I mean, it’s just fancy autocomplete. I wouldn’t expect much novelty.

That’s a really great turn of phrase.

Would you be up to make a bet? I think the court will affirm birthright citizenship.

The US is not a party to the ICC. The American Service-Members' Protection Act is a real reason not to try such a scheme.

As to Venezuela, it’s an illiberal dictatorship. We could not hand over Americans to them.

I don’t think the Guard deployments quite land but it is the same idea. “Elites” criticize Trump for flouting democratic norms while he can portray himself as tough on crime.

As in LA, he cares more about the image than the outcome.

That dynamic is how you end up with the median voter feeling ideologically closer to Trump and perceiving his opponents as extreme.

Trump is often looking for divisive issues like the wall, travel bans, etc. that his audience is sympathetic towards.

When he provokes extreme, but justified criticism his audience interprets that criticism as attacks on themselves.

In my experience, Yglesias intentionally stokes controversy with true statements that threaten some peoples’ core beliefs.

He very much wants the passionate criticism and debate.

Isn’t an unrealized capital gains policy really inconvenient to administer? You have to mark to market, refund losses, and taxpayers have liquidity constraints.

I’d read that as well!

Plunder is a totally reasonable way to hand your players glittering treasure. High status / luxury items captured in war can then give them currency in the elite economy.

Their quests are often services in the vertical gift economy with the count’s subjects and lateral gift economy with the count’s peers. The rewards are a mixture of plunder, gifts from the count, and specialist/magic services from allies.

How the characters are paid can really give a flavor of the setting. One of my favorite games has the players as retainers to a count in a kingdom fallen to anarchic, disputed succession.