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neither minas tirith nor minas morgul but death to the forgoil
"a fun and enjoyably combative SNP activist with great taste in videogames" -@stephenkb.bsky.social
Glory to Ukraine
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if you are coming here to argue with me you gotta understand that you probably can't read and that's not my fault
As a creature who believes in a basic right to national sovereignty I would like to congratulate the United States on forcing me to actively support the Chavistas winning a war
January 3, 2026 at 7:04 AM
As a creature who believes in a basic right to national sovereignty I would like to congratulate the United States on forcing me to actively support the Chavistas winning a war
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i'm in my farce era. i'm farcepilled. i'm farcemaxing.
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
i'm in my farce era. i'm farcepilled. i'm farcemaxing.
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The Hague, all of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 AM
The Hague, all of them
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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
It's like a joke country except no one is laughing
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM
It's like a joke country except no one is laughing
Are you guys fucking serious
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Are you guys fucking serious
how do racists in england insist that zarah sultana can't be english when she has just done the most english thing someone could do - Anglosplain Scotland to Scottish people
January 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
how do racists in england insist that zarah sultana can't be english when she has just done the most english thing someone could do - Anglosplain Scotland to Scottish people
People on the DnD subreddit currently getting real mad that Jeremy Crawford said that warlocks don't necessarily need to obey their warlocks as if that isn't on some level obvious
January 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
People on the DnD subreddit currently getting real mad that Jeremy Crawford said that warlocks don't necessarily need to obey their warlocks as if that isn't on some level obvious
RIP JRR Tolkien you would have LOVED Flow (2024)
January 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
RIP JRR Tolkien you would have LOVED Flow (2024)
i find the post-2022 refugee wave to israel from russia and ukraine so fascinating because on the surface those who fled are very similar groups of people - young, not very frum, not very leumi, basically aliyah'd out of necessity. but the difference is that the ukrainian ones are like this online
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
i find the post-2022 refugee wave to israel from russia and ukraine so fascinating because on the surface those who fled are very similar groups of people - young, not very frum, not very leumi, basically aliyah'd out of necessity. but the difference is that the ukrainian ones are like this online
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“It would be way better if at the end of every speech Mamdani turned to the camera and said, ‘I am a Zionist now”, and then specified he's the exact same kind of Zionist as i am.”
January 2, 2026 at 4:02 AM
“It would be way better if at the end of every speech Mamdani turned to the camera and said, ‘I am a Zionist now”, and then specified he's the exact same kind of Zionist as i am.”
Full disclosure, I actually /strongly/ oppose framing Lithuania as "a Lithuanian state."
I don't think France should "be a French state" either, whatever that means.
January 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Full disclosure, I actually /strongly/ oppose framing Lithuania as "a Lithuanian state."
this is what i ultimately dislike about, let's call it the myth of the artificiality of zionism: to basically treat it as an invention of nefarious western (christian) powers and not an idea a lot of jewish people came up with perfectly fine by themselves is just a patronising rewrite of history
in 2024 behind the bastards did their annual non-bastard podcast about abba kovner. i couldn’t bring myself to listen to it, but i’ve been told by someone who did that they said “even though he was a zionist he tried to kill nazis” and i’m like you misspelled “partially because”
January 2, 2026 at 5:44 PM
this is what i ultimately dislike about, let's call it the myth of the artificiality of zionism: to basically treat it as an invention of nefarious western (christian) powers and not an idea a lot of jewish people came up with perfectly fine by themselves is just a patronising rewrite of history
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Every other opinion column in an English-language paper these days is just 'random Labour/Democrat apparatchik explicitly opposes the concept of civil society'
Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else.
We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA
We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Every other opinion column in an English-language paper these days is just 'random Labour/Democrat apparatchik explicitly opposes the concept of civil society'
Civ4 both then and now
Quote this with your favourite game from 2001 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Civ4 both then and now
i really hate how for some inexplicable reason if i point out the basic reality that at least since the twelfth century scotland has been one of europe's most developed countries a bunch of yanks who think grandpa's family lore is of equivalent weight to historical fact will just refuse to accept it
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 AM
i really hate how for some inexplicable reason if i point out the basic reality that at least since the twelfth century scotland has been one of europe's most developed countries a bunch of yanks who think grandpa's family lore is of equivalent weight to historical fact will just refuse to accept it
people often think the first laws mandating persecution of jews were introduced after rome turned christian and i have some really bad news on that front,
anyway i think the enlightenment was actually a huge cultural break with rome as it actually existed because if any of them looked at an average democratic republic today they would be utterly horrified at so many good things we do as par for the course
January 2, 2026 at 3:55 AM
people often think the first laws mandating persecution of jews were introduced after rome turned christian and i have some really bad news on that front,
ujamaa is best retroactively understood as a clever little game of saying "socialism,,,,, it is actually african,,,,, and capitalism is not,,,,,,"
it's like john maclean insisting the scots are a naturally socialist people because highland clan society "was" "socialist"
it's like john maclean insisting the scots are a naturally socialist people because highland clan society "was" "socialist"
The "powerful critique of neoliberal capitalism" of "not having enough food to eat" and "being forced to live on a communal farm." The peasantry specifically actively resisted ujaama because the traditional model of Tanzanian agriculture was individual family farms, not communal ownership!
January 2, 2026 at 3:54 AM
ujamaa is best retroactively understood as a clever little game of saying "socialism,,,,, it is actually african,,,,, and capitalism is not,,,,,,"
it's like john maclean insisting the scots are a naturally socialist people because highland clan society "was" "socialist"
it's like john maclean insisting the scots are a naturally socialist people because highland clan society "was" "socialist"
i love how mamdani's wife came to the inauguration in something that i can only describe as star wars-core
January 2, 2026 at 3:02 AM
i love how mamdani's wife came to the inauguration in something that i can only describe as star wars-core
i had an argument with my dad on christmas about the historicity of braveheart because he had an imo very incorrect take that braveheart is ahistorical because it depicts scotland as ahistorically unified. i corrected him: it depicts scotland as ahistorically backward technologically and politically
Many things can be said about Scotland's relationship with England but you wonder sometimes if we're not a bit too uwu smol bean about the millennia of beating the shit out of each other because ultimately, we do tend to win!
January 2, 2026 at 2:53 AM
i had an argument with my dad on christmas about the historicity of braveheart because he had an imo very incorrect take that braveheart is ahistorical because it depicts scotland as ahistorically unified. i corrected him: it depicts scotland as ahistorically backward technologically and politically
On some level I blame those maps they put in children's history books too. Seeing "Kingdom of" before so many different names on the map of Europe tricks the reader into thinking that Scotland, England, France, Poland and Castile were run exactly the same way or even particularly similarly.
Look, all I'm saying is, while you /should/ depict your fantasy people as semi-regularly miserable and prone to caving people's skulls in, it's entirely possible they decided to cave skulls in a regional assembly of local smallholders, not because Lord Borys Jonson ordered them to.
January 2, 2026 at 2:39 AM
On some level I blame those maps they put in children's history books too. Seeing "Kingdom of" before so many different names on the map of Europe tricks the reader into thinking that Scotland, England, France, Poland and Castile were run exactly the same way or even particularly similarly.
broke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a feudal society
woke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a pre-feudal society
bespoke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a capitalist society
woke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a pre-feudal society
bespoke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a capitalist society
you lose your estate or the support of your warband? sucks to be you, you are no longer a nobleman
you, a peasant, win the support of someone else's warband and take over their house? congratulations. the grand duchy of lithuania welcomes its newest nobleman
you, a peasant, win the support of someone else's warband and take over their house? congratulations. the grand duchy of lithuania welcomes its newest nobleman
January 2, 2026 at 2:10 AM
broke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a feudal society
woke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a pre-feudal society
bespoke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a capitalist society
woke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a pre-feudal society
bespoke: the grand duchy of lithuania from ~1240 to 1387 was a capitalist society
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In principle this allows us to imagine a scenario where circa 1330 a bankrupt Lithuanian nobleman is bought out of his estate by his household slave, who has been placing very effective targeted investments in the salt trade
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 AM
In principle this allows us to imagine a scenario where circa 1330 a bankrupt Lithuanian nobleman is bought out of his estate by his household slave, who has been placing very effective targeted investments in the salt trade
fuck. that scene in herkus mantas where herkus tells the bartian nobleman to fuck off and that his slave will lead the troops now was oddly close to the mark
in this context what it basically means is that the only truly heritable title in the land prior to the nobles privileges of 1387 was that of the overall ruler, the grand duke. everyone else was in a state of actually fairly high social mobility
January 2, 2026 at 1:47 AM
fuck. that scene in herkus mantas where herkus tells the bartian nobleman to fuck off and that his slave will lead the troops now was oddly close to the mark
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this is my source for this btw
Lietuvių ir slavų teisės vaidmuo kuriant Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės teisės sistemą
In the article - on basis of historical sources and research papers - the system of law of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is investigated. The author analyses how did the Government spreaded the Lithuan...
www.lituanistika.lt
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 AM
this is my source for this btw