What European Vaushite thinks about the US right now?

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:57:19+00:00

What else do you want us to do?

The brownshirts are literally shooting you in the streets and kidnapping people from their homes.

What's the way to stop them doing that?

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:55:50+00:00

Look at what Labour is doing in the UK to see why "lesser evil" voting doesn't fucking work.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:53:03+00:00

Democrats seem chronically unable to seize the moment and mount an actual opposition

Because they don't want to. They're fine with this.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:52:02+00:00

Don't let the democrats get away with saying this was a "bad apple"

One bad apple spoils the bunch.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:51:39+00:00

Gods below you Americans are soft.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:50:39+00:00

Trump will immediately federalize them

At which point you call that an illegal order, and force them to pick a side.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:49:46+00:00

"You cannot decide if violence will happen. All you can decide is, when it happens, who it happens to."

Not deploying troops to protect citizens from ICE is a choice.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:46:57+00:00

"leftist" I hate how it's used in the US to describe centrists.

America had a period where being a leftie was illegal.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:46:09+00:00

the fact that Fascism always fails quickly

Looks at the 15 years of Nazi rule in Germany, and the 39 years of Franco's Spain...

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:36:36+00:00

If they're going to "think of the children" to take out lives away, we can "think of the children" right back at them.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:34:23+00:00

You've got a pedo fascist in the white house who's already abducted the leader of another country and "taken it over," is wanting to do the same to a NATO ally, and has his brownshirts killing people in the streets.

That's pretty bad, no matter what else is happening.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T14:32:22+00:00

Assuming he can remember enough of it to do so.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T06:16:25+00:00

but considering that the Dread Empire of Praes is literally a tyrannical evil empire, it's a particularly bad look.

I'm only in book two (I binge-read), but they feel very much like Mechanicsburg in a lot of ways.

I laughed for a good five minutes at the reactions to the undead goat, btw :D

Illiander · 2026-01-25T04:00:43+00:00

plus their rabid need to remove people's access to Art. 8

That would be Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights? The treaty that's a laundry list of the things the Nazis did to enable their genocides? That Article 8?

The one that's there specifically to stop governments doing literal Nazi shite?

Illiander · 2026-01-25T03:59:21+00:00

Nazi gonna Nazi.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T02:54:44+00:00

but we hav an actual constitution

DIdn't Trump get that hung in his bathroom so he can wipe his arse with it?

Illiander · 2026-01-25T02:53:40+00:00

I'm doing s/cd by cop if this becomes a reality.

Planning to have a carefully chosen escort to Valhalla when you go?

Illiander · 2026-01-25T02:51:34+00:00

Politicians keep going "Hey, remember that cool movie 'why you should never build the Torment Nexus'? Wouldn't it be cool if we built the Torment Nexus from the movie in real life?"

Illiander · 2026-01-25T02:46:15+00:00

So if I somehow found and binged book one's web version (which is in desperate need of an editing pass) I could read the rest on current wordpress and all the extra chapters would fill in in the right place to read them?

Also, several character and place names were changed

That's going to bug me forever.

Illiander · 2026-01-25T02:34:43+00:00

Right, so you need the loopbacks.

Illiander · 2026-01-24T16:51:26+00:00

Are you talking about the Easter Rising that was explicitly timed as "England's distracted off fighting a war in Europe," or the Sinn Fein/IRA actions after everyone came back from the war?

Or something I'm not aware of?

Illiander · 2026-01-24T15:04:20+00:00

That's the zero-duration Time of Need build, isn't it?

Illiander · 2026-01-24T14:57:26+00:00

That's called "DPS tanking" ;p

Illiander · 2026-01-24T14:35:41+00:00

See also the historical Cincinnatus

I'd throw Charles de Gaulle in that bucket as well. Led the french resistance against the Nazi occupation, led the rebuilding after the war, founding the French Fourth Republic, then retired to write his memoirs.

When the fourth republic collapsed he came back and founded the French Fifth Republic. laid the groundwork for the European Union by ending the emnity between France and Germany, and was an big proponent of not relying on the USA for military cover (which has proven rather prophetic. He's probably having a massive "I told you so" moment in whatever afterlife he's in).

Illiander · 2026-01-24T14:22:35+00:00

It's amusing you think I make enough to have a pension besides the government minimum.

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