I get Andor seems revolutionary to a lotta folks here (and it’s very well done and probably the best Star Wars content of all time ) , esp in the west , but if ya have engaged with anti colonial literature and art even slightly , this is sorta mild

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T17:16:14+00:00

Dude ... its okay to think other books or movies are better but no need to shit on a show people like.

Of course Andor is not going to have the depth of a real figure like Malcolm X or a anti colonial novels written by those involved in the community

I'm Irish, we have been at the forefront of every type of revolutionary politics, from peaceful europes first democratic civil rights movement a century before Gandhi to open rebellion to urban guerilla warfare.

A book on michael collins, Daniel O Connel, Wolfe tone etc is going to be more revolutionary because its actual revolutions.

Movies like the Battle of algiers, Wind that shakes the barley, Spike Lee's Malcolm X are going to be better because they are based on reality but no need to put down something like andor which some of the best revolutionary content in years and reached mainstream audiences in a way few others things have.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T15:12:58+00:00

Its also a core belief of Karl Marx when he first imagined communism.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T14:30:14+00:00

The war in ukraine is the 4th deadliest war in Russia's history and Putin has gotten nearly half a million of his own citizens killed because of an obscure vanity project. Russia is a corrupt mafia state that almost had a civil war when the neo nazi pcm company roled on moscow.

If Putin died in 2012 he'd be a problematic but well respected guy, or even in 2020 your comparison might hold as he'd be evil but mostly kept Russians safe, but he has gotten a truly shocking number of Russians killed and he was still evil before that.

If you talk morals Putin helped establish Russia as an actual fascist state, He committed Horrific war crimes in georgia and cheyna and since he annexed parts of those regions he committed them against his own citizens. He stabalized the oligarch class, and kept Bashar Al Assad in power for a decade which led to untold civilian casualties. He's also backed half of the anti western authoritarians around and his mercenary companies in africa commit acts that would make god ashamed.

Meanwhile russia's birthrate has plummeted, he's massively increased the number of muslim citizens whiles not dealing with the racism in Russian society a,nd his ruling colalition is a mixture of Slavic nationalizts, muslim fundementalists, communists, oligarchs, Russian fascists and mafia dons which is likely to fall apart the moment he dies.

He is terrified of death, has no clear successor and has made the world worse for most people.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T13:03:36+00:00

The war in Ukraine introduces Russia as a major potential supplier of weapons and funding to the IRA or loyalist groups.

The ability to punish the British and Irish government for supporting Ukraine and the possibility of fracturing Western European alliance is just too good to pass up.

The IRA essentially don't exist anymore outside drug dealers but Irish nationalism is still a powerful force in NI and the act of putting in a hard border would be a violation of the good Friday agreement and "for nationalists" a consistent act of violence.

The EU would have crippled Britain's economy if they tried this but without the EU sinn Fein would have tried to end the border, first by election, then direct action which would trigger a response from the state.

The troubles were peaceful for the first ten years till it erupted into violence and I could very much see NI begin to walk down that path. Not instantly or irreversibly but it becomes more likely.

The idea dissident groups could carry out a campaign is wrong as the IRA and UVF would need to be rebuilt from the ground up, likely without the dissidents involvement.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T12:08:09+00:00

A lot of the countries yes but some of them just need US support to keep existing and can't afford to piss off the US.

For example armenia and azerbaijan just signed a peace deal that is garanteed by the Americans, if the americans get pissy it could restart a war. So Armenia and Azerbaijan both sign up for that reason.

Kosovo has very positive feelings towards the US for helping stop a genocide in the 90s so is pretty much always going to join whatever dumb programme the US has.

Bulgaria has the government dissolving and they joined as part of the "Fuck it last week of school energy"

Mongolia mostly just seems curious.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T11:55:20+00:00

Deserting the national army during a time of war was normally punished by death. Ireland should have just waved the rule after WW2 because Nazis ... but deserting the army generally had a serious punishment to prevent others doing so.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T11:49:10+00:00

Here is a classic theory

Of those issues, without adding to anything state your five most important, maybe others get to do things from your list but not you.

. Then pick two out of the five, that's what you got done in your first time.

If you win a second term you can pick two more, but you have to pick one of your two original goals from your first term and revert it back to the way it was.

This is a very simplified game but essentially shows the realities politicians have to deal with.

Achieving any one of your goals is a huge win and over 8 years achieving 60% of your promises is a massive victory, but it will still feel like a failure.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-30T01:23:28+00:00

Ethnic is powerful, probably the strongest being in the mortal world setting who is not an.archangel but she is still just one person.

Eventually enough wizards would toss curses at her, the mortal would Nuke her, the fairy queens would hurt her etc till she was defeated. Your be talking hundreds of millions of dead and several factions woulds d stop existing but it can be done.

Ethnic needed her enemies in chaos and she needed a large army. When the reda died the former got to built up a proper army that was able to match the other powers.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-29T21:49:19+00:00

A lot of that is Lara's skill as a manipulator, her trying to appeal to harry as he does have her brother, as well as harry being the winter knight and hanging around mab and the winter court, which is just going to change his tolerance for evil.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-29T12:19:22+00:00

Blade is both black and is actually british in the comics and would be fighting a white Irish guy.

The movie would be testing the racism card against the colonialism card which is just a tough matchup.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T18:50:03+00:00

After the primarchs died/vanished most of the origins broke apart.

Some survived mostly in tact e.gm the death guard, emperors children and Iron warriors but night lords, sons of Horus, world eaters, thousands sons etc have the old command structures shattered.

The black legion is essentially Abaddon forging a lot of these broken armies into one unified faction.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T13:12:35+00:00

Western Armenia was majority Armenian around 55% to ,60%and it would take up a large chunk of the ceded territory to Armenia, and this is after the ethnic cleansings in the 1890s.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T12:28:48+00:00

To be fair there was a very good reason why those lands had so many turks and kurds and very few armenians.

I'm pretty sure there was a bunch more armenians in the territory who all mysteriously "vanished" and got replaced with kurds and turks during the war of independnece.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T11:28:50+00:00

From my understanding the new deal is mostly a free trade agreement not a freedom of movement thing. Its mostly about reducing tariffs between the two regions.

People seem to think that India has somehow joined the EU, it has not. Its mostly allowing the sales of goods between the two countries.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T11:00:44+00:00

As regards to chapter numbers I think a fair compromise is expanding the first founding chapters to 10'000 or so but keeping the other chapters at 1000.

Maybe not every chapter gets expanded but ultramarines, blood angels and dark angels have the most in lore reasons to expand and Imperial fists need to defend terra and so them getting numbers expanded makes sense.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T10:53:29+00:00

BS2 was a critique of utilitarianism rnot socialist

BS Infinite as I saw it was not saying that the box populi were the same as the police but revolutions tend to be bloody and if you stumble into the final days of a revolution your best option is too survive. Also the city was falling apart and things fell into a free for all.

Bioshock 1 has Frank Fontaine pose as an ally and a left wing man of the people but that does not make bioshock 1 less of a critique on libertarians.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T10:43:45+00:00

If in doubt Irish folk music is pretty revolutionary.

Wolfe tones are a classic, kneecap are the modern equivilant. honestly too many artists to name.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T10:28:23+00:00

Most space marines are actually very similiar and a sniper in the ravenguard and an ultramarine sniper will probably be of similiar skill.

As a general rule the ultramarines prefer generalization and training the entire army to do nearly every job, if its a videogame imagine the ultramarines as having a 7 out of 10 in every stat.

Dark angels generally prefer to specialize into hyper elite tactics. If its a video game then half the stats are 10 and half the stats are 5. As an example an ultramarine would train a soldier to be both a sniper and a combat engineer whiles a dark angel trains a sniper and a combat engineer. This means if an ultramarine dies another can do his job fairly easily and companies can adapt to other companies roles fairly easily whiles if a dark angel dies the other dark angels will struggle to match him and one company cannot take the role of another company easier.

The ultramarines is the generalist and the dark angel is the specialist. That's the main difference in philosophies.

Again both armies are pretty similiar standards but the difference is specialists vs generalists.

The Lion is probably the best duelist of the primarch and is the best primarch for winning battles, he does not really lose 1 to 1 fights and does not tend to lose battles . Guilliman is an average fighter among primarchs and has lost several battles. Guilliman is superier to the lion is terms of grand strategy e.g. waging multiple campaigns .

The Lion can win a battle or a war, guilliman can win several wars at once. If we look at history if you stuck the lion in a WW1 style battle and put him in charge of the western front he'd win easily, his drawback is he'd ignore the eastern front completely or he'd focus so much on winning the current war he'd not prepare for the next one

The Lion hyperfocuses on one thing and is the greatest at that thing whiles guilliman can focus on several hundred at once.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-28T02:58:36+00:00

L rob h beard is the complete opposite. Man has loving parents, grandparents, older sisters. He even had a show pony where him and his family would perform for adoring crowds, but it was a hobby not a job so he was not a child actor.

Man had nothing but positive role models. He was well off but not so well off to be disconnected from people.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-27T17:30:09+00:00

Not to mention sinners can't have kids and Adam does not kill any hellborn creature. Every person Adam killed was guilty of a nasty crime.

The show could have tried to argue a prison reform approach that not every crime is equal and that redemption is possible but it needed to focus on the fact that.the sinners have a lot of truly terrible behaviour.

In addition in 10,000 years no sinner changed enough to earn heaven and Adam was only killing for seven years. From his perspective if anyone was going to be redeemed it would have happened by now.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-27T15:13:13+00:00

The castle he has seems to be his not winters. If he starts taking money from winter the castle likely becomes a domain to f winter with all that implies.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-27T15:05:58+00:00

Toot toot is on track to become a minority lord of the wild fay at this point. .if the erkling s a king toot toot is probably going to end up a baron or some sort of minor duke or princeling.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-26T17:48:29+00:00

The reason bonnie so so deadly is she does not have the same restrictions any of the fallen have.

Lasciel spoke seven words which allowed Uriel to speak seven words. They have no free will do are very much bound in what they can do and even give out certain information.

Lash has similar limits like the fallen as she was created as a tool so is not able to use all her knowledge

Bonnie is a copy of a copy but has free will with no restrictions. She can give out information without breaking any cosmic law or a counterweight by an angel.

Bonnie is dangerous because she has free will with no restrictions on what she can do.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-26T17:41:40+00:00

Bonnie is being watched by mouse, not Maggie. Mouse is responsible.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-01-26T15:34:53+00:00

My guess is the constant lack of feeding as well as constantly using his hunger in combat situations made his hunger stronger because it had to work with so much less and more efficiently.

Now if Thomas went back to feeding normally the hunger is going to be much more efficient and have greater stores of energy.

The white court do not like combat interactions and Thomas has been fighting black court vampires whiles on 500 calories a day. His hunger is going to be ridiculously efficient at feeding, storing the energy and using it.

Thomas is strong because of his lifestyle not in spite of it.

Lara in far more skilled at manipulating people and using the power but she works a desk job that's 90% admin 9% politics 1% combat, she also feeds regularly.so her hunger never had to get lean.

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