Yes, actually. By a man no less. Admittedly, judging from the photo 'man' is a stretch (then again it often is with these types), but still.
Just needs to be someone higher up on the progressive stack than her. She's hardly important enough to get the elites' or even trusted semi-important types' do-or-say-anything-and-get-away-with-it pass, after all.
With any luck, someone this young monster annoys will dig up a less-than-sensitive social media post she made a few years ago, and the hate-machine she's so eagerly feeding her parents to will unthinkingly consume her in turn.
At this point it's preferable to hope that the left's real power-brokers and decision-makers are cynical sociopaths who are betting on their actions causing a right-wing backlash they think they can 'manage' to achieve their own ends. Because if they're actually stupid and hubristic enough to think they can straightforwardly 'win' on this path...the whole world is hosed as soon as Harris and friends get their paws on the nuclear codes through Biden. I most definitely can wait (preferably a lifetime, and ideally forever) for them to ever think they can put the squeeze on foreign regimes with nukes & geopolitical designs contrary to that of the globalist liberal Atlantic order's this way.
I was just thinking about this. The left must be incredibly cocky bastards to think that they can hound Trump supporters, donors and voters into a corner, put them on lists, reduce them to crushing poverty, effectively disenfranchise & silence them, and take away every single pressure release valve and outlet they might have - and completely get away with it in a complete, unchallenged victory with no repercussions whatsoever.
In a time when the right has armed itself to the teeth even more than usual, become more paranoid and resentful of the left than ever before as a result of the past four years, and had been writing fiction on hypothetical 2ACWs against a tyrannical federal gov't corrupted by the far left for decades. Yeah. This is surely gonna go over well with no violent backlash in the least bit.
Damn. My early-Nazi-history professor brought up choice bits of Weimar degeneracy (including Hirschfield's institute) just to say she supported it, but at least she was a committed democrat and even bashed the KPD for allying with the Nazis against the democratic government in the 1931 Prussian Landtag referendum & in transport strikes the year after.
Looks like maximum accelerationism is happening whether anyone wants it or not.
That's the million dollar question. I'll be blunt, because this is way past time to pretend to not be a doomer: I don't think there is a Caesar right now. Trump was the best positioned to try and, obviously, that has not panned out. I cannot think of any other genuinely charismatic American politician or general who commanded a similar degree of loyalty among the general population at present.
But we have to remember that before Caesar, there was Marius Senior. Marius Junior. Cinna, Catiline, Quintus Sertorius, the Gracchi brothers and others. All failed to overthrow the elite, most paid for it with their lives and that of their loyal legionaries and supporters. But in the end, despite being much more blasé about the casual mass murder of their enemies than modern society, for all their efforts the Roman Optimates never could completely exterminate the Populares. And the bones of those they did kill formed the foundation for Caesar's rise.
Tl;dr this is certainly going to get much worse before it gets better and anyone who's expecting a last minute savior to gallantly ride in atop a white stallion on January 19 is deluding themselves. But the foundation for an American Caesar has been laid (not just with Trumpist populism, but also with mass disillusionment with every legal institution of order in America - would many have believed you if you said the American right would turn against cops, for example, in 2015 or even this past summer?) and if he does not manifest to use it in our lifetimes, he will before the end of this century.
I knew Trump's goose had been shoved into a deep frier and that said deep frier exploded once people moved the goalposts to 'the military will solve this'. Obama did a thorough job purging the officer corps during his presidency and the best case scenario with the grunts would have been fragmentation, meaning civil war rather than any smooth coup against the establishment.
That said, the populist right was around before Trump and despite the inevitable attempts at suppression, I fully expect it to remain long after he's gone, especially as Biden's promised policies amount to trying to put out their fire - stoked as it's been these past four months, much less the past four years - with napalm.
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Attempting to impose large scale gun control alone would be a disastrous mistake for anyone who doesn't want to start mass uprisings and probably the 2ACW to make.
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To say nothing of the exacerbated economic collapse that a nationwide lockdown will bring about...
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Or the extra aggravation from attempting maximally-accelerated pushes on every culture war front the progs can think of. Or the blatant threats and moves to list, disenfranchise, 're-educate' and ultimately destroy every single MAGA supporter in existence.
Like, wow. Talk about realizing every single paranoid fantasy right-wing 2ACW fiction authors have been writing about for decades.
Tiberius Gracchus has been thrown in the Tiber, and now America's latter-day Optimates are no doubt gearing up to do the same with his supporters. But if yesterday was any indicator, I think this is just the beginning of the great American crisis' boiling-over stage (the pot having first been set to boil back in the 1960s), and not even close to its end.
Just from how they've been acting over the short and (for the people who were supposedly being insurrected and rioted against, anyway) bloodless Capitol occupation, and to say nothing of the last five months or five years, I don't think they 'need' anything to justify murderous totalitarian crackdowns against MAGA. Breathing while wearing a red cap is already sufficient provocation.
Definitely feels like the beginning of...something. Maybe it will end in victory for any patriotic and populist forces that have the courage to forge ahead and rise to challenge the oncoming train of Kamala Harris Thought, or maybe they're headed to defeat, but today didn't feel like the end to anything, no more than the Boston Tea Party or Massacre were an end to anything.
I'd also like to take a moment to appreciate the irony of how months of the left burning/looting/murdering their way across America ultimately ended with some streets being renamed, some tasteless statues of Saint Floyd going up, and a lot of humiliating optics all around that the media hailed as 'mostly peaceful protests'.
Meanwhile an hour of the right (bloodlessly - save their own blood) pushing the DC police aside, occupying the Capitol, taking some pictures and reportedly pilfering Nancy Pelosi's hard drive has sent Congress running in terror, and is even now being branded as a riotous insurrection by the MSM. In the big picture, Congress still commands a 15% or so public approval rating and the cops have now decisively dealt a deathblow to the right's Back-the-Blue sentiment. Yeah, this definitely has potential, if the right can organize and build off of it.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
A Coptic Christian, if I had to guess? They're what's left of the natives of Egypt, going back to Biblical times and beyond to Narmer, and still standing despite mounting persecution from Egypt's Arab Muslim majority (most recently Obama's favorites in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood). Suffice to say, they don't look anything like the kangz think they do. (See, for example, the outrage that crowd had when Rami Malek was cast as an Egyptian character some years back)
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
Jesus may not even have been necessarily brown-skinned despite being a Galilean Jew, anyway. He lived before Rome deported the Jews from Judea and long before the Arabs swept into the Levant, so there's a decent chance that he (and indeed other Jews at the time) would have physically had more in common with the other Aramaic-speaking Middle Easterners of the time.
Now since high school I've been friends with an Assyrian girl from northern Iraq, and she doesn't exactly look like the stereotypical Arab, heck she's paler than most white people I know. Obviously she isn't representative of every single Syriac out there, nor does this mean Jesus too must be pale as driven snow, but I'd buy that he was long before I'd buy that he looked like a Nubian as the first picture in the linked article suggests.
Well, that's alright. Although I'm definitely more into the world-building side, I'm not a total stranger to writing narrative prose - I'm still down to help if you'd like, particularly with dialogue/phrasing/grammar.
And yeah, it's probably unavoidable since TD.win is constantly bombarded with leftist trolls no matter how quickly their moderators work to remove the former, but I've noticed that shill/troll infestations only really start becoming a problem if the mods are compromised somehow and allow them to fester.
As long as they get removed promptly and bashed by all the serious posters in the interim, they're not much of a problem, and whatever issues their presence would cause is easily outweighed by the benefits of a Reddit-esque site where we can post work that isn't riddled with forced diversity or portrays right-associated characters & arguments in any non-negative light and not get relentlessly hounded by cries of 'fascist!'.
Hey, another aspiring writer! I'd be happy to help, if I can. Though to be perfectly honest, I may or may not be particularly helpful depending on what it is you're writing & what I'll be looking at - I'm the kind of guy who tends to write 20-30,000+ words of worldbuilding without even (and sometimes ever, although I am trying to discipline & push myself in that regard) starting a single narrative chapter.
Now that I think about it, having some kind of Creative.win somewhere down the road to be able to share writing, art, etc. without having to worry about getting brigaded by leftist mobs would be nice.
The majority voted for this
Funny enough, Trudeau didn't get a majority or even the most votes in Canada's last election - the Conservatives actually came in first place popular-vote-wise, nabbing something like 200k more votes.
But try telling that to anyone who supposedly wants a switch away from the Electoral College/FPTP, in America or Canada, and most likely they'll just have a brain BSOD before changing the subject. Getting an actual answer out of them is even harder.
Precisely. Honestly, in regards to that specific character change, the anachronistic 'womanpower' attitude of Talisa wasn't even what maddened me the most (although it was certainly annoying and out-of-place), but how it drastically altered the character of both Robb & Jeyne and the uniqueness of their marriage's circumstances for the worse.
Robb and Jeyne didn't love each other as you said, they probably liked each other well enough on account of being two reasonably attractive teenagers, but they only got hitched because Robb's honor and memory of his (seeming) half-brother Jon wouldn't let him take a highborn maiden's virginity and saddle his child by her with bastardy. Kings and princes making poor matches to their own detriment b/c 'luv' happens all the time in medieval fantasy or historical fiction where there's a romantic arc involved, but them making poor matches for honor's sake, not so much.
(Also, Jeyne was a Westerosi-born noblewoman, even if her house was one of lesser nobility that was in decline, so she'd have been a controversial but still somewhat believable match for King Robb had they lived in better times)
But nah, Weiss & Benioff turned that unique and complicated situation into one where the King in the North falls in love with a random foreign nurse for backtalking him, then marries her in violation of all common sense and in so doing, actually throws his honor under the bus to be with her - literally the opposite of what Book-Robb was trying to do (balancing his honor, Jeyne's, and the Freys'). Stories where 'royalty marries commoner, gets screwed over because of it' are a dime a dozen and thus don't have nearly as much impact as the Robb/Jeyne relationship, IMO.
GoT was rotten for at least three seasons before that ending anyway, and 'unwarranted grrrl powah overwhelming all sense of reason & logic to the plot' was a part of said rot for a while.
Cersei getting away with nuking the Westerosi equivalent to the Vatican and randomly seizing the throne for no apparent reason nor with any legal backing was the worst it got outside of anything to do with Girl-Hitler, but it went on for an even longer while than Season 5 I'd say. You could see it cropping up as early as Seasons 2-3 (when the show was at its best) with the replacement of Robb's queen with a sassy exotic nurse who, frankly, had no reason to be in his presence at all.
Dragon Age 2, as well. It was where Bioware's devs (Hepler first & foremost, I believe) started throwing out the 'gamers are entitled' attack in response to criticism over their game being an underwhelming, rushed and disjointed hot mess with cut-and-paste maps, parachuting enemies replacing logical enemy placement, far more railroading than Origins, and so on.
I didn't think too much of it at the time - it worsened my opinion of the Bioware devs who spazzed out, of course, but I still liked Bioware and its works in general back then - but in hindsight it foreshadowed their same behavior (just to a much bigger extent) when ME3 came out and disappointed.
I'm sure much worse was said in the time that the software was 'downed' to make absolutely surethe Republican board members bent the knee. Legal threats (as others have suggested the Michigan Secretary of State made last night), more explicit threats toward them and their families, or a combination of both.
It is Detroit after all, and if the Dem machine was already willing to openly dox and threaten the Republicans in public, I don't doubt for a minute that they'd be prepared to push the envelope much further when conveniently moved out of the public eye for a little while. I'm sure nobody, on either side, expected that Wayne County would even try to not certify their results, and that where Trump's people would have seen a bit of good news the Democrats would have had reason to go bugfuck insane considering what's in this county.
Little wonder that Afrocentrist scholars have to work so hard and torture logic so badly to steal the legacy of successful non-black Africans, such as Cleopatra and Hannibal, when the race of 'kangz' and 'kweenz' was the same race that's been kicked around by literally everyone else, even Native Americans (the Five Civilized Tribes owned slaves).
Good, fuck Esper for undercutting his commander-in-chief back in the summer, this is absolutely the worst time for a president to allow known fifth-columnists and the dubiously loyal to hang around. Is this Miller fellow replacing him reliable?
Well, those incidents brought about a rather explosive response from legitimately radicalized rightists that spooked the feds so badly, they didn't attempt any more over-the-top oppressive mass murders of American citizens in the Waco/Ruby Ridge style, not even when they had the chance and media cover at the Bundy ranch (until now, apparently). But I guess all lessons are forgotten in time unless regularly practiced.