thucidydes.bsky.social
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A lot of Vietnam veterans formed the core of the militia movement. And yes, they were pretty racist too.
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Now, I agree that Reyes randomly speculating about someone's religious views might be inappropriate, but is that what actually happened? Who sent that email that is referenced? Was it a Trump official? In which case her comment would be quite reasonable.
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"[Judge Reyes said Trump was erasing transgender people]".
He ordered any reference to trans individuals be scrubbed from records of GRSM history. That sounds like erasure.
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Just to clarify, I never post anymore, but I used to lurk over there. But now that there's an actual alternative to Twitter, even lurking on Twitter isn't really worth it anymore for me.
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I can't even use it half the time thanks to rate limits.
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How much do you want to bet they're about to change their position on stochastic terror?
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Bipartisanship is dead. AOC understands this. The Democratic gerontocracy doesn't.
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Sounds like Rising Sun.
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Republicans ran on transphobia in 2022 and 2024. They won in 2024, and lost a lot of races in 2022. Transphobia isn't the automatic win they think it is.
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Although, if a TERF actively seeks out approval from people like Matt Walsh or Nazis (like Rowling and Parker), then I'm fine with calling their feminism into question.
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Cringey as it is to quote Harry Potter, the world isn't cleanly divided into good people and Death Eaters. Not all feminists are good people, and there are some otherwise good people who aren't exactly feminist.
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As tempting as it is to say TERFs aren't "real feminists" because "feminism means all women", the problem with that line of thinking is that you'd also have to say any black civil rights figures who had misogynist views were therefore white supremacists (because black women are black too).
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Relax, my response was to a hypothetical TERF argument. I pointed out that what trans people actually claim about themselves and what TERFs confidently insist trans people claim about themselves is vastly different.
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I said "if you define sex by chromosomes" as a hypothetic response to TERFy types who insist that is the only way you can define it. And who have a rather obnoxious habit of claiming that trans people think they can switch their "sex" (as defined by chromosomes) at will.
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If you define sex by chromosomes, I've yet to see a single trans person claim they can change that. As a cis guy, my understanding is that trans people experience some level of discomfort in their birth sex and some seek to alleviate that by changing their secondary sex characteristics.
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There are three types of people who thrive working for the Trump presidency.
- the mediocre weaklings who pose no threat to the King
- the grifters who will kiss whatever ass they must
- those with a sinister agenda who will also kiss ass to get it done (Miller, Pence)
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theonion.com/heroic-dog-s...
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As it is, many people will only learn AFTER fighting Morgott in Leyndell that there's a reason he was using an alias outside the city, and if you didn't take careful notes talking to Gideon, you might not have known that Leyndell's ruler was secretive and that you should be shocked to fight "Margit"
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My biggest gripe about the narrative of Elden Ring's base game is that the identity of "the Veiled Monarch" wasn't built up at all and you didn't have dialogue with Rogier about how odd it was that there was a horned Omen you guys fought outside Stormveil.
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Cut a few years to shellshocked veterans in a Sharn bar as an illusion outside commemorates the anniversary of the Mourning, ending with the playing of Breland's national anthem. Then the movie actually starts.
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If the movie had been set in Eberron, I imagine it would have deceptively opened during an action scene of the Last War, but before the climax of the scene, gray fog sweeps the battlefield.
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Is this about reference to his Pixels review, or something recent?
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He doesn't actually want it as a full state. He wants a vassal territory.
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It'll be a kinder, gentler form of genocide. Instead of putting a bullet in people, they'll just remove needed resources and they'll quietly die.
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Note: Prager actually said that. They brought on a professional black friend to deliver the line.
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Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. It starts with a cop murdering an immigrant woman and justifying it with the Prager U response of "when an officer gives you an order, comply, in that moment, they have the final say on what is legal".
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When I run Curse of Strahd, I'll use these new werewolves, but they'll have regeneration that can be halted with a critical hit or silver weapons. Also, there are 3 ways to be cursed: be born with it, a special ritual, or being bitten by Kiril, who has a special gift from the Amber Temple.
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I bring up werebeasts as my only real gripe because they are iconic monsters outside of D&D. If you've never played the game, you probably won't have any preconceived idea of what a "bronze dragon" is or should be, beyond probably being a reptile. But vampires and werewolves are pop culture icons.
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My only real gripe is the change to werebeasts. Having the curse take effect as soon as they hit 0 and be seemingly irreversible means a single werebeast could create 28 Days Later with Werewolves. That leads to some worldbuilding questions. Keith Baker has already said he has thoughts.
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In all seriousness, I mostly liked the new Monster Manual. I'm not sure how I feel about not allowing a save for secondary effects (a raging barbarian should not be getting automatically knocked prone), but I can patch that easily.
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Was it really necessary to have Dungeon Master from the 80s cartoon drop an f bomb in an official book like that? And on the flumph entry no less?
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Harris refused to be seen in public with Palestinian Americans, but was happy to pal around with Liz Cheney. How is that NOT centrist?
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Throwing minorities under the bus never works. The minority across the street will always be more within reach than the oligarch in his manor. Allowing blood libel to go unchallenged doesn't advance a populist agenda.
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Yeah, I know they supported Hitler. As would anyone who draws a moral parallel between the latest SJW cringe compilation and what fracking billionaire funded conservative influencers openly want to do to minorities.
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You mean the Weimar Republic that had judges leftover from the monarchy who let Hitler off because his crimes were patriotic but regularly gave socialists the death sentence for less? That Weimar?
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Republicans ran ads in Texas of Mack Beggs, ignoring that their rules are why he wrestled girls. In short, they are liars who should have been called liars.
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Frontiers of Eberron, the last book Keith did, is set in the frontier region between Droaam (the monster nation ruled by the Daughters of Sora Kell) and Breland. And the general area seems more influenced by the former than the latter.
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Officially? Probably not. Lorewise, absolutely. Mechanically, someone could probably do a homebrew.
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When you read the new werewolf, the part detailing how the curse spreads specifically, how badly did you wish they'd consulted you specifically because of the world building implications and the fact you've dealt with this?
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Are there going to be any more Unearthed Arcanas for the next Eberron book besides the Artificer one? And will the next Eberron book have a focus on a particular area? RftLW focused on Sharn, Frontiers on Droaam, Chronicles on Riedra.
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Aren't these guys a bit old to be playing 11 year olds? Unless you're doing a post Hogwarts story, in which case Tyler might pull it off.
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He declared that Mehdi Hasan was antisemitic by definition because he doesn't masturbate to Israel making lebensraum in Gaza. But he's also a fan of Tucker "the 14 words" Carlson.
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So, on the one hand, Christian conservatives are making a terrible movie series where they are still upset about Nietzche talking smack about their religion and morals. On the other hand, they are embracing Nietzche's moral philosophy. Lovely.
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How else can mediocre people find meaning in life? Is it a coincidence that Rowling devoted herself to transphobia only after she'd lost relevance as a writer?
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And that thinking carries over into culture, too. Most Americans are fine with gay people? Someone must have manipulated them, it can't possibly be that they just met a nice gay person who wasn't like the caricatures on 4chan. Or just look at the Fandom Menace. Better yet, don't.
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Look up the Claremont Institute's essay "Conservatism is no longer enough". They outright declare that less than half the people in America are real Americans. If you accept that framing, then OF COURSE Joe Biden's electoral victory is illegitimate. The numbers don't matter.
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That's why they said Obama was born in Kenya. Legally speaking, it would be irrelevant if he was, since he'd still be a citizen at birth through his mom. And that's why they can't accept that Trump lost in 2020 and don't care that he wanted to throw out ballots in black counties.
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It has that effect, but it's less clever than that. The simple fact is that American conservatives believe on a fundamental level that their political tribe has exclusive ownership of the "American" identity and anyone else having a seat at the table is fundamentally illegitimate.
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Most Democrats (voters, though I'm sure this applies to some of the politicians) do genuinely want society to keep working and would like to see ordinary people able to make ends meet and put food on the table. Social Darwinism, whereby the weak die or are killed, is mostly unique to the right.