Not really talking modern history. Machine guns are certainly a blood multiplier.

We don't really have firm numbers on casualties from the Spanish side (probably because just how fractured and inured to conflict Spain was at the time), but Castillian armies were among the largest seen before in Europe during the final years of the Iberian reconquest. Over 100,000 Muslims were killed or captured in the closing years.

Really, though, I was just referencing this:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23337/w23337.pdf

Married queens were around 27% more bellicose than their male counterparts.

You mean the Jewish Socialists, Communists, and Soviet collaborators that peppered the Manhattan Project?

I'm still not convinced Ben Shapiro isn't just trying to repackage neocon foreign policy under a libertarian facade. But I can get behind the Jewish apartheid state as well.

Go Jews.

On this, we can completely agree.

Jews pimpin negro culture. It's not that complex. Amplify empathetic guilt, and prey upon it.

For the first part, we can look at Isabelle Castile as an example. For the second, we can look at any random woman.

Historically, at least in European context, female leadership has resulted in some of the bloodiest wars seen. On one hand, conquest gives them legitimacy. On the other, they're emotional as fuck and rationale plays a small part in their decision process.

"oh well, guess things didn't get bad enough to warrant a response"

If they find an alchemy that successfully replaces productivity with "money printer go brrr", then yeah?

I don't believe it's possible. The easy times are about to end. If I'm wrong, I'm kind of okay with that.

As long as the economy is decent, you're not going to get people off their hands. By all means, prepare for when people are receptive, but comfortable people are complacent. It's basic human nature.

I think we're about 1928 right now. Shit'll change soon enough.

Yeah, that's why easy times create weak men. When shit gets real, things will change. As long as we can remain relatively comfortable within the status quo, that's what the vast majority will choose.

French schoolgirl

ummm...

And the degenerate that destroy social trust. Never forget the degenerates.

pretty good humor, but not surprising. I love to see such infuriating tactics being embraced en masse by people who despise those tactics, though. There's hope in that.

I'm sure he just meant they're short on looks, absolutely deprived of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster, very greedy when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else.

If you swear or reference a god, you need to do that in character, any decent role player knows that, as Nerd is a term from the 1980s.

Actually from the 50's. Invented by Dr. Seuss in the now banned book, If I Ran the Zoo.

Not just inflation as a supply of money issue, but increased demand for assets that they were priced out of before.

Yeah. When the the cost of labor rises, the least productive are likely to get axed first.

A little cut and dry. Moderate abolitionists wanted to do it through a constitutional amendment. Only the more radical, fringe, John Brown lefty types, wanted to do it without regard to the law.

Okay, not an abolitionist. Just anti-slavery.

Not anti-white. Just anti-racist.

Time has given Lincoln a great deal of moral prestige he scantly enjoyed in his lifetime.

The election of an abolitionist President alone shows increasing hostility to southern state interests.

https://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/FinalOrder/FApr6.1Comm.html

It's an interesting case, really. Were I a Southern Democrat at the time, I'm sure I would have taken as much stock in Lincoln's word as I would Biden today.

Sending warships to "relieve" the garrison was a provocative act, regardless of intent, though. Especially after the failed reinforcement attempt using the Star of the West a couple months prior. Granted, that was before Lincoln's inauguration, but as you acknowledge, Lincoln wanted to make sure to paint the South as aggressors. The Sumter expedition was a perfect way to kick it off.

Tariffs aren't the reason for the civil war, but did play a role in the desire for secession. Around 74% of federal revenue came from southern exports, while the federal government was growing increasingly hostile to southern state interests. The reason for the outbreak of war was federal reinforcements sent to Sumter, which would have blockaded charleston harbor and effectively ended any warfighting ability the south had.

Whether reinforcements were actually sent is a point of contention, as there were orders both to relieve (Lincoln), and to reinforce (War Sec. Stanton, iirc).

https://i.imgur.com/26JXWlr.gif

Noita. Fun little roguelike with surprising depth.

Nah. Shit's going to get bad, but it'll realign priorities.

The most shocking thing is that the pack didn't attack together. Normally, old dude would have been subjected to an array of Nikes and Yeezys in unison, mostly to the head, before the feral mongrels ripped his shoes and pants off.