks where the Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1305, alongside remembrances of the Protestant martyrs burned here under Queen Mary between 1555 and 1558.
A third plaque, on another blocked window bay, recalls an event 645 years ago next Monday—15 June 1381.
That day, a man rode into Smithfield at the head of a rebel army and tilted the course of English history. The fact that he was dead before the day was out is beside the point.
His name was Wat Tyler…
[Steve explains the origins and workings of the feudal system in England, the (extraordinary) impact of the Black Death, the Poll Tax, the subsequent rise of peasant resistance, the Revolt itself, Wat’s demise, and the immediate aftermath. He concludes…]
… Wat Tyler enters the historical record on 7 June 1381 and exits eight days later, 15 June 1381, when he was executed. That’s his lot.
The revolt failed.
But the idea it carried—that labour had value, that taxation required some semblance of fairness, that the common man had rights—survived.
The Peasants’ Revolt echoed what the barons had done at Runnymede in 1215—confront a king and extract written concessions from him. Tyler’s rebels knew their history. Had they succeeded, those sealed charters would have amounted to a Magna Carta for the poor.
Over the three centuries that followed, the power of English rulers to do as they pleased eroded steadily. By 1689, the Bill of Rights made explicit what three hundred years had been quietly establishing—that rulers governed within limits they did not set themselves.
Wat Tyler hadn’t written that principle. But he had fomented one of its earliest and most violent proofs of concept.
There wouldn’t be another poll tax in England for six hundred years—until Margaret Thatcher introduced one in 1990 and was promptly removed from office.
History, it turns out, has a long memory for bad ideas…
(Trying to) hold power to account: “It’s 1381 and the peasants are revolting.”
* “Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky‘s and Sidney Lumet‘s Network
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As we ponder power, we might recall that it was on this date in 1939, at Hyde Park, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a luncheon for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. Despite his mother’s horror, FDR wanted to show the King and Queen an old-fashioned, American style picnic– featuring that most proletariat of dishes, the hot dog. In the U.S. to raise support U.S. for Britain’s cause in World War II, the royal couple at least appeared to enjoy the meal.
#culture #feudalism #FranklinDRoosevelt #history #hotDog #JohnOfGaunt #KingGeorgeVI #PeasantsRevolt #picnic #politics #pollTax #RichardII #WatTyler #WatTylersRebellion -
Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen, Dylan Kerler… Three Englishmen whose company is playfully humiliating an Indian citizen. 21st century’s tech companies smell like 18th and 19th century’s blood on a whip. Progress is only a word.
https://futurism.com/future-society/meme-coin-man-tattoo-name-forehead
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#banks produce nothing #own everything? #unsustainable
systemic + fatal flaw of modern day #fiat #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism: not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind, #rich vs #poor + #inequality growing = #collapse of #society "thank you"= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money + buys = owns #assets = #bank #centralbank
why? because new #fiat #money created of air whenever someone get's #loan approved (#governments usually get approved) problem: #interest on this #loan is NEVER createdto pay #interest on #loan #government needs to take something away from someone (no matter domestic or foreign)
#solution: invest every USD + EUR + Peso in your own #INDEPENDENCE from #financesystem #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
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Build it permissionlessly and let it loose
One of the uncomfortable truths of activism is that, given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, many anarchists choose anarchism. The ideology, identity, culture, meetings, and certainties feel safer than taking a genuinely risky step into the unknown of stateless liberty and self-organisation. It's easier to belong to the subculture than to build the social relationships and trust needed to live without the structures there critiquing. A lot of radical politics gets stuck at this point: […]https://hamishcampbell.com/build-it-permissionlessly-and-let-it-loose/
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People in general don't yet see the need to move beyond the #feudalism that shapes much of #FOSS governance. Because of this energy goes into defending existing structures and #blocking alternatives before they've have a chance to prove themselves.
That's one reason the #OGB approach is simple: build it permissionlessly and let it loose. People will see the value, or they won't.
The goal isn't to convince a small group of gatekeepers. It's to empower a much larger group of people to participate in technology, build consensus, and push the social agenda they actually need.
Less permission. More practice. It's a #KISS approach to #openweb governance.
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in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you
= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
#taxdodgers like #apple #google #amazon + those that enable it #corrupt #governments #politicians that do nothing #jpmorgan + #centralbanks #bank #banks that do not finance #innovation #usa #china #germany #india #australia #france
#uk #luxembourg #switzerland #caymanislands #panama #gurnsey #cityoflondon will play this #game to the bitter #fascist end and beyond -
#berniesanders critical of #datacenters and #ai it is based and trained on ALL OUR #data and we are getting nothing for it
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns the most #money, no whoever owns the #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation, it will ultimately lead to less #innovation and thus the destruction of all #mankind, because #mankind without #innovation can not survive #survival
this ultimately means: no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: they will lose the game to whoever prints money and buys and owns the assets (#bank, also #centralbank).
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own INDEPENDENCE from the finance system is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
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#conspiracy ??? #jpmorgan #titanic #fed #centralbank #fiat #currency #money #fascism
in #monopoly #capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you
= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)
the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Archaeologists in #Germany found an 11th-century #chess knight in a collapsed #castle wall, tracing how the #game moved from sixth-century #India through #Persia and Islamic #Spain into feudal #Europe. 🔍
Its pieces evolved to mirror #medieval society – vizier became queen, elephant became bishop – and #play spread from nobles to merchants and women. ♟️
👉 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/medieval-chess-europe
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a true victim of #weaponization
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kilmar-abrego-garcia
> "The government isn’t targeting Abrego Garcia for punishment because they think he's some sort of master criminal. They want to punish him *because* he’s an everyday guy who somehow managed to force the regime to bring him home."
#criminalization #institutionalization #delegitimization #disenfranchisement #dehumanization #whiteNationalism #feudalism #plutocracy all in support of fascist plunder
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Prince Richard (later known as King Richard the Lionheart) being knighted by King Louis VII of France (Peter Jackson)
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@tazgetroete #gntm #diversity #queer #models #exploitation #ausbeutung #feudalism mich erinnert GNTM immer an das feudalistische Gehabe der frühen Neuzeit und des Barock, wo zur „Erbauung“ einer gelangweilten, überpriviligierten und sozial/ökonomisch durch und durch übergriffigen Elite Menschen geradezu ausgestellt wurden…nur dass wir hier den Kontext haben, dass auch die „Massen“ einbezogen werden, damit der Strom von willigen Teilnehmenden nicht abreißt.
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"Feudalism is for squares" - Napoleon
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2081057/feudalism-is-for-squares-napoleon
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Cutaway of a 14th century AD French abbey receiving feudal dues from the peasants of the surrounding countryside (Giorgio Albertini)
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GOD WILL PROVIDE THE CRUSADE'S LOGISTICS
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2053026/god-will-provide-the-crusade-s-logistics