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OK Mr. Mamdani, Fuck, Marry, Kill: Tuol Sleng, the Rhineland Massacres, Wounded Knee.

I could excuse it back when I believed that you could essentially drop an anvil on someone and make them get the point that way. Turns out they still don't care, so really there's no real reason to do it. You can't *make* someone get the point.

One of my favorite scenes is where he's buying some supplies to color his hair and the clerk is nervously looking for one of the things and she says something like "it's around here somewhere" and he replies "is it?" It felt tense, menacing.

Yeah, he makes a really good assassin who's almost a total cipher. And as you say, chilling. The way he places basically no value on human life, he kills as easily as he smiles.

Easy, because it's probably my favorite film period.

I think we all do.

RONIN YES

Who better a romantic partner for an Oath of Devotion paladin Durge than an Oath of Vengeance drow? Superhero husband and supervillain wife is a classic.

Despite what one may think, I cannot fix Minthara. My beloved wife the murder drow is already perfect, thank you very much.

Margarete Schön as Kriemhild in "Die Nibelungen."

10) Kriemhild

Rot Mommy-I mean Malenia literally about to kill me.

9) Malenia, Blade of Miquella

Picture of Dallis the Hammer.

8) Dallis the Hammer

Gold solidus of Irene of Athens

7) Irene of Athens

I need the beautiful angel twink so fucking bad

6) Daeran Arendae

I genuinely don't know if I want to be him or "fix" him more.

5) Bernahl the Recusant

If Needle Knight Leda not friend, then why Needle Knight Leda hot?

4) Needle Knight Leda

Vyke the Danger Twink

3) Vyke

Shin Hati? More like Shin Hottie, amirite?

2) Shin Hati

Time to get in on the action.

"I could fix them" - a RoninMacbeth guide to good/bad decisions.

1) Dedra Meero

Respectable, respectable. But on the other hand I now know how it feels when I say "I can fix them" to a friend attached to a picture of my latest deranged (usually fictional) crush.

We know that most reigning parties in 2024 lost power, and this was in part driven by a reaction to post-COVID inflation. So why not MORENA, in Mexico? Why are they the exception?

We have a sedevacantist presidency, we say. I agree. Trump occupies the office of the Presidency and exercises his powers without being the legitimate President. I agree! So what follows from that? Who then is the legitimate President?

Yes that's the point. That's why the post mentions a hypothetical "Amerimaidan." The next question is what next step is necessary to restore legitimacy to the government in the event Trump ends up like Yanukovych.

He has the military. Suppose he declares that certain "frauds" are to be forcibly prevented from entering the Capitol. And frankly he has enough collaborators in Congress and state governments to hold up or switch results.

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Will the protesters accept Vance as the new President? Or will the demand also be for his resignation on those grounds and the elevation of Hakeem Jeffries to the Presidency? And if so, will Republican lawmakers and governors accept his legitimacy?

Here's the issue as I see it. Suppose Trump refuses to seat the newly minted Democratic-led Congress in 2027. This results in Amerimaidan, which the protesters win. Trump is forced to flee and either resigns or is deemed to have resigned. Vance stays behind.

Yep. Every single paper I've ever been proud of involved some amount of staring at a computer screen past midnight and typing like a madman, from my freshman year paper about Cicero's rhetoric to chapters of my MA thesis. Kids need to learn some fucking work ethic.

Entropy's a bastard.

And it will still be too good for him.

Yeah Carpenter's lighting and score are very much in line with, say, "Assault on Precinct 13." Something my friend pointed out, which I pointed out with Precinct, is that a lot of "Escape from NY" is also shot like a horror movie, with similar moodiness.