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I wouldn't call it a country - but probably the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Woodrow Wilson prefigured almost every horrible core aspect of the left today. Racial essentialism? Check. Segregration? Check. Contempt for free speech? Check. Contempt for freedom of association? Check. Contempt for states? Check. Contempt for religion? Check. Contempt for tradition...

...clearly was the result of a hideous bio-weapons program, splicing the commoner landbound homosapiens with their seaborne overlords to create a taskmaster janissary species... Dr Rac C. Oon, Alpha Centauri University, deep history archaeologist.

Hippos do look cute and poochy..., ...until you see a skeleton of one, specifically the skull. Then you realize that these river dwelling, saber-toothed, murder-machines must have been ripped from some D&D monster manual and given a half-assed kid-friendly reskin before public release. If...

Sorry, but unless you personally have recently run for and won office, 'people like' you haven't won crap. What has happened is that some politicos have worked out a new branding strategy, turning your anger into reliable funding, primary votes, and social media clickbait. Of the three, it is...

On one hand, the whole "let's change the rules mid-election to favor our side" was rancid crap. On the other , looking back on America's actual election history, all the way back to the colonial and immediate post-colonial period, it hasn't been nearly the wonderful tale we were taught in...

I've seen it written before, and it seems more true each time I play a session, but Starfield really strikes me as less a "AAA" game, and more as a full conversion mod of Skyrim. The only thing missing is Tamriel itself, orbiting some star out there, so you can visit with your shiny high tech...

I was wondering what the hell those things were. They list as hookah charges (or something similar) and you can find them in employee areas of about half the various outposts you find outside the set-peice settlements. Cigarettes and hookahs everywhere. Random combat drugs as well, but none...

I defy anyone too look at Louisiana district 6 and tell me with a straight face that is not a gerrymander.

RE: Numenor - Two words - Ar Pharazon. Actually, by law the UK remains explicitly anti-catholic today. Most prominently, there is one religion which the royal family is forbidden to convert to currently. Guess which one? That they aren't as violently anti-catholic as they were in the past...

well, tolkien did say that he based the Kazadim on large part on the Jews. actually, lots of jewish analogues in LOTR - late era Numenor is basically a pharaonic Egypt expy (just note the name of the last numenorean king, if you don't believe me) The flight of Elendil and the exile faithful...

For some folks everything is caused by commies, for others it is fascists, for yet others it is jews, for others it is the rich. For that one guy on history channel, it is always aliens. I guess for some folks child-abusers are the go-to touchstone for 'wierd stuff I can't logically explain...

Megyn Kelly is sounding a lot like Rachel Maddow used to about Trump-Russia and 'the walls closing in'. One was full of shit then, and I suspect the other is full of shit now. Won't lie. Every so often I see an old missile silo bunker or abandoned mine go on sale and the fallout-fanboy in me...

Good question. Here is another, how was a tunnel system built six months ago tied to someone (Epstein) who died in jail over a year ago?

I'm going to want to see evidence of those claims, if you want me to take them into account. Evidence which includes who is doing the attacking, and what, if anything is happening to them as a result.

I don't see any evidence that the Israeli's hate western civ. The jewish folks who hate western civ are the same as the catholics, protestants, and others who hate western civ - they're mostly apostates and heretics who worship The State &/or The Cause, and are paid up members of The...

Cool. Did not know that. thanks.

Last I checked, a rebel soldier is required to be uniformed, have a recognized command structure, and be part of an organized military that demonstrates will and capability to adhere to the conventions themselves. Near as I can tell, the Hamas folks fail at least two points of that test...

Funny - I missed the part where I, a fourth generation US marine, have been proven to untrustworthy, unloyal, or subversive. Similarly for my wife. Then again, I'm never been much of a fan of Trump, being rather more of a libetarian politically, and traditional catholic in personal morality...

Minor note, the Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties, not a single document. As treaties are only binding upon signatories who have completed any domestically required ratification procedures, whether the treatment of irregular combatants, unlawful combatants clauses apply to Israel...