There are people who consider themselves ‘not a fascist’ that also consider the Nuremburg Trials inhumane for having executed unrepentant Nazis. The line is intentionally blurred.

My history is lacking on the conflict but IIRC the area was ‘run’ as a monarchy under British rule. The monarchy was Hindu but the population was largely Muslim.

So you had a local population in conflict with a ruling class inheriting being a mechanism of the colonial apparatus.

For what it is worth, Dollar Tree only has about 66,000 full-time employees. 134,000 are part time workers, so two thirds, who are not required to be given medical benefits–but are given access to pay premiums for enrollment in the company insurance plan.

Private prisons: “I got a product for you.”

We have moved a bit past ‘affiliating with’ and are well into ‘being’ when it comes to the fascism thing.

refused to participate in the Vietnam war.

It was their colonies. They were removed from the region by the people in indochina. The French wanted their colonies back despite the Vichy regime being an axis collaborator, and couldn’t hold on after fighting wars of suppression.

Eventually they had to formally cede control to communists in the 1950s which got America involved until the 70s.

Yeah my comment was of the cynical type towards their strategy, not a support of it.

2019 Kurzgesagt: “I guess we will fact check, if that’s important to you.”

By the time you win the game, the prize money will have been looted so the chips are worthless and the tires will have been stolen off your car.

Indeed. There are no leftist oligarchs, pretty much by logic and definition, which is a significant disadvantage in electoral oligarchy.

If populism is ever associated with right wing politics it is typically by design of the oligarchs.

No technician on Earth will be able to debug this black box spaghetti except the manufacturer.

I do not share such faith in the manufacturer that made the black box spaghetti.

Ctrl+A + Del.

So clean.

Terran Academy Scream

The growth in ‘unknown’ accounts for both the rise in armed and fall in unarmed.

The systemic problem was ignored, so it makes sense the only major change is more uncertainty.

Not having to worry about managing your surplus sons helped a whole lot. Sending them out to crusade against the heathens took a lot of coordination and energy. Plague reversed that problem real fast.

He is primarily a single issue politician focusing on gun control and the party cannot court Republicans with a tangible gun control policy.

They know their own community well which often comes off as insular, but yeah content warnings for a watch party is a pretty normal thing.

I find it much more engaging than The Silmarillion.

That is understandable. Silmarillion is like a collection of extended footnotes and a cosmology rulebook.

Armies of Nationalist China fled into Thailand Myanmar, and Cambodia to run heroin operations and only significantly influenced the regimes in the region for decades and today.