Also the apocalyptic types need the Jews to rebuild the temple to trigger the end times etc
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Yes and no.
There would be some formal process, prosecutors and police might investigate and decide not to pursue, we don't have a grand jury system so it might go to court just to be dismissed by a magistrate but I don't think it would get that far because everyone would agree the circumstances were extreme (and a jury wouldn't convict)
Quick heads up on the antihistamines like claratynre you can take way more than the box advises like 4 at a time. I used to work with people getting desensitizing injections for their allergies and some would take under doctors advice 2-4 antihistamines in the morning prior to their afternoon injections.
Mount and Blade Warsails Update. It has been 12 years in my game and with no action on my behalf Sturgia has been eliminated. They got caught between the Nords who took the lands close to them and Battania who snaked up the peninsula near them. The Khurzaits have taken large chunks of the Northern and Southern Empire. The latter is reduced to a single city. Vlandia after a fruitless war lasting years has been pushed out of Aserai lands (weirdly fitting given they're Norman inspired). I broke from Vlandia and formed my independent Kingdom on the Island of Beinland.
I fought two quick sea wars against them and the Nords. But in preparation I had replaced my ships with an Imperial Dromon called Dragon and two slightly smaller Dromakions called Serpent and Raven. All three were upgraded with firepot ballitae, the best rams, hulls, rudders, crates of finely honed boarding weapons which give us another 10% damage in melee. I've got them filled with Nord Huscals and Sky Gods Chosen (archers who also have shields). I recruited two captains with decent Mariner and Shipmaster skills to command them as well.
The synergy of having the best naval troops on the most complex naval ships has let us annihilate far greater navies in size. It's really what Warsails has got going for it. In the standard game you could usually beat an army bigger than your in an open field, but eventually the enemies got too numerous, with armies of 1700 etc. At sea though they can field all their troops on ships and the ones they do are scattered. Each boarding actions is like a mini siege where you can multiple your advantage.
I'm slowly passing laws to make Beinland a radically progressive (for circa 1000CE which it is inspired from) proto-nation state, with assorted citizenship rights and privileges, organized central bureaucracy and various organs of early democracy. Our capital of Hvalvik is fulling upgraded and ruled by my character's over qualified husband and two kids waiting until their older to have a position.
I'm going to guess the shooters were white supremacists with incoherent ideology '
They were targeting Hannukah celebrations allegedly. So you could have Nazis or some sort of ISIS adjacent terror cell.
What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
Blacks Sails is so good. Fair warning the first season is basically them trying to make pirate game of thrones, CW sexual assault etc.
But then they flip a switch around season 2 and suddenly it's way queerer and historical materialist.
Yeah I'm AMAB.
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I think we have to look at history. In New York there was a law against "Loitering for Prostitution". This was repealed in 2021. This meant that the police could arrest people if they suspected they were dressed for prostitution and in a place where prostitution occurred. In practice it was called the "Walking While Trans" law. It meant at any time police could harass, threaten and arrest trans people by claiming they suspected they were sex workers.
Lots of places won't enforce bathroom restrictions or press charges, but the pervasive threat of it looms that any trans person could be harassed or arrested for using the bathroom which they're comfortable, which basically discourages people from being trans in public.
It's really so fun. I'm reading a lot more online, I think the diplomacy is messed up, because a lot of people are getting these locked forever wars where peace can't be achieved. I might use the console to resolve it soon if I can't tip the scales personally. It doesn't feel unrealistic that right now Dethert can't control his lords who are deadest on conquering/colonizing these Southern lands.
Mount and Blade : Warsails update.
Currently I'm a lord in the Vlandian Kingdom. I had thought they were going to steam roll the main peninsula but after quick gains in Battanian and Western Empire lands, the lords have all committed to an exhaustingly Pyrrhic war in the South against the Aeserai. We've got one of their cities and 3 castles making a decent foothold. But can't seem to go further. Dethert keeps trying to seek peace but his lords don't like it. But fighting on desert coasts and rivers has been fun.
I have a Drakkar (huge longship) called Golden Wyrm with a Serpent figurehead, it came pre-named and I like it. I have a Lodya which is a large cross between a longship and galley called Black Dragon with a Dragon Figurehead. I captured a Dromakion which is a large galley with Ballistae called Silver Dragon. I'm thinking of keeping it and calling it Red Dragon, giving it the Dragon Figure head and renaming my Lodya Black Raven.
In Christianity the end of the world is meant to ultimately be a good thing, like a thousand years of peace once the antichrist is defeated and then people go to heaven. In their view I guess they see it as doing God's will. Plus Christians having been itching for the world to end since they became a thing. It's like if the heaven's gate people just waited 2000 years.