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civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

The fact like 80% of these comments are some variant of "Why is a man running for Senate in NC mentioning prayer, he's just another christofascist!" shows this site 100000% doesn't know ball, politically.

Been working on a map for a commission and it might be one of my favorite things I've ever done. Very proud of the sphere of influence notation and that awful Iraq border

Crazy that Jimmy Dore was on this flight

I like how they can't handle this even though this describes the ancestry of a woman they endorsed to be president, twice.

The problem with the “Oh, do you want a cookie?” approach is that yes, people do want cookies. Their monkey brains have evolved to repeat behaviors which are rewarded and avoid repeating behaviors that are punished.

It's so awesome that the Soviets built their space program using brute force and trains. The very designs of the their rockets were constrained by the diameter of bridges and tunnels on the railways to Kazakhstan

Hard to see how this doesn't massively escalate things, esp if any of the targets are actually killed

Yeah I agree. Not the biggest David Hogg fan, but booting him on a "diversity quota" basis after he suggests primarying ancient incumbents sounds like something a Daily Wire parody of the DNC would do.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.

My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

Van Hollen: The U.S. Is 'Complicit' in Starving the People of Gaza Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the blocking of food and aid into Gaza is "collective punishment" and called on Trump to ask Israel to lift their blockade.

The vast majority of people in Gaza — 93 percent — are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that the United States is “complicit” in their hunger.

so happy for my favorite girlboss. setting up a man to take the fall this time around. thats how you get it done ladies

Talking Heads: Assemblies in Early Medieval Germany by Stuart Airlie. From the book Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages, edited by Barnwell and Mostert.

And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut
And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire
And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords
And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Everyone Wanna Be Bob Woodward Until It's Time To Get Off Fuckign Computer

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

We must dissolve the Supreme Court and give Donald Trump unlimited powers. Or else we will have a dictatorship.

Why is Substack sending me a push notification recommendation for this

Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027 Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds and immediately barred from running for office

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

From South Africa to Gaza to Ukraine, the foreign policy of the United States is “The world must be made safe for fascism.”

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

Now I'm thinking about combining my previously considered "Andrew Johnson assassinated in 1865 causing a special presidential election and marginally more radical reconstruction" PoD with the Austro-Prussian War stuff I've been working on for the AHD rewrite. Kinda like it, I dunno.

I have a lot of cool new ideas for the US and CSA in the AHD rewrite, but honestly the stuff outside America is most exciting.

Part of me is wondering if a better way to break my funk would be to stop trying to untangle the AHD strings and just write something new using another 1860s PoD.

Every time I sit down to try and write recently, I find myself just rewriting the first sentence over and over again, or otherwise getting stuck before I even begin. It's infuriating.

Oh yeah and we are betraying a nation of millions for literally nothing while also giving possibly millions children AIDS. We deserve hell

Made some more maps for Cinco de Mayo
www.alternatehistory.com/forum/thread...

Hey, I made some maps for Cinco de Mayo
www.alternatehistory.com/forum/thread...

the Senate was put into place more or less to entrench the interests of rural smallholders against northeastern mercantile interests! the fact that it now benefits the right because it overrepresents the smallest, poorest states is essentially a post-19th Amendment accident.