Emory Upton invents stormtrooper tactics at Spotsylvania! Grant and Sherman basically do what Moltke does in 1870 over worse infrastructure and longer distances!
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Emory Upton invents stormtrooper tactics at Spotsylvania! Grant and Sherman basically do what Moltke does in 1870 over worse infrastructure and longer distances!
I think that that the ACW is interesting because it's both forwardlooking and the reverse, tactically. Lee was a very good Napoleonic general - he's clearly looking at Ulm when doing Second Manassas. But Grant is fighting an industrialized war more like WW1.
The Showa comparisons are honestly applicable given that "the Army has fallen from the favor of the emperor, it is now the Navy's time in the limelight" is a headline
Just tell people "It's like Taylor Swift's album releases," they'll get it. Literally no one better epitomizes Straussian esoteric writing.
In the world where the RoC wins the war, Chiang Kai-Shek starts the World's First Methodist Crusade by 1960.
It just seems silly to say the whole ideology was a scam when the libertarian institutions are actually achieving things in defense of individual liberty in opposition to the administration; and in many ways doing so better the the explicitly liberal ones.
By terms of actual wins, the libertarians have achieved more in terms of stopping the administration then every maoist and marxist on this website combined.
Absolutely not. You know who are some of the most successful groups in terms of real wins in fighting the Administration? The libertarians. Liberty Justice Center were the ones who stopped the first set of tariffs. So has PLF. Cato has been doing amici regularly. Etc. Etc.
The direct actual cause of the fall of Danton and his faction was financial crimes! It was spreadsheets that killed them.
Heartbreaking. The worst person you know . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/m...
Even aside that, I dislike the framing that we have to care more about Japanese civilians then Chinese and Vietnamese and Filipino ones. If the bomb ended the war a week early, then it was a net positive for lives saved in ending the Japanese slave labor apparatus. In general, China in WW2 is key.
In Sept. 2008, Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux were slotted to pitch the third game of a three-game series between the Diamondbacks and Dodgers. Both got scratched. Their replacements? Two unknown rookies named Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw. http://dlvr.it/TMLFHM
maybe everything will work out
Would it be possible to get the Garibaldi Guard poster as a t-shirt? This one: www.etsy.com/listing/4315...
God, what a waste of amazing art. It's okay to just be a war exploitation game! The first "Nazis have magic superweapons, lets kill them" movies came out in 1946. Clearly the vets didn't mind that much! RRD didn't need all that handwringing to do a fun pun and have vampires kill the Nazis.
And everyone from then to now thought that it would go like that every time since, forgetting that only two years later the revolutionaries were ruthlessly executed. And as 1830 mostly succeeded due to the kindness of Marmont, who then died in exile... Well. Bad incentives abound.
okay so what is your solution to when the man-bat ninjas want to put fear juice in the reservoir
Because it's an imaginary story?
He simply needs to pick up the crown of France with his sword.
Nothing will happen. The Iranians and their clients already shoot at our bases and ships regularly. What will they do, do more ineffectual attacks?
Forgetting both Kazakhstan (the last member of the Soviet Union) and France (the Valois bought the title off the last Palaiologos)
My guy almost every libertarian institution in the nation - Cato, the think tanks, the law firms, the intellectuals - have been suing the government since the first inauguration. They’ve been doing more amici and suits then you know and they’re winning.
At least Bonaparte got the Paris Sections under control before he did Brumaire.
Wait, actually, I’ve come around on deporting Philly sports fans (and them alone.)
Steiner - he, he couldn’t secure it. Steiner’s attack didn’t take place.
Shit, this is the wide awakes merch I want.
Incredible opportunity for someone to revive the Bristol and Fairey aircraft companies.
The whole Song clan did sorta pimp out Qingling. It’s shameful for all involved.
Chiang had many sins but he really did love his wife. Eventually.
I think that it works better with the Judy romance; Judy's whole driving theme is that Night City is a hellhole and that it makes everyone in it worse. She just wants to leave, but events keep getting in her way. Leaving with Judy with the Aldecados reinforces those two themes together.
And those are all real policy areas that deserve to be handled! But they’ve got to be transactional about it, and since Trump is a thin-skinned egomaniac, they’ve got to shut up and give them credit when occasionally he’s right. But I think that’s far from a full endorsement of everyone he does. 2/2
There’s a very real divide in conservative world between the Trump fanatics and the people who hope to use Trump to get their policy aims done. There’s plenty of people who really dislike the administration, and also know that the Dems won’t touch Kelo or NEPA reform or other real policy areas. 1/2
Those are two very different institutions.
I think that if you do the 'good ending' then in the little epilogue camp it should be revealed that she and Wyll died. They're fighting a war in hell, what do you think is going to happen?
Why would he possibly complain about this haha
Well, you know the line. "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." We had the tragedy, now the farce.
1/30 – MIGUEL BATISTA RHP, 2010 Journeyman was long reliever during lone year in DC, famously made 1 start after Stephen Strasburg scratched. Joked fans wanted “Miss Universe” but got “Miss Iowa.” Real Miss Iowa, Katherine Conners, threw out first pitch at Nats Park 3 days later.
Wild. Well, learn something new everyday.
Wait, maybe this is a stupid question. But how can there be an Anglican Catholic Church? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
I have given my Jane Austen loving buddy, as kind of a joke, one of the 'horribles' that Austen mocks in Northanger Abbey as a birthday gift for several years now.
The uniforms were good, another Nixon W. Bring them back.
'Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.'
You should read "On the End of the World" by Joseph Roth. He has an essay on this specifically.
Wild that the Cubans were responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks in America in the seventies. Say this about Castro, guy sure was ballsy.
Bill, have you read Ligotti? A number of these seem vaguely Ligotti-adjacent and I'm curious if you're a fan.
Well, Goebbels was always disappointed with Hitler's conservatism.
. . . which TCT scenario is that?
(Also Andromeda was good actually! I stand by that.)
Personally if we’re going to do expansionism I think they should do it the Habsburg way. Donald Trump Jr. will wed Justin Trudeau; Mississippi will be traded for the Austrian Netherlands and various claims in Italy.
As a side note, LeMay meeting with Bormann is probably the best plot beat in TNO.
Alas. Really too good a story to be true.
The FT article about it suggests that the “Red” part is a reference not to Mao but to Stanford. Which if true is funny.
Ironically actual John Birch, the human being, loved China and India deeply. The whole reason he joined up wasn’t Pearl Harbor; it was Japanese atrocities in Jiangxi.
See: thedispatch.com/article/the-...
The Dispatch laid out a reasonable case; independent Greenland with a defense/trade deal and an increased subsidy from the United States would give them what they want (no more EU fishing), and what we want (military and minerals.) But the hard-right doesn't actually want that; they want conquest.
One of the things that I really like about the recent Age of Sigmar TTRPG, is that the game very explicitly goes in it's scenario design sections, "you will kill almost anything you find; the point of a fight should not just be 'kill everything.'" Hazards, doing something under fire, etc.
All true, smash the four olds who challenge the peasant-revolutionary leadership of Chairman Nixon
My basic opinion of the atomic bombings is that the idea that Japanese lives were worth more then that of the Chinese and Indonesian and such that they were killing is ridiculous. If the Japanese didn't want to get nuked, they shouldn't have started the war.
Pretty sure I went to this place in Shadowrun
Batman doesn’t vote; he’s fighting Two-Face on Election Day. (He wants to kill all third party candidates to preserve the two party system.)
I assume it's like 18th-19th century England. Admirals of the blue/white/red and all.
Nosferatu was great. Love checking in on my good friend Count Dracula.
“I think it’s increasingly likely that the modern humans who were beginning to emerge from Africa about 60,000 years ago were already producing figurative art, and we simply haven’t found the evidence yet.”
I *guarantee* you with a 6-man bullpen, you'll see guys go past 100 pitches. There's really no other choice, because you back yourself into a corner within 2 games, basically. They don't let guys go deep now because they always have a rested arm to go to. Guys barely go back-to-back in-season now!
(wait for it…) It could be the most anticipated 90 seconds this CFB season, from the moment the trophy lever is pushed down to when the pastries pop up, sans the sound effects. Yes, the Pop-Tarts Bowl trophy is a working toaster. Details on the trophy: www.nytimes.com/athletic/599...
The first woman to receive an electoral college vote was Tonie Nathan, the 1972 Libertarian vice presidential candidate!
I celebrate our nation's rich tapestry but the fact we all live within 5 minutes of a Steelers bar is an indictment of the American Experiment
Washington being good still seems vaguely fake to me. I don’t believe it.
The Washington Nationals are one of the most successful farm teams in baseball history.