It tends to be tit-for-tat as well. British ships challenge Russian coastlines, American subs emerge inside areas of Russian control, French planes overfly Russian military bases…
All this gets reported in Russian media as provocative, which reinforces the rationale for further conflict with Western nations.
When these countries enter a state of detente, the maneuvers don’t stop happening. State news agencies simply stop using the incidents to agitate for further conflicts
Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas Day “in defense of Christians”.
There’s a moment when it can add tension. You find three silver arrows in an old fort, hole up for the night, and then hear the horrible howl of a werewolf ring out.
Or you’re lost in the desert, trying to ration your water until you can find an oasis.
I’ve played Westmarches games where you do a little pre-adventure “we need to go X hexes so we’re wanting Y supplies to get there and back”. But its more a cost of failure than a drama element.
You mean West Canada?
The Emancipated and Fully Independent People’s Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.
It’s actually a curved line
There you go then. You’ve got one
Happy to name some names
Brother, selectively quoting history you don’t like is not denying history you get off to
Because Trumpism is seen as unstable and of dubious logevity, there’s not an enormous rush to build defunct factories for meeting energy demand under inefficient mediums. You’re never going to see another newly built coal plant. Gas plants aren’t coming online any faster, with the specter of Peak NGLs on the horizon. Solar and Wind are the future purely because of their low cost, long term profitability, and rapid ROI.
Delaying these projects when fossil fuel usage is already dropping (gasoline is falling to $2/gal levels not seen since the COVID crash) means starving the electricity hungry digital economy purely out of spite.
Listen here’s the thing – I don’t know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys want to make some bacon?
This is unnecessarily cruel to werewolves.
Epstein was a major bundler and influencer in the liberal establishment, specifically within the US East Coast and the EU West Coast regions. Chompsky was also in this circle of influential political and media figures. Its not crazy that they’d run into each other any more than Epstein hobnobbing with any other Ivy League professors or national media figures or British Royals.
did the book sales for manufacturing consent get him that fucking rich?
More that knowing a guy like Epstein is what gets you regularly syndicated in news columns and invited as a guest onto TV shows. You could say the same about Larry Summers or Steven Pinker.
The two guys calling you a “Tankie” in the comments.
If a Democrat said what Mike Johnson was saying, the party would kick that person out for being unelectable.
Democrats don’t want anyone interested in impeachment. They want serious, moderate, business friendly, popular politicians like Henry Cuellar and Robert Menendez.
I see folks complaining about “Tankies” on this site a dozen times a day and twice that on Sundays.
Antifa, Radical Islam, Russian Bots, Chinese Wumao, ISIS, Tren de Aragua, Weather Underground… take your pick. They’re all corrupting the minds of our youth with quotes of people and videos of events perpetrated by people running our federal governments.
Anyone that tricks a Westerner into refusing to support our national or state governments is an extremist radical contributing to the decay and destruction of our hallowed institutions. We have to find them, silence them, punish them, and remove them at all costs. Otherwise the Evil Foreigners will win.
Do you want to wake up speaking North Korean? Then get with the program and join ICE, so we can stop these ultra-radical freedom-hating anarcho-communists.
a lot of those people are too old to work, let alone in a role that requires decades of training and experience to do competently
That’s fundamentally a problem with democratic politics. The job of a politician is not to governor, but to campaign. The goal is to hit the magic combination of fundraising, friendly media, and popular approval to outpoll every other contender on election day.
A big advantage in campaigning is incumbency. Politicians get all of the above simply be being in office (which is why getting appointed a Senate seat by the governor is such a sweetheart deal).
Add to that, Senators serve for six years. And while I’d argue folks 60-70 years old are perfectly employable, you get into dangerous territory if you’re winning a seat at age 76 and holding it into age 82.
If they plotted Senate representation against proportion of workforce, rather than population, the discrepancy would be even more glaring.
Maybe weighted against income. But there are a distressingly large number of senior citizens who still need to hold jobs in order to make ends meet.
DM: “Okay, fine. But after this you can’t use it again.”