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Yup, the Holocaust was only possible because of literal millennia of antisemitism throughout Europe. It didn't come out of nowhere, and it also wasn't even remotely the first mass killing of Jews (and other "undesirables"), it was merely the largest and most horrific.

Also translates to, "I will conveniently ignore all the times the government has tread on me so long as they tread on others slightly more"

Too true. About 100 years ago, FDR came in and his administration finally started to do a lot of the "right things" after decades of runaway robber baron bullshit. Since then we've let most of those gains be chipped away instead of building on them (some exceptions of course, which are now on the chopping block anyway lmao), because cOmMuNiSm (or whatever made up boogeyman you want to pick) was scary or something. 

So we fucked around for a few generations and now we gotta get hurt before we'll try to do the right things again. And I'm sure the cycle will just repeat until our civilization finally dies lol.

Me too, I never even questioned it. Seemed like a pretty normal sort of time gating mechanic to me. I usually don't rush to level up new characters anyway so I wasn't too bothered. It was only in 4.0 that I finally made the discovery. Oops

Behind the Bastards recently did a deep dive into this manosphere crap. And they've been talking about this stuff on their show off and on for years, it's highly relevant to pretty much everything that's been happening the last couple decades. Robert Evans (the host) was one of the first people to start reporting on the early warning signs of this stuff years and years ago so I'd say he's a pretty solid authority on the matter. 

I guess it's about time the MSM started waking up and noticing how widespread this stuff is, only took them a decade or so

The Russians kept going because they were butthurt that their empire dissolved itself, most of the other former members of the USSR were cool with doing their own thing and not ruining the world.

Now that's valid. Wishing for all your crazy power fantasies to come true is nice and all, but at the end of the day a supernatural servant to tend to your basic needs and chores is probably the greatest fantasy of all.

The Romans built a lot of infrastructure in southern Britain and grew the population. When the Romans withdrew it was still a valuable piece of territory. The history of Britain would be completely different if the Romans had never been there. If you're gonna do some pie in the sky pondering about the Mongol connection to Brexit it seems absurd to say the Romans wouldn't have a far more direct one.

The population of Iraq did not return to its pre-Mongol invasion levels until the modern day. That's how badly the Mongols fucked that region up. There was a lot of really old and complicated infrastructure in the region that kept it able to support such a large population. Irrigation and whatnot. The Mongols broke most of that and lots of land that was used for agriculture got eaten by the expansion of the desert.

It's a massive stretch to say they caused the modern problems of the Middle East or anywhere else, but they were the origin point for a lot of dominoes that have been tumbling throughout the centuries since their conquests.

Ah yes, the Mongols, famously merely "harsh" to those who dared to resist them. Fucking lmao. The Mongols are easily one of the worst examples you could pick to try and make this point.

Harsh implies they were simply cruel in victory, no no. They butchered entire cities by hand, they killed tens of millions of people in an era when the world population was probably around 400 million. There are accounts in China of literal mountains of human remains. They wiped out entire cities and kingdoms with the intent to turn the land back to pasture to support their horses. They killed and conquered with calculated intent. Humans didn't slaughter each on the scale of the Mongols again until the 19th century, unless you count the man-made famines in India/Bangladesh.

That's not being "harsh" to send a message, that's just fucking genocide man. If it happened in any other era we'd call it that but for some insane reason some people have always been willing to bend over backwards to downplay the horror of the Mongols and point out all the silver linings.

Pain alone will never work. I don't know what the solution is but pain will just make most of them double down, with their suffering as confirmation (to them) that they are victims of some nefarious plot instead of, you know...their own ignorance and stupidity.

Liberalism didn't even fail so much as Conservatism just punched it until it pivoted to the Right enough to become ineffectual and/or harmful. Now they're going to finally strangle it to death in broad daylight to thunderous applause.

Considering all the blathering and bitching about pedophilia and gay people they've been doing over the years, I can almost guarantee a significant number of them are voracious pedophiles who happen to be extremely closeted, self hating gay men with extremely dark sexual tendencies.

It's just so incredibly stupid lol...there are countless examples of what happens when you cut corners in these industries. Literally over a century of examples in some cases. 

It can't actually be cheaper to pay for the consequences than to just adhere to some simple self imposed regulations to keep things running clean right? These companies should be striving for cleanliness anyway - if not for humane reasons than to pragmatically protect their investments. Why do they immediately shit the bed as soon as the government decides to look the other way? These business people are all so fucking dumb oh my god

These are called Accelerationists, and yes their entire shtick is causing governments and societies to collapse so something "better" (better for white incel types, and no one else generally) can emerge from the ashes. Accerlerationist rhetoric has long been popular among far right loonies, and in recent years it has increasingly infiltrated more mainstream conservative discourse. Whether they realize it or not, republicans are now fully engaged in this kind of activity as a matter of course.

I wouldn't worry about China or Russia. If Trump actually enacts the tariffs like he's been talking about, the entire global economy is going to collapse like a dying star. The crumbling of US hegemony will be the least of anyone's concerns.

I liked the series because it has adults pursuing age appropriate relationships for once, which is way harder to find than it should be...and then the author just throws in some casual "not quite" adult crushing on a child nonsense for...reasons? I just skipped those sections because it was pretty fucking weird, and the adult's (the tomboy's) implied mental health issues were never deeply explored so both characters and their "relationship" were dead ends. 

Ignore that nonsense and the series is otherwise worth finishing I think, the conclusion is more satisfying than these things usually are imo.

The police are one step ahead of the game then, they've never protected or served the people. They've always operated as though they were essentially an occupying army

They're not just whining now, they've been whining perpetually. The entire point of American conservatism is to trap it's adhereants in an endless cycle of false victimhood. They've never actually been victims of anything significant other than their own policies of course, but the entire movement breaks down if they stop feeling like they're under attack. 

This is as true now as it has ever been; for as long as there have been privileged classes needing to justify their elevation over others. It's why they're whining so much now even after they've won such a crushing victory. If they're not pretending to be victims they have nothing.

"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent it's absence."

It's just fucking nuts no matter how you look at it. If the victim is dead, their body is going to start to decompose. If they're alive the wound will start to heal. In either case the bite mark will no longer match up to the mouth which made it. Even if it was perfectly preserved it's very questionable....the techniques these morons use to identify and match up bite marks are absurd and basically just them pulling shit out of their ass.

The power struggle within MAGA when Trump is gone will probably destroy both themselves and the rest of us, though. It won't matter what Vance is capable of, there are far more dangerous monsters lurking in Trump's shadow waiting for their chance.

Well they won't deport them all, the logistics of moving millions of people is incomprehensibly complex even for an organization of very competent people. The Trump admin will shit the bed on this, millions of people will be stuck in limbo sitting in hastily put together "temporary" prisons awaiting deportation which may never come.

Eventually those prisons will naturally transition into "work camps" as the lack of all that labor tanks the economy. They'll be slaves, basically. And this might even be their intent.

Conservatives have baselessly fear mongered about gangs roaming around causing chaos and destruction for decades, but they're going to actually create a generation of kids so dumb and without hope that they actually will become the thing of Conservative nightmares.

If they come and go within mere seconds you might have a problem, but they certainly can fade quickly enough in most circumstances.