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color, women, and others in academia, particularly at public institutions in ruby-red states like mine. Finally, like most self-aware individuals with stable employment in academe, I realize that above all else, I secured my job primarily through LUCK. It could have easily gone to somebody else.

The academic jobs crisis can only be remedied through organizing and building power. The path of white grievance is not only racist and wrongheaded; it’s counterproductive, as it emboldens the reactionary forces that seek to demolish higher education altogether.

Yes, which is why works set in it have sold millions of copies. Gamers, be they table top or video game, consistently inform publishers that they yearn for slop.

Deadfire sold terribly at first because it made committed gamercide by being slightly different.

And I guess for the curious, ACOUP's lifetime total page views since 2019 currently stands at 20,775,000.

So for everyone who has been reading, thanks for reading!

There's a kind of irony to the fact that VDH is unaware of who VDH's chief theoretical foundation is, in that had he engaged with Battle Studies, it might have given him serious pause over a lot of the sillier parts of the orthodox model, like the shoving othismos.

In particular, among the authors unaware of Ardant du Picq's influence on The Western Way of War, I think that number may include Victor Davis Hanson, who I cannot find cites Ardant du Picq at any point.

Fundamentally, my ideal foreign policy vision is Brits & Americans & Frenchmen & Germans & Poles & Ukrainians and Japanese & Taiwanese & South Koreans & Australians and whoever else wants to join, all standing together, under arms if necessary, to declare that all people are and ought to be free.

Though to be clear, I support the USA being in NATO and also Ukraine being in NATO.

Freedom is stronger when shared and so the free peoples of the world must stand together against the tyrants who would bind us, both those from within and those from without.

NATO is crucial for the latter.

The funniest thing about HoI4 attracting nazis and similar nationalist types is the devs have admitted they nerfed the USA into the ground because like all other WW2 game devs they know that there's no plausible world where the Nazis could have won. Unless they politically subverted the USA I guess.