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  1. Feudalism and the vassal-lord system would not have been feasible in a continent-spanning political entity like Westeros. The Targaryans would have had no need to accept it while they were in sole possession of air domain dominance and would not have tolerated subordinate great houses raising armies and any that tried to do so— either to enforce their own rule in the provinces or march on Kings Landing would have been destroyed while bivouacked and vulnerable. The Targaryens would have established a centralized empire, likely with a small professional standing army to defend the wall and for emergency shows of force or insurgency not requiring dragons and local militia or police forces to maintain order/collect taxes. They’d also have invested in a navy and trading fleet to defend the continent from external threats and seek revenue other than heavy taxation. So GoT is bullshit just like the reincarnated dire wolf.
  2. Lol at chainsaw arguing that the CCP could be really awesome if they wanted to be and that the Chinese like sweatshops anyway.
  3. Just a thought maybe we could vote D consistently and not let the GOP sucker us constantly with moral panics and tax cuts they never pay for.
  4. This was all part of the plan. Yet, the crafty Red Chinese would have seen through any deceit or trickery or they would have refrained from retaliating and exposing their treachery. Thus, it was necessary for all of the emperors advisors and subjects to believe tariffs were happening.
  5. I’m really getting fucked over on this massive loan I took out to build a textile factory.
  6. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-rage-quits-livestream-after-getting-ruthlessly-cyberbullied-in-the-chat/?via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow I completely and totally reject a “cyberbullying” characterization here, Elon has chosen to become the most prominent and obnoxious internet troll and to inject himself into the culture wars in the most polarizing way possible. This was just the little guy getting a shot in when he could.
  7. I don’t think so, I know the roadster was based on a heavily modified Lotus Elise gliding chassis. Lotus produced them for Tesla. Tesla focused heavily on the powertrain and battery for that run and as a proof of the concept. I don’t think Tesla wanted to get into that part of the tech too heavily till they proved the market for a “sexy” and upmarket EV.
  8. I don’t think any of this was ever about jobs or eggs.
  9. Bessenet suggests that fired fed workers will supply the labor for new factories and I cannot emphasize enough that sending cancer researchers and biologists and international development pros to staff steel mills is literally fucking Maoism. The entire MAGA movement is teeteting that way. .
  10. Answer: Even if the US fucks up and leaves NATO, no Western NATO Ally is going to integrate Chinese tech into their military. Canada will buy Saabs or Eurofighters.
  11. I cannot fucking believe I live in a country that’s planning a military parade for the President’s birthday, its just making me want to pull my hair out. Fuck every person who voted for this forever, may they spend their twilight years turning screws at the iPhone factory.
  12. Guy who has only ever read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, reading his second book: ”Getting a lot of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War vibes from this.”
  13. FT needs to do a follow-up with this “top banker.”
  14. Rick Reilly wrote a whole book about this. Its all of it, is the answer. My favorite anecdote is when he didn’t play in the first round but announced he had shot a great round at another course earlier that week and used that score. But yeah, he kicks balls, his caddy will throw other players’ balls in hazards, he will give himself mulligans, etc.
  15. He did everyone!
  16. Vast chunks of the American South had boot heel of Italy type poverty well past the 1950s. Not just black communities either. Fundamentally, we cannot return to a world where America is the only modern economy not devastated by war and the loss of generations of men. Trying to recreate that world is indeed fabulist.
  17. Wake up babe, the American right’s leading intellectual is proposing a Soviet planned economy. https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-trumpian-mercantilism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
  18. Congratulations Mr. President!
  19. The authors of the research the White House cited note that the White House did the math wrong.
  20. Lets do a little more math with the authors of the the research the White House cited.
  21. In diplomacy this is the equivalent of hitting someone with a folding chair.
  22. https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-stephanie-ruhle-alleges-trumps-treasury-sec-looking-for-an-exit-door/
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