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The Romans were successful because they were just as welcoming and inclusivistic as they were expansionist and belligerent. Former enemies and freed slaves were given opportunities to make it big and there's quite a number of emperors even that weren't of original Roman stock. The CSA in contrast wa...

This is not an attempt to exonerate whoever the culprits of the Sylvester assaults were, this post serves to put it into a larger context and the refute the seeming base assumption that sexual violence is an exclusive foreign import 1.Germany has an incredibly backwards position towards rape http://...

Any explanation WRT the Trade Federations reasoning behind blockading and invading Naboo on behalf of an anonymous "benefactor" will involve copious applications of head-canon since the movies themselves are incredibly obtuse when it comes to explaining these things. They're borne out of t...

I concede for the time being on the issue of refugees being possibly involved, with the caveat that I personally find the cited news articles to sound more like treading the rumour mill rather than divulging actual facts. I will however not concede on the issue of racist bias pervading this whole af...

Ghetto edit: Womens rights groups have protested. The police complain they are stationed on the border in Bavaria. A local politician tried to advice women on how to avoid getting raped. Women's rights groups have protested against a lot of things in the past and now, but it's nice to know that they...

Someone who started off as a 9 year old when TPM came out(like me) ended up a teenager when ROTS came out. It's almost like the films matured with their audience. Well, they went from sleep-inducingly boring to facepalmingly juvenile, so maybe you're right. Although I think kids are commonly more l...

We have not managed to identify or even track the majority of the refugees in our country. The increased scrutiny is a joke. I personally believe that they were indeed refugees. I find that hard to believe, let me explain why: Let's consider what kind of position the refugees are in. They have litt...

Migrants isn't the same as refugees. Cosmical Ali is directly linking it to them when what I've read said that the perpetrators looked like people with migratory background which is helluva difference and according to the Spiegel not even one case could be followed back to a refugee. In fact, the po...

Yeah, it doesn't matter how many people the Romans fed to the lions or how big a pile of skulls Genghis Khan amassed, the CSA still remains an example of an extremely vile "state" founded on anti-human principles and originated out of a childish temper-tantrum thrown by sociopathic rich fu...

Women get raped everywhere all of the time, but they get raped and abused even more in the middle east than in Europe. I'd say Euro is about 100-200 years ahead in terms of womens rights. Everyone listen to the magnificent expert on women's rights and his accurate appraisal of exactly how much West...

Cute, cmdrjockstrap tries to play Atrocilympics. If I murder four people, do I get to feel all smug and superior just because Jack the Ripper murdered one more? Don't let yourselves get distracted by this stupid red herring, guys. It doesn't matter how many shit-regimes came before the CSA or how ma...

And then people whine when TPM gets bashed for its plot. :lol: Probably because the plot to TPM gets bashed by Nerd Ragers too stupid to follow the goings on in a movie aimed at 10-year-olds, while the 1998 Godzilla had almost no plot whatsoever -even for a Godzilla movie. Yeah, all my favourite mo...

So, two guys knock on my door. I open it and one of them starts talking with me while the other marches into my house, starts ripping the wallpaper down, hacks my furniture to bits and knocks holes into the wall. The other guy then says, "how about you give us your sleeping room and agree to sl...

Communication between humans and Na'vi was very good at the beginning. So good in fact that the Na'vi entrusted the strangers from the stars with the care of their children to learn their language. I mean you've noticed that Neytiri, Tsu'tey and Mo'at all speak English relatively fluently, right? Ne...

---and for the final nail in the coffin of Simon's misapprehension of Westfalen, the HRE post the peace conferences had a weaker central authority, engaged in more particularism and was harder to govern to the point that the Emperor de facto gave up on claiming sovereign control over the whole const...

Am I really seeing arguments here that claim that one should not act against ISIS and that obviously any attempt to do so is partially fuelled by racism? Really? What nonsense. Not from me. My argument that I find it rather questionable that every Tom, Dick and Harry with an army feels he's justifi...

Eck, missed the editing window. Anyway, can anyone tell me why the Middle East is just like the Balkans not considered Westfalen-worthy? See, the planner of the Paris attacks was a Belgian, yet Hollande is clearly not considering airstrikes on immigrant ghettoes in Brussels, now is he? Also, many of...

Except the Balkan people in general and Serbs in particular have a long history of being whipping boys for the rest of Europe. Westfalen never arrived for that region so it's invalid as a counter example.

I'm sorry, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. So, the Force was "coded" (by who?) to both advise a certain subset of people but also for whatever reason empowers a bigger subset of people with quasi-magical powers, of which quite a number are actively malevolent. Do you have any g...

The problem is then that what exactly the Force can and can't influence is vague and nebulous. Just like with gods in RL, every event can be ascribed to happening because the Force willed it and character actions and motivations become pointless. If you want a sentient Force you also have to show wh...

*never mind, wrong thread.

Wrong series, that's what's really going in the Foundation trilogy Aside from that, no, I don't consider that to be either a possible nor an interesting background to the Star Wars universe. It suffers from the same problem as all "sentient Force" theories; what it really does is break SoD...

And? Did I deny that such abuse wasn't possible? However, if given the choice between living in a superpower which is invading a smaller country for bullshit reasons, and living in a country being invaded by a superpower for bullshit reasons, I know which choice I would prefer. And I imagine I know...

If I might interject. I do not believe that anyone fears the refugee wave is actually terrorists in disguise. But the fact remains that they are a vulnerable population that is going to try and settle in large number in territories ill equipped to handle them. So given an alien culture, an unknown ...

See that part where I said you don't deserve respect? Therefore instead of me replying to you, please imagine me spitting on your face and kicking you in the balls a few times.

Hope you enjoy. I for sure would.