The Panthers and RAF killed people over less. Seriously fuck these people snitches get stitches definitely applies and they should be taught what “authoritarianism” actually means via a punch in the mouth.

Of course, this is exactly what COINTELPRO relied on. The FBI planted wreckers to get people to turn on one another with violence. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out there were feds doing the same shit in the DSA.

left-of-center

The center between liberalism and fascism is just fascism.

She didn’t even get that much of a punishment, either. IIRC the longest any of the Abu Ghraib guards seen torturing people was like 4 years and they were let out on “good behavior.”

Daily reminder there were also women and children being tortured at Abu Ghraib. They only released the pictures taken of the adult men who were tortured because they didn’t want there to be mass riots.

I keep having dreams where I get in fights with various people I knew in K-12. Sometimes they were bullies, sometimes just people I completely forgot about. I always end up kicking them or using my heels, which wakes me up when I kick the wall.

Another loophole is there’s nothing to stop ammendments to the constitution, including an ammendment that makes it easier and faster to pass ammendments. They could pass a law making it easier for congress to ammend the constitution, ammend it to say the president can now sign ammendments into law without state or congressional approval through executive orders, then Trump just writes an EO to make him president for life with the ability to appoint his successor.

The worst president in American history …

I fucking hate liberals. Trump is awful between Gaza, ICE, Venezuela, Epstein, and a dozen other problems. None of that matters to these shitheads except Trump wanting to invade Greenland.

Sure. Let’s just ignore Jackson forcing thousands of Native Americans west of the Mississippi onto reservations. Or Washington, Jefferson, Maddison, and Monroe all owning slaves. Let’s forget about Biden starting the current genocide in Palestine, the previous century of presidents who sanctioned Palestinian genocide, Pol Pot, Bosnia, East Timor, or Guatemala. Forget about the lead up to the Civil War. Or the Depression. Or the Recession. Forget about the millions of dead Native Americans and black slaves.

Clearly, Trump is literally worse than Hitler.

If I didn’t want to die in Iraq, I would simply not take notes for America.

He was. The phrase “The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” is a line from his manifesto.

The first pilgrims to the US were the vikings, who also settled Greenland, so obviously this makes Americans the true owners of that land.

Lmao those libs think those are somehow useful comments. “We’ve been protesting since 2016 and have nothing to show for it! Obviously you’re a Russian bot!”

They say that like there aren’t a bunch of Russians in prison for actually opposing Putin. Gary Kasparov, turbo lib that he is, did a few months for protesting Putin getting reelected.

They would be out of the frying pan and into the fire. The US is just as bad on indigenous rights as Canada. Our residential schools just closed a decade sooner. There’s still a disproportionate number of Native American kids in the foster system, large numbers of Native American women missing (presumably murdered), and reservation sizes shrink every day. Then you have the ICE shit where they’ve arrested and/or deported Native Americans, saying their tribal documents are fake.

Maybe blowing up some Klanadian crakkkers will offer some satisfaction or be done out of spite. But getting in bed with the US will still result in worsening conditions, except now they’re seen as collaborators by the settlers around them.

Just throw the term White Man’s Burden in this person’s face because they’re exactly what it describes. Instead of Christianity, it’s “religious freedom.” Instead of civilization, it’s “democracy.” China rejects this because these same excuses were used to justify a Century of Humiliation.

Straight-up call that person out as a white supremacist who thinks non-whites can’t think for or govern themselves.

Say that again, slowly.

Payday was made by Europeans but it’s hilarious how cops just shoot civilians. Shame the company turned out so scummy. They did get rid of one of their execs who embezzled a bunch of money. I think that guy is still in prison.

The first edition of 40k, Rogue Trader, was very much an RPG that required a GM. It had a lot of character creation like you were recruiting a party of space adventurers to go on secret missions. Warhammer Fantasy was like a scaled up version of Chainmail, the skirmish wargame for D&D. It remained cross compatible with the Fantasy RPG until around 5th. Edition (I think? I started playing in late 6th. for Fantasy and in 3.5 for 40k, well after the games shed their heavy RPG elements).

There are several RPGs set in every GW franchise except Blood Bowl. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Inquisitor, Wrath & Glory, Soulbound, and Dark Heresy all remain popular. Inquisitor especially has seen a revival with the 28mm movement, called Inq28.

Yeah I really stopped giving a shit with Primaris being an obvious money grab to convince players to buy their Space Marine armies a second time. Or how Horus Heresy for some reason has like 60+ books with awful prose, zero editing, and turned something mythical into something bland while shitting up the rest of the franchise. Then I realized I hit grog status because a lot of the older players when I started 20-something years ago felt the same way with the shift from Rogue Trader to 3rd. or the wave of secondaries flooding in from Dawn of War.

It’s all made up and the story doesn’t matter. No one is going to force you to buy and paint stuff you don’t like nor are they going to take away your models.

The problem historical wargames often run into is “You have a WWII British Army, I have a Vietcong army circa 1975, so we don’t have a way to play a coherent wargame.” Warhammer Fantasy solved this problem by going "Okay, everyone just hates each other and there’s also lots of infighting. So it doesn’t matter what models you have, there’s a story reason for why you two are fighting. "

40k became the space version, which then incorporated a bunch of sci-fi and war tropes. So you have xenomorphs from Alien to play against WWII Soviets, Skynet from Terminator, the Dirty Dozen, or knights and nuns with guns. Any incoherent plot holes, contradictions, etc. can be explained with unreliable narrators since the only thing that matters is two people can roll some dice while playing with toys.

As GW has gotten older and expanded the franchise, they’ve tried to reign in some of the canon to make things more consistent. They’re still left with a lot of silliness, though, because the original writers were taking the piss with characters like Ferrus Manus and Corvus Corvax. Models were made based on whatever cool shit sculptors wanted to see in their games, not necessarily what was part of an established setting.

This has caused the chuds to become upset because they wanted their Catholic space nazis to be good guys, not realizing the Catholic space nazis were there to be bad guys good guys could beat up. Most 40k players and hobbyists understand the fluff is there to support the crunch.

Like here’s some of my Catholic space nazi apprentices who are used to make my opponent feel like an anime protagonist:

WarCraft Orcs & Humans would have been a goldmine for GW if they had let Blizzard do the Orcs vs. Brettonians game they wanted. Amazing how badly they punted that.

Warhammer 40 :kelly: