@Tedd_zero A squad mate asked why everything the skits say is so positive compared to the other classes and another said its because they spend their lives riding a high of constant gender euphoria
@LongArmsPerk@Skylinex13@Srirachachau I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the original drafts specifically had Woody's bitterness mirroring real life with Roy Rogers and John Wayne publicly decrying guys like Peckinpah and Eastwood as "ruining" the western genre by making them grittier.
the total non-event of the 250th has got me thinking about how prominent the Bicentennial was. You could fill a whole syllabus with "Bicentennial Fiction," including direct (Blow Out, Nashville, Octavia Butler's Kindred) and indirect (Taxi Driver, Network, Roots etc.) responses
Ernst Röhm (1887-1934)
Was a nazi officer and politician, being a early supporter and personal friend of Hitler and first leader of the Brownshirts (SA). His revolutionary aspirations and control over the SA led to his assassination by the SS in the Night of the Long Knives
Average Ordo Hereticus plot: "Tell them that the God-Emperor is their sun or something"
Average Ordo Xenos plot: "Those Eldar aren't actually half-bad"
Average Ordo Malleus plot:
Grasping the sheer scale and intensity of the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) - history’s largest and last pre-industrial war - is so hard.
The best analogy I can come up with:
Imagine if Mormon prophet Joseph Smith had stayed on the Erie Canal. His followers, armed mostly with spears and swords, rise up and capture the entire US Midwest, seizing the nation's agricultural breadbasket. They systematically slaughter anyone from New York City and starve out huge towns like Chicago. The war kills 5% to 7.5% of the population, double the actual US Civil War.
Then, right as the Federal government completely collapses, the British Empire sails steam-powered gunboats up the Hudson River. They arm a ruthless mercenary force with state-of-the-art rifles to crush the uprising: not to save the US, but to keep Wall Street and the Atlantic trade routes open.
Meanwhile, in a completely separate conflict(!), official British and French armies sail up the Potomac and loot and burn the Smithsonian, the Capitol and Mount Vernon.
The Taiping Rebellion killed 20 to 30 million people, more than WW1. It was World War China.