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Can Colonialiam be stripped from the traditional "elves n orcs" high fantasy in any meaningful way?
  • The eu4 anbennar thing tries to address this by leaning in and exploring liberation of "monstrous" species as well as having a vast enough world where elves can be depicted as both primitive in some parts and classic eligheted trope elsewhere. There was also a crpg called arcanum that also had things like an underclass of orcs forming militant unions in a dnd but industrial revolution world. I remember this retrospective on it https://youtu.be/HMUugZ3DxH8?si=HeNGkI9Pi5vWVajg

  • This map from the new EU5 dev diary is making me feel things
  • Opinion especially among the more hardcore map Gamers has kinda turned on imperator. Played it with the big fan mod that mostly just ads flavor stuff to fill out the map and it was head and shoulders above ck2 vic3. The mechanics are really quite good.

  • Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations
  • X Edward Guo, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, said that part of the problem is that, unlike in the US, military research does sometimes take place on university campuses. “It’s not black and white … there are medical universities that also do military. But 99% of those professors are doing biomedical research and have nothing to do with the military.”.

    Us University's don't do military research

    Yes they do ??????????

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  • #Tradle #756 2/6
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    cheese as largest exported food stuff, thinking European or central asia. Developed economy with advanced manufacturing, leaning more toward Europe. No fish exports, landlocked and with the cheese guessing an alpine country. 20b seemed like a lot for Luxembourg and too little for Austria so I guessed Switzerland first.

  • U.S. assessing if China’s SMIC broke U.S. rules to make Huawei chip
  • While mostly right, very funny it indulges mh17 hoax stuff. Why is it so hard to acknowledge arming poorly trained units with advanced anti air missiles can have blow back. Look at the plane that was mistakenly shot down in Iran couple years ago. Just weird hill to die on.

  • Listened to the podcast for the first ever time
  • Last 3 episodes were really bad. The regular show is good when they find a slate of insane ameribrained op eds to ridicule for 45 min also bc of the size of the show they have on very good guests fairly regularly. The episode recently with Ryan grim where they discussed his new book about the squad(absolutely brutal portrayal of AOC) was very good. Their interview with beirut based journalist Séamus Malekafzali was also stand out. All the spin offs that are actual passion projects are also good like others mentioned in this thread.

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  • The nyt investigation is really thorough in proving that the Russians did kill a number of civilians. When I say it's convincing like there are videos of some of the killings along with cell records and eyewitness testimony. I am always skeptical of eyewitness stuff but the rest holds up on its own imo. I seems it was probably revenge killings by a the russian unit that had one of their elements ambushed the week before. I personally haven't seen a lot of compelling evidence against their case.

    I think the thing to push back on is there is no evidence that it was part of a systemic pattern of massacres. I think the genocide in Palestine really highlights the difference between brutal awful war and systemic crimes against humanity and genocide.

  • Anyone else feeling increasingly like 'what the hell is this' when you think about your life?
  • The community college in Dallas has a really cheap teaching bachelor's program now. Last year you get a job at school district so you get paid too. Teaching can be hell but the state keeps raising wages bc there are not enough teachers.

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  • I should have been more thorough in my explanations as to not have caused confusion, sorry. Many of these points are not the blunt messaging you see by the most bad faith arbitrators of anti semitism like the adl. I am asserting that the points that are explained here are what is used to underpin many of the bad faith arguments. As an example the argumentation in point 4 is how pro Zionist arguments couch their criticism of the "river to the sea" rallying cry. They equate the abolition of the state of Israel with the expulsion and death of all Jews in Palestine. This is the same way white south Africans painted calls to push "settlers into the sea" obviously we both know there was no white genocide in South Africa.

    The other example of the conflation and misrepresentation of Sephardic and mizrahi and native Palestinian Jews underpins much of the claims elsewhere about indgeneity. I brought it up because arguments about indgeneity are absolutely used by people who seek to act as wreckers.

    And what you calling out it's outright misrepresentations and lies with a " fine tooth comb" is important. (An aside, I knew it was wrong before looking where they got it, it wasn't some sort of deep investigation, it's a Tumblr post, I assumed they used Wikipedia and I was confirmed by just opening the demographics of Israel page on Wikipedia.) It is not bad faith to point out when the author is either uninformed or lying. I couch this entire argument with the argument of a secular state because your right it doesn't matter. I'm not the one bringing up the point of demographics they are. The fact they are ignorant or worse willingly lie about that argument we both agree doesn't matter should make you skeptical of what they are saying.

    Point 3 just drops that people are using anti semitic tropes then pivots to some other point yet again about demographics that is misunderstanding what they are reading from Wikipedia. When they claim "American Israelis only make up about 5% of the Israeli population" In a point about being expelled, again in a secular state we agree they shouldn't be expelled(insert borders are fuck emote), they are conflating American born with Americans. I made my point on Irish citizenship because if you are born to an American parent you are American through birthright. The five percent figure they use is not a figure tied to the point they are trying to make.

    AGAIN I DONT THINK JEWS NEED TO BE ETHNICLY CLEANSED TO HAVE A SECULAR AND FREE PALESTINE.

    I mean like c'mon point 6 in that Tumblr post is literally "if you replace Zionist with jew you sound anti semitic"smuglord

    Sorry if this is all over the place I'm a bad writer and I'm struggling to figure out to format this to adress both your comments.

  • Democrats plan four-hour live stream with Twitch and YouTube stars

    >The creators include Clara Sorrenti, known online as Keffals; Steven Bonnell, known online as Destiny; and Ian Kochinski, known online as Vaush. The agenda says they will discuss issues such as climate change, affordable housing and student debt relief.

    Nightmare fuel blunt rotation !foucault-madness

    Also idk what comm to post !funny-clown-hammer

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