Recent content by Skallagrim

The last point is valid as any fanon, although what we got from the EU material suggests otherwise to me. To be fair: that's all elaboration from guidebooks, written later than the novels. But basically, Bel Iblis was actually less willing to "waste lives", and he thought people like Mothma and...

Had you watched the linked video, you'd already know that you're factually wrong. Feral Historian quotes Lucas directly on this, and "modeled directly on the Vietcong" is a bullshit story that people repeat. Literally the next sentence in that interview is Lucas saying "They're the American...

That's because TEH J00S are behind EVERYTHING!!!1!!! ( ;) )

Medical confidentiality doesn't extend to cover everything. In this case specifically, confidentiality may not be used by a doctor (or to force a doctor) to cover up criminal acts. As has previously been discussed, mental competency to act as President isn't defined in detail. So even seeing...

As I've written here, and in many other dscussions: I believe every people has a right to its own ancestral homeland. Arabia is the land of the Arabs. It is the land to which they, more than any other extant people (and therefore to the exclusion of any other extant people), may rightfully lay...

These spambots are probably automated, so to really keep them away, you'd need to implement a human test. I understand that there's an NSFW subforum where you can get access by posting a message into a specific thread? Well, you can also do that for the whole site: before a new member gets the...

It goes beyond just obligation to the Crown. The myth of "evil" feudalism is largely nonsense; an exponent of the "dim Christian dark ages!!!" myth that was peddled centuries after the fact. In fact, it's also a case of the darkest tenets of far more recent absolutism getting back-projected onto...

In a display typical of the anti-semite, @Iconoclast eagerly ignores my actual post and goes off on unrelated tangents muddled with conspiracy bullshit. He also expresses an implicit support for the BDS movement, further revealing the depths of his anti-semitism. (BDS is designated as an...

Yeah, I don't see the countless Jewish states all over the map, where everybody has to be a Jew or gets oppressed, and other religions are persecuted. I don't see a shitload of Jewish radical organisations trying to make every country Jewish. I don't see Jews flying airliners into buildings or...

No, he was always like this. Just not about politics. What @Bacle pointed out is the heart of the issue: he'll never admit to being wrong, no matter how much evidence is presented. He'll double down, and resort to insane troll logic and screeching to avoid retracting his errors. He was always...

If we presuppose that China gets curbstomped (or manages to commit suicide), Vietnam is presently in an excellent position to profit from the resulting mess. If we look at long-term historical trends, their inclination in civilisation-building will then be of a mercantile nature. This of course...

Quoting Blindsight on any matter (but especially relating to intelligence and consciousness) is an automatic disqualification from the discussion, and indeed from any discussion. No book written in recent decades has caused so many midwits to adopt such a completely idiotic and wrong-headed...

The USA is maybe in the best possible position to actually pull off a UBI, because the USA actually has a fuckhuge GDP in comparison to the total population. But imagine it for a second: a 900-bucks-a-week UBI in the USA, for everybody, replacing all federal social support programmes. Current...

No, I co-othered a paper on it. I've been advised not to mention too many details, after talking about it at an earlier time-- since any really obsessed lunatic could potentially deduce my identity. (Although that would take a shitload of searching.) But, yeah, the analysis didn't suggest...

Well-- yes and no, on this. He was pretty great. The things he introduced were subsequently used for less-than-great purposes. Knowing that, you can argue he did stuff that mostly ended up being bad, even if he wasn't bad. Take big business. He really used his power against corruptocrats. His...