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Like today? Or every other contemporary or previous country? Just because the ruling caste is not officially recognized does not mean it is not still there. The only issue is to not prevent people for entering it if they manage to qualify or prevent them from reaching said qualifications...

Cicero I think wanted to do something like that. He failed. They always do. Virtue as a rule is mostly forged through hardship. Ermm... This good thing you are talking about. Really hard to quantify in numbers. Wealth however is a good measure of power and as such it acknowledges the financial...

Well, you are perhaps not a completely hopeless idealist... There is time. Hah, I was right. Your cynisism exams are looming and you are unprepared. Human conditon is immutable. Trans- and Posthumans are a completely different kettle of fish, but even then depending on culture and engineering...

The right and proper citizens ought to be better armed. If they are not they deserve the fate they will get. All authority at the end of the day rests in the barrel of a gun or the edge of a blade. When the cash runs out the same purgation will happen anyway once the country goes bankrupt due...

Universal Democracy will always end in some kind of Communism or Socialism. It is inevitable. The only way to preserve it from sliding is restricted franchise to those that actually contribute to the budget and not drain it. If you want to see such an actual functioning democracy buy some...

I do not like this comparison. Mainly for the fact that there was massive communist infiltration and propaganda aimed at the US and because right now while Russia has a foreign policy of trying to aid any destabilizing elements regardless of political leaning to fulfil its geopolitical goals, it...

Winners of the Darwin Award. Performing a great service to the rest of the spectating humanity.

Which it is why once in a while the tree of liberty needs some watering... Or a government building burnt. Or.... You get the idea. That is why nutters are such an important resource, because some times they actually do it and are not just hot air until the situation forces their hand. The...

Indeed. But most of the times the threat of violence is enough to solve the situation without it actually being exercised to its full capacity. Thus it is quite important for the other side to believe that you are willing to do it. And for your side as well.

Without the willingness and capacity to do violence for an ideal, eventually that ideal will die out. Treasure and husband your violent nutters, for they are a very scarce and precious resource - the only actual guaranteed catspaws of making the ruling power no matter who they are blink, before...

[X] Gets ready for the hunt and forgets about Ava. While she was his friend, he wouldn't put his family at risk by warning the village. If the clans were hurt by the information, and they found out who prepared the village...It would cause a lot of problems. (Advances the traits: Pragmatic...

Not really. All things must die, thus all civilizations will fall. From its ashes a new civilisation will rise one who will reject the ideas that led to the death of the previous one, then eventually engage in cargo cultism of their "ancestors" , while not managing to learn the lesson and once...

The ending of slavery comes from the same mentality as the one currently ensuring all the rather unfortunate events happening in our time. And it will lead to the obvious and inevitable conclusion. No good deed goes unpunished. And just like Atlantis, this civilization that had the rather...

So a perversion of the perfect glory that is MorningLightMountain? The MC disgusts me with his plebian desire to engage in and desire coexistence. Then again there are few people willing to accept that they are and ought to be the villain and be content with doing their utmost to achieve the...

It was more of a joke but now I am most pleased you took it as a insult. Until turkey is out of NATO they will be always higher priority over some other group that does not have a nuclear arsenal stationd there and a vastly important geostrategic position . The leadership of the US or Turkey...

You are some kind of pinko aren't you? There are other markets for arms sales. And as a salesman he can convince them to buy american arms. If done as a backroom deal with a future sale in the bag he would not need defy them just sell them on diverting the flow of arms. Couple it with a very...

I disagree. If that was the aim having Patton engineer a Pearl Harbour Mk2 and continuing to Moscow would have been a lot easier especially as most east Europe would have stood with the allies. Without capitalising on that leaving Europe to its own devices and maintaining the pressure valve of...

Eh. Fuck the Kurds. Not like you did not fuck over the Tadjiks in A-stan. Or other such little issues. And its not like every big stick in any alliance has not fucked over the little sticks for its own benefit since time immemorial. The mistake is thinking you are any different, and as such...

There are multiple and distinct free flight ticket classes for helicopters - kind of like for airplanes. Just because one is of lower priority does not mean they do not get to fly...