Oh they're DUMB dumb. "Guys we'll make the ring look BIGGER to show off our cool visuals" good job dumbass now it actually looks about half the size it should be and is totally out of place with lore. You made it significantly SMALLER.
According to Saxo Grammaticus, in medieval Danish law when a foreigner slew a Dane, two foreigners must be put to death.
Disproportionate penalty was seen as justice because foreigners lacked the same kinship and legal protections (weregild) that Danes enjoyed, so the society mandated a harsher, collective penalty for them. They believed rulers owed their people an uncompromising deterrent to prevent outsiders from disturbing the peace or assaulting native Danes.
Something to think about.
I know it's a longshot but if America actually wins the world cup in a sport none of us care about on our 250th birthday the rest of the planet should just pack it in
The 'nothing will ever happen' crowd should always be ignored, as a rule.
it's been said
"There are decades where nothing happens; and then there are weeks where decades happen", and it's so plainly the truth.
Our clever foes have worked desperately to keep one hundred different lids on one hundred different kettles, swiftly coming to a boil..
and yes, for years, they've managed it..
but to assume they'll be able to do this indefinitely, forever, is the most historically illiterate (and defeatist, and nihilistic, and illogical) stance imaginable.
Don't be the small, demoralizing fool, at the moment when the opposite is most needed.
Franklin also was unwilling to do what it takes to prevent a republic from turning into a democracy, which is propertied voting to screen out the incompetent
In fact, his funny and famous "Franklin's Jackass" argument against voting restrictions show its necessity. He said:
"Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote; but before the next election the jackass dies. The man in the meantime has become more experienced, his knowledge of the principles of government, and his acquaintance with mankind, are more extensive, and he is therefore better qualified to make a proper selection of rulers—but the jackass is dead and the man cannot vote. Now gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage? In the man or in the jackass?"
Funny, of course. He was witty. But, obviously, the sort of man who runs an operation dependent on a beast of burden and fails to plan ahead for the death of that beast is the very sort of person with myopically short time horizons and evidently poor judgment who should not be allowed to vote!
Listening to such people is how the debt becomes a massive burden, overly expensive welfare policies are instituted, Ponzi schemes are created to fund old age pensions, and so on. If a republic is to remain a republic, it must screen out from the voting booth the sort of man who requires a mule but fails to account for the fact that it might pass
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
No, it’s just how blacks see the world. To them, the fact that white supremacy rules everything is taken as a pure given. Therefore, they are all victims of white supremacy and racial oppression, and therefore, any actions they take which are anti-social up to and including murder are never actually their fault, as if you trace back the reasons why that murder occurred, you always end up back at white people. That’s literally just how they see things.
The Ragtime Wikipedia page has *finally* been corrected and gives Ben Harney credit for writing the first ragtime song, inventing the term and being the first to popularize it. This is a HUGE admission because Ben Harney was *white*. Ragtime/jazz was invented by a WHITE American.