u/Almustafa

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I play a lot of strategy games, and it's a lot easier to let someone else to all the math and testing and then explain on stream or youtube what they are doing.

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"Carefully, now my turn, what's your natural hair color?"

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I've got bad news about Canada my friend: https://www.newsweek.com/indigenous-women-forced-sterilization-during-throes-labor-recently-2017-1215311

Settler Colonialism, not even once.

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Now he's playing two of them!

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Of course they won't unless she grows a spine and finds principles beyond "bipartisanship", but they can.

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Lol, if Bernie were a KGB sleeper agent he would be way cooler.

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Ever heard of Malcolm X, you can scare them into cooperating with therespectable liberals, but if everyone cares more about following the rules than making a change, we'd never get anywhere.

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I've got an idea of what is to be done.

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Communism is when the earth is getting warmer, and the warmer it gets, the communistier it is.

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Some how they don't have much of a problem with Usury. And I doubt they'd get to worked up about the leaving of gleanings for the poor, or enforcing the cancellation of debts every seven years.

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If Jackie Chan dies, we'll need a megathread here as that proves god hates funny family-friendly kung fu movies, and that would bring into question all manner of established theology.

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No it doesn't. Your situation is impossible in the system OP intended it to be used in. If you want to port it over to another game, make the changes yourself.

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Or the clone tries to escape if the fight goes poorly, only to antagonize the original later.

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So "born in the purple" doesn't appear until the 6th century, so it's really only appropriate to use it for Byzantine emperors. It also just doesn't reflect how disorderly succession was in the Principate. Other than Commodus, I can't think of any of them who were the clear successor from a young age.

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I am the Master of this Game! There shall be no dissent! Burn the Heretics!

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From Merriam Webster's: a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority. Especially : one having an emperor as chief of state

Before Augustus came around, the Romans had dominion over the Sabines, the Etruscans, the Samnites, Gauls, Celts, the Numidians, the Carthaginians, the Illyrians, the Thracians, Greeks, Sryians, Egyptians, and may more. Rule by one "Emperor" isn't required, just typical. What is needed is a single political unit (Rome) having many other political units under it's sovreign authority, and the Roman republic fits that to a tee.

The Empire= an emperor is pretty surface level stuff and, for the sake of gramatical symmetry, removes from our language this concept of one people ruling over many peoples.

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Which was definitely an Empire since at least 146 BC.

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Not only that, the Senate outlasted the Emperors.

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It's interesting how so many people believe this and none of them have ever taken a gender studies class or read a feminist book.

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Miao

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This happens to me and I'm not using that mod. It's super annoying beacause there's no functional advange when everyone has similar ethics.

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Yes, that's the problem, democrats haven't found a candidate moderate enough. What people want is boring moderates who are afraid of farting too loudly in case it spooks their billionaire donors. Forget trying to win back the working class with progressive policies.

Booker would lose to Trump, because he's too moderate. No one likes the Status Quo any more. You have to have some conception of a better world to get people to believe you will improve their lives. No one outside of Washington believes in Neoliberalism anymore.

Whoever the PSL runs has a better shot than Cory fucking Booker.

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During the Viking age, the Christians weren't doing shit to the Norse (who did provoke them a ton given the whole looting and burning churches). It's not like if the Norse were suddenly muslim, Wessex would have decided to get serious.

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Very little of Scandinavia is above the arctic circle, so they get at least a little bit of light every day to fast during.