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Man, remember the good old days of complex bartering of financial instruments and properties between rich people and corporations, because an arms length exchange that doesn't involve cash doesn't count as a sale and so doesn't trigger capital gains? I'm sure a lot of accounting and tax law...

I found a neat map of Oases and Oasis clusters in the Sahara and added some lines appropriate for this timeline: Blue line is the border of the Holy Roman Empire (so the African Kingdom) so far as I understand after the 1st Crusade: Adrar Plateau to Tuat, skimming over Taghazza, then around...

Cause longbows are about social organization, not technology. And God knows both Irish and invaders have a hard time changing Irish society. You know what'd be neat though? Take Tod's Instant Legolas: Get rid of all the fancy rapid fire and sliding parts, and make it a straight crossbow, just...

Well, at least it makes sense for this Ja'far to become the prototypical evil vizier in fiction. The historical Ja'far ibn Yahya never made much sense in the role, and was depicted as a hero in Thousand and One Nights. And I really never understood how Ireland of all places was so good at...

Lol, Elon Musk publishes Brazil Secret Court Orders through U.S. House Judicial Committee. The bans include many journalists and some elected officials with blatantly fake or nonexistent justification. Hilariously, the orders demanded Twitter claim the bans to be of its own accord, and that...

It's extremely, extremely, common for the ruling elite of Empires to try to replace the people that made the empire possible instead, with outsiders that can be more easily controlled. (Which works . . . for a time) The Roman Empire demilitarized Italians and turned to provincials, mainly...

Replace the slogans with "Our Democracy"TM, and similar, and that's broadly correct. The actual American people are just there to provide funding and cannon fodder for the Neocon global Empire (and the private interests of individual Neocons of course), the same way Roman citizens were for the...

Right wingers (Evangelicals as well as if not more than Jews) loving Israel more than they love America is still certainly better than Left wingers hating America more than they hate Israel, though not ideal. For Neocons though, it's less that and more that they love the idea of America they...

A yugoslavia that includes real life Hungary would be a hell of a thing. If laws aren't eventually passed against Federate merger, even after that whole mess of Africa merging with the Visigoths, it'll probably happen sooner or later simply though royal marriages and male lines dying out. And...

There are funny stories of travelers (from the elite Literati class of course) traversing China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan without knowing a word of any local language, and forced to communicate purely with other Literati by writing Classical Chinese notes back and forth, Classical Chinese being...

If the Irish were really smart, they'd elect Aloysius V High King. The Britons can't complain about electing a foreigner, nor about the suitability of that particular foreigner, nor would there be the humiliation of being technically a vassal to a native Irish High King for their chunk of...

The other thing with Islamic slavery is total misogyny helps with preventing a permanent underclass. An Arab slaver's children with slave women are considered pure Arab after the Umayyads, the female bloodline is completely discounted. So you get things like red haired green eyed Caliphs of...

Non-Jewish White oligarchs hate poor working Whites. Jewish oligarchs are the only ones who don't as a rule hate their own ingroup. Many still do, and the extent to which the majority that don't are willing to sacrifice their own interests may be limited, and the leftist dogma that infects most...

The Emperors won't like sharing a city with the Senate though. There's a reason they moved to Milan, Ravenna, etc. Eastern Emperors have been made to regret Constantine's clever idea of making a new Senate in his New City ever since. The way I see it, the Aloysians have been trying to turn the...

The Aloysians have learned that the Islamic border needs to be directly held. The Ghassanids certainly never had much luck holding it. The next thing to do with peace and a lot of goodwill built up is probably dealing with Greek autonomy. The Greeks sure can't say the Treveran regime hasn't done...

The Jewish ruling elite are not, which sure isn't something you can say for the Christian white ruling elite when white Christians suffer injustice. How fast did the Kentucky Catholic hierarchy, Kentucky Republicans, the local government, etc, toss the Covington Kids under the bus again? When...

Jewish Power is the ability to mobilize the immense collective power of the Jews to act for group interests. Such as the topic that prompted this thread, the mass anti-Semitism arising from 10/7, particularly in Universities, and the Jewish reaction to such. The massed threatened withdrawal of...

. . . that was entirely intentional with the analogy, and I thought openly implied. Of course America being mighty doesn't imply individual Americans are. Jews being mighty doesn't imply individual Jews are either. Direct analogies can be made with every other point you made. That's the point...

Well, aimed at reasonable discussion or not, what almost all Jews, even those otherwise diametrically opposed, agree should never be allowed to be alluded to, is Jewish power. And Jews are powerful. In America, Jews are the mightiest of all groups that possess even the least sense of group...

On SB, it's against the rules to point out completely neutral facts about Jews. I was infracted for pointing out that when Goldman Sachs came out with a new requirement that all non-Asian IPOs now required at least one "diverse" director, it was pure meaningless virtue signaling, as it's...