Are Phezzanis just space jews?
>>23981085Yes, next question.
>>23981085They are not subtle about this.
>>23981547Is the empire just space nazis and reinhardt just space hitler?
>>23981573No, it was based on WW1 and prior era German Empire. Read a book.
>>23981575Nah reinhardt is literally just blonde space hitler. Im a woman and I can tell immediately
>>23981085Yes.
>>23981596>I'm a woman
I wish there were Space Ludwig II and Space Wagner somewhere in this space shitshow.It'd be kino and the fujos would love it. It's win-win.
>>23981085No they're Phoenicians just like the Ferengiand like Klingons are space mongols not soviets
>>23981575>WW1 and prior>be me and some friends>Found the Anti-Semitic Party >literally, no joke>Karl Renner calls and congratulates you for being great citizens of humanity>>23981897The Emperor before the one Reinhard overthrew was a Homo, no?
>>23982079He was, but he was also old af and not a neurotic wreck, which isn't very romantic
>>23981085By the time we get deep into the Earth Cult's history and how Phezzan is fundamentally its creation or vice versa, yeah, the Phezzanis are basically the Jews. To some extent they're the medieval Jews only allowed to do banking and usury, but they also occupy a lot of what 1948-onward Israel is and the crimes it kept hidden from the west until recently.
>>23983548>>23981085People don't want you to know this, but the Jew's neck is the foot stool of kings.Their geopolitical situation traditionally only allowed them to be crushed by either, both or all three regional empires, so the Earth Cultists' situation is the one that mirrors the Jews'.The Phezzani, holding a stable, independent position for generations even though they're clearly to weak to act as an actual buffer state or to stop anybody, are pure Scifi.
>>23981573Reinhardt was philo-phezzanic, he liked merit and was always dissapointed Phezzan didn't live up to his idea of what it could be.
>>23981085The conditions for their exceptional success were established by the rampant corruption of the Empire
>>23981547fpbp
>>23985377How did Phezzan, a state that was neither racially supremacist nor feudal, even exist in the first place when the Empire was ideologically committed (to the point of absurdity) to rigidly and uncompromisingly enforcing the ideals of Racial Supremacist Feudalism with extreme brutality? Sure at time of the series you can see how the hypocrisy/corruption of the empire would allow something useful like Phezzan to exist using loopholes and weasel words, but Phezzan has been allowed to exist like it has since long before that.
>>23987187By written law, Phezzan is still Imperial Territory, and the Landsherr owes his allegiance to the Emperor and no-one else. It's allowed to exist since it's nominally the private territory of the Landsherr, who is allowed to run it as he sees fit, much like the rest of the Nobles ran their own space domains as they saw fit. How he chose to run it made it profitable, doubly so when black market trade started flowing between the Empire and the FPA when the war kicked off.
>>23985377>>23987187because Phezzan is a special autonomous economic zone specifically to facilitate trade between the the FPA and Empire
>>23987197Yes, and my point is why exactly would the Empire in its heyday ever allow such a thing to exist? The Empire doesn't view the existence of non-enslaved people legitimate even outside its borders much less inside them.
>>23987219Money, mostly.
>>23987350That just circles back around to the fact that the empire at that point in history didn't give a shit about money, especially through trade.
>>23988134>That just circles back around to the fact that the empire at that point in history didn't give a shit about money, especially through trade.Officially, you are correct. The Empire's "official" political stance was about conquering and being unyielding. The Emperor did not surrender or give way.Unofficially, there were plenty of corrupt nobles who preferred growing their personal fortunes rather than supporting the Emperor's ambitions. Phezzan probably bribed enough of them to gain political leverage to keep Phezzan from being occupied by the Empire. Plus many nobles probably use Phezzan to hide their wealth.It's very similar to the USSR in the real world. Officially their government were against Western countries and capitalism. Unofficially, many politicians took bribes and kickbacks. They were happy to trade under the table to get money or goods.It was actually an unspoken tradition in the USSR that you took every advantage you could get because the Soviet communist system didn't reward hard workers enough. For example, USSR Factory workers would skim from the factory. They would regularly take a little bit from the factory over a long period time. It's how some of them would build their houses, appliances, or other items for their family. I recall an example where one worker even built a car for his family using smuggled parts he took from his job. It took a few years. But gradually he smuggled one of every piece of the car, and was able to build a car in his shed for his family to use.
>>23982079The best king in Prussian history was gay, something certain people prefer to forget.
>>23993439Not to mention there's a very clear distinction between what the Imperial family projects and what an individual emperor will particularly care about. If Reinhard hadn't taken over the war would have stayed a stalemate until Branschvieg had a domestic crisis that required him to display military prowess to resolve and even that would likely just be a symbolic foray.
>>23993439>It was actually an unspoken tradition in the USSR that you took every advantage you could get because the Soviet communist system didn't reward hard workers enough. For example, USSR Factory workers would skim from the factory. They would regularly take a little bit from the factory over a long period time. It's how some of them would build their houses, appliances, or other items for their family. I recall an example where one worker even built a car for his family using smuggled parts he took from his job. It took a few years. But gradually he smuggled one of every piece of the car, and was able to build a car in his shed for his family to use.I'm not saying that didn't happen, but wouldn't the police have questions about how a random factory worker had a car? I assume this factory worker would have to bribe the cops and get false papers too?
>>23987219Because the Empire, as shown many times, is actually fairly poor. It's the same reason why China allowed Hong Kong and Macau to operate under their own economic rules for so long.
>>23993647That's only a thing in wealthy countries where everybody is expected to register and have a tax stamp on their car to prove they paid into the social safety net for the privilege of owning it. Elsewhere, if you have a car people assume you make enough money to get it and don't need the paperwork.
>>23993647>I'm not saying that didn't happen, but wouldn't the police have questions about how a random factory worker had a car? I assume this factory worker would have to bribe the cops and get false papers too?This is such a Western oriented mindset. Why would the Soviet Police care? Why would they be speaking to him at all? Your post makes no sense.This is the 1970s. No street cameras. No internet. No smartphones. If you keep quiet about it, don't get into car accidents, then no one will know.
>>23993691>>23993653>>23993691>This is the 1970s. No street cameras. No internet. No smartphones.Fair point, I guess this was after Destalnization. There's this guy on youtube I watch every now and then who grew up over there, he said if you had your own car that was a real money maker because you could charge people for rides and running errands and stuff.
>>23981573>>23981575reinhard has elements of hitler, napoleon and alexander, this much is obvious.
>>23994255No hes more like a cross with muhamad and lawrence of arabia
>>23982079If he was gay why did he kidnap Reinhard's sister and doom his reign?
>>23996965the one BEFORE him was gay
