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Most historical empires had competing military forces all the way through. Skirmishes between local Lords and central government, different local areas competing, etc. The historically unusual thing about modern western states is that these disputes have been adjudicated by courts mostly peacefully
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her real mistake was saying she'd bad tiktok so she could conscript all the zoomers for WW3
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Belly showers solidarity
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In 1989 at Tiananmen square the government brought in army units from the countryside because they didn't trust that units made up of local beijingren would be willing to harm protestors.
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Yeah, I've tried to use LLMs to code as someone who doesn't know anything about coding, and its basically impossible. I think people underestimate how much implicit knowledge they're drawing on
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Politically it's a lot more visible though
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Interesting, i interpreted the original guy as having blood on his face rather than a cigarette, and scratches on his helmet. Showing he'd been actually fighting
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Tbh I think the later flashman books soften him as well
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Thing is most recent 40k books depict the imperium as, if not good, at least a lesser evil
So it doesn't contrast much
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I think the issue is that we don't really see him clash with the Imperial system that much. Other than a few token antagonist characters who everyone around him seems to think are dumb, he mostly interacts with reasonable pragmatic people
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He's ridiculously prolific
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we need the keyboards back
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Or conservatives who treat it as a parable of over-regulation, when it actually lacks state capacity to enforce basic health and safety. And has runaway capitalism
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You see something similar with China now, where it's an inverse America that serves the speakers ideological points, not a real place with its own history. Like, tankies who are convinced that it has great free healthcare because America doesn't, which is bad,
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Hey that's unfair. Sometimes he includes random references to 18th century German writers, which sounds very smart
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Also mars being way smaller than Venus or Earth. In pop culture it looms far bigger
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But you mustn't miss the wood for the trees
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Theoretical: Ballet and other forms of structured dance promote muscular development and coordination
Practical: All the adepts say I'm pretty fly for a blue guy
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Yeah I think people underestimate how much it comes down to not deep ideological differences but just not knowing certain facts. Like the number of people who sincerely didn't know what trump's policies were because they weren't paying attention.
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Weirdly it makes me think of a bad Shakespeare adaptation. Like the story already existed in a good for but we are seeing a distorted copy
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People talk about how national identities are constructed. Without taking the next step of that meaning you can make them whatever you want
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Maybe replace her with something about the Civil War/Freeing of slaves
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Focusing on a tiny bit of illegible text rather than the point being made is a pretty good distillation of internet leftism
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I always assumed that most of the galaxy was only nominally under their control and barely interacted with them (a bit like in 40K where planets can go centuries without contact from there " government")
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But obviously that wouldn't include normal nice law abiding people. issuepedia.org/Shirley_exce...
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youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM
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I think anything that enters somebody's body without their consent is considered assault by default.
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It's amazing how mandalorian was like, let's just do a space Western and they screwed it up
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It's less emphasized in the films, But notable that while aragorn's claim to the throne is hereditary, he demonstrates it by his leadership, ability to heal people, etc. there's an idea that true nobility should be obvious and self-evident not forcibly asserted.
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Also reading Tolkein you get a very visceral sense that he loves nature, loves folkore, loves the world around him. In a way you don't get with many modern conservatives who are entirely fuelled by anger and hate
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Tolkien's conservatism is also opposing modernity in the form of the industrialised murder of the world wars, And longing for a mythical better time before that. Rather than glamorizing war and a mythical 1950s patriarchy, opposed to modern peace and freedoms
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Aoc has the same issue though
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Obsidian's Tyranny did a thing of advertising itself as relatively short but with mutually exclusive paths for replayability. But didn't get a great reception. Though I liked it
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Biden and Michelle Obama missing
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Control/cross reference by age would be interesting, since older people are going to be in relationships longer. Maybe what age did current relationship start
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Remake fallout 4 with fallout 1 graphics to really confuse the obsidian Vs Bethesda people
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Alistair just desperately needs someone to tell him what to do. He even only becomes king because he's pushed to
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The great thing about liberalism is you can set up a consensual BDSM arrangement with the leopard without it being able to eat you
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No he voted Biden and Harris and told his followers to. But he's culturally associated with the kinda contrarian techy online crowd many of whom went full Trump. And felt that liberals were overblowing Trump before. So presumably feels some level of responsibility for that
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Weird variant of the principal agent problem. Once you're an executive the marginal impact of extra money is low, and you don't necessarily get more when the company makes more money. But things that limit your day-to-day life are more salient. Same with not wanting to piss off Trump
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I think there's a gender element to it as well? A lot of the bullying of nerds in the past was based on the idea that they weren't correctly performing masculinity, and even worse for women
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Yeah it's wild talking to gen z people who just find the idea that you would be bullied for liking warhammer or whatever inconceivable.
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Purely generalised from my own experience I think a lot of people of a certain generation internalised that particular interests and hobbies were uncool and not to be talked about socially when they were young. And that can be hard to unlearn
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Actually this says it better
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I liked the dynamic of her being like "this is a brain slug infestation, my people have a standard way of treating that idiots" and then being betrayed
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