Because I know what our common objective is and I just can’t care about the subtle differences.

Even when those ‘subtle differences’ result in being backstabbed and sold out and the entire cause being lost against a fascist enemy, great. Subtle little differences, like “We need to purge the anarchists and Trots” should be met with “We need complete and total cooperation with the people who want to purge us 😊”

The true meaning of a united front, huh?

You’re on Divide By Zero, you should be fucking familiar with how they fucked the anarchists and the Trots, and that most of their ‘aid’ was purchased, not given.

Soviets were the only ones who truly supported the Spanish democracy against the fascist.

Curious that their backstabbing the Spanish republicans was instrumental in losing the Spanish Civil War for the republican side. Strange kind of support.

Rando I think

Oh, so they nerfed the chances of it proccing?

Evil is bad.

Pretty girls are good.

Pretty evil girls can crush me and I will thank them for it.

I may not be capable of much, but it’s nice to be recognized as a prolific shitposter 😊

Those working in industries vital to war production and agriculture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940#Class_II:_Deferred_because_of_occupation

Into 1943 voluntary enlistment for young men was disallowed to prevent those with valuable skillsets from going into the military.

I only clarify because in a situation where every able body is fighting you’ve already lost, there needs to be logistics, maintaining utilities, growing food, etc

Conscription is actually a way to ensure that. In the Ukrainian War, as well as at least the US during WW2 (I’m less familiar with other countries’ conscription systems during WW2), conscription is used to prioritize those with skills which are not economically vital during wartime - during WW2, even, some skilled workers weren’t even allowed to volunteer, much less be conscripted, for military service.

After the ‘Fuck’

Just edited the pic to fix the author’s mistake lmao

Drunkremembrancer, I think they have a Twitter account.

The original trilogy was hero’s journey stuff, mythology for a modern age. Episode 6 was the weakest, though.

The prequel trilogy was an envisioned world - for all of its writing weaknesses, it felt like a living, breathing universe.

The sequel trilogy was lifeless. 7 was an okay start, and I actually quite enjoyed it despite being derivative, but 8 was muddled trash (how many times did Poe commit mutiny while they were doing the slow-mo chase?) and 9 was dreadfully mediocre.

And this is coming from someone who loves many of the spin-off media on their own merits, many even more than I love the prequel trilogy.

It’s not nostalgia. Some of us just genuinely dislike how shit the sequel trilogy was, and how bad they did our boy John Boyega after episode 7.

Okay, one might note a whole other topic of discussion there, but the point remains, tribalism and heirarchy are the root of all prejudice, and they weren’t invented by Portuguese slave traders.

That’s kind of what I’m getting at, man. Tribalism and hierarchy are related to racism, but calling all prejudices racism makes the term so broad as to be borderline useless. Racism, as we would recognize it, dates to the early modern period.

Hey, I’m down for gun enthusiasts getting weird guns. It’s more environmentally friendly than a huge truck, that’s for sure.

Mostly I was just grabbing a pistol cartridge that I was vaguely familiar with to demonstrate the difference between a ‘normal’ round for a handgun and a 45-70.

That source poses a, uh, very curious look at race in the Medieval period.

No problem! That particular derringer is special-made to hold a 45-70. A more typical derringer would look more like this or this.

Really, the only use case I can think of, other than “I like shooting powerful rounds”, for the 45-70 is big-game hunting or self-defense against bears, lmao.

I’ll play the “Xeno-Scum!” screaming commissar as well as the medieval knight who thinks black people are naturally inferior.

I get and agree with your overall point, but as a matter of petty pedantry (sorry) I have to point out that racism in that sense was pretty absent in the Medieval period, at least amongst Europeans, who saw Subsaharan Africans as more fascinating than inferior. “Black = Inferior” started developing with the slave trade in the 16th century, and didn’t really hit full speed until the start of the 18th century.

History is funny like that. Not ha-ha funny, unfortunately.

Ah, smokeless powder! Ensuring mankind has more power than we know what to do with since the late 19th century.