Right.
Massai herdsman who has fended off lions and kept his flock safe for thirty years straight.
Left wing uni student shouting "queers for Palestine."
Who is more intelligent?
“Mass influx of semi-slave labour doesn’t fuck over the unskilled jobs market you silly statist.”
Lolberts gonna lolbert I suppose. Is it any surprise your epoch has lead to utter disaster…
If it was victory, it was short lived in the grand scheme of things. And given how it ended…in Stalin’s position I wouldn’t have been sure if “winning” was worth it.
Meanwhile, Augustus Caesar could be a dick of biblical proportions, but it is undoubtably true that he won. And for all its ups...
Damn fucking straight you don’t. That road has always lead to mass murder and horror whenever taken in human societies, so it can stay in the fucking dustbin of history as far as I’m concerned.
I’m not entirely sure there. Given how the Party basically dumped him and his policies not long after the body was cold, and that his death was not only suspicious (one of his inner circle poisoned him I reckon) but quite avoidable if he hadn’t sent all the good doctors to the Gulag, I think the...
The tragedy of American ship building (same as Britain) is that the Neoliberals try to run everything like a corporation: maximise profit, efficiency cuts, etc.
Trouble is, there are some things where that approach is inappropriate, especially in regards to strategic assets or the armed...
I’d like to add that no one actually thinks themselves “above” dirty jobs, it’s just that living in the Western World is bloody expensive and these jobs simply don’t pay enough. People would clean toilets if it paid the bills.
A country built on treason having lenient treason laws? Say it ain't so!
That's a bad joke by the way. I can certainly understand why those laws were written the way they were. You don't want to risk crushing genuine good faith criticism.
Still, to my mind treason must be crushed swiftly and...
So, one thing I’m considering with that fic I need to write one day, is the relationship between the Clone Troopers and non-clone Republic military personnel, especially in the wake of Order 66. For many of them, given how fast it all happened, as far as they are concerned the Clones essentially...
It’s also an overreaction. Battleships proved invaluable as ships of the line and as escorts for the carriers with their vast anti-air batteries. Some of that extra firepower could have come in handy during the Battle of Midway or any other carrier clash during the Pacific.
Edit: Either war...
The Dark Ages could loosely be set as the years between the implosion of the Western Roman Empire and the coronation of Charlemagne to my mind.
These were difficult times but those in the ruins of Rome’s western domains did a lot more than just scratch out a living for themselves. This is an...