Might be the other way around - rather than emotional cope, being an inducement for greater aggression. If you, the powerful men of your society, can convince all the little folk that dying in battle is way cool and will get them huge rewards in the afterlife, you suddenly become much more powerful, man-for-man, against neighboring polities of similar culture (at least until they adopt that aspect of theology or a similar one)
They should know I only communicate through MSN Messenger these days. Good thing it'll be around forever!
Yep. But then the fringes are always decisive, and there's no way around that - so every election we end up playing a game of "Holy fucking shit are we going to get screwed again??" and, as Kamala demonstrated in attempting to appeal to a greater volume of normies with her "Country over party" schtick, there's not really a lot of room for replacing the fringe with normies. The normies are mostly already decided or tuned-out, and trying to pump their votes up gives diminishing returns for the effort at this point - at the expense of the fringes.
Shit's fucked. To unfuck it, we have to address the root causes. But addressing the root causes is hard, unglamorous, and time-consuming, while people - normies and fringe alike - want solutions NOW, so instead nothing is fucking done.
If the quotes are screenshotted, it would be substantiated.
Both are necessary, is the issue. The normies aren't politically active enough to reliably push a majority of the vote, and the fringe is (by definition) not large enough to do it itself.
You end up with 45% normies and 5.1% fringes, and losing even a little sliver of either means you lose.
Politics in this country is fucked.
It makes for interesting historical reflections, there's certainly at least that much.
Wonder if that gets you into Valhalla on a technicality, at least?
Might be, the past is weird. Like I said though, my knowledge of Norse mythology is a bit sparse lmao
The Roman Empire: "Watch this, I'm about to invent an entire field of academic study!"
[scholars watch in horror as it actively and continually obliterates itself in slow, agonizing, grisly fashion]
It's okay, you're not blood-related.
Explanation: The Roman Empire during the 3rd century AD went through what is now called the "Crisis of the Third Century" (very creative), wherein a series of foreign incursions, civil wars, plagues, and a general breakdown of society resulted in the near-bankruptcy of the central government, total chaos, and the near-dissolution of the Empire. Luckily, the brave Emperors in charge of our beloved IMPERIVM SINE FINE knew just what to do - reduce the silver content of the coinage and pass it off at the old agreed-upon prices!
... this was a major contributor to demonetizing the Roman economy entirely and wrecking already-struggling trade.
But at least the Legions got paid! At least until the money became worthless entirely, and they just started passing laws allowing the Legions to seize whatever they needed wherever they were in lieu of money.
This is... this is a good solution, r-right guys...?
The rationalis was the public official in charge of the imperial mint.
"Those who fail to study the past are doomed to repeat it. Those who study the past are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it."