There’s a few centuries of the British Empire gaming that concept available for reference, but yes. The British consider the undeclared war that resulted in Singapore to be a success.

I knew a Brit that felt they should’ve kept it with violence, consequences be damned. So there was always the straight-up colonial option.

They also supported Brexit.

True, but the major powers all did forced ‘reparations’ from Germany. Paperclip involved the other Allied and colonial powers too.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim

The Allies were absolutely more favorable to surrendering Nazis, no question, but let’s not act like Paperclip was somehow unique or exceptional.

It’s more salient, I think, that the Nazis concept of Lebenstraum was inspired by American Manifest Destiny, as did Jim Crow laws for the Third Reich’s legal implementation of genocidal policies.

They said shit to me while spraying and beating me in 2007. They probably can back it up better now with all the tech, but my assumption is that their ‘database’ is just running the picture through AI and chasing the slop.

There’s a whole lot of people who were too young to remember a quarter century ago.

20th century was the century of the moustache.

21st century is the century of the eyebrows.

(And that’s plural, Brezhnev.)

SDS reformed about 20 years ago, so maybe we can do some real Rainbow Coalition again.

There should be an Australian guy who is still just hating on China in the 2nd panel anyway.

I think it is more that Americans are so used to extractive austerity and warfunding/fighting that we’ve completely forgot that economies can build civil society.

Well, no it won’t change the true believers minds outright. That is true. But I do know the biggest divisions we’ve seen in public with the GOP has been over the epstein files.

Anecdotally it’s the only topic the chuds I know don’t want to discuss, be aware of, or have to do the work to justify.

So if anything it thins their ranks a bit, which is absolutely a worthwhile end. No other wedge issue has been as effective.

It’s the only thing that actually threatens his base of support.

Epstein files is the only thing that shuts the chuds up. They’re cheering about Venezuela and getting off to ICE murders. But they, for whatever reason, only draw the line at pedophilic elitism.

They’re scooping up all the data for AI. They rebranded Office to just being AI.

whataboutism Lockwarden

So you know the greater context then, of the British in Tibet, at the very least.

The British Empire, whistling innocently.

You know these nations that don’t respect the International Criminal Court just don’t seem to act in the best of faith…

Qinxian made a decision that saved countless lives, much like Arkhipov in the 60s.

I don’t really care about game awards but it does seem like some retroactive application of opinion on genAI if they used it in 2022. There was a very different landscape and general opinion on genAI in 2022, (nonone really knew or cared.) I suspect the award show made the rule about genAI after 2022.

Either way, happy to see more press about good games, be it C33 or Blue Prince.

It got him celebrity. That opens doors in ways money doesn’t.

There are definitely treasure troves of interesting things in wikipedia. Asking for more info or context though often risks this kinda thread, unfortunately.

Aside from what has already been said a lot of that history is stuff on the caliber of “Rome invented roads!”.