No leftists are in favor of UK style censorship laws. Censorship is not a leftist position. The most vocal opponents to current laws and proposals around censorship are leftists

Often, even

In the future, we'll be able to tell androids apart due to their inability to wink

also a real person ;)

shows an ignorance of both settler colonialism and early medieval history

There was no such Scandinavian state for at least 500 years after the events depicted in AC Valhalla.

Yes, the Vikings were brutal in a brutal time and a lot of historical revisionism has softened their brutality too much, but referring to the Scandinavians of this age as "settler colonists"

to such an extent that they ceased to be culturally different from the English within a few generations of Harald Hardrada.

Settler colonialism is a very specific phenomenon that could only happen with the formation of strong, centralized states that can support a colony far from home

or even intermarried with the local population.

The reasons for the Scandinavian invasion of England are many and varied, too much to get into here. Suffice to say, they were not motivated by state directors, they owed no allegiance to any homeland, and they intermingled with the local population

themselves highly decentralized, often run by Saxon puppets with large portions of the previous administration left intact. The first conquerors weren't interested in ruling, they were interested in conquering and looting, though many of their men settled down in the new lands and brought family

setting off to get their share in whatever way they could; but this was only the first wave of raiders. Later conquerors and settlers had other motives, but none of it was directed by some state apparatus. These weren't colonies; they were independent polities ruled by local leaders and were

The disparate groups that raided, conquered, and settled parts of the British Isles were independent actors. There was no state apparatus directing them or giving them support, which is a key feature of actual settler colonialism. These were men who were unable to access to power structure back home

while various other kings were said to rule Norway at other times after 872, but it was not a feudal kingdom until much later, centuries after the Viking Age had ended. (I'm focusing on Norway because the protagonists of AC Valhalla are Norwegian.)

Scandinavia, even under strong, conqueror kings, was fragmented into clans, powerul jarls, and the aforementioned petty kings. These groups had a large amount of autonomy as long as they didn't cause trouble for the king. Harald Fairhair may have united Norway for a time from 872 CE (maybe)

These were a people motivated by wholly different objectives, values, and morals. These are people from a land without centralized power, where petty kings of small domains were the standard. Even later, after kings had united the land into "Norway" or "Denmark," these were highly decentralized

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