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Really any shiny progressive minority (Pritzker is Jewish but, well still a white billionaire)

Man shame he's at like 1%

If there's one place where I'm skeptical of backlash it's the Cubans ever moving away.

The strongest force in American politics has always been a sort of "identitarian revanchism" -- where a group feels their once-revered place in society has been supplanted. It explains Jacksonianism, Populism, Progressivism, the backlash to Civil Rights and Trumpism. -OS

His polling is low but if he can buy himself into a midtier candidate he could breakout.

DC statehood is non negotiable and there needs to be a massive uproar over this

Magyar Moment.

Hoxha getting an early start on the bunkers.

Fresh off of support in Minneapolis, Comrade Tech Headache continues the revolutionary march.

Largely unrelated but it's interesting that Gothic type has become Nazi coded, because the Nazis actually came down against it and in fact are largely responsible for it being discontinued in Germany.

Imperial Japan did that think where the entire system is built for one indispensable man and then once he's gone they try to prop it up but it all goes to shit (Louis XIV, Alexander, Bismark) but at no point did they ever have an indispensable man.

Yamamoto: proves the end of the battleship age is at hand at Pearl Harbor

Also Yamamoto: man I can't wait for the decisive battleship engagement

"we must restore the Emperor to power" and then immediately remembering why the Emperor was never allowed power to begin with.

Well I went with "plays anti-Communist to the West, anti-colonialist to the East" but that breaks down pretty quickly when their response to insurgency in China goes Nuclear.

I actually sketched out a "Japan attacks the Anglo-Dutch without PH, wins while the WAllies still get dragged into Europe" once.

Somehow, the Shogunate has returned.

"what if we built a state around a cult of personality for one person but that person was never actually all that competent or involved"

I'm fairly certain Nuclear Japan ends with the Army and the Navy both having their own siloed systems.

Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain

a blue and yellow flag with white stars on it is waving in the wind ALT: a blue and yellow flag with white stars on it is waving in the wind

No...there is another...

Yeah.

Look man I just want everyone there to live in a free and democratic and peaceful society I don't really have an opinion on what, or how many, forms that should take.

Not directly as such (although Athenian CIA started Ionian Revolt is a good but) I mean just more generally.

Also he is a) notably a democrat and b) sold those things

Not a great sign that they invented Democracy and then immediately did some imperialism.

I would rule so hard in Ancient Athens. They would kill me immediately, but if any of my work survived everyone would love me post-Enlightenment.

Both of those governing concepts are directly at odds with the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.

The issue isn’t that there won’t be thermostatic backlash (there will be). The issue is that there is no movement within the Democratic Party seeking to take advantage of the thermostatic backlash to implement the radical reforms we need. I say this half-facetiously: We need a Democratic Khomeini

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

May we all live by this Mo Udall quote.

"The voters have spoken — the bastards."