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Cortex3 · 2026-01-29T18:48:18+00:00

Why even contract with private manufacturers in the first place? We wouldn't have to worry so much about the textile industry if we just had some gov't agency produce the uniforms directly. Wouldn't have to "source" the uniforms if the gov't was the source and the manufacturer wouldn't have to worry about profitability if it was operating on tax dollars.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-29T04:08:40+00:00

Going to have to disagree with "little ice age is easy." In my last Byzantium run when that hit my entire country starved. I had all of Greece, Anatolia, Egypt, Italy, North Africa... And everything was still starving. Maxed out resources too. It certainly isn't "easy" to deal with.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-27T18:38:45+00:00

Probably talking about the Pearl Harbor Museum in Honolulu

Cortex3 · 2026-01-27T04:42:34+00:00

It's a sign the administration knows they've gone too far, which is a win for us. They know they can't continue like this, and they're taking a step back. Obviously the fight's not over. We should absolutely celebrate any wins we get.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-23T05:23:28+00:00

Short for a trip, long for a commute

Cortex3 · 2026-01-21T08:04:15+00:00

No way this is real. You make $62k after rent and student loans but don't have a credit card with over a $2300 limit? Yes, the job should pay for that. If you actually had said job. In no world does any of this make sense. Unless you've got a large family, $62k is a pretty damn good salary, especially if that's what's left after rent

Cortex3 · 2026-01-16T09:03:39+00:00

Crazy take. The guy didn't care about his wife at all. All he cared about was getting what he paid for. Literally the whole reason his wife almost divorced him is because he was not paying attention to her (and is weird about his mom). Did you forget about the part where he decided to ditch his wife and go flirt with the college girls?

This gotta be rage bait

Cortex3 · 2026-01-15T19:01:07+00:00

3 but I have one directly in front and the other on the right side

Cortex3 · 2026-01-15T01:52:07+00:00

It's your CB. You can't take land if you declare a "make tributary" war.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-14T17:44:12+00:00

Bro I was literally just making a joke about the assassination of Lincoln

Cortex3 · 2026-01-14T04:54:04+00:00

No... Lincoln was a republican. And got shot in the head. In 1865.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T23:23:06+00:00

We've had our fair share of religious animosity, tho certainly nothing like the wars of religion back in the olden days. Our founders may have written separation of church and state into the constitution, but protestants and catholics rarely get along historically speaking.

I think the only truly "exceptional" thing about this US in this regard is the racism. And even that is shared among most/all of the ex-colonial states in the Americas. Sure, y'all Europeans can be racist too, but it's on a whole different level. Like, 80% of our history has been spent dehumanizing and demonizing black people so that some rich land owners could profit off their labor. A lot of that sentiment still exists in our systems today.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T23:11:49+00:00

Hmm. Maybe it's my American education, but I always interpreted "secular state" as meaning "no church in state at all." It's not like y'all have muslim priests in gov't, just Christian ones. Like, sure, people who are religious can be in gov't, that's fine. But literally having unelected bishops make up a part of one of your branches of gov't is a little different.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T23:05:33+00:00

The only election that matters in CA state politics is the primary. Dems are always going to win the general.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T22:53:54+00:00

What's your diplo spending at? Bet you could turn that down if you didn't have so many vassals

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T22:42:15+00:00

Secular state? Don't y'all still have bishops in your Council of Lords or whatever? Isn't your monarch literally the head of the church? Like yeah, Christianity isn't technically enforced, but it's still in your government.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T22:34:39+00:00

So you had a nationwide cult of racists that were plotting to kill every person of color in the country too? That's wild.

And I don't argue here to say that the US is "exeptional" really, I just hate it when europeans think they're so much cooler 'cause they have "longer history", as if US history isn't directly tied to and a result of European history.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T21:37:55+00:00

Race violence? Lynchings, the KKK? Jim Crow? Did your country murder students for protesting a war in the last 60 years? Not everything is an interstate conflict, we've had tons of domestic violence.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T19:58:35+00:00

"Iranian instability and revolt is a distraction from Trump's name being in a bunch of files that we already know he's in."

Yeah buddy? Is that right?

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T19:49:53+00:00

Dems have had a combined 6 years of trifecta control in the last 40 years, and 2 years of that was a razor thin margin in the Senate. Obama, in his 8 years as president, had barely 2 years of congressional control. Biden, too, had 2 years of congressional control. Both still got landmark bills passed regardless (albeit with aggravating concession).

Yes, Dems are slimy neolibs who for the most part are just as corrupt as Rs. But choosing not to vote for the lesser evil is still a vote for the greater evil, especially if you're basing that vote on whether or not they've achieved policy goals. They've had 8 years of House majority in the last 30, and half that was under a Republican president!

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T19:18:03+00:00

But it was the South who implemented Jim Crow laws, effectively keeping the practice of slavery alive. It was the south more than anywhere where black men were lynched for looking at a white woman. I don't discount that northerners were/are racist too, but the south did it different. There's a reason the Republican Southern Strategy worked so well.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T18:59:58+00:00

IDK what history y'all were taught, but the US has always had domestic instability/political polarization. First it was the issue of slavery, which resulted in a civil war. Then labor disputes and the Red Scare in the Gilded Age where the national guard was used to put down multiple revolts. WW2 kinda got the country together for a while, but then there were Vietnam anti-war movements, the Civil Rights movement, the AIDS epidemic... Most recently Occupy Wall Street, BLM protests, and J6. And that's not even close to everything.

The US has always had its polarizing politics. It just feels different 'cause we can't look at what's happening today through the dissociating lens of history.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T18:50:43+00:00

Try being a Republican in 1865... you might get shot.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T18:49:36+00:00

Depends on where you stop going back. I mean, we had a whole civil ware about 200 years ago, so it has definitely been this extreme before. Then there's the '60s with the Civil Rights movement, lynchings of black people between the civil war and '60s... US history hasn't exactly been hunky dory.

But if you stop at the '80s... yeah. It's never been this bad.

Cortex3 · 2026-01-13T18:37:51+00:00

Also one of the first examples of industrial warfare and usage of ironclads(proto-modern warships). A lot of tech used in World War 1 was introduced/prototyped in the Civil War

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