#FACTIONS

fighting the forever coup

benFranklin2018

I think we are probably sliding towards a very messy and confusing low grade civil war, in which the citizenry and government is fighting itself, no matter what happens. This

John MD

John1MD

1...In our analysis of the politics of obedience, we see that public obedience is derived from 10 social constructs:1)Habit2)Self-Interest3)Fear of Sanctions4)Indifference5)Absence of Self-Confidence6)Moral Obligation7)Psychological Identif

Septuagesimaexpialidocious

benjamindcrosby

Someone expressed surprise about my Rogue One love. A short thread on why this is an excellent, indeed one of the best, Star Wars movies: The worldbuilding! You get a

eugyppius

eugyppius1

1. 21st-century liberal democracies are a great paradox: They are profoundly powerful, & at same they are largely paralysed & incapable of decisive action or planningThis is because they have

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

Theory: the key litmus test to explaining the various factions on the modern American left is whether or not you think Al Gore would've invaded Iraq after 9/11 if he'd

Imar Y. Koutchoukali 🌐 🐿

koutchoukalimar

Just over a year ago, @PdxInteractive released the grand strategy game "Imperator Rome". Because I have nothing better to do on a Thursday, I decided to make a THREAD dedicated

Ali.

ali__samson

Six tests? That’s as relevant in 2020 as complaining about a noisy nightclub.Abstain or vote?The Tory propaganda machine has the memes ready to go for “against” and “abstain” already.It’s deal

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

Today I spent several hours with a young woman who was radicalized by a variety of far right factions while living in Alberta. It really shook me up. My mother

Peter Pratt

peteaos

I’ve been a little bit down on AoS since the early part of the year. Really feel that both my main armies (Nurgle and Gitz) just can’t compete against the

Karla Monterroso

karlitaliliana

One of the things I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around is how war has changed. It used to be that power was held almost exclusively by nation states

(((Sultan-Caliph says Palpatine was Right☃❄🇵🇸)))

abdallaha92

Ok so I saw a tweet claiming anti-Zionisim was a right wing ideology. I want to explain why the whole premise of that is wrong, but I don't feel like

Socialist_Tipster

Eyecatcher_Pro

The fall of the USSR/Eastern Bloc in 1989-91 removed any real incentive for the Western ruling classes to make concessions to their own working classes, since capitalism no longer had

Sunny Hundal

sunny_hundal

I don't trust the Socialist-left worldview because it's this binary: The US / West is always the nasty aggressor and others always the victim.It's crude, and in the modern world,

Tim Urban

waitbutwhy

We think of the 1950s as a time of relative political unity. But that’s not quite right. The 50s were a time of what I think of as “scattered tribalism.”

Doru Sepailov

sepailov

Is Orthodoxy now synonymous with the ‘extreme right’? An interesting question.1) First, the Fordhamites wielding this question have no standing to ask it. Their agenda is anti-Orthodox to the core.

Erick Erickson

EWErickson

Events change things. I’m not too worried about the current state of affairs in large part because I think it is part of a realignment of political forces sorting itself

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